Dune Script 7th Draft PDF

D U N E
SEVENTH DRAFT
DAVID LYNCH
December 9, 1983
FOREWORD:
This is the seventh draft script for Dune, by David Lynch.
I have tried to maintain the layout, and formatting of the

original script, and each page is as it appears in the original
script.
Please note that this draft seems to have been created using
segments of other drafts, and so the page numbering is
inconsistent, but all pages are included.
Spelling has been corrected (from "Geidi Prime" to "Giedi Prime"

for example), although no doubt I've introduced a few errors
myself.
This script is available as a free download from:

Dune - Behind The Scenes
http://www.duneinfo.com/
This document builds on work by:

Matthew Robinson
Kirk Boweat
Fabien Tassin
Roger Bert.
December 9, 1983 DUNE 1.
1. ARRAKIS - A SCENE FROM SPACE
Also known as DUNE, home of the Fremen, former Zenzunni

wanderers.
1A. INT. ROCK LEDGE - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
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.

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.

And now the prophecy...
Silence...then a powerful low organ NOTE resounding in the cavernous

space.

(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.
CONTINUED
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1A. CONTINUED (1)
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.
1B. KAITAIN - A SCENE FROM SPACE
Home planet of House Corrino and Shaddam IV, Emperor of the known
universe.
2. INT. DROP - NIGHT
FADE IN to:
...interior of one drop of water. The image changes subtly.
2A. EXT. - DROP - NIGHT
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.
3. (Deleted)
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.
4. through 6. (Deleted)
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.
CONTINUED

7. CONTINUED (1)
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.
CONTINUED

7. CONTINUED (2)
The Emperor looks to the Reverend Mother.
EMPEROR
Leave us.
REVEREND MOTHER
Yes, my Lord.
EMPEROR
(after she has gone)
We are alone...
8. INT. HALLWAY - EMPEROR'S PALACE - NIGHT
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 toward 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?
CONTINUED

9. CONTINUED (3)
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.
NAVIGATOR
I see two Great Houses -- House Atreides,
House Harkonnen -- feuding... I see you
behind it.
EMPEROR
Yes.
The Navigator breathes the spice-gas heavily and swishes gently in his
tank.
NAVIGATOR
You must share with us.
CONTINUED

12. CONTINUED (1)
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.
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?
EMPEROR
Can you hear me?... If this visit has
anything to do with spice...
CONTINUED

15. CONTINUED (1)
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... 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.

He shouldn't speak of this...
15. BACK TO SCENE
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...
16. BACK TO SCENE

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.
CONTINUED

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?
18. (Deleted)
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.
23. EXT. SEA - CALADAN - NIGHT
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 is dark
and medieval. There is a window on the seaward wall lit from
within...
25. INT. TRAINING ROOM - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
... by a drifting glowglobe. Paul sits at an L-shaped table studying

filmbooks and maps of Arrakis and the Universe.
25A. INSERT - FILMBOOK
We SEE vast star fields and galaxies.
25. BACK TO SCENE
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.
25. BACK TO SCENE
PAUL
(whispering again)
It does look dry....
The picture grows larger again, and we see the Arrakeen Valley.
CONTINUED

25A. CONTINUED (1)
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.
25. BACK TO SCENE
PAUL
Where are the Harkonnens from here?
The star fields and galaxies move slightly then.
PAUL (V.O.)
(whispering)
There!... Giedi Prime and the Baron
Harkonnen... the enemy.
25. BACK TO SCENE
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.
CONTINUED

25. CONTINUED (1)
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.
25B. SHIELD EFFECT - THE FIGHT
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
coming 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.
CONTINUED

25. CONTINUED (2)
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.
25. BACK TO SCENE
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?
CONTINUED

25. CONTINUED (1)
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 have been documented sightings of
worms as large as 450 meters in the deep
desert -- far from where we'll be in
Arrakeen.... 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.
CONTINUED

25. CONTINUED (2)
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.
25C. ROBOT FIGHT
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....
26. INT. HALLWAY - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
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.
28. EXT. CLIFF WALL - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
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:
29. through 29A. (Deleted)
30. INT. PAUL'S ROOM - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
Paul is sweating during his sleep and WHISPERS as if struggling with

some disturbing thought.
CONTINUED

30. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
Arrakis... Dune... Desert Planet...
Arrakis... Desert Planet... moving...
moving.
31. DARK WATER - MENTAL IMAGE
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...
31A. INT. RESERVOIR - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
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.
33. EXT. COURTYARD - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
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.

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 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?
35. INT. JESSICA'S CHAMBER - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
Jessica and the Reverend Mother enter. It is quite dark. Jessica

WHISPERS a code number and a glowglobe LIGHTS on a very dim setting.
CONTINUED

35. CONTINUED (1)
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 bloodlines 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.
42. INT. DUKE LETO'S QUARTERS - CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
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:
35. BACK TO SCENE
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...
CONTINUED

35. CONTINUED (1)
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.

See this... Put your right hand in the box.
Paul stares at the hole in the box.
CONTINUED

35. CONTINUED (2)
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.

(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 instinct 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.
CONTINUED

35. CONTINUED (3)
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?
36. THE HAND - PAUL'S MENTAL IMAGE
Paul's inner mind sees his hand on fire with all sorts of sores. The
skin is bubbling.
REVEREND MOTHER
Flesh dropping off.
38. THE HAND - PAUL'S MENTAL IMAGE
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.

(explaining)
Pain by nerve induction... A human can
resist any pain. Our test is crisis and
observation.
PAUL
I see the truth of it.
CONTINUED

39. CONTINUED (1)
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.
40. INT. RESERVOIR - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT - REVEREND MOTHER'S MENTAL

IMAGE
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.
CONTINUED

41. CONTINUED (1)
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. GIEDI 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.
48. INT. CABLE CAR - GIEDI PRIME - DAY
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.
48A. INT. GREEN PORCELAIN ROOM - GIEDI PRIME
Somewhere in the interior of Giedi 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 toward 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. GIEDI 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.
51. (Deleted)
52. INT. BARON'S ROOM - GIEDI 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...
CONTINUED

52. CONTINUED (1)
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.
CONTINUED

52. CONTINUED (2)
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.
53. EXT. HEIGHLINER - SPACE
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.
56. (Deleted)
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 toxic chemicals as it cools down at floor level. We
move up 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 up 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.

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.
64. INT./EXT. THE ATREIDES SHIP - DAY 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.
64A. through 64C. (Deleted)
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.
66. (Deleted)

March 28, 1983 DUNE 32.
67. INT. MILITARY SUB-BASEMENT ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
Atreides army soldiers milling, YELLING noisily.
68. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY.
In a darkened passageway, fans turn, casting deep, slow-moving

shadows. SOUNDS ECHO in the distance.
69. INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
A room of technicians and electronic gear. The SIGNALS are being

heard and interpreted.
ATREIDES TECHNICIAN
Harkonnens.
70. EXT. BLACK ROCK - ARRAKEEN - DAY
Far in the distance in deep black rock, Harkonnen spies move, carrying
strange electronic equipment.
71. (Deleted)
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?
73. INT. GENERATOR ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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.
(CONTINUED)

12/13/82* DUNE 33.
73. CONTINUED (1)
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.
74. EXT. PALACE - ARRAKEEN - DAY
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.
75. EXT. WINDOW - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
From a small window, Thufir observes the shield with a critical eye.
THUFIR
(inner voice; worried)
We found these sabotage devices too
easily...
76. INT. GREAT HALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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...
(CONTINUED)

12/13/82* DUNE 34.
76. CONTINUED (1)
JESSICA
(out loud)
Forgive me...
(inner voice)
... His wife was Bene Gesserit too... the
signs are all over him.... They must have
killed her.
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 and moves it over the crowd. The yellow
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.)

March 2, 1983 DUNE 35.
Paul wanders through the darkened passageways alone, his footsteps

echoing as he 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.
78. INT. PAUL'S BEDROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
Paul enters a small bedroom and sits down on the bed. He opens a
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....
78. BACK TO SCENE
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
into it and turns back toward the bed. Suddenly he stops. He looks
at the pastry.
PAUL
(inner voice)
Spice...
As he continues eating it he notices the sunlight through the slats

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?
78B. INSERT - RED DROPLETS
Some red droplets appear rushing through the white light. Three
images follow:
MENTAL IMAGES:
79. INT. CONTROL ROOM - EMPEROR'S PALACE - DAY
A blurred Guild Navigator.

12/13/82* DUNE 36.
79A. INT. MAKER ROOM - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Paul dead on a stone floor.
79B. EXT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
Fire burning.
80. INT. PAUL'S ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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?
(CONTINUED)

March 28, 1983 DUNE 37.
80. CONTINUED (1)
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.
80A. (Deleted)
Running TROOPS storm down the hallway with electronic gear and big
stun guns.

