The Handmaid's Tale
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I’m glad you haven’t lost your touch. It won’t be enough you, know. Whatever happens to him, if we get him, it won’t be enough for you.
Commander Lawrence
June: And you can save them.
Commander Lawrence: And we can bring our brother home.
June: I get the Fred Waterford is giving you information that you feel will save lives. I get that.
But these are the lives you’re trying to save, and you cannot say that Fred Waterford is worth more than these women, these 22 women. You can't say that.
June: I want to put Fred on the wall.
Luke: June, they are going to let him go. You got to let it go.
June: On the fucking wall.
June: Emily, I really want to let go of him.
Emily: Fred?
June: Yeah. I want to focus on family. I want to focus on Hannah and Nichole and Luke. A good mother would be able to let go. A good mother would be able to let go.
Mark: You plan on living with the commander as husband and wife?
Serena: As a family, of course.
Mark: Can you explain that to me, Serena?
Serena: I don't believe I have to.
Moira: They won’t do this, right? He can’t just be out. Shit, they gotta listen to you. You’re June fucking Osborne.
June: Maybe, he’s more important than I am.
Moira: Waterford? That’s fucking crazy.
June: Well, I told my story. I got open and I told them everything. They know what he was, what he did, and how it felt. They made a deal with him anyway. So maybe what he's giving them is more valuable than what he took for me.
Moira: Don’t say that.
Mark: Commander Waterford will in all likelihood be granted immunity in exchange for its cooperation.
June: So I should just get comfortable with the fact that he's going to get out. No matter what he did. No matter what I say.
Mark: No, I don’t expect you to be comfortable with this.
June: Is he everything you hoped for?
Mark: Absolutely. He’s already rewritten our understanding of the Gilead command hierarchy. He is proving to be an intelligence asset of great value. Yes.
June: You won’t be able to shut him up. Weak men, they do make the world go round.
Mark: I am on your side, Ms. Osborne,
June: I was a prisoner that Waterford would sometimes take out to fuck, and you're gonna set him free.
It has to look like love. That what he needs. Pretend you like it. Pretend you love it. Pretend you want it. He is your commander. Make him your whole world – your sun, your moon, all your stars. Make him believe because your motherfucking life depends on it. Don’t run. Don’t kick. Don’t scream. Don’t fight at all. Don’t fight.
June
Nick: Hey, June. Try and be happy.
June: Yeah. You too.
Fred: Our son’s freedom will be what sustains me.
Serena: They could take him away. Gilead could come for our son. A mother alone, they think the baby belongs to the state.
Fred: Naomi said that?
Serena: Naomi said come back to Gilead as if I wouldn’t face retribution. They’d send me to the colonies. They could make me a handmaid.
Fred: That’s not going to happen. I promise. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure you and our son are protected.
Serena: What power? What could you possibly do from in here?
Fred: Have faith.
Naomi: I want you to know if this ordeal isn't over by the time the baby comes, it would be an honor to raise him in our home.
Serena: That’s very kind of you.
Naomi: You don’t want strangers in Canada to do it. It would still be yours, of course, if you’re released.
Serena: Although Fred’s prospects are less optimistic, I expect to be free once proceedings are over with. It’ll be a fresh start with our son.
Naomi: Well, that’s wonderful. You can come home. That baby belongs in Gilead. You both do.
Serena: I don’t think the commanders feel the same way.
Naomi: Oh nonsense. You’ll return with your own child like a hero.
Janine: I was actually kind of relieved when they picked me up, even though they brought me back here.
Esther: Nothing is worse than here. So is June still in Chicago?
Janine: Forget June. She’s not here. We’re here, and you have to take care of yourself now. If you keep misbehaving, there will be consequences, OK. So you’re going to have to eat for them too and not just for me.
Esther: You didn’t sneak in. They sent you. Go on and call your aunt friends. I don’t care what they do to me.
Janine: Yes, you do. They’re not going to let you die. They will keep hurting you again and again until you do what they say. That is their job. It’s no big deal. You just have to eat. You need to stay alive so you can be here when things get better.
