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The Testaments Season 1 Episode 1
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00:01This is Radio Free Boston with an update.
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00:30Can I give you the possibility for the recent sanctions against the Gilead State?
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, rather than believe that the
01:32people 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.
01:47It's hard to remember actual dates because girls were forbidden to have calendars.
01:51Blessed morning.
01:52Just reading one could cost you a finger.
01:56Manila is going to be doing your hair now.
02:05You learn to mark time in other ways.
02:08I know I still had my dollhouse.
02:11It looked just like our real house.
02:14It had my bedroom and the dining room, a wife's parlor, even an attic where the Martha slept.
02:20They're in the badlands looking for me.
02:24We're in the city getting out of the freaks.
02:27But the truth falls back on me.
02:30I'm free.
02:35I was a plum.
02:38I didn't have my period yet.
02:41In my world then, I made all the difference.
02:45It was all we wanted.
02:47And it also terrified us.
02:56I don't know what to do, now that I've got a man like you.
03:03Sometimes it can be so cool, baby don't be cool.
03:10I don't know what to do, now that I've got a man like you.
03:15And it's all I don't know what to do.
03:18It can be so cool, baby don't be cool.
03:26Baby don't be cool.
03:27The Commander Doll was always doing very important work.
03:31Just like my father.
03:33Keeping us safe from heretics and mayday terrorists.
03:51The Martha dolls were always busy.
03:55But 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. In blue, of course.
04:13That would be Paula, who was my new stepmother then.
04:18Blessed morning, Agnes, dear.
04:20Rosa, how's your leg? Please tell me it's better.
04:23Yes, 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.
04:33Yes, ma'am. I'll do that after the commander's meeting.
04:40Thank you, Zilla.
04:42Zilla was new.
04:44Her tongue was removed as punishment before 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, I would lock the Paula doll in the attic, which was not
05:05nice.
05:06The Paula doll would pound on the door and scream, but 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.
05:27Mother.
05:31I was worried to make you look gawky, but no.
05:40Praise be his mercy for 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, Rosa.
05:59We don't want to get ants again.
06:01Yes, ma'am.
06:05Don't slouch, dear.
06:07Slouching girls get fat husbands.
06:25Bless the morning, Miss Agnes.
06:30Under his eyes, sweetie-bye.
06:32Bye, Rosa.
06:49Once, when we were pinks, I smiled at a boy on the playground.
06:53The ants taped my mouth shut and 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.
07:05Don't laugh.
07:06No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
07:16no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
07:40When we became plums, we started going on the field trips.
07:45They were fun.
07:47Some parts more than others.
07:48Some parts more than others.
07:57Some parts more than others.
07:59I got you.
08:03Stop!
08:04I got you.
08:08I met you in your restaurant.
08:12Keep on living here.
08:15I'm leaving here.
08:20You asked me what's my pleasure
08:24Come along, girls.
08:27Come on, girls.
08:34Quiet, quiet, quiet.
08:40Dreamin', dreamin' is free.
08:44I don't want to live on charity.
08:50Pleasure's real, is it fantasy?
08:59Gross.
09:01Hold it, enough.
09:02God's justice is beautiful.
09:05I'm sorry, Aunt Vidala.
09:07Friends, these men.
09:11Do you know what crime they committed?
09:15Yes, Shinamite.
09:17Rape.
09:18Aunt Vidala, that's what the red X is for.
09:20It's for rape.
09:21Praise be.
09:23Friends, these men.
09:26These horrible men.
09:28These...
09:29Rapists?
09:30You say rapists?
09:32Rapists, yes.
09:34Thank you, Shinamite.
09:36Not rapists.
09:38I didn't know that.
09:39Friends, it's a ghastly story.
09:41These men stole a young girl, much like yourselves.
09:45This young girl was a kind who liked being the center of attention.
09:49Spirited girl.
09:50That 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.
10:16Those urges must be curbed.
10:18That 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?
11:04Hardware.
11:05Good to go.
11:05Open again.
11:33I love you very much.
11:37At the Aunt Lydia school, pink dresses were for little girls, plum 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.
11:57Blessed be the fruit.
11:59You're insane. The skirt looks fine.
12:01May the Lord open, don't bother. Even God knows Paula has no taste.
12:06Come on, friends.
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.
12:17Leon 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.
12:27This blessing.
12:29Do you have your address fitting?
12:31We're moving, girls. Let's go.
12:32After lunch.
12:33Becca was already green.
12:34She 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.
12:53But I receive with joy.