March 28, 1983 DUNE 38.
Thufir walks quickly toward SEVERAL TROOPS.
THUFIR
Set up a sonar probe immediately!
83. INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
Dr. Yueh sticks his head out the doorway as SEVERAL TROOPERS run past.
84. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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.
85. INT. SUB-SUB-SUB-BASEMENT - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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 air is thick. The troops fan out shinning chemical lamps
here and there. A soldier suddenly stops. Ahead in his light beam is
a dead Harkonnen -- bloody vomit dried around his mouth. He lies
beside an electronic device.
86. INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
Dr. Yueh covers his face with his hands in a darkened room... sobbing.
86A. EXT. WALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
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.
86B. INT. GREAT HALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
In the darkened Hall we can HEAR the distant sound of the Fremen
reverberating.

March 28, 1983 DUNE 38A.
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.
(CONTINUED)

12/13/82* DUNE 39.
87. CONTINUED (1)
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.
(CONTINUED)

March 28, 1983 DUNE 40.
87. CONTINUED (2)
GURNEY
They shall come all for violence: their
faces shall sup up 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.
88. INT. JESSICA'S CHAMBER - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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 three quick images:
MENTAL IMAGES
89. INT. CONTROL ROOM - HEIGHLINER
A blurred Guild Navigator.
Paul dead on a stone floor.
89B. EXT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
Fire burning.
Jessica continues to tremble.
JESSICA
(inner voice)
I must speak with you Leto!

12/13/82* DUNE 41.
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.
(CONTINUED)

March 2, 1983 DUNE 42.
92. CONTINUED (1)
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 unsheathes 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
(CONTINUED)

92. CONTINUED (2)
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.
93. INT. TUNNEL - OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
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...
93A. INSERT - ORNITHOPTER OPENING
...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 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 seized 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...
(CONTINUED)

93B. CONTINUED (1)
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.
CONTINUED

93B. CONTINUED (2)
KYNES
You've worn a stillsuit before?
PAUL
No.
KYNES
Your suit is fitted desert fashion. 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.
Kynes' Fremen guard are watching Paul very closely now.
GURNEY
We're wasting time, Sire.
Duke Leto, Dr. Kynes, Gurney and Paul enter the ornithopter...
88. through 89B. (Deleted)
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.
93D. (Deleted)

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.
93F. through 94. (Deleted)
94A. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY
KYNES
Southeast over the Shield Wall. That's
where I told your sandmaster to concentrate
his harvesting.
95. EXT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY
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 lightning can be seen.
96. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY
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.
CONTINUED

96. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
(inner voice)
I've registered him now... a knife in 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.
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?
CONTINUED

98. CONTINUED (1)
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.
CONTINUED

100. CONTINUED (1)
The Duke accelerates the ornithopter in the direction of the

harvester. Paul can SEE...
101. EXT. HARVESTER - DESERT - DAY
...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 clearer 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?
CONTINUED

102. CONTINUED (1)
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 still emits a tremendous
rhythmic GRINDING noise. No one is coming out.
104. INT./EXT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER/DESERT - DAY
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.
106. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DESERT - DAY
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...
CONTINUED

106. CONTINUED (1)
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.
106A. INT. ATREIDES ORNITHOPTER - DAY
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.
CONTINUED

106A. CONTINUED (1)
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.
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 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
who 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.
118 INT. SUB-BASEMENT PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE -

NIGHT
The Duke walks down 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 but 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
CONTINUED

118. CONTINUED (1)
YUEH
I wish to kill a man... not you, my dear
Duke, but the Baron.... You were dead
already... but you will get 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 gas
tooth. He will want you close so he can
gloat over you. One bite on this tooth and
a strong exhale...
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!
119. (Deleted)
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.
119C. EXT. ROCK - LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT
Troops race toward their ships.
119D. (Deleted)
119E. INT. GUARD HOUSE - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
ATREIDES GUARD
The shield! The shield!
120. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
A loud warning TONE vibrates. Thufir turns away from the doorway of a
small room where he's horrified to SEE...
120A. INSERT
... 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.
124. INT. PASSAGEWAY - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
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.
125B. (Deleted)
126. EXT. LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT
Harkonnen hammer ships thunder the ground, sending cracks and fissures
throughout the landing field. Harkonnen scare SIRENS scream.
126A. EXT. HAMMER SHIPS - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT
Atreides soldiers run from the hammer ships.
129. EXT. GROUNDS - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
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 stab 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 they 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.
127. INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
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.
CONTINUED

127. CONTINUED (1)
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?
86. INT. A ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
Dr. Yueh covers his face with his hands in a darkened room... sobbing.
127. BACK TO SCENE
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.
129. BACK TO SCENE - BATTLE
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.

127. BACK TO SCENE (2)
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 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.
129. BACK TO SCENE - BATTLE - RABBAN ON BRIDGE
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.
144. EXT. GROUNDS - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
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!
129A. EXT. HARKONNEN ORNITHOPTER - NIGHT
The small 'thopter climbs toward the Shield Wall through a SMOKEY
atmosphere illuminated by distant EXPLOSIONS.
130. INT. HARKONNEN ORNITHOPTER - NIGHT
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?
CONTINUED

130. CONTINUED (1)
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.
CONTINUED

130. CONTINUED (2)
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.
130A. EXT. HARKONNEN ORNITHOPTER - DESERT - NIGHT
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.
130. BACK TO SCENE
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.
133. BACK TO SCENE
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.
CONTINUED

133. CONTINUED (1)
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 great 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.
CONTINUED

133. CONTINUED (2)
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 succulent 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.
135. INT. HARKONNEN ORNITHOPTER - NIGHT
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...
CONTINUED

135. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
I know
(inner voice)
I have NO FEELINGS!! Why?
Duke Leto and Piter lie dead.
137. INT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
The Baron floats near the ceiling in a small passageway. He is

ecstatic.
BARON
(screaming)
I'm alive!!! I'm alive!!!
137A. INT. HARKONNEN 'THOPTER - NIGHT
Paul is fighting the controls of the Harkonnen 'thopter.
137B. CLEAN POV
Harkonnen 'thopter lights on dunes.
137A. BACK TO SCENE
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...
137C. EXT. HARKONNEN 'THOPTER - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
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!
He jumps out of his seat.
JESSICA
Bring these satchels!
She hands him one.
PAUL
(at doorway)
Hurry -- This crashing may bring a worm.
As Paul puts the satchel over his shoulder, he feels something.

He looks at his father's ring. He stares at it silently, then
closes his hand around it. They jump outside.
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...
138. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT
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.
138A. PAUL'S POV:
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.
138. BACK TO SCENE
Paul turns, his face illuminated by the two moons above. His eyes
lock on the moon which has the image of the mouse.
CONTINUED

138. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
(inner voice)
The second moon... from the dreams...
138B. INT. PAUL'S EYE - NIGHT
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...
139. (Deleted)
139A. EXT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
... the burning Palace of Arrakeen. We move closer to it.
189B. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT
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 tears larger.
PAUL (V.O.)
(distorted)
House Atreides is ruined.
(less distorted)
This moon holds my past.
139C. INT. VESTIBULE - OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT
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...
139D. EXT. CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT
... 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.
139F. EXT. SHIELD WALL - DESERT - NIGHT
There is a huge soaring WIND sound and beyond JESSICA the dunes
roll like ocean waves.
139G. EXT. MOUSE MOON - NIGHT
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.
139H. EXT. WATER - NIGHT
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.
140. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT
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?...
CONTINUED

140. CONTINUED (1)
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 steps up the ramp. He wears a large smile. His thick head
sweats and the sweat runs down his thick neck. He goes inside and
the doors swing closed.
146. INT. HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT
He enters the ship and moves down within to the Baron's quarters,
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.
147. INT. BARON'S QUARTERS - HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT
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.
CONTINUED

147. CONTINUED (1)
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?
148. INT. HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT
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.
148A. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT
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.
148B. EXT. MOONS - ARRAKEEN - DESERT - NIGHT
The moons have moved further across the sky.
148A. BACK TO SCENE
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.
CONTINUED

148A. CONTINUED (1)
Paul moves off into the shadows. Suddenly, Jessica SEES a burst
of LIGHTNING illuminate the mountain of rock in the distance 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.
151B. EXT. DEEP DESERT AND ROCKS - NIGHT
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...
152. EXT. DEEP DESERT AND ROCKS - NIGHT (LATER)
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 and rock. The thumper
stops. Paul turns.
PAUL
Faster!!
CONTINUED

152. CONTINUED (1)
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.
153. EXT. WORM - DESERT - NIGHT
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.
153A. EXT. DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
PAUL
(screaming)
Run!
JESSICA
I can't... I can't.
She turns to see. Then she runs.
153B. EXT. DRUM SAND - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
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.
154. EXT. WORM - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
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.
155. EXT. BASE OF THE CLIFF - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
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.
156. EXT. ROCK CLIFF - NIGHT
Paul and Jessica have scrambled upwards a couple of hundred feet.
156A. EXT. WORM AND ROCK - NIGHT
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.
156B. EXT. ROCK CLIFF - NIGHT
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.
156C. INT. ROCK CLIFF - NIGHT
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.
157. (Deleted)
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.

