Kind of disappointing after the plot advances made in the first THREE episodes of the season, I thought. This episode felt like it belonged in the first season, and it moved so slowly again.
Edit: Had the wrong episode number.
Throughout the first season, June is still full of the fighting spirit. She is holding onto her identity. By the start of this season, a lot of things have chipped away at her psychologically: knowing her daughter has been given to another family, her feelings for Nick, knowing her husband didn't die (as they made her believe) and then failing to escape when she is literally minutes from getting away.
Once she is dragged back she undergoes good old fashioned psychological torture: isolation, fear, high levels of control of movement, food, and appearance, the constant repetition of slogans and phrases espousing the desired ideology and so on. By the end of this episode, she is psychologically broken.
Or is she? Is June truly broken or is she playing a role until she can try to make another break for it?
She has gotten more wise, but is also doing more to test the boundaries of the system. She was broke for 1 or 2 episodes, because she was shown that she got others killed for trying to help her. Still she wants to get her daughter and escape with her baby too, but she doesn't want to be dependent on others to make that happen. First she has to make sure that axe is not over her head anymore, the one that's gonna swing as soon as she has the baby. And now, she's trying to make alliances with people (particularly women) who have more power than she does. I think her goal is to walk out on her own instead of running.
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