The Last of Us Season 2 Finale: Is Ellie Really Dead?

We have been handiest ever going to get part a tale right here. Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann made a variety of deviations from the PlayStation recreation they are adapting on this season of The Last of Us. But early on, it was transparent that they’d reflect the sport’s level/counterpoint construction—for higher or worse. The result’s a season of tv that feels incomplete, as a result of it’s.

While The Last of Us season two is obviously keen on exploring characters who make horrible alternatives regardless of having incomplete knowledge—one thing Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s outdated display, Game of Thrones, did frequently and smartly—it’s additionally left its target audience at nighttime, which prevents us from figuring out any dramatic irony or the poignancy of figuring out one thing our heroes don’t. Instead, we, like them, are simply alongside for the experience.

And this ultimate episode feels very just like a experience. After remaining week’s flashback interlude, there is a lot for Ellie to do earlier than the season wraps. She returns to the theater, the place Jesse (Young Mazino) is tending to Dina (Isabela Merced), disposing of the crossbow bolt that’s caught in Dina’s leg. Following the operation, Dina asks Ellie what took place on the medical institution. At first, Ellie tells her that she were given two phrases out of Nora (Tati Gabrielle): “wheel,” and “whale.” Then Ellie begins to wreck down, horrified by means of her personal capability for violence. “I made her talk,” she says. “I thought it would be harder to do, but it wasn’t. It was easy. I just kept hurting her.”

While she did torture Nora, Ellie did not kill her; as an alternative, she simply left the cordyceps an infection to do its paintings. Dina takes Ellie’s aspect, pronouncing possibly Nora were given what used to be coming to her. In a second of vulnerability, Ellie wonders if possibly Nora did not. Then she tells Dina what Joel did in Salt Lake City, and the way Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) is the daughter of the physician Joel murdered. Shaken by means of the inside track, Dina tells Ellie they wish to move house, and Ellie turns out to agree.

That’s more uncomplicated mentioned than achieved, despite the fact that. Tommy (Gabriel Luna) continues to be in the market, and so they wish to meet him at a rendezvous level so they are able to all head again to Jackson in combination. Ellie and Jesse head out, whilst Dina remains holed up within the theater. On the best way, Jesse learns that Dina is pregnant together with his child, making his inflammation at Ellie’s recklessness even worse. Before they are able to hash the rest out, they stumble onto a squad of WLF infantrymen weeding out a lone Seraphite, whom they strip and drag away. Ellie needs to interfere, however Jesse holds her again—they are outnumbered 3 to 1, and he isn’t loss of life out right here.

Briefly, the episode pauses to provide us every other viewpoint. At a WLF encampment in entrance of a Costco, Elise (Hetienne Park) talks to Isaac (Jeffrey Wright). Abby and her crew had been lacking for a minimum of an afternoon, and the timing may just no longer be worse—a torrential downpour is set to escalate right into a horrible typhoon, simply earlier than the WLF plans to invade the island house of the Seraphites. Elise thinks Isaac values Abby an excessive amount of. Isaac tells her that the 2 of them may no longer live to tell the tale the attack—however Abby used to be meant to be the following chief of the WLF.

In a last little bit of downtime earlier than issues in reality escalate, Ellie and Jesse have an enormous argument. As they struggle, radio chatter signals them to the WLF enticing with a sniper—Tommy. They scramble to top flooring so they are able to in finding him. But then Ellie spots a Ferris Wheel in entrance of an aquarium around the sound—and right away snaps again into her plan to search out Abby. It’s a call that provides each the viewer and Jesse excessive whiplash. Tommy is in the market; they are able to listen the gunfire; he wishes lend a hand. But Ellie stubbornly says they do not know that the WLF is capturing at Tommy, and whether it is, he will care for himself effective. He’d need her to head after Abby, even.

The two section tactics, however no longer earlier than having a last trade that bluntly underlines the theme of this season—and probably the following. Jesse moralizes about what is excellent for the neighborhood. Ellie yells “FUCK THE COMMUNITY.” Her neighborhood, she says, used to be murdered in entrance of her, and she or he does not suppose Joel would forestall looking to get his revenge if the jobs have been reversed.