That’s right, everyone: it was Lawrence who leaked the plans for the rescue mission – and who betrayed June in order to impress a few international pals. Pals which, we hasten to add, he doesn’t seem all that enamoured to be associated with.

Hmm. Lawrence is well and truly a ‘shades of grey’ character, so we can only hope that what’s left of his tortured soul is stirred into action when MacKenzie makes a few loaded hints about June being a “problem” that needs fixing.

Cue a Gilead-approved mass shooting at the memorial for the soldiers who were killed in the failed raid, with June leaping to save the late Elijah Vance’s daughter from the bullets raining down on them.

“I knew I wanted to end the episode with that image of a woman protecting a child in a world of very dangerous firearms and nationalism,” Whitford, who directed the episode, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“There was a part of me that wanted to show the obscenity and the desecration of America that the normalisation of gunfire has brought about.”

“Praise be”

We could spend hours talking about Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and her unerring ability to play the game. All we really need to know, though, is this: she manipulates her way to an event she’s basically been banned from, and uses it as an opportunity to… well, to execute the most poorly thought-out escape plan of all time.

It is, essentially, this: she grabs baby Noah, she walks through an unlocked door onto the street, she hails down a car, any old car, and hops into it.

Handmaid’s Tale season 5 episode 9 recap: we finally found hope in a hopeless place