158. INT. ROCK CLIFF - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
The worm now can get even closer to Paul and Jessica. It looms up
again and crushes its mouth up against the rock.
158A. EXT. ROCK CLIFF - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
Another fissure opens, and suddenly half the rock wall protecting them
splits off entirely and falls... taking Paul with it.
158B. EXT. WORM AND ROCK - NIGHT
...against the worm.
159. EXT. ROCK CLIFF - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
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.
161. EXT. BASE OF THE CLIFF - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
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
(inner voice)
A thumper.
161A. (Deleted)
Jessica climbs further up and manages to get over to a place where she
can meet up with Paul, who is now climbing back.
CONTINUED

162. CONTINUED (1)
JESSICA
(crying)
What's happened?... Why did it leave?
PAUL
(breathing heavily)
Someone started another thumper.... We're
not alone.
They climb upwards until the ledge ends at the mouth of a dark
crevice. Paul and Jessica try to see into the inky black hole.
163. EXT. CREVICE - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
Slowly Paul and Jessica enter, inching forward. A low moan of

WIND comes up. Paul can see nothing, then suddenly he SEES stars
above and SEES the hint of stairs cut into the rock.
JESSICA
(whispering)
Man-carved steps.
PAUL
(whispering)
Yes...
They climb the steps and enter an extremely narrow dark channel of
stone. As they make their way through the rock, suddenly there is
a burst of lightning which illuminates a whole troop of Fremen
standing silently in front of them.
164. EXT. FREMEN PLACE - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
STILGAR
Perhaps these are the ones Mapes told us
of.
STILGAR
(to Jessica)
Are you trained in the ways of the desert?
JESSICA
No, but many consider my training valuable.
STILGAR
I will take the boy-man... he shall have
sanctuary in my tribe...
CONTINUED

164. CONTINUED (1)
A LOW NOTE on a dip stick is blown by one of the Fremen tribe.

Jessica shifts, Paul sees it, and just as Stilgar begins a reach for
his weapon, Jessica turns, slashes out, utters a SOUND, whirls again
and with rock behind her holds Stilgar helpless in front of her -- her
hand at his throat. Paul moves on her first move. He races up a
rocky incline.
165. EXT. CLIFF - FREMEN PLACE - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
He then jumps higher up and presses himself between two rocks on a low
cliff overlooking the rest of the Fremen troop.
The troop starts shooting projectile weapons in Paul's direction.
STILGAR
Stop! Get back!! She has the weirding way.
Why didn't you tell us! Great gods... if
you can do this to the strongest of us
you're worth ten times your weight of
water. As a leader of my people I give you
my bond: teach us this weirding way and you
both shall have sanctuary. Your water shall
mingle with our water.
JESSICA
Then I will teach you our way of battle....
you have the word bond of a Bene Gesserit.
A FREMEN
It is the legend.
167. EXT. CLIFF - FREMEN PLACE - DEEP DESERT - NIGHT
Up on the rock, Paul turns. He takes a step, then notices a small

figure standing in front of him. It is a girl.
CHANI
I am Chani, daughter of Liet.... I would not
have permitted you to harm my tribe.
PAUL
(inner voice)
From my dream... so beautiful. Liet.... is
this Kynes' daughter?
Paul stares at her in wonder.
CONTINUED

167. CONTINUED (1)
CHANI
Come with me. I'll show you an easier way
down.
They exit.
STILGAR
(to Paul, as they meet)
You have strength... real strength... You
shall be known as Usul, which is the
strength of the base of the pillar. This is
your secret name in our troop. But you must
choose the name of manhood which we will
call you openly.
PAUL
(thinking)
What do you call the mouse shadow in the
second moon?
STILGAR
We call that one Muad'dib.
PAUL
Could I be known as Paul Muad'dib?
STILGAR
You are Paul Muad'dib, and your mother shall
be a Sayyadina among us.... We welcome you.
Wind blows a cloud of dust through the rock. High above the moon with
the mouse shadow glows brilliantly. It dissolves into the sun.
168A. EXT. DEEP DESERT - DAY
Paul, Jessica and the Fremen march through the dunes.
172. EXT. DEEP DESERT - DUSK/SUNSET
HEAT WAVES and sand dunes. Mysterious SOUNDS echo in the distance as
the giant sun is setting.
Chani takes Paul to the top of a dune. They stare at the sunset and a
huge rock outcropping in the distance.
CONTINUED

172. CONTINUED (1)
CHANI
Sietch Tabr.
Paul looks at the rock, then turns to her.
CHANI (CONT'D)
Tell me of your homeworld, Usul.
These words rend Paul's soul. He cannot speak. He reaches out and
touches her hand - her cheek.
173. (Deleted)
174. INT. ENTRANCE - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
The Fremen troop enters into a large square room with slot passageways
going off in various directions.
175. INT. PASSAGEWAY - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
They all move down one of the passageways which are beautifully but
very plainly cut with lasguns. They are like passages in the
pyramids, dark with sharp turns and inclines upwards or downwards,
some very steep and long, and others descending hundreds of feet.
There is a strong, moaning WIND.
178. INT. PASSAGEWAY/STAIRS - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
A quiet WIND can be heard -- deep and moaning.
JESSICA
Moisture...
She looks at Paul. He, too, notices.
PAUL
Wind traps... huge ones.
Down a long, sloping, narrow passageway they go until they reach a

stairway cut into the stone. It is very dark and gets increasingly
darker as they descend. The WIND sound grows. The air grows colder
and damper. Paul and Jessica share another questioning look. At the
bottom of the stairs they pass through a narrow slot doorway which
suddenly opens out on something so totally unexpected it shocks Paul.

179. INT. RESERVOIR -SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
It is an enormous, deep reservoir of black water sitting silently in

the depths of this sietch and stretching out into the darkness.
PAUL
(inner voice)
Water on Arrakis!!!
I have seen this place in a dream.
(out loud)
A treasure.
STILGAR
Greater than treasure, Usul. We have
thousands of such caches. Only a few of us
know them all. When we have enough... we
shall change the face of Arrakis.
Listen!...
There is the sound of water dripping. The lights are extinguished -

reflections play on Paul's face.
STILGAR (CONT'D)
The Rocks of Arrakis hold many secrets.
179A. through 180 (Deleted)
180A. REVISED SCENE - HALL OF RITES
Thousands of Fremen wait below. Paul enters a rock ledge, guided by

two monks, which is crowded with Fremen and old Fremen Monks. Below
the crowds continue to watch and wait while a giant wind organ moans.
A Monk steps up to Paul.
MONK
We sense that you may be the "voice from the
outer world". Both moons told us of you.
You must pass tests before we will know ...
you must conquer the beast of the desert,
both his outer and his deadly inner powers.
(moves back)
Speak to us... from the outer world.
Paul turns and gathers courage to address the multitude below.
PAUL
(inner voice)
I am only a seed.
(out loud)
I am Usul... Paul Muad'Dib.
CONTINUED

180A. CONTINUED (1)
CROWDS
(loud murmur)
Muad'Dib!
MONK
The legend.
PAUL
(inner voice)
No one ever dreamed there would be so many.
(out loud)
Our shared enemy the Harkonnens, are once
again in control of Arrakis. Stilgar, your
leader, has asked me and my mother to crush
the Harkonnens. We must do more than this.
We must totally destroy all spice production
on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire
universe depends on spice.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a

thing".
I will take one hundred of your warriors and

train them. This one hundred will train the
thousands that remain. When the spice flow
stops, all eyes will turn to Arrakis. The
Baron and the Emperor himself will be forced
to deal with us. Arrakis will become the
center of the Universe.
(inner voice)
The dream unfolds.
182. INT. TRAINING ROOM - SIETCH TABR - DAY
Large room with a low ceiling. A drummer playing makes a low ECHOING
MUSICAL HIT. A big block of stone is moved across coarse sand -- back
and forth -- fast. A rhythm is started -- powerful. Paul enters,
pauses and looks to Jessica - he stands in front of over 100 Fremen
men. Jessica sits behind him alongside Stilgar.
A large rock obelisk has been placed near Paul for this demonstration.
PAUL
The weirding way has long been a Bene
Gesserit secret. With my mother's help, my
father isolated an element of the weirding
way and externalised it. (cont.)
CONTINUED

182. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL (CONT'D)
Because of the Harkonnen treachery, my
father's armies were never able to fully
develop this new form. This is what I will
teach you. You will be the fiercest and
most feared fighters in the Universe.
Our way of battle is built on rhythm. You

understand rhythm like this but you do not
yet understand the rhythm of the higher
sounds, sounds that heal and build....
sounds that destroy. Motion is the base.
You understand motion ... but you do not yet
understand the motion that heals and builds
... motions that destroy ...
Orato!
(he moves forward)
This obelisk is of your hardest stone. Kick
it...
(he does -- the rock doesn't move)
Hit it...
(he does -- the rock doesn't move)
Yell at it...
ORATO
Break!
The Fremen laugh -- the rock doesn't move.
A Fremen with a lasgun tries to cut it. Paul motions him back,
slightly.
PAUL
Move back!
Paul also moves back. He switches on his weirding module. He opens

his mouth and makes a small SOUND, which the module amplifies.
PAUL
Chuksa!
The sound shatters the obelisk to pieces. The one hundred Fremen YELL
with surprise and awe.
100 FREMEN
Achiii!
CONTINUED

182. CONTINUED (2)
PAUL
This is part of the weirding way that we
will teach you. Some thoughts have a
certain sound... that being the equivalent
to a form. Through sound and motion you
will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter
bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or
burst his organs.... We will kill until no
Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
100 FREMEN
Muad'Dib!
PAUL
(inner voice)
To avenge my father, I will turn you into
killing machines.
Stilgar turns to Jessica.
STILGAR
Sayyadina. Our Reverend Mother tells me she
is too old...She has been calling through
space and time for you to come and let her
rest. She asks that you pass within.
JESSICA
(inner voice)
They want me to take the Water of Life...
the Truthsayer drug... so dangerous, yet...
we must move swiftly if we're to secure our
place among these Fremen.
(out loud)
I will try to pass within.
STILGAR
Death may be the result.... Are you sure?
JESSICA
(inner voice)
I must do this for Paul, but what of my
unborn child?
DISSOLVE TO:

188. INT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Fremen carry the Fremen REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO in on a litter. The

old Reverend Mother is old and frail yet extremely beautiful and
mysterious. She turns to Paul and Jessica with a strange look.

(to Jessica, in an
ancient voice)
So you are the ones.
She turns away towards the monks who are very busy blowing horns and
waving pots of burning spice, purifying the area fof the rite.
Several Fremen blow on dip sticks and a FEMALE CHOIR begins a haunting
chorale as the giant pipe organ blows beautiful low notes below.
Paul looks to his mother.
He then sees Chani.
CU Chani.
CU Paul -- he cannot stop looking at her.
Stilgar motions to Paul.
STILGAR
(whispering to Paul)
Do you know the Water of Life?... Come...
...Watch... the mystery of mysteries... the
end and the beginning.
He shows Paul through a narrow passageway -- almost a slot through the

stone to a small room. Through an opening in the stone wall, Paul is
shown a very strange and somewhat horrifying scene.
189. INT. BABY WORM - MAKER ROOM - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
A thirty-foot baby worm is being lowered into a stone chamber. The

chamber is then covered with a wire top. Valves are turned and water
rushes into the chamber. The worm begins to writhe violently and leap
and bang against the bars above. The worm begins to turn inside out
from the mouth back and it begins to gag. Some monks and watermasters
quickly drain the stone chamber and wrench the worm out using large
steel hooks. They hold the worm above a large tub. A watermaster-
reed man runs a long reed in to the worm, causing it to spasm and gag
up a beautiful deep blue bile as it dies.
The bile and worm water are combined in ceremonial containers. Paul
turns to Stilgar.
CONTINUED

189A. CONTINUED (1)
STILGAR
The Water of Life.
PAUL
(inner voice)
The most lethal poison in the Universe.
Then we HEAR from Paul's memory his conversation with the Reverend
Mother:
REVEREND MOTHER
... Many men have tried.
PAUL
Did they try and fail?
REVEREND MOTHER
They tried and died.
Stilgar and Paul return to the ledge above the Hall of Rites. A MONK
PRIEST steps forward, addresses the crowd, silencing them. The other
monks move back carrying their smoking cleansing bags.
MONK #1
One among us has consented to enter the
rite. She will attempt to pass within that
we not lose the strength of our Reverend
Mother.
PAUL
(inner voice) (turning
to his mother)
What if she should fail?
He brings the jug close to Jessica.
MONK #1
Drink!
Jessica drinks.
JESSICA
(inner voice)
The ultimate awareness spectrum narcotic. I
must transform the poison configuration
within my body... the blue must be made
clean.
She swallows. Her body contorts and spasms violently. She screams.
The Reverend Mother screams with her.

191. (Deleted)
We see Jessica sitting, shoulders tight and spasming -- straining, her

eyelids half-closed and flickering.
193. (Deleted)
The old Reverend Mother slowly extends a hand toward Jessica's

shoulder.
195. JESSICA - MENTAL IMAGE
Inside Jessica, we see the Reverend Mother Ramallo's hand descend

through the dark void. Shimmering water starts to ripple, lightly
stirring an image of Jessica.
As the hand penetrates, something deep within her starts to GLOW. It

is a fetus, a female. The Reverend Mother Ramallo's hand flinches as
it touches the fetus. The fetus sparks to life - screaming and
rapidly spasming upwards on its umbilical cord.
195A. (Deleted)
196. INT. ROCK LEDGE - WALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT

(whispering urgently into
Jessica's ear)
You should have told us.
197. JESSICA'S MENTAL IMAGE - FETUS
REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO (V.O.)

(gasping)
Great Mother! This changes both! What have
we done?

197A. INT. THE TUNNEL - NIGHT
Jessica and the fetus rush mentally through a dark strangely worm-like
tunnel until suddenly, a gaping black hole appears. A horrible WIND,
SPARKS and circles of expanding light issues from it.
JESSICA (V.O.)
(inner voice)(fearful)
No! This is the place where we cannot look.
The place only for the eyes of the Kwisatz
Haderach.
197B. THE FETUS - NIGHT
The fetus twists down the tunnel to join Jessica, her umbilical cord
trailing behind. She SCREAMS as she looks into the hole.
197C. THE NAVIGATOR - NIGHT
She and Jessica see a shape moving deep within the windy hole. It is
a Third Stage Navigator, ROARING.
JESSICA
What is this?... Is this what kills the men
who enter here?
She quickly takes the fetus back up the tunnel. As they move:
JESSICA (V.O.)(CONT'D)
(inner voice)
Now my daughter and I are both Reverend
Mothers.

(V.O.)
(distant)
I've been a long time waiting for you. Here
is my life.
The old Reverend Mother Ramallo slumps forward onto the stone, dead.
The crowd waits. The corpse is tenderly removed. Jessica very slowly
opens her eyes and looks about her. The monk holds the jug to her
lips.
MONK
Change it that we may all drink of it.
CONTINUED

198. CONTINUED (1)
Jessica spews blue water into the spout. The monk swirls the jug,
sniffs at the spout and then drinks.
MONK (CONT'D)
It is changed!
PAUL
(inner voice)
She did it!
199. INT. HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
The Fremen suddenly turn their attention to Paul.... They whisper "It
is the prophecy!" They soon begin to CHANT... "Muad'Dib.... Muad'Dib"
over and over again. The chanting sounds fill the hall along with the
ghostly wind organ.
200. (Deleted)
201. INT. HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Down below, the crowds continue CHANTING "Muad'Dib, Muad'Dib."
Paul continues to stare at Chani. He moves to her. Chani turns.

Paul is at her side. Their eyes meet and lock.
CHANI
(whispering)
Come with me.
203. INT. PASSAGEWAY ON ROCK LEDGE - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
At the end of the dark black corridor, Chani turns and she and Paul
fall together in a long kiss filled with love.
PAUL
Chani.... I love you... I've always loved
you....

169. INT. STAIRCASE - GIEDI PRIME - DAY
The Baron and Feyd descend several steps into a darker area of Giedi
Prime. Feyd is carrying a strange creature in a small wire cage. The
Baron is floating as he descends.
BARON
(takes a drink)
Feyd, even though he's aging, Thufir is one
of the finest Mentats in the Universe... and
he's mine, Feyd... all mine.... Quiet now.
FEYD
I will.
170. INT. BASEMENT ROOM - GIEDI PRIME - DAY
Nefud stands eating candies behind Thufir's chair. Nefud has a stun
gun, even though Thufir's hands are tied. The Baron enters with Feyd.
BARON
Oh Thufir, I see they've installed your
heart plug already.... Don't be angry.
Everyone gets one here. But this is not why
we're here. We've brought you a little cat,
Thufir. You must care for it if you wish to
live. A poison has been introduced into
you, Thufir Hawat. By milking this smooth
little cat body each day you receive your
antidote... it must be done each day....
Also, you must do something for me if you
wish to live. You know I lost Piter, my
dear Mentat...
Thufir gives the Baron a weak, wide-eyed stare.
FEYD
All I can see is an Atreides that I want to
kill.
BARON
Feyd, no, no! Thufir's a Harkonnen now,
aren't you Thufir?
THUFIR
(inner voice)
My dear Duke... how I have failed you.

