“She's valuable. She makes bombs.”— Beth about Alison's role in the resistance [1]
Alison is a character in The Handmaid's Tale. She works for the resistance network in Gilead.
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Before Gilead[]
According to Beth, Alison was a chemistry teacher.[2]
Present, Season 2[]
First Blood[]
Alison, now active in the resistance, makes the bomb for the Red Center attack.[3]
Present, Season 3[]
Mary and Martha[]
Beth and Cora are about to harbor the runaway Martha Alison in the Lawrence household, planning to help her escape. A suspicious Commander Lawrence wants to call a Guardian to send her home, but June follows him to his study and eventually convinces him to "let her have a chance for something better."
They disguise June as a Martha, and she accompanies Beth and Alison into town to drop the latter at a relay point at a commercial laundry facility in a section of the city where handmaids are not permitted because of chemicals. After the successful drop, June learns from Beth that Alison, a former chemistry teacher, is actually not fleeing from Gilead but getting "deeper in" the resistance as she is a skilled bomb maker.
Back at the Lawrence home, Alison suddenly shows up with an injured Martha and they hide her in the basement, with the Guardians that shot her following close behind. An incensed Commander Lawrence calls Cora a "liar" as she excuses the noise in the basement by the sighting of a rat. He orders June to fix things. As he heads to the front door to let the Guardians in, June realizes that the woman’s blood is on the wall and hurriedly attempts to scrub it off. Mrs. Lawrence orders Cora to scrub the wall and June returns downstairs. The guardians continue looking for the fugitives outside the window and in the house, with June desperately trying to stop the injured woman from moaning in pain and drawing the Guardian's notice. The Guardians eventually leave, but the woman dies.
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- ↑ Episode 3.2, Mary and Martha
- ↑ Episode 3.2, Mary and Martha
- ↑ According to Beth, in Mary and Martha