[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Foundation Season 3 Episode 9, “The Paths that Chose Us.”]

Brother Day ( Lee Pace ) was dead-set on leaving the Empire and Demerzel ( Laura Birn ) behind — but now he’s headed right back into the belly of the beast.

Foundation Season 3’s penultimate episode is a surprisingly heroic turning point for Day, who’s spent most of Season 3 detesting the Cleonic Dynasty and its robotic puppet master. Pace sat down with TV Insider to break down Day’s change of heart, and what it means ahead of the finale.

“I think [Day] has a healthy disdain of the power he holds and the power that his brothers hold and the power that the robot holds,” Pace says of his character’s initial mindset. “I think he finds it annoying and distasteful and kind of irr

See Full Page