Dune

Chani, a native Fremen woman explains that the outsiders who have come to her planet Arrakis, which is known as Dune, have treated her people cruelly

and they have colonized the planet to control the spice, which gives them immense wealth and enables them to travel through time

A group of Fremen attacked the spice harvesters, before they were beaten back and she says that the Harkonnen family, had come to the planet before she was born

and spice had made the family even wealthier than the Emperor

While the Fremen have been unable to repel the outsiders, the Harkonnen’s and their people left by order of the Emperor and she asks why the Emperor gave this order, wondering who the next oppressors will be

Paul awakens on Caladan, which is the homeworld of House Atreides

He eats with his mother, Lady Jessica who is a member of the Bene Gesserit

The Bene Gesserit is a social, religious, and political order

whose members train their bodies and minds to obtain abilities, that can seem magical to outsiders

he tries to use his Voice skill, which is a Bene Gesserit skill but he fails to do it, and she tells him that such skills take years to learn

she asks him if he has more dreams, and although we see that he’s dreamt of Chani, he lies and says no

he studies the Fremen language and the planet of Arrakis

which is hot and plagued by powerful sandstorms

Only the native tribes who known as the Fremen, have adapted well enough to survive on their own and they share the deep regions of the desert with giant sandworms, which they call Shai hulud

Long exposure to spice, has caused the blue eyes of the Fremen

The Fremen are considered dangerous, and their attacks make spice harvesting very difficult

they believe that spice is a sacred hallucinogen, which preserves life and has many health benefits

The Imperium uses the substance to help navigators of the Spacing Guild, to navigate through safe paths between the stars

and Without spice, interstellar travel would be impossible

making spice the most valuable substance in the universe

Paul and his father Duke Leto, welcome the Herald of the Change

who has arrived with members of the Imperial Court, representatives of the Spacing Guild, and a sister of the Bene Gesserit

to relay orders from the Emperor, that the family will take control of Arrakis

his father accepts the order on behalf of the family

On the next day, he meets with Duncan, who is the swordmaster of House Atreides and he asks Duncan to go with him, when he goes to Arrakis with an advanced team

he declines, saying he would be court-martialed

Paul tells him about his dreams about Arrakis with a mysterious Fremen girl

but Duncan was with the Fremen, and Paul saw him lying dead in battle

he still refuses to take Paul, not believing in his dreams in the next day, Paul goes to see his father, and he requests to be allowed to go with Duncan to Arrakis

but his father refuses, telling him that he is the future of the House, and he will need him at his side when he arrives on Arrakis

He believes that the reason for taking Arrakis away from House Harkonnen, and giving it to House Atreides

that the Emperor wants to set the stage for a war, that will weaken both powerful Houses, and strengthen his own position of power

Paul says that he is afraid to be the leader of House Atreides someday

but his father says that he had such doubts when he was young, but that no matter what Paul chooses, he will still be his son

Duke Leto has sent Duncan with an advance team, to establish contact with the Fremen, and forge an alliance against the Harkonnens

in the next day, Paul trains at sword-fighting with Gurney Halleck, the weapons master of House Atreides

and They use a type of forcefield shield to prevent the blades from penetrating

Paul doesn’t seem to take the training seriously

but Gurney warns him of what Hosue Atreides will soon face

because The Harkonnens were in control of Arrakis for eighty years, and the spice gave them immense wealth

but now, control of the spice has been taken from them

Guney tells Paul that the Harkonnens, are inhuman and brutal

On Geidi Prime, the homeworld of House Harkonnen

Beast Rabban nephew of Baron Harkonnen, meets with his uncle to tell him that all of their ships have left Arrakis

and asks the Baron how they could let this happen, how the Emperor could take the planet from them and give it to House Atreides

The Baron says, mysteriously that a gift is not always a gift, House Atreides is on the rise, and the Emperor is a dangerous and jealous man

