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A badly wounded June is taken to a Mayday safehouse by the other handmaids, which is a farmhouse run by Esther Keyes, the fiercely angry 14-year-old bride of Commander Keyes. Esther has been sedating her elderly husband to keep him from finding out about her involvement with helping Mayday, and with the arrival of June, helps the fugitive handmaids secure complete control over the compound. After learning that Esther was gang raped by her husband's associates, June promises that God will bring those men to justice. One of the rapists later trespasses on the farm and Esther, under June's direction, executes him in the barn for the crimes of rape and treason. Aunt Lydia is interrogated at the hands of the Commanders and is pardoned; she declares June a menace that must be destroyed before she takes down Gilead. Serena and Fred meanwhile discover the arrival of the rescued children to Canada and the threat of war their arrival heralds as Gilead demands their return. They are also informed that they will be kept in custody as their trial will be postponed.