From the context I can gather from other sources, this takes place after the provisional government had split. The Sons Of Jacob government, although not yet proclaiming the republic of gilead, had taken over DC and had begun consolidating authoritarian power while the US government had relocated to New York along with most foreign embassies. The country was still under martial law (hence the military occupation of the airport) and people had begun fleeing sensing a coming war. The airport staff was essentially being issued two sets of conflicting orders, one from the SOJ government to nullify all same sex marriages and screen for potential Handmaids, which is what the ICE agent was following and another from the US government telling them to let anyone related to foreign nationals (the borders were still closed to US citizens) leave. This is why the military and the first ICE agent let them through, they were loyal to the US government but the second ICE agent was loyal to the SOJ.
The ICE agent who forbids Emily to board the plane to Montreal with her wife and son becomes a Guardian later. You see him in the opening of one of the later episodes of Season 3 when there is a flashback to the fertile women being rounded up and thrown and beaten into cages. June pleads to him that she has a daughter and she was taken from her, but he simply puts his finger to his lips shushing her and says "no talking"..
I would assume a lot of the U.S Troops at those airports(I believe National Guard) are still loyal to the U.S Constitution and there are only a few Sons of Jacob Loyalists in there, as it was said that a lot of National Guard units and U.S Troops fought back against Gilead and the Guardians, while others were forcibly integrated as Guardians. I do see what you said that the ICE Agent is a Sons of Jacob Loyalist at the time of the scene as he later becomes a Guardian, however I do believe that the rest of the agents and soldiers there are just trying to protect people. It helps me sleep at night and makes the lore more interesting, however I do think it was true.
@@smarticle4ever ^ It is. Look closely. His eyes. It is hard to tell since he is wearing a hat in the airport scene and is not wearing one in Season 3 when the women are being rounded up at the start of Gilead. It would seem reasonable that the show would reuse extras to play small roles in different episodes. Trust me.
@@taiwandxt6493 Literally it would take a few months for the Sons of Jacob to seize Boston. Also months later in early winter for June, Luke and Hannah to try to flee. The airport must of banned non domestic flights for a month or more. As I watched the show. The provisional Government was trying to connect the dots and suddenly DC falls and it starts to collapse as the Sons of Jacob got stronger and all the females and Males who saw that a group funded and caused the attack.
0:56 As I remembered the scene. DC had already fallen and the Provisional members who didn't go along with them made New York City the seat of the government.
Whenever I watch this episode, I wonder what happened to the other airport staff. The nice guy who was overwhelmed by all the paperwork. What did they do with him? Did they have to shoot him? The nice lady whose son is six years old. Did she become a handmaid? I’m sure the jerkass “was it your egg” guy probably went to work for the guardians or angels or whoever. But the other two make me sad to think about.
Unlike this episode. The US government and under collaboration with the Taliban allowed a secret evacuation at the part of Kabul Airport no one would escape thru. In real Life you would had seen the Canadian, Brits and other countries chartering buses and planes to do an evacuation from a country.
I was surprised that they let Oliver go with his other mother. Even though he is a Canadian citizen, they could easily have required him to stay with Emily, as she is his biological mother and they didn't recognize any relation between him and Sylvia, and in effect taken custody of them both.
All those people desperate to board the last flights to Canada, Mexico and Europe. Probably many willing to travel to anywhere even former enemy states like Iran to escape. I imagine countries like Ireland, UK, France, Spain, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and Australia being overwhelmed with millions of americans fleeing. This isnt an underdeveloped nation falling apart, its a nation with wealth and excellent infrastructure. People fleeing via planes with their savings, not boarding dingys across the sea. I as a European actually fear the way the US is going. How this could happen soon. If Trump wins... He will undermine democracy. If Biden wins, trump may demand his supporters take to the streets. The USA once the nation other western nations seen as stable and the leader of us all, is weak and on the verge of collapse. Us smaller western nations in europe, Canada and Australia etc, no longer feeling the former symbol of democracy has a democratic future. Europe is the new centre of the west.
