- Paul: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me. And when it has passed I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where it has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Duke Leto Atreides: I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- [first lines]
- Princess Irulan: A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that it is the year 10191. The known universe is ruled by the Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the Universe is the spice melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the spice has mutated over four-thousand years, use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space. That is, travel to any part of the Universe without moving. Oh yes, I forgot to tell you. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire Universe. A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy, that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis. Also known as Dune.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the ill-borne worms of Arrakis?
- Paul: I have heard of it.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: It's very dangerous. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood would use it to see - within. There is a place - terrifying to us. To women. It is said: a man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we can not. Many men have tried.
- Paul: They tried and failed?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: They tried and died.
- Piter De Vries: It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
- [drink]
- Piter De Vries: It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
- Dr. Kynes: [whispering] Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world.
- Duke Leto Atreides: What's that you're saying?
- Dr. Kynes: Nothing.
- Paul: Irulan shall be my wife, opening the way for an Atreides to sit on the throne.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I sit on the throne!
- Paul: You will sit on a throne on Selusa Secundus, your prison planet! Either that, or you will die.
- [walks towards Chani]
- Paul: The princess shall have no more of me than my name... no child of mine, nor touch, nor softness of glance, nor instant of desire.
- [he tenderly strokes her cheek]
- Paul: This, I promise to you, my love.
- Lady Jessica: Think on it, Chani. We who carry the name of concubine... history will call us wives.
- Paul: Emperor Shaddam IV, there are Guild Heighliners above us containing many Great Houses of the Laandsraad. Send them back.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: How dare you speak to me in...
- Guild Worker: Stop your speaking!
- Paul: You have some idea of what I could do.
- Paul: [the Reverend Mother Mohiam growls at him] 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.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [DELETED LINE] Silence him, Jessica!
- Lady Jessica: [DELETED LINE] Silence him yourself, if you can.
- Paul: [DELETED LINE] For ninety generations you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing super-weapon... one that would empower you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am. And these goals, I have achieved. *But I will NEVER be YOURS to control.*
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [Using the Voice] *You mustn't speak... *
- Paul: [Also using the Voice, which overpowers her] SILENCE!
- [she is knocked backward against several Guild Workers]
- Paul: I remember your gom jabbar, now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.
- Alia: I am a messenger from Muad'Dib. Poor Emperor. I'm afraid my brother won't be very pleased with you.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Silence!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Kill this child. She's an abomination. Kill her!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [groans then yells at Alia] Get out of my mind!
- Alia: [using the voice] Not until you tell them both who I *really* am!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [Weakly] Alia, daughter of Duke Leto the Just and the royal Lady Jessica. Sister... of Paul... Muad'Dib.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Paul's sister? Paul is Muad'Dib?
- Baron Harkonnen: I will have Arrakis back for myself! He who controls the Spice controls the universe and what Piter did not tell you is we have control of someone who is very close, very close, to Duke Leto! This person, this traitor, will be worth more to us than ten legions of Sardaukar!
- Feyd-Rautha: And who is this, traitor?
- Baron Harkonnen: 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, he'll know, that it is I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who encompasses his doom!
- Duke Leto Atreides: What have you discovered about the Fremen, Duncan? Tell me. Why haven't we heard from you?
- Duncan Idaho: My lord, I suspect so much. I think they are the allies we seek. They are strong, fierce. They do not give their loyalty easily or quickly. As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few, wandering here and there in the desert. My lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers - vast. And it is they who control Arrakis.
- Lady Jessica: [Jessica and Leto are lying in bed together the night before the family's journey to Arrakis] I once told you a daughter would be conceived at a time of parting.
- Duke Leto Atreides: I remember. Conceived in love, at a time of parting. Arrakis is a hostile world.
- Lady Jessica: I must be sure you want this. It has to be tonight, under these influences. I could hear you with the wind.
- Duke Leto Atreides: And I whispered 'Yes'.
- Lady Jessica: And I whispered 'I love you'.
- Paul: ...My father sent you to test me, didn't he?
- [He indicates Gurney's baliset]
- Paul: Music, then?
- Gurney Halleck: No music. I'm packing this for the crossing.
- [He sets down the baliset]
- Gurney Halleck: Shield practice.
- Paul: Again? Gurney, we had practice all this morning. I'm not in the mood.
- Gurney Halleck: Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting!
- Paul: I'm sorry, Gurney.
- Gurney Halleck: Not sorry enough, not yet!
- [He activates his shield and attacks Paul, who activates his own shield barely in time]
- Paul: [to himself] What's wrong with Gurney? He's not faking this!
- Gurney Halleck: Now, guard yourself for true!
- Guild Navigator: We ourselves perceive a slight problem within House Atreides. Paul, Paul Atreides.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: You mean of course Duke Leto Atreides, his father?
