It was after the rape that a sickened Lawrence agreed to help JuneвЂ™s plan by providing a truck to transport the kids to the airport.

Eleanor was put under more pressure when Fred Waterford, in an act of characteristic cruelty, forced the Lawrences to rape June as part of the вЂCeremonyвЂ™ to prove their loyalty to Gilead. If he and his much-loved and mentally unstable wife Eleanor ever escaped Gilead, he would be imprisoned for war crimes, keeping them in place.ДЄn increasingly ruthless June manipulated Eleanor into helping with her unsuccessful visit to HannahвЂ™s school. He secretly refused to carry out the monthly Ceremony in which Commanders and their wives raped Handmaids, and pretended not to notice his staff running Mayday operations from his home.

Lawrence was an economist whose ideas were used in the creation of Gilead, but who was trapped inside the regime, which he covertly opposed. To pull it off, she needed the assistance of Commander Lawrence, the head of JuneвЂ™s new household after the Waterford house burned down, and the man who had helped Emily escape after she attacked Aunt Lydia in the season two finale. Separated from her own daughters, she promised the unconscious Ofmatthew that she would help GileadвЂ™s other children, and hatched a plan. After Janine caught her trying to disconnect OfmatthewвЂ™s ventilator and told her she was being selfish, June understood the error of her ways. Forced to pray at OfmatthewвЂ™s bedside until the baby was delivered as punishment, June went through her own rebirth of sorts. Ofmatthew eventually snapped, stealing a GuardianвЂ™s gun and attempting to shoot Lydia, but was shot by a Guardian and went into a coma as the doctors tried to save her unborn baby. Cruelly, June told Lydia that Ofmathew had confessed to feeling ambivalent about her third Gilead pregnancy, an unthinkable crime in this world. June visited Hannah at her home, and later tried to see her at her heavily guarded school, as a result of which HannahвЂ™s much-loved Martha was hanged and the Mackenzie family left the district for an unknown location.Дistraught at losing the chance to reunite with Hannah, June attacked Ofmatthew (Ashleigh LaThrop) вЂ“ the pregnant Handmaid whoвЂ™d informed on her aborted Hannah visit to Aunt Lydia вЂ“ and encouraged her friends to alienate and bully her. Hannah was the reason June didnвЂ™t escape to Canada with Emily and Baby Nichole in the season two finale this time, she vowed not to leave Gilead without her. At the start of season three, JuneвЂ™s focus was on her and LukeвЂ™s stolen daughter Hannah, now Agnes Mackenzie. From there, theyвЂ™d hiked to an airport and got the children onto a plane, creating a diversion so it could take off. Her plan had worked вЂ“ a network of Marthas and Handmaids had smuggled the stolen children of Gilead to Commander LawrenceвЂ™s house. The last we saw June in the season three finale, she was being carried away by the Handmaid resistance after getting shot. A radicalised June transformed from survivor to resistance fighter, sacrificing people and to some extent, her compassion in service of that goal. If seasons one and two were all about June becoming a survivor of Gilead, enduring its brutality but not breaking, season three was all about her burning it down.

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