211. INT. JESSICA'S ROOM - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Jessica's face shows signs of straining. Women move around her, Chani
and Harah at her side, helping her give birth. Suddenly ALIA is born
and her freshly-born moist body is held up in front of Jessica.
Alia's eyes snap open, burning brightly.
HARAH
What will you call her?
JESSICA
Alia.
As they lift Alia for Jessica to see...
ALIA
Mother.
210. INT. TRAINING ROOM - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Paul walks down the steps into the training room - followed by Harah's
two sons. He pauses at the foot of the steps.
PAUL
Activate your weirding modules...
Paul activates his, and the Fremens follow suit.
PAUL
Set the range for two meters.
Paul walks down the line of Fremen.
PAUL
Korba...
(points to robot)
The arm...
KORBA
(aiming the module)
Chuuk-sa...
PAUL
Motion... Chuuk-sa...
KORBA
Chuuuk-sa...
He fires the module and the arm of the robot is shot off. Paul smiles
and hits him on the shoulder - Paul walks on.
CONTINUED

210. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
Stilgar...
One of the FREMEN calls out to Paul.
A FREMEN
Muad'Dib!...
The word 'Muad'Dib' causes a tremendous power to build. The module

shakes violently in his hand - it suddenly fires upwards, and the wall
explodes.
PAUL
(inner voice)
My own name is a killing word. Will it be a
healing word as well?
211A. NEW SCENE
STILGAR
(to Paul as he applies red colour to
the shoulders of several large
Fremen men)
Usul... these are fifteen of our fiercest
fighters to serve you as your guard... the
Fedaykin.
He pauses, then holds up his brilliantly red hand.
212. (Deleted)
213. EXT. DESERT - DAY
An EXPLOSION. Paul turns and his eyes are totally blue. He lifts
binoculars to them and looks. He sees the Fremen fighters below
charging at the Harkonnens. As the Fremen run they make powerful
SOUNDS with their weirding modules, exploding everything in their path
and catching things on fire.
213A. EXT. CARRYALL - DESERT - DAY
In the distance, a huge spice carryall is shot down and it falls to

the ground EXPLODING more violently on impact.
213. BACK TO SCENE
PAUL
Now!
CONTINUED

213. CONTINUED (1)
Stilgar signals, and Fremen run behind them.
PAUL (CONT'D)
(to Stilgar)
They're even better on the battlefield than
in the training rooms!!
(inner voice)
Sound... as a weapon. If only you could see
them, father.
Paul smiles as he looks at the battle in the distance.
PAUL (CONT'D)
(his V.O. from the past)
When the spice flow stops, the entire
Universe will turn its eyes to Arrakis. The
Baron and the Emperor himself will be forced
to deal with us.
214. INT. PASSAGEWAYS - ARRAKEEN - DAY
Rabban stares dumbfounded as many Harkonnen wounded and dead are

brought through the passageway beyond. Rabban grabs a Harkonnen and
asks:
RABBAN
What happened? What happened to you?
What is he saying?
WOUNDED HARKONNEN
Muad'Dib!... Muad'Dib!... Muad'Dib!...
Muad'Dib!
Rabban pushes him away.
A HARKONNEN SOLDIER
He's been repeating that name ever since we
found him.
RABBAN
Who is this Muad'Dib?
215. EXT. DEEP DESERT - DAY
HEAT WAVES; dunes. A big thumper is forced into the sands. A RHYTHM
is heard pounding on Fremen hand drums and rhythm instruments. Feet
scramble. Black stillsuited Fedaykin warrior bodyguards gather.
Stilgar turns.
CONTINUED

215. CONTINUED (1)
STILGAR
(to Paul)
Usul... It is time you become a sandrider...
and travel as a Fremen. Take the kiswa
maker hook of our sietch and ride as a
leader of men.
216. (Deleted)
As Paul leaves the troop to plant the second thumper:
STILGAR (V.O.)
Two thumpers are planted. The worm may not
surface for the first - he will rise for the
second. Remember, when the worm approaches,
you must be utterly still... and close
enough to plant the hook firmly under a ring
segment.... The worm will turn to lift this
exposed area as far from the abrasive sand
as possible and it will take you with it --
to the top. Do not get too close as he
approaches... the sand will engulf you....
Wait till the head of the worm passes --
then go... quickly.
STILGAR & FREMEN

Shai-Hulud... Shai-Hulud.
In the distance the telltale SOUND of the worm's approach begins.

This worm is deep underground and the sound is low and the ground
trembles violently.
PAUL
(inner voice)
Only the very strong ones travel this
deep....
The SOUND and VIBRATIONS continue to build. In the distance, the

Fedaykin and Stilgar watch.
STILGAR
(to the others)
Usul has called a big one. Again... it is
the legend.
218. (Deleted)

HEAT WAVES... dunes RHYTHM. THUNDEROUS approach of the worm. Paul

still cannot see the worm, but the sound begins to drown out the
Fremen rhythm instruments and the sand begins to VIBRATE. Suddenly,
Paul SEES...
219A. EXT. WORM - DEEP DESERT - DAY
...a mountain of sands rise up, towering, thundering -- lightning

SPARKS fissuring throughout the air above the worm.
The mountain approaches at a terrifying speed. Then, the worm appears

-- rushing. The mouth, at first a small opening, begins to widen --
exposing a thousand glistening teeth.
219B. EXT. DESERT - DAY
Paul freezes. He lets the worm get closer and closer. The HEAT WAVES
distort the gigantic form, making it even more hideous -- more foreign.
He moves forward. The others watch anxiously. This worm is big. It
is so much larger than imagined. Its top towers 125 feet in the air.
The segments are each ten feet wide.
219C. EXT. VERTICAL SECTION OF WORM - DESERT - DAY
Paul gets very close and running alongside, he plants the hook under a
segment and pulls back. The SOUND is excruciatingly loud. The sand
is so deep and more is being thrown out beneath the body of the worm.
Paul gets caught in it and falls. He narrowly escapes being sucked
under the beast. He gets up -- runs again and plants the hook once
more. He runs faster, bending the segment open to expose the tender
flesh.
219D. EXT. FULL-SIZE SECTION OF WORM - DESERT - DAY
Suddenly the worm begins to turn. Paul pulls himself up the body as
it turns -- holding onto the hook. Soon he is fifty -- sixty --
seventy feet off the ground -- going higher. The giant worm gets the
second thumper and Paul at that moment climbs to the top. He plants
the second hook.
PAUL
(inner voice)
A sandrider!...
Paul works the hooks into the breathing holes along the body...

219E. EXT. DESERT - DAY
... causing the great beast to make a slow turn toward Stilgar and the
bodyguard. They set themselves and as the worm passes...
219F. EXT. FULL-SIZE SECTION OF WORM - DESERT - DAY
...they all clamber on, climbing up the sides to the top.
PAUL
(yelling)
Long live the fighters!
They return the traditional CALL and Paul steers the maker in a giant
circle. They head out across the dunes.
219G. (Deleted)
219I. EXT. DESERT - DAY
Rabban and Harkonnens in the desert. Rabban observes tremendous

destruction of his spice harvesters and carryalls.
219K. EMPEROR'S WORLD REPORT
VOICE
Seventeen Great Houses of the Landsraad have
reported a significant delay in delivery of
spice per CHOAM agreement. This constitutes
a serious violation of CHOAM codes. Contact
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen immediately.
219H. INT. GREAT HALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
A furious Rabban sirs in a black steel tub in the Great Hall. A squad
of TROOPS stands at attention in front of him, listening to his
screaming fit.
RABBAN
Falsify the reports. We can't hide it all,
tell them we've lost only two hundred
harvesters... and forty carryalls... and
don't let my uncle know about the destruction
of the spice silos.... I will catch this
Muad'Dib and suck the blood from him!! SUCK
THE BLOOD FROM HIM!!!

219J. through 222. (Deleted)
226A. EXT. HARVESTER - DESERT - DAY
SMOKE billows from a burning harvester.
226B. EXT. DESERT - DAY
Fighting is going on between Fremen and some smugglers. Paul moves

down a smokey dune with Stilgar followed by Fremen and Fedaykin.
PAUL
We surprised a band of smugglers.
STILGAR
(racing into thick smoke)
Too bad... thought they were Harkonnen.
Paul and Stilgar move through the smoke. A man runs up with a maula
pistol aimed at Paul but Paul spins and punctures the man's chest with
a sound from his weirding module. Paul turns and a large figure comes
through the smoke. They surprise each other. The figure holds a gun.
PAUL
Gurney!...
The figure stops -- stunned.
PAUL (CONT'D)
You've no need of your weapons with me
Gurney Halleck.
GURNEY
(peering; whisper of hope)
Paul!! Paul!!
PAUL
Don't you trust your own eyes.
GURNEY
They said you were dead. They said...
Paul shows him the signet ring on his finger. Gurney moves forward,
his eyes tearing, and the two embrace each other and pound each other
on the back.
GURNEY
You young pup! You young pup!

