Let’s break things down.
She’s just returned to the Lawrence house by Aunt Lydia, and already things seem different.
(He really loves that Winslow life, huh?)
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And so the Lawrence home is finally cleaned up.
Lydia leaves, confident in the new arrangements.
“You’re going to get yourself killed,” she tells June in reply.
“That information is in the Red Center dossiers,” she reveals.
“Joseph keeps them in the basement.”
The Lawrences, it seems clear, are a key ingredient.
June floats to Eleanor the idea of getting out of Gilead.
But Eleanor lays down the hard truth: “Joseph is a war criminal,” she says.
“He can’t cross the border.”
Serena, fairly, views the plot as a little extreme.
But Winslow and Waterford go through with it anyway.
Joseph is mortified when he realizes what’s going on, Eleanor even more so.
“You’re not you, I’m not me,” she tells Lawrence.
“This is a transaction.
And then it’s over.”
We don’t watch the actual, horrifying scene, but do check-in on the aftermath.
Fred asks June if she’s alright before leaving.
“I mean, at least it wasn’t you,” she says.
Serena looks on at the two of them.
She says as much when she confronts Fred, calling him “selfish.”
Fred uneasily appears to agree.
“I’ll get you a truck,” he tells her.
“You get my wife out, safely.”
June takes it one step further, riskily but successfully unveiling her plan.
She says he can get out too.
“You just have to bring them something valuable.
The stolen children of Gilead.”
She says she’ll ask around.
“Muffins mean yes,” the Martha tells June.
Smiling at the display, June says, “We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
