'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 4 Episode 5 Spoilers: June will head for Mayday, but will Janine want to join?
June Osborne risked everything to be able to join Mayday because she believes that the resistance is the only place where she can truly do the work that is needed to bring Gilead down, while also rescuing her daughter Hannah. The moment she was interrogated about the location of the handmaids who had escaped, she had been determined to not give in.
She experienced torture, something we know is not new in Gilead, and so did June. She expected to go through all of this. What she did not expect was to see Commander Lawrence and her on again-off again lover, Nick Blaine, deciding to help Gilead by using her as a bargaining chip. So she had to out the hiding location and that led to their capture. Their punishment would have been to serve in breeding colonies where they would do nothing but be used as breeding machines.
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So when she is being transported, she finds an opportunity to escape. Comes very close to killing Aunt Lydia but she leaves. While she and Janine manage to make it in time to go to the other side of the train's crossing, the four others die due to gun shot wounds or get run over by an oncoming train. That leaves only June and Janine behind. June decides their only option is to go to a train station with no money, no arms, or any help.
She overhears an operator in the station talking about some goods that need to be transported to Chicago and she gets into a container that holds milk. While her attempt at saving herself is unrealistic, but there is a moment when Janine engages with June to explain to her that she is not a meek woman who can be walked over all the time, told lies to and be expected to obey. Janine wants June to understand that there is strength behind her timid exterior and she shows this in more ways than one.
In fact, when June and Janine convince a group of surviving American rebels to help them with a place to stay, the one thing they are asked in return is to sleep with a man who leads the group. Is this any different from what they did back in Gilead? June finds it hard and is unable to get herself to do it, but when Janine hears of this, she goes forward to do what is necessary and even later says that it was not all too bad. She is amused by the fact that the guy liked her eye patch and she seems to want to stay back because this place seems considerably safe, and close to her life in America when she had her son Caleb in her life.
Janine at this point seems to want safety and security, but June is raging to go. She wants to join Mayday as quickly as possible and she wants to bring Gilead down as soon as possible.
'The Handmaid's Tale' season 4 will stream on Hulu on Wednesdays.