The Handmaid's Tale
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Moira: Do you really think this is a good idea?
June: Which part?
Moira: All of it. All the parts.
June: Wait, so you think marrying Luke is a bad idea?
Moira: Look, I just think it would be a lot easier to end an engagement than a marriage.
June: And you know this how? Because of all the marriages you’ve ended.
Moira: Never mind.
June: No, no, no, no. I’m curious. Tell me why you think I shouldn’t marry a kind, smart, loving man who has a good job and nice shoulders.
Moira: Because he cheats on his wives, and he leaves them when they can’t reproduce.
June: Wife, one prior wife, and I’m not Annie.
Moira: Not yet.
June: Our marriage is not going to be like that marriage. They fought all the time about all kinds of stuff. We never fight.
Oona: When we get back we can work on trying to get her out.
Moira: No, no, fuck that.
Oona: I don’t have time for this.
Moira: Oona, she’s hurt. She’s not gonna last a week here.
Oona: Look, I get that this is hard.
Moira: No, not hard. It’s life or death.
Oona: For everyone, not just you and not just her.
Moira: She’s my best friend, Oona.
Oona: Gilead finds out we took her, no more missions, no more food, no more medicine, nothing for any of these people. You think June is more important than every one of them? I’m sorry.
June: What if we can’t get pregnant?
Luke: What?
June: You and Annie had a hard time having kids. What if that happens to us?
Luke: You are not Annie, OK, and I am a very different person that I was back then.
June: But you don’t know what’s going to happen. What if I end up disappointing you.
Luke: Come on. I don’t know if we’ll be able to have kids, but either way, we’re gonna be OK.
June: You really want kids, though.
Luke: Yeah, I really want you. You’re not gonna disappoint me.
June: You don’t know that. Everyone has a line, something’s that unforgivable. What if I’m not who you think I am?
Luke: Then I’ll just love whoever you turn out to be.
Moira: You’re the one who decided to save her.
Oona: Because you put me in a position where I had to either save her or kill her.
Moira: You couldn’t have expected me to leave her behind.
Oona: You don’t think I’ve ever had to leave anyone behind. Every mission, you don’t think I’ve had to make hard choices, choices that keep me up at night, that I regret every single day.
Moira: I’m sorry. I wish it didn’t have to be about us.
Oona: Let’s not make this last longer than it has to.
Moira: We can still talk at the office.
Oona: There’s not gonna be an office after this.
June: Why are you here?
Moira: Hey, shh, I came back.
June: Why?
Moira: I came back for you. I came back to help you, and I fucking found you.
June: It’s not safe Moira. You shouldn’t be here.
Moira: I fucking found you. I fucking found you.
June: You’re so crazy. You shouldn’t be here.
Moira: No, I found you. I’m going to take care of you. I got you. I got you.
Commander Lawrence: To what do I owe the pleasure?
Aunt Lydia: I believe I can be of service to you.
Commander Lawrence: Lucky me.
Aunt Lydia: I have sources, witnesses to your involvement in Commander Winslow’s disappearance.
Commander Lawrence: Is that right?
Aunt Lydia: In addition, I have testaments to your many abuses of power – black market activity, not to mention your collaboration with your handmaid, Ofjoseph.
Commander Lawrence: Unless…
Aunt Lydia: Unless you arrange for my immediate reinstatement.
Commander Lawrence: There it is. For a second I thought you didn’t have it in you.
Aunt Lydia: Is it that you didn’t hear me, commander?
Commander Lawrence: No, no, I heard you loud and clear. So what else you got?
Aunt Lydia: I beg your pardon.
Commander Lawrence: I get it. You can bury me. I can only imagine the goods you have on my illustrious colleagues, Commander Calhoun. What’s the dirt on him?
Aunt Lydia: I’m not one to traffic in gossip.
Commander Lawrence: You just tried to blackmail me.
Aunt Lydia: Hardly gossip.
Commander Lawrence: You want me to restore your position, I need my seat back at the table, and your information can help me get it. Let’s fix this country. Let’s make things right again together.
Aunt Lydia: I might consider a collaboration if I have your word that Ofjoseph would be put in my care to be disciplined, handled my way.
Commander Lawrence: I can live with that.
Steven: Don’t do that again.
June: We could have taken them. What’s wrong with you?
Steven: What happens when they don’t report back? More patrols, more soldiers. It makes it harder for us to move around. It’s not worth it.
June: What kind of resistance are you?
Steven: The kind that survives.
June: I think we should go tomorrow and find the Nighthawks. Come on, we came here to fight.
Janine: June, you came here to fight. I didn’t even want to come here. I wanted to go back to Boston.
June: There’s nothing for us in Boston.
Janine: Well, there’s something here. I can get pregnant again here. I can keep my baby. I’ll be like a real mom.
June: Janine, you can’t have a baby here.
Janine: Why not? Come on, we could be moms together. It could be like a normal life. I mean the world needs more baby Americans, right?
June: You sound like Aunt Lydia.
Janine: No, June you do. You’re so bossy and judgmental. I know what’s right for me.
June: He’s taking advantage of you. I don’t know why you can’t see that.
Janine: I see fine. It was my choice to start having sex. You need to stop trying to save me to make yourself feel better.
June: I’m the one who doesn’t want to see you get hurt, OK.
Janine: Maybe, you should have thought about that with Alma and Briana.
June: OK, well I’m leaving tomorrow. Come with me or stay here and be Ofsteven. It’s your choice.
Janine: Hi.
June: What are you doing here?
Janine: I feel safer when we’re together. Handmaids always walk in twos, remember?
June: Yeah, come on.
June: I hear you’re trading with another camp. I want to come.
Steven: No, fresh meat stays here.
Janine: You really should let June go. She got a whole plane full of kids out of Gilead. I mean I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for her. I mean literally.
Steven: You do what I say.
June: Yeah. Thank you.
Aunt Lydia: Have you seen the new girls?
Aunt Ruth: By his hand, we’ll replace the lost children in no time with that crop.
Aunt Lydia: Yes, very special class. Well, I am eager to be of service again, fully recovered by his grace. Back in fighting shape, as they say.
Aunt Ruth: There is no need to rush. God has given you this respite to heal.
Aunt Lydia: Too much to be done.
Aunt Ruth: Lydia, the girls are not your concern anymore.
Aunt Lydia: The girls have always been my concern. I have served Gilead with everything I have.
Aunt Ruth: Praised be.
Aunt Lydia: Aunt Ruth, perhaps you could speak to the commanders about my reinstatement. Intercede on my behalf.
Aunt Ruth: Lydia, I admired your devotion when you were still active, but now, it is your time to rest.
June?
Moira [to June]
