I know I said I wouldn't feel sorry for Serena after she and Fred raped June to force the labour and birth, but as a normal person it was hard not to last night.
When she tried to feed the baby and obviously couldn't, that was a moment when I could have pitied her. Then again as she sat looking at June feed the baby.
But I don't think 'motherhood' of a stolen baby has done that much to change her either.
Eden's murder is just one of thousands of murders Gilead has condoned, so having to sit with 'your' child and watch another one and face up to what you've created is the least you can do.
It might have made her realise "this could be my Nicole in 15 years" but I think Serena is still arrogant enough to believe it won't be her or her child. I can see her trying to find a way to get around something like this, in the way that she did when Fred was injured and she took over his work until he came home.
She might try to find a way to change things for her or for her baby, but I can't see her throwing Gilead away while she still has a use for it herself.
When Fred was ill she said what she (and June) had done had made things better for people, it was more relaxed and people weren't getting shot in the streets, but it was still Gilead. People were still living in a dictatorship and teenage girls are still getting drowned in swimming pools for falling in love.
I think it will all go back to "better not being better from everybody" again. If Serena can make Gilead better than it is now, it will be for her and Nicole, not for anyone else.
I think if Eden and Isaac had repented, they might still have killed Isaac and Eden would have been sent off to be a Handmaid. Nick went to sit with Eden's family after her left her, her Mum and her sister but I think a man was next to them so that might have been her Dad. But there was another couple sitting behind them looking equally distraught but not calling out, and I wondered of they were Isaac's parents.
I wonder how those parents are feeling about Gilead now? Especially as Eden's parents have another young daughter to worry about. Perhaps this murder of a young couple could become the thing the ordinary people who believe in Gilead will finally be the thing that gets them angry.
It seems a lot of people are disillusioned with what they have created. That new Commander who's wife said he thought of the colonies, is he regretting that now he's seen the reality of it?
He certainly seemed to want Aunt Lydia out of his house, and it didn't look like she'd seen it before, or if she had it must have changed since last time as she was looking quite confused and disapproving of it while they waited for him. And he almost broke his neck to get down the stairs and get her out of the door before she saw his wife. He didn't seem to like her or want her there at all.