The Handmaid's Tale
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Esther: You know, I really didn't like you when we first met. [Janine laughs] And I was right the first time.
Janine: What? Why?
Esther: You. You don't care about me. You just wanted to see your daughter, right? You lied to me. You used me like Aunt Lydia. Like they all do. You're one of them.
Janine: Esther, I was trying to help you survive like June helped me.
Esther: You're not June. You're a disgrace. I fucking hate you. [laughs, spitting out blood]
Janine: Oh my God. Esther.
Esther: We're gonna make June proud. [laughs and chokes on blood]
Serena: Can you imagine what the other commanders would do if they knew that you had helped a handmaid kill her commander?
Commander Lawrence: Bold accusation.
Serena: I encourage you to give Fred a proper funeral, one that he deserves.
Commander Lawrence: I'm just one commander. Nick's on the rise, but he's still a puppy. There's only so much we can do.
Janine: You have a beautiful daughter, Mrs. Putnam.
Mrs. Putnam: I thank God for her every day and for those who brought her to me.
When is she going to get what she deserves? Maybe they'll put her on the wall. Maybe they'll take her baby away and make her a handmaid and then put her on the wall.
June
Luke: You sent her a finger. How is that going to help our family? How is that going to help you? That is not going to get Hannah back.
June: I know. You don't think I know that? I know that.
Luke: June.
June: What?
Luke: You gotta be here. You gotta be right here, right? Cause I need you here, and Nichole needs you here. Your family needs you here, and if you're not, I don't know what's gonna happen. To us.
Oh, look at us all, getting along like friendly diplomats, trying to bury the hatchet.
Commander Lawrence
Serena: I'm not much of a hockey fan.
Commander Lawrence: Oh, you'd love it. It's elegant yet brutal
Commander Lawrence: I got them to say yes.
Serena: How?
Commander Lawrence: By not being a woman. [Mark snickers]
Blessed be the stupid fruit.
Esther
Everything tastes better when Fred's dead.
Vicky
Serena Joy: I'd like to see my husband's remains.
Mark: I'll have to see if that's possible.
Serena Joy: I just lost him. Do you people have any decency at all? Any scintilla of grace? Where were you? Did something happen to Fred's plane?
Mark: No. There was a change in Commander Waterford's itinerary. He wasn't on his way to Geneva.
Serena Joy: Where was he?
Mark: The United States government made a deal with the Gilead government. Last night, he was involved in a prisoner exchange at the border.
Serena Joy: So you sent him back to be killed.
Mark: They agreed to try him under the Gilead system of justice. I delivered him safely. I don't know what happened to him after that.
Serena Joy: You know eg, you knew exactly what would happen to him!
Mark: No.
Serena Joy: And I'm sure you got your 30 pieces of silver, no doubt!
Mark: I traded Fred for 22 political prisoners! Women your government sent to die in the colonies! My job right now is to protect you and your baby.
Serena Joy: From whom?! You were responsible for Fred's death!
Mark: Fuck's sake. Serena J- Two things arrived at the ICC detention center in an envelope addressed to you this morning.
Serena Joy: It's his wedding ring.
Mark: Serena, they also sent a finger, a severed finger.
Mark: I'm sorry for your loss.
Serena Joy: I would like to formally petition the Canadian government to reconsider their capital punishment statutes, considering that woman's heinous acts.
Mark: Mrs. Waterford, there won't be a Canadian investigation into the matter.
Serena Joy: Why? What more evidence could they need?
Mark: It seems the incident itself was committed in a still disputed territory between Gilead and Canada, sort of a no-man's land. As such, June Osborne hadn't broken any law.
