Episode six of The Last of Us season 2 offered a reprieve from the fast-paced action that has made up most of the season. We got to go through flashbacks that offered additional character context for the character arcs of the season — some of which were pulled directly from cut scenes in The Last of Us II.
Even though episode 7 is the season finale, The Last of Us was renewed for a third season before the first episode even aired. From the get-go, series creator Neil Druckmann said it would probably take several seasons to tell the story of the second game, and considering its length and ambition, most agreed.
But where does season two end and leave fans waiting for the next season?
Spoiler Alert !!!This article contains MASSIVE spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2.
The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 7 Recap
The season finale of The Last of Us season 2 opens with Jesse (Young Mazino) tending to Dina’s (Isabella Merced) arrow wound from the Seraphites. She begs to be kept alive but doesn’t tell Jesse that it’s because she’s pregnant. He tries to get her to drink whiskey to help with the pain, but she refuses. Meanwhile, the Wolves are talking on the radio about what is happening that night.
Photograph by Liane Hentscher/HBO.
Ellie (Bella Ramsey) knocks on the door of the movie theater. Jesse asks where she was, but she runs off to find Dina. She wakes Dina up and asks to see her wound. She asks if the baby is okay, and Dina says yes.
Dina washes Ellie up and asks her to tell her what happened. Ellie says that all Nora would say is “whale” and “wheel,” but she doesn’t know what it means. She also says she thought it would be harder to do, but she just kept hurting Nora. However, she didn’t kill her — she just left her for dead.
Dina says, “Maybe she got what she deserved,” to which Ellie responds, “Maybe she didn’t,” telling Dina about what happened in Salt Lake City and what Joel did. Dina asks if Ellie knew who they were, and Ellie says she didn’t but knew about Joel. Dina says they need to go home.
The title card comes up saying “SEATTLE DAY THREE.”
Jesse and Ellie pack to rendezvous with Tommy. Jesse is giving Ellie the silent treatment. Dina gives Ellie a bracelet for good luck, and Ellie jokes that she’s not sure if it has been working for her. Jesse offers to go alone, but Ellie says they’re safer together. Dina barricades herself in the theater.
Jesse tells Ellie how they found her and says it took two days and a lot of close calls. Ellie thanks him. He confronts her about Dina, saying, “I can’t die” and turning down the alcohol, correctly guessing that she is pregnant. Ellie confirms it but tells him to act surprised. Jesse says that since he’s going to be a father, he can’t die and that they need to get out of Seattle.
They come across a mural on a wall of a different prophet before seeing a group of Wolves tracking a Seraphite. The Wolves strip him and drag him away. Ellie wants to intervene, but Jesse stops her.
Related: Craig Mazin on Pedro Pascal’s Worst Act in The Last of Us: ‘I probably would have done what Joel did’
At the Wolves’ camp, Sergeant Park tells Isaac (Jeffrey Wright) that the storm is in a convergence zone and says that plans are in place. He asks her about Abby, and Park says they cannot find her, Owen, or Mell. She asks why he’s putting so much importance on Abby. Isaac explains that by tomorrow, both of them will probably be dead and that Abby was supposed to be the one to take over the Wolves. Park says maybe it wasn’t supposed to be Abby.
Jesse and Ellie reach the bookstore where they are supposed to rendezvous with Tommy, but he’s not there. Ellie grabs a Sesame Street children’s book, and Jesse says he should have thought of that. Ellie says she doesn’t know what to say about her and Dina. Jesse admits he loves Dina, but not in the way Ellie loves her.
He tells her a story of a traveling band of survivors with a girl he fell in love with. They had a two-week tryst, and she asked him to leave Jackson and go with her. He says he wanted to, but he couldn’t leave the people of Jackson because they were counting on him to be the next Maria. Ellie makes fun of him, but he says if he had gone with the girl, no one would have come to save her now.
Photograph by Liane Hentscher/HBO.
They hear some Wolves on the radio calling for backup to deal with a sniper. Jesse realizes it must be Tommy. As they go to find Tommy’s location, Ellie sees the aquarium with the whale mural and the Ferris wheel. She realizes that is where Abby is.
