Dune Page #17

219C. EXT. VERTICAL SECTION OF WORM - DESERT - DAY

Paul gets 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 Lansraad

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 fingers.

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.

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

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 the 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.

--

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?...

--

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.

229. through 230. (Deleted)

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.

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In the hollow of a huge dune, Paul stops with Chani.

They share a look into each other's eyes. Paul

turns towards 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.

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