Confused by what just happened? And how [spoilers] died? Travis Fimmel and EP Jordan Goldberg are here to break it down.
Dune: Prophecy takes fans of Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster adaptations of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi epic Dune back to how the story of the Bene Gesserit and Paul Atreides all started. HBO’s Dune: Prophecy is set about ten thousand years before Timothée Chalamet‘s Kwisatz Haderach would ride a sandworm, but it’s set in a familiar world, nonetheless. There’s a sketchy Sisterhood of Truthsayers who can command people with their Voice, a feckless emperor named Corrino with a beautiful daughter, and spice flowing from far off Arrakis. However, as the final sequence of Dune: Prophecy Episode 1 “The Hidden Hand,” reveals that this HBO prequel series is mixing things up big time when it comes to Travis Fimmel‘s mysterious character, Desmond Hart.
**Spoilers for the end of Dune: Prophecy Episode 1 “The Hidden Hand,” now streaming on Max**
The very first episode of Dune: Prophecy ends with Emperor Javicco Corrino’s (Mark Strong) biggest fan, Desmond Hart, using mysterious powers to murder two unwitting victims: the pint-sized Pruwet Richese (Charlie Hodson-Prior) and the Emperor’s own trusted Truthsayer, Mother Kasha (Jihae). Both Pruwet and Kasha appear to burn to death from within and it’s clear that Desmond Hart has some sort of psychic ability to make this happen.
Dune: Prophecy‘s first episode opens with the story of how young Valya Harkonnen (Jessica Barden) originated the Bene Gesserit’s iconic “Voice,” but it ends with Desmond Hart using a magical power we’ve never seen in the franchise before.
What does it all mean? Who is Desmond Hart? How do his powers work? And why did he kill Mother Kasha and Pruwet Richese? Here’s everything we know so far about Desmond Hart on Dune: Prophecy…
Desmond Hart is a soldier who shocks Emperor Javicco Corrino with his arrival at House Corrino’s palace on their homeworld of Salusa Secundus in Dune: Prophecy Episode 1. We quickly learn that Desmond Hart is one of the few soldiers who has survived multiple tours serving on the dangerous desert planet of Arrakis. In fact, he was presumed dead after one recent disaster.
However, Desmond Hart is alive and he brings news of treachery in the Imperium.
