The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)

Women's Work (2018)

Elisabeth Moss: June Osborne

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• June Osborne : Blessed be the fruit.

  Janine : May the Force be with you.

• June Osborne : [voiceover]  Someone once said men are afraid that women will laugh at them; women are afraid that men will kill them. We should have known better. I thought that there were still secret places hidden in the cracks and crevices of this world. Places we could make beautiful, peaceful, quiet, safe... or at least bearable.

• Janine : How are you feeling?

  June Osborne : I'm fine.

  Janine : Yeah? Well, you'll prolly get to the cool part soon. The baby's foot pushes out of your stomach like in "Alien." Charlotte used to do that all the time. You haven't seen "Alien"?

  June Osborne : Nah, I just thought the sequel was better.

  Janine : [chuckles]  You're nuts.

• June Osborne : Do you miss working?

  Serena Joy Waterford : It's a small sacrifice to make, to be welcomed back into God's grace.

  [pause] 

  Serena Joy Waterford : I do truly detest knitting... to be frank.

  June Osborne : You're really a good writer.

  Serena Joy Waterford : Thank you.

• Aunt Lydia Clements : There is a reason handmaids are not told when a child is sick. It's far too upsetting.

  June Osborne : She heard the rumors.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : And you took it upon yourself to confirm them.

  June Osborne : I think after everything she has been through, she deserves that. Some honesty, at least.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : If this breaks her, I will hold you personally responsible. Do you understand?

  June Osborne : Yes. Aunt Lydia. I will, too.

• June Osborne : [first lines, voiceover]  We do our work in the evening. She writes, I read. It is the new normal. And an offense to God. In another life, maybe we coulda been colleagues. In this one, we're heretics. I was already on the naughty list: an adulteress, a fallen woman, as Aunt Lydia used to say. But this is new territory for Serena, I think. How does she feel about falling? She seems pretty fucking happy.

• June Osborne : [voiceover]  If Emily knew that I helped cover for The Commander with Serena, would she want me dead, too? I can't say I blame her. Stay in Gilead long enough and it starts to eat you from the inside out. That's one of the things they do. They force you to kill. Within yourself.

• June Osborne : It was nice working with you too.

• Janine : I need to see her.

  June Osborne : Janine, you know that can't happen.

  Janine : You sound just like one of them.

• June Osborne : Do you think, Mrs. Waterford, that she could see the baby? I would be there. I would make sure nothing happened.

  June Osborne : Don't be stupid.