June turns to rush for help and at the door she stops, she hesitates, the great dark wheels in her head start to turn. When June finds her, Eleanor has taken a suicide's dose worth of pills. I should have worried about leaving her alone with June. This is when I start to think, don't let her be alone.
"Can we really do that?" Eleanor asks, and she walks off, up to her room. "All you need to do is think of our life when we get out of this place," Lawrence says. She goes to her room, forlorn and beaten. "I wasn't thinking." And we think of her last week, holding the gun on her husband, distraught at the part he's played in all this misery. "No Joseph, she's right," Eleanor murmurs. June stops her, forcefully, shaking her and slamming her against the wall, to the point where Commander Lawrence shouts "enough" but the damage is done.Įleanor seems deflated, defeated. She very nearly blurts out everything to two Wives (Mrs Winslow and Putnam, two villains of the highest order) and later tries to go out to save Hannah and other children.
Lawrence doesn't say the wrong thing to the wrong people. Commander Lawrence needs to convince the Gileadean government not to go crazy and start a war. It's a get-out-of-jail-free card, and now the trick is keeping it all together. They've had a stroke of luck, thanks to Serena's betrayal and the diligence of Jezebel's Marthas. It's such a relief, at first, this realization that no soldiers in black uniforms and black SUVs are coming with their bombs and their guns and their guns and their bombs.
The Waterfords have been arrested in Canada Commander Winslow is missing, his whereabouts a mystery-though everyone assumes he, too, has been taken captive in the Great White North. The far more galling, horrific part of this episode takes place back in Gilead, where June and Commander Lawrence suddenly find themselves off the hook.
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