Issues Go from Unhealthy to Worse for Ellie on The Final of Us

Seattle. Day two. And issues are about to get very, very unhealthy. The fifth episode of The Final of Us season two continued Ellie and Dina’s journey through Seattle, on the hunt for Abby, the woman who killed Joel. They usually lastly have a lead. Certainly one of Abby’s associates is in a close-by hospital. They simply should get by way of a metropolis overrun by a raging struggle between a significant navy presence within the WLF and a harmful spiritual group, known as the Serephites or Scars. Each of them would get their shot at Ellie this week however, finally, it could be Ellie giving the photographs in one of the best scenes in Last of Us history to this point.

Earlier than the story might shift to Ellie, although, The Final of Us as soon as once more began with the WLF. Troopers awkwardly stand round a hospital as Hanrahan, established as one of many leaders within the earlier episode, sits down with Sgt. Park, the girl tasked with clearing the hospital. Park seems to be completely drained and defeated as she explains that issues had been going properly till her troopers began to wash the basement. Within the basement, particularly on degree B2, a bunch led by somebody named Leon started to come across the lethal vegetation all around the partitions. 5 minutes later, Leon advised Sgt. Park that the illness was within the air, and to seal them in. Which they did. Hanrahan tells Park she handled the scenario “heroically and completely,” earlier than including, “I’m sorry about your son.” Sure, the aforementioned Leon was Sgt. Park’s son, and he knew he needed to have his mother sacrifice him for the larger good of his associates.

It’s a scene that, as soon as once more, ever so barely, humanizes the WLF despite the fact that they’re being arrange because the unhealthy guys in Ellie’s quest to search out Abby. A quest that’s being aided drastically however the truth that the WLF are talking so freely on the walkie-talkie she and Dina stole the earlier night time. Dina is utilizing it to determine when and tips on how to sneak by way of the town undetected, however totally conscious that the brazen, open communications of the WLF present they aren’t scared within the slightest of their enemy, the Scars, listening to them.

As soon as Dina charts the trail, she and Ellie head out. Their aim is to search out the hospital the place they consider they’ll discover Nora, certainly one of Abby’s associates who was in Jackson once they killed Joel. Alongside the best way, Dina reminds Ellie she by no means requested her concerning the first individual she killed and we’re hit with the gut-wrenching Dina origin story. As a younger youngster, she watched as a raider killed her mother and sister and was compelled to kill him in retaliation. The revelation pulls the curtain again a bit on Dina’s love of Ellie. She, too, understands what it’s like to observe a liked one be killed. She understands that want for vengeance and it’s why they’re so good collectively.

A part of Dina’s plan to get to the hospital is to sneak by way of a big deserted constructing that the WLF is ignoring for some motive. They know there are contaminated in there but additionally conform to not use their weapons to keep away from attracting any WLF troopers. That goes properly for about two minutes till they understand the constructing is crawling, actually, with good contaminated, very like Ellie encountered again in Jackson. Ellie is aware of there was solely certainly one of them that point, and she or he didn’t get out unscathed then. Now, up in opposition to not less than half a dozen of them, she doesn’t like their possibilities.

The “no weapons” factor goes instantly out the window as Ellie tries to attract the contaminated’s consideration away from the way more at-risk Dina. It really works for a second, however these contaminated are quick, robust, and about 10 seconds from killing each women when different photographs ring out. Out of nowhere, it’s Jesse, who saves the ladies and makes a break for it because the WLF takes chase.

Jesse, Dina, and Ellie make it right into a park the place the WLF cease, refusing to go in. That’s a nasty signal. We be taught that Jesse and Tommy adopted Ellie and Dina to Seattle (with out permission) a day after they left, and found out the place they’d be due to Dina’s map again on the theater. Sadly, they don’t get an excessive amount of extra information as a result of the whistling begins. Once more, that’s not good. This park is Scar territory, and one thing goes down.

The trio watch because the Scars tie up a member of the WLF and intestine him as he guarantees he has no details about Isaac’s plans. As they watch in shock, an arrow comes out of the darkness and pierces Dina by way of the leg. Jesse grabs her and runs whereas Ellie heads her personal method, narrowly escaping the Scars once more. (By the best way, if ever you wanted a reminder that The Final of Us is predicated on a online game, it was this episode the place the characters run into one thing unhealthy, battle it, get chased, then escape time and again.)

Ellie then sees one thing within the distance. It’s the hospital she and Dina had been on the lookout for, and regardless of her associates going residence with out her, she decides to enterprise ahead. In what looks like nanoseconds (not less than method too quick for us to not not less than point out), Ellie finds Nora within the hospital. Nora can’t consider what she’s seeing and tells Ellie about how a lot Joel’s loss of life impacted her. Which is a lie. She then says that “the bitch obtained what he deserved” as she throws chemical compounds at Ellie and makes a run for it.

Right here’s the place issues obtained actually good, although. Ellie chases Nora by way of the hospital, avoiding all kinds of WLF gunfire alongside the best way. However, due to the locked basement we heard about at the start of the episode, Nora is trapped. She jumps into the elevator shaft and rapidly finds herself on B2. Ellie follows, seeing not simply the lethal flora throughout, however specks of one thing within the air. Leon Park, who we see nonetheless half alive, was proper. The illness is within the air and Nora is contaminated.

Ellie finds her on the finish of a corridor, and Nora laughs. She thinks they’re each useless. “You silly bitch,” Nora says. “We’re respiration spores. We’re contaminated. You killed us each.” “Did I?” a scarily assured Ellie replies. Then Nora realizes who Ellie is. She’s the immune lady they heard rumors about. The immune lady who was going to avoid wasting everybody on the hospital Joel attacked. And, on this second, she tells Ellie what Joel did. That Joel killed everybody within the hospital, together with the one individual on this planet who might’ve made a treatment. And that individual was Abby’s dad.

“I do know,” Ellie coldly replies. It’s a surprising second as a result of, up till this level, we assumed Ellie didn’t know what Joel did. His actions and subsequent lie are a cloud that’s been lingering over the present and their relationship because the finish of final season. However we will see it in Ellie’s eyes. She did know. And, someway, she’s okay with it. She continues to press Nora for Abby’s location, however Nora received’t budge. So, Ellie grabs a pipe and begins smashing her with it, committing a kind of torture we didn’t know she was able to

The second of pure hatred in Ellie is rapidly minimize off, and she or he’s in mattress again in Jackson. She wakes up and Joel is there. What the heck might that imply? What it means is that Ellie torturing Nora is us seeing her at her very worst.

Although the fifth episode of The Final of Us season two was somewhat repetitive, it was value it for that unbelievable second of revelation and rigidity on the finish as Ellie lastly got here nose to nose with certainly one of Joel’s killers. However not the one she’s on the lookout for. Not but.

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