Ellie wants to go kill Abby, but Jesse wants to go help Tommy. Ellie says if three more people had voted yes, he would have been on this mission with her. Jesse admits to voting no, saying it wasn’t in the community’s best interest. Elie tells him that he’s not as good of a person as he thinks he is. Jesse walks away, saying, “I really hope you make it.”
Ellie finds a boat on a dock and prepares to kill some Wolves to steal it, but just before she can, a fleet of other boats arrives with more Wolves, including Isaac. They load a bunch of supplies onto the boats and head toward an island in the distance. After they leave, Ellie grabs the boat they left behind and sets off towards the aquarium but capsizes before she can get there.
Related: ‘The Last of Us 3’: Neil Druckmann Hasn’t Ruled Out Sequel but There’s a Huge Condition For It to Happen
She wakes up on shore and sees a young Seraphite, who runs away. Some older Seraphites grab her, taking her towards a noose. A leader with a sickle and a little kid decide to execute her, and they start to hang her. However, when a horn in the village sounds, they abandon her, and she can escape. She takes a boat to the aquarium, seeing explosions on the island behind her.
When she gets to the aquarium, she finds Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord). Owen pleads for their lives, saying he is the one who kept her alive, claiming not to know where Abby is. Ellie gives Mel a map and orders her to say where Abby is and that she’s going to have Owen do the same, and that they need to match.
Owen tells Mel not to do it because she’ll kill them either way. He tells Ellie he’ll show her but goes to grab a gun. Ellie shoots him through the neck, and it hits Mel. Mel reveals she’s pregnant and asks Ellie to perform an emergency C-section. She tries to tell Ellie how to do it but doesn’t make any sense because she’s bleeding out. Before Ellie can do anything, she dies. Ellie starts crying over what she has done. Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and Jesse come in and find her, collecting her to go back to the theater.
Photograph by Liane Hentscher/HBO.
At the theater, Tommy plans their way out of the city. He tells Ellie that Mel and Owen were part of it too, and they made their choices. Ellie expresses regret that Abby still gets to live, and Tommy asks if she can make her peace with that. Ellie says she guesses she has to.
Tommy goes to pack. Ellie thanks Jesse for coming back. He says maybe he didn’t want to, and maybe Tommy made him, but admits it wasn’t forced. Ellie says Jesse is a good person, but Jesse says he knows that if he were out there, lost and in trouble, Ellie would set the world on fire to save him. She says she would.
They hear fighting in the lobby, so they run out. Jesse gets shot. Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) orders Ellie to stand up, saying she’ll shoot Tommy too if she doesn’t. Abby says Ellie killed her friends. Ellie admits she is why Joel killed her father.
Related: Craig Mazin: “I’m always surprised by how many people don’t” Know That Brutal ‘The Last of Us’ Twist
Abby says, “I let you live… I let you live, and you wasted it,” before pointing the gun at Ellie. She fires, but it cuts to black before we see what happens.
Abby wakes up on a couch. Owen comes in and says Isaac is waiting to see her, and she walks out into the Wolves’ compound. We see an on-screen title card that says “SEATTLE DAY ONE.”
The Last of Us Season 2 Finale Breakdown
As suspected, the season two finale of The Last of Us was very eventful, squeezing in the entire Seattle Day Three storyline for Ellie. There’s a lot of action in the episode, from Ellie’s encounter with the Seraphites on the island to her emotional confrontation with Owen and Mel. Despite not having any run-ins with Infected, this still feels like one of the most tense and thrilling episodes, packing a lot of momentum in its brief 50 minutes.
As a whole, this season certainly wasn’t as good as the first, but that should hardly be a surprise. Most fans of the game would agree — it’s in the part of the game that switches to Abby’s perspective when The Last of Us II really becomes interesting and starts to pick up nuance. With this, we will be eagerly awaiting the third season when it comes out next year.
The Last of Us is now streaming on Max.
This post belongs to FandomWire and first appeared on FandomWire
