70.
From a roof nearby he sees another light flash in answer. He
frowns. What does it mean?
A strange MEWLING NOISE turns his head. An odd animal sound.
Inside the house. He switches on his shield. Draws his knife.
Follows the sound, touching his transceiver as he goes:
LETO
Security. Security. Hawat.
No answer. A faint hiss of static.
Something moves in the shadows: a figure, dragging itself
along the floor. A knife jutting from its back. A trail of
blood stretching away behind.
It’s the Shadout Mapes. Dying by inches. Leto kneels beside
her. Turns her on her side. Her eyes find his in the dark.
She mumbles some inaudible words.
She dies. Leto looks down the passageway in alarm. He runs.
69 INT CORRIDOR ADJACENT TO SHIELD GENERATOR - NIGHT 69
Swift and silent, Leto races to the door of the Shield
Generator Room. The door, clearly labeled, stands ajar.
Inside, the massive generators are still humming. Power on.
BEHIND LETO
A DART PISTOL comes to bear and FIRES. A dart shoots out. As
it approaches Leto’s shield it opens tiny wings and slows,
swooping like a swallow through the shield at low speed --
-- then folds its wings and DIVES INTO HIS BACK.
Leto stiffens as the drugged dart takes effect. He spins --
but his legs buckle. He staggers and slides down the wall to
the floor. Knife clattering from nerveless fingers. Leto is
paralyzed.
Doctor Yueh walks in.
71 INT. ARRAKEEN LANDING - BARRACKS - NIGHT 71
Long rows of steel bunks. Gurney Halley lies sleeping beside
his regiment. A LIEUTENANT bursts in and shakes him awake.
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