After Mayday's plot to target Jezebel's was thwarted by Nick, who relayed the details to Commander Wharton to ensure his own survival, it looked like the resistance was all out of ideas for the time being, while June appeared to have given up entirely.
The answer to their latest setback was staring them right in the face: Serena and Commander Wharton's wedding, duh.
Enter Rita, who laced Serena's wedding cake with a sedative that would take effect shortly after the who's who of Gilead had returned to their homes, which is when the Handmaids, armed with daggers, would let them have it in whichever way they saw fit.
As punishment for the torture he'd inflicted upon Janine, June opted for the latter and with that, the odious Commander Bell was reduced to a heap on the floor while she helped herself to his liquor – a toast, if you will, following his grisly demise.
But for a hot minute, their plan appeared to have stalled, this time due to the pesky Aunt Lydia. She should have been in DC after Lawrence made arrangements to keep her firmly out of the way, but there she was, much to his vexation, and within moments of her arrival, she had spotted a ghost from the past: June.
"I think June Osborne is here," a visibly rattled Lydia said to Lawrence, who was quick to rubbish her claims.
But a short time later, while she was catching her breath, Lydia realised something was afoot when she discovered the drug-infused cake the Handmaids had discarded beneath their seats.
"I was right, she's back. I know she's back," she declared. "Tell me, where is June Osborne?"
Speak of the devil and she shall appear...
"I knew it, I knew it!" responded Lydia, all fire and brimstone. "You did this!"
"You trained us to be like this, after you beat us and after you mutilated us, after you tortured us, after you took our children away," she said as Lydia's lip began to quiver. "You did this."
"I think that you've seen things that you can't unsee, and I think you've learned things that you can't unlearn, and I know that in your heart of hearts, you know that rape is rape, and you know it wasn't our fault, and we don't deserve this, and we're not fallen women," she said, referencing Lydia's own sermonising from the early days of the regime.
"Because we, all of us, together, we've had enough."
"If you want to save us, let us go," she said. "Please, Aunt Lydia."
Yes, it appears she is.
"We were angry. We were exhilarated. We were ready for a new beginning," narrated June.
"We would take our freedom and use every last ounce of it to fight. And so we fled, away from the darkness, within and without, and into the light."
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