Charlotte Rampling credited as playing...
Reverend Mother Mohiam
- [from teaser trailer]
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die.
- Paul Atreides: What's in the box?
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: [to Paul] An animal caught in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape. What will you do?
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: You've proven you can rule yourself. Now you must learn to rule others, something none of your ancestors learnt.
- Paul Atreides: My father rules an entire planet.
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: He's losing it.
- Paul Atreides: He's getting a richer one.
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: He'll lose that one too.
- Paul Atreides: There's something happening to me. Something waking up in my mind. I can't control it.
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: What did you see?
- Paul Atreides: There's a crusade coming.
- Lady Jessica Atreides: Did you have to go that far?
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: You chose to train him in the Way, in defiance of our rule. He wields our power. He had to be tested to the limits. So much potential, wasted in a male. You were told to bear only daughters. But you, in your pride, thought you could produce the Kwisatz Haderach.
- Lady Jessica Atreides: Was I wrong?
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: You're lucky he didn't die in that room. If he is The One, he has a long way to go. His Sight is barely awakened, and now he goes into the fire. But our plans are measured in centuries. We have other prospects if he fails his promise.
- Lady Jessica Atreides: Do you see so little hope?
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: On Arrakis, we have done all we can for you. A path has been laid. Let's hope he doesn't squander it.
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: Like sifting sand through a screen, we sift people. If you had been unable to control your impulses like an animal, we could not have let you live. You inherit too much power.
- Paul Atreides: What, because I'm a Duke's son?
- Gaius Helen Mohiam: Because you are Jessica's son. You have more than one birthright, boy.