Season Six Episode Five Janine
My girl Janine is back and ready to take action. As in episode four, June warned Moira and Luke that things can turn bad in Gilead in a split second. The journey they take in the episode will have your very nervous.
June and Moira are put into a hiding place on the truck that will go to Jezebel’s. When they get there, June and Moira get out and agree to meet Luke and Ellen back at the location in two hours. June and Moira head to the girls’ dressing room looking for Janine. They are told that she is up in the penthouse.
Commander Wharton ask Nick about the two guardians that were shot. He also informs Nick that one of them is in a coma. Nick is now worried that the guardian will remember who shot him.
Aunt Lydia is at Serena Joy’s house in New Bethlehem asking about the retired handmaids and where they should go. Serena Joy has not clue nor is she concerned about what should happen to them. Aunt Lydia is upset. Serena Joy then suggest opening a fertility center where the retired handmaid’s could work. Serena Joy is probably just saying that to calm Aunt Lydia.
June and Moira go up to the penthouse stating they need to freshen up the room before the commanders come in. They go inside and see Janine from across the room. She is singing and dancing with some of the other girls. She is probably drunk out of her mind. Wouldn’t you be too. Janine sees them and goes over pretending like she does not know them. Janine gives them a key to one of the rooms for them to meet her there. Before June and Moira try to leave, one of the commander spills his drink and demands that June come over to clean it up. Commander Lawrence comes in and excuses the martha, not knowing it was June.
June and Moira make it to the room and wait for Janine. Janine comes in so happy to see them. June tells her about the plan and Janine states that the girls are ready. They stay ready she says. Janine has to leave and June tells her she will see them in a week. Janine gives June letters that the girls wrote for their families. June suggest that Janine leaves with them, but she says she has to stay with the girls to get them ready. June and Moira start arguing about who suffered the most in Gilead. June and Moira are getting ready to leave the room when a commander comes in asking why they are in there. The commander asks lots of questions and threatens them. He forces Moira on the bed and before he can do anything, June and Moira start fighting him. They get him down and that’s the end of him. Now they have to figure out what to do with the body. They go get a cart and struggle to get him in there; then they wheel him to the inferno. Alarms are starting to go off because they figure out the commander is missing. How did they figure that out so quickly. Moira is freaking out and June is trying to stay calm.
Nick goes to the hospital to visit the guardian and find his mother there. Nick suggest he can sit with him since she has to leave. The guardian wakes up and Nick ask him some questions and sees he can’t remember much. Nick turns to leave the room, but then changes his mind. Nick closes the door to the room. Well, you know what will happened next.
Commander Lawrence is just walking around while the other commanders are having fun with the girls. Janine flirts with Commander Lawrence and Commander Bell threatens to beat her. Commander Lawrence agrees to take Janine in a room with him again saving her from torture. Janine says she has to leave. Before she leaves, she shows Commander Lawrence a peep hole the girls use to spy on the commanders. Lawrence hears the commanders talking about him. They are talking about closing New Bethlehem and putting him on the wall. He is shocked and concerned at what he has heard.
Commander Wharton goes to meet Serena Joy in some library. He has a surprise for her. He ask Serena Joy to marry him. This women just always pops up and wins in the end. I just knew he was interested in her. So much for being an independent woman, Serena Joy.
After June and Moira get the body into the inferno, they try to make it to the location where they are to meet Luke and Ellen. They get there but can’t get to the van, because there is a guardian standing there talking to Luke telling him they need to leave. June has Moira follow her into the parking lot where they see Commander Lawrence getting into his car. As Lawrence drives, June stands in front of his car. Commander Lawrence does not seem surprised to see June. June pleads with him to put them in his car so they can escape the parking lot.
What an episode. It had me on the edge of my seat. Moira was freaking out just like June said she would and almost got them in trouble. It’s too late to turn back now. Will they make it back to No Man’s Land? Will Commander Lawrence join the resistance now?
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