Previously on The Handmaid's Tale...
Oh, no, no, no. Lawrence said she was at The Red Center.
Well, she isn't anymore.
First, we kill the Commanders at Jezebel's. We're gonna do a dry run.
We know exactly when the penthouse will be empty.
I'll go.
It's not just golf and cocktail parties anymore.
The High Commanders derive their sense of power from their virility.
She was yours once, wasn't she? I'll let you have her this time.
What did you think was gonna happen to me?
With your history? Either a slow death in The Colonies or a quick one on the wall.
I knew you had something to live for.
What did you say to Ellen?
Janine, she's at Jezebel's and I need to go see her.
I'm going to Jezebel's. So you can either come with me or you can not go at all.
You want to go in. You want to fight.
But I built this plan from the ground up.
I'm gonna deliver my bombs to the locations I picked.
This is my chance to fight for Hannah.
I was told you'd be rewarded for your service.
They lied to you.
I will get you out of this terrible place.
I saw you a few years ago at one of the balls in D.C.
You were dancing and had this glow.
I'd never seen such beauty and grace.
I prayed for God's forgiveness that night
for coveting another man's wife.
- Mrs. Waterford. - Aunt Lydia?
- Blessed evening. - Commander Blaine.
We'll call this into dispatch.
We have to report any incident of rebel activity, sir.
What are you gonna do about those Guardians?
I'll take care of it.
I get it. If you have to go in, then go in with me.
If you wanna fight, then let's fight together.
♪ Walk in silence ♪
♪ Don't walk away in silence ♪
♪ See the danger ♪
♪ Always danger ♪
♪ Endless talking ♪
♪ Life rebuilding ♪
♪ Don't walk away ♪
Busy day?
Yeah. 26 families reunited, more coming this week.
So far, so good.
Those people expect to be safe here, son, as they were promised.
Their security is my top priority.
And what about the incident in No Man's Land, so close to the border?
Two Guardians shot, left for dead.
I'm way ahead of you. I've already opened an investigation.
That was an alarming breach of security, son.
On your watch.
You need to hold these terrorist rebels accountable.
Here's the problem.
No eyewitnesses. One victim dead, the other's in a coma.
He's not expected to recover. So--
Actually, that young man has shown remarkable signs of improvement.
Call it divine providence.
- That's great news. - It's excellent news.
He's slowly regaining consciousness. Poor soul was shot point-blank.
He could identify who committed this brazen act.
I'll pray for his full recovery.
Praise be.
And what did you imagine would become
of your Handmaids after their service?
I didn't imagine.
I was promised they would become respected members of society.
And you believed it.
You believed many things about Gilead before your recent travels.
What did you think happened to the Handmaids?
Did you even give it a thought?
- No. - Why not?
I was unhappy. I...
I was trying to survive the world. I wanted a child.
My girls in your house suffered greatly.
And in yours as well.
This is foolish.
Yes, well, one could say that any attempt to improve Gilead is foolish.
But I managed to open a fertility center in Canada,
and it continues to thrive.
And that is relevant, how?
We could open a new fertility center here in New Bethlehem.
Could we stay focused on the Handmaids, please?
Yes, Aunt Lydia.
The Handmaids' brand is fertility.
That is offensive.
Let me put it in plain and simple words.
The Handmaids could retire to New Bethlehem,
and they could become attendants at the new fertility center.
That isn't a brand. That is a divine calling.
Pardon me, ma'am. This just arrived for you.
Oh.
Oh, uh, that's fine. Thank you.
You must want to know who sent such a lovely arrangement.
Commander Wharton would like to see me
before he escorts Rose to D.C. this evening.
Another dance, dare I say, before his trip?
Well, let's not get too many ideas, Aunt Lydia.
Commander Wharton is exactly the kind of political support we need.
He is also a single man with a good fortune in want of a wife.
You do realize that Austen quote is the ultimate example of irony.
You know what's not ironic?
A healthy womb.
Which we both know must never go to waste.
Masks. Eyes on the penthouse.
Advise your friend. Rendezvous in two hours. Godspeed.
♪ New Jersey turnpike ♪
♪ Riding on a wet night ♪
♪ 'Neath the refinery's glow ♪
♪ Down where The great black river flow ♪
♪ Licence, registration ♪
♪ I ain't got none ♪
♪ But I got a clear conscience ♪
♪ 'Bout the things that I done ♪
♪ Mister State Trooper ♪
♪ Please don't stop me ♪
You okay?
