“I loved seeing my mother like that,” June narrates.
(Well, she was right about that.)
In the flashbacks, we see how the disapprovalthe disappointmentgnawed at June.
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There’s precious little time to say goodbye.
Then, another man arrives to pick her up, named Omar.
But then, he stops.
He apologizes and indicates he needs to leave herpresumably for dead.
June refuses to be left behind.
She begs him, slamming on his car window, to take her with him.
Then she stands in front of his truck, in tearsunmovable.
He’s heartbroken, and reluctantly, he brings her into the car.
There’s that grit her mother was talking about.
She’s in Ontario, living with Luke, slowly recovering from her unimaginable trauma.
Moira also works at the refugee center, helping to transition the most recent of the escapees.
It’s not easy to move on.
Moira can only tell the army man that it gets better.
She’s living proofsort of.
June, meanwhile, is taken to Omar’s home in secret.
The memories continue to haunt hernot just of her mother, but of her daughter.
June now can’t get her daughter out of her headshe’s occupying the same space as her mother.
June puts on Heather’s clothes and leaves the apartment.
She’s on her own now.
She makes progress, boarding a train and matching its route to what she sees on her map.
June again stays focused.
“Raise your daughter to be a feminist,” she narrates.
“She spends all her time waiting to be rescued by men.”
Against all odds, June gets to the airfield.
She reflects, powerfully, as the plan reaches completionas her perseverance is on the verge of paying off.
“We did as well as most.
I wish my mother were here so I could tell her I finally know this.
So I could tell her I forgive her.
And then ask Hannah to forgive me.”
It’s also key because we probably won’t see her get that close again.
Just as the plane begins to move, in a defeating turn, we hear gunshots.
It’s a credit to the episode that the moment lands as shockingly as it does.
The pilot’s head is blown off, gruesomely.
The driver is dragged out.
And then, screaming, so is June.
Where this leaves her, we’ll have to wait to find out.
