Who’s ready for a bottle episode?
I can’t say this was how I was expecting (yet-again-Emmy-nominated!
Let’s dig into the biggest moments from “Heroic.”
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JUNE AT HER BREAKING POINT
Steadily we’ve been wonderingis June losing her mind?
It doesn’t take her long to try something drastic.
The doctors return and stabilize Ofmathew.
Better luck next time?
(More on that in a minute.)
Lydia has none of it, scolding her and forcing her to put it on display.
Janine later shows up at night, though, too, alone with June.
Her eye got infected again and so she’s back for more treatments.
All the while June had been snagging a scalpel from the room.
As Janine catches up with her, she’s alarmed by June’s attitude.
“I know how we can help her,” June tells Janine of Ofmathew.
“We have to end it.”
She shows her the weapon.
Janine is stunned and lashes out at her once-close friend.
“You’re different,” she then says.
(Well, she’s not wrong there!)
Later, Lydia and Janine reunite.
This has long been one of the show’s most twisted dynamics, and it remains so here.
Lydia visits Janine in her room and presents her with a gifta red eyepatch.
They both express utter delight in the moment, in each other’s company.
As Serena starts to head out June asks if she can speak to her privately.
June can barely get up as Serena moves closer and closer.
“You’re not well,” she says, looking at June with horror and concern.
June stumbles, again, and tries to cut her, slashing her ever so minorly.
She grabs the weapon back from June and slashes her right back.
“You’re out of your mind.”
She leaves, the weapon left behind in the hospital room, and talks to the doctor.
June tries to get through to his humanity, in terms of Ofmathew being forced to stay alive.
“You’re torturing her,” June tells him.
He responds, “She’s not my patient.
The child is.”
The pair make small talk, and June discovers they have a mutual connectionher mother, a former doctor.
“Now I know why you took a swipe at Mrs. Waterford,” the doctor quips.
“Dr. Maddoxshe was scary.”
June says she is, or was.
“I don’t actually know,” regarding her fate.
June admits she was planning on killing Serena, Ofmathew, even the doctor sitting right before her.
He responds with a puzzling but revelatory question: “How long have you had suicidal thoughts?”
A NEW CAUSE
So where does June go from here?
This means, of course, that June’s sort-of imprisonment can finally come to an end.
On her way out, she encounters a young handmaid-in-training named Rose who helps her with her bags.
Rose can’t be over 13.
June is horrified; Rose won’t express as much, but you might sense the fear within her.
She apologizes for everything that went down between them.
She gushes about her son.
Through tears, she continues.
“I don’t really know how, yet, but I swear to you.
I’m going to get them out.
Because Gilead should know how this feels.
It’s their turn to hurt.”