Back on Caladan, Lady Jessica wakes her son, telling him to dress and follow her

When he’s ready

she tells him that the Reverend Mother Gaius, her teacher at the Bene Gesserit school, and now the Truthsayer to the Emperor, is there and would like to meet him and learn about his dreams

Doctor Yueh, the employ of House Atreides, checks Pauls’ vitals before the meeting with the Reverend Mother

and he whispers to him, that when the Bene Gesserit claim to serve the greater good, they also serve their own designs

the doctor tells him to proceed with caution, and he says to Lady Jessica that Paul’s heart is strong

Before taking Paul to meet the Reverend Mother, his mother talks to him in sign language to remember his training

The Reverend Mother says, that Paul has defiance in his eyes just like his father, and she orders Lady Jessica to leave them alone

she tells her son that he must do anything the Reverend Mother tells him, before hurrying out of the room

Paul is angry because the woman gives an order to his mother, but she uses her Voice skill, to draw him to her

she instructs him to place his hand in a box, as she holds a poison needle to his neck, If he takes his hand out of the box before she tells him, she will pierce him with the needle killing him instantly

and she tells him, his mother is outside and will let no guards enter

As the pain sets in

and he starts to groan aloud

the mother begins to recite the Litany Against Fear outside the door
finally he passes the test, and is allowed to take his hand from the box, but he sees that his hand is not injured

The Reverend Mother tells him, that if he had been unable to resist his impulses like an animal, she had to kill him, because he has inherited too much power

He says because he is the son of the Duke, but she corrects him and says because he is the son of Lady Jessica

she tells him that he has inherited more than one birthright, and she let Jessica back in

The Reverend Mother asks about his dreams, and Paul says he had one that night

In the dream, he saw a girl from Arrakis and says he’s dreamt of her many times

The Reverend Mother asks him, if he’s ever had dreams that happened later just as they had in the dream

He answered not exactly, and she gets up to leave, telling him that she hopes he lives

As they walk out together, Lady Jessica asks the Reverend Mother, if she had to go so far

but the Reverend Mother says that Jessica chose to train Paul in the way of the Bene Gesserit, in defiance of their rules, so Paul had to be tested

The Reverend Mother laments that so much potential was wasted on a male

although she had been instructed to bear a daughter, the Duke had led her to believe that she could give birth to the Kwisatz Haderach, a sort of Messiah figure

The Reverend Mother says, that if he is the chosen one, he has a long way to go

and The Reverend Mother tells Jessica, that the Bene Gessert has other prospects, if Paul fails to live up to his promise

After they leave on a ship, the mother finds that Paul has overheard their conversation

He accuses the Bene Gesserit, of steering the Imperium’s politics from the shadows, but his mother tells him there’s more than he expected

The Bene Gesserit has worked for generations to bring forth the one

a mind powerful enough to bridge space and time, the past and the future

She hints that they believe he may be that person, and Paul seems saddened that he’s just part of a plan

after some days, Paul and his family leave Caladan, and arrive on Arrakis, then They are greeted by cheers from Fremen onlookers

Paul sees Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of the family

Mentats are people who’ve been specially trained, to mimic the cognitive and analytical ability of computers

he warns Paul not to trust the warm welcome by the Fremen, as Paul boards an ornithopter, which is an aircraft that flies with the use of insect-like wings

He asks his mother what the Fremen were shouting

and she says they were shouting Lisan al Gaib, meaning Voice from the Outer World their term for Messiah

and She says this shows the Bene Gesserit have been working on Arrakis to prepare the way, and that the natives have been waiting for centuries for the Lisan al Gaib

and says they see the signs in Paul, but he says the Fremen merely see what they’ve been told to see

They fly to the city of Arrakeen, which is protected by a wall from the weather and the sandworms

Surveying the city, Duke Leto points out what he thinks are vulnerable points, to Gurney a spaceport and a spice refinery

