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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Serena Joy and Fred, discussing a piece printed in the [[CanadaEh ''Toronto Star'']].

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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Serena Joy and Fred, discussing a piece printed in the [[CanadaEh ''Toronto Star'']].Star''.
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* DisguisedHostageGambit: Along with a little of DidntThinkThisThrough, Moira and June try to escape from the Red Center in this way. It doesn't work out very well.

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* DisguisedHostageGambit: Along with a little of DidntThinkThisThrough, Moira and June try to escape from the Red Center in this way. It doesn't work out very well.well- only Moira manages to get on the train headed to Boston.
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Confined to her room for thirteen days now, Offred reminisces about her daughter, and about her fleeting conversations with Moira in the Red Centre. Offred finds graffiti scratched on the floor of her closet, reading "Nolite bastardes carborundorum".

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Confined to her room for thirteen days now, Offred reminisces about her daughter, and about her fleeting conversations with Moira in the Red Centre. Offred finds graffiti scratched on the floor of her closet, reading "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum".
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Confined to her room for thirteen days now, Offred reminisces about her daughter, and about her fleeting conversations with Moira in the Red Centre. Offred finds graffiti scratched on the floor of her closet. "Nolite bastardes carborundorum." It's also time for another Ceremony.
Offred looks back on her Red Centre training, and Moira's escape.

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Confined to her room for thirteen days now, Offred reminisces about her daughter, and about her fleeting conversations with Moira in the Red Centre. Offred finds graffiti scratched on the floor of her closet. closet, reading "Nolite bastardes carborundorum." It's also time for another Ceremony.
Offred looks back on her Red Centre training, and Moira's escape.
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* DisguisedHostageGambit: Along with a little of DidntThinkThisThrough, Moira and Offred try to escape this way. It doesn't work out very well.
* DrivenToSuicide: Rita thinks this when she finds Offred on the closet floor. It scares the hell out of her.
** Offred's predecessor.
* NoWomansLand: When [[spoiler: Moira and Offred escape]] Offred seems disturbed at all the men walking the streets freely, while there are no women anywhere.

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* DisguisedHostageGambit: Along with a little of DidntThinkThisThrough, Moira and Offred June try to escape from the Red Center in this way. It doesn't work out very well.
* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
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Rita thinks this when she finds Offred on the closet floor. It scares the hell out of her.
** Offred's predecessor.predecessor hanged herself.
* NoWomansLand: When [[spoiler: Moira and Offred escape]] escape Offred seems disturbed at all the men walking the streets freely, while there are no women anywhere.



* TokenGoodTeammate: The doctor is one of the few people who talks to Offred like she's a real person. [[spoiler: He reveals to her that in fact many of the Commanders are infertile, offering to impregnate her so things'll be easier for her. Offred declines]].

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* TokenGoodTeammate: The doctor is one of the few people who talks to Offred like she's a real person. [[spoiler: He reveals to her that in fact many of the Commanders are infertile, offering to impregnate her so things'll be easier for her. Offred declines]].declines.
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* SlutShaming: Aunt Lydia, calling Offred by her real name, tells her she was an "adulterer" (Luke was married previously to his relationship with Offred) and a slut, and has been given a "second chance."

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* SlutShaming: Aunt Lydia, calling Offred by her real name, tells her she was an "adulterer" (Luke was married previously to before his relationship with Offred) and a slut, and has been given a "second chance."
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: June's feet are whipped after her foiled escape.

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Confined to her room for thirteen days now, Offred reminisces about her daughter, and about her fleeting conversations with Moira in the Red Centre. Offred finds graffiti scratched on the floor of her closet. "Nolite bastardes carborundorum." It's also time for another Ceremony.
Offred looks back on her Red Centre training, and Moira's escape.
!!This episode provides examples of:
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Serena Joy and Fred, discussing a piece printed in the [[CanadaEh ''Toronto Star'']].
* DisguisedHostageGambit: Along with a little of DidntThinkThisThrough, Moira and Offred try to escape this way. It doesn't work out very well.
* DrivenToSuicide: Rita thinks this when she finds Offred on the closet floor. It scares the hell out of her.
** Offred's predecessor.
* NoWomansLand: When [[spoiler: Moira and Offred escape]] Offred seems disturbed at all the men walking the streets freely, while there are no women anywhere.
* SlutShaming: Aunt Lydia, calling Offred by her real name, tells her she was an "adulterer" (Luke was married previously to his relationship with Offred) and a slut, and has been given a "second chance."
* SplitScreen: How Offred's conversation with Moira is framed by the washroom stalls.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: To make a bad situation even worse, Fred can't perform his monthly duty.
* TitleDrop: The title of the episode comes from the graffiti scratched into Offred's closet.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The doctor is one of the few people who talks to Offred like she's a real person. [[spoiler: He reveals to her that in fact many of the Commanders are infertile, offering to impregnate her so things'll be easier for her. Offred declines]].

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