Hm. Yeah, I'm fine.
♪ Please don't stop me ♪
Janine? Janine?
♪ Mister State Trooper ♪
♪ Please don't stop me ♪
Sweetheart, her kid drew it.
Now she thinks Charlotte's the next Rembrandt or something.
Where is she now?
Penthouse, probably.
- Pregaming. - Heard the Commanders are coming?
Yeah.
And that asshole, Commander Bell, can't keep his hands off her.
Poor thing. He's obsessed.
The Commanders weren't supposed to be here today.
We have to go up there.
Listen to me. We'll get in, we'll get out of there.
You two. What are you gabbing about?
Nothing, ma'am.
Get to work. This place is a sty.
Ma'am, we were going to go up to the penthouse
and make sure it's ready for the Commanders.
Get moving. Make it sparkle.
Yes, ma'am.
Come back later. Commanders are expected.
Yes, sir. Um...
We were sent to check if it's ready for them.
Be quick about it.
Yes, sir.
- Under His eye. - Under His eye.
I'm so tired, I need to wake up.
Come on.
♪ 'Cause I try ♪
♪ I try all the time ♪
♪ In this institution ♪
♪ And I pray ♪
♪ Oh, my God Do I pray ♪
Come on.
♪ I pray every single day ♪
♪ For revolution ♪
♪ And I said hey ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ I said hey ♪
I need some more over here.
♪ What's going on? ♪
♪ And I said hey ♪
- Are you Marthas now? - Mayday.
Are you getting us out?
Yeah, we got a plan for next week.
There's just one Guardian in here and one at the door?
- Yeah. - Gentlemen.
- Shit. - When do they change shifts?
Don't pick too early. It's embarrassing.
Hello. Hi.
- Room 618. - Hi. Hello.
Meet you there as soon as I can.
Where, oh, where is my kitty?
Here I am, sugar. Rawr!
Mmm.
Marthas, get your ugly butts out.
Christ, he's slipping. What can I say?
Oh.
Wait. You. Martha. Stop.
Here. Clean this up.
Come on. Let's go, let's go.
There you go.
Good girl.
Now the pants.
God.
Can you believe this guy?
Higher.
No boundaries.
Bell, you're such a tool.
I said higher.
What, are you bottom-feeding, Bell?
All right, miss. That's... that's enough.
Ignore these numbnuts. They have no manners.
Go in grace.
Well, that's a match made in heaven, Lawrence.
A Martha's more your style.
Commander Blaine.
Please, don't get up.
We're graced by your visit, sir. So very kind of you.
The doctors said that my Toby would never wake up.
But he has, now and then.
That's encouraging.
He just mumbles, mainly.
They say his chances are still very slim.
He's so proud to be a Guardian.
And the way he looks up to those men in his unit.
Brave men of honor.
Like you, Commander.
Promise me you'll find out who did this to him.
Yes, ma'am.
I can stay with him, if you like. You must be tired.
You're an angel, Commander.
I should get back to his little brother for a bit.
I'll be back soon, sweetheart.
Praise be.
Cold.
Yeah.
Do you know me, Toby?
Where... where... where...
where is my dog?
My dog.
Your dog's fine.
Try and get some rest, okay?
♪ Every night ♪
♪ Every day ♪
So, Mercedes came in. Just crossed the border.
You only got one, I managed to pick up two.
Lawrence.
You must have been happy to wake up to all your good press.
Well, it's good news for all of us.
New Bethlehem never would have happened
without the support of the people in this room.
It was perhaps more permission than support.
Can I get you Commanders another drink?
Oh, good girl. Anticipating her master's needs.
There is nothing we have ever done
that has been more effective in normalizing foreign relations.
I will give you that.
And we could accelerate that timetable were we to expand.
How much and how quickly?
Well, New Bethlehem may double in size within the year.
I've designated at least a dozen sites where we could place new settlements.
Oh. I'd look at that.
- Send it to me, too. - I'd be happy to.
There you go, sir.
Thank you.
Is there anything else at all that I can get for you?
Uh-oh.
I've got an idea, you dirty little slut.
Ow.
Come on.
Baby girl's asking for the belt.
Go. Go to the corner. Eyes to the wall and wait for me.
No.
- I'm taking her. - The fuck you are.
Bell, come on.
What the fuck? You guys love this game.
A man deserves a reward for his hard work.
