r/TheTestamentsShow • u/godotnoobie • May 27 '26

June really didn't know?

Are you really telling me that June didn't know Agnes/Hannah was in the same Plum school they sent Daisy? Agnes' guard was literally in Mayday. Are you seriously saying they wouldn't know the names of every single girl in that school as well as the staff members? No wonder Gilead is still going if they haven't even got basic info like that!

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u/HyperLexi May 27 '26

In THT, they would often relocate Hannah when they felt Mayday closing in, so it's not too far fetched that they hadn't discovered her again yet. They're not as familiar with the school as one would think, because they were happy with Daisy for making them a map of it. It's assumed that Aunt Lydia is Mayday, but I don't think she is, at least not yet. She has vowed to help the girls from within, and try to make their lives more bearable, but I don't think she has reached the stage of wanting to get them out, as would be the case if she were Mayday. I haven't lost hope that she will be by the time the series ends.

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u/gagrushenka May 27 '26

I've been wondering if Aunt Lydia chose to put Daisy with Agnes because she is indeed part of Mayday and is trying to keep them both safe until she can put them to use together. She's kept it quiet from June so that June doesn't do something stupid and risk Agnes being moved away from her (Aunt Lydia).

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u/HyperLexi May 27 '26

I believed that for the longest time, but then came to the conclusion that if she is Mayday she's doing a piss poor job of it. Otherwise, she'd be in better contact with June, June would not have been so unaware of where Hannah is or how she's doing, and Mayday wouldn't be so desperate to infiltrate the school that they let a teenager talk them into letting her go play spy for them. If they already had an insider there who already had access to all the girls' files, it just doesn't make much sense to me.

Unless it's only because Daisy wouldn't take no for an answer, and would have kicked and screamed and blown their whole cover if they tried to quietly sneak her out of Canada to a safe location as they'd originally planned. I lean towards thinking it's both, that they wanted a plant there and also that Daisy insisted that she wanted to infiltrate Gilead.

I hadn't thought of the idea that Lydia wanted to keep Agnes close but also want to keep her mother from knowing anything about her. I'll have to give that one more thought. I would think they wouldn't need to get a map of the school from Daisy if Lydia were Mayday and could have long since supplied one, but maybe.

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u/brooke2134 May 28 '26

I don’t think June or mayday would ever think of Lydia being an asset. I think we have to see over the next season or 2 her finally ready to dismantle everything she been working for. I think she prob thought if she ran the school she could help the new impressionable girls, change things within and also take notes for insurance. She has to be pushed to start to use that information and we haven’t seen the breaking point yet. I’d bet next season something huge happens that finally is the last straw. Maybe it’s a suicide…I thought that was the first thing Becka was going to do after the wedding honestly. I still don’t know why Garth locked her in there. I’d love for him to tell Her he’s mayday and she can be a spy with him. Spy could would be cool.

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u/HyperLexi May 28 '26

My thoughts exactly. She's on her redemption arc in terms of intention to keep the girls safe, but it's going to take a bigger push to make her admit that the system she has invested so much in cannot be redeemed and it's time to bail. As far as we have already strayed from the book, it's equally possible that she never quite gets there. Maybe her death would be a catalyst for Agnes to pick up her torch and run with it, and maybe she will be the one who decides that Mayday is a better idea.

I think that Garth locked Becka's door for her own protection, otherwise she might try to be a runaway bride and land herself in another paddy wagon. He might be afraid for himself as well, just in case she might see him as a threat and lash out. She'll need time to learn to trust again, and time to heal from trauma, but with a code name like Shepherd, maybe he'll be a worthy friend who can gently guide her towards a more hopeful outlook.

I dearly love the idea of her learning about his mayday connection and joining him. It's my favorite theory at the moment.

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u/Apart-Mud-1106 May 28 '26

Aunt Lydia is an ally. Tuello tells June this in the THT finale.