She has a very hard time learning from her past mistakes. June, of course, would prefer to go down guns blazing without any semblance of a plan. “What kind of resistance are you?” she hisses back, forgetting that he never said he was part of a resistance. Even if they could take out the patrol, it would just mean more soldiers and more patrols in the future. June hisses at Steven that he has a clear shot and he shakes his head. The soldiers peer in but don’t see any of them and they move on.
Not long after a Gilead military patrol shows up and the little group hides in an abandoned building. Her request is denied-which ends up being a wise decision on Steven’s part. Indeed, not long into their little excursion June is asking for a gun. “But you have to do exactly as I say,” he warns her, and she nods and we all chuckle and shake our heads and think “Yeah right.” MORE FROM FORBES 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 4, Episode 4 Review: 'Milk' It Does A Body Good By Erik Kain Janine intervenes, telling Steven about June freeing all those kids from Gilead, and he relents. She asks to come along and Steven says no, fresh meat don’t get to go on trading runs. In the bandit hideout, June learns that the bandits are planning on trading a bunch of the food they came by for other supplies like fuel and bullets and batteries.
So it’s that much more infuriating when June guilt-trips her into leaving the bandit hideout.
So while we may look at the whole thing with skepticism or disgust, to Janine it’s something that must look and feel a lot more like safety and affection. I’m merely pointing out that from Janine’s messed up perspective, being given any sort of choice, being treated with any degree of kindness, is a massive step up from what she’s been subjected to for all this time in Gilead. I will say it plainly: I am not defending Steven here. Steven, on the other hand, gave her a choice and treated her with kindness-aside from the initial coercion.
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