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Henry, Sam, Joel, and Ellie make it to an almost deserted cul-de-sac earlier than Kathleen and her troopers catch as much as them. However, their automobiles by accident launch a swarm of contaminated that had been pushed underground by FEDRA and the rebels are rapidly overrun by the horde. Even although Henry, Sam, Joel, and Ellie escape to a motel, it’s revealed that Sam was bitten throughout the ambush. Ellie tries to save lots of him together with her blood, however it doesn’t work. Sam turns the subsequent morning and assaults Ellie. Henry shoots Sam to save lots of Ellie, however appalled by what he’s performed, he then turns the gun on himself and commits suicide.
Ellie and Joel bury the brothers earlier than setting off for Wyoming on foot. They ultimately make it and discover that Tommy isn’t at risk, however has as an alternative been dwelling in an nearly utopian settlement together with his spouse Maria (Rutina Wesley). Tommy tells Joel that he’s heard of some Fireflies establishing a lab in Colorado, and Joel begs Tommy to take Ellie there. After dropping Sarah, and now Tess, Joel is frightened that he gained’t be capable of preserve Ellie protected. Ellie overhears their dialog and will get offended with Joel, pondering that she’s going to lose him similar to she’s misplaced everybody else in her life. In the top, Joel decides to let Ellie select who she goes with, and naturally she chooses Joel.
With a horse borrowed from the Jackson, Wyoming settlement, Joel and Ellie arrive on the University of Eastern Colorado to seek out it deserted by the Fireflies. They discover a map that signifies they fled to Salt Lake City, however earlier than Joel and Ellie can head that approach, they’re attacked by a small group of raiders. Joel kills certainly one of them, however is stabbed within the course of. His damage is essential, and Ellie does her finest to handle him within the unforgiving winter they discover themselves in.
As he fades out and in of consciousness, Joel begs Ellie to depart him behind. In a flashback to the night time Ellie was bitten, we see her reconnect together with her best friend and first crush Riley in an deserted mall in Boston. Riley has deliberate one final night time for Ellie earlier than leaving for Atlanta with the Fireflies. The two have an emotional however enjoyable reunion earlier than they’re attacked by contaminated. Back within the current, remembering all that she’s misplaced, Ellie stays and does what she will be able to to handle Joel.
Running out of meals, Ellie tries to hunt on her personal whereas Joel slowly heals. After she shoots a deer, she runs into two males from a close-by neighborhood, David and James (performed by unique Joel voice actor Troy Baker). David presents to commerce Ellie for half of the deer, and sends James again to the city for some antibiotics to deal with Joel’s an infection. While James is gone, David reveals that the man that attacked Joel at the University was from their neighborhood, and so they all need Joel dead for killing him. Ellie takes the medication and runs again to Joel, giving him a few injections earlier than David and his males observe her down.
Ellie tries to steer them away from Joel, however will get captured within the course of. David tries to persuade her to affix him and lead this neighborhood (in a brilliant creepy approach), however Ellie rightfully refuses. David, who’s been secretly feeding his ravenous group the flesh of their dead relations, then turns violent, threatening to cut Ellie up and feed her to them too, simply as he did to Alec, the person Joel killed. Ellie fights again, killing James and setting the lodge she’s been held in on fireplace within the course of. David finds Ellie once more and tries to assault her earlier than she brutally kills him with the identical cleaver he threatened to cut her up with. In the meantime, a weak however decided Joel is combating his approach via David’s males and the tough climate to seek out Ellie. At the top of episode 8, the 2 share a tearful reunion that definitively proves that the pair are a lot greater than only a smuggler and his cargo.
