SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Execution,” Season 6, Episode 9 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” now streaming on Hulu.
Max Minghella’s Commander Nick Blaine is no more.
Near the end of the penultimate episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” what had been a relatively simple piece of sabotage turned into a suicide mission for Bradley Whitford’s turncoat Commander Joseph Lawrence. He was forced to board a Commanders-only flight with an explosive device he’d hoped to leave behind before the others arrived, but when Commander Wharton (Josh Charles) invited Lawrence onto the plane, he had no choice other than to join them. Unaware of what awaited them was Nick, who
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