Part 2, Cleon I, Chapters 1-9 Summary

When Gardner Mandell Gruber meets Hari in the Palace gardens, they talk about the glories of nature. Gruber does not want to be promoted to Chief Gardener and be forced to work indoors. Chapter 2 describes how the high level of security guards against outside threats, but not disgruntled insiders. Dors swiftly disarms a would-be assassin and gets him to name his cohorts, by threat of torture. Outraged, Cleon sentences them to death as an example. Dors' reputation as a Tiger Woman grows.

In Chapter 3, Hari is happy with how ten years of advanced computers have advanced the project. Recently they have begun getting around chaos through a device, the Prime Radiant, that allows fuzzy glimpses into past. When Yugo concludes that civil war can break out on Trantor or in the Outer Worlds, but not...