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Lawrence agrees to arrange for Aunt Lydia’s reinstatement, if she’ll give him dirt on the other Commanders so Lawrence can get his seat back on the board. She goes to see Commander Lawrence to make a deal. In Gilead, Aunt Lydia is being forced into retirement and, naturally, isn’t taking it well. At first Janine chooses to stay behind, but then catches up to June, telling her, “I feel safer when we’re together.” Eventually, June decides to leave the camp to try and find the Nighthawks, another rebel group that’s been confronting Gilead forces. In response, Rita goes to see Fred and tells him about the baby.Īs the title would suggest, much of this week’s episode takes place in Chicago, where Janine is continuing her relationship with Steven, and June is itching to fight back against the Gilead soldiers. The two have a genuine moment together, but afterwards, Rita discovers that Serena now wants Rita to defend her in court. When Rita goes to visit, Serena shares that she’s pregnant with a son and won’t be telling Fred. Ultimately, Janine finds a legitimate clinic to help her obtain the abortion.īack in Canada, Rita (Amanda Brugel) finds out that Serena wants to see her. In a flashback, we learn that after Janine had her son Caleb, she got pregnant again and visited a crisis pregnancy center, where a worker tried to manipulate her into keeping the baby. June relents but ultimately can’t go through with it, and it’s Janine who steps in. The Handmaids go with the rebels to their hideout-located in an old rock climbing gym-and talk with the group’s leader, Steven, who offers to let them stay in exchange for sex. The train is then overtaken by Chicago rebels, and June convinces them to take in her and Janine. The fugitives conveniently find an open train car (filled with milk, which they also, conveniently, drain), and while traveling across the country, June reveals to Janine that she told the Eyes where to find the Handmaids. Episode 4: “Milk”Īfter escaping from Aunt Lydia, June and Janine find a train heading to Chicago, where Gilead soldiers are still fighting and June hopes to connect with members of Mayday. In their escape, two are shot, and Alma (Nina Kiri) and Brianna (Bahia Watson) get hit by the train.
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Second, while the driver steps out to use the bathroom at a train stop, June and the other handmaids overtake Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) and attempt to run away. But on the way, all hell breaks loose: First, June somehow reunites with Nick on a bridge, and they kiss a lot. The Handmaids are captured and, along with June, are sent off to a Magdalene Colony, where they will work during the day and be delivered to Commanders to be raped at night. Horrified, June relents and gives up the Handmaids’ secret location. June still refuses, until she’s brought face-to-face with Hannah, who doesn’t recognize her-and, in fact, fears her. Lawrence does so by telling June that Gilead will hurt her daughter Hannah if she doesn’t cooperate. Nick, who wants to keep June alive at all costs, then threatens Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) into helping manipulate June. At one point, June gives a fake location and, as punishment, is made to watch as two other Handmaids are pushed off the side of a building to their deaths. She refuses to do so, even as she’s waterboarded and forced to sleep in a steel cage. June is now back in Gilead custody, where she’s being tortured into revealing where the other Handmaids are hiding. While the Handmaids have escaped, Gilead forces-including Nick (Max Minghella)-have infiltrated the farm. She ventures to the Jezebel house and plans to come back by nightfall to escape with the Handmaids, but when she returns, she discovers she’s too late. When June discovers Esther has been poisoning her husband, she asks Esther to teach her to make more in order to sneak in and help the Jezebels poison the military men. While there, June also discovers that members of the Gilead military will soon be at the Jezebels house for one last party before heading to fight in Chicago. She goes to speak with a worker at a nearby Jezebels who’s also part of the resistance group Mayday, and learns about a new safe house for the women. But back in Gilead, Guards have shown up at the farm asking questions, and June knows she and the other Handmaids must leave at risk of being caught. Perhaps the most shocking moment of the episode occurs in Canada, where we learn that Serena is pregnant.