Dune Page #10

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.

121. through 121A. (Deleted)

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 them with hydraulic

knife-guns. One blade enters the back of one man's

head and comes out his nose. Tremendous NOISE of

battle. Gurney and a squad of TROOPERS climb

through bodies and thick smoke. Gurney has the

Duke's dog safely inside his coat. The little dog's

head sticks out -- looking about. Gurney strokes

the dog's neck when the reach safety behind some

rock. Small glimpses, as the smoke moves this way

or that, let them see thousands of Sardaukar

fighting.

GURNEY:

LONG LIVE DUKE LETO!

TROOPERS:

Long live Duke Leto!

The CRY from the men rings out as they attack with

frenzy equalling that of the Sardaukar.

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.

--

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.

--

129. BACK TO SCENE - BATTLE

127. BACK TO SCENE

PITER:

(whispering to Jessica, rubbing the

spittle around on her face with his

hand, delicately)

I'd thought of many pleasures with you.

It is perhaps better that you die in the

innards of a worm. Desire clouds my

reason.... That is not good... that is

bad.

129. BACK TO SCENE

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

NIGHT - SHIELD

EFFECT:

Duncan Idaho kills a Sardaukar soldier and rushes

forward frantically. His eyes blaze intensely. He

yells out to the other Atreides soldiers.

DUNCAN:

They're on this floor somewhere....

The soldiers disappear, searching in another

direction. Duncan runs, pounding, down the

passageway -- his eyes searching in every doorway.

Suddenly twelve huge Sardaukar round a corner on a

quick march. Duncan turns his shield up and charges

them. Behind them he sees Paul and Jessica bound in

straps and being carried.

Duncan attacks and fights valiantly but he is

outnumbered. In the fight the lights are blown out

and Duncan is killed by a slow stunner pellet

through the head. Paul strains to help.

PAUL:

(seeing Duncan)

Duncan!! Duncan!!

Paul and Jessica are carried off, quickly, through

the darkness. The battle SOUNDS thundering.

--

128A. DUNCAN'S BODY - INT. SUB-BASEMENT PASSAGEWAY -

ARRAKEEN PALACE:

- NIGHT - SHIELD EFFECT

Duncan's dead, shielded body slides sparking in the

dark against the passageway walls.

129. BACK TO SCENE - BATTLE - RABBAN ON BRIDGE

131C. (Deleted)

132. EXT. PALACE - ARRAKEEN - NIGHT

FIRE and SMOKE.

133. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

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.

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