Paul enters the Palace hall and the first thing he sees is an aninous Ee
sign indesd... the giant bull's head. id
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Paul stares at Chani tenderly. A WIND moans through the Palace. His” fos
eyes tum to Jessica. ‘s, — . i
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Vatch, ,
Paul tums. Gumey and several quards bring in the Prperor, Irulan,
the Reverend Mothor, Sardaukar generals, Guildsmen, Feyd and ‘Thofir,
The Fodaykin and Fremen troops line the walls.
Paul moves .to the group surrounding the Emperor. His eyes meet Feyd's
—~ Fey@ gives him an evil smile.
Paul turns and looks at. the Engeror, who stares back defiantly. Paul
moves his gaze to Inilan, who lowers her eyes.
PAUL
This is the beginning of it, mother....° She is the key.
The Experor’s eyes flare. Jessica looks at Chani, who is confused and
Inuct.
PAULL
Ganey... I see Thuifir Sawat among the captives, That will never do. Tet him stand free.
Gumey, aniling sadly, makes a gesture to Thufir, who looks very old
and bewildered. His rheumy eyes peer at Paul as they come face to
face. The Erperor seems strangely tense at this mament. Paul notices r
this. He looks to one of Thufir's trembling hands,
ofl PAUL {CONT'D}
et! {inner voice)
7 A gom jabbar in his hand.
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{out loud) :
Tn payment of the many years of service to
my family, you may now ask of me anything ”
you wish. Hear ma. Anything at all. .
(quietly)
Do you need my life, Thufir?
He turns his back on him, facing the bull above the mantle.
PAUL (CONT'D)
{niet}
Tt is yours. - ; t
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Lady Jessica, I but learned this day how oO ie
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neecn't forgive. M lord... ot " .-
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Thafin's hand rises, as Jessica gasps, but the old Mentat swipes his.
gwn arm with the nesdle. Paul turns and catches him as he £2ags.
‘wbufir manages to hold the necdle up to the Experor.
CG TUFIR (cont 0}
f Did you think for one rement that I would ‘oa fail my Duke twice?
ae His head lolls back and he looks up to Paul urgently.
THUPIR (CONT'D)
Your signet... your signet, my lord. ~
Paul holds it to his lips which barely possess the strength to kiss ©
it. Then his face spreads into a weary anile.
THUFTIR ({OONT'D)
Three... generations... of you...
His breath escapes him and he is dead.
PAUL
(to the guards)
this noble Atreides warrior away. Do him all honor.
The guards do as they are instructed.
“z. PADEL
| Experor Shadam IV... there is a Guild
Heighliner above us containing many of the
Great Bouses of tha Landsraad.... SEND THEM
HOME!
EMPEROR
How dare you speak to...
GUILDSMAN #2.
Stop your - speaking! !
More Guildsmen cone in now and group around the original two. Same
tanked Guildsmen follow in locking around. Paul turns to them...
pauses, .
PAUL a
(to the Gaildsmen) :
You have sane idea of what I would do but I
Will tell it to one who has never been
seen... one who hides high in the Heighliner
control rocms. He deserves to hear it
; first. - -
No!
Ts
~ Paul smiles as we move closer and cleser to nim %
“32, INT, OQONTROL POd4d - HETGULINEFR ~ SPACE
Suddenly we are in the Heighliner contrel room, near the floor in the
‘chemical spills. Woe rove up into the orange gas. The Third Stage
Navigators present here start MOANING and SHRIEKING. They swim off
and cower in a corner, We move higher. THUNDERING begins to shake
the Heighliner and the meaning grows louder.
ere : . PAUL {V.0.)}
Where are you.... Let m@ see you or there
will be no spice,
We move into very thick gas and there is a ROARING of gas through
heavy gigantic pipes. Suddenly we see the Fourth Stage Navigator. He
is five hundred feet long. Pasty white. The head of a Third Stage——
Tavigator... the body of a white wom.
PAUL {V.0.)
There...
The Fourth Stage Navigator MOANS horribly and his body swishes. Pipes
wrench apart. Gas spews and EXPLOOES cut,
PAUL (V.0.) (CONT'D)
' You know what I'm about to say is true.... I have the power to destroy the spice forever,
The MOAN is now overpowering and the pipes shooting cas into the mouth
bend and break cut and tons of heavy tubing begin to sag and fall the
two thousand feet to the floor below. The giant Navigator MOANS again
and flips violently.
283. ENT. GREAT HALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY
The Giildsmen in the room are MOANING and SCREAMING and swarming out
the doorway -- disappearing. The Experor and ali are amazed and
frightened. ‘here is a long hush. ‘The old Reverend Mother then turns
and glares at Jessica,
REVEREND MOTHER
I don’t think I can find it in my heart to forgive you, Jessica, for this...
PAUL
You've never had the right or cause to forgive my wother for anything. ot, , - ' the turns to Jessica) Se ' X too misjudged my mother... it's’ plain that - same part.of her has known what had to be . for a long tim,
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PAUL (CONT'D)
Don't try your tricks on me. Try looking into that place where you dare not look, You'll find me there staring out at you!! You Bene Gesserit have waited ninety generations to produce the one person your schemes required. You now know that person has been produced. Here I stand. But... I will never do your bidding.
REVEREND MOTHER
a Jessica, stop himl . JESSICA Stop him yourself. PAUL L'il give you one thing. You saw 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 your selfish master plan.
How little you understand.
