mental-discipline

Lady Jessica awakens bound and gagged in a cellar, realizing she has been captured by the Harkonnens through a betrayal likely involving Dr. Yueh. The Baron Harkonnen offers a twisted bargain to his Mentat Piter de Vries, choosing political power over Jessica herself, while Jessica and her son Paul are prepared to be exiled into the desert to die, though both maintain mental discipline and hope for escape.