The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)

Other Women (2018)

Elisabeth Moss: June Osborne

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  June Osborne : I heard a story on NPR once about pig balls. For pigs who were being fattened in pens. The pigs rolled the balls with their snouts, and the pig marketers said it improved their muscle tone. The pigs were curious. They liked having something to think about. Caged rats will give themselves electric shocks for something to do. There are 71 flowers on the comforter. Seventy-one. I wish I had a pig ball.

• June Osborne : [voiceover]  I have done something wrong. Something so huge I can't even see it. Something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid. Without worth. I might as well be dead. Please, God, let Hannah forget me. Let me forget me.

• Aunt Lydia Clements : [indicates body hanging at the wall]  I believe you know him. He drove a bread delivery truck.

  June Osborne : [realizes who Aunt Lydia is referring to, looks up at the body, then collapses to her knees] 

  Aunt Lydia Clements : The wife will redeem herself by serving as a handmaid. The boy will never see his mother again. He has been placed with new parents. Parents who are fit. Gilead has shown them mercy. They will have a chance at a better life. Of course, if you had asked them, this would not have been the path they would have chosen. But you didn't ask them, did you? You chose for them. Such... a selfish... girl.

• Aunt Lydia Clements : Whose fault was it? Huh?

  June Osborne : [whispers]  My fault.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : Who induced him to commit such a crime?

  June Osborne : I did.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : Offred?

  June Osborne : I did.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : And why did God allow such a terrible thing to happen? Answer me. Offred.

  June Osborne : To teach me a lesson.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : To teach JUNE a lesson. Shh, shh. June did this. June ran away. June consorted with terrorists. Not Offred. Offred was kidnapped. Offred... is free from blame. Offred does not have to bear June's guilt.

• Aunt Lydia Clements : Blessed be the fruit. I see you've eaten well, Offred. Third day in a row.

  June Osborne : It's June. You know my fucking name.

  Aunt Lydia Clements : [pause]  The Waterfords have agreed to a trial run, as it were, and if you're a very very good girl, you might be invited to stay. You see... June will be chained in this room until she gives birth. And then June will be... executed. Offred has an opportunity; it would be better for the baby.

• June Osborne : [voiceover]  I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

• Serena Joy Waterford : [Grabs June by the throat]  Ninety-two days!

  [They glare into each other's eyes for nearly 20 seconds before Serena releases her] 

  June Osborne : [after coughing and gasping]  Serena... remember... long as my baby is safe... so is yours.