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D U N E

1. ARRAKIS - A SCENE FROM SPACE

Also known as DUNE, home of the Fremen, former Zenzunni wanderers.

BLACK

FADE IN to the dark eyes of the mysterious face of the REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO, who sits against smooth black rock. Her eyes are deep blue-within-blue and her skin is a haunting translucent white. Her voice ECHOES as if in a great cavern.

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

We are the secret of the Universe.

RESPONSE OF TWENTY THOUSAND VOICES

Bi-la kaifa.

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

We are the secret of the Universe. We know of spice...the spice called melange...the greatest treasure in the Universe. It exists on only one planet - ours Arrakis, Dune. We know of spice and the Bene Gesserit sisterhood's selective breeding plan of ninety generations to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, the one the spice will awaken.

RESPONSE OF TWENTY THOUSAND VOICES

Bi-la kaifa.

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

And now the prophecy...

Silence...then a powerful low organ NOTE resounding in the cavernous space.

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO (CONT'D)

He will come...the voice from the outer world, bringing the holy war, the Jihad, which will cleanse the Universe and bring us out of darkness. He will have been born of a Bene Gesserit mother.

--

The Reverend Mother continues speaking of the Prophecy, but we do not hear it. The huge wind organ BLOWS louder and louder, obscuring her voice.

The picture FADES.

Home planet of House Corrino and Shadam IV, Emperor of the known universe.

FADE IN to:

...interior of one drop of water. The image changes subtly.

PULL BACK to a shot revealing the outside of the drop. There is a distant ROARING and within the drop we can see the distorted image of a space ship landing on a sophisticated landing field.

3A. EXT. LANDING FIELD - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

On the dark landing field, chemicals spill out of the ship in troughs and tank-suited Guildsmen begin to swarm out of a hatch opening.

7. INT. THRONE ROOM - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

The EMPEROR is surrounded by crowds of COURTIERS in his Throne Room.

Suddenly a GUARD enters from a small door and quickly crosses to ANOTHER GUARD. A warning SOUND begins. The Emperor turns nervously. Guards quickly begin to clear the large room. Several women are rushed toward us to a door beyond. One of the woman, IRULAN, stops and turns back for a worried, caring look to her father, the Emperor.

IRULAN

Father.

--

EMPEROR

Irulan.

She sees that SARDAUKAR OFFICERS are surrounding him now, speaking to him. Irulan turns and leaves. The Emperor moves away from his officers to the center of the now-empty room. He drops his golden robe from his shoulders. He stands in his elegant black uniform, thinking.

The Reverend Mother is ushered in and the Sardaukar Officers leave her alone with the Emperor.

EMPEROR

(quickly)
A Third Stage Guild Navigator will be here within minutes!

REVEREND MOTHER

We felt his presence.

EMPEROR

I shall want telepathy during his visit and a report when we're finished.

REVEREND MOTHER

Their minds are so.... They move in strange directions....

EMPEROR

Yes?

REVEREND MOTHER

Forced spice evolution of humans changes many things.... I must sit close to him.

EMPEROR

He will not permit anyone but me to see him. You must be outside this room.... Do what you can.

REVEREND MOTHER

I am your Truthsayer, my lord... (sensing something outside the room) He is here, my lord.

Under the carved inscription "Law is the Ultimate Science", the doors to the Emperor's chambers slide open and FIFTY GUILDSMEN wheel in a forty-foot long giant black box. One of the Guildsmen addresses the Emperor through a translating device.

TANKED GUILDSMEN #1

The Bene Gesserit witch must leave.

--

The Emperor looks to the Reverend Mother.

EMPEROR

Leave us.

REVEREND MOTHER

Yes, my Lord.

EMPEROR

(after she has gone)
We are alone...

The Reverend Mother enters through doors and takes a seat on a chair just outside the door. She closes her eyes.

Inside the Emperor's chamber, the TANK-SUITED GUILDSMEN are arranging themselves in a "V" formation around the box. Suddenly the box opens, slowly and beautifully revealing a huge, thick glass tank. Inside the tank floats a THIRD STAGE NAVIGATOR twenty feet long, much like a cross between a pasty, pale human being and a fleshy grasshopper.

The tank is filled with swirling orange spice-gas, and Guildsmen continuously vacuum up the toxic chemical spills dripping from under the tank. Suddenly the Guild Navigator swims towards the Emperor. His head is enormous and fleshy, like a huge grasshopper head -- the eyes are totally deep blue. His voice is a high, fleshy whispering and an intricate electrical apparatus in the front of the tank translates into English and broadcasts it into the room.

NAVIGATOR

We have just folded space from Ix...

EMPEROR

(extremely nervous)
Yes?... How was your journey?

NAVIGATOR

(after a long pause)
Many machines on Ix... new machines.

EMPEROR

Oh yes?

--

NAVIGATOR

Better than those on Richesse.. You are transparent... I see many things... I see plans within plans.

EMPEROR

Is there a problem?... Usually there is a problem when one of you makes a visit.

No answer.

NAVIGATOR

(finally)
The answer is within the problem...

Outside the Emperor's chamber the Reverend Mother sits, her eyes closed, straining.

11. INT. THRONE ROOM - EMPEROR'S PALACE - REVEREND MOTHER'S MENTAL IMAGE - NIGHT

A very blurred scene of the Emperor with the Guild Navigator. She is not getting the English version but a much different language version which is fascinating to listen to. A lilting, sing-song monologue.

12. INT. THRONE ROOM - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

NAVIGATOR

I see two Great Houses -- House Atreides, House Harkonnen -- feuding... I see you behind it.

EMPEROR

Yes.

NAVIGATOR

You must share with us.

--

EMPEROR

The Atreides house is building a secret army!... using a technique unknown to us... a technique involving sound. The Duke is becoming more popular in the Landsraad... he could threaten me.... I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis to mine the spice... thus replacing their enemies the Harkonnens.... House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides... I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardaukar terror troops.

NAVIGATOR

So the Harkonnens will rid you of House Atreides...

EMPEROR

Yes.

13. INT. HALLWAY - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

Outside, the Reverend Mother is seeing the scene mentally. She suddenly sees and flinches.

14. INT. THRONE ROOM - EMPEROR'S PALACE - REVEREND MOTHER'S MENTAL IMAGE - NIGHT

The Guild Navigator turns toward her and comes very close to her. We hear the Navigator speak to her.

NAVIGATOR

(to Reverend Mother, mentally)
Reverend Mother... I will give you the Tleilaxu Path.

REVEREND MOTHER (V.O.)

(an excited whisper)
A chance for escape? But for whom?

15. INT. THRONE ROOM - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

EMPEROR

Can you hear me?... If this visit has anything to do with spice...

-- The Guild Navigator shudders and swishes quite violently in his tank.

NAVIGATOR

LISTEN TO ME!! The spice must flow... the spice has given me accelerated evolution for four thousand years... it has enabled you to live two hundred years... the spice helps make the sapho juice, which gives the red-lipped mentats the ability to be living computers... the secret side of spice... the water of life.

16. INT. HALLWAY - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

REVEREND MOTHER (V.O.)

He shouldn't speak of this...

NAVIGATOR

...gives the Bene Gesserit sisterhood the metaphysical ability to see beyond...to have superior powers... Our power to fold space is in the spice... Without us, your empire would be lost on isolated scattered planets... You would be lost.

EMPEROR

I can assure you...

NAVIGATOR

Do not interrupt!!! Do not speak lightly of the spice... ONE SMALL POINT...

REVEREND MOTHER (V.O.)

Here it comes...

NAVIGATOR

We ourselves... foresee a slight problem within House Atreides.... Paul.... Paul Atreides.

EMPEROR

You mean, of course, Duke Leto Atreides... his father.

17. CONTINUED (1)

NAVIGATOR

I mean... Paul Atreides....We want him killed... Blend his extinction into your recipe and you will come with a meal to our liking.... I didn't say this.

The box begins to fold back over the Navigator.

NAVIGATOR (CONT'D)

I am not here...

EMPEROR

I understand.

The Navigator has now disappeared within the black box and the Guildsman are removing him. The Emperor watches as they leave. He wears a very perplexed, worried look on his face.

EMPEROR (CONT'D)

(whispering, to himself)
Why would they want the Duke's son killed?

19. INT. HALLWAY - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT

The Reverend Mother hurries along. Some of the sisterhood gathers near her.

REVEREND MOTHER

We must have a look at Paul Atreides, on Caladan.

22. EXT. SPACE - NIGHT

MUSIC -- DARKNESS -- WIND - THE PLANET OF CALADAN IN SPACE - HOME PLANET OF HOUSE ATREIDES.

Out of the DARKNESS now WAVES can be seen, crashing against a black rock cliff wall.

24. EXT. CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT

High on the rock cliff stands Castle Caladan, Its appearance us dark and medieval. There is a window on the seaward wall lit from within...

...by a drifting glowglobe. Paul sits at an L-shaped table studying filmbooks and maps of Arrakis and the Universe.

We SEE vast star fields and galaxies.

PAUL

(whispering)
Here we are now... nineteen light years beyond...

We SEE the galaxies move as we HEAR a HUM.

PAUL (V.O.)

(whispering)
... beyond Epsilon Alangue... is Arrakis.

We HOLD on this, then we see Arrakis grow larger in the filmbook screen and we SEE it is a planet of vast deserts.

PAUL

(whispering again)
It does look dry....

The picture grows larger again, and we see the Arrakeen Valley.

--

FILMBOOK (V.O.)

Each day the palms along the outer wall of the Palace at Arrakeen consume enough water to sustain the lives of one hundred men. The palms were placed by the Harkonnens to flaunt their water wealth in front of the city Fremen.

PAUL

Where are the Harkonnens from here?

The star fields and galaxies move slightly then.

PAUL (V.O.)

(whispering)
There!... Geidi Prime and the Baron Harkonnen... the enemy.

In the background, FOOTSTEPS grow louder, pounding on thick wooden floors. THUFIR HAWAT, GURNEY HALLECK and DR. YUEH enter. Paul has his back to the door. Thufir suddenly looks perturbed when he notices this.

