The Handmaids Tale
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The final words oflast weeks episodewere Theyll be coming for us.
The flight is a week away.
Gilead is in crisis.
Do they launch an attack on Canada?
Work through diplomatic channels?
Commander Winslow is also presumed captured (what a boon for June!
), and the power vacuum at the top has commanders barking contradictory orders at one another.
(No wonder theyre a failing state!)
All in all, not a bad morning, she sits down and laughs, bubbling over with glee.
If Waterford and Serena are in prison, she assumes, they cant get their hands on Nichole.
she betrayed him to the Hague because she thinks their (kidnapped) baby needs her.
Although I must admit that Serenas closing words I will pray for you, Fred did make me giggle.
Then Moira, Luke, and baby Nichole come for a visit!
Into the Waterfords cells!
In and I cannot stress this enough prison!
But this was the best they could do?
He raped me, too, she tells her about Joseph, at the whorehouse.
He treated me like shit, like I was worthless.
Delightfully, Nichole begins to cry just as Serena picks her up.
Why would Tuello honor his deal with Serena, whom he knows publicly created and supported Gilead?
Is there some grand deceit?
Is Tuello pulling one over on Serena?
(Maybe they think Waterford will reveal some deep secret about Gileadean intelligence if hes provoked?)
Except we knowexactlyhow something like this could happen, and I suspect Luke does too.
That faith Luke thinks he shared with Waterford became an infection that was purposely never treated.
Its the way of absolute religion.
If your way is the only way to salvation, that doesnt leave much room for acceptance.
What does a punch do?
Whom does it help?
Back in Gilead, plans are progressing to hustle out the handmaids children.
But Mrs. Lawrences attachment to reality is also loosening, and she nearly gives away their plans twice over.
Eleanors words are just vague enough All the children can come.
We can save all of them!
that Olivia and Naomi dont hear them as a plan to flee the country.
Its no wonder June snaps.
But thats not a very good reason to let her die of a drug overdose.
This is the second episode in a row in which June directly or indirectly causes a death.
Winslows death was unpreventable and deserved.
June may be on the verge of heroics, but are they worth the cost?
