‘Dune: Prophecy’ Episode 4: What Are Those Blue Eyes The Sisters Keep Seeing in Their Visions? Most Prominent Theories

Dune: Prophecy serves as a prequel to the events of Denis Villeneuve’s 2019 movie, Dune which emerged as one of the most successful sci-fi movies of the 21st century. However, instead of taking place immediately before the movie’s events, the show is set 10,000 years earlier, long after the Machine Wars.

Four episodes later, a lot of things about the Sisterhood and some of the plot elements are still shrouded in mystery. One of these many mysterious things is those blue eyes that the Sisters keep seeing in their visions. They are as clueless about those piercing blue orbs as some of the viewers, but there are some fans of the books who have theories about whose eyes those could possibly be.

Whose Blue Eyes Do the Sisters See in Episode 4 of Dune: Prophecy?

Dune: Prophecy explores the origins of the Bene Gesserit, a powerful force whose members possess superhuman abilities and powers which they have gathered through years of physical and mental conditioning. In the latest episode of the show, the Sisterhood tries to debunk the mystery of the blue eyes and in doing so, they almost lose their lives.

The episode, Twice Born opens with the entirety of the Sisterhood have the same nightmare one night. While all of these nightmares start differently, they all end in the same place- in the sands of Arrakis, standing before a sandworm’s gaping maw, ready to fall in and meet that pitiless blue-eyed gaze Sister Kasha (Jihae) had seen just before dying in episode 1.

Mother Tula’s (Olivia Williams) experiment to find out the meaning of the dreams through automatic drawing goes quickly out of hand when she completely loses control of the trance into which she places the acolytes. This leaves them in the claws of whatever force sent the dream in the first place. The question that arises here is whose eyes those blue orbs are.

One Redditor speculated that this could be Daniel and Marty, the two entities that survived the Butlerian Jihad. These characters were first introduced in the epilogue of Dune: Chapterhouse, the sixth book in Frank Herbert’s Dune series. Someone also mused that they could be Anirul Corrino, who is instrumental in the Bene Gesserit’s genetic breeding program. Some people have also suggested that those blue eyes belong to Leto II, the son of Paul Atreides and Chani.

Another theory is that the blue orbs which accompany a strange, muffled sound are those of Omnius. At the end of the Machine Wars, humans fought oppressive thinking machines to win their freedom and then, Omnius, the AI overlord, was banished. However, in the sequel Dune novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Omnius returns to suppress humans once again. So, maybe those blue orbs in the show are the foreshadowing of Omnius’ return.

Does the Show Feature Hints About Whose Blue Eyes They Might Be?

In the show, Sister Emeline (Aoife Hinds) argues that those eyes are of God who is judging the Sisterhood. When Mother Raquella (Cathy Tyson), the Sisterhood’s first Mother Superior, was dying, she warned about a tyrannical force so maybe these eyes were of that entity. These eyes could also be of the entity which gives Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel) the power to burn people alive with his mind.

There is no telling if these are all different entities or the same one, and the only way to find out is watching the show as the events unfold one after the other. That said, the series also features flashes of the Machine Wars in the past which may or may not be related to those blue eyes, and the possibility that those two are somehow related cannot be completely ruled out.

Dune: Prophecy is available for streaming on Max.