PAUL

(without turning)
I know, Thufir, I'm sitting with my back to the door.

Hawat suppresses a smile.

PAUL (CONT'D)

I heard you, Dr. Yueh and Gurney coming down the hall.

THUFIR

Those sounds could be imitated.

PAUL

I'd know the difference.

Paul rises and turns to face them.

--

THUFIR

(inner voice)
Yes. Perhaps he would at that.

PAUL

My father sent you to test me. Music then?

Thufir scowls.

GURNEY

No music. I'm packing this for the crossing. Shield practice.

PAUL

Shield practice? Gurney... we had practice -- this morning..... I'm not in the mood.

GURNEY

(angered)
Not in the mood?! Mood's a thing for cattle and love play... not fighting.

PAUL

I'm sorry Gurney.

GURNEY

Not sorry enough.

Gurney draws his knife.

Gurney activates his body shield, sending a shimmering FORCE FIELD around his body. He advances swiftly toward Paul. Paul snaps on his FORCE FIELD, draws his knife and jumps back, collecting himself hurriedly for the fight.

GURNEY

(his voice sounding strange through the forcefield)
Guard yourself for true!

Gurney leaps high, then forward, pressing a furious attack. Paul falls back. The shield edges CRACK loudly as they touch each other.

PAUL

(inner voice)
What's gotten into Gurney? He's not faking.

Paul presses forward and the fight moves quickly around the room. The smell of ozone grows stronger as the shields hit and SPARK off one another. Paul directs a parry downwards, turns, and leads Gurney against the table, plunging at just the right moment to pin Gurney against the table top with his blade right at Gurney's neck.

PAUL

(strange shielded voice)
Is this what you seek?

GURNEY

(strange shielded voice)
Good... the slow blade penetrates the shield... but look down.

Paul looks and sees Gurney's blade at his groin.

GURNEY (CONT'D)

We'd have joined each other in death. However, you did seem to finally get the "mood".

PAUL

Would you really have drawn my blood?

GURNEY

If you'd fought one whit below your abilities I'd have scratched you a good one.

Paul stands and snaps off his shield as does Gurney.

PAUL

Things have been so serious here lately.

GURNEY

Yes. I sensed the play in you lad, but this can no longer be play. Tomorrow we leave for Arrakis! Arrakis is real. The Harkonnens are real.

Thufir, Yueh, Gurney and Paul stare at each other for a moment in silence. Dr. Yueh moves forward and begins to take Paul's pulse rate and to collect other data with a small black machine.

PAUL

Dr. Yueh, do you have any information on the worms of Arrakis?

--

DR. YUEH

I have obtained a filmbook on a small specimen... only 125 meters long.

PAUL

Only?!

They smile at each other.

DR. YUEH

There are have been documented sightings of worms as large as 450 meters in the deep desert -- far from where we'll be in Arakeen.... The desert belt and the south polar regions are marked forbidden....
Why?

PAUL

The storms and the worms. Is it true, that the sand can blow at seven hundred kilometers per hour?

YUEH

It can render flesh to dust in minutes. And these dry winds can generate tremendous static electricity in the atmosphere. Our body shields won't have enough power to operate in the open air on Arrakis.

PAUL

Well, how do the Fremen survive there?

YUEH

We don't know much about the Fremen... They live in the deep desert... some of them in the cities and they have blue- within-blue eyes..

. PAUL

(smiling)
The eyes -- yes, yes... saturation of the blood by the spice -- melange. Could the spice affect us in other ways?

THUFIR

Many dangers exist on Arrakis. For one, we know the Harkonnens would not have given up their CHOAM company contract so easily.

PAUL

(rising)
The Harkonnens are our enemies, yes... but behind them, I suspect, is the Emperor.

--

THUFIR

You will make a formidable Duke!

Paul bows.

THUFIR (CONT'D)

Now remember... the first step in avoiding a trap is knowing of its existence.

PAUL

I know. But if it is a trap then why are we going?

THUFIR

We have our new army.

(in the same breath)
Dr. Yueh, put the weirding module on him.

Thufir, noticing a SQUAD OF GUARDS at the other end of the training room, calls out to them.

THUFIR (CONT'D)

Clear and lock the room.

Gurney activates a series of locks. LIGHTS GLOWS above each doorway.

THUFIR (CONT'D)

Activate a fighter.

Suddenly a FIGHTER ROBOT lowers from the ceiling. As the robot begins to rotate and go through several frightening, complicated movements, Dr. Yueh places a plastic device around Paul's neck. He tightens it around the Adam's apple above Paul's voice box. Paul turns and emits a very strange, powerful sound through the weirding module as he rushes towards the robot.

GURNEY

(to Yueh)
Precise control....

The hallway is empty in the foreground but in the distance a changing of the guard is seen.

26A. through 26B. (Deleted)

27. INT. HALLWAY - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT

Paul walks down the stairway. In the distance, moving troops are packing Atreides belongings. Beyond, Paul sees some troops carrying a large bull's head. The horns are covered with dried blood.

PAUL

The bull that killed my grandfather... is this an evil omen?

Suddenly, DUNCAN IDAHO appears from behind the giant black head.

PAUL

(happily)
Duncan!

DUNCAN

Paul.

(they shake hands)
I was on my way to say goodbye to you. I have to go on ahead.

PAUL

Why? I wish you were coming with us.

DUNCAN

It's something for your father. He wants to talk to you.

(places hand on Paul's chest)
I'll see you in Arrakis. May the hand of God be with you.

PAUL

May the hand of God be with us all, Duncan.

Paul walks to meet his father near the wall.

PAUL

(diffident)
Father.

DUKE LETO

Thank you for joining me, Paul.

(voice tired)
It will be good to get to our new home and have all this upset behind us.

28A. (Deleted)

28B. DUKE LETO AND PAUL AGAINST SEA

They look out over the sea. A huge wave crashes below.

The Duke turns to Paul.

DUKE LETO (CONT'D)

(inner voice)
My son.

(out loud)
Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides three generations.... He swears you are the finest student he's ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same.... It makes me feel very proud...

PAUL

I want you to be proud of me.

Paul smiles up at his father. The WIND blows the Duke's hair and behind him stands the castle and the green and black Atreides banner against the night sky beyond. The RAIN starts again -- lightly. Paul takes a closer look at the Atreides banner moving in the wind.

DUKE LETO

(studying the dark sea below)
I'll miss the sea... but a person needs new experiences... they jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us... and seldom awakens... The sleeper must awaken.

Paul's attention goes to his father's hand where he sees the Duke's signet ring. Again he smiles at his father.

FADE TO:

30. INT. PAUL'S ROOM - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT

Paul is sweating during his sleep and WHISPERS as if struggling with some disturbing thought.

--

PAUL

Arrakis... Dune... Desert Planet...Arrakis... Desert Planet... moving... moving.

We see Paul's dream. It is very dark.

PAUL (V.O.)

Arrakis... Dune... Desert Planet.

Suddenly a drop falls into the black, and white hot widening rings appear on the dark water's surface.

Darkness again. Two moons rise in the darkness. As the second appears:

VOICE

The second moon, your moon...

Dark again. A figure turns toward Paul. It is a BEAUTIFUL GIRL in deep shadow. She speaks.

BEAUTIFUL GIRL

Tell me of your homeworld, Usul.

CU Paul's face in fitful sleep.

In a small stone courtyard, the back-lit figure of a woman moves towards us through the heavy RAIN and darkness. As she nears us, the large, protective glowglobe overtakes her and in an instant we see a beautiful woman -- JESSICA.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
I know she has come to test him... no man has ever been tested with the box... only Bene Gesserit women. I may lose my son.

The doors open, she meets the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (the Emperor's truthsayer) and takes her back toward the Castle. The rain rushes loudly into the storm drains.

34. INT. PAUL'S ROOM - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT

PAUL

(whispering again)
Arrakis... Dune... Desert planet... moving... moving.

CU Paul's face.

Paul's eyes snap open. He hears footsteps outside his door. As the door opens he closes his eyes, however, and he pretends to be asleep. Jessica and the Reverend Mother enter and stand in the doorway looking at him.

REVEREND MOTHER

We'll salvage what we can... but I can tell you.. dear God... for the father... nothing.

Jessica turns to the Reverend Mother, stunned! She turns back to look at Paul. Her hands tremble.

REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)

Did you really think that you could bear the Kwisatz Haderach?... How dare you!

REVEREND MOTHER

My greatest student... and my greatest disappointment.... He's awake!... He's listening to us.

(considering)
Good... Ready yourself, young Paul Atreides... I want to see you in your mother's chamber in one quarter of an hour.

She turns and walks away. Jessica remains at the door and calls out to Paul in the darkness.

JESSICA

Paul?... This is very important...

Jessica leaves, closing the door behind her. Paul sits up in bed.

PAUL

Kwisatz Haderach?... For the father... nothing?

Jessica and the Reverend Mother enter. It is quite dark. Jessica WHISPERS a code number and a glowglobe LIGHTS on a very dim setting.

--

REVEREND MOTHER

(angrily)
Jessica... You were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides... Jessica!

JESSICA

It meant so much to him...

REVEREND MOTHER

You thought only of a Duke's desire for a son?... Desires don't figure in this! An Atreides daughter could have been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the breach. We may lose both blood lines now.

JESSICA

I vowed never to regret my decision. I'll pay for my own mistakes.

REVEREND MOTHER

And your son will pay with you.

Under a dim glowglobe, the DUKE is writing a note on a scroll-like piece of paper.

Finishing reading, the Duke seals the message in a cylinder and presses his signet ring, with a red hawk symbol of House of Atreides, into a hole, which seals the cylinder with a swift HISSING.

He pauses, studying the metal tube. With a VOICE COMMAND, he extinguishes the glowglobe above him. He leans back in his chair as lightning flashes outside the window.

FADE TO:

Paul enters the room and Jessica closes the door behind them.

