Siân Phillips credited as playing...
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the ill-borne worms of Arrakis?
- Paul: I have heard of it.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: It's very dangerous. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood would use it to see - within. There is a place - terrifying to us. To women. It is said: a man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we can not. Many men have tried.
- Paul: They tried and failed?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: They tried and died.
- Paul: Emperor Shaddam IV, there are Guild Heighliners above us containing many Great Houses of the Laandsraad. Send them back.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: How dare you speak to me in...
- Guild Worker: Stop your speaking!
- Paul: You have some idea of what I could do.
- Paul: [the Reverend Mother Mohiam growls at him] Don't try your powers on me. Try looking into that place where you dare not look.You'll find me there, staring back at you.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [DELETED LINE] Silence him, Jessica!
- Lady Jessica: [DELETED LINE] Silence him yourself, if you can.
- Paul: [DELETED LINE] For ninety generations you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing super-weapon... one that would empower you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am. And these goals, I have achieved. *But I will NEVER be YOURS to control.*
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [Using the Voice] *You mustn't speak... *
- Paul: [Also using the Voice, which overpowers her] SILENCE!
- [she is knocked backward against several Guild Workers]
- Paul: I remember your gom jabbar, now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.
- Alia: I am a messenger from Muad'Dib. Poor Emperor. I'm afraid my brother won't be very pleased with you.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Silence!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Kill this child. She's an abomination. Kill her!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [groans then yells at Alia] Get out of my mind!
- Alia: [using the voice] Not until you tell them both who I *really* am!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [Weakly] Alia, daughter of Duke Leto the Just and the royal Lady Jessica. Sister... of Paul... Muad'Dib.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Paul's sister? Paul is Muad'Dib?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Put your right hand in the box.
- Paul: What's in the box?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Pain.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: We'll salvage what we can. But I can tell you, dear God, for the father, nothing.
- Lady Jessica: [inside her head] For the father, nothing?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Did you really think that you could bear the Kwisatz Haderach? The universe's super being? How dare you. My greatest student, and my greatest disappointment.
- [she notices Paul is not sleeping]
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: He's awake. He's listening to us. Good. Ready yourself young Paul Atreides. I want to see you in your mother's chambers in one quarter of an hour.
- Lady Jessica: Paul, this is very important.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: I hold at your neck a Gom Jabbar. This one kills only animals.
- Paul: Are you suggesting the Duke's son is an animal?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Let us say, I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Jessica you were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides.
- [Jessica ignores her, lost in thought]
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Jessica!
- Lady Jessica: It meant so much to him.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: You thought only of a Duke's desire for a son? Desires don't come into this. An Atreides daughter could have been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the breech. We may lose both bloodlines now.
- Lady Jessica: I vowed never to regret my decision. I'll pay for all my own mistakes.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: And your son will pay with you.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Jessica!
- Lady Jessica: [enters]
- [inner voice]
- Lady Jessica: My son - lives!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: I sense your teachings in him. Ignore the regular order of training. His safety requires the Voice.
- Paul: I've heard enough of my safety! What about my father? I heard you talking. You speak as if he were dead, well he's not!
- Lady Jessica: Paul.
- Paul: Well he's not! And he won't die. Tell me he won't die.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: What can be done, has been done.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [after the ordeal of the box] Kul Wahad! No woman-child ever withstood that much!
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I want telepathy during our meeting.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: I am your Truthsayer, my Lord. He's here, my Lord!
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Get out of my mind!
- Alia: [using the Voice] Not until you tell them who I really am!
- Guildmaster: The Bene Gesserit Witch must leave.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Leave us.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Yes, my Lord.