
Plans within plans are being positioned by all the major players of the Imperium in HBO/Max's "Dune: Prophecy" and the sophomore episode, "Two Wolves," amplifies all those evolving machinations tenfold.
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 secretive Sisterhood is attempting to manipulate the bloodline with this recent union to reclaim the tarnished Harkonnen name.