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The Testaments Season 1 Episode 1
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00:01This is Radio Free Boston with an update.
00:04Do we have a 4-0-3?
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00:13For everyone still inside, keep your head down and stay safe.
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00:30There is a possibility of recent sanctions against the Gilead State.
01:01This is Radio Free America.
01:16you want to know what it was like for me growing up in Gilead
01:22I'm ashamed to say that I believed in Gilead once
01:25I guess it's easier to accept a story even a childish one
01:31rather than believe that the people around you are monsters
01:39blessed morning Agnes
01:41in this story I'm telling I'm not really sure what year it was
01:46sorry it's hard to remember actual dates because girls were forbidden to have calendars
01:52just reading one could cost you a finger
02:04you learn to mark time in other ways
02:08I know I still had my dollhouse
02:10it looked just like our real house
02:14it had my bedroom and the dining room
02:17a wife's parlor even an attic where the Martha slept
02:20they're in the badlands looking for me
02:23we're in the city getting out of the breeze
02:27but the dream falls back on me
02:30I'm free
02:35I was a plum
02:38I didn't have my period yet
02:40in my world then
02:42I made all the difference
02:45it was all we wanted
02:47and it also terrified us
02:56I know what to do
02:58now that I've got a man like you
03:01in the summertime
03:03it can be so cool
03:05baby don't look cool
03:08I know what to do
03:12now that I've got a man like you
03:27the commander doll was always doing very important work
03:30just like my father
03:32keeping us safe from heretics and mayday terrorists
03:51the Martha dolls were always busy
03:54but at night they would let the little girl doll sit in the kitchen with them
03:59they would make her cinnamon toast and they would all talk
04:09there is a wife doll
04:11in blue of course
04:13that would be Paula
04:15who was my new stepmother then
04:18blessed morning Agnes dear
04:20Rosa how's your leg
04:21please tell me it's better
04:22yes ma'am
04:25it's kind of you to ask
04:26praise be his mercy
04:30the high dusting is catching up with us I'm afraid
04:32yes ma'am
04:33I'll do that after the commander's meeting
04:40thank you Zilla
04:42Zilla was new
04:44her tongue was removed as punishment
04:45before she was posted with us
04:48probably for blasphemy
04:50that was a big one for some wives
04:53well she's certainly an improvement
04:55that last one we had was a chatty Cathy
04:58sometimes when I was playing with the dollhouse
05:01I would lock the Paula doll in the attic
05:04which was not nice
05:06the Paula doll would pound on the door and scream
05:08but the little girl doll would pay no attention
05:11and sometimes she would laugh
05:13is that the new skirt?
05:17up then
05:21well don't you look pretty as a picture
05:25thank you
05:28mother
05:31I was worried to make you look gawky
05:33but no
05:40praise be his mercy
05:42for not making me look too gawky
05:46I'm an irritant to Paula
05:50she wants me married and gone
05:53I was born in the sinful before world
05:57please keep the counter clean
05:58we don't want to get ants again
06:00yes ma'am
06:05don't slouch dear
06:07slouching girls get fat husbands
06:30under his eyes
06:31sweet bye
06:32bye Rosa
06:49once when we were pinks
06:51I smiled at a boy on the playground
06:53Leons taped my mouth shut
06:55and made me stand in the dining hall for two days
06:57holding the sign for a slut
06:59that was for smiling
07:01I wonder what would happen if I kissed one
07:05oh
07:06oh
07:06oh
07:06oh
07:06oh
07:08oh
07:11oh
07:40To be continued...
07:41We started going on the field trips.
07:45They were fun.
07:47Some parts more than others.
08:24Come along, girls.
08:27Come on, girls.
08:28We're going to go.
08:28We're going to go.
08:29And tell me what I'm dreaming.
08:35Dreaming is free.
08:37Quiet, quiet, quiet.
08:38Dreaming.
08:41Dreaming is free.
08:42I don't want to live on charity.
08:50Measures free or is it fantasy?
08:59Gross.
09:00Hold it enough.
09:02God's justice is beautiful.
09:05I'm sorry, Aunt Vidala.
09:08Friends, these men.
09:11Do you know what crime they committed?
09:15Yes, Shinami.
09:17Rape.
09:18Ah, Vidala, that's what the red X is for.
09:20It's for rape.
09:21Praise be.
09:23Friends, these men.
09:25These horrible men.
09:29Rapists?
09:30You say rapists?
09:32Rapists, yes.
09:34Thank you, Shinami.
09:36Not raper.
09:37I didn't know that.
