Freddie Jones credited as playing...
Thufir Hawat
- Thufir Hawat: Sector six through eighty progress reports, Sire.
- Duke Leto Atreides: Take it, Thufir.
- Thufir Hawat: [speaking rapidly into a communications device] Sector six-eighty, copy the sixth the sum of the eighth quadrant of the ninth plus eight-four circles weave the eighth quarter the fourth, copy!
- [the device hums briefly]
- Thufir Hawat: [to the communication device] Eight! Thufir Hawat, Mentant, Master of Assassins.
- Thufir Hawat: [to the Duke] The palace is now secure.
- Paul: The Harkonnens are our enemy. Yes. But, behind them I suspect is the Emperor.
- Thufir Hawat: You will make a formidable Duke!
- Paul: I know, Thufir, I'm sitting with my back to the door. I heard you, Dr. Yueh and Gurney coming down the hall.
- Thufir Hawat: Those sounds could be imitated!
- Paul: [Looks around and sees he was right] I'd know the difference.
- Thufir Hawat: [voice over] Yes, perhaps he would at that.
- Paul: [sees Thufir] My God.
- [inner voice]
- Paul: They've taken your mind.
- [out loud]
- Paul: Gurney, I see Thufir Hawat among the captives. Let him stand free.
- Feyd-Rautha: [turns towards Thufir] The antidote.
- [he slips a knife inside Thufir's sleeve]
- Gurney Halleck: Thufir, come.
- Paul: In payment of the many years of service to my family, you may ask me of anything you wish. Do you need my life, old friend? It is yours.
- [turns around]
- Paul: I mean this Thufir, if you are to strike, do it now.
- Thufir Hawat: [raises knife, to everyone's shock, but drops it and turns back to Feyd] Did you truly believe, even for a moment, that I would fail my Duke TWICE?
- [He rips out his own heart plug, then collapses into Paul's arms]
- Thufir Hawat: Three generations of... you...
- [he dies]
- Paul: Carry this noble Atreides warrior away. Do him all honor.
- Thufir Hawat: Now, remember, the first step in avoiding a *trap* - is knowing of its existence.
- Paul: I know. But, if it is a trap, then why are we going?
- Thufir Hawat: We have our new Army. Dr. Yueh, put the weirding module on him.
- [Thufir holds Paul's shoulders admiringly, then playfully mimes stabbing him in the side of the neck]
- Thufir Hawat: My lord?
- Duke Leto Atreides: Thufir, haven't you heard from Duncan Idaho yet?
- Thufir Hawat: No sire. I have, however, discovered what the city Freemen called out to Paul when we entered the city.
- Duke Leto Atreides: Mahdi... And Lisan al Ghaeeb. Yes.
- Thufir Hawat: It is a prophecy that a young leader will come to them with a Bene Gesserit mother. It follows the familiar messiah pattern.
- Duke Leto Atreides: But Mahdi?
- Thufir Hawat: Yes. It seems it is written that he will lead them to true freedom.
- Feyd-Rautha: All I see is an Atreides I want to kill.
- Baron Harkonnen: Come, Feyd, Thufir's a Harkonnen now. Aren't you Thufir?
- Thufir Hawat: [voice over] Oh, my Duke, how I've failed you.