Here's howThe Handmaid's Taleseason 5 premiere wrote off Alexis Bledel's character Emily

The actress announced she was stepping away from the show in May.

Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutThe Handmaid’s Taleseason 5 premiere.

The Handmaid’s Taleseason 5 premiere wasted no time in explainingAlexis Bledel’s absence from the show.

“She went back to fight I think.

To find Aunt Lydia if she can.

It’s what she needed to do,” Sylvia tells June.

“What did you say?

Did you talk to her?”

an almost speechless June asks.

I wanted to wake Oliver up but she said no.

Despite June’s protestations that it’s all her fault, Sylvia tells her that it doesn’t matter.

“I don’t care.

I don’t need it to be someone’s fault.

Why does it matter whose fault it is?

So I can hate the right person?

So I can hate you?

What good is that?”

Goodbye, June."