Dune Page #5

Inside the city the cable car passes into a huge

inner chamber filled with open-topped lime green

porcelain rooms with tremendous electrical lines

criss-crossing above.

51. (Deleted)

52. INT. BARON'S ROOM - GEIDI PRIME - DAY

In front of a huge steam boiler, the cable car stops

and Piter gets out, steps down steel stairs and

enters a porcelain room where the Baron is being

treated by a DOCTOR for sores on his face and body.

The doctor uses a lasbeam on a big sore on the

Baron's lips. The Baron is sickly and hugely fat and

sweaty and looks like he has been sickly for some

time. He turns to Piter as he enters the room.

PITER:

My Lord!

BARON:

Piter.

Piter moves up to the Baron.

PITER:

The Atreides will be leaving Caladan soon,

Baron, and I have here your answer from

Duke Leto.

BARON:

What does Leto say, Piter?

PITER:

He wishes to inform you that Vendetta --

as he puts it, using the ancient tongue,

the art of Kanly -- is still alive. He

does not wish to meet or speak with you.

BARON:

(swallowing; angry)

I made my peace gesture... the forms of

Kanly have been obeyed.

He throws down the cylinder.

PITER:

As you instructed me, I have enlightened

your nephews concerning my plan t...

--

BARON:

My plan!

PITER:

The plan to crush the Atreides. Feyd,

Rabban... go quietly... no other great

house of the Landsraad must ever know of

the Emperor's aid to the Baron. The

entire Landsraad would turn against the

Baron and the Emperor.

DOCTOR:

Put the pick in there Pete

And turn it round real neat.

His assistant does so.

Rabban breaks open a squood (living food). The

squood makes a tiny SCREAM, then Rabban drinks the

blood and bodily fluids. He throws the empty

container of tiny animal meat into the dark water

trough running through the center of the room.

Across the room, TWO HARKONNEN SOLDIERS enter,

holding big guns on a BOY who is wearing white

pants. The Baron smiles when he sees the boy, who

is deeply afraid. The guards force the boy to

arrange violet flowers on a stand by the far wall

opposite the Baron.

BARON:

(as the Baron watches the boy)

You're so beautiful my Baron

Your skin, love to me

Your diseases lovingly cared for

For all eternity.

BARON:

I will have Arrakis back for myself... he

who controls the Spice, controls the

universe... and what Piter didn't tell you

is we have control of someone who is very

close to Duke Leto. This person... this

traitor... will be worth more to us than

ten legions of Sardaukar.

FEYD:

Who is the traitor?

BARON:

(laughs)

I won't tell you who the traitor is or

when we'll attack. However, the Duke will

die before these eyes and he'll know that

it is I -- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen -- who

encompasses his doom.

--

The Baron gives a hand signal and seven gates in the

wall open, emitting tremendous SOUNDS. Suddenly the

Baron begins to float straight up, twenty-five feet

in the air. It is a frightening sight. He floats

down under the giant, humming electrical tube light

and rubs his head and body with a black fluid which

drips from tiny holes in either side of the pink

glow. Feyd and Rabban watch nervously. The

Attendants stand completely still with fear.

The Baron swoops down to the Boy, who stands

petrified. The Harkonnen guards smile nervously as

they step slightly backwards. The boy begins

SCREAMING as the Baron pulls the boy's heart plug,

located in his chest. The violet flowers are bumped

and disarrayed by the violence which ensues. Then

the Baron turns smiling to Feyd as the SOUNDS

continue to roar.

52A. through 52B. (Deleted)

52C. EXT. ATREIDES SHIP - CALADAN - DAY

A DRUM CORPS pounds out a powerful cadence in front

of a water and cannon show as the Duke, Paul and

Jessica mount the steel stairs to their ship. In

the doorway, they turn back for a final look.

The Duke places a hand on Paul's shoulder. We see

the signet ring. Jessica is there. She tries to

get Paul to look at her but he scowls and turns to

his father.

JESSICA:

(turning away)

(inner voice)

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-

killer... the little death that brings

total obliteration...

The door of the spaceship closes.

53. EXT. HEIGHLINER - SPACE

3,415 Atreides ships are approaching the Guild

Heighliner, which is staggeringly colossal. The

Atreides ships look like dots next to the sun. The

Duke's ship enters the frame and moves toward the

Heighliner.

53A. through 54. (Deleted)

--

55. INT. ATREIDES SHIP - SPACE

Paul, Jessica and Duke Leto look out the forward

viewing glass as tiny lights move outside in the

darkness. They hear and feel their ship stop with a

huge, echoing, metallic jolt. They look at each

other in the silence which follows.

DUKE LETO:

Soon they'll begin to fold space.

PAUL:

(inner voice)

Far off in the control rooms....

Travelling without moving.

They wait.

56. (Deleted)

57. INT. CONTROL ROOM - HEIGHLINER - SPACE

We pass through electrical shields into a 2,000-foot

high control room filled with orange spice gas. On

the floor are large gratings covering an exhaust and

filtering system. Tons of spice gas are being

converted into the clouds of gas along a wall of

machinery. From within a dark metal tunnel comes a

Guild Navigator. He exits the tunnel and swims

through the gas 1,000 feet to a six-dimensional

layered miniature replica of the entire Universe.

The Navigator emits a long piece of light from his

mouth which travels to one edge of the Universe and

changes into a likeness of the planet Caladan. The

Navigator turns and emits another piece of light

which travels to the opposite side of the Universe.

It changes into a likeness of Arrakis. The Navigator

begins to put his slender fingers in amongst the

stars and he emits SOUNDS and bursts of light into

the mass of stars and galaxies. The Universe begins

to vibrate and elongate, then to curve. Electrical

lightening traverses from Caladan to Arrakis as the

Universe bends into a U-shape. Arrakis submerges

deep into the light. The navigator swims to the

point where Arrakis disappeared. He begins to pull

and tear a hole in the Universe. Stars like sparks

and SOUNDS and rings of light appear, along with a

roaring WIND. The Navigator swims deep into this

hole through the rings of light. The Navigator

becomes more and more transparent, until he's lost

in darkness. The sounds fade.

--

58. through 60. (Deleted)

60A. EXT. HEIGHLINER - ABOVE ARRAKIS - SPACE

Suddenly, the real planet Arrakis appears and the

giant Heighliner materializes above it.

61. through 63A. (Deleted)

63B. EXT. ARRAKEEN - DAY

Through a brownish-orange haze appears the dusty

valley of Arrakeen.

64. INT./EXT. THE ATREIDES SHIP - DAY ARRAKEEN

The Atreides ship has landed at Arrakeen. The door

is open - the family walk down the steps - DUKE LETO

with his dog - PAUL and JESSICA.

64A. through 64C. (Deleted)

65. EXT. GROUNDS - ARRAKEEN PALACE - DAY

... clusters of troops standing at attention around

the enormous dark, cool doorway as the Duke, Paul

and Jessica enter the Palace.

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