227. NEW SCENE - WORLD REPORT
VOICE
Stand-by ... warning ... we have just
received a coded threat from the Guild.
Spice production is in serious jeopardy...
Giedi Prime supplying false reports... Guild
to visit Emperor in one standard day.
The Emperor sits on his throne. Behind him are his Sardaukar
officers. In front of him are several Guildsmen. One holds a large
electrical apparatus up to the face plate of another which translates
his strange voice into English.
TANKED GUILDSMAN #2
Emperor Shaddam IV... You have one last
chance to take matters into your own hands
and bring the situation under control on
Arrakis.
EMPEROR
What do you mean one last...
TANKED GUILDSMAN #2
Do not speak!... Listen!... You do not have
more than this one chance.... I represent
the entire Guild in this matter.... You have
failed to kill the Atreides heir... Paul.
EMPEROR
But he was said to...
TANKED GUILDSMEN #2
(moans like a cow)
Noooooo... he is not dead. He is not eaten
by worms as you have wanted to believe. He
is not missing. He is in the deep desert
with the Fremen. The Spice is in great
danger. We are not asking... we are
telling... remedy the situation or you will
live out your life in a pain amplifier.
The Guildsmen turn and leave.
EMPEROR
Who is this Paula Atreides to the Guild? And
why?
222A. INT. JESSICA'S ROOM - SIETCH TABR - DAY
Jessica sits with Harah.
(CONTINUED)

222A. CONTINUED (1)
HARAH
Your Reverence, I don't wish to upset you,
but the other women...
223. INT. PASSAGEWAY - SIETCH TABR - DAY
At the end of the passageway, standing alone -- staring with powerful

intense blue-within-blue eyes -- is ALIA. She's listening mentally.
HARAH (V.O.)
...they don't like Alia around. She
frightens them. It is the strangeness of
your daughter.
224. INT. JESSICA'S ROOM - SIETCH TABR - DAY
JESSICA
It's the way she speaks of things...
Alia is listening - then exits.
225. INT. PASSAGEWAY - SIETCH TABR - DAY
Alia listens mentally.
JESSICA (V.O.)
...beyond her years and of things no child
could know -- things of the past.
(pause)
Alia begins walking. She appears to be angry.
JESSICA (V.O.) (CONT'D)

A daughter who knew at birth everything I know...
226. INT. JESSICA'S ROOM - SIETCH TABR - DAY
HARAH
But Your Reverence, they won't have her
around them.
Alia enters.
ALIA
(screaming little adult
voice)
Harah! Would they deny me the right to use
this mind?...
CONTINUED

226. CONTINUED (1)
ALIA (CONT'D)
(using The Voice)
Would they deny me the right to use this
voice?...
Harah's head nearly bursts with pain and she SCREAMS as if she were
dying.
JESSICA
Alia!
226A. (Deleted)
228. BACK TO SCENE - EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM
EMPEROR
(firmly)
I want fifty legions of Sardaukar on Arrakis
at once.
SARDAUKAR OFFICER #1
Fifty legions?...
(he looks at the other
officers with worry)
That's our entire reserves as well.
EMPEROR
This is genocide... the deliberate and
systematic destruction of all life on
Arrakis.
228A. NEW SCENE
Ships over Arrakis.
231. INT. PAUL'S ROOM - SIETCH
There is a growing, powerful sound of a worm approaching as Paul and

Chani are lying together in the darkness of their sleeping chamber.
Paul's eyes snap open and he sees Chani looking down at him (the last
image of the future in the desert).
CHANI
You were calling my name... it frightened
me.
CONTINUED

231. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
Chani ... the visions of my future are
gone... I have to drink the water of life.
CHANI
No! ... Paul ... please ... I've seen men
who have tried ... I've seen how they
die.
PAUL
I am dead to everyone unless I become ...
unless I become what I ... may ... be.
Only the water of life can free what can
save us.
CHANI
Paul...
The image of Duke Leto on the balcony fades in with POWERFUL MUSIC.
DUKE LETO
The sleeper must awaken.
It fades out to Paul.
PAUL
I must drink the sacred water. You have to
help me. All paths hide from me in
darkness. We must go now.
232. INT. PASSAGEWAY - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Paul walks alone down a dark passage. He meets the Fedaykin at the
top of a narrow incline.
PAUL
Come with me. Now is the time.
They all silently move on.
232C. Paul, Chani and the Fedaykin move quickly into the desert night.
233. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT
Fedaykin (V.O.)
The Lisan Al-Gaib will be transformed in the
sands of the desert. Again, the legend.
CONTINUED

233. CONTINUED (1)
In the hollow of a huge dune, Paul stops with Chani. They share a
look into each other's eyes. Paul turns toward the Fedaykin and nods.
They move in quickly to tie and wrap Paul in Fremen rope. They move
back and wait quietly. Chani moves in very close to Paul. She holds
a glass vial of the blue water of life.
PAUL
Hurry! All I see is darkness.
CHANI
Paul... I will love you forever... in life
or in death... let Shai-Hulud judge now.
(whispering)
You are my life.
She pours the blue liquid into Paul's mouth. Slow move into Paul's
face as:
PAUL
(inner voice)
Now... the test of the water of life... what
is it that waits for me in this darkness?
233A. INT. PAUL'S MIND
Fade to black then dissolve to dark blue fluid. A blue drop falls
into the blue fluid - a huge low thud - then quiet.
233B. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT
Cut to Paul screaming horribly in the desert.
235. INT. JESSICA'S ROOM - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
Alia walks forward in the very dark room. Blood rushes from her nose.
She forces herself to walk to Jessica's bed. She finds that Jessica's
nose is bleeding also. Jessica wakes in pain. They stare at each
other in the darkness.
JESSICA
ALIA!
ALIA
Mother - help me!
JESSICA
(struggling)
Alia! What is it?
CONTINUED

235. CONTINUED (1)
ALIA
It's Paul. He's taken the Water of Life.
233C. INT. PAUL'S MIND
Cut to quiet black - dissolve again to blue - another drop - low thud
- quietness - fade to black.
245A. EXT. EMPEROR'S SPACESHIP - SPACE
The Emperor's space ship soars towards us.
246. INT. EMPEROR'S SPACE SHIP - SPACE
The Reverend Mother Helen Mohiam is on the floor, bleeding from the
nose and weak from pain. The Emperor looks on in horror.
233D. INT. PAUL'S MIND
Suddenly screaming towards us is white rings, stars and a huge Guild

Navigator.
233E. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT
Cut to Paul's eyes - tightly closed, oozing fresh blood.
233F. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT
SCREAMING SOUND. Paul's mouth opens and a giant wind is stirred on

the desert.
234. (Deleted)
235A. INT. PAUL'S MIND
Navigator chewing giant eye and spewing blood and light and sounds.
Paul's mouth double exposes over Navigator and eye. The sound from
Paul's mouth destroys the Navigator and opens the Alam. Navigator
bursts into a huge light ring and we quickly travel through ring after
ring and masses of liquid stars. The light increases until it is
blinding and then in the light ...

235B. EXT. FLOWER BLOSSOMING
A golden flower blossoms and glows brilliantly - suddenly the powerful

sound of an approaching worm.
240. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT
Chani and the Fedaykin freeze and watch in horror as seven giant worms
converge on them. The worms break the desert surface and rise,
towering over them. The worms hover and wait.
DISSOLVE TO:
240A. EXT. DESERT - DAY
Chani looks to the Fedaykin, then they look at Paul who lies
motionless. She cuts the rope bonds with her crysknife. Her fingers
tremble as does the whole of the desert.
Paul's eyes snap open. He sits up slowly. Chani stares at him in

awe.
CHANI
Paul... Paul.
240B. EXT. WAVE CRASHING
A huge wave crashes and Paul sees the image of his father. Paul
slowly gets to his knees, then stands.
240C. EXT. DESERT - NIGHT
PAUL
Father!... Father!
THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED.
Giant echoes of this phrase reverberate across the vast desert. The
worms bend back into the sand and leave with thundering power.
MUSIC FULL.

251. EXT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT
The Rock Ledge of Sietch Tabr is filled with Fedaykin and monks;
Chani, Jessica, Gurney and Stilgar stand together near the back. Paul
moves out on the Rock Ledge overlooking the Hall of Rites which is
crowded with Fremen warriors who chant "Maud'Dib" along with the
powerful sounds of the WIND ORGAN and FREMEN war DRUMS.
Paul raises his open hand. SILENCE. Only the organ continues with a
soft low NOTE. The Fremen wait.
PAUL
Arrakis... Dune... Desert Planet.
A quiet, haunting MOAN of recognition of a master rises from the

Fremen.
PAUL (CONT'D)
(loud)
Your time has come.
(inner voice)
Father... our time has come.
(out loud again)
A storm is coming -- our storm... and when
it comes it will shake the Universe.
Emperor... we come for you.
A thunderous ROAR arises. War DRUMS pound. The ORGAN blows a

hurricane of power through the sietch.
PAUL
(he raises crysknife)
STILGAR
Fremen carrying weapons begin moving out in long lines from the Hall
as the war DRUMS pound.
265. INT. HARKONNEN 'THOPTER - DAY
In one 'thopter sits the Baron Harkonnen. He is flown down to the

Emperor's ship.
253. EXT. ROCK OUTCROPPING - DEEP DESERT - DAY
A sietch door opens and Fremen warriors stream out.

