Alia Atreides takes center stage in Dune Messiah, resentful of her pilgrims and unsettled by the ghola Hayt. Abu and Leo cover pages 100 to 159 of Dune Messiah, with a detour into whether a Bene Gesserit can get hiccups.
Irulan visits Gaius Helen Mohiam in her cell, where the Reverend Mother reads the Dune Tarot and demands that Chani be kept from conceiving at any cost. Paul's private audience with Edric offers a rare look at a Mentat mind at work, and he later stuns Stilgar and Korba by comparing his body count to Genghis Khan and Hitler. The takeaways weigh the struggle of a lowly ghola against the burden of being a pre-born goddess, and the spice morsels explain prajna meditation and Alia's servok sparring machine before settling the difference between a Steersman and a Navigator.
This episode contains NO SPOILERS beyond the books and pages covered thus far.