09:39Friends, it's a ghastly story.
09:41These men stole a young girl.
09:44Much like yourselves.
09:45This young girl was a kind who liked being the center of attention.
09:49A spirited girl.
09:51That kind of girl often earns a violent end for herself.
09:55Praise be his judgment.
09:57Praise be his judgment.
09:58These men saw this girl.
10:00They were overcome by their urges.
10:04They came in the night and took her from her own bed.
10:09What about her guardians?
10:11Some of them were her guardians.
10:14The urges of men are terrible things.
10:16And those urges must be curbed.
10:19That is the burden that God has personally laid upon each of you.
10:22Just by existing, we are mortally dangerous to otherwise perfectly good men.
10:28They were helpless to resist us.
10:31Even us.
10:32The daughters of commanders.
10:34The most godly of girls.
10:57I was a precious flower.
11:01Then why did I sometimes feel like a prized pig?
11:03One.
11:04One.
11:20I was a little bit of a droid over here.
11:32The world's a big boy.
11:33These men and men are really scared to see the waves.
11:36At the Aunt Lydia's school, pink dresses were for little girls.
11:40Plum dresses were for older girls like us.
11:44Predestined to marry high Gilead commanders once, we became eligible,
11:47which only happened if God blessed us with a period.
11:51Then we became greens and got pins.
11:56Blessed be the fruit.
11:59You're insane. The skirt looks fine.
12:01May the Lord open, don't bother.
12:02Even God knows Paula has no taste.
12:05Come along, Prince.
12:09Becca was the first person I met when we moved here from Colorado.
12:13She was my best friend, except we weren't allowed to have best friends.
12:17Leont said that best friends led to keeping secrets, and secrets led to disobedience.
12:21And disobedient girls became women who were immoral, obviously.
12:25We've been sent good weather.
12:27His blessing?
12:29Do you have your address for me?
12:30You're moving, girls. Let's go.
12:32After lunch.
12:33Becca was already green.
12:35She was getting ready to be matched.
12:37She was moving on without me.
12:39But we didn't talk about that.
12:41This will be our third seamstress.
12:43My mother thinks if she gets the bodice just right, everyone will forget my dad's a dentist.
12:48Maybe you should dress as a tooth.
12:50Blessed day.
12:51Blessed day.
12:52We've been sent good weather.
12:53Thought I received with joy.
12:55Very, very cute hair.
12:57Yeah, I definitely agree.
12:58Thanks.
12:59New Martha.
13:00Blessed be yours, too.
13:01Seriously.
13:01My Martha sucks.
13:02I look like I have a bedhead.
13:04Shunammite.
13:05Chitter, chatter, chitter, chatter.
13:06Flap your tongue around and you're likely to lose it.
13:09Yes, Aunt Badala.
13:10Have a graceful day, girls.
13:12More haste, let's see.
13:17Aunt Lydia was a legend.
13:19Blessed day, Aunt Lydia.
13:20She had been worshipped, then vilified.
13:22Thank you, Aunt Lydia.
13:23Then worshipped again.
13:25Blessed day, Aunt Lydia.
13:26In the four years since the War of Massachusetts, the purges had happened.
13:31As always, those remaining were able to shape history as they liked.
13:35Some people were hung.
13:37And some had schools named after them.
13:43At one time, we, too, were foolish, disobedient, deceived, and enslaved by all kinds of passions
13:49and envy.
13:51We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
13:55But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us.
14:01Not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.
14:06He saved us through the wall.
14:07White was for the Pearl Girls.
14:09They were new arrivals from outside of Gilead.
14:12Converts were a godly struggle.
14:17Aunt Lydia and her missionaries gathered them from all over the world.
14:20They were mostly runaways.
14:22Of course they had to be young, and possibly fertile.
14:26Weirdos.
14:34The aunts said the Pearl Girls came eager for a new start.
14:37They were even more eager to prove their godliness by telling on you to the aunts.
14:42We all knew someone who had been ratted out by a Pearl Girl.
14:46Amen.
14:47The passion of the converted.
14:50What a pain in the ass.
15:14Nice work, Constance.
15:16Constance.
15:30Pretty daisies, Hulda.
15:33Really?
15:34Thank you, Aunt Este.
15:35They're actually black-eyed Susan.
15:37Should you be thanking me?
15:39No.
15:40No.
15:41Yink him.
15:42Aunt Este.
15:43Making me able, and for the flowers he made, and the thread.
15:48Pray forgive me.
15:50You are forgiven.
15:52Just be mindful around Alphidala.