Really? Boarding a dingy is often more expensive than boarding a plane because the refugees have to pay traffickers who help or at least claim to help them to avoid border patrol. The reason most refugees (especially those from underdeveloped countries, as you put it) don't flee by plane, is because for that they would need a visa and like Emily, are denied one. That's why Emily, like a lot of actual refugees, later escapes to Canada by crossing the boarder illegally and nearly drowning in the border river by doing so.
@@Angela-lp7zw and now the supreme court in the US is outlawing abortion and saying they'll soon evaluate contraception, same sex marriage and even sodomy laws on gay relations. It's frightening. All we can do in Europe is watch on shocked and angry for you all
What can one soldier do? Not much. One "troublemaker" could be arrested and shot for treason. Maybe in a perfect world, where every single US soldier at every American airport would have refused to follow orders from Gilead (still flying the colors of the US) and overrode the ICE's authority, Gilead wouldn't have that much women to enslave and rape or people to turn into Econopeople. They would be even more fucked than they as their plan relies on enslaving fertile women, without handmaids and econopeople, Gilead would collapse on itself. But in that fucked up world, nobody saw it coming. June says that most people were pretty much asleep and oblivious to what was happening until it was too late. Commanders and their Wives, Guardians deserve to pay. Honestly they deserve the same treatment they gave the US government and president. Just have Mayday plant bombs on their shitty perversion of the Washington momument and lure Commanders in all areas to meet at one place then bomb those locations too. WIthout any chain of command, some Guardians will fuck up and get lynched by a crowd, some would switch allegiances and others would run to Mexico or Canada. Most of them are just spineless and power hungry cowards to begin with. That would be poetic justice for Gilead. Have it end the same way as it ended the USA.
@@orlandojuarez9742 De facto, yeah. Remember that there's a news article about the Presidents Day Massacre where a group of civil servants claim that the government will continue to function. Those men were working directly for the Sons of Jacob. They just hadn't changed the flag or proclaimed Gilead as a successor state. There's also one scene in what appears to be a government building with Serena being shut out of a government security meeting for being a woman. In one shot, you can still see an American flag in the corner. The transition from the US to Gilead wasn't supposed to be completely overnight. They banned everything gradually and slowly, so most people wouldn't realize and wouldn't protest due to the panic and fear that rose from the DC attacks. TL:DR, the soldiers think that they are protecting America or some of them even support SoJ, so they don't act before it's too late.
@@YourAverageMinecraftiaeverything did happen slowly like you said, but remember it’s also mentioned that big changes were made on the same day: women not being able to work and own property. i’m guessing they also banned american citizens to leave the country (and shut down/killed all media businesses and their workers) that same day as they knew these changes and the state’s reaction to the protests would’ve triggered the massive exodus we see in this scene. scary stuff
without the USA Nato fell apart. The EU became the largest super power over night and the Euro replaced the dollar they also put sanctions on guilad . The UK allied with Canada and the USA remnant its referenced that a large British army force is stationed in Canada in the current events to defend against attack the Uk also took in a lot ofus refugees. basically due to unrest all over most countries did not have the resources to help.
it is considered a civil war, Gilead is not recognized as a legit government but its forces yield considerable power. NATO is still very much allied with the American government based in Alaska but Gilead as stated in the show is a black hole. It is probable that guiliad seized much of the US's tanks and fighter jets and has at least one air craft carrier which would make it a difficult enemy for NATO. Canada and the UK have been massing troops on the border and I would bet France, Germany and Belgium will be training their troops for an eventual invasion. it would probably take about a decade to prepare such a force considering the republic of Gilead has a decent army and air force along with a small navy.
because its likely that the weren't US Military, just wearing the uniform. The civil war had probably just began and that's why most foreign nationals were fleeing. half the Army was loyal to the American Government that fled to Alaska and half was loyal to Gilead d who controlled Washington DC . this scene probably depicts the weeks before they changed uniforms and changed the flag.
