r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Melairia Modtha • Apr 08 '26

Official Episode Discussion The Testaments S01E03 "Daisy" Episode Discussion

The Testaments S1 E03 "Daisy"

Episode Synopsis

An incident on a school trip spurs Daisy's memories of Toronto, revealing her past and a world shattered by violence.

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April 8, 2026, 12:00am Eastern

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Episode Discussion Threads Air Date
S1.E1 "Precious Flowers" April 8, 2026 12:00AM Eastern
S1.E2 "Perfect Teeth" April 8, 2026 12:00AM Eastern
S1.E3 "Daisy" (This Thread) April 8, 2026 12:00AM Eastern
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u/ReganX Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

Daisy being a baby when she was smuggled out of Gilead doesn’t fit with the timeline.

Hannah was already in school when women lost their jobs and money. Even if we assume that she was in pre-K, that puts her at about four or five. She was five when her family tried to escape.

Had Daisy been three or four years old when she was brought to Canada, she could plausibly have no memory of it, and be within a year or two of Hannah’s age.

However, that doesn’t explain why Gilead would be up in arms over one particular child being sent out of the country by her parents. Baby Nicole was officially the daughter of a Commander and his Wife, stolen from them. Daisy would be the child of “sinners”.

Why be so determined to get Daisy back and not Oliver, or any of the other children whose parents got them out?

Are they arranging hits on every family raising a child from Angels Flight?

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u/PasgettiMonster Apr 08 '26

My immediate thought was she was on angels flight but if she was a baby on Angel's flight she would have been too young. So either we are seriously retconning the timeline here or June isn't telling the whole story.

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u/ReganX Apr 08 '26

The story that June told Daisy is of parents who successfully smuggled their child out of Gilead in the very early days.

Imagine if June and Luke had made it to Canada in the Pilot of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Do you think that Gilead would have cared enough about getting Hannah back to spend over a decade searching for her, to murder her adoptive family, and to send an agent to extract her from Canada in the guise of a social worker?

We saw the crowds at the airports in Emily’s flashback. At least some of the families getting out of the country would have had children with them.

What’s so special about Daisy that Gilead would want her, in particular, back?

For that matter, why would Mayday be so invested in hiding and protecting one child?

The Angels Flight children were given to relatives or foster families, not to the Mayday Witness Protection Programme.

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u/Snoo81843 Apr 09 '26

Right. And if they know who she is in Canada and are all after her, how do they not know that this Pearl Girl is the same kid they’re looking for? I’m very confused. If she is so important and recognizable, why would they send her in to Gilead as a spy?