JESSICA

Paul, this is the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam. She is going to... observe you...

(to Reverend Mother)
Please...

-- REVEREND MOTHER

Jessica, you know it must be done. I enjoin you to stand guard at the door and practice the meditation of peace.

JESSICA

Your Reverence.

PAUL

(inner voice)
What does she fear?

(out loud)
What about my Father?

JESSICA

Paul... please, Paul... listen to the Reverend Mother and do what she tells you.

Jessica leaves the room. The Reverend Mother speaks to Paul using The Voice, a Bene Gesserit training which permits an adept to control others merely by selected tone shadings of the voice. It sounds as if two people are talking -- one normal and the other gutteral and slightly electronic. The effect is strange, yet subtle.

REVEREND MOTHER

(using The Voice)
Now you come here.

Paul finds he cannot help but obey her, yet he fights her controlling him.

PAUL

(inner voice)
She's using The Voice.

(out loud)
No.

She sees him struggling.

REVEREND MOTHER

(inner voice)
Some strength there. Surprising!

(out loud)
Come here.

The Reverend Mother holds up a green metal cube.

REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)

See this... Put your right hand in the box.

Paul stares at the hole in the box.

--

PAUL

What's in the box?

REVEREND MOTHER

Pain.

Just then, she raises one hand to his neck. Paul sees a glint of metal. He tries to back away.

REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)

(The Voice)
STOP! Put your hand in the box.

Paul's hand goes in. Fear passes over his face.

PAUL

(inner voice)
The Voice again.

REVEREND MOTHER

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar. Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison. A Duke's son must know about many poisons -- this one kills only animals.

PAUL

Are you suggesting a Duke's son is an animal?

REVEREND MOTHER

Let us say I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instincts will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so you will die. You will feel an itching -- there... see? Now the itching becomes burning... heat, upon heat, upon heat.

PAUL

(whispering)
It burns.

REVEREND MOTHER

SILENCE... SILENCE.

PAUL

(inner voice)(struggling to compose himself)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

--

The Reverend Mother moves her face up to his. Her ancient face with its metal teeth gleaming inches away breathes hotly. She is smiling.

REVEREND MOTHER

You feel the flesh crisping?

Paul's inner mind sees his hand on fire with all sorts of sores. The skin is bubbling.

REVEREND MOTHER

Flesh dropping off.

He pictures this. The destruction of his hand is complete -- now only blood spurts out and burns.

Paul's face registers extreme pain.

PAUL

(cannot help the explosion)
THE PAIN!

REVEREND MOTHER

NO!! ENOUGH!! Kull wahad! No woman child ever withstood that much. I must have wanted you to fail. Take your hand out of the box and look at it, young human.... Do it!

Paul pulls his hand out of the box. No sign of anything wrong. He turns his hand, flexes his fingers. He looks to the Reverend Mother.

REVEREND MOTHER (CONT'D)

(explaining)
Pain by nerve induction... A human can resist any pain. Our test is crisis and observation.

PAUL

I see the truth of it.

--

REVEREND MOTHER

(inner voice)
Could he be the one?... Maybe... but will he be ours to control?

(out loud)
You know when people speak the truth?

PAUL

I know it.

Suddenly the Reverend Mother holds her hand against Paul's head. She closes her eyes.

She sees a blurred image of Paul's earlier dream. She sees the beautiful girl turn. She hears a muffled voice say "Tell me of your homeworld, Usul".

REVEREND MOTHER

Your mother wants you to tell me about your dreams. I only want to know one thing.... Do they come true?

PAUL

Not all of them... I know which ones will.

REVEREND MOTHER

Perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach.

PAUL

What is it?

REVEREND MOTHER

(profoundly)
The person who can be many places at once... the one who bridges space and time.... He will look where we cannot.

PAUL

Where?

REVEREND MOTHER

Do you know of the Water of Life?... the Truthsayer drug?

PAUL

I have heard of it.

--

REVEREND MOTHER

It is very dangerous... very painful. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood drink it to see within.... There is a place terrifying to us... to women. It is said a man will come... the Kwisatz Haderach... he will go where we cannot... Many men have tried...

PAUL

Did they try and fail?

REVEREND MOTHER

They tried and died....

(she calls out loudly)
Jessica!

Jessica enters immediately and sees with great relief that Paul is still active.

REVEREND MOTHER

I sense your teachings in him. Ignore the regular order of training. His safety requires The Voice.

PAUL

I've heard enough of my safety... What about my father?... I heard you talking. You speak as if he was dead. Well, he isn't!

JESSICA

Paul!

She tries to hold him.

PAUL

Well he isn't... and he won't die... Tell me he won't die!

REVEREND MOTHER

What can be done has been done.

PAUL

MOTHER! Tell me!

The Reverend Mother covers herself and moves quickly to the door.

42A. Through 45. (Deleted)

46. EXT. GEIDI PRIME - DAY

HOME PLANET OF HOUSE HARKONNEN - As seen from space, the black planet as we saw it in Paul's filmbook.

The surface of the planet is a vast sea of black oil. A small cable car traverses high above the sea toward a gigantic black city in the shape of a rectangular box over 100 stories high. Before the city there are rows of huge black towering steel heads atop massive furnaces. SMOKE billows out of their mouths.

Inside the cable car stands PITER. In one hand he holds the cylinder with DUKE Leto's ring imprint.

PITER

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed - The lips acquire stains - The stains become a warning - It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Somewhere in the interior of Geidi Prime, we are in a green porcelain room. Two large Harkonnen soldiers, using large hoses, are washing down the walls and floors of the room. WE MOVE DOWN into the water rushing along the floor towards troughs. Closer, WE SEE bits of flesh, hair, and blood.

The car zooms past gigantic faces, and the furnaces far below ROAR with tremendous power. The city now looms gigantic and overpowering -- millions of electrical cables stretch off the top into dark energy taps above the city.

50. INT. GEIDI PRIME - DAY

Inside the city the cable car passes into a huge inner chamber filled with open-topped lime green porcelain rooms with tremendous electrical lines criss-crossing above.

52. INT. BARON'S ROOM - GEIDI PRIME - DAY

In front of a huge steam boiler, the cable car stops and Piter gets out, steps down steel stairs and enters a porcelain room where the Baron is being treated by a DOCTOR for sores on his face and body. The doctor uses a lasbeam on a big sore on the Baron's lips. The Baron is sickly and hugely fat and sweaty and looks like he has been sickly for some time. He turns to Piter as he enters the room.

PITER

My Lord!

BARON

Piter.

Piter moves up to the Baron.

PITER

The Atreides will be leaving Caladan soon, Baron, and I have here your answer from Duke Leto.

BARON

What does Leto say, Piter?

PITER

He wishes to inform you that Vendetta -- as he puts it, using the ancient tongue, the art of Kanly -- is still alive. He does not wish to meet or speak with you.

BARON

(swallowing; angry)
I made my peace gesture... the forms of Kanly have been obeyed.

He throws down the cylinder.

PITER

As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning my plan t...

-- BARON

My plan!

PITER

The plan to crush the Atreides. Feyd, Rabban... go quietly... no other great house of the Landsraad must ever know of the Emperor's aid to the Baron. The entire Landsraad would turn against the Baron and the Emperor.

DOCTOR

Put the pick in there Pete And turn it round real neat.

His assistant does so.

Rabban breaks open a squood (living food). The squood makes a tiny SCREAM, then Rabban drinks the blood and bodily fluids. He throws the empty container of tiny animal meat into the dark water trough running through the center of the room. Across the room, TWO HARKONNEN SOLDIERS enter, holding big guns on a BOY who is wearing white pants. The Baron smiles when he sees the boy, who is deeply afraid. The guards force the boy to arrange violet flowers on a stand by the far wall opposite the Baron.

BARON

(as the Baron watches the boy)
You're so beautiful my Baron Your skin, love to me Your diseases lovingly cared for For all eternity.

BARON

I will have Arrakis back for myself... he who controls the Spice, controls the universe... and what Piter didn't tell you is we have control of someone who is very close to Duke Leto. This person... this traitor... will be worth more to us than ten legions of Sardaukar.

FEYD

Who is the traitor?

BARON

(laughs)
I won't tell you who the traitor is or when we'll attack. However, the Duke will die before these eyes and he'll know that it is I -- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen -- who encompasses his doom.

--

The Baron gives a hand signal and seven gates in the wall open, emitting tremendous SOUNDS. Suddenly the Baron begins to float straight up, twenty-five feet in the air. It is a frightening sight. He floats down under the giant, humming electrical tube light and rubs his head and body with a black fluid which drips from tiny holes in either side of the pink glow. Feyd and Rabban watch nervously. The Attendants stand completely still with fear.

The Baron swoops down to the Boy, who stands petrified. The Harkonnen guards smile nervously as they step slightly backwards. The boy begins SCREAMING as the Baron pulls the boy's heart plug, located in his chest. The violet flowers are bumped and disarrayed by the violence which ensues. Then the Baron turns smiling to Feyd as the SOUNDS continue to roar.

52C. EXT. ATREIDES SHIP - CALADAN - DAY

A DRUM CORPS pounds out a powerful cadence in front of a water and cannon show as the Duke, Paul and Jessica mount the steel stairs to their ship. In the doorway, they turn back for a final look.

The Duke places a hand on Paul's shoulder. We see the signet ring. Jessica is there. She tries to get Paul to look at her but he scowls and turns to his father.

JESSICA

(turning away)
(inner voice)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind- killer... the little death that brings total obliteration...

The door of the spaceship closes.

3,415 Atreides ships are approaching the Guild Heighliner, which is staggeringly colossal. The Atreides ships look like dots next to the sun. The Duke's ship enters the frame and moves toward the Heighliner.

--

55. INT. ATREIDES SHIP - SPACE

Paul, Jessica and Duke Leto look out the forward viewing glass as tiny lights move outside in the darkness. They hear and feel their ship stop with a huge, echoing, metallic jolt. They look at each other in the silence which follows.