12:55Very, very cute hair.
12:57Yeah.
12:57I 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 bad head.
13:04Shunammite.
13:05Chitter chatter, chitter chatter.
13:06Flap your tongue around and you're likely to lose it.
13:09Yes, Aunt Fatala.
13:10What a graceful day, girls.
13:11I will find you.
13:12More haste.
13:14Let'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, and 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.
14:07White was for the pearl girls.
14:09They were new arrivals from outside of Gilead.
14:12Converts to our godly struggle.
14:16Aunt 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.
14:27Weirdos.
14:34The aunts said the pearl girls came eager for a new start.
14:38They 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.
15:30pretty daisies hold there really thank you aunt este they're actually black-eyed susan should
15:37you be thanking me no no thank him aunt este making me able and for the flowers he made and
15:45the thread pray forgive me you are forgiven just be mindful around off the dollar
15:57aunt gabbana blessed morning
16:06agnes aunt lydia would like to speak with you
16:14come along
16:16agnes get up please i'm sure it's good news back to work
16:21so
16:26so
16:33so
16:38so
16:42so
16:43so
16:45so
16:46so
16:48so
16:49so
16:49so
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16:49so
16:56so
16:59so
17:07so
17:09so
17:17so
17:21so
17:22so
17:25so
17:27so
17:27so
17:33so
17:33so
17:33so
17:33you are free 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
17:43yes
17:44so
17:45so
17:45so
17:55so
17:56so
17:57so
17:57so
18:09so
18:13so
18:17so
18:18so
18:26so
18:29so
18:29so
18:29so
18:29so
18:33so
18:34so
18:36so
18:48so
18:52so
18:53so
19:03painting and sketching
19:04so
19:14so
19:19so
19:20so
19:22so
19:24so
19:24so
19:24decorating
19:25culinary arts
19:27fiber arts
19:28like embroidery
19:29lace making
19:31you can make a tablecloth
19:33if you dare
19:34and scripture class
19:36price please word
19:40weirdo
19:42aunt lydia didn't tell me much about you
19:46did she tell you anything about me
19:50nothing
19:50miss agnes
20:02did she ask you to watch me
20:06of course
20:08miss agnes
20:10let's 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
20:33pretty obviously
20:36let's eat
20:40you cannot be mistress of a house
20:42unless you are the mistress of yourself
20:46do you understand me girls
20:48yes
20:49it 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
21:05friends
21:05let us give thanks to him
21:12and
21:13god is great
21:15god is good
21:16thank you god
21:17for our food
21:18by his blessings
21:19we 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
21:48aunt lydia asked me to make her feel welcome
21:51hey
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
22:19pray
22:20where do you hail from
22:22toronto
22:23canada
22:24miss
22:25shunamai
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
22:40and defiled by satan
22:42it 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
23:09daisy
23:11do you like soft serve ice cream
23:15food is one of his miracles
23:17they have it here
23:18strawberry and vanilla
23:20hold i will 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 agna
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 what 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
24:09i don't like her
24:10she didn't seem very nice
24:11well you can't trust her
24:12she'll tell aunt lydia everything
24:14she's a pearl girl
24:17becca
24:18your martha is here to collect you
24:21yes honest day
24:25my fitting
24:27pray for me
24:28i wish i was green this season
24:30i wish we all were
24:32together
24:34it's starting to move
24:36very 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
24:45pray
24:45come along
24:46shake a leg
24:48go in grace
24:51in grace i go
25:10you should tell aunt her
25:11you're pearl girl
25:14for what
25:15just say that she gossips
25:16or has a foul tongue
25:18or that she ran off
25:19to go get ice cream
25:20that could be plausible
25:21she'd be punished
25:23you're an awful person
25:24stop
25:25i didn't say to make her
25:26a gender traitor or anything
25:28just something small
25:32agnes
25:33i know that you are
25:34very very nice
25:35but it's time to plumb up
25:37and get her
25:38before she can see you
25:58cinnamon toast
26:00praise be his bounty
26:08is it awful
26:10god never sends us
26:11more than we can bear
26:13sometimes we just get close
26:14though
26:18becca had her final fitting
26:20she must be happy
26:21to be getting a new dress
26:24i'm sure she looks perfect
26:26she's a beautiful girl
26:29she could get an offer
26:30from a commander
26:32at the dance
26:33her dad could
26:36she could marry one
26:37who lives in wyoming
26:40or anywhere
26:42not maryland
26:44she won't move far
26:45if she marries a high commander
26:47they need to live
26:48near the capital
26:50she could marry one
26:51who
26:52doesn't let his wife
26:54have any friends
26:55try not to think
26:56about it
26:59rosa how did you
27:00meet your husband
27:03before i mean
27:08we met in a bookstore
27:12almost everyone we knew
27:13then was meeting online
27:14on tinder
27:16bumble
27:18we met in the cookbook
27:19section
27:21what's tinder
27:24it's not something
27:25you're ever gonna need
27:26to know pumpkin
27:29blessed evening ma'am
27:34the commander will be
27:35home thursday
27:35has some things
27:36for the marthas to do
27:39you said your leg
27:39was 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
28:04when a horse would come up late
28:05my 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
28:26sometimes you have to be hard
28:29sometimes you have to cut off
28:30weak branches
28:31and bothersome ones
28:35you'll understand when you're
28:36running your own household
28:40blessed evening
28:50you
28:54you
28:55you
29:39Assembly time, my plums. Two lines. Two lines. Posture, Agnes. I'm sorry, Apodala.