He clearly has a little crush.
Fine.
Let's go.
But leave the rough stuff to me. I want her back good as new.
- You're a pig, Bell. - Fuck you, Lawrence.
Why are you here?
Your brains? Your talent? Your impeccable charm?
- Do you fucking believe this guy? - No one here likes you. No one.
And no one respects you.
Watch yourself.
Let's go.
What a fucking asshole.
- Thank you. - They're disgusting.
Sorry.
You're not a good guy.
But...
Just compared to them, you are.
Thank you.
Look. I gotta go. I'll be right back. So just wait here.
There's... there's something you should see.
Girls snoop here sometimes.
See what fuckheads we're gonna be dealing with.
You can't let them win.
He's a fool for thinking it would work in the first place.
How many years do we give up before we clamp down on New Bethlehem?
Three or four.
We need to bring back as many people as we can first.
Re-absorb the populace.
Close down New Bethlehem and its offshoots. Close the borders.
Reinstitute tradition.
Lawrence will be the unwitting father
of the second biggest coup in modern history.
And then we put him on the wall.
Ooh. He really hurt your feelings, didn't he?
Lawrence will fall in line. He always does.
I want him on the wall.
You think your father will allow it?
I can get him there.
Reynolds?
I like it.
He's done.
- What could be taking so long? - She'll be here.
Don't worry. She's got a gauntlet of Commanders to get through.
I can't believe Lawrence was up there. He was never a Jezebel's guy.
You thought he was better than the rest?
Yeah, I guess I did.
God, have I missed you!
- Come here. - What are you doing here?
We're here to find you.
Mayday, Janine. They're coming.
They're gonna wipe out all the Commanders in the penthouse.
And we've gotta get all the women out, so we need you to prepare them.
- Can you trust them? - Yes. And you can, too.
Look, I grabbed some letters that they wrote to their families. You...
you have to get them out, no matter what.
We will. We will. We promise.
- You think you can get them all ready? - Are you kidding?
The girls have had shivs made, just waiting for a moment like this.
Okay. How do the Commanders get up to the penthouse?
It's a secret elevator. It's straight from the garage.
- They built it last year. - Great. That's good access in and out.
- Mm-hm. - The key code is 1525.
- The garage opens up here. - Mm-hm.
Make a right, then a left through the door, out to the cars.
Okay. Okay.
The exit's on the east side of the building.
Amazing. Thank you.
Okay. I, um... I can't be gone long, so...
Wait ten minutes before you go. Let me just...
The Guardians change shift every hour.
Okay.
Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no, no.
- Why don't you come back with us, okay? - June.
You can come with us tonight, all right?
- Really? - Yeah.
- Could you get all of us out? - No. No, we cannot.
You have to wait until Mayday comes back.
But don't you need me here? I'll help the girls, get them ready.
- Lead them out. - Yes. Yes, exactly.
- Moira. Janine, someone else can do that. - No. They trust me.
- Janine-- - I'm sorry.
I can't leave without my girls.
Mm-hm.
- It's just a week. - Yeah. We'll see you soon.
Okay. Okay. But one week, okay?
- Janine, one week. - Yeah. Okay.
I cannot believe you just did that.
What?
Now I'm the cold-hearted bitch that wouldn't rescue her.
I wasn't thinking about you. I was thinking about her.
Exactly. You don't give me a second thought.
I don't... I'm sorry. What are we talking about here?
Look, if we had taken Janine today, there'd be security all over this place,
and our Mayday plan would have been screwed.
Well, I'm sorry. I had to leave her in Chicago.
I know that, June. I was there, okay?
You don't think this is hard on me, too?
Well, it doesn't seem like it.
- Wow. - I have been friends with her way longer.
We went through fucking hell together, her and I, okay?
We watched our friends die together.
So I'm sorry if I feel responsible for her.
I'm sorry if I feel guilty just abandoning her here.
Your guilt, your feelings, your friends, your trauma.
You, you, you. Do you have any idea how fucking sick of you I am?
No, I don't.
I don't know. Tell me.
Do I get to have PTSD?
Huh?
Do I get to have guilt?
Friends?
Trauma?
Especially here, in this fucking place.
In fucking Jezebel's, where I'm the one
who, every single night, got raped and beaten.
'Cause I gotta tell you,
being a fucking Handmaid looked like fucking heaven
compared to what I had to go through in this place.
Okay.
- Okay? - Okay.
You're right.