He tells Gurney to guard them well, because if they can’t refine spice and ship it off-world, they are finished

Lady Jessica interviews many candidates for a housekeeper, all of them Fremen

she noticed A woman has a knife, but the woman says it is a gift

She unsheathes the blade, and asks if Lady Jessica knows what it is

she says that it is a crysknife

When the woman asks if she knows its meaning

Lady Jessica signs to her guard to prepare for violence, before answering that the knife is a Maker, one of the Fremen terms for the sandworms

The woman reacts dramatically, sheathing the knife and handing it to Jessica, confirming that it is indeed a tooth of Shai hulud

while Paul is walking outside, he meets a man, who is watering date palm trees

The man explains that each tree drinks the water, of five men each day

Paul asks if they should get rid of the trees, but the man says the trees are sacred

Alone in his room, Paul learns more about the planet of Arrakis

and The most dangerous organism on the planet, is the sandworm, which can grow to over, four hundred meters in length

To avoid attracting sandworms, the Fremen cross the desert using the sand walk, a special walk using an irregular rhythm, that mimics the natural sounds of the desert

The scant plant life that exists on the planet, is thanks to the Fremen, who’ve cultivated several hardy plant species

meanwhile, he notices a hunter-seeker, a tiny floating machine used by assassins

The device finds Paul, Flying at him, but before it can reach him, he manages to stop it with Bene Gesserit skill

As a servant enters the room, Paul grabs the device in his hand, destroying it, and says the operator of the hunter-seeker must be nearby

They find the assassin, who is now dead in the wall

He’d been cemented into a crevice in the wall weeks before, biding his time until he could send the hunter-seeker through a water pipe, to kill Paul

Thufir claims to have failed to protect Paul, and offers his resignation, but the Duke refuses, ordering him to find the spies

A Bene Gesserit sister meets with Baron Harkonnen

and his Mentat, Piter De Vries

He asks what the message is from the Emperor

She tells him that the Emperor will strengthen Harkonnen’s forces, with his own elite military force the Sardaukar, but nobody should know about it

Harkonnen says there are no satellites over Arrakis, and that the Atreideses will die in the dark

The sister tells him that he may kill Duke Leto, but that he must allow Lady Jessica and Paul the dignity of exile

Harkonnen gives his word, that he will not harm Lady Jessica or Paul

However after she leaves, the Baron makes it clear to his Mentat, that he has no plans to let either the woman or her son live

it seems that The Baron is a very large man, and can float up into the air

At a strategy meeting, Thufir informs the Duke, that he has gotten his hands on the Harkonnen’s account books

and they were taking 10 billion Solaris the currency of the Imperium out of Arrakis each year

The group goes out to see the spice silos, which were sabotaged by the Harkonnens

Paul says there is supposed to be a Judge of Change, to oversee and arbitrate the transition of Arrakis

Thufir says the Emperor appointed Dr. Kynes, an eccentric Imperial ecologist to this position

The duke requests to see the harvesting fields, saying he’ll take Kynes with him to ensure their safety

Duncan arrives, and tells the duke about his mission to find the Fremen, and how he lived with them at a community called a sietch for three weeks

Duncan says he was close to being killed, and that the Fremen, fight like demons

there are millions of Fremen on Arrakis, some located in tunnels belowground

Duncan has brought Stilgar, the leader of a Fremen tribe to meet the Duke

Duke’s guards are wary of letting Stilgar in, because he has a crysknife that he refuses to hand over

After Duncan tells them that the crysknife is sacred to the Fremen, Leto allows the man in

After Leto greets him, Stilgar spits on the ground

The duke and his guards take this as a sign of disrespect, until Duncan makes it clear that this is a sign of respect, that Stilgar is offering the gift of his body’s moisture

he and his people respond in kind, and spitting on the ground

Stilgar tells them that they are outworlders, who take spice and give nothing in return

