In the season 2 finale, he helps Emily escape, and in season 3 he becomes a wary co-conspirator with June, allowing the rebel organization Mayday to secretly meet in his house. Throughout his time on the show, Lawrence has remained a true enigma-he was one of the architects of Gilead, but fundamentally disagrees with most of its central tenets (including the ceremony) and has been working in secret to undermine it. 5) Commander Lawrence allies with June in secret. Serena is arrested on this specific charge and now faces just as uncertain a future as her husband. Specifically, he reveals that Serena forced Nick and June to have sex in season 1, a rape to which June was unable to consent. While being questioned by Canadian agent Mark Tuello, Fred makes it clear that his wife is far from an innocent victim. And though she had a brief moment of victory over Fred, the season 3 finale soon reminds us that she, too, is a war criminal.Īfter Serena turns on him, Fred wastes no time in returning the favor. Jasper Savage 4) But Serena ultimately gets arrested herself.īecause of how brutally Fred has treated her, it’s sometimes been easy to lose sight of just how monstrous Serena is herself. Meanwhile, Serena herself is also taken into custody, but is afforded a very luxurious cell and allowed to have supervised visits with Nichole. In the third-to-last episode of season 3, Fred is arrested for war crimes as soon as he and Serena cross the border into Canada. But it was all a ruse-she was actually working with the Canadian authorities to trade Fred in exchange for leniency and the chance to see baby Nichole again. 3) Serena turns on Fred.Īnd not a moment too soon! After enduring physical and emotional abuse from her husband for close to three seasons, Serena seemingly reconciles with Fred midway through season 3 and appears to be excited about the prospect of a new life with him in Washington, D.C. While it’s safe to assume she’s not dead, the extent of her injuries is unclear. In the process, June takes a bullet to the abdomen and is shown being carried away by her fellow Handmaids in the season’s final shot. June, along with several other Marthas and Handmaids, create a distraction so Gilead’s guardians won’t notice the flight taking off. Jasper Savage 2) June is shot in the final moments of the season. June stays behind because she’s determined to recover her own daughter Hannah. In the finale, Commander Lawrence arranges for Rita and the children to be funneled in secret through his house and onto a waiting plane that flies them north to Toronto. Since Gilead was (ostensibly) created solely to increase the birth rate, and children are its most precious resource, the plan was to take as many children as possible away from their faux Gilead families and bring them across the border to safety in Canada. Throughout most of season 3, June conspired in secret with Rita and several other Marthas to strike back against Gilead and hit the regime where it hurts the most. 1) June and the Marthas smuggle almost 100 children out of Gilead.

Here are the key things you need to remember about where we left off. A lot of things went down during the final few episodes in particular, between June and Rita smuggling dozens of children across the border to Canada, the Waterfords finally getting their comeuppance, June murdering Chris Meloni’s creepy Commander Winslow, June aiding in the death of Commander Lawrence’s wife Eleanor, Nick vanishing without trace for the back half of the season… After a lengthy pandemic pause, The Handmaid’s Tale finally returns for its fourth season this week on Hulu-but before you rush to begin your binge, you may need a quick refresher on what exactly happened in season 3.

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