Dune Page #20

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.

--

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.

283. INT. GREAT HALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

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.

--

A Fedaykin stand forward and recites from the

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

forward. Yet Paul, although a little slowly, again

reels away. Again, Feyd thrusts.

--

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!!

--

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 the

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.

285. INT. GREAT HALL - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

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 infinite. The blue becomes

darker and a golden lotus flower blooms in the

night.

THE END:

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