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[This story contains major spoilers from the penultimate episode of The Testaments, “Marat Sade.”]
When The Testaments began, Bruce Miller — the creator of The Handmaid’s Tale sequel series — told us “there’s nothing in the world as powerful as a 14-year-old girl.” The penultimate episode has certainly bore that theory out.
In “Marat Sade,” the hour that leads into next week’s finale, Becca, played by Mattea Conforti, takes justice into her own hands, just as the Plums (the teens in training to marry Commanders) have been trained to do by the Aunts of Gilead. After she finds out that her father (Randal Edwards) sexually assaulted her best friend Agnes (Chase Infiniti), along with more of her friends, she stabs her father to death while he’s taking a bath. She runs to Agnes to tell her what she’s done — an action that proves how her feelings for Agnes are much deeper than just a friend. But when Agnes tells her parents, the Eyes come and take Becca away.
“A lot of the reason why she ends up doing what she does is for Agnes; for the love that she has for her and as a way to protect her,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter of Becca and Agnes’ relationship. “She spirals. I don’t even recognize that version of Becca anymore [when she shows up to Agnes’ house].”
