The Handmaid's Tale

Previously on The Handmaid's Tale...

How can I tell him that everything

that has happened to her is because of me?

He's never gonna forgive me.

Hannah knows how hard we tried to find her.

‐How could she? ‐'Cause I told her.

Mommy.

Daddy and I will always love you.

And we would never stop.

The accused stand charged with gender treachery,

in violation of Romans, chapter 1.

Martha, you are hereby sentenced to

‐the Common Mercy of the State. ‐

Handmaid, you are sentenced to Redemption.

I have sources. Witnesses to your involvement

in Commander Winslow's disappearance.

Unless you arrange for my immediate reinstatement.

You want me to restore your position,

I need my seat back at the table.

And your information can help me get it.

Let's fix this country.

Let's make things right again.

‐ ‐Ooh, sorry.

No. It's okay.

So, do you‐‐

With Offred now in Canada,

we can't be naive about that.

She could put us both away for the maximum sentence

and prevent you from being a mother to your son.

We need to drop our fight.

What do you guys know about Serena?

‐She's pregnant. ‐Is it his? The Commander's?

All right. June, wait. Wait, wait, wait.

‐June, June. ‐

She's pathological. She's a sociopath.

She's toxic. And abusive.

She's a monster.

Do you know why God made you pregnant?

So that when He kills that baby inside your womb,

you will feel a fraction

of the pain that you caused us

when you tore our children from our arms!

‐ ‐Do you understand me?

I felt helpless.

I guess it was...

a way to feel in control.

Didn't your Commander notice?

I cut high on my arms, where he couldn't see.

Must have hurt.

Felt good, actually.

Um...

It's like a relief.

Well, cutting was your way to cope.

But you're here now.

You're healing.

You're free.

Yeah.

My Commander's free, too.

At least you get to face yours in court tomorrow.

I'd be so nervous, June.

I can barely stand to watch the news about the trial.

It's a "confirmation of charges" hearing.

And she doesn't have to go.

There's nothing wrong with a written statement.

She wants to tell her story in person.

Still, you must be so scared.

And worried.

You know, the defense gets to ask questions.

I'm not nervous or worried.

Or scared.

I can't fucking wait.

How are you getting home?

Hey.

Hey.

Ready to go, Miss Osborn?

Um, will you just give me a moment.

Thank you.

So, you kicking me out of the group?

No.

Just give it some time. You'll find your groove.

Or maybe you won't.

I just, I thought that I'd have more in common with them.

Well, they don't all come with their own security detail, so...

You know what I mean.

‐ ‐Feelings...

forgiveness.

Journaling?

Why aren't they more angry?

How do you know they're not?

‐Leave me alone! ‐Emily, I'm so, please, stop.

I just wanna, I just wanna talk to you for a moment.

Uh, why don't we go sit?

I just wanna talk to you for five minutes.

I don't want to talk to you.

You look well. Are you well?

Emily, it's so good‐‐

Hey, hey, hey! Who are you? What do you want?

Is there a problem here?

No, there's no problem.

Um, I just, I just wanna talk.

But it, it doesn't have to be now.

Um, yeah.

Here's, here's my information‐‐

‐Stop it! ‐Go away!

Please.

Go!

Yeah.

Are you okay?

Who was that?

‐I'm fine. ‐ You sure?

Yes. Yeah, thank you.

I'll see you there.

Emily...

I'll, I'll see you at home.

It's supposed to be a refresher,

but coding bootcamp is kicking my ass.

I've been out of the game a long time.

Have you gotten to go back into teaching?

I'm not sure I'm ready for that.

Syl's been encouraging me, but...

Who's Iris Baker?

The woman at the library.

What woman?

Um, I knew her as Irene.

Aunt Irene.

She was assigned to the district

where I had my first posting

before I met you.

And what did she want?

Ah, doesn't matter 'cause Emily doesn't want to talk to her.

I don't know.

‐She hurt you, didn't she? ‐ Why would you say that?

Because she's an Aunt.

You should face her.

‐Emily, you need to... ‐June. June.

You have to get out everything you have been holding in.

I promise you, you will feel better.

Well, we're not all like you.

That Aunt Irene must have been brutal.

How bad could she be?

Aunt Lydia set a high fucking bar.

Yeah, well, if Emily wanted you to know,

I'm sure she would've just told you, right?

Apparently.

So, you sure

you wouldn't feel better if I was there tomorrow?

It would just hurt you to hear those things...

about me, so...

I, I don't want that.

So, Mark Tuello was really interested

in the, um, the lake house where you saw Hannah.

And he said he could find some photos

that you could look at.

Why did you tell him about that?

Because this is the first new information

that we've had on Hannah in, like, forever.

It means that we can restart the search.

‐Yeah, but I didn't want... ‐But don't you want that?

...to tell him about that. Yet.

All right. All right.

I don't know why you would've told him.

That kid is like a motion detector.

I had to sneak out like a ninja.

‐Luke, can you finish these? ‐Uh, yeah, I got it.

I want to go look at my testimony.

She, uh, says she doesn't want me there tomorrow.

Well, if she wanted a cheering section,

she would've asked us to come.

I just don't know. I don't...

I don't know what she wants.

She is like a stranger half the time.

I mean, it's like...

when we talk about Hannah.

And...

in bed.

Getting over trauma is a bumpy fucking road.

Yeah.

You need to be patient

till June gets where she's going.

You don't know what she's been through.

Maybe that's the problem.

"Mr. Waterford's sexual tastes

were very pedestrian.

On occasion, he couldn't even perform.

When that happened,

he'd make me have sex with another Jezebel

while he watched and masturbated."

And a good evening to you too.

Moira Strand, she paints quite the picture.

A deviant and a liar.

Judges didn't seem to think so, I watched the footage.

And it didn't help

that you were rolling your eyes the entire time.

Why did you want to see me, Serena?

‐Tomorrow's a big day. ‐Exactly. I'm concerned.

Dawn's prepared. She knows what Offred's gonna say.

I'm not worried about Dawn.

You need to get it together, Fred.

Everything that you do reflects on the both of us.

All of us, actually. So calling her June would help.