The Handmaids Tale
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The CanadianGileadean border is much more porous than weve been led to believe.
But in Progress, new lines of communication are set up left and right.
Now that June is across the border, it seems as though the line has disappeared.
Presumably, he and other government agents have contacts on Gileads side, spy-craft methods for arranging such rendezvous.
Think about it: Is there any chance his phone is not tapped?
That a Commander recently released from prison for treason would operate freely in a society as watchful as Gilead?
Plenty of other children from Angels Flight are struggling to see their real families as familiar or comforting.
Luke and Junes relationship has bounced around like a ping-pong ball since she crossed into Canada.
Romance and rejection, guilt and relief.
Finding Hannah unites them in their purpose, but using Nick presses a small sliver between them.
Does it make sense that 13 women would all dine on the same side of one table?
Absolutely not, but style far outweighs substance here.
Theres Lydia, Jesus herself, begging patience and love from her (unwilling) acolytes.
The Putnams visit (one can have fellow criminal visitors in international war crimes jail?
And said visitors can bring baby gifts?)
finally, deliciously plants the seed of worry in Serena and Freds minds that weve all been waiting for.
The state, theyve realized, could take away their child and give it to someone else.
But they possess the one thing June lacked in her years stuck under their roof: leverage.
The Putnams little social visit is a thinly veiled warning.
And so they trade what they have intel on Gileads plans, hierarchies, and capabilities for their freedom.