DUKE LETO

Soon they'll begin to fold space.

PAUL

(inner voice)
Far off in the control rooms....

Travelling without moving.

They wait.

57. INT. CONTROL ROOM - HEIGHLINER - SPACE

We pass through electrical shields into a 2,000-foot high control room filled with orange spice gas. On the floor are large gratings covering an exhaust and filtering system. Tons of spice gas are being converted into the clouds of gas along a wall of machinery. From within a dark metal tunnel comes a Guild Navigator. He exits the tunnel and swims through the gas 1,000 feet to a six-dimensional layered miniature replica of the entire Universe. The Navigator emits a long piece of light from his mouth which travels to one edge of the Universe and changes into a likeness of the planet Caladan. The Navigator turns and emits another piece of light which travels to the opposite side of the Universe. It changes into a likeness of Arrakis. The Navigator begins to put his slender fingers in amongst the stars and he emits SOUNDS and bursts of light into the mass of stars and galaxies. The Universe begins to vibrate and elongate, then to curve. Electrical lightening traverses from Caladan to Arrakis as the Universe bends into a U-shape. Arrakis submerges deep into the light. The navigator swims to the point where Arrakis disappeared. He begins to pull and tear a hole in the Universe. Stars like sparks and SOUNDS and rings of light appear, along with a roaring WIND. The Navigator swims deep into this hole through the rings of light. The Navigator becomes more and more transparent, until he's lost in darkness. The sounds fade.

58. through 60. (Deleted)

60A. EXT. HEIGHLINER - ABOVE ARRAKIS - SPACE

Suddenly, the real planet Arrakis appears and the giant Heighliner materializes above it.

63B. EXT. ARRAKEEN - DAY

Through a brownish-orange haze appears the dusty valley of Arrakeen.

The Atreides ship has landed at Arrakeen. The door is open - the family walk down the steps - DUKE LETO with his dog - PAUL and JESSICA.

65. EXT. GROUNDS - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

... clusters of troops standing at attention around the enormous dark, cool doorway as the Duke, Paul and Jessica enter the Palace.

65C. EXT. PALACE - ARRAKEEN - DAY

The Atreides banner is raised on the top of the Palace.

--

67. INT. MILITARY SUB-BASEMENT ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Atreides army soldiers milling, YELLING noisily.

In a darkened passageway, fans turn, casting deep, slow-moving shadows. SOUNDS ECHO in the distance.

A room of technicians and electronic gear. The SIGNALS are being heard and interpreted.

ATREIDES TECHNICIAN

Harkonnens.

Far in the distance in deep black rock, Harkonnen spies move, carrying strange electronic equipment.

72. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Thufir marches down a hallway with a squad of TROOPS with electronic gadgetry, LIGHTS and SOUNDS going constantly.

THUFIR

(into a radio microphone)
Why isn't the shield up yet?

Down in the basement, Atreides engineers are removing a complicated device from heavy machinery. A MAN radios back to Thufir.

ATREIDES RADIO MAN

We found and removed another sabotage device. I think it will go up now.

--

The engineers activate a series of atometric Holtzman generators. Suddenly SOUNDS begin. The machines start; at first low, then they WHINE upwards to a high pitch. When the pitch is steady, a series of levers are pulled.

Just after the second set of levers is pulled, a huge house shield is seen going up in a box shape, encompassing the Palace with SHIMMERING protection.

From a small window, Thufir observes the shield with a critical eye.

THUFIR

(inner voice; worried)
We found these sabotage devices too easily...

Two giant glowglobes drift into the Great Hall where Jessica and Dr. Yueh stand watching a giant bull's head is being hung above the massive fireplace. The MOVING TROOPS are unpacking crates and organizing furnishings. Jessica watches them. Distant SOUNDS reverberate inside an elaborate air vent beside them.

DR. YUEH

Listen here.... You can here the people of Arrakeen outside.... Can you here the cry "Soo Soo Sook" of the water sellers?

JESSICA

So many reminders of the scarcity of water.

DR. YUEH

Have you noticed the line of palms along the wall... the Harkonnen put them in... to flaunt their water wealth in front of these people.... Each day those palms take enough water to sustain the life of one hundred men.

JESSICA

The way you say Harkonnen... I didn't know you had so much reason to hate them.

DR. YUEH

(swiftly)
My wife... you didn't know my wife... they...

-- JESSICA

(out loud)
Forgive me...

(inner voice)
... His wife was Bene Gesserit too... the signs are al over him.... They must have killed here.

Jessica sees a droplet of sweat break out on Yueh's cheek.

DR. YUEH

I'm sorry I'm unable to talk about it.

Above them a series of iron curtains begins to open over deep rock window slots, sending narrow shafts of light down across the room. TWO ATREIDES WOMEN in uniform approach.

ATREIDES WOMAN #1

(referring to several robed figures standing in the room)
My lady... the local people... the maids and servants await your inspection. Hawat has cleared them.

Dr. Yueh turns to Jessica.

DR. YUEH

The Harkonnens may have tampered medically.... please wait.

He turns a yellow light on a moves it over the crowd. The yellow light beam plays over the blue- within-blue eyes. One of the women, the Shadout Mapes, watches Jessica continuously. Yueh's hand shakes slightly.

JESSICA

(inner voice; noticing Yueh's hands)
He's hiding something -- holding something back.

(She studies his face closely.)
It's not just his wife... He's a good man though. He's probably trying to save my feelings...

(We see her mouth.)
I could use The Voice... make him tell me... It would only shame him.

(We see her eyes.)
I must place more trust in my friends. (We see Yueh turn toward her, fearful.)

77. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Paul wanders through the darkened passageways alone, his footsteps echoing as goes. He takes pleasure observing the details of the rock Palace but all the while he feels an uneasiness -- a feeling of fear builds in him.

Paul enters a small bedroom and sits down on the bed. He opens the filmbook, and activates it.

We SEE a gigantic carryall lower down above a spice harvester and pick it up off the desert floor as a narrator speaks over.

NARRATOR (V.O.)

One carryall handles four spice mining teams; however, it will fly only two harvesters at a time. Today, we have nine hundred and thirty harvesters and nine hundred and eighty-one carryalls....

Paul looks up. Across the room he sees a tray of small pastries which have been laid out. He goes to them and scans them with his poison detector, which he carries on his belt. A pleasant tone SOUNDS and the word "safe" appears in green light. Paul takes a pastry bites it and turns back towards the bed. Suddenly he stops. He looks at the pastry.

PAUL

(inner voice)
Spice...

As he continues eating he notices the sunlight through the slates over the window begins to GLOW white hot. Paul's eyes are intense as the light GLOWS brilliantly.

PAUL (CONT'D)

(whispering inner voice)
Terrible purpose.... What is it?

Some red droplets appear rushing through the white light. Three images follow:

MENTAL IMAGES:

A blurred Guild Navigator.

79A. INT. MAKER ROOM - SEITCH TABR - NIGHT

Paul dead on a stone floor.

Fire burning.

The LIGHT decreases and Paul stands trembling. As he moves to the bed he sees a portion of the headboard slowly folding down and he sees a chrome sliver of metal glide out from within the dark opening. He freezes.

PAUL

(inner voice)
A hunter-seeker!... It can't get me if I don't move... It's too dark in here for it to see clearly...

The hunter-seeker begins to lift and swing across the room and back-- searching.

PAUL (CONT'D)

(inner voice)
I've got to grab it -- the suspensor field will make it slippery on the bottom -- I must grip it tightly.

The seeker drops a little, circling around the bed. A faint HUMMING sound is heard.

PAUL (CONT'D)

(inner voice)
Who is operating that thing?... It has to be someone in the Palace. I could shout for help but it would kill whoever opened the door...

Just as Paul finishes this thought the other door to his room begins to open and the Shadout Mapes peers in. The hunter-seeker arrows past Paul toward the motion. Paul swiftly reaches out and grips the deadly thing. It HUMS and twists violently in his hand. With a powerful turn and thrust, Paul slams the glass nose of the seeker into the stone wall. The seeker goes dead in his hand. He looks up into the deep blue eyes of the Shadout Mapes.

SHADOUT MAPES

(shaken)
It would have killed me... not so? PAUL

I was the target. It went to the motion.
Who are you?

--

SHADOUT MAPES

I am the Shadout Mapes... the housekeeper.

PAUL

A Fremen... Could she be the operator?

No...

SHADOUT MAPES

I must cleanse the way between us.... You saved my life... and we Fremen pay our debts. It's known to us that you've a traitor in your midst. Who it is we cannot say but we're certain of it.

PAUL

(inner voice)
A traitor...

Before he can speak the Shadout Mapes is gone -- running off down the passageway. Jessica enters.

PAUL (CONT'D)

(looks to Jessica)
There is a traitor among us.

81. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Running TROOPS storm down the hallway with electronic gear and big stun guns.

82. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Thufir walks quickly toward SEVERAL TROOPS.

THUFIR

Set up a sonar probe immediately!

Dr. Yueh sticks his head out the doorway as SEVERAL TROOPERS run past.

Duke Leto is calling on a radio phone. GENERALS surround him, as well as Gurney.

DUKE LETO

(on phone)
Thufir?... anything?... keep looking.

(Inner voice)
...and a traitor... God help us.

TROOPS come off an elevator. The glow-span indicates the very bottom floor of 18 sub-floors. The ground is uneven rock and the ceiling is low. The troops fan out shining chemical lamps here and there. A soldier suddenly stops. Ahead in his light is a dead Harkonnen -- bloody vomit dried around his mouth. He lies beside an electronic device.

Dr. Yueh covers his face with his hands in a darkened room... sobbing.

SEARCHLIGHTS sweep over the faces of City Fremen who are sitting or moving solemnly around the outer wall of the Palace. Some are chanting "Mahdi" and "Lisan al-Gaib." Others hold up one open hand as a sign they feel the messiah is near. A slow-moving spike- backed dog sucks ants up out of a small anthill; he snorts.

In the darkened Hall we can HEAR the distant sound of the Fremen reverberating.

87. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Duke Leto sits with Paul, Thufir, EIGHT GENERALS and SIX SUB-LIEUTENANTS. The Duke's small dog wanders under the table and rests his head on the Duke's boot. In front of Thufir is a device FLASHING brilliant light bursts over his face. The others are all talking among themselves. Suddenly Thufir's face turns brilliant red (as red as his sapho-stained lips) and he begins speaking rapidly into the machine in code using a strained high voice.

--

THUFIR

(Mentat voice)
Sector 6 - 80 -- copy the sixth -- the summit -- the eight the quadrant over the ninth plus eighty -- four circles -- weave the eighty and call the fourth copy -- enter nine -- seven by seven a seven the seven call seven B seven -- enter the circles call the sixth copy the sixth over the summit.... eight.

The machine FLASHES several bright irregular SIGNALS. Then it stops and HUMS. The blood leaves Thufir's face.

THUFIR (CONT'D)

(very fast and casually)
Eight.... Thufir Hawat... Mentat... Master of Assassins.

The hum stops. Thufir turns to Duke Leto. He looks up. Everyone is quiet now.

THUFIR (CONT'D)

The Palace is now secure. The city of Arrakeen is under martial law... we have troops here headquartered underground on sub-floors six through ten. The rest of the troops are stationed in Arrakeen and we have some on the airfield. Our new army is still training, but everything is shielded.... With the shielding, we are impenetrable. Dr. Kynes is waiting, Sire, for your inspection of spice mining operations, but since the attempt of the young master, I am against your leaving the Palace.

DUKE LETO

(very angry)
The attempt failed... Harkonnen captives have already been taken. We must crush the Harkonnen machine on Arrakis.... You all know what to do.

(Turning towards Gurney)
...Gurney! We desperately need more spice miners... many are threatening to leave on the next shuttle. We need spice drivers, weather scanners, dune men ... any with open sand experience. You must persuade them to enlist with us.

--

GURNEY

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup as the east wind. And they shall gather the captivity of the sand.

DUKE LETO

(squints at Gurney)
Very moving, Gurney. On your way... and take care of Dr. Kynes until Paul and I arrive. We will not be prisoners here in this place.

GURNEY

(artfully easing the Duke's anger)
Behold as a wild ass in the desert go I forth to my work.

Gurney strides off. Thufir sits, contemplating. Paul and Duke Leto smile at each other and shake their heads.

Jessica is sitting in a small room, smiling, reading a note. It reads "I miss you. Leto." She sets the note down. She begins to tremble. She becomes fearful. In her mind she SEES quick images:

MENTAL IMAGES

A blurred Guild Navigator.

Paul dead on a stone floor.

Fire burning.

Jessica continues to tremble.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
I must speak with you Leto!

Outside in the passageway, feet suddenly move quietly toward the door to Jessica's room.

Jessica HEARS this and looks up just as the Shadout Mapes silently enters her room.

JESSICA

(staring at the blue-eyed woman -- waiting for possible danger.)
Yes?

SHADOUT MAPES

I am the Shadout Mapes, your housekeeper, Noble Born. What are your orders.

JESSICA

You may refer to me as "my lady." I am not noble born. I'm the bound concubine of Duke Leto -- mother of the heir designate.... "Shadout"... that's an ancient word.

MAPES

(strangely asked)
You know the ancient tongues?

JESSICA

I know the Bhotani Jib and Chakobsa, all the hunting languages.

MAPES

As the legend says.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
That's it! The Missionaria Protectiva has been here planting protective legends against a day of Bene Gesserit need. And that day has come. I must play out this sham.

(out loud)
I know the Dark things and the way of the Great Mother. Miseces prejin.

Mapes takes a step backward to flee.

JESSICA (CONT'D)

I know many things. I know you came prepared for violence with a weapon in your bodice.

--

MAPES

My lady, I... the weapon was sent as a gift if you should prove to be the one.

JESSICA

And the means of my death should I prove otherwise.

(inner voice)
Now we will see which way the decision tips.

Slowly Mapes reaches into her dress and brings out a sheathed knife. She unleashes it.

MAPES

Do you know this my lady?

JESSICA

(inner voice)
It could only be one thing....

(out loud)
It's a crysknife.

MAPES

Say it not lightly...

(very slowly)
Do you know its meaning?

JESSICA

(inner voice)
Here is why this Fremen has taken service with me, to ask that one question. Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer. Shadout is Chakobsa... knife, in Chakobsa is... maker of death.

(out loud)
It's a maker...

Mapes SCREAMS with elation and grief.

JESSICA (CONT'D)

(inner voice)
Maker?... Maker is the key word... the tooth of the worm? That was close...

(out loud)
Did you think that I, knowing the mysteries of the Great Mother, would not know the maker?

MAPES

My lady, when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.

Mapes sheathes the blade... slowly

--

JESSICA

(inner voice)
There's more here... yes!

(out loud)
Mapes, you've sheathed that blade unblooded.

With a GASP Mapes drops the knife into Jessica's hands and opens her blouse.

MAPES

Take the water of my life!

Jessica withdraws the knife from the sheath and, with the blade, scratches a line just above Mapes' right breast.

MAPES (CONT'D)

You are ours.... You are the one.

Jessica's eyes stare ahead. She knows these words ring with truth.

The Duke, Paul and SEVERAL ARMED GUARDS enter a tunnel to a `thopter landing pad which is illuminated by a shaft of light coming from a chimney-like exit above. DR. KYNES and his Fremen guard are standing next to Gurney.

KYNES

(to Gurney)
So, this is Leto the Just...

GURNEY

(sharply)
I hope I made myself clear. You may call him "The Duke," "My lord," or "Sire." And there is a more ancient term you might keep in mind -- "Noble Born."

KYNES

(inner voice)
Play out your little comedy while you can off-worlders...

Gurney turns and activates a device...

...which causes the ornithopter behind to fold open ready for flight.

93B. INT. TUNNEL - OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

The two parties meet and are introduced.

DUKE LETO

So you are Dr. Kynes, the Imperial Ecologist?

KYNES

(turning to Gurney)
I prefer the more ancient term, planetologist... Noble Born.

DUKE LETO

This is my son, Paul.

PAUL

Are you a Fremen?

KYNES

I am a servant of the His Majesty the Emperor. I have served His Majesty on Arrakis long enough for my eyes to change.

PAUL

(inner voice)
He's hiding something.

DUKE LETO

I understand we have you to thank for these stillsuits, Doctor.

KYNES

They are Fremen suits. I hope they fit well, my lord.

PAUL

"Your gift is a blessing of the river."

Kynes' FREMEN GUARDS, hearing this are siezed with agitation. Kynes QUIETS them, then studies Paul.

KYNES

(inner voice)
The Mahdi will greet you with holy words and your gifts will be a blessing.

(spoken, nonchalantly)
Most of the desert natives here are a superstitious lot. They mean no harm. With your permission, I will check the security of your suits.

Gurney and the guard move forward warily.

GURNEY

(angrily)
The Duke is to be addresses as...

--

Kynes comes forward and adjusts the Duke's suit, checking seals and pulling on straps.

KYNES

Basically...

GURNEY

(leaping forward to protect his Duke)
Sire!

DUKE LETO

It's all right Gurney.

Gurney steps back.

GURNEY

Yes, Sire.

KYNES

It's a high-efficiency filter and heat exchange system. Perspiration passes through the first layer and is gathered in the second. The salt is separated. Breathing and walking provide the pumping action. The reclaimed water circulates to catchpockets from which you can drink through this tube at your neck. Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. Should you be in the open desert, remember to breathe in through your mouth, out through the nose tubes.

The Duke is now properly fitted. Kynes places the noseplug into his nose.

KYNES (CONT'D)

With a Fremen suit in good working order, one can sustain life for weeks, even in the deep desert.

He removes the noseplug.

DUKE LETO

My thanks.

KYNES

With your permission...

Kynes turns to Paul, running his hands over the slick fabric. He stands back with a puzzled expression.

--

KYNES

You've worn a stillsuit before?

PAUL

No.

KYNES

Your suit is fitted desert fa

shion. Who told you how to do that?

PAUL

No one. It... seemed the proper way.

KYNES

That it is.

(inner voice)
He shall know your ways as if born to them.

Kyne's Fremen guard are watching Paul very closely now.

GURNEY

We're wasting time, Sire.

Duke Leto, Dr. Kynes, Gurney and Paul enter the ornithopter...

90. INT. JESSICA'S CHAMBER - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

Jessica trembles.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
I must speak with you Leto!

93C. EXT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - TUNNEL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

...and the thopter turns slowly as it goes up into the light.

--

93E. EXT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY

From outside the Palace's atomic shield we see the blur of the ornithopter pass through a porthole and come out perfect like a gleaming jewel.

94A. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY

KYNES

Southeast over the Shield Wall. That's where I told your sandmaster to concentrate his harvesting.

They crest the top of the wall which opens out into a black, level expanse of rock, cratered and fractured. On the other side is the huge, seemingly endless plain of sand, the Great Desert. In the hazy distance, flashes of light can be seen.

PAUL

Will we see a worm?

KYNES

Where there is spice and spice mining there are always worms.

PAUL

Always?

KYNES

Always.

PAUL

Why do they come?

KYNES

To protect their territory. Vibrations attract them.

--

PAUL

(inner voice)
I've registered him now... a knife is a sheath on his left arm... He's strong... a person born to command... He's hiding many things.

(out loud, suddenly)
Is there a relationship between the worms and the spice?

Kynes turns instantly and stares at Paul. Gurney sees the wonder in Kynes' eyes.

GURNEY

The young master is a trained Mentat, an advanced student of Prana Bindu has studied under some of the finest teachers in the Universe.

Kynes takes a second look at young Paul.

KYNES

As I said... they defend the spice sands. As to their relationship with the spice... who knows.

98. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY

GURNEY

Dust cloud ahead, Sire.

