June tries to make a deal with the neutral Swiss to keep Nichole in Canada but finds out that Nick played a key military role in Gilead’s victory over America. In DC, Handmaids wear ring piercings forcing their mouths shut. June, Rita and the Waterfords travel to Washington DC on a ‘bring back our daughter’ press trip. After seeing Nichole, Serena betrays June by taking part in a publicity campaign pleading for the return of the Waterfords’ ‘kidnapped’ daughter. June records Luke a cassette tape telling him that Nick is Nichole’s father and she was born from love. In Canada, Serena is pressured to defect and given a phone. June is forced to phone Luke and arrange a visit from Serena to Nichole. The Waterfords identify Nichole from a video of Luke at a protest in Toronto. Serena tells June the location of Hannah’s school. Aunt Lydia savagely beats Janine when she asks to return to the Putnam household. June acts as go-between for the Waterfords, brokering a deal to give Serena more power in the marriage if she returns. Serena is separated from Fred and staying with her mother.

She chooses five that would be useful to the resistance movement. Commander Lawrence forces June to choose five captured women from his files to become Marthas, saving them from worse fates. June says goodbye to Nick, now a Commander being sent to fight in Chicago. In Canada, Emily reunites with her wife Sylvia.

Commander Lawrence makes June dig a grave in the back garden, over which his wife Eleanor plants flowers. Episode two review: Mary And MarthaĪt the Lawrence house, June joins the underground Martha resistance network and harbours a wounded fugitive who dies. Serena deliberately sets fire to the Waterford house and June rescues her from the flames before being reassigned to Emily’s former Commander, Joseph Lawrence. June visits a sleeping Hannah at the Mackenzie house, but is discovered and warned to stop. Emily and Nichole cross over the Canadian border and are granted asylum.

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