@@axp07 I agree with that theory but with one small thing. I don't think they were Guardians simply wearing U.S Army uniforms, but I think they were actually U.S soldiers. The reason why I think they didn't do anything is because of ignorance of the situation. They probably didn't know what specifically those ICE agents were doing. Their job was to simply act as security and maintain order in the chaotic airports, so they do that job because that was probably the only orders they were given in the wake of the President's Day Massacre. I bet you that once the situation became clear, those soldiers began rebelling against Gilead, maybe even escaping to Canada.
If she wasnt fertile they would send her to forced labour camps because she is a lesbian and a college teacher. Her wife was allowed to go Canada because she is canadian
^ I assume you're referring to the terrorist attacks engineered by the Sons of Jacob on Washington DC, assassinating the president, all of the US Congress, and the Supreme Court. It is not exactly known. But I would venture to guess that it is long enough after the attacks that the emerging regime of Gilead knew that they would be making sure to the best of their abilities that all fertile women did not leave the country.
@@rominn2184 It has to be so much not long later that people are fleeing. I can guess they want to get their hands on US born Fertile women while the non US Born ones were able to leave.
^ No idea how long after the DC attacks this particular scene is taking place. It also doesn't really matter. The point is, after the US government was overthrown, it was all downhill from there and the Sons of Jacob could gradually dismantle American democracy and all the civil liberties and personal freedoms that we enjoy. We see here that they've already gotten around to eliminating the legality of same sex marriage since that ICE agent has declared to Emily and Sylvia that that Massachussetts marriage license of theirs is null and void. And yes, Sylvia and her child could leave because they are Canadian. Any foreigners in the US are likely leaving at the same time or may have even been ordered to leave by the new regime as the United States is collapsing. But place of birth doesn't matter. A woman who was born elsewhere but who became an American citizen and couldn't prove their second citizenship would be just as screwed as a woman born in the US. God pray they find some way to get out.
^ What seal? They are leaving Boston, Massachussetts, and they were married there. The image on the form is that of Massachussetts. It says Commonwealth of Massachussetts certificate of marriage. Where are you getting Maryland from?
@@orlandojuarez9742 Simple ignorance, they probably didn't have a centralized chain of command after the President's Day Massacre, and the only orders that came in for them was to act as security and maintain order in the airports. So more often than not, the U.S Army soldiers stationed there were focused on their own job and had absolutely zero idea of what that ICE Agent was doing.
@@orlandojuarez9742 whos to say they weren't apart of the coup. At this point in their universe the east coast had been seized by Gilead while the west was plunged into civil war.
All the liberals will soon be punished. The truth and justice of American patriot men is rising in our great country and we will tear back what was stolen from us.
Crazy how mentally fucked in the head you have to be to watch a whole season of people being tortured, raped, murdered and still come here to say that the evil fuckers are doing “the right thing”. Troll
From the context I can gather from other sources, this takes place after the provisional government had split. The Sons Of Jacob government, although not yet proclaiming the republic of gilead, had taken over DC and had begun consolidating authoritarian power while the US government had relocated to New York along with most foreign embassies. The country was still under martial law (hence the military occupation of the airport) and people had begun fleeing sensing a coming war. The airport staff was essentially being issued two sets of conflicting orders, one from the SOJ government to nullify all same sex marriages and screen for potential Handmaids, which is what the ICE agent was following and another from the US government telling them to let anyone related to foreign nationals (the borders were still closed to US citizens) leave. This is why the military and the first ICE agent let them through, they were loyal to the US government but the second ICE agent was loyal to the SOJ.
The ICE agent who forbids Emily to board the plane to Montreal with her wife and son becomes a Guardian later. You see him in the opening of one of the later episodes of Season 3 when there is a flashback to the fertile women being rounded up and thrown and beaten into cages. June pleads to him that she has a daughter and she was taken from her, but he simply puts his finger to his lips shushing her and says "no talking"..
