Which Handmaid attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge in Season 1 of the TV series? Janine attempts suicide by jumping from a bridge. In Season 1, Janine is driven to the edge after Commander Warren Putnam promises to leave his Wife for her but ultimately abandons that promise.
Janine takes Putnam's infant daughter, Charlotte, to a bridge and threatens to jump. June talks her into handing over the baby, but Janine then leaps into the water. She survives the fall but is left in a coma for a time, and the incident exposes the devastating psychological pressure imposed on Handmaids.
Janine had already suffered severe abuse in Gilead. Aunt Lydia punished her brutally during training, including the removal of one eye, and the regime repeatedly treated her trauma as evidence of disobedience rather than as a consequence of oppression. Her attachment to Charlotte also reflects the way Handmaids can be forced to give birth and then separated from their children.
Ofglen's fate is a common mix-up: she also attempts to avoid capture, but her Season 1 storyline involves suicide before interrogation, not jumping from the bridge. Moira escapes Gilead, while Alma remains part of the resistance network.