KYNES

That's it... spice mining... no other cloud quite like it. See the spotters over it? They're watching for wormsign... the telltale sand waves. Seismic probes on the surface, too Sire... worms can travel too deep for their waves to show... Looks like a good patch of spice.

DUKE LETO

Wormsign? Is it wormsign?

--

KYNES

Yes!... worm. Big one! You've got sharp eyes Sire.... May I?

Kynes grabs the microphone and dials in the correct frequency.

100. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER

From the window, we see that the sand below is rippling, like water with a big fish just under the surface.

KYNES

(into radio, after having found the frequency)
Calling Harvester Pad Nine. Wormsign!

STATIC... then a voice.

VOICE

(over radio)
Who calls Pad Nine?

GURNEY

(quickly)
Don't mention the Duke... This is an uncoded channel.

KYNES

Unlisted flight northeast of you... wormsign on intercept course... estimated contact fifteen minutes.

VOICE

(over radio)
Have sighting confirmed. Stand by for fix. Contact in sixteen minutes minus. Very precise estimate. Who is on that unlisted flight?

Kynes clicks off the radio.

DUKE LETO

What happens now?

KYNES

The carryall will come and lift off the spice harvester. Try and get in close over the harvester... you'll find this interesting Sire.

--

The Duke accelerates the ornithopter in the direction of the harvester. Paul can SEE...

...huge amounts of sand being spewn out of the gigantic stack atop the metal and plasteel harvester.

KYNES

They'll work until the very last minute.

The yellow cloud of the harvester envelops them. The Duke flies up to get a closer look.

VOICE

(over radio)
Spotter control... no sign of the carryall... it isn't answering.

Everyone looks at one another.

GURNEY

The worm is eight minutes away, Sire.

VOICE

(over radio)
Spotter control -- give me a report by the numbers.

Over the radio MANY VOICES report they have no contact with the carryall.

DUKE LETO

Damn it... Harkonnens.

He punches a control button and grabs a microphone.

DUKE LETO (CONT'D)

(into microphone)
We are coming down to take you off the harvester... All spotters are ordered to comply.

VOICE

(over radio)
Ordered by whom?

--

DUKE LETO

(angrily)

Duke Leto Atreides....

Gurney and Paul turn to each other, worried.

VOICE

(over radio)
Yes... yes, Sire!

DUKE LETO

How many men do you have?

VOICE

(over radio)
Full crew -- twenty-six men -- but Sire, we can't leave this spice...

DUKE LETO

Damn the spice! Get out of there.

All the spotters begin landing and the Duke descends directly in front of the harvester which has stopped mining yet emits a tremendous rythmic GRINDING noise. No one is coming out.

Gurney nervously scans the sky for enemy ships. A very low, powerful SOUND starts now and the ground begins to shake.

A hatch opens and MEN come pouring out.

DUKE LETO

(yelling at the men)
Two men in each of the spotters... You!... over here... run!!

The ground is really shaking now. A tremendous low THUNDERING sound grows along with a high rasping HISS.

KYNES

(to Paul and Gurney -- yelling over the noise)
I can't see him yet but he's very close...

--

DUKE LETO

(out loud to himself as he watches the men scrambling)
Damn sloppy -- really damn sloppy.

FOUR MEN begin tumbling into the Duke's machine.

GURNEY

Come on boys... come on.

(Then, to the Duke)
We're going to be heavy, Sire.

The men press on Gurney and Paul. Paul can feel the fear. The sound is a horrible ROAR and deeper RUMBLING now and the `thopter is vibrating and shaking violently. The air suddenly begins to SPARK with static electricity.

KYNES

(nervous)
Here he is... We've got to go.

The Duke closes the doorways, surveys the area one last time, then takes the controls.

The ship strains and lifts off -- slowly.

Paul sees the brown powder clumped on the suits of the men... their bluish eyes. He smells the spice. He begins to feel its affect.

PAUL

(inner voice as a blinding light comes and goes)
Spice!... pure un-refined spice!

KYNES

(murmuring)
Bless the Maker and his water... Bless the coming and going of him. May his passage cleanse the world.

DUKE LETO

(yelling)
What's that you're saying?

KYNES

Nothing.

A spice miner turns and sees Kynes, who remains silent.

--

SPICE MINER #1

(astonished)
Liet!

SPICE MINER #2

Shhhhh.

Paul hears this, then looks to Kynes -- locks on his image.

PAUL

(inner voice)
Liet?

KYNES

(pointing down and yelling)
You are about to witness something few have seen -- watch! Watch!

Paul looks down as the Duke banks over the harvester.

Static electricity is IGNITING in the air and the sand is swirling around the harvester. Then they see it. A wide hole emerges from the sand, glistening spokes within it. The hole is twice the size of the harvester. Suddenly the machine turns and slides into the hole, parts of it EXPLODING. The SOUND is deafening. The Duke's ship is WHINING to stay aloft.

108. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY

GURNEY

Gods, what a monster.

DUKE LETO

Someone is going to pay for this... I promise.

KYNES

(inner voice -- as he studies the Duke)
This Duke is more concerned over his men than the spice! I must admit... against all better judgement... I like this Duke.

FADE TO:

--

114. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

Duke Leto walks into the room. The NIGHT GUARD comes to attention as he passes. DUNCAN IDAHO, wearing a dark, dusty stillsuit, emerges from the shadows. DUKE LETO and DUNCAN meet at the foot of the steps. The men embrace and separate.

DUKE LETO

(happily)
Duncan! What have you discovered about the Fremen, Duncan -- tell me. Why haven't we heard from you?

DUNCAN

My lord... I suspect so much. I think they are the allies we seek... they are strong and fierce... they do not give their loyalty easily or quickly.... As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few -- wandering here and there in the desert.... My lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet... that the Fremen exist in vast numbers... vast numbers... and it is they that control Arrakis.

116A. NEW SCENE - SHADOUT MAPES ALONG PASSAGE

117. INT. PAUL'S SUB-BASEMENT ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

DUKE LETO'S VOICE

Guard. Open the door.

Paul is in a fitful sleep. Leto enters and smiles at his son.

DUKE LETO

Sleep well... my son.

The Duke smiles at Paul then leaves the room, but after he goes, Paul strains with all his might to lift himself to call out.

PAUL

(struggling painfully)
Father!... father... drugged...

122. INT. BARON'S QUARTERS - HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT

The BARON's face -- expressionless. The SOUND of his ship screams in the background. The DOCTOR is seated beside him.

The Duke walks down the steps to a very narrow passageway. The passageway becomes very dark.

Suddenly the Duke hears a strange MEWLING sound. He turns down an even darker passageway. He can hear the shield WHINING in the distance. He almost has to feel his way. Up ahead he sees a shape. He bends down and sees the SHADOUT MAPES dying on the cold stone floor in the darkness. She tries to speak but cannot. She falls. Suddenly the Duke HEARS the shield generator start whining down.

DUKE LETO

What happened? What?

(as Mapes dies)
The shield!

The Duke reaches to activate his shield be a large dart is shot into his shoulder. The Duke lurches upwards then tumbles to the ground. Out of the darkness comes Dr. Yueh. The dart drops and CLATTERS as if a dream.

DUKE LETO (CONT'D)

(mind racing -- struggling)
Yueh!

(inner voice)
He's sabotaged the house generators, we're wide open.

YUEH

(with self-disgust)
I've brought House Atreides down. I've destroyed the new army's weirding modules.

DUKE LETO

(hoarse whisper)
... Why?

The generator WHINES lower and lower

--

YUEH

I wish to kill a man... not you, my dear Duke, but the Baron.... You were dead already... but you will be close to the Baron before you die. You will be tied and drugged but you can still attack. When you see the Baron you will have a new poison tooth. He will want you close so he can gloat over you. One bite on this tooth and a strong exile...

DUKE LETO

Refuse...

YUEH

No! -- You mustn't... for in return I will save the lives of your Paul and Jessica.

Yueh removes the Duke's signet ring and shows it to him.

YUEH (CONT'D)

For Paul...

He implants the tooth.

Yueh becomes more and more blurred. His image begins to fade. His lips move in the darkness. The generator WHINE is low and going lower and lower.

YUEH (CONT'D)

When you see the Baron, remember the tooth! The tooth!

119A. INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

ATREIDES GUARD #1 comes running down the steps and up to the CAPTAIN and a TECHNICIAN.

ATREIDES GUARD #1

The shield is down! The shield is down!

ATREIDES GUARD CAPTAIN

Harkonnen...

(turns and shouts)
Get that shield up!

119B. EXT. LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

A warning TONE begins. TROOPS begin pouring onto the field.

Troops race toward their ships.

119E. INT. GUARD HOUSE - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

ATREIDES GUARD

The shield! The shield!

A loud warning TONE vibrates. Thufir turns away from the doorway of a small room where he's horrified to SEE...

... a chemical FIRE consuming the thousands of Atreides weirding modules.

123. EXT. PALACE - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

A thousand Harkonnen ships dive over Arrakeen and the Palace. Giant deep thunderous EXPLOSIONS shatter the land. Billowing SMOKE clouds column upwards, forming a black wriggling death curtain around the Palace.

Troops are running through the passageway, right and left. SMOKE is everywhere and the horrible SOUNDS of the explosions continue. The SOUNDS of stone crunching, shifting, and breaking. SCREAMS. A wall of stone suddenly cracks open. A burst of air and dust shoots out, HISSING. The Duke's dog runs through the passageway WHINING with fear.

125. (Deleted)

125A. EXT. HARKONNEN SHIP - LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

Sardaukar rush out of a Harkonnen ship. Their electrically distorted faces come screaming toward us.

126. EXT. LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

Harkonnen hammer ships thunder the ground, sending cracks and fissures throughout the landing field. Harkonnen scare SIRENS scream.

Atreides soldiers run from the hammer ships.

