Season 2 of “The Last of Us”, episode 5 again starts again with the Washington Liberation Front (WLF). Hanrahan (Alanna Ubach) arrives in one of the hospitals controlled by the WLF militia only to find her stairwell of the basement completely sealed. When she asks the sergeante Elise Park (Hettienne Park) why she decided to kill some of her men by doing so, we tell her a terrifying story. Sergeant Park tried to carry out his mission to make the hospital fully operational again for WLF by giving off each of its floors. She found little resistance by also doing so until her soldiers start to travel the three levels of basement of the building. B1 was good. “The whole floor was empty, not even rats,” she says (a line that is sure to make the ears of the players “Last Last USS Part II” are recovering).
However, when she sent her son Leon to help eliminate the B2, he struck off by radio shortly after and sounded as if he could barely breathe. “I said,” Leon, were you a little? ” He said, “It’s in the air. Sell us, ”recalls the haunted park. Hanrahan does not hide her shock on this story, but does his best to shake him, saying to the Sergeant Park: “As far as I’m concerned, you have resolved the situation in a permanent and heroic way.” His words offer little comfort in a scene that creates a frightening fear of a simple conversation, which the showrunner “last of us”, Craig Mazin, is particularly offered to remove. This scene also performs two things: it sets up the strange conclusion of this week’s episode and also the scary game of “The Last of Us Part II”, which HBO viewers will probably not see before the third season of the television show.
Before being able to arrive at one of these moments, “The Last of Us” returns to the theater where Dina (Isabela Merced) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) found a shelter at the end of the “first day”. Dina is busy listening to WLF radio that she and Ellie have stolen, using the military transmissions she hears to find a safe path to the hospital where they know that Nora (Tati Gabrielle) is parked. While she does, Ellie explores the theater, stumbling on another relatively blank guitar in the magnificent dusty auditorium of the building. Sitting on the theater scene, she sings a single line of “Future Days” by Pearl Jam, a song that viewers “Last of Us” will probably not recognize, but video game players will do it absolutely. “If I ever lost you …”, she sang, remembering a moment of her past which has not yet been represented on the screen, but which opens osted “the last part II”.
The backup arrives
Dina realizes that the only way for her and Ellie go to the hospital and avoid the patrols of the WLF along the way is to cut a building which they suppose to be filled with infects. DINA notes that this strategy is “reckless”, but that does not prevent it or when it is committed anyway. During their trip through the city, they come across another “Feel Her Love” wall, under which there is a bunch of murdered seaphite body and another message painted by spray which is read as follows: “feel this, b – h”. The horrified view of both Ellie and Dina, and this leads to offering Dina an outing. In response, Dina decides to tell her partner the story of the first person she killed.
When she was eight years old, Dina got into her family’s house to play outside. While she was outside, she heard shouting and ran with her weapon. As she got home, her mother and sister were already dead, but the raid that had killed them was still there. Dina shot him without hesitation. “Whatever reason Joel gave these people to do what they did, he didn’t deserve this,” said Dina. “What if my mother and sister were beaten to death in front of me?” What if this mother – Ker made me look at it as he did? Dina, in other words, understands why Ellie wants to find and kill Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). “I will come back if you wish, and I will continue if you wish,” she says. “If I die, it’s on me.”
Ellie, not surprisingly, decides to continue. Once they reach the building that Dina had marked earlier, she tells Ellie not to start shooting on an infected that they see and making a lot of noise as she would normally. “You’re a little crazy, and it’s exciting. This is one of the reasons why I love you,” said Dina. “But I want to get out of here.” Their plan comes out by the window when they find themselves trapped in a dark room with countless infected harassors like the one that Ellie killed in the first of season 2 of season 2. The two girls are pinned by the Stalkers, to be saved by Jesse (Young Mazinotus), who kills the infected attackers before directing Ellie and Dina far from the building and the range of WLF soldiers who been attracted to their gunshots.
They are reduced to a park that the WLF chooses not to follow them. During his stay, Jesse explains that he and Tommy (Gabriel Luna) faufilés from Jackson at night after Ellie and Dina left to continue them. The two men separated when they arrived in Seattle, but planned to go together tomorrow morning. When they do, Jesse says that the four will return to Jackson together. Ellie begins to protest, only to be interrupted first by Dina and then by a wave of disturbing whistles. The trio witnesses a group of nearby scars hang and mercilessly disembodied a captured WLF soldier. Dina is then killed in her leg with an arrow, and Ellie tells Jesse to bring her back to the theater while she attracts the attention of the scars. When she sees the roof of the WLF hospital in the nearby distance, however, Ellie decides to go there rather than following Jesse and Dina.
Immune girl
Ellie sneaks before the soldiers of the patrolling WLF and their dogs and ends up finding himself face to face with Nora, who is surprised and confused to see her again. “We could have killed you,” she said. “Maybe you should have,” says Ellie. “Or maybe should have been Jackson’s FK.” Nora ignores the repeated questions of Ellie on where Abby is, saying, “I’m sorry you saw that it happens. Her facade of sympathy for Joel is demolished when she coldly adds: “Yeah, the little B – Ha obtained what he deserved.” She tries to flee, but Ellie continues it just, escaping the shots of the colleagues soldiers of the WLF of Nora.
Desperate, Nora jumps on an elevator, which falls several floors. It landed right next to the level B2 level and runs inside. Ellie follows it, discovering the whole ground covered with cordycers and the dense air of spores * which distributes the same zombie infection which destroyed the world of decades ago. Ellie stumbles even on the dying soldiers that Sergeant Park sent there the day before. When she catches Nara after a dead end, the WLF nurse already coughs and fights to breathe. “We breathe spores. We are infected, ”she said to Ellie. “You both killed us.” Ellie simply answers empty: “Do I?”
It doesn’t take long for Nora to be able to take over. “You are her. The immune girl … You are real, ”she says with admiration. “You don’t know what he [Joel] did? “Ellie said that she does not care, and she remains unshakable when Nora exposes her for her. When Nora continues to refuse the location of Abby, Ellie takes a pipe nearby and beats her with her, torturing Nora until she tells her what she wants to know.
* In “The Last of Us Part II”, Ellie’s confrontation with Nora is even darker. Ellie already knows what the spores are when she arrives in Seattle, and she knowingly throws herself and Nora in a covered level of hospital spores after being pinned by WLF soldiers. Ellie, in other words, knowingly designs Nora in “The Last of Us Part II”, while it is Nora in the show that chooses to enter the basement of the hospital.
Our future days
The end of season 2 of “The Last of Us”, episode 5 suggests that viewers can finally start to obtain some of the flashback scenes between Ellie and Joel that they have been refused so far, and which are the strongest moments of “The Last of Us Part II”. These scenes are dispersed intermittently throughout this video game, but its HBO adaptation has so far retained them, probably for fear of disturbing the already disjointed pace of this season. The series suffered a little without the starry presence of Pascal, however, so if we can really expect more to go ahead, it is a welcome development.
It should also be noted that, in addition to finally presenting the infected spores of video games “Last of Us”, this week and the episodes of last week adopted the same structure day by day (that is to say “Seattle: Day One”, “Seattle: Day”) as “the last part II”. This suggests that the HBO series will really follow exactly the same divider structural path as its source of video game game. At the moment, it seems highly unlikely that viewers are ready to exercise the same extreme levels of patience as “the last part II” and its request for structure of the players, but only time will say it with certainty.
“The Last of Us” is broadcast on Sunday on HBO and Max.
