‘The Last Of Us’ Recap: Ellie Is Kidnapped By Cannibals As Joel Fights His Way Back To Her

The Last of Us occurrence 8 begins with a caller batch of survivors realizing they don’t person capable nutrient to provender their people. They lone person a week left, adjacent with rationing. The concern is increasing much dire by the minute.

Meanwhile, Ellie checks connected Joel’s stab coiled aft she sews it up. Joel is hardly moving. Ellie takes his weapon and leaves the house. She ventures into the woods and spots a deer. She shoots it once, but it runs off. She chases aft it, but 2 of the survivors from this caller group, James (played by Troy Baker, who voiced Joel successful the video game) and David, find the cervid archetypal and determine to instrumentality it.

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

Ellie stops them successful their tracks. David explains that they’re from a larger radical that’s going hungry. He says he’ll marque a commercialized with her. She needs medicine for Joel, truthful she agrees. Ellie orders James to spell get the medicine and bring it backmost successful speech for fractional of the deer.

Ellie Crosses Paths With A Dangerous Group

David and Ellie are near alone. He offers her structure and occurrence portion they wait. Ellie discovers that David is simply a preacher. He wasn’t a believer successful God until after the apocalypse. He near the Pittsburgh QZ aft it collapsed and dilatory picked up caller radical arsenic they traveled until they recovered their imperishable colony successful Silver Lake.

David doesn’t judge successful luck. “I judge everything happens for a reason,” helium tells Ellie. David says that helium sent 4 of his men retired to a adjacent municipality successful hunt of nutrient and lone 3 came back. The 1 who didn’t was murdered by a “crazy man” who was traveling with… a girl. The brainsick man? Joel. The girl? Ellie.

The tables crook connected Ellie. James has his weapon pointed astatine her, but David asks him to little it. He orders James to springiness Ellie the medicine for Joel. Ellie doesn’t wound erstwhile David says helium tin support her. She runs backmost to Joel to springiness him the penicillin. She lies adjacent to him to effort and support warm.

David announces to his radical that they’re sending retired a radical time to hint Ellie’s steps truthful they tin find Joel and “bring that antheral to justice.” The girl of the antheral Joel murdered says that they should termination Joel and Ellie. David slaps her successful beforehand of everyone.

Ellie keeps giving Joel much penicillin, and he’s looking a tad better. When she steps outside, she spots crows flying successful the distance. She soon sees a group, including David and James, walking done the snow. James questions bringing Ellie backmost due to the fact that she’ll conscionable beryllium different rima to feed. He thinks “maybe it’s God’s will” that she dies retired here. David doesn’t o.k. of this mentality.

Scott Shepherd plays David successful ‘The Last of Us.’ (HBO)

Ellie runs backmost to Joel and hands him a knife. She tells him that she’s going to pb the radical distant from him. She gets connected her equine and shoots astatine them. David screams astatine his men to bring her backmost alive. James chases aft Ellie and shoots her horse, throwing her to the ground. Before James tin termination her, David lets retired a shot. He carries her backmost to the settlement. He orders his men to spell look for Joel. “If you’re truthful bare for vengeance… present it,” helium says.

Joel Rises Again

One of the men moves the portion of furnishings that Ellie enactment successful beforehand of the basement doorway to support Joel. When helium goes down into the basement, Joel isn’t connected the mattress anymore. Joel is up and backmost astatine it again. Joel stabs the antheral successful the cervix and kills him.

When Ellie wakes up aft being thrown disconnected the horse, she’s successful a cage. She asks David wherefore she’s being kept similar an animal. “Because I’m acrophobic of you,” helium says. He mentions that the others privation to termination her, and she can’t past connected her own.

Meanwhile, Joel captures 2 of David’s different men and demands to cognize wherever Ellie is now. He stabs 1 antheral successful the limb erstwhile helium doesn’t reply the question. The antheral yet tells Joel that Ellie is successful Silver Lake. Joel shows nary mercy and stabs him successful the tummy aft getting the reply helium needs. He doesn’t hesitate to termination the different feline arsenic well.

‘You Have A Violent Heart’

Ellie soon realizes that David is overmuch much sinister than she ever could person imagined. She figures retired that they’re cannibals and not everyone successful the colony knows. David fundamentally says that hopeless times telephone for hopeless measures. “You punctual maine of me,” David says to Ellie. “You’re a earthy leader, you’re smart, loyal, violent.”

He adds, “You person a convulsive heart, and I should know… I’ve ever had a convulsive heart.” David wants Ellie to articulation him and pb his radical together. “We’d marque this spot perfect,” helium says. He wants much than conscionable Ellie starring alongside him. “Imagine the beingness we could build,” David tells her, implying helium wants a intersexual narration with her. When helium touches Ellie’s hand, she breaks his finger. She tries to drawback his keys, but helium bangs her caput against the cage. He rapidly runs retired of the room.

Joel works his mode done the freezing acold to get to Silver Lake. He follows a way of humor and finds the dormant equine and 3 bodies hanging nearby. David returns with James to drawback Ellie from the cage. She bites David arsenic she fights them off. They enactment her connected the chopping artifact and hole to termination her. Ellie screams that she’s infected (but doesn’t notation she’s immune). “And now, truthful are you,” she says to David.

Troy Baker arsenic James. (HBO)

She continues, “What did you say? Everything happens for a reason, right?” Ellie’s confession gives her conscionable capable clip to drawback the butcher’s weapon and stab James successful the cervix with it. She runs retired of the country and evades respective of the shots that David fires astatine her.

‘I Got You’

Ellie grabs a portion of burning wood and hides from David. She throws it towards him, hitting the curtains down him. The curtains drawback fire. Instead of moving out, David continues to hunt for Ellie. He doesn’t judge she’s infected. The occurrence continues to rage astir him.

Ellie runs astatine David and stabs him successful the stomach. He throws her to the crushed successful response. He kicks her and pins her down arsenic she tries to combat him off. “The fighting’s the portion I similar the most,” helium says. Ellie manages to drawback the butcher’s weapon that was knocked retired of his manus and stabs him implicit and implicit and implicit again, the humor splattering connected her face.

She runs extracurricular aft sidesplitting David, and Joel sneaks up connected her from behind. When she turns astir and sees that it’s Joel, she bursts into tears successful his arms. “It’s okay, babe girl. I got you,” Joel says to Ellie arsenic helium comforts her.

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