91.
KYNES
Do you know what this place is?
It’s an old Ecological Testing
Station. They were meant to tame
the planet. Free the water locked
beneath the sands. Arrakis could be
a paradise. The work had begun. But
then we discovered the spice! And
suddenly no one wanted the desert
to go away.
104 INT. LABORATORY - DAY 104
Duncan Idaho wanders into a lab where DESERT-ADAPTED PLANTS
grow under glass domes -- not in soil but in sand. He walks
the rows in quiet wonder, hand on his sword-hilt.
105 INT. LABORATORY OFFICE - DAY 105
A square chamber carved from bedrock, lit by glowglobes. A
row of metal file cabinets stands against one wall.
In the middle of the room, a desk with a milk-glass top shot
full of yellow bubbles is ringed by four suspensor chairs.
Kynes sits at the desk with Paul and Jessica.
Tanat returns and lays two bundled stillsuits and their
fremkit on a shelf for them.
KYNES
Thank you, Tanat.
Tanat exits. We glimpse Idaho taking up a guard position
outside the office as the door closes.
PAUL
Do you know what the Great Houses
fear most? Just what’s happening
here. The Sardaukar picking them
off one by one. Only together can
they stand against the Imperium.
Would you bear witness? Testify
that the Emperor moved against us
here?
KYNES
If they believed me...there would
be general warfare between the
Great Houses and the Emperor.
JESSICA
Chaos. Across the Imperium.
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