REVEREND MOTHER
You mastn't speak of...
PADL
(using The Voice)
STLENCE!
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?) breath is knocked out of her,
| “PAUL (CONT! D)
I remember your gom jabbar, now you remember
mine. I can kill with a word.
A Fedaykin stands forward and recites from prophecy.
FEDAYKIN #1
.-and bis word shall carry death etemal. to
those who stand against the righteous.
There is a Rarkonnen arong you. You have
- promise of protection. But I.wish to know
if he is officially with vcu or if he-is
hiding behind a technicality out of
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You call me coward while you hide among your
Worle,
GURNEY
Let ma, please, my lord.
CHANT
Muad'Dib need not do this thing.
PAL,
Bat the Duke Paul mst,
GURNEY
This is a Harkonnen animal...
JESSICA
Gurney... he's like his father in this mood.... Tat him be. .
EMPEROR
if Feyd wishes it, he may meet you with ny blade in his hand.
FEYD
(elated)
I wish it.
PAUL
You're overconfident. There's a natural advantage I can accept. The Erperorc's blade!
A Feéaykin goes to Paul with the blade.
PAUL {CONT'D)
On the floor there.
The Fedaykin puts it on the floor,
“Peyd Lakes up the Exceror's blade with a smile,
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PAUL {CONT'D}
Now, clear everyone back against the wall
and let the Harkonnen stand forth.
. CHANT
PAUL
{to Feyd) —_
. May thy knife chip and shatter.
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Hew beautifully you donce, eo PAUL , {inner voice) ) He's a talker, There's another weakness, oN He'll grow uneasy in the face of silence.
Maybe you would like the Truthsayer to
prepare your spirit for its journey?
Paul smiles, circling still. Suddenly, Feyd leaps, his blade jabbing
savagely outward, but Paul easily evades it, moving away, They begin
“to circle again,
FEYD (CONT'D)
Does an Atreides run, or stand and fight? Your pretty dance prolongs your life... for a few noments, anyway.
He makes another pass at Paul that cores dangerously close, but again,
Paul is away, a sinile frozen on his faoe.
FEYD (CONT'D)
Oh, come, why prolong the inevitable? Why
don't you speak? Ah, you just smile, Tell
me, has your study ylelded anything?
Paul breaks his silence.
, PAUL
You lead with your right hip. A gum jabbar
in yaw girdle, perhaps?
Feyd smiles. We lashes cart, and Paul is slow, receiving a small slash
on his wrist. Feyd LAUGHS in triumph. Paul looks to the Emeror, who
PAUL {CONT 'D)
(inner voice)
Such elation at so small a scratch. Could
the Emperor have poisoned his blade? I feel
it! A scporific, ‘They don't know that I
can now neutralize all poisons.
. (whispering)
a, dust enough to slow the muscles.
Peja Jeans forward jabbing, his richt hip also thrust forward. Yet
Paul, although a little Slowly, acain reels away. Again, Feyd. -
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PAUL
Stay back!
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My lord!
A frightened CRY escapes Chant.
FEYD
{smi ling)
Who is the little one? A pet, perhaps?
Will she deserve my special attentions?
Trulan locks aver to Chani, an uncomfortable curiosity in her eyes.
Paul jabs cut, his crysknife slashing. Feyd grabs his ann, and Paul
his, tha 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
PAUL
{inner voice)
onto him,
Treachery within treachery within treachery.
0 ne eee ce a re FEYD
{whispering}
Ah, you see it now. It's your death. ft'll
stop your muscles, My blade will finish
- you. There’ll never be a trace ieft to
detect, You're slowing....
Suddenly, Paul, with lightning swiftness, undulled by the drug, pushes
Feyd up and over. He is on top of him in a flash.
FEYD {conT" >)
{frightened now)
You... YOu...
~
Paul's crysknife flashes up, thrusting upward through Feyd's jaw.
Feyd's reuth 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 in oracks ooen. The Fedavkin smile.
: "EEDAYKIN 33
, {inner voice} _-
Usul no longer neecés the weirding module.
Everyone stares in disbelief, Pal looks to the Emoeror.
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, PAUL
I wiih tell you now how it will be. Trulan
shail be my wife, opening the way for an
me Atreides to take the throne,
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co I sit on the thronetl
es PAUL,
You will sit a throne on Selusa Secundus,
your prison planet. Either that or you will
die. ;
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The Emperor is still. Paul moves to Chani.
PAUL (CONT'D)
{to Chani}
The Princess will have no more of me than my
name... no child of mine or touch nor
softness of glance... nor instant of
desire.... This is my pranise to you...
{whispering}
-..ly love.
Paul iuxns back to the others.
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Jessica turns to Chandi and whispers to her.
JESSICA
Chani... think on it... We who carry the name of concubine... history will call us WIVES.
Paul suddenly lecks up.
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 aml rich green oases, For the spice there will always be sare desert, There will be fierce winds and tag to toughen men, We Fremen have a
(he stares at the -
Reverend Mother) -
"Cod created Arcakis to train the faithful.”
One cannot: go against. the word of Gos -
Everyone in the room stares at him soundléssiy. Alia raDGis out ‘loud |
with sey -. .
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ALIA 179
(prempting)
and hew can this be?
She gives a small handsignal and the Fremen drummers pound out three
powerful hits.
ALIA (CONT'D)
Because... he is the Kwisatz Haderach! We move through Paul's glowing. blue eyes into beautiful biue 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.