FIRE and SMOKE. SCREAMS. An ATREIDES SOLDIER's head is hit with a large white hot piece of explosion. Through the black smoke, large SARDAUKAR chase after THREE SOLDIERS and them with hydraulic knife-guns. One blade enters the back of one man's head and comes out his nose. Tremendous NOISE of battle. Gurney and a squad of TROOPERS climb through bodies and thick smoke. Gurney has the Duke's dog safely inside his coat. The little dog's head sticks out -- looking about. Gurney strokes the dog's neck when the reach safety behind some rock. Small glimpses, as the smoke moves this way or that, let them see thousands of Sardaukar fighting.

GURNEY

LONG LIVE DUKE LETO!

TROOPERS

Long live Duke Leto!

The CRY from the men rings out as they attack with frenzy equalling that of the Sardaukar.

The distant HAMMERING of the Harkonnen hammer ship. Jessica's eyes open and she sees two big boots but they seem to be floating above the stone floor she is lying on. She is gagged and tied. She looks up. She sees the huge Baron Harkonnen staring down at her. In the distance she HEARS the battle raging.

--

BARON

The drug was timed. Dr. Yueh has been very valuable to us.... What a pity you must remain gagged. We can't let ourselves be swayed by your witch's Voice, now, can we?

JESSICA

(inner voice)
Leto... where are you?

Dr. Yueh covers his face with his hands in a darkened room... sobbing.

The Baron floats across the room with suspensor- borne lightness.

BARON

Goodbye, Jessica and goodbye to your sweet son.... I want to spit once on your head... just some spittle on your face -- what a luxury.

He spits on her cheek. The Baron floats out of the room into the passageway.

BARON (CONT'D)

We were ordered to kill them... so kill them.

127. BACK TO SCENE

NEFUD

What are your orders, Piter?

PITER

Take them to the desert, as the traitor suggested and worms will destroy the evidence. Their bodies must never be found.

129. BACK TO SCENE - BATTLE

127. BACK TO SCENE

PITER

(whispering to Jessica, rubbing the spittle around on her face with his hand, delicately)

I'd thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm. Desire clouds my reason.... That is not good... that is bad.

128. INT. SUB-BASEMENT PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT - SHIELD

EFFECT

Duncan Idaho kills a Sardaukar soldier and rushes forward frantically. His eyes blaze intensely. He yells out to the other Atreides soldiers.

DUNCAN

They're on this floor somewhere....

The soldiers disappear, searching in another direction. Duncan runs, pounding, down the passageway -- his eyes searching in every doorway. Suddenly twelve huge Sardaukar round a corner on a quick march. Duncan turns his shield up and charges them. Behind them he sees Paul and Jessica bound in straps and being carried.

Duncan attacks and fights valiantly but he is outnumbered. In the fight the lights are blown out and Duncan is killed by a slow stunner pellet through the head. Paul strains to help.

PAUL

(seeing Duncan)
Duncan!! Duncan!!

Paul and Jessica are carried off, quickly, through the darkness. The battle SOUNDS thundering.

128A. DUNCAN'S BODY - INT. SUB-BASEMENT PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT - SHIELD EFFECT

Duncan's dead, shielded body slides sparking in the dark against the passageway walls.

131C. (Deleted)

132. EXT. PALACE - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

FIRE and SMOKE.

The Baron's face, the light of FIRE and EXPLOSIONS playing over it. The Baron turns as Piter ushers in the traitor Yueh.

BARON

(to Yueh - quietly)
You wish now to join your wife, is that it, traitor?

A sudden flash of hope crosses Yueh's face.

YUEH

She lives?

The Baron smiles, almost sympathetically.

BARON

You wish to join her... join her, then.

Piter moves to Yueh, a knife glistening in his hand. It flashes into his back. A GASP escapes Yueh's throat, a sad look passing over his face, as if to say "I thought as much." He stands stiffly, then falls gasping. He tastes his own blood, then dies.

BARON

Take him away.

Black smoke palms.

145. EXT. LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

Rabban strides in front of his uncle's ship, carrying Kynes over his shoulder. Harkonnen and Sardaukar SOLDIERS stand at attention. Rabban tears off Kynes' stillsuit. Kynes falls.

RABBAN

He was in the Palace with the Atreides... I also say he was a spy for the Emperor.

(looking up to the troops)
Go now! Take him to his desert to die. Go!

The small `thopter climbs toward the Shield Wall through a SMOKEY atmosphere illuminated by distant EXPLOSIONS.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
Yueh's sign. He's left a satchell.

Jessica and Paul, bound by cabin straps, lie in the back, the two guards at the controls. Outside, `thopters and ships fly past them toward the city. The distant FIRES play over Jessica's face as she sees Yueh's triangular tattoo scratched in the cabin roof.

HARKONNEN GUARD #1

I'd like to have some fun before we kill her.

HARKONNEN GUARD #2

(laughing)
Of course... what did you think?

Jessica looks to Paul.

PAUL

(struggling to use The Voice)
Don't touch my mother...

JESSICA

(inner voice)
Oh great mother! He's trying the voice. The Reverend Mother said it could save him.

HARKONNEN GUARD #1

Did you hear a noise from the little one?

--

HARKONNEN GUARD #2

I didn't hear anything.

HARKONNEN GUARD #1

No?

HARKONNEN GUARD #2

No.

He turns and hits Paul in the shoulder with a stungun. Paul recovers and starts taking long, calming breaths.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
The calming exercise.

HARKONNEN GUARD #1

The little one!

(they laugh)

Suddenly, Guard #1 reaches around and puts his hand up Jessica's skirt. He starts breathing hard. Paul clears his throat.

PAUL

(using The Voice)
Remove her gag!

JESSICA

(inner voice)
Excellent!

Guard #1 finds himself removing Jessica's gag. Guard #2 turns away from his controls but seems powerless to stop him. Once, it's off Jessica smiles seductively and writhes on the `thopter floor.

JESSICA (CONT'D)

(The Voice)
There's no need to fight over me.

The two men stare at one another a moment. Then Guard #1's hand, glinting silver, flashes into Guard #2's chest, killing him. Guard #1 pulls the knife out, smiling. The ornithopter begins to veer off into a dangerous nose dive.

HARKONNEN GUARD #1

Now?

JESSICA

(The Voice)
First cut my son's bonds.

--

Guard #1 slowly cuts Paul's big straps, never taking his eyes off Jessica. The ornithopter gets closer and closer to the top jagged surface of the Shield Wall.

JESSICA (CONT'D)

(The Voice)
That's it.

The blade cuts through the strap holding Paul's legs. Paul kicks upwards extremely powerfully and his foot breaks through the man's chest cavity and drives his heart up into his head, spewing blood out the man's mouth. Paul grabs the controls but it's too late. The ship falls into the rock.

The `thopter slides across the rock, shearing off a wing. Suddenly they are beyond the rock three miles above the great desert and plummeting fast toward the dunes below.

Paul pulls desperately on the controls and manages to keep the ship aloft and flying into the deep desert.

JESSICA

Oh, my God!

131B. EXT. PALACE - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

CU violently burning palm.

Nefud exits - TWO HARKONNENS wheel in the stretcher, and swing it round - one of the GUARDS hands Piter his knife back - the Guards exit and the door closes - Piter moves up to Duke Leto and leans over him moving his knife across the Duke's face.

The Baron flies down to the stretcher.

BARON

Duke Leto Atreides. Someone's torn the insignia off your uniform. Such carelessness.

Leto shows no sign that he has heard.

--

PITER

It was Feyd.

Leto's POV: The Baron and his Mentat are only DIM FARAWAY SHAPES. Their voices reach Leto as if travelling across a greater distance. The Baron looks to Leto and then moves to him, looking him over.

BARON

It was Feyd?

(laughing)
It was Feyd! Where is the ducal signet ring? I must have his ring.

PITER

The ring?... he was brought to us as is, Baron. I...

BARON

You killed the doctor too soon, you fool!

DUKE LETO

(inner voice)
Yueh... Yueh... dead... Paul and Jessica safe... the tooth!

PITER

He's coming round, my Lord.

The Baron moves from behind a table stacked with dirty dishes and foodstuffs and goes to Leto.

DUKE LETO

(inner voice)
Wait... he must be near...

BARON

Where is your ring?

The Baron's face is now very close to Duke Leto's.

BARON (CONT'D)

You do not answer!

DUKE LETO

(very faint)
A... little... closer.... The... water... of my life... for Paul.

The Baron briefly wonders at these words and then turns to Piter.

--

BARON

He's crying!

(he hits Duke Leto)
He's crying! He's crying, Piter. What does he mean?

Piter moves forward. The Baron sees a suculent piece of chicken skin on the table. He picks up the plate, then the chicken skin.

Leto's POV: It's grown HAZY again. The Baron is beginning to move away, reaching for the small piece of chicken skin. Piter leans close to Leto.

DUKE LETO

Now!

We hear a CRUNCH, hear a tumultuous RUSHING SOUND as Piter's face is pushed forcibly away. The Baron is turning, a dumbfounded look on his face. He drops the plate, and backs away.

There is a tremendous ROARING. Bits of visions of Caladan rush through Leto's ever-darkening

consciousness --

MENTAL IMAGES:

134B. EXT. CLIFF WALL - CALADAN - DAY

The Atreides banner, the green of it, then the black. The blackness flaps; then all fades to SILENCE.

As they fly deeper into the desert with the ship shuddering and straining, Jessica suddenly cries out with tremendous premonition and fear.

JESSICA

Leto! Leto!

Tears course down her cheeks as Paul turns to her.

JESSICA (CONT'D)

(to Paul)
Leto! He's dead! He's dead...

--

PAUL

I know

(inner voice)
I have NO FEELINGS!! Why?

Duke Leto and Piter lie dead.

The Baron floats near the ceiling in a small passageway. He is ecstatic.

BARON

(screaming)
I'm alive!!! I'm alive!!!

Paul is fighting the controls of the Harkonnen `thopter.

Harkonnen `thopter lights on dunes.

PAUL

I can't maintain any altitude... we'll never reach the safety of rock. Maybe that small rock.

JESSICA

Where are we do you think?

PAUL

The South Polar regions... the forbidden area. We must make it to that rock...