29:53Plums, please assemble in the dining hall.
29:55Hurry along. Thanks. To your classes. Chow-chow.
30:25Blessed day, Miss Agnes.
30:49Blessed day. How was I? May the Lord open. Fine.
30:54Yes. Shut up. It was fine. I feel like Puffy's wings.
31:08Blessed day, graceful friends. We need your energy because we have some difficult work to do today.
31:15For him.
31:22Are you ready?
31:25Yes, Arce.
31:25Yes, Arce.
31:36Hello. Someone's in trouble.
31:39Good. He's the gross one.
31:42This man is a sinner hidden amongst us. He was found touching himself, abusing himself, on school grounds.
31:52Gilead trusted him to protect you, God's most precious girls.
31:59Instead, he chose wickedness. We do not play with the power of creation.
32:05What are they going to do to him?
32:08Quiet. He deserves our judgment. Do not relish in it.
32:12You are not blameless, girls. Shame upon any of you that tempt a man.
32:20Now, this is your decision. You will have to make many difficult decisions when you are wives.
32:28So what do you say, girls? Should this man go unpunished?
32:35Or should we pay?
32:38Quietness!
32:41Quietness!
32:45Quietness!
32:47Quietness!
32:47Quietness!
32:53Quietness!
33:04I am so proud of the women you are becoming.
33:18I am here!
33:20I am here!
33:25Oh my God!
33:29Hey!
33:31Can you hear me?
33:34Please!
33:35Please!
33:36Please!
33:36Please stop!
33:37Please stop!
33:39Oh my God!
33:41Frank, are you okay?
33:43I am fine.
33:46Please be your concern.
33:47I am so proud of you.
33:49No!
33:51No!
34:09Daisy? Daisy?
34:15Fuck. What the fuck was that?
34:17He broke the rules.
34:19They cut it off.
34:20I saw his arm.
34:22Jesus Christ, he was fucking wide awake.
34:24For fuck's sake.
34:25Jesus, what the fuck?
34:31I'm sorry.
34:33Agnes.
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?
35:21Like 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.
35:40I committed blasphemy.
35:43You were unwell.
35:45I took his name in vain.
35:47Agnes, there is no excuse.
35:51I know I must confess.
35:54Okay.
35:57Aunt Lydia is in charge of punishing pro girls.
36:02Okay.
36:06Praised be her discipline.
36:09I need to learn.
36:17Do you think she'll cut out my tongue?
36:21There are stories.
36:24Praised be her.
36:24Praised be her.
36:25Not for this.
36:26Probably not.
36:30Okay.
36:33If it's God's will.
36:35If it's God's will.
36:37If it's God's will.
36:39If it's God's will.
36:40I can't.
36:40Agnes, I can't.
36:42It's okay.
36:43You 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.
37:16We'll show contrition.
37:20God is merciful.
37:24Beyonce, not so much sometimes.
37:29Are you sure?
37:33Our secret.
37:43Shunemite said Daisy was dangerous.
37:46She 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.
38:12God bless.
38:13Fuck.
38:14God bless you.
38:19Hmm.
38:39I thought we should know.
39:40That's it for tonight.
41:46I didn't know who my mom was yet.
41:49My 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.
42:02It was when I became eligible.
42:05And when I met Daisy, it was when it all started.
42:43The dome of dreams
42:47It's never quite as it seems
42:50Cause you're a dream to me
42:54Dream to me
43:31Dream to me
43:40Dream to me
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