They speculate that Offred may be Agnes and Nicole's mother. They have recently found Lydia's manscript as well as Agnes and Nicole's records. In the epilogue, Professor Piexoto presents findings about Gilead many decades after its fall. Once the news about the documents hits, Lydia kills herself since she knows she's dead either way. Mayday confirms they got the documents, and they are reunited with their mother. They agree to help to sneak out the incriminating documents.Īgnes and Nicole then set out on a treacherous journey back into Canada, and Becka sacrifices herself to help them avoid detection. Lydia asks Nicole, Agnes and Agnes's friend Becka for their help in bringing down Gilead.

Once inside, Aunt Lydia reveals to Nicole that Agnes is her half sister. Nicole/Daisy is able to get inside Gilead by pretending to be recruited by Gilead missionaries. Mayday recruits Nicole to pick up documents to help bring down Gilead from a source they have on the inside, revealed to be Aunt Lydia.

Daisy herself is revealed to be a famous icon known as Baby Nicole, a Gilead baby who was smuggled out by her mother, a Handmaid. After her parents are murdered, she learns they were not her real parents, but operatives for Mayday, an anti-Gilead organization. In present day, she's been an Aunt for 9 years now.ĭaisy is a young woman who lives in Canada. When Agnes is 13, she begs to be allowed to become an Aunt in order to avoid marriage. As a child, she learns her mother was a disgraced Handmaid. Aunt Lydia is a powerful figure in Gilead, but she is secretly writing an anti-Gilead manuscript and has a trove of incriminating anti-Gilead documents.Īgnes begins the story as a young upper-class girl from Gilead. 15+ years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments follows three different characters, Aunt Lydia, Nicole/'Daisy', and Agnes.

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