254. (Deleted)
The WIND is howling and is starting to blow the sand. Dark sand
clouds form in the distance.
256. EXT. ROCK OUTCROPPING - DEEP DESERT - DAY
Another sietch door opens and hundreds and thousands more Fremen pour
out.
257. EXT. SHIELD WALL - ARRAKEEN - DAY
Paul, Stilgar and Gurney watch the Emperor's enormous ship on the
Arrakeen landing field below.
Thousands of Fremen are running, planting thumpers as they go.
259. INT. COMMUNICATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN - DAY
PAUL
Gurney, when the storm hits... set off the
atomics. I want an opening through the
entire Shield Wall. Stilgar? Do we have
wormsign?
Stilgar and Gurney laugh.
STILGAR
Usul... We have wormsign, the likes of which
even God has never seen.
Paul smiles.
Looking down over the huge desert it looks like a living sea of
wormsign. Everywhere ripples appear and worms are surfacing.

261A. EXT. DEEP DESERT - DAY
Thousands of Fremen are running, positioning themselves to mount and

ride.
Dust clouds grow faster and the speed of the WIND increases. Sand
particles hit at a rock outcropping and up close they sound like giant
warrior drummers pounding before battle.
263. EXT. HARKONNEN SHIPS - DESERT - NIGHT
Suddenly above come hundreds of SCREAMING space ships zooming down

across the desert floor and towards the landing field.
264. (Deleted)
The storm is howling now. Sand blasts against rock and rips pieces
away.
267. INT. STEEL TENT - EMPEROR'S SPACE SHIP - DAY
EMPEROR
Bring in that floating fat man... the Baron.
The Baron is brought in. Distant warning SIGNALS begin. The Baron is
fighting to contain his fear because RABBAN'S HEAD SITS ALL BLOODY ON
THE FLOOR in front of him. Finally the Emperor speaks.
EMPEROR
Why have you brought me here?
BARON
Your Highness... There must be some
mistake... I never requested your presence.
EMPEROR
Ah? But your lack of action demanded it.
Your dreadful mismanagement, your bad
judgement in assigning to Rabban --
(he gestures toward the head)
-- the governorship.... You forced me to
come here and set things straight...
personally.
CONTINUED

267. CONTINUED (1)
A VOICE
Bring in the messenger.
Alia is brought in by the Sardaukar soldiers. She is smiling.
ALIA
I am the messenger from Muad'Dib. Poor
Emperor, I'm afraid my brother won't be very
pleased with you.
EMPEROR
Silence!... I do not court your brother's
pleasure.
Suddenly the Reverend Mother looks horrified and grabs her throat.
REVEREND MOTHER
(struggling, speaking)
Kill this child!! She's an abomination!!
Kill her.
(points to Alia, who
is smiling at her)
Get out of my mind!!!
ALIA
Not until you tell them both who I really
am.
REVEREND MOTHER
(strained speech void of
emotion)
Sister of Paul Muad'Dib.
The Reverend Mother slumps. The Baron's mouth flies open. The
Emperor's face goes pale, his lips tremble.
EMPEROR
Paul's sister... Paul is Muad'Dib?!
He turns quickly and looks at the two Guild agents present in the
room. They stare at him icily. Alia smiles happily.
268. INT. COMMUNICATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN - DAY
Paul smiles.
PAUL
(laughs) (to Gurney and
Stilgar)
Alia keeps pace with the storm.
CONTINUED

268. CONTINUED (1)
Gurney and Stilgar don't understand. Suddenly enormous dust clouds

and LIGHTNING sweep up over the Shield Wall.
PAUL
Gurney, now!
Gurney gives a hand signal and...
GURNEY
(they put on their hoods)
Atomics!
... TWENTY EXPLOSIONS of hydrogen bomb intensity go off in a row,

cutting a huge gorge through the width of the massive Shield Wall. As
the EXPLOSIONS go off, a WIND howls, destroying much of Arrakeen and
covering the rest with tons of sand. Sand rips at the Palace and the
Emperor's ship.
Alia smiles as they HEAR the tremendous roaring, atomic screams of the
explosions. The Emperor's ship's warning SIGNALS are now close and
loud.
ALIA
My brother is coming... with many Fremen
warriors.
A Sardaukar rushes in.
The Shield Wall is gone.
EMPEROR
Impossible!
ALIA
Not impossible. I told you... He is here
now.
Majesty, into the ship!
EMPEROR
(to his officers)(rising)
Release the Sardaukar. Baron... give this
little abomination to the storm.
They all leave the room, including the Sardaukars.

BARON
I have her, Majesty!
The Baron floats down to her. Alia turns to him -- still smiling.
With a flash of her hand she reaches out and swipes at the Baron's
face. He CRIES OUT in pain. She pulls his suspensor plugs and pushes
him back, then shows him the tiny needle she holds in her hand. He
spins crazily as he screams from the poison.
Worms, each with hundreds of Fremen on them, come slithering through

the newly-formed canyon in the Shield Wall.
273A. EXT. WORMS - SHIELD WALL - ARRAKEEN - DAY
Paul rides the lead worm with Gurney and Stilgar by his side. The
storm is howling and blowing with horrifying intensity.
273B. INT. EMPEROR'S SPACE SHIP - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
The Emperor and his Sardaukar officers in a darkened room where they
are horrified to see on the screens the hundreds of worms which are
coming into the Arrakeen valley. All their faces show fear.
272. BACK TO SCENE

INT. EMPEROR'S SPACE SHIP - GREEN THRONE ROOM - DAY
Suddenly the wall behind Alia and the spinning Baron is completely
blown away by a BLAST.
The Baron floats and spins out into the storm.
274. EXT. ARRAKEEN - DAY
As the worms enter the Arrakeen basin they meet the Sardaukar. The
Sardaukar don't have a chance -- the worms suck them up by the
hundreds. The Fremen up on the worms' backs fire weapons, killing the
few Sardaukar the worms leave behind.
275. EXT. LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - DAY
The space ships which were recently airborne are now crashing because
of the storm.

272A. NEW SCENE
The Baron floats and spins high in the dust clouds of the storm over
the Arrakeen Valley.
274A. NEW SCENE
The worm, that Paul, Gurney and Stilgar are riding, suddenly rears up.
Its mouth opens. The Baron appears as a tiny spinning shape. He
flies directly into the mouth of this colossal worm and is devoured.
277. EXT. STEEL TENT - LANDING FIELD - ARRAKEEN - DAY
A thousand Fremen battle Sardaukar outside the Emperor's tent. They

soon overpower them and rush into the giant steel structure.
The entire airfield is now filled with wild worms, Fremen, and dead or
dying Sardaukar.
Alia moves dreamily among the dying Sardaukar.
Paul enters the Palace hall and the first thing he sees is the giant
bull's head. The horns have been blown off and the Atreides banner
has been stuffed and wired into the mouth.
A WIND moans through the Palace.
Paul turns. Gurney and several guards bring in the Emperor, Irulan,
the Reverend Mother, Sardaukar generals, Guildsmen, Feyd and Thufir.
The Fedaykin and Fremen troops line the walls.
Paul's eyes meet Feyd's -- Feyd gives him an evil smile.
Paul turns and looks at the Emperor, who stares back defiantly. Paul
moves his gaze to Irulan, who lowers her eyes. He then sees his old
teacher, Thufir Hawat, whose tired eyes wander helplessly.
CONTINUED

281. CONTINUED (1)
PAUL
Gurney... I see Thufir Hawat among the
captives. Let him stand free.
GURNEY
My Lord?
PAUL
Let him stand free!
The Emperor turns nervously to Feyd, who passes a golden dagger to

Thufir.
FEYD
(to Thufir)
The antidote...
GURNEY
(gestures to Thufir)
Thufir. Come.
Thufir approaches Paul, concealing the knife. They come face to face.
The Emperor seems strangely tense at this moment. Paul notices this.
He looks Thufir over.
PAUL (CONT'D)
(inner voice)
A knife....
(out loud)
In payment of the many years of service to
my family, you may now ask of me anything
you wish. Anything at all.
(quietly)
Do you need my life, old friend?
He turns his back on him.
PAUL (CONT'D)
(quiet)
It is yours.
Thufir's eyes grow sad and wide.
PAUL
I mean this, Thufir. If you are to strike,
do it now.
Thufir's hand rises, as Jessica gasps, but the old Mentat pulls his
heart plug out with a quick tearing motion. Paul turns and catches
him as he sags.
His head lolls back and he looks up to Paul urgently.
CONTINUED