- Guild Navigator: I mean Paul Atreides. We want him killed. I did not say this. I am not here.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I understand.
- Paul: This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Put your right hand in the box.
- Paul: What's in the box?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Pain.
- Stilgar: You have strength. You shall be known as Usul - which is the strength of the base of the pillar. This is your secret name in our troop. But, you must choose the name of manhood, which we will call you openly.
- Paul: What do you call the mouse shadow in the second moon?
- Stilgar: We call that one Muad'Dib.
- Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?
- Stilgar: You are Paul Muad'Dib!
- Paul: Is this what you seek?
- Gurney Halleck: Good! Fast on defense, slow on attack. But, ah, look down.
- [Gurney has penetrated Paul's shield as well]
- Gurney Halleck: We'd have joined each other in death. You did seem, finally, to get in the mood.
- Duke Leto Atreides: [responding to Thufir's resignation, after Paul narrowly cheats death via a "hunter-seeker," with which his chamber was boobytrapped] ... Enough of this, Thufir! *If* you made a mistake, it was in over-estimating the Harkonnens. Their simple minds came up with a simple trick! Moreover, Paul survived this largely because of your training; you didn't fail there.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: We'll salvage what we can. But I can tell you, dear God, for the father, nothing.
- Lady Jessica: [inside her head] For the father, nothing?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Did you really think that you could bear the Kwisatz Haderach? The universe's super being? How dare you. My greatest student, and my greatest disappointment.
- [she notices Paul is not sleeping]
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: He's awake. He's listening to us. Good. Ready yourself young Paul Atreides. I want to see you in your mother's chambers in one quarter of an hour.
- Lady Jessica: Paul, this is very important.
- Spice Worker: Sire, we can't leave all this Spice.
- Duke Leto Atreides: Damn the Spice! Get out of there!
- 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.
- Lady Jessica: I know she has come to test him. No man has ever survived being tested with the box. Tonight I may lose my son.
- Paul: The Harkonnens are our enemy. Yes. But, behind them I suspect is the Emperor.
- Thufir Hawat: You will make a formidable Duke!
- Paul: We must totally destroy all spice production on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire Universe depends on spice. He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
- The Baron's Doctor: You are SO beautiful, my Baron. Your skin, love to me. Your diseases lovingly cared for, for all eternity.
- Guildmaster: A Secret Report within the Guild. Four Planets have come to our attention regarding a plot which could jeopardise Spice Production: Planet Arrakis, Source of the Spice. Planet Caladan, home of House Atreides. Planet Geidi Prime, home of House Harkonnen. Planet Kaitain, Home of the Emperor of the Known Universe. Send a third-stage Guild Navigator to Kaitain to demand details from the Emperor. The Spice must flow.
- Paul: We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God.
- Lady Jessica: [Stumbling around a corner, blood dripping from her nose] Alia...
- Alia: [she falls into her mother's arms, also covered in blood] Mother, it's Paul. He has taken the Water of Life.
- Lady Jessica: Paul's voice?
- Alia: The Guild... they're fighting me in the mental vaults. They're behind everything. They fear the one who will come, who will know more, who will see more. The Guild is behind everything. It's not finished yet. I'm not formed.
- Baron Harkonnen: You wish to join your wife, is that it, traitor?
- Dr. Wellington Yueh: She lives?
- Baron Harkonnen: You wish to join her? So, join her!
- Piter De Vries: [stabs Yueh in the back]
- Dr. Wellington Yueh: You think you have won? You think I don't know what I gained for my wife?
- [dies]
- Baron Harkonnen: Take him away.
- 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.
- Baron Harkonnen: What does Leto say, Piter?
- Piter De Vries: Vendetta, he says, using the ancient tongue. The art of kanly is still alive in the Universe. He does not wish to meet or speak with you.
- Baron Harkonnen: I made my peace gesture. The forms of kanly have been obeyed!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: I hold at your neck a Gom Jabbar. This one kills only animals.
- Paul: Are you suggesting the Duke's son is an animal?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Let us say, I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.
- Paul: Listen to me. Listen! You wanted to know about my dreams. Well, I've just had a waking dream. Do you know why? The spice! Its in everything here!
- Lady Jessica: Calm yourself.
- Paul: Like a truth-seer drug, it's poison! You knew the spice would change me. But, thanks to your teachings, it's changing my consciousness. I see it! I can see it!
- Lady Jessica: [inner voice] Is he the one?
- 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.
- Piter De Vries: As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning my plan...
- Baron Harkonnen: *My* plan!
- Piter De Vries: ...*the* plan... to crush the Atreides.
- Guildmaster: [to the Emperor] Remedy this situation. Restore spice production, or you will live out your life in a pain amplifier!
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