Leto says he knows the Fremen have suffered under the Harkonnens, but he will give them what is in his power to give

Stilgar asks only that they stay out of the desert, and don’t seek out the Fremen sietches or bother them, and to just take the spice and go

Leto says he cannot promise to stay out of the desert, but he will leave the sietches alone

Stilgar says this is honorable and turns to leave

but Paul speaks up, asking him to stay

and Stilgar says he cannot stay, but says in his native tongue, that he recognizes Paul, and he leaves

Thufir says that their plan is bearing fruit, but will take time

Duncan shows them some of the technology he’s borrowed from the Fremen, including a paracompass

which can tell direction despite magnetic interference from the planet’s moons, which prevents a traditional compass from working correctly

Gurney jokes that Duncan has gone native, and Duncan admits that he admires the Fremen

Duke Leto and his people meet Dr. Kynes

The woman inspects the integrity of the stillsuits, explaining that the heat of the desert would kill them in less than two hours, if they didn’t have the suits

this special suits help to keep the wearer cool, while recycling the body’s moisture lost through sweat, allowing the wearer to drink the recycled water

she is impressed at the way Paul is wearing the suit in a non-standard fashion

and She asks who taught him to do this, but he says it just felt like the right way

she says something in the native Fremen tongue, and Paul asks if she’s a Fremen, and she says that she’s been accepted by them

Kynes takes them to see the harvesting fields aboard three ornithopters

and she shows them one of the harvesting crawlers, while doing its job harvesting spice from the surface

she points out spotter aircraft on the lookout for worm sign, and it is a sand wave moving toward the crawler

explains that worms travel deep, but get closer to the surface when they prepare to attack

The worms are attracted by noise and vibration, so it will try to attack the harvesters

Paul asks why they don’t just shield the machines, but Kynes says shields are a death sentence in the desert

because they attract the worms and drive them into a killing frenzy

Duke Leto spots a sand wave, and Kynes calls out the sighting to another craft

explaining that they’ll call for a carryall to retrieve the crawler, which will harvest spice up, until the last minute

The carryall arrives, but a malfunction prevents it from being able to lift the crawler

As the crawler can’t be lifted out, its crew is in danger

she says the crawler has a crew of about twenty-one, and the duke decides that each ornithopter, will take seven men from the crew

Paul noticed 3 men still there, and his father says he has an idea

with the others following his lead, they Landing near the crawler, and he orders his men to throw out the generators, to make room and reduce weight

and he calls out over the radio for seven men each to be put aboard the three thopters

Paul disembarks with some of the others, setting foot in the desert

The carryall disengages, and flys away as the worm nears

The crew of the crawler comes running out, and Paul directs some of them to his thopter, but he falls into a trance

The worm gets ever nearer

but before they leave, they realize that Paul isn’t on the thopter

Paul is near the crawler, whispering to himself, and he is pulled from his daze when Gurney comes to retrieve him

They make a run for the thopter, but the worm starts to break the surface, causing the sand to shift and begin sinking in

finally they make it to the thopter

they are watching from above, the sandworm swallows the crawler whole

Back at the base, Duke Leto warns Paul that he can’t take such risks, and he apologized to him

they realize that the Harkonnons left them faulty equipment, to ensure that they fail, but the doctor says the carryall was merely old

Paul is examined by Dr. Yueh, and he says that spice, is a psychoactive chemical, and Paul seems to be sensitive to it

but he’ll be fine

the doctor leaves, and Paul tells his mother that what he experienced, wasn’t an allergic reaction

and he had a vision

the mother asks what he saw exactly

His vision was of Chani, the girl he’s been seeing in his dreams for some time

He says the vision was confusing, that he also saw what he thought was his death, but it wasn’t

and that a knife was important somehow

and he says that someone will hand him a blade, but he doesn’t know when, or where

also he knows that his mother is pregnant, and she is shocked

She says he can’t know that, that she only realized herself recently that she was pregnant

