Plans within plans are being positioning by all the players of the Imperium in HBO/Max’s “Dune: Prophecy” and the sophomore episode, “Two Wolves,” amplifies all those evolving machinations.
Here in the turbulent galactic timeline 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides and after the Butlerian Jihad where thinking machines were outlawed and the Bene Gesserit sect rises, Emperor Javicco Corrino (Mark Strong) needs the fleet of spaceships promised by House Richese with the marriage alignment between the two noble families to maintain spice control on Arrakis, and meanwhile Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) and her secret sisterhood is attempting to manipulate the bloodline with this recent union to reclaim the tarnished Harkonnen name.
But that grand plan has vanished after last week’s scorching conclusion to the premiere episode of this “Dune” prequel series when all was joyous after the engagement party between Prince Pruwet Richese (Charlie Hodson-Prior) and the Princess Ynez Corrino (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel), the mysterious Arrakis solider, invokes some infernal magic to literally burn Pruwet alive (and the Emperor’s truthsayer Reverend Mother Kasha!) and thus crushing the nuptial alliance between the royal houses just a short time before Ynez was due to enroll in Mother Superior Valya’s university for prodigal “witches.”
Desmond Hart’s exact powers are unmeasurable at this time yet he seems to have the ability to incinerate someone with his mind, possibly a paranormal ability he obtained after being swallowed by a sandworm in the archival footage screened by Emperor Corrino last week. His resistance to The Voice as administer by Valya Harkonnen as punishment for his heinous acts at the end of this new episode will be explored and explained further as “Prophecy” progresses.
However, let’s leap back to the beginning of episode two in the aftermath of the two deaths as political chaos erupts. On Wallach IX, the Sisterhood wants answers regarding Kasha’s strange incineration and calls upon a doctor from the Suk Medical School to examine her body. Results are inconclusive so Valya, told that Pruwet was also killed, travels to see the Emperor on Salusa Secundas as Pruwet’s death might be Mother Superior Raquella’s cryptic “Burning Truth” prophecy.
And to decipher more of the deathbed premonition…
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