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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, when Nick said something to the commander (not commander Waterford, but THE commander guy) about needing to be reassigned immediately, did he say something along the lines of commander Waterford being shady? Was there something else? 
That scene confused me because it was pseudo aggressive, like what if he told Waterford what nick said? Seems to be a huge chance he took.

Also - I don’t fully understand the point of it. I’m sure it’s obvious but why does he even want to get re assigned?[/quote]

Here's the full dialogue:

Nick: Commander Pryce!

Pryce: Nick, blessed day, very exciting.

Nick: Sir, I need your help. Reassign me. A new post, I'll go to the front, wherever.

Pryce: Nick, slow down.

Nicke: I can't stay in that house anymore.

Pryce: You've just been issued a woman, is there a problem?

Nick: It's not her. There's a lot i haven't told you about him. Reassign me. Promise me you'll protect the handmaid."

Pryce: You have my word.

Pryce is the chair of the council of commanders, so basically the boss of Waterford and the other commanders. He and Nick are tight (Pryce even calls Nick "son"). Not only did Pryce recruit Nick into the Sons of Jacob, but we know he was spying for Pryce for a while before this. One of the flashbacks in the Jezebels episode showed Nick reporting to Pryce that Commander Guthrie had been sleeping with his handmaid and stealing money from the transportation budget, for which Guthrie was arrested (I don't think we know what happened to him after that). [b]Pryce also placed Nick in Waterford's house for the purpose of spying on Waterford, telling that Nick that they were going to clean up Gilead. [/b]So I think Nick knew he was safe going to Pryce and Pryce was going to believe him and take care of him, both because of their close relationship and because Pryce was already suspicious of Waterford.

As for Nick's request that Pryce protect Offred, remember the flashback where Pryce is riding in the car with Waterford and Guthrie (Nick was driving) and they're discussing how to handle fertile women in Gilead to boost birth rates. Pryce was the one saying they needed to be treated respectfully and in a godly fashion, while Guthrie and Waterford rejected that and proposed the current system of enslaving them and assigning them as concubines. Pryce then came up with the idea for the ceremony and having the wives present as his term of agreement, to give the whole thing a bit more of an honored air (and perhaps to offer some protection to the handmaids, since the men would be more restrained with them if the wives were present). It seems like Pryce may have always been uneasy with the handmaid system and how it degraded/abused the handmaids, and so might be more open to protecting a handmaid who was being abused or mistreated in some way by her commander.[/quote]

My own personal theory is that Nick leveraged the bolded by banking on the fact that if he said Waterford was up to something that Pryce wouldn't remove him because he would want the intelligence. In my opinion, this was Nick's way of making sure that the Waterford's couldn't kick him out and separate him from June.[/quote]

That doesn't make sense given that Nick emphatically requested to be reassigned. And if Nick already has the evidence on Waterford to give to Pryce, they don't need Nick there anymore because they can just arrest and punish Waterford.[/quote]

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