Season three of Foundation is nearly at its end, and the galaxy is in deep trouble . We’ve long known the fall of Empire would usher in a long period of darkness, something the Foundation was set up hundreds of years ago to try and mitigate. But while the end seems certain, exactly how it’ll come about has not yet been clear. The villainous Mule is certainly helping nudge things along… but might another doom-bringing element also emerge?

“The Paths That Choose Us,” the ninth and penultimate episode of the season, puts forth a perhaps not-so-surprising candidate.

To paraphrase a paraphrase, you can’t show off a mega-weapon powered by a black hole in act one without bringing it back around for act three. For decades, Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann, a strong contender for the season’s d

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