The `thopter violently hits the sands and flips up - - almost turning over. It falls slowly back, then slides down the side of a dune.

137D. EXT. HARKONNEN ORNITHOPTER - DESERT - NIGHT

PAUL

Hurry!

JESSICA

Bring these satchels!

PAUL

(at doorway)
Hurry -- This crashing may bring a worm.

JESSICA

(starting to cry)
A million deaths are not enough for Yueh...

PAUL

(inner voice)(reacting to his mother's tears)
Where are my feelings... I feel for no one...

Paul and Jessica running. Paul pulls Jessica to a place in the wall where a small overhang offers shelter. Jessica falls to the ground. She CRIES, pouring out her grief, but soon the sound of it is carried away by the building rush of WIND. Paul turns and looks out to the open desert, this portion of which is a dust ocean.

The Mouse Moon has risen.

Ripples of dust undulate tide-like in the light of the moon. The WHISPERING grains billow up like the foam of waves as they hit the rock.

Paul turns, his face illuminated by the two moons above. His eyes lock on the moon which has the image of the mouse.

--

PAUL

(inner voice)
The second moon... from the dreams...

We move into Paul's eye, where the mouse moon appear and revolves slowly. The moon begins to explode. The pieces of the moon soar toward us burning with white-hot flames. Within the flames we see...

139A. EXT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

... the burning Palace of Arrakeen. We move closer to it.

We then see Duke Leto's face. The Baron leans over the Duke and clutches the skin on the Duke's face. He begins pulling it. The skin on the Duke's race slowly rips open -- making a hideous tearing SOUND. Black SMOKE issues forth from the hole which teats larger.

PAUL (V.O.)

(distorted)
House Atreides is ruined. (less distorted)
This moon holds my past.

Inside and through the SMOKE Paul sees Feyd tear the Red Duke insignia off his father's uniform. He sees Feyd laughing. The moving, now-brilliant red hawk insignia becomes...

... a burning meteor ROARING over the castle on Caladan. The meteor crashes in the black sea.

PAUL (V.O.)

This moon holds my future.

139E. INT. WATER - NIGHT

Foaming confusion turning into a small, twisting fetus under the sea. Its eyes closed. Moving close to it, its eyes snap open. Through the eyes is the pale white face of JESSICA.

There is a huge soaring WIND sound and beyond JESSICA the dunes roll like ocean waves.

The moon continues to spew out pieces of moving images which are seen then disappear as fast as sparks. The broken, burning pieces float eerily toward us over the undulating dunes below. One image floats closer. It is a hand folded into a fist.

PAUL (V.O.)

I am only a seed...

The fist begins to open.

DUKE LETO (V.O.)

The seed must grow.

The hand opens fully with slow blue fluid pulsating out the very center of the palm. The hand floats eerily forward.

DUKE LETO (V.O.)

The sleeper must awaken.

The last image which passes is foaming and spitting dark blue water. As the image passes, the black smoke trailing behind it obscures the picture to blackness.

Through the darkness we move to Paul's clenched hand. It opens, revealing the signet ring in the very center of his palm. Paul looks upward to the moons of Arrakis. He looks back to the ring, then to his mother.

PAUL

Listen to me!... you wanted to know about my dreams... and I've just had a waking dream... do you know why?...

--

JESSICA

Calm yourself/

PAUL

The spice! It's in everything here. The air, the soil, the food... It's like the Truthsayer drug..... It's a poison!!!! You knew the spice would change me. But thanks to your teachings it's changed my consciousness. I can see it... I can see it.

JESSICA

(inner voice)
Is he....?

PAUL

You carry my unborn sister in your womb!

JESSICA

(inner voice)
He knows.

PAUL

You and your Bene Gesserit sisterhood... I'm not your Kwisatz Haderach... I'm something different, something unexpected!

(inner voice)
I'm a seed.

(out load)
I am so much more... You don't begin to know me...

142B. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT

Paul's head goes down. He places the ring on his finger.

PAUL

(inner voice)
Father... now I have become a killer and I will continue to kill until I have avenged your death.

(out loud)
Father!

Jessica cries as she stares at her son.

-- 145. BACK TO SCENE

Rabban stops up the ramp. He wears a large smile. His thick head sweats and sweat runs down his thick neck. He goes inside and the doors swing closed.

He enters the ship and moves down within to the Baron's headquarters, passing two dwarves cooking a dead legless cow which hangs from chains. Rabban tears out the cow's tongue and eats it. Then he exits through a door which closes behind him.

The Baron is flying wildly, circling the outside of a large steel shower, while Nefud and a DWARF play a strange instrument producing maniacal, perverse, screaming MUSIC. The Baron SEES Rabban enter, but continues to fly around the shower.

BARON

(very excited)
Rabban!!... we're knee deep in Atreides blood! We've gutted them. We've gutted them!

(laughs)

The Baron floats to Rabban and begins lovingly massaging Rabban's massive neck as he speaks to him.

BARON

Rabban, Rabban... I place you in charge of Arrakis. It's yours to squeeze, as I promised. I want you to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.

(massaging in rhythm)
Give me spice! Drive them into utter submission. You must not show the slightest pity or mercy... as only you can... Never stop!

(releasing him)
Go.... Show no mercy!

RABBAN

Yes, my lord Baron.

Rabban leaves just as Feyd steps out of the shower. The Baron turns to him lovingly.

--

BARON

(to Feyd)
And when we've crushed these people enough I'll send in you Feyd... they'll cheer you as a rescuer... lovely Feyd... really a lovely boy.

(suddenly he smiles and screams)
Where's my doctor?

As Rabban leaves, he looks into one room of the ship. Behind the glass porthole sits Thufir Hawat bound head and foot, his eyes darting this way and that.

Paul and Jessica are in stillsuits. Paul is looking through a Fremkit. He finds a paper with Dr. Yueh's mark on it.

PAUL

(inner voice)
Yueh's left the plans for the weirding modules.

The moons have moved further across the sky.

Suddenly Paul turns and studies his mother. A stronger WIND comes up.

PAUL

We have to get to that mountain of rock. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives...

Jessica gets up. They make their way up the crest of a dune by a small rock.

PAUL (CONT'D)

It's further than I thought... a worm is sure to come.... I'll plant a thumper, that should divert it.

--

Paul moves off into the shadows. Suddenly, Jessica SEES a burst of LIGHTNING illuminate the mountain of rock in the distant and the vast dunes before them.

JESSICA (CONT'D)

(inner voice)(as Paul leaves to light the thumper)
...the night is a tunnel... a hole into tomorrow... if we're to have a tomorrow...

151A. EXT. DEEP DESERT - NIGHT

Paul plants the thumper which begins a powerful rhythmic noise. He turns to Jessica.

PAUL

(returning)
Remember... walk without rhythm and we won't attract a worm... it'll go to the thumper.

JESSICA

(puts in her noseplug)
I'm ready.

Paul and Jessica move into camera and exit right.

Another burst of LIGHTNING. The distant rock seems to have grown no larger. Their muscles begin to ache. Suddenly they HEAR the thumper start behind them.

PAUL

Keep going...

Their breathing becomes very labored. The sand moves like slow water, forever rolling down and up. Then they hear the worm, the low thundering HISS shaking the tonnage of sand. The thumper stops. Paul turns.

PAUL

Faster!!

--

JESSICA

(screaming)
It's deafening!

Their bodies ache and they feel like dropping, yet the cliff is still a good distance away. The worm SOUND grows louder and Paul turns to look.

A flash of LIGHTNING. The worm is now coming toward them. The mound of sand over the worm is enormous and is approaching at a terrifyingly fast speed. The power of this worm is awesome.

PAUL

(screaming)
Run!

JESSICA

I can't... I can't.

She turns to see. Then she runs.

All at once their feet tromp down on firmer sand.

The SOUND is very loud.

PAUL

Drum sand!

The DRUMMING sound ECHOES deep within the ground. Jessica falls. Paul stops and drags her up. They run again. The worm SOUND becomes unbearably loud. Static electricity SPARKS giant bolts of pure white LIGHTNING and the air turns to ozone. Finally they find rock. Behind them the SOUND of the worm changes. They turn.

The gigantic head of the worm is just breaking through the sand. The mouth begins to open in an eighty-foot circle of teeth and darkness. The mouth arches forward searching for them.

Paul and Jessica climb up and up inside a narrow slit of rock.

155A. INT. ROCK CLIFF - DESERT - NIGHT

The worm's mouth climbs higher also but it cannot penetrate the narrow opening in the rock.

Paul and Jessica have scrambled upwards a couple of hundred feet.

Still the worm stretches up to them. Suddenly the worm begins BANGING on the rock. Huge SHUDDERS drive through the black stone. Over and over again the worm mindlessly hits at the rock.

Paul and Jessica crouch further back in the tiny passageway of safety, but a solid back wall of rock prevents them from moving back any more.

The breath from the worm is like a hurricane of WIND.

PAUL

(inner voice)
Cinnamon... the spice!

(out loud)
Do you smell it?

JESSICA

Yes...

PAUL

(inner voice)
I know the secret. The worm is the spice... the spice is the worm.

157A. EXT. ROCK CLIFF - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT

Suddenly a colossal section of the rock wall cracks and topples off into the worm's mouth. Instantly the worm pulls back. A huge FIRE roars deep within the worm consuming the rock.

The worm now can get even closer to Paul and Jessica. It looms up again and crushes its mouth up against the rock.

Another fissure opens, and suddenly half the rock wall protecting them splits off entirely and falls... taking Paul with it.

...against the worm.

Paul is knocked off the cliff and falls straight down two hundred feet. His feet skid along the face of rock. He bounces and brakes. He hits and jumps. He careens from one boulder, flies upside down, rights himself then tumbles and skids into the sand. Unhurt, he jumps up and scrambles up another part of the rock to safety.

JESSICA

Paul!

She presses against the narrow ledge that is left after the worm assault.

The worm is just coming up again when distant THUMPING is heard. The worm, as if charmed by the sound, turns and moves off towards it.

PAUL

(inn