‘The Last Of Us’ Recap: Joel & Ellie Face More Tragedy After Teaming Up With Henry & Sam

There’s mayhem and rioting successful the streets of Kansas City erstwhile The Last of Us occurrence 5 begins, and Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey) is inactive determined to find Henry (Lamar Johnson). He’s managed to evade Kathleen truthful far, but helium knows the walls are closing astir him and his brother, Sam (Keivonn Woodard).

Kathleen refuses to backmost down. She confronts a radical of informers for “betraying” their neighbors for FEDRA. She tells them each that they don’t person to die, but she wants thing successful return. She wants to cognize wherever Henry is. No 1 speaks up initially, truthful she tells Tommy (Jeffrey Pierce) to termination them. One antheral yet says thing and claims Henry is with a antheral named Edelstein. He doesn’t person immoderate much accusation than that.

Lamar Johnson arsenic Henry. (HBO)

Tommy assures Kathleen that there’s already a perimeter astir the city, truthful Henry and Sam volition beryllium recovered sooner oregon later. Finding Henry is Kathleen’s apical priority, for amended oregon worse. As she walks away, she orders Tommy to conscionable pain the bodies of the informers erstwhile he’s done sidesplitting them.

This Edelstein is the doc Kathleen killed successful episode 4. Before helium was captured, helium had met up with Henry and Sam, who is deaf. With 11 days worthy of nutrient astatine the time, Henry believed helium could travel up with a coagulated program to get retired of the metropolis with Edelstein by the clip they ran out. When Edelstein leaves and doesn’t travel backmost aft much than a day, Henry knows it’s clip to determination retired with Sam due to the fact that they person nary much food.

Before they leave, Henry paints an orangish stripe crossed Sam’s eyes. It’s clip for Sam to beryllium brave, similar a superhero. On their mode out, Henry watches Joel triumph the shootout aft crashing Bill’s truck. Henry tracks down Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) successful the night. Despite holding them astatine gunpoint, Henry doesn’t privation to wounded Joel and Ellie.

Henry & Kathleen’s History Is Revealed

Henry says he’s the “most wanted antheral successful Kansas City.” He tells Joel that helium knows the metropolis and tin assistance them get out. Henry has a hunch that Joel is the antheral to instrumentality by aft watching him termination those men. Henry knows the mode retired of the metropolis but doesn’t cognize however to marque it retired alive. He says he’s ne'er killed anyone and was ne'er going to termination them. The guns helium and Sam had were unloaded.

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

Henry stresses that they person to usage the attraction tunnels to get retired without being noticed. He does pass Joel that FEDRA drove the infected underground 15 years ago, but the tunnels are supposedly cleanable now. They each caput down together. It’s acheronian and quiet. They stumble upon an abandoned daycare halfway that was acceptable up aft the archetypal outbreak.

During a candid conversation, Henry reveals the information to Joel. He has killed idiosyncratic before, idiosyncratic helium calls a “great man.” It each happened due to the fact that Sam got sick with leukemia. There was 1 cause that worked, but it belonged to FEDRA. In bid to get the drug, helium had to springiness FEDRA thing big. He killed the person of the absorption movement, who besides happened to beryllium Kathleen’s brother.

A Deadly Attack

As they’re walking done the thoroughfare connected the outskirts of town, shots ringing out. Joel leaves Ellie, Henry, and Sam down to way down the shooter. Joel easy takes the feline out, but Kathleen and her men are en route. Joel keeps connected firing astatine the vehicles barreling toward them and manages to sprout 1 of the motortruck drivers. The car crashes and bursts into flames.

Kathleen gets retired of her car and urges Henry to amusement himself. Henry tells her that he’ll surrender if she lets the kids go. Kathleen refuses to negotiate. She tells Henry that possibly Sam was conscionable “supposed to die.” Kids dice each the time, she says. She adds, “This is what happens erstwhile you f**k with fate.” Henry orders Ellie to instrumentality Sam and run.

Henry steps retired from down a car to look Kathleen. “It ends the mode it ends,” she says to Henry earlier pointing her weapon astatine him. Suddenly, the burning car collapses into a pit. A swarm of infected look and statesman to attack. Henry and Sam tally for it, portion Ellie climbs into a car. A bloater crawls retired from the pit and heads consecutive for Kathleen and Tommy. Tommy sacrifices himself for Kathleen arsenic she makes a tally for it.

Keivonn Woodard plays Sam. (HBO)

An infected kid gets successful the car with Ellie, who spots Sam and Henry nether a car trying to combat disconnected clickers. Ellie and Joel, who is taking retired clickers who travel adjacent to Ellie, assistance Henry and Sam get retired from nether the car. As they’re moving distant from the chaos, Kathleen stops them. Before she tin termination Henry, the young clicker Ellie faced successful the car attacks Kathleen. It ends the mode it ends, right?

Henry Kills Sam After He Attacks Ellie

Joel, Ellie, Henry, and Sam find structure for the night. Henry wonders if Ellie and Sam volition beryllium okay. Joel says this is each easier to look erstwhile you’re younger. It’s each astir enduring and surviving.

In the adjacent room, Ellie is spending clip with Sam. “Are you adjacent scared?” Sam writes to Ellie connected his notepad. Ellie admits that she’s “scared each the time” and terrified of ending up alone. She asks Sam if he’s scared. “If you crook into a monster, is it inactive wrong you?” helium asks. He reveals the wound people connected his limb from a clicker.

Lamar Johnson and Keivonn Woodard arsenic Henry and Sam. (HBO)

Ellie shows Sam her scar. “My humor is medicine,” the hopeful Ellie says. She cuts her manus and puts it connected Sam’s bite. “Stay awake with me,” helium writes. The adjacent morning, Ellie wakes up to find Sam facing the light. When she goes implicit to him, helium attacks her. He’s already a runner.

Joel and Henry leap to their feet. When Joel tries to spell for Ellie, Henry points his weapon astatine Joel. Sam continues to onslaught Ellie, and Henry ends up sidesplitting Sam. Henry is stunned astatine what he’s done erstwhile helium looks down astatine Sam’s body. “What did I do?” a shocked Henry says. He’s killed the lone happening that’s ever mattered to him: his beloved brother. Joel begs Henry to springiness him the gun.

Henry can’t carnivore to unrecorded successful a satellite without Sam, truthful helium takes his ain beingness successful beforehand of Joel and Ellie. Joel and Ellie don’t conscionable permission them there. They excavation graves for some Henry and Sam. Ellie writes Sam 1 last connection connected his notepad earlier walking away. Joel reads the note: “I’m sorry.” Ellie’s already walking west, acceptable to determination connected from this latest nightmare.

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