15:57Aunt Gabbana!
15:58Blessed morning.
16:05Agnes.
16:06Aunt Lydia would like to speak with you.
16:14Come along.
16:16Agnes, get up, please.
16:18I'm sure it's good news.
16:20Back to work.
16:55By tradition, only dead people are allowed.
16:58To have statues.
17:00I have been given one while still alive.
17:04Praise be your works, Aunt Lydia.
17:07I have been prematurely petrified.
17:15Agnes Mackenzie, how the time goes by.
17:20I have been watching you for quite a while now.
17:24Why, Aunt Lydia?
17:26Soon to be eligible.
17:28May God make me truly worthy.
17:31Ah, you will be rewarded.
17:33If you are free of sin, of course.
17:36Do you know why this statue was erected?
17:41So you can always be watching over us.
17:44Yes.
17:45We inspire the world with our good works, Agnes.
17:48Do you agree?
17:49Yes, Aunt Lydia.
17:50Excellent.
17:52I have good work that needs doing.
17:54Helping a new friend feel welcome.
18:03Agnes, this is Daisy.
18:06One of my precious, precious pearls recently arrived.
18:10Daisy may be joining your class.
18:14She's going to be a plum?
18:16Perhaps.
18:17I'd like you to show her around.
18:19Make her feel comfortable.
18:21Be her shepherdess.
18:23It's an honor for you, Agnes.
18:26Thank you, Aunt Lydia.
18:28Daisy, be a good girl and stay with Agnes.
18:30Lambs, don't stray.
18:33Yes, Aunt Lydia.
18:35Thank you, Aunt Lydia.
18:38Wonderful.
18:38Go in grace.
18:51Blessed fruit.
18:52May the Lord open.
19:03Painting and sketching.
19:11Music classroom.
19:19Comportments this way.
19:20Domestic management is upstairs with Aunt L'Oreal.
19:23Hospitality, decorating, culinary arts.
19:27Fiber arts, like embroidery, lace making.
19:31You can make a tablecloth, if you dare.
19:34And scripture class.
19:36Praise be his word.
19:40Weirdo.
19:42Aunt Lydia didn't tell me much about you.
19:46Did she tell you anything about me?
19:50Nothing.
19:51Miss Agnes.
20:02Did she ask you to watch me?
20:06Of course.
20:07Miss Agnes.
20:10To learn how to behave properly.
20:15Discipline and corrections are in the on-swing.
20:17You only go there when you earn it.
20:24And lunch.
20:25Blessed be his bounty.
20:32This is the dining room.
20:33Great, obviously.
20:36Let's eat.
20:40You cannot be mistress of a house.
20:43Unless you are the mistress of yourself.
20:46Do you understand me, girls?
20:48Yes, Amadala.
20:51It is an offense to God to waste food with poor preparation.
20:56If your meal is unacceptable, speak firmly to your Martha.
21:00Do you understand me, girls?
21:03Yes, Amadala.
21:05Friends, let us give thanks to him.
21:12And?
21:13God is great.
21:15God is good.
21:16Thank you, God, for our food.
21:18By his blessings we are fed.
21:20Give us, Lord, our daily bread.
21:22Amen.
21:25Girls?
21:28You may socialize.
21:45What is all this, then?
21:47This is Daisy.
21:49Lydia asked me to make her feel welcome.
21:50Hey.
21:53It's a blessing to meet you all.
21:57Get out.
22:07We're enjoying very fine weather.
22:10By God's blessing.
22:15It's a high-pressure system, I think.
22:18Daisy, pray.
22:20Where do you hail from?
22:22Toronto.
22:24Canada.
22:25Miss.
22:26Shuname.
22:28That's a beautiful name.
22:30It is.
22:33I imagine Canada is very different from Gilead.
22:37Toronto has been forsaken by God and defiled by Satan.
22:43It is suffocating in sin.
22:48So, do you miss it?
22:52I pray it will be swallowed whole by the earth.
23:00May he hear your prayer.
23:10Daisy, do you like soft serve ice cream?
23:15Food is one of his miracles.
23:17They have it here.
23:18Strawberry and vanilla.
23:20Hold up, we'll take you.
23:22Yeah, I can make you a swirl cone.
23:24I'm sort of an expert.
23:26Aunt Lydia urged me to stay with Miss Agnes.
23:28Ice cream is definitely one of his miracles.
23:32And you wouldn't want to insult God.
23:37You should get some.
23:39Come on.
23:56They stuck you with the pearl girl.