You obviously had it worse than me.
Being a Jezebel is way harder than being a Handmaid.
Okay. Stop.
No. I mean, you know, you got raped a lot,
and I just got raped a few times.
Sort of like a once-a-month kind of thing. So...
Right, it uh...
You stayed in for longer. I got out quicker.
Moira, you don't think I know?
You don't think I know that I will never understand...
what you went through?
I know that.
No.
You were raped, and so was I.
You were beaten, and so was I.
You were tortured, and so was I.
The point is, none of that should've ever happened to either of us.
And I just think if we start comparing our suffering...
- then those fuckers have won. - Yeah.
- Right? - Yeah.
But I had no idea you hated me so much.
- Wow. - I don't hate you.
Well, I mean, seems like sometimes you may have hated me.
But I love you all the time.
Even if I don't feel like it.
I'm really sorry if I was a bad friend to you, okay?
What are you doing in here?
We're just cleaning the room, sir.
Uh-uh-uh-uh. Don't do that. You have such pretty faces.
I said take your mask down.
Sir, we don't want any trouble.
What's this?
Hm?
I don't... I don't know, sir. We're just here to work.
Written materials.
You're in big trouble.
This is important to you?
You want it back?
Get on the bed.
Fuck off.
Feisty.
You first.
Uh-uh-uh.
Back up. You stand right there. Right there, where I can fucking see you.
Don't you fucking move.
Come on. Let's go. Move.
Don't fucking move! You stay down. Come on.
Hey! Fucking stay there. Right there. I'll start with you and then your friend.
Lie still.
Good girl. Don't move. Don't you move.
Don't you--
- We gotta go. - Yeah. Yeah.
The letters. The map.
Look, when he doesn't check in, they're gonna lock this whole place down.
Fuck.
We can't leave the body here.
We won't.
Hello?
Is anybody here?
Commander Wharton. What is all this?
I've built a safe place for the children of New Bethlehem to come and read.
The boys and the girls.
How wonderful.
You've inspired me.
I practically lived at the library as a child.
We'll be engraving the name, and I would really love your input.
- I'm honored. - Let me show you.
I know it feels sudden, but it's...
it's not for me.
I've never been more sure of anything in my life.
And I know if I didn't act now, I'd always regret it.
I didn't come back here to be a Wife.
I understand. And I don't mean to speak ill of the dead.
But Fred tried to erase the best parts of you,
and I'd never do that. I want all of you.
I have a job to do here, in New Bethlehem.
Yes, of course. I want your good works to continue.
I can't move to D.C.
Well, when I'm there with Rose,
I'll make plans to move my household to Boston.
But I can't live in Boston either.
Well, we'll split our time between here and a new house in the city.
One that you choose.
I will never stop writing.
I don't want you to.
And I know it's grandiose, but I really do believe
that God brought me back here to change the country.
Let's change it together.
Are you sure you would be happy raising another man's child?
I would be honored.
And don't you think Noah deserves a little brother or sister
in the largest, most loving family that we can manage?
I do.
Serena Joy, will you please do me the honor of marrying me?
Yes. Yes, I will.
Come on, June.
Out.
- Ready? - Mm-hm.
You're picking up what now?
We're picking up empty barrels from the kitchen.
- Come back tomorrow. - We can't, uh, sir.
We can't because we... we have deliveries we have to make tom...
tomorrow, and we can't.
Kern's MIA. Full sweep, all floors.
Shit. Lockdown's about to start.
Come on.
Okay.
No one in or out.
Uh, yeah. But the thing is--
Yes, sir. We best return tomorrow.
- All right. Yeah. - Another time.
Shit.
Is it possible that we, we get--
Get back in the truck.
I get that there's a bit of a--
Luke, no!
Get him out of here.
- And don't come back. - No. Thank you.
He's okay. He's okay. He's gonna be all right.
But we are fucked. We gotta... Come on, come on. We gotta go this way.
- Fuck. We need a key card. - What?
We need a Commander's key card to open that.
Okay.
- Let's go. - Hey, hey, hey. No, no, no, no, no.
- Come. - What?
Oh, fuck.
It's okay.
June. June. Wait, wait.
Oh, hell no.
- Out of my way. - Please.
- I need you to get us out of here. - Us?
She's with me.
What the hell's happening?
We got, like, 30 seconds to get out of here.
Please take us with you, Joseph.
Please.
- Get in. - Come on.
Can you get us across the--