The Handmaid's Tale: Season 2

After refusing to stone Janine, June and the other handmaids are taken to Fenway Park, where they are made to believe they will be hanged in a mock execution. At the Red Center, Aunt Lydia finds out about June's pregnancy and when June rejects a meal Lydia gives her, she is shown another pregnant handmaid chained in a prison room due to her attempted suicide. June agrees to eat and the other handmaids are punished through burning with a gas flame. June is taken to a doctor for a pregnancy check-

June has been transported to the abandoned headquarters of The Boston Globe to hide out. Meanwhile, Emily has been taken to the Colonies, where "unwomen" dig on toxic wasteland. Emily befriends a commander's wife and finds that she committed a "sin of the flesh" that landed her in the Colonies. Emily murders her with poisoned tablets as she blames her for "holding a woman down while her husband rapes her". Janine arrives at the Colonies and Nick visits June. In a flashback, after the attacks on

June learns about the emergence of the Sons of Jacob in newspaper archives and is moved to another place where she meets Omar, who tells her he is taking her to a safe house. When he learns the safe house has been compromised, he tries to leave without her. June makes him take her with him to his apartment, where she meets his wife Heather and their son Adam. When the family goes to church, June finds a hidden Qur'an. When Omar and his family do not return, June dons Heather's Econowife outfit a

A defiant June has been recaptured and chained to a bed. Aunt Lydia explains to her that she must choose between imprisonment followed by execution after childbirth, or a return to serving as a handmaid; June chooses the latter option to survive and returns to the Waterford household. The Waterfords treat June's disappearance as a kidnapping, but privately Serena is furious and grabs June by the throat. Rita returns the letters she found and tells June that she will no longer be involved. A baby

Emotionally beaten and subservient once again, June burns some letters she had been keeping for Mayday. She notices vaginal bleeding but does not inform anyone. Nick notices June's apparent depression and informs Serena. Serena, alarmed at Nick's interest in June, apprises Fred, who arranges for Nick to be married at a "Prayvaganza" event where loyal Guardians receive a wife. Nick's new, young bride, a 15-year-old girl named Eden, moves into his room. He avoids sleeping with her. Nick later find

Advised by a doctor that a harmonious household would benefit the child, Serena shows care for June, giving her the sitting room as a bedroom and inviting her friends for brunch while she is recovering. When Serena shows June the nursery for the baby, June asks to see Hannah. In retaliation, Serena moves June back to her previous room. Eden reveals to June that she fears Nick may be a "gender traitor" due to his reluctance for intimacy, so June warns him. Nick has sex with Eden, but only after h

In the aftermath of the suicide bombing at the Rachel and Leah Center, 31 handmaids, 26 commanders (including Commander Pryce), and many civilians were killed, plus dozens more wounded. Despite being near the front of the building, Fred survives with serious injuries. Serena takes on some of his duties, forging his signature. Commander Cushing then takes Commander Pryce's role, increases checkpoints, and orders numerous people executed in the streets. He questions June and asks who aided her in

Serena gives June a music box and flower for June's help in completing Fred's work while he continues to recover in the hospital. Serena tells June that the Putnams' child is ill and not gaining weight. June advocates for Janine to be able to see the baby, and Serena agrees to ask about it. Naomi Putnam dislikes the idea, but she is overruled by her husband. Serena petitions Fred to allow the child to be seen by a Martha who, prior to the Sons of Jacob coup, was a top neonatologist. Fred denies

The Waterfords and Nick travel to Canada on a diplomatic mission. While they are away, a young Guardian named Isaac is left in charge of the household. Serena is approached by Mark Tuello, who works for a remnant of the U.S. government in Hawaii and offers to help her defect from Gilead if she will publicly denounce the regime, but Serena declines. At the Waterford residence, June tells Rita that when Hannah was baptized, she and Luke chose godparents for her, and that she wants Rita to be the g

The commander to whom Emily is newly assigned as handmaid collapses and dies from a sudden heart attack during the Ceremony. June suffers contractions while shopping, forcing her to go home and to endure a "birthing ceremony" as everyone awaits the birth of the child. However, it turns out to be a false labor. June pleads to Fred to be positioned closer to her daughter Hannah after the eventual birth. After Fred denies this request, June implies that the child she is carrying is not his and that

After Nick is taken away from the house, June sees a car in the garage and searches the house for the keys. She returns to the house and begin to pack some supplies. Flashbacks throughout the episode show her first pregnancy and Hannah's birth and childhood. Fred and Serena arrive at the house in a panic looking for June, and end up arguing, with Serena telling Fred she gave up everything for him and the cause, and only ever wanted a child in return. June finds a gun and from an upper floor and

June is separated from her baby but expected to provide milk. When she is unable to pump enough milk, Aunt Lydia allows her to see the baby in order to induce lactation. As June's lactation increases during the meeting, Lydia convinces Fred to allow June back in the house for the baby's health. Nick, who is back in the Waterford household and presented as having been key to the rescue of June and the baby, suggests that he, June, and the baby should flee to Canada, and Fred attempts to renew ele

It is revealed that it was Eden's father who turned Eden and Isaac in. While searching through Eden's belongings, June discovers a Bible that Eden read from and annotated, despite it being illegal for women to read and write in Gilead (besides the Aunts). June argues about Holly's future in Gilead, stating that Holly will not be able to know God unless she is able to read His word. At a leaders' meeting, Serena proposes that girls be taught to read only from the Bible, and reads from the Bible t