Foundation
With 20 minutes to go, we return to Tellum’s former cult compound. Everyone’s decompressing when one of the kids, looking distressed, rises slowly, picks up a gun, and aims it at Gaal. Salvor dives in front, taking the bullet for Gaal while winging a knife into the boy; as he dies, he chokes out that he was possessed by one last piece of Tellum, but can feel her dying with him now. As Salvor gushes blood from her wound, she calls Gaal “Mom” for the first time. “The future can be changed,” she declares, referring to Gaal’s vision that showed Salvor would die in a battle hundreds of years in the future. “You can still get it back on the right course.” Gaal is devastated, and Salvor gets a badass send-off—as is befitting her heroism—complete with a roaring funeral pyre.