On the Imperial planet Salusa Secundus, the Sardaukar prepare to depart

Piter De Vries walks with a Sardaukar warrior, who assures him that the Sardaukar outnumber the Atreides forces

De Vries counters that the Atreides legions, are well trained, some of the finest in the Imperium

The warrior clearly thinks the Sardaukar are superior, stating that those who oppose them, find only death

Later, some guards hear a figure approaching, the figure shoots the guards before entering a room, and lowering the base’s shields

Duke Leto awakens, and realizes something is wrong

while walking the halls, he noticed a fallen figure

Leto calls for security, but receives no response

He activates his body shield, Turning the fallen figure over

but he finds a servant woman with a dagger in her chest

A poison dart comes out of the darkness, penetrating Leto’s shield

and knocking him unconscious

The mysterious figure reveals himself, it’s Dr. Yueh

Gurney is awakened, and told that the shields are all down

He rushes outside, to find a large enemy ship hovering in the sky

and he gives orders for the Atreides forces, to get their own ships off the ground

There are explosions as the enemy forces begin bombing the base

Enemy transport ships land, disembarking soldiers

Gurney and his men engage in close-quarters combat with them

Elsewhere, a group of Atreides men is annihilated by Sardaukar

Leto is awake, but incapacitated

and the doctor tells him that he’s made a deal with the Baron to turn over him, because the Harkonnens have his wife hostage

he slips Leto’s ducal ring from his finger, saying he’ll give it to Paul, and do all he can for the boy

he implants a false tooth in Leto’s mouth

explains that if he bites down on it, it will fill the air with poison gas, and kill him

but if he picks the right time, it will also kill Baron Harkonnen

Outside, Harkonnen’s army kill Atreides prisoners

but Inside, Duncan takes on a few enemies, dispatching them easily

In the chaos, Paul and his mother have been kidnapped aboard a thopter

Their captors debate killing them, Duncan kills a few enemy soldiers, before commandeering a thopter of his own

Paul attempts using the Voice, to manipulate one of the men to remove his mother’s gag

but It doesn’t work, and the man tells him to shut up

The Harkonnen men noticed they’ve gone far enough into the desert

and they decide to throw Paul out of the thopter

As one of the men prepares to do that, Paul uses the Voice again

instructing him to remove Lady Jessica’s gag

and yes, It works this time, the man removes the gag

and she uses the Voice, to command him to kill one of his fellow Harkonnen soldiers

before moving to release her from her restraints

A third soldier tries to stop this, but she uses the Voice on him, before killing him by herself

After killing the last soldier, she frees Paul

The thopter lands, but the Harkonnens manage to cripple the aircraft remotely

Paul and his mother climb a sandhill, and see the city on fire in the distance

Duke Leto awakens in restraints, in the presence of Baron Harkonnen, while dining on a meal, and a few of the Baron’s guards

In the desert, Paul and his mother open a Fremkit

and it is a desert survival kit, which they found on the thopter

Inside is a note from Dr. Yueh, letting anyone who finds the Fremit, know that it contains an Atreides beacon

Dr. Yueh is escorted to join the Baron and Duke Leto

and he says that he disabled the Atreides comms, and lowered their shields

and He reminds the Baron about their deal, which means he must release his wife

The Baron floats over to Dr. Yueh

and tells him that he promised to set the doctor’s wife free, and that the doctor would join her

and he kills the doctor

Harkonnen tells the Duke that his family is dead, and that his House has fallen

As Paul finds his father’s ducal ring in the Fremkit

and Leto whispers something, so The Baron activates his shield to lean in to hear what he’s saying

Leto bites down on the false tooth

and blows out the poison gas in a cloud

killing several of Harkonnen’s men, before the last ones alive manage to shut the door to the room

