The Handmaid's Tale: Season 3

After a treacherous journey, Emily escapes Gilead with June's baby Holly into Canada, where they are granted asylum and Holly is taken into the care of Luke and Moira. Back in Gilead, June asks Commander Lawrence (who had facilitated Emily and Holly's escape to Canada) to take her to Hannah before being recaptured by the Guardians and returned to the Waterfords, but not before Hannah's placement mother, Mrs. MacKenzie, warns June that any future visits could result in her execution in front of H

June, who is now Ofjoseph, meets her new shopping partner, Ofmatthew, a handmaid who is smugly pious. At the Lawrence household, June joins an underground resistance cell consisting of the Marthas Beth and Cora. They are hiding a fugitive Martha named Alison, a former chemistry teacher who joined the Mayday resistance in order to make bombs to destroy the Gilead ruling government. It is also revealed that she made the bomb that blew up the new Rachel and Leah center. June and Beth help Alison es

A new Martha, Sienna, replaces Cora's position in the Lawrence household. June resolves to search for "allies with power" in order to survive Gilead. The commanders meet at Lawrence's house to discuss the fighting in Chicago including an incoming shipment of female captives. June encounters Nick, who has been promoted to commander, and the two share a tender moment. Lawrence conscripts June to select five Chicago women to serve as Marthas; the remainders will be shipped to the Colonies, which is

June and some of her fellow handmaids attend a reception at the Putnam household. There, June convinces Fred to give Serena a "voice behind the scenes" in Gilead. Flashbacks throughout the episode show June and Luke's baptism of Hannah by a Christian priest before the hostile takeover by the Sons of Jacob, who now dedicate children, rather than baptize infants. In the present, June learns that Ofmatthew has given birth to three babies. Janine, serving as Ofhoward, pleads with the Putnams to invi

In exchange for a favor from Serena, June agrees to phone Luke to arrange a meeting between the Waterfords and Holly. Mark Tuello (whom Serena met the last time the Waterfords were in Canada) is in charge of arranging the meeting. Luke agrees to the meeting on the condition that only Serena attend the meeting and not Fred. During their tense meeting at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Serena reassures Luke that June is safe and that both she and June gave up Holly to give Holly a better li

The Waterfords, June, Rita and Aunt Lydia travel to Washington, D.C. to stay with the family of High Commander George Winslow and his wife Olivia. The Winslows live in a mansion with six children by different Handmaids. There, they meet with a delegation of Swiss diplomats who seek to negotiate between Gilead and Canada and prepare to take part in internationally broadcast mass prayers being held at the former Washington Monument that has now been turned into a giant cross, asking for the return

While visiting the supermarket, June arranges with Frances (the Mackenzies' Martha) to visit Hannah at her school in Brookline. In Canada, Emily and Sylvia meet with one of the Swiss diplomats, who questions Emily about crimes she has been accused of committing in Gilead. Emily acknowledges them but does not regret the actions she took to survive there. Emily and Moira join a group of protesters who confront the Canadian Immigration Minister over his negotiations with Gilead, and they are arrest

After the execution, Ofmatthew is ostracized by the other handmaids. In a ritual in which handmaids are admonished to "testify" for their sins, June is singled out for being responsible for the death of Frances, which will negatively affect Hannah. June exposes Ofmatthew's doubts about wanting to carry another child to term. In the night, Handmaid Ofandy gives birth to a stillborn girl. Ofmatthew snaps when she is with June at a grocery store and after ferociously beating Janine, grabs a gun fro

Natalie is rendered brain dead after the shooting and is placed on life support until her baby is born. As punishment for her role in engineering Natalie's humiliation and shooting, June is kept in the hospital room, praying on her knees, all day for weeks, under Aunt Lydia's orders. After over a month, June struggles with her mental state as well as her culpability in Natalie's death. June makes two mercy killing attempts on Natalie, but is stopped by Janine, who tells her that Natalie is one o

High Commander Winslow visits Boston, where he reveals plans to import the muzzling of handmaids currently implemented in Washington D.C. to other districts starting with Boston. Fred wants to oust Lawrence from power so he arranges for Winslow, Serena, and Aunt Lydia to oversee Lawrence's next "ceremony" with June, as he thinks Lawrence will fail this test of his mastery over his household. June, Eleanor and Lawrence are allowed to enter the bedroom together, while the others wait downstairs. E

With her mental state deteriorating, Eleanor points a gun at Lawrence and June intervenes to save him and calm his wife. In return she asks him to help her smuggle children out of Gilead. Beth arranges for a group of Marthas to meet with June and agree to help her with her plan; they mention a man, named Billy, who works at Jezebels, who helps them. Lawrence tries to escape the country with Eleanor but is unable to cross checkpoints, so he returns home. June travels with Lawrence to Jezebels to

Commanders Putnam and Calhoun meet with Lawrence to discuss the current events in Gilead. Beth informs June that the plan to get the children out of Gilead is underway with an airplane being expected to arrive in one week. In Canada, the Waterfords spend time in a detention facility and while Fred worries for Serena's safety, she reveals to him that she has betrayed him and was involved in their capture, in order that she might get to spend time with Holly. Luke and Moira meet with Fred and Sere

After being captured, June witnessed disabled women being rounded up and executed. She tried to find out Hannah's whereabouts from a Guardian, who tells her to be quiet, and she is thrown into a truck with Janine. In the present, hours before the intended midnight meeting time, a Martha brings a little girl to the Lawrence household, still in daylight. The Martha later loses her nerve, changes her mind and threatens to leave with the child, but June stops her at the point of a gun, retaining the