Things will never be the same after “Liars.”

(Good timing since season 4 is officially on the way!)

Let’s break down why.

The Handmaid’s Tale – “Liars” - Episode 311 – June must rely on an unpredictable Commander Lawrence to execute her plan, but a terrifying return to a place from June’s past puts everything in jeopardy. Serena Joy and Commander Waterford take a clandestine trip. June (Elisabeth Moss), shown. (Photo by: Jasper Savage/Hulu)

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But clearly something clicks in him: He needs to run away.

And then she learns no one has seen her or the commander.

And then, it becomes clear: They’ve fled.

“I’ll end up at Jezebel’s again if I’m lucky,” Sienna the Martha says.

She’s operating on pure emotion at this point, and she knows it.

Fred expresses regret at how Gilead restricted her.

But they find real common ground.

Fred wonders whether they should retire in a place like this when they get Nichole back.

And at night, when they’re in bed (separate mattresses!

), Serena beckons him over to his.

Lawrence returns

And… Joseph is back.

June hears him return to the home.

Then he admits the real reason: He can’t get out now.

He needs new authorizations.

But June isn’t giving upshe’s renewed with purpose.

And so she tells him: “You’re taking me to the city.”

They drive over, June all dressed- and made-up, and reach Gilead’s seediest establishment.

Lawrence waits in the car.

Blindly, they do.

Fred asks Serena if she trusts him.

And so they drive.

He tells Fred he’s under arrest.

Suddenly, both he and Serena are ambushed by police officers and separated from one another.

Tuello reads the laundry list of charges, beyond war criminal: Kidnapping.

Serena watches on in shock as her husband is stuffed into a car and whisked away.

She asks, “Are you Billy?

“the man the Marthas were discussing who was helping with their shipment.

“I hear you have access to a cargo plane,” June continues.

But that’s tabled for now.

As June heads out she encounters none other than Commander Winslow.

“Ofjoseph,” he immediately recognizes.

And he wastes no time.

He asks her to follow her into his private room.

He makes her get face-down and look away.

It’s an agonizing sequence.

But June fights back.

She kicks him off him before he can do any more.

They fight around the room; she tries crawling away, he smashes her face into the floor.

But then she finds a ballpoint pen on the floor.

She stabs him over and over and over, blood spattering, just trying to keep him at bay.

Lawrence takes June home and, the next morning, she puts her uniform on like any other day.

And then he gives her a gun.

“They’ll be coming for us,” he says.