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* YourCheatingHeart: Flashbacks show Luke's first wife, Annie, and how she responded to Luke's affair with June and their subsequent separation, which she blames on June.
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* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Aunt Lydia successfully uses this tactic to break June's spirit for good.

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* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Aunt Lydia successfully uses this tactic to break June's spirit for good.spirit, [[spoiler: albeit temporary]].
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* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Aunt Lydia successfully uses this tactic to break June's spirit for good.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Omar was just hanged, while his wife became a [[SexSlave Handmaid]]. Compared to what happened to her, he got off easy. This ends up breaking June's resolve.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: Omar was just hanged, while his wife became a [[SexSlave Handmaid]]. Compared to what happened to her, he got off easy.Handmaid]], something which in the previous episode she said she would sooner die than become one. This ends up breaking June's resolve.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Omar was just hanged, while his wife became a [[SexSlave Handmaid]]. Compared to what happened to her, he got off easy. This ends up breaking June's resolve.

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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Omar's headbagged body is left hanging on the wall.



** Even Earlier than That: "My Fault. My Fault. My Fault."

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** Even Earlier earlier than That: that: "My Fault. My Fault. My Fault.""
*TongueTrauma: The second Ofglen got her tongue ripped out for refusing to stone Janine.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Flashbacks show Luke's first wife Annie and how she responded to Luke's affair with June.
* WomanScorned: Luke's first wife.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Flashbacks show Luke's first wife Annie wife, Annie, and how she responded to Luke's affair with June and their subsequent separation, which she blames on June.
* WomanScorned: Luke's first wife.wife, Annie.

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* KickTheDog: Someone (presumably Serena) had the inscription "Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum" sanded over. This aids in June's DespairEventHorizon.

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* KickTheDog: Someone (presumably Serena) had the inscription "Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum" ("Don't let the bastards grind you down") sanded over. This aids in June's DespairEventHorizon.



* YourCheatingHeart: Flashbacks show Luke's first wife Annie and how she responded to Luke's affair with June.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Flashbacks show Luke's first wife Annie and how she responded to Luke's affair with June.June.
*WomanScorned: Luke's first wife.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The fate of Omar's family. Lydia makes sure to tell June that she is responsible.
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* KickTheDog: Someone (presumably Serena) had the inscription "Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum" sanded over. This aids in June's DespairEventHorizon.
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** Even Earlier than That: "My Fault. My Fault. My Fault."
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* MadnessMantra: "We've been sent good weather. We've been sent good weather."
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* DespairEventHorizon: June learning of the horrific punishments which were delivered as the consequence of her recent defiant actions, such as the second Ofglen having her tongue removed, and Omar's execution and his family being split apart deal a heavy blow to her quietly defiant spirit. Offred is guilt-ridden and prays for Hannah and herself to forget June, and at the end of the episode doesn't react when Nick refers to her by that name.

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Her escape attempt foiled, June is back with the Waterfords. Serena Joy hosts a baby shower. Aunt Lydia shows June the body of Omar, the man who hid her in the [[Recap/TheHandmaidsTaleS2E3Baggage previous episode]] explaining that his wife is now a handmaid and their son will never see either of his parents again. She expresses to June that this is her fault. June accepts the blame and commits herself to being Offred. In the narration of the final scene she recites "We've been sent good weather", showing that even in her head she appears to have given in to her role as Offred.



* ThatManIsDead: June embraces being Offred.

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* ThatManIsDead: BecomingTheMask: June embraces being Offred.Offred.
* YourCheatingHeart: Flashbacks show Luke's first wife Annie and how she responded to Luke's affair with June.
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!!This episode provies examples of:
* ThatManIsDead: June embraces being Offred.

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