I would assume a lot of the U.S Troops at those airports(I believe National Guard) are still loyal to the U.S Constitution and there are only a few Sons of Jacob Loyalists in there, as it was said that a lot of National Guard units and U.S Troops fought back against Gilead and the Guardians, while others were forcibly integrated as Guardians. I do see what you said that the ICE Agent is a Sons of Jacob Loyalist at the time of the scene as he later becomes a Guardian, however I do believe that the rest of the agents and soldiers there are just trying to protect people. It helps me sleep at night and makes the lore more interesting, however I do think it was true.
i don't think that was the same guy
@@smarticle4ever ^ It is. Look closely. His eyes. It is hard to tell since he is wearing a hat in the airport scene and is not wearing one in Season 3 when the women are being rounded up at the start of Gilead. It would seem reasonable that the show would reuse extras to play small roles in different episodes. Trust me.
@@taiwandxt6493 Literally it would take a few months for the Sons of Jacob to seize Boston. Also months later in early winter for June, Luke and Hannah to try to flee. The airport must of banned non domestic flights for a month or more. As I watched the show. The provisional Government was trying to connect the dots and suddenly DC falls and it starts to collapse as the Sons of Jacob got stronger and all the females and Males who saw that a group funded and caused the attack.
@@smarticle4ever He literally told Emily about the Law.
0:56 As I remembered the scene. DC had already fallen and the Provisional members who didn't go along with them made New York City the seat of the government.
Whenever I watch this episode, I wonder what happened to the other airport staff. The nice guy who was overwhelmed by all the paperwork. What did they do with him? Did they have to shoot him? The nice lady whose son is six years old. Did she become a handmaid?
I’m sure the jerkass “was it your egg” guy probably went to work for the guardians or angels or whoever. But the other two make me sad to think about.
I think they were Canadian staff.
After seeing Kabul, this is too realistic
yeah. men and especially women slowly but surely realizing that their life of freedom and personal human rights will soon be ripped away from them
Unlike this episode. The US government and under collaboration with the Taliban allowed a secret evacuation at the part of Kabul Airport no one would escape thru. In real Life you would had seen the Canadian, Brits and other countries chartering buses and planes to do an evacuation from a country.
My prayers are with Afganistan's people
I was surprised that they let Oliver go with his other mother. Even though he is a Canadian citizen, they could easily have required him to stay with Emily, as she is his biological mother and they didn't recognize any relation between him and Sylvia, and in effect taken custody of them both.
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist"
Ah let them take the socialists, and the commies, they can take them aswell
Socialists are scum just like these feminist sinners. The punishment s coming and the truth will will be stiff and unyielding
@@liamcullen5105 Not the point. Read "First they came..." by Martin Niemoller.
Welcome to Gilead.
All those people desperate to board the last flights to Canada, Mexico and Europe.
Probably many willing to travel to anywhere even former enemy states like Iran to escape.
I imagine countries like Ireland, UK, France, Spain, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and Australia being overwhelmed with millions of americans fleeing. This isnt an underdeveloped nation falling apart, its a nation with wealth and excellent infrastructure. People fleeing via planes with their savings, not boarding dingys across the sea.
I as a European actually fear the way the US is going. How this could happen soon. If Trump wins... He will undermine democracy. If Biden wins, trump may demand his supporters take to the streets.
The USA once the nation other western nations seen as stable and the leader of us all, is weak and on the verge of collapse. Us smaller western nations in europe, Canada and Australia etc, no longer feeling the former symbol of democracy has a democratic future. Europe is the new centre of the west.
Well you've been right so far..
No one would go to Iran LMFAO
Really? Boarding a dingy is often more expensive than boarding a plane because the refugees have to pay traffickers who help or at least claim to help them to avoid border patrol. The reason most refugees (especially those from underdeveloped countries, as you put it) don't flee by plane, is because for that they would need a visa and like Emily, are denied one. That's why Emily, like a lot of actual refugees, later escapes to Canada by crossing the boarder illegally and nearly drowning in the border river by doing so.
@@Angela-lp7zw and now the supreme court in the US is outlawing abortion and saying they'll soon evaluate contraception, same sex marriage and even sodomy laws on gay relations. It's frightening. All we can do in Europe is watch on shocked and angry for you all
@@udhav423 going to iran is 100000 better than being in the republic of giliard wtf are u talking about
3:40 the soldier saw those jerk why didn't do something?
What can one soldier do? Not much. One "troublemaker" could be arrested and shot for treason.
