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78A INT. RESIDENCY, MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT 78A
Duncan runs into the Duke and Jessica’s bedroom. Empty.
78B INT. RESIDENCY, PAUL’S BEDROOM -NIGHT 78B
Duncan enters Paul’s bedroom. Paul isn’t there anymore.
86 INT. ORNITHOPTER (GROUNDED / IN FLIGHT) - NIGHT 86
Jessica and Paul are loaded roughly into an ornithopter by a
DEAF TROOPER with a scarred face and TWO OTHER TROOPERS.
The troopers wrestle them into seats and strap them down.
FIRST TROOPER
We’ll drop ‘em in the desert.
Someplace the worms’ll get ‘em.
SECOND TROOPER
Why not just cut their throats?
FIRST TROOPER
It’s the Duke’s family. We could
face a Truthsayer for this. Gotta
be able to say we didn’t kill ‘em.
The Second Trooper pilots. The First Trooper and Deaf Trooper
sit in the copilot and navigator positions, respectively.
Paul and Jessica are immobilized. Ankles bound. Hands tied
behind them. Jessica still gagged. They look in horror at the
devastation of Arrakeen. The impossible multitude of
Harkonnen troops and warships.
Their eyes meet. A calm descending on both of them. This is
life or death. Their minds shift into higher levels of
thought. Bene Gesserit awareness. Mentat calculation.
Paul twists away. Behind his back he flashes a hand signal.
PAUL
(hand signal, subtitled)
The scarred trooper is deaf.
Jessica turns to study their captors. The ornithopter. She
sees a BLACK DIAMOND OF THE SUK SCHOOL etched on the back of
the seat in front of her. Something’s stashed under the seat.
The ornithopter lifts off.
74.
