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‘Dune: Prophecy’ Season Finale: Lies unleashed, a lost child, and long live the Emperor

There’s a disturbingly sinister presence peering from a dark nebulous realm in the season finale of HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy,” which ended its short-but-satisfying debut season this past Sunday night with a multitude of revelations, unexpected deaths, family truths unveiled, and the arrival on one notorious desert planet named Arrakis.

After last week’s startling reveal that Desmond Hart was Tula Harkonnen and Orry Atreides’ abandoned love child — marking the genesis of the millennia-long rivalry of these two Great Houses — there’s a whole lot to unpack in this extended finale titled “The High-Handed Enemy.” Let’s get into it!

On Wallach IX, Tula is fretting away, haunted by the ghosts of decisions past since learning that Desmond Hart is her long-abandoned son. With the help of Kazir, a former sister turned Suk School doctor, they determine that Desmond’s powers come from a bio-engineered virus that feeds on fear. Someone (or something) mutated him with this virus, but if they can chemically counter its effects, they can produce a cure. In attempting to transmute the virus, Kazir has a vision of “The Monster of Arrakis” before being roasted from within and dying to Tula’s horror.

Chloe Lea as Lila in “Dune: Prophecy” (Image credit: HBO/Max)

We then flashback to that pivotal moment as Valya gains the support and loyalty of Tula, Francesca, and Kasha after she uses The Voice to kill her fundamentalist opposition, Sister Dorotea. During a private moment, young Tula tells her sister that she’s pregnant and a plan is put in motion for the child to be protected. Eventually, she’ll give him up to an itinerant worker and swap out the baby for the anonymous woman’s stillborn child. Sisters Above All!


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