Men in protective suits enter the room, where Duke Leto let off the poison gas

and They find the Baron alive

Out in the desert, Paul and his mother take shelter under a tent found in the Fremkit

and he has another vision of Chani

In the vision, the Fremen girl is watching a great battle, which Paul was clad in a full-body suit as a participant

Lady Jessica asks him, what else he sees in the vision

He becomes agitated as he tells her, that he sees a holy war spreading across the universe

like an unquenchable fire

a war of religion fought under the Atreides banner, and in Paul’s name

Lady Jessica tries to calm him, but he is angry

telling her that the Bene Gesserit made him a freak

and he allows her to embrace him

saying he knows that his father is dead

they noticed the Atreides beacon sounds regularly

so they leave the tent together, which has been covered in sand

Paul sees a muad’dib, a desert mouse running away

and He helps his mother climb out of the hole in the sand

Just then, a thopter comes roaring overhead before landing

It’s Duncan, who has followed the beacon

Doctor Kynes is also aboard, and Duncan tells them that the Harkonnens hit every population center on the planet at once

and the Harkonnen forces were bolstered by the Sardaukar

Lady Jessica says, this means the Emperor has taken the side of the Harkonnens

They arrive at their destination, where they need to take cover from an oncoming sandstorm

The site is the location of an old ecological testing station

Long ago, the harsh Arrakis climate was meant to be tamed

and the water locked beneath the sands freed

Work had begun to transform Arrakis into a paradise, but after discovering the spice

nobody wanted the desert to go away

Paul tells Dr. Kynes, that the Great Houses fear precisely what just happened to the Atreideses

and that the Sardaukar would pick them off one by one

Only together could they stand a chance against the Imperium

and He asks if she will testify, that the Emperor moved against House Atreides

but she says that even if she were believed

it would only lead to general warfare, between the Great Houses and the Emperor

Lady Jessica agrees, saying the result would be chaos

The enemy has found the station, and soldiers lower themselves down onto it

the Battle commences between them and the Fremen guards

In the room where they converse with Kynes, Duncan hears fighting

and he gets the sword and opens the door, to see a battle in the hall

before he goes out into the hall, he salutes Paul and leave

Paul tries to follow him, but the door is locked

Duncan fights bravely, but is vastly outnumbered

and he eventually falls

Kynes has a back way out, and urges Paul and his mother to follow her

In the hall, an injured Duncan is alive

He attacks the soldiers again, giving his friends a chance to escape, before he finally dies

she tells Paul and Jessica, to find a thopter and take off

to fly into the storm and climb above it, where it’s mostly dust

after which, they should head south and find the Fremen
but she can’t go with because the thopter only seats two, so she plans to find another station

from which she can get in contact with the Landsraad

the body that represents all the Great Houses, about the Sardaukar attack

they find a small thopter, and escape on it

Doctor Kynes plants a thumper in the sand

The device beats the sand, so the vibrations will attract a sandworm

She has two hooks ready, and it’s apparent, that she means to attempt to ride the sandworm

As the worm nears, Kynes is stabbed from behind by Sardaukar soldiers

As the soldiers ready to execute her, Kynes bangs on the ground

and The sandworm arrives, swallowing all of them from below

Paul and Lady Jessica flee toward the sandstorm, with enemy thopters in pursuit

Missiles are fired at them, but Paul flies directly into the storm

The missiles follow, but are unable to stay locked onto their target

and explode harmlessly

As the storm starts doing serious damage to their thopter, Jessica recites the Litany Against Fear

Beast Rabban goes to see his uncle Baron Harkonnen

and tells him that they chased Paul and Jessica, but the pair disappeared into a sandstorm

He assures his uncle, that nothing could survive such a storm

and that they must be dead

his uncle orders him to inform Geidi Prime, to start selling spice reserves

They don’t want the price to fall, because they need money to cover the expenditures of the attack on Arrakis