Maybe in a perfect world, where every single US soldier at every American airport would have refused to follow orders from Gilead (still flying the colors of the US) and overrode the ICE's authority, Gilead wouldn't have that much women to enslave and rape or people to turn into Econopeople. They would be even more fucked than they as their plan relies on enslaving fertile women, without handmaids and econopeople, Gilead would collapse on itself.
But in that fucked up world, nobody saw it coming. June says that most people were pretty much asleep and oblivious to what was happening until it was too late. Commanders and their Wives, Guardians deserve to pay. Honestly they deserve the same treatment they gave the US government and president. Just have Mayday plant bombs on their shitty perversion of the Washington momument and lure Commanders in all areas to meet at one place then bomb those locations too. WIthout any chain of command, some Guardians will fuck up and get lynched by a crowd, some would switch allegiances and others would run to Mexico or Canada. Most of them are just spineless and power hungry cowards to begin with. That would be poetic justice for Gilead. Have it end the same way as it ended the USA.
@@YourAverageMinecraftia so the soldiers are taking orders are taking orders from Gilead?
@@orlandojuarez9742 De facto, yeah.
Remember that there's a news article about the Presidents Day Massacre where a group of civil servants claim that the government will continue to function.
Those men were working directly for the Sons of Jacob. They just hadn't changed the flag or proclaimed Gilead as a successor state.
There's also one scene in what appears to be a government building with Serena being shut out of a government security meeting for being a woman. In one shot, you can still see an American flag in the corner.
The transition from the US to Gilead wasn't supposed to be completely overnight. They banned everything gradually and slowly, so most people wouldn't realize and wouldn't protest due to the panic and fear that rose from the DC attacks.
TL:DR, the soldiers think that they are protecting America or some of them even support SoJ, so they don't act before it's too late.
@@YourAverageMinecraftia so they're cowards.
@@YourAverageMinecraftiaeverything did happen slowly like you said, but remember it’s also mentioned that big changes were made on the same day: women not being able to work and own property. i’m guessing they also banned american citizens to leave the country (and shut down/killed all media businesses and their workers) that same day as they knew these changes and the state’s reaction to the protests would’ve triggered the massive exodus we see in this scene. scary stuff
As I watched this show especially this flash back. Where is NATO when its biggest allied is collapsing.
without the USA Nato fell apart. The EU became the largest super power over night and the Euro replaced the dollar they also put sanctions on guilad . The UK allied with Canada and the USA remnant its referenced that a large British army force is stationed in Canada in the current events to defend against attack the Uk also took in a lot ofus refugees. basically due to unrest all over most countries did not have the resources to help.
@@neilcrombie4100 That is a good theory.
@@johndavis8669 its on the wiki but thats more from the book not as much the show
@@neilcrombie4100 they've never mentioned British forces in Canada and we've only seen Canadian troops. That was the book.
it is considered a civil war, Gilead is not recognized as a legit government but its forces yield considerable power. NATO is still very much allied with the American government based in Alaska but Gilead as stated in the show is a black hole. It is probable that guiliad seized much of the US's tanks and fighter jets and has at least one air craft carrier which would make it a difficult enemy for NATO. Canada and the UK have been massing troops on the border and I would bet France, Germany and Belgium will be training their troops for an eventual invasion. it would probably take about a decade to prepare such a force considering the republic of Gilead has a decent army and air force along with a small navy.
Now is that happening on Afghanistan!! 😭💔 #PrayforAfghanistan !!!!
3:39 Why didn't the u.s. military stop the ice?
because its likely that the weren't US Military, just wearing the uniform. The civil war had probably just began and that's why most foreign nationals were fleeing. half the Army was loyal to the American Government that fled to Alaska and half was loyal to Gilead d who controlled Washington DC . this scene probably depicts the weeks before they changed uniforms and changed the flag.