23:58What did you do wrong?
23:59She didn't do anything.
24:01This is unprecedented.
24:03So, what did Aunt Lydia say?
24:05She said she's new here.
24:08I'm just supposed to be a shepherdess.
24:10I don't like her.
24:10She didn't seem very nice.
24:11Well, you can't trust her.
24:13She'll tell Aunt Lydia everything.
24:14She's a pearl girl.
24:17Becca, your Martha is here to collect you.
24:21Yes, on this day.
24:25Am I fitting?
24:27Pray for me.
24:28I wish I was green this season.
24:30I wish we all were together.
24:34It's starting to move very, very fast.
24:38It's a dress.
24:39Not a husband.
24:42Not yet.
24:43Well, I can't wait to have a husband.
24:45Becca, pray.
24:46Come along.
24:46Shake a leg.
24:48Go with Grace.
24:51And Grace, I go.
25:10You should tell on her.
25:12You're a pearl girl.
25:14For what?
25:14Just say that she gossips or has a foul tongue.
25:18Sure.
25:18Or that she ran off to go get ice cream.
25:20That could be possible.
25:21She'd be punished.
25:23You're an awful person.
25:24Stop.
25:25I didn't say to make her a gender traitor or anything.
25:28Just something small.
25:33Agnes, I know that you are very, very nice.
25:35But it's time to plumb up and get her before she can see you.
25:59Cinnamon toast.
26:01Praise be his bounty.
26:07Is it awful?
26:10God never sends us more than we can bear.
26:13Sometimes he does get close, though.
26:18Becca had her final fitting.
26:20She must be happy to be getting a new dress.
26:24I'm sure she looks perfect.
26:26She's a beautiful girl.
26:29She could get an offer from a commander.
26:32The dance.
26:33Her dad could.
26:36She could marry one who lives in Wyoming.
26:39Or anywhere.
26:42Not Maryland.
26:44She won't move far if she marries a high commander.
26:47They need to live near the capital.
26:49She could marry one who...
26:52doesn't let his wife have any friends.
26:55Try not to think about it.
26:59Rosa, how did you meet your husband?
27:03Before, I mean.
27:08We met in a bookstore.
27:12Almost everyone we knew then was meeting online on Tinder.
27:16Bumble.
27:18We met in the cookbook section.
27:21What's Tinder?
27:24It's not something you're ever going to need to know, Pumpkin.
27:29Blessed evening, ma'am.
27:34The commander will be home Thursday.
27:35Has some things for the Marthas to do.
27:39You said your leg was better.
27:41It is, ma'am.
27:44Good.
27:46Head up to the third floor.
27:47We'll start there.
27:51Yes, ma'am.
28:01I grew up riding.
28:03When a horse would come up late, my father would shoot it.
28:09It was hard.
28:12But it was the merciful thing to do.
28:16Haven't I told you that story?
28:18No, mother.
28:24I learned that sometimes you have to be hard.
28:29Sometimes you have to cut off weak branches and bothersome ones.
28:35You'll understand when you're running your own household.
28:40Blessed evening.
29:03Yes, but they come.
29:07I really like the secret child.
29:10I like the magic when you're running your own household.
29:13There are a great stuff.
29:15It's like that you have to be wheelchops.
29:17Today, it can get started.
29:17Mother, the family cares you're Googling.
29:17What's that look?
29:18Please.
29:39Assembly time, my plums. Two lines. Two lines.
29:44Posture, Agnes.
29:45I'm sorry, Alpha, darling.
29:53Plums, please assemble in the dining hall.
29:55Hurry along.
29:56Thanks. To your classes.
29:58Chow-chow.
30:25Listen to him, Agnes.
30:32Listen to him, Agnes.
30:40Listen to him.
30:49Blessed day.
30:51How was I?
30:52May the Lord open. Fine.
30:56Shut up. It was fine.
30:59I feel like puppy sleeves.
31:08Blessed day, graceful friends.
31:10We need your energy,
31:12because we have some difficult work to do today.
31:16For him.
31:23Are you ready?
31:24Yes, I'm ready.
31:36Hello, someone's in trouble.
31:39Good.
31:40He's the gross one.
31:42This man is a sinner.
31:44Hidden amongst us.
31:45He was found touching himself.
31:48Abusing himself.
31:50On school grounds.
31:52Gilead trusted him to protect you.
31:54God's most precious girls.
31:58Instead,
31:59he chose wickedness.
32:01We do not play with the power of creation.
32:05What are they going to do to him?
32:07Quiet.
32:08He deserves our judgment.
