‘The Last Of Us’ Finale Recap: Joel Goes On A Killing Rampage To Save Ellie

The play 1 finale begins with Ellie’s mom, Anna (played by Ashley Johnson, the archetypal Ellie successful the game), moving done the woods. She’s heavy large and successful labor. She finds an abandoned location to question structure in. While she’s successful labor, an infected attacks her. She manages to termination the infected and springiness commencement to Ellie astatine the aforesaid time.

Anna rapidly notices the wound connected her limb and instantly cuts the umbilical cord. Marlene and others get astatine the house. She calls retired for Anna. Anna is successful the aforesaid spot singing Ellie a lullaby. She’s astir to termination herself erstwhile Marlene’s quality stops her.

Ashley Johnson arsenic Anna successful ‘The Last of Us.’ (HBO)

Anna knows that Ellie is bare and doesn’t privation to caregiver her due to the fact that she was bitten. Anna stresses to Marlene that she chopped the umbilical cord before she was bitten, which is simply a lie. Anna wants Marlene to instrumentality Ellie to Boston. She gives Ellie her switchblade.

Marlene says she can’t bash that. Anna asks Marlene to termination her. Marlene doesn’t thinks helium tin termination her friend. Marlene hands disconnected Ellie and tells her comrade to screen Ellie’s ears. Marlene goes backmost into the country and kills Anna.

‘I’ll Follow You Anywhere You Go’

In the contiguous day, Joel tries to cheer Ellie up with immoderate Boggle and Chef Boyardee helium found. Ellie is overmuch quieter aft the fearfulness she experienced astatine Silver Lake. When Joel brings up however quiescent she is, Ellie promises that she’s fine. Joel points retired that they’re not acold from the hospital. As they proceed their journey, they stumble upon immoderate giraffes. A agleam airy amidst truthful overmuch darkness.

Joel is understandably a small cautious astir what’s successful store erstwhile they get to the hospital. He brings up conscionable going backmost to Tommy’s colony successful Wyoming wherever it’s safe. Ellie doesn’t privation to backmost retired now. They person to spot this through. “It can’t beryllium for nothing,” she tells Joel.

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey arsenic Joel and Ellie. (HBO)

She promises Joel they tin bash thing they privation aft gathering up with the Fireflies. “I’ll travel you anyplace you go,” Ellie says to him. They conscionable person to decorativeness what they started. During a heart-to-heart, Joel reveals helium astir took his ain beingness aft Sarah died. He flinched erstwhile helium enactment the weapon to his caput and backed out. Ellie tells him that she’s “glad that didn’t enactment out.” Joel replies, “Me too.”

Marlene Tells Joel That Ellie Has To Die

Ellie and Joel are going done her publication of sh***y puns erstwhile officers sneak up from down and propulsion a grenade astatine them. They instrumentality Ellie and sound retired Joel. When helium wakes up, Marlene is astatine his bedside. Joel instantly demands to spot Ellie.

Marlene tells him that Ellie is being prepped for surgery. The doc believes that the cordyceps successful Ellie has grown with her since birth. It produces a chemic messenger and makes the mean cordyceps deliberation that she is cordyceps, which is why she’s immune. The doc wants to region the cordyceps from Ellie, multiply the cells successful a lab, nutrient those chemic messengers, and past they tin springiness it to everyone.

“He thinks it tin beryllium a cure, Joel,” Marlene reveals. Joel brings up that cordyceps grows wrong the brain, truthful this country volition termination Ellie. He tells Marlene to find idiosyncratic other who is immune. Marlene promises that determination won’t beryllium immoderate pain. Marlene assures Joel that this determination is pugnacious for her, too. She was determination erstwhile Ellie was calved and promised to instrumentality attraction of her, but she has nary different choice.

Joel Goes On A Rampage To Save Ellie

Pedro Pascal arsenic Joel. (HBO)

Joel isn’t going to basal for this. Marlene orders Joel to beryllium taken distant from the infirmary and gives him Anna’s switchblade to retrieve Ellie by. Joel refuses to judge this destiny for Ellie and goes connected a sidesplitting rampage to prevention her. Floor aft floor, helium takes everyone out. He makes it up to the pediatric country level and walks into the operating room.

He asks the doc to unhook Ellie. When the doc doesn’t comply, helium shoots the surgeon successful the head. He orders the nurses to unhook her, and they rapidly perceive to him. Joel carries Ellie retired of the country and makes it down to the parking store wherever helium crosses paths with Marlene. She’s got a weapon pointed astatine him. She can’t fto them leave. She believes that sacrificing Ellie to prevention humanity is the close happening to do. She thinks Ellie would deliberation so, too.

Cut to Joel driving distant with Ellie successful the backseat. He lies to her astir what happened astatine the hospital. He says determination are others who are immune similar her, and they stopped looking for a cure aft research. He tells her that raiders attacked the hospital, and helium hardly got her out.

Ellie asks if Marlene is okay. Joel doesn’t reply her. He conscionable says that he’s taking them home. “I’m sorry,” helium mutters.

Joel Kills Marlene To Protect Ellie

Joel did termination Marlene. He changeable her with the weapon helium grabbed during his rampage. After she was shot, Marlene begged Joel to conscionable fto her go. “You’d conscionable travel aft her,” Joel says earlier shooting her successful the head.

Bella Ramsey arsenic Ellie. (HBO)

Joel and Ellie marque it to Wyoming erstwhile the car breaks down. On their hike to Jackson, helium brings up Sarah. He thinks that Ellie and Sarah would person been friends. Ellie takes a infinitesimal to code erstwhile Joel asked her astir the archetypal clip she killed someone. She tells him astir Riley and what happened astatine the mall.

Riley was the archetypal to dice for her, followed by Tess. She makes Joel committedness that everything helium said astir the Fireflies and what happened astatine the infirmary is true. “I swear,” helium says. Ellie looks similar she doesn’t judge him. “Okay,” she says.

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