@@axp07 I agree with that theory but with one small thing. I don't think they were Guardians simply wearing U.S Army uniforms, but I think they were actually U.S soldiers. The reason why I think they didn't do anything is because of ignorance of the situation. They probably didn't know what specifically those ICE agents were doing. Their job was to simply act as security and maintain order in the chaotic airports, so they do that job because that was probably the only orders they were given in the wake of the President's Day Massacre. I bet you that once the situation became clear, those soldiers began rebelling against Gilead, maybe even escaping to Canada.
@@axp07 More like hours before Sons of Jacob stormed Boston. As martial law already ruled.
Can someone please explain to me why the ice officer was so concerned about whether it was her egg or an implanted embryo?
They're looking for fertile women to be made into handmaids
@@Artflow_ara If she wasn't fertile, they would allow her flight to Canada?
If she wasnt fertile they would send her to forced labour camps because she is a lesbian and a college teacher. Her wife was allowed to go Canada because she is canadian
@@esteban3013 no, she would become marta, collony worker, or hanged.
@@gabrielladiniz9155 salve br
As I watch this. How long after the attacks this took place?
^ I assume you're referring to the terrorist attacks engineered by the Sons of Jacob on Washington DC, assassinating the president, all of the US Congress, and the Supreme Court. It is not exactly known. But I would venture to guess that it is long enough after the attacks that the emerging regime of Gilead knew that they would be making sure to the best of their abilities that all fertile women did not leave the country.
@@rominn2184 It has to be so much not long later that people are fleeing. I can guess they want to get their hands on US born Fertile women while the non US Born ones were able to leave.
^ No idea how long after the DC attacks this particular scene is taking place. It also doesn't really matter. The point is, after the US government was overthrown, it was all downhill from there and the Sons of Jacob could gradually dismantle American democracy and all the civil liberties and personal freedoms that we enjoy. We see here that they've already gotten around to eliminating the legality of same sex marriage since that ICE agent has declared to Emily and Sylvia that that Massachussetts marriage license of theirs is null and void. And yes, Sylvia and her child could leave because they are Canadian. Any foreigners in the US are likely leaving at the same time or may have even been ordered to leave by the new regime as the United States is collapsing. But place of birth doesn't matter. A woman who was born elsewhere but who became an American citizen and couldn't prove their second citizenship would be just as screwed as a woman born in the US. God pray they find some way to get out.
@@rominn2184 The seal is that of Maryland.
^ What seal? They are leaving Boston, Massachussetts, and they were married there. The image on the form is that of Massachussetts. It says Commonwealth of Massachussetts certificate of marriage. Where are you getting Maryland from?
3:14 there is no "the law" and didn't the national guards arrest that jerk?
This is from the show the Handmaids Tale, this was when the fictional government started becoming fascist like that
@@TheFreshTrumpet I know that but why didn't the military or the national guard do something that guy?
@@orlandojuarez9742 Simple ignorance, they probably didn't have a centralized chain of command after the President's Day Massacre, and the only orders that came in for them was to act as security and maintain order in the airports. So more often than not, the U.S Army soldiers stationed there were focused on their own job and had absolutely zero idea of what that ICE Agent was doing.
@@orlandojuarez9742 whos to say they weren't apart of the coup. At this point in their universe the east coast had been seized by Gilead while the west was plunged into civil war.
@@orlandojuarez9742 They were both in on it with him. The military already belonged to the new regime.
If this was not a marriage anymore, why was the Canadian woman allowed to take the kid?
The kid was also born in Canada.
@@bgos4727 But according to the new laws, not a ward of the Canadian lesbian. Perhaps, boys were simply not important in the new ideology...
@@tangshiming7804 They didn't want to have diplomatic issues with Canada. The kid and the woman both had Canadian citizenships, so they let them pass.
America's future
@@qkljhewgfhergk taking a break from the lesbian porn fella?
In real life. Just shut up !
You know MH370 plane gone missing...
Reichskomissariat Amerika.
They did the right thing
All the liberals will soon be punished. The truth and justice of American patriot men is rising in our great country and we will tear back what was stolen from us.
Troll
Crazy how mentally fucked in the head you have to be to watch a whole season of people being tortured, raped, murdered and still come here to say that the evil fuckers are doing “the right thing”. Troll
You’re a loser