32:10Do not relish in it.
32:12You are not blameless, girls.
32:15Shame upon any of you that tempt a man.
32:18Now,
32:20this is your decision.
32:22You will have to make many difficult decisions when you are wives.
32:28So what do you say, girls?
32:30Should this man go unpunished?
32:35Or should we pay?
32:38Quiet!
32:40Quiet!
32:42Quiet!
32:45Quiet!
32:47Quiet!
32:49Quiet!
32:51Quiet!
32:53Quiet!
32:55Quiet!
32:56Quiet!
32:57Quiet!
32:58Quiet!
33:00Quiet!
33:01Quiet!
33:04I am so proud of the women you are becoming.
33:18I am dead!
33:20I am dead!
33:22I am dead!
33:26Oh my God.
33:31I am dead!
33:35Stop! Stop this! Stop this! Stop this! Oh my God.
33:41Craig, are you okay?
33:43I am fine.
33:46funktion is about to absorb.
34:09Daisy? Daisy?
34:15Fuck. What the fuck was that?
34:17He broke the rules.
34:19They cut it off. I saw his arm.
34:22Jesus Christ, he was fucking wide awake.
34:24For fuck's sake.
34:25Jesus, what the fuck?
34:31I... I'm sorry.
34:33I... Agnes.
34:35Agnes.
34:36Don't... Don't tell.
34:39Oh, sweetie.
34:41Agnes, help Daisy get cleaned up.
35:01How do you feel?
35:07They told us about assemblies.
35:12But I didn't think it'd be like that.
35:15Like what?
35:26Thank you for taking care of me.
35:32When Aunt Lydia gives you an assignment, you do it.
35:37Miss Agnes, I am so sorry.
35:39I committed blasphemy.
35:41I... I committed blasphemy.
35:43You were unwell.
35:45I took his name in vain.
35:47Agnes.
35:48There was no excuse.
35:51I know I must confess.
35:54Okay.
35:57Aunt Lydia is in charge of punishing pro girls.
36:02Okay.
36:06Pray, prays be her discipline, I need to learn.
36:17Do you think she'll cut out my tongue?
36:21There are stories.
36:24Pray no, not for this.
36:26Probably not.
36:30Okay?
36:33If it's God's will, if it's God's will, if it's God's will, if it's God's-
36:40I can't, Agnes, I can't.
36:41It's okay. You don't have to.
36:46You don't have to.
36:48It was just us.
37:06God sees our sins.
37:14We'll pray together.
37:15We'll show contrition.
37:20God is merciful.
37:23The aunts, not so much sometimes.
37:28Are you sure?
37:33Our secret.
37:43Shunammite said Daisy was dangerous.
37:45She was right, of course.
37:48She said you should never ever trust a pro girl.
37:52But that was exactly what I did.
38:05Blessed night, my pearls.
38:08May God protect you.
38:21Who will holding you?
38:25Here you are.
38:27It's hard to think about this simple pattern.
38:28Go ahead, Kara.
38:28Cr Noble.
38:28Hope it's just taking your money here.
38:30Good morning to our upcoming domeni question.
38:31I mean?
38:31What'd you say?
38:31Good morning is the only way.
38:33Well.
38:34This is a spend repentant Jill but it played.
38:35A few days a couple of years.
39:37If you're in the paperclip club, sit tight.
39:41That's it for tonight.
40:14Oh, my life is changing every day, every burst of the wave.
40:29Oh, my dreams was never quite as it seemed.
40:36Never quite as it seemed.
40:43I know I felt like this before, but now I'm feeling it even more, because it came from me.
40:57When I open up and see, the person following, here is me.
41:05A different way to be.
41:33It was still cold, but I remember the nights were getting shorter.
41:38The shorebirds were back.
41:39You could hear them really high up.
41:42A sure sign of spring.
41:45I didn't know who my mom was yet.
41:48My real mom.
41:51That would come soon.
41:54I had no idea how much that would change things.
41:59Without calendars, you learn to mark time in other ways.
42:02And it was when I became eligible.
42:05And when I met Daisy, it was when it all started.
42:12To the amazing mind.
42:16To the amazing mind.
42:17To understanding and to find.
42:21With everything to me.
42:28Oh, my life.
42:32Oh, my life.
42:33You're changing every day.
42:36In every possible way.
42:43I'm doing my dreams.
42:44I don't love dreams.
42:47It's never quite as it seems.
42:51Cause you're a dream to me.
42:54Dream to me.
43:01guitar solo
43:34guitar solo
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