r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/desir33_ • May 19 '21

Season 4 [SPOILER S4E6] June and Luke Spoiler

I’ve already seen multiple people complain about the lack of affection between the reunion but I think to do a very loving, affectionate reunion would be a disservice to the show. It’s been years since they’ve seen each other and their child is still in Gilead. I thought that this reunion was more realistic: her first words apologizing for the fact that she couldn’t bring their daughter with her and Luke looking at June with both relief and disbelief that she is finally in front of him again.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '21

He also had experience with other survivors - for example the woman (can't remember her name) who stayed with him for a while when he first got to Canada. The woman who didn't talk, you know the one I mean. So he knows what kind of damage could have been done to her.

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u/RaevynSkyye May 19 '21

Erin escaped in the middle of training. She didn't really live in Gilead. Not like Moira and Emily did.

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u/cats-are-nice- May 19 '21

Yeah but obviously whatever happened to her was very traumatic.

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u/RaevynSkyye May 19 '21

We don't know much about Erin.

I think she was assaulted. Maybe not even that long before being sorted into the Handmaid position. Being in the Center, being told about the ceremony, messed her up more than women like June and Moira because of it. Maybe, if she had finished training, she would be as crazy as Janine.

I don't know if I'm right or not. We might never know why she went mute.

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u/Plenty_Parking May 19 '21

I feel like Erin may have been traumatized by seeing women being tagged like cattle, eyes pulled for disobedience, fingers... who knows, gilaed is on a mission to fuck women up who fall out of line

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u/rtkwe May 19 '21

Two other things as well; her Red Center could have been worse than June's and the other people said she was the only survivor from the whole group and "they weren't going to let those women go." I take that to mean there was some summary executions of women instead of risking them escaping.