will do its work.
Mom? Mommy?
- What is this?
- I'm sorry, Princess.
The future emperor, crying?
I don't want to be an emperor.
Let someone else do it.
Nonsense.
Wipe your tears. Here.
Getting all over me now.
All right. Now, go back to your men.
Go back. Go.
Do you want the men to see you crying?
Do you want them to think you're weak?
I don't care.
Well, I do.
So now you will go back...
and this time...
you will do it properly.
Won't you?
Commander Farok,
hero of the Naraj campaign.
I bring you greetings from
your new friends on Salusa Secundus.
Hurry. The eyes of Muad'dib
are everywhere.
These are seats once occupied
in sietch by Muad'dib...
during the days when he taught us
the weirding way.
It is some time since you've seen him.
I think he's forgotten
I ever existed.
He's blind. Your son.
At the Battle of Naraj.
I wonder if Muad'dib knows...
how many have been maimed
in his name.
I couldn't leave him to the desert.
Even I violated the old laws.
The laws of men have gone.
The laws of a god have replaced them.
We were a noble people once.
We had a proper sietch.
I owned a chrysknife.
My own share of spice.
I was a rider of worms.
And then Muad'dib came...
with his witch mother.
And he promised to fulfill
Liet's prophesy.
And we followed.
- You joined his jihad?
- Do you know why?
I heard there was a thing called a sea.
Men came back from Muad'dib's wars,
and they said they had seen it.
And did you find your sea?
It healed me of jihad.
Now I'm ready
to help rid the universe...
of the cancer that is Muad'dib!
And that is Othyem's daughter?
Lichna.
If you bring her to Muad'dib...
he will never refuse to see her.
I was hoping that's what you'd say.
Lichna. I will enjoy
being called Lichna.
What is the meaning of this?
Helen Gaius Mohiam
of the Bene Gesserit...
you have violated
Muad'dib's eternal order...
never to set foot
on Arrakis again.
I am not on Arrakis.
I am in free space.
There is no such thing as free space
where Muad'dib rules.
I abase myself before the emperor.
We welcome you to our court,
Edric of the Spacing Guild...
and to a new understanding
between us.
Please allow me the honor
of presenting His Majesty...
with a small token of our esteem.
According to our investigators,
this one was killed here on Arrakis...
the body recovered
after the unfortunate conflict...
between Houses Atreides and Harkonnen.
Terrible wounds required many months
of regrowth by Tleilaxu technicians.
We acquired him as a gift
befitting an emperor.
What is your name, ghola?
They say it was Duncan Idaho.
Idaho is dead!
This thing...
is a horror!
Send him away!
And do you enjoy the name?
It stirs up curious feelings.
You don't know who you are?
I know nothing of my past, sire.
How is this one trained?
It amused the Tleilaxu
to train him as a mentat.
I beg you, my lord!
Let me take its water.
Find quarters in the keep
for the ghola, Stil.
We accept this gift in the spirit
with which it was given.
Majesty, there is the matter
of Reverend Mother Mohiam.
She was removed from our highliner
by your agents...
in violation of our neutrality.
Be careful, Ambassador.
To be neutral is to be indifferent.
You would do well to disassociate
yourself from those who are not.
As you will learn, Edric,
my sister has the pulse of the court.
Be advised.
Reverend Mother.
I shudder to see you
in such circumstances.
I've been in worse.
Did the cards answer all your questions?
Answers only breed more questions.
What is important is how
one navigates between the two.
So, you haven't forgotten
everything we taught you.
Has the emperor explained
why I'm to be detained?
He has not confided in me,
Reverend Mother.
But I hope it won't be too long.
We understand.
The sisterhood is aware of my delay?
They have changed your schedule
in light of the situation.
I'll be patient then.
You seem to be adapting to life here
quite well.