Rabban asks what to do with the Fremen, the Baron tells him to kill them all

Paul and Jessica make it out of the sandstorm, in their damaged thopter

The wings begin falling off, and they make a crash landing

They get out and run for some rocks, They find some and put on stillsuits

but A sandworm passes near, and The duo set out over the rocks to look for the Fremen

When they stop to rest, Paul has another vision of Chani

In the vision, she tells him that he’ll need to face his fears

and he also sees another Fremen in the vision, who tells him that he has much to learn
Paul and Jessica continue walking

searching for the sietch, where Duncan lived for a while, using a paracompass to guide them

Jessica sees greenery in the distance, and Paul says that means Fremen live there

but he says they must wait until after dark to cross the sands, because it is the worm territory

He tells her about the sand walk, the way the Fremen have of crossing the desert to avoid attracting worms

As they sit a top a sand dune, they see a sand wave, which means worms are near

They continue walking, and Things are fine

until they step on drum sand, which make a loud noise when people walk over it

and yes, the worm heads in their direction, and they run

They watch the huge sandworm, lifts itself out of the sand

There is a tense moment, until someone sets off a thumper

that attracts the sandworm’s attention away, from Paul and his mother

They climb a top some nearby rocks, and Jessica is relieved

Paul says that someone called the worm away

He senses something, and signs to Jessica that they are not alone

and They realize they are surrounded by Fremen

Stilgar is among them, and he tells them not to run

because they will only waste their bodies’ water

Paul reminds Stilgar, that they’ve met before

Stilgar tells his people that Paul is the boy, that he told them before

and they can’t touch him

The Fremen wonder, if he can really be the Lisan al Gaib

Jamis, A native Fremen guy, says that the boy looks like a weakling

but Stilgar counters that, because they made a brave crossing

but Lady Jessica is too old, and The Fremen attack

After a short scuffle

Jessica takes hold of Stilgar, putting a knife to his throat

Paul takes out a Maula pistol, a poison dart gun

and The Fremen back off

she takes the blade away from his throat, letting him go

Stilgar says the sun is about to rise, and that they must reach their Sietch

and says their fate will be decided there, and until then, they have his protection

Paul hears a voice, telling him that she would not have let him hurt her friends

and he turns to find Chani, the girl he’s dreamt about is there

She tells him that some say he is the Mahdi, another term for the Messiah figure of Fremen legend

but to Chani, he looks like a little boy

and they join the others

Paul hands the weapon over

but Jamis speaks up, objecting to taking the strangers with them

Stilgar tells him, that he’s already spoken on the matter

Lady Jessica bested Stilgar in combat, and now, Jamis challenges her to a fight

Stilgar says Jamis cannot challenge a priestess

although Stilgar warns Jamis not to do this

Jamis continues asking who will fight in her name

and asks where her champion is

and Paul steps forward

As they prepare for the fight

Chani says, although she doesn’t believe that he is the Lisan al Gaib

she wants him to die with honor

and she lends him a crysknife, given to her by her great aunt

Paul recognizes it

and she tells him, it will be a great honor to die holding it

The Fremen and Lady Jessica look on, as Paul and Jamis face each other

but Paul gives the man the same salute that Duncan gave, before his final battle

The two men fight

Paul quickly takes advantage, putting his blade to the man throat

and asking if he yields

Stilgar says there is no yielding

and that one of them must die

Jamis fights ferociously

and again Paul winds up with his knife at the man’s neck, but without killing him

Stilgar asks Jessica, if her son is toying with his opponent

but she says that Paul has never killed a man

and finally, Paul deals a killing blow

and Stilgar says that Paul is one of them now

Lady Jessica insists, that Paul needs to get offworld

Paul demurs, saying that his father came to Arrakis not for spice or riches

but for the strength of the Fremen people

The group heads into the desert, carrying the body of Jamis with them

Paul and Jessica stop, watching as a Fremen rides a sandworm using hooks

Chani tells Paul that this is only the beginning and They continue onward.