Dune Page #15

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:

183. through 187. (Deleted)

--

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 a frail

yet extremely beautiful and mysterious. She turns

to Paul and Jessica with a strange look.

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

(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 of 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.

189A. INT. MAKER ROOM - SIETCH TABR - NIGHT

The bile and worm water are combined in ceremonial

containers. Paul turns to Stilgar.

--

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.

190. INT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR -

NIGHT:

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)

192. INT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR -

NIGHT:

We see Jessica sitting, shoulders tight and spasming

-- straining, her eyelids half-closed and

flickering.

193. (Deleted)

194. INT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR -

NIGHT:

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:

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO

(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.

REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO (V.O.)

(distant)

I've been a long time waiting for you.

Here is my life.

198. INT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR -

NIGHT:

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.

--

Jessica spews 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."

202. INT. ROCK LEDGE - HALL OF RITES - SIETCH TABR -

NIGHT:

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