281. CONTINUED (2)
THUFIR (CONT'D)
Three... generations... of you...
His breath escapes him and he is dead.
PAUL
(to the guards)
Carry this noble Atreides warrior away. Do
him all honor.
The guards do as they are instructed.
PAUL
Emperor Shaddam the IV... there are Guild
Heighliners above us containing many Great
Houses of the Landsraad.... SEND THEM
BACK!
EMPEROR
How dare you speak to me...
GUILDSMAN #2
(speaking into electric
microphone)
Stop your speaking!!
PAUL
(to the Guildsmen)
Good. You have some idea of what I would do
but I will tell it to one who has never been
seen... one who hides deep in the Heighliner
control rooms. He will hear it first.
GUILDSMEN #3
(fear)
No!
Paul smiles as we move closer and closer to him.
282. INT. CONTROL ROOM - HEIGHLINER - SPACE
Suddenly we are in the Heighliner control room, near the floor in the
chemical spills. We move up into the orange gas. THUNDERING begins
to shake the Heighliner.
PAUL (V.O.)
Where are you.... Let me see you or there
will be no spice.
CONTINUED

282. CONTINUED (1)
We move into very thick gas and there is a ROARING. Suddenly Paul
sees the Third Stage Navigator.
PAUL (V.O.)(CONT'D)
You know what I'm about to say is true.... I
have the power to destroy the spice forever.
The Guild Navigator's mouth stretches back in a horrible MOAN. The

moan becomes more pained and grows louder and louder.
The Guildsmen in the room are MOANING and SCREAMING and swarming out
towards the doorway -- the Fremen stop them. The Emperor and all are
amazed and frightened. There is a long hush. The old Reverend Mother
then turns and glares at Paul.
PAUL (CONT'D)
Don't try your powers on me. Try looking
into that place where you dare not look.
You'll find me there staring back at you!!
You Bene Gesserit have waited ninety
generations to produce the one person your
schemes required. Here I stand. But... I
will never be yours.
REVEREND MOTHER
Stop him, Jessica!
JESSICA
Stop him yourself.
PAUL
You saw a part of what the race needs in the
beginning. In time you perverted the truth.
You sought to control human breeding and
intermix a select few according to a selfish
master plan. How little you understand.
REVEREND MOTHER
You mustn't speak of...
PAUL
(using The Voice)
SILENCE!
The old woman is shot backwards by the power of his shout. Her
breath is knocked out of her.
PAUL (CONT'D)
I remember your gom jabbar, now you remember
mine. I can kill with a word.
CONTINUED

283. CONTINUED (1)
A Fedaykin stand forward and recites from prophecy.
FEDAYKIN #1
...and his word shall carry death eternal to
those who stand against the righteous.
Feyd hears this and is angered.
FEYD
The righteous!
PAUL
(to Emperor)
There is a Harkonnen among you. Give the
Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth.
EMPEROR
If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my
blade in his hand.
FEYD
I wish it.
(steps forward)
GURNEY
This is a Harkonnen animal. Let me, please,
my Lord.
PAUL
The Emperor's blade.
Feyd takes up the Emperor's blade with a smile. Paul takes out his
crysknife. They begin to circle each other.
Paul smiles, circling still. Suddenly, Feyd leaps, his blade jabbing
savagely outward, but Paul easily evades it, moving away. They begin
to circle again.
He makes another pass at Paul that comes dangerously close, but again,
Paul is away, a frozen smile on his face.
FEYD
Why prolong the inevitable? I will kill
you! I will kill him!
Feyd smiles. He lashes out biting Paul's hand. Feyd LAUGHS in

triumph.
Feyd leaps forward jabbing, his right hip also thrust forward. Yet
Paul, although a little slowly, again reels away. Again, Feyd
thrusts.
CONTINUED

283. CONTINUED (2)
This time Paul jabs with his crysknife, but Feyd moves away
effortlessly. Feyd counters and kicks Paul to the ground.
CHANI
Paul!
Paul is up instantly and he circles with Feyd.
FEYD
(smiling)
Who is the little one? A pet, perhaps?
Will she deserve my special attentions?
Paul jabs out, his crysknife slashing. Feyd grabs his arm, and Paul
his, the two men locked in a straining clinch. Feyd presses his right
hip closer and closer to Paul's body. Paul strains to keep it away.
Suddenly, the gom jabbar flips out of Feyd's girdle, but on the left
side, and he lunges powerfully with it at Paul, who just barely misses
taking it in his skin. He throws Feyd back, but not before Feyd's
feet strike out, sending Paul to the floor. Feyd leaps onto him.
FEYD
(whispering)
You see... your death... my blade will
finish you.
Suddenly, Paul, with lightning swiftness, pushes Feyd up and over. He

is on top of him in a flash.
Paul's crysknife flashes up, thrusting upward through Feyd's jaw.

Feyd's mouth opens as the knife continues up through his tongue and
through to his brain. Feyd's eyes go wild, then glaze over as he
jerks dead on the floor. Paul slowly gets to his feet, breathing
heavily. Anger still seething in him, Paul issues a SOUND -- a loud,
horrible, powerful sound, and Feyd's internal organs rupture and the
stone floor under him cracks open. The Fedaykin smile.
FEDAYKIN #2
Usul no longer needs the weirding module.
Everyone stares in disbelief. Paul looks to the Emperor.
PAUL
Now, I will tell you how it will be. Irulan
shall be my wife, opening the way for an
Atreides to take the throne.
EMPEROR
I sit on the throne!!
CONTINUED

283. CONTINUED (3)
PAUL
You will sit on a throne on Selusa Secundus,
your prison planet. Either that or you will
die.
The Emperor is still. Paul moves to Chani.
PAUL (CONT'D)
(to Chani)
The Princess shall have no more of me than
my name... no child of mine or touch or
softness of glance... nor instant of
desire.... This is my promise to you...
(whispering)
...my love.
Paul turns back to the others.
Jessica turns to Chani and whispers to her.
JESSICA
Think on it Chani... We who carry the name
of concubine... history will call us wives.
Alia enters with two monks. She signals and one of them places a
cloak over Paul's shoulders.
PAUL
The Fremen have the word of Muad'Dib. They
will have their Holy War to cleanse the
Universe... they will have Arrakis...
Dune... their planet. There will be flowing
water here open to the sky and rich green
oases. For the spice there will always be
some desert. There will be fierce winds and
trials to toughen men. We Fremen have a
saying...
(he stares at the
Reverend Mother)
"God created Arrakis to train the faithful."
One cannot go against the word of God.
Everyone in the room stares at him soundlessly.
ALIA
And how can this be?
There are three powerful drum hits.
ALIA (CONT'D)
For... he is the Kwisatz Haderach!

284. EXT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - DUSK
Paul opens his mouth and issues an ever increasing wind. Lightning
and thunder begin. Clouds begin to form over the Palace. In the
half-light of dusk, thousands of Fremen watch the sky. Giant golden
lights are illuminated and their rays shoot far into the sky
illuminating the growing clouds. Five tremendous bolts of lightning
suddenly unleash a downpour of RAIN ON ARRAKIS. The Fremen stand
awestruck as they are drenched with water falling from the sky.
WE MOVE through Paul's glowing blue eyes into beautiful blue

luminescent light.
A gigantic WIND arises, and suddenly appearing in the blue light is an

ocean of light rolling like gold glass off into the infinite. The
blue becomes darker and a golden lotus flower blooms in the night.
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D U N E

This is the seventh draft script for Dune, by David Lynch.

I have tried to maintain the layout, and formatting of the

Spelling has been corrected (from "Geidi Prime" to "Giedi Prime"

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1. ARRAKIS - A SCENE FROM SPACE

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

1A. INT. ROCK LEDGE - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

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

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

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1A. CONTINUED (1)

The Reverend Mother continues speaking of the Prophecy, but we do

The picture FADES.

1B. KAITAIN - A SCENE FROM SPACE

2. INT. DROP - NIGHT

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

2A. EXT. - DROP - NIGHT

PULL BACK to a shot revealing the outside of the drop. There is a

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

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

The EMPEROR is surrounded by crowds of COURTIERS in his Throne

Suddenly a GUARD enters from a small door and quickly crosses to

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The Reverend Mother is ushered in and the Sardaukar Officers leave

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The Emperor looks to the Reverend Mother.

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

The Reverend Mother enters through doors and takes a seat on a

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

Inside the Emperor's chamber, the TANK-SUITED GUILDSMEN are

The tank is filled with swirling orange spice-gas, and Guildsmen

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

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

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12. CONTINUED (1)

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

Outside, the Reverend Mother is seeing the scene mentally. She

REVEREND MOTHER (V.O.)

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

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15. CONTINUED (1)

The Guild Navigator shudders and swishes quite violently in his

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

REVEREND MOTHER (V.O.)

15. BACK TO SCENE

16. BACK TO SCENE

REVEREND MOTHER (V.O.)

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

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17. CONTINUED (1)

The box begins to fold back over the Navigator.

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

The Reverend Mother hurries along. Some of the sisterhood gathers