The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)

Jezebels (2017)

Elisabeth Moss: June Osborne

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• Offred : A perfect gift. A girl trapped in a box. She only dances when someone else opens the lid, when someone else winds her up. If this is a story I'm telling, I must be telling it to someone. There's always someone, even when there is no one. I will not be that girl in the box.

• Offred : Is this enough for you, this bullshit life? Is this what you want? You want to polish his car and... once in a while, try to get a handmaid pregnant? Is that enough for you?

  Nick Blaine : We're being stupid. You know we're being stupid. It's too dangerous.

  Offred : No, it isn't.

  Nick Blaine : You could end up on the wall.

  Offred : But at least... at least someone will remember me. In this place. At least someone will care when I'm gone. That's something. That is something.

• [first lines] 

  Offred : Luke is alive. I stretch out my arms to him, but he slips away, like a ghost at daybreak. And I am left. Here. I wish this story were different. I wish it showed me in a better light. In a different story, maybe I wouldn't be such a fucking weakling.

• Moira Strand : After they finished their questions, they gave me a choice: the Colonies or Jezebel's. It's a few good years before your pussy wears out. All the booze and drugs you want, feels good. We only work nights...

  Offred : We're gonna find a way to get you out of here, okay?

  Moira Strand : June. I know the way out: black van, feet first.

• Fred Waterford : You're very quiet. Aren't you enjoying yourself?

  Offred : It's just so beautiful, and I don't usually get to see it like this.

  Fred Waterford : Ah, but tonight... you aren't you.

• Nick Blaine : Hey. Wait, wait, wait.

  Offred : What?

  Nick Blaine : My name is Nick Blaine. I'm from Michigan.

  Offred : Well, under His eye, Guardian Blaine.

• Fred Waterford : Davidson's such a kiss-ass. He's that way with Pryce, too: goes where the wind blows - I can't trust him. We've been hearing things from the other districts. Purges. Could just be rumors, I don't know. No one's made a move yet here, but I can't help feeling there's a target on my back.

  Offred : I suppose that's what happens when you're the boss.

  Fred Waterford : [nods]  You do understand me, don't you.

• Fred Waterford : It's like walking in the past, don't you think?

  Offred : I thought these kinds of places were forbidden.

  Fred Waterford : Mm. Officially.

  Offred : Unofficially?

  Fred Waterford : Oh, we turn a blind eye. Everyone's human, after all. Now, let's get you a drink. One won't hurt. Wouldn't look right if you didn't.

• Offred : [voiceover]  We must be crossing the Charles, to Boston. Or what used to be Boston.

• Fred Waterford : Up for some excitement? I thought maybe we could do something different tonight.

  Offred : Monopoly?

  Fred Waterford : No guessing. But first, we're gonna have to do something about those legs.