Where did season one of Foundation leave off?

In the season finale, “The Leap,” Hari’s second digital copy—which emerges from the Vault before a shocked array of Foundation members on Terminus, including Salvor, and the Anacreons they’ve been battling—reveals the next steps of his plan, which season one has been following all along despite everyone who’s actually living in it feeling like they’re surrounded by chaos. In short, the Foundation members are supposed to join with the survivors of Anacreon and its historic rival, Thespis, to create a new civilization beyond Empire’s reach. To cloak this scheme, they use the Invictus—an Imperial warship the Anacreons were plotting to turn against Empire—to set off a false “megaflare,” which will trick those on Trantor into thinking life has been wiped out in the Outer Reach. Trantor is pretty preoccupied with the whole “Dawn tried to run away, and by the way Cleon DNA is corrupted and you guys aren’t really identical copies” thing—timing that works out really well for the Foundation, as it happens.

Meanwhile, as mentioned, Salvor learns Gaal and Raych were her biological parents, and realizes her visions offer a glimpse into their lives. With Terminus in a peaceful, productive place after the resolution of what Hari dubbed “the First Crisis,” she says good-bye to her adoptive mother and boyfriend, who are quite understanding and encouraging given the circumstances, and sets a course for Synnax. The last scenes are 138 years in the future; Gaal arrives on the fully flooded and abandoned planet, proof that ignoring science is especially bad when climate change is lapping at your doorstep. She discovers Salvor’s ship underwater and brings its escape pod to the surface—where there’s an unexpected family reunion as Gaal finds out Salvor is her daughter. Salvor gives her a souvenir from Terminus: Hari’s Prime Radiant. “Sometimes you leap, and sometimes someone catches you,” Gaal narrates as the season ends.