![]() ![]() He soon changes his mind, however, and he and Ellie set off on horseback to Colorado, where Tommy believes some Fireflies are stationed. Joel angrily tells Ellie that she’s not his daughter, and that they must go their separate ways. They have an intense argument in which Ellie brings up Joel’s deceased daughter Sarah. When Ellie finds out that Joel tried to pawn her off on Tommy, she lashes out at him, hurt that a man she’s come to see as a father figure is eager to abandon her. Tommy offers to lend Joel some gear for the journey but refuses to take Ellie off Joel’s hands. Joel explains to Tommy that Ellie is immune and that Tommy should deliver her to the Fireflies so that they can develop a vaccine. But when Tommy sees Joel in Jackson, he warmly embraces him and invites him and Ellie to join the community. Tommy believed in the cause, but Joel didn’t. We find out that Joel and Tommy had a falling out due to their disagreement over the Fireflies. Henry, seeing no alternative, shoots and kills his little brother before turning the gun on himself.Ī few months later, we find Joel and Ellie outside of Jackson, Wyoming, where Tommy is living with a community of self-sufficient survivors. When he “turns” (that is, transforms into an infected), he attacks Ellie. Despondent, he hides his infection from the group. Joel and Henry hatch a plan for all of them to escape Pittsburgh and it works, but in the process Sam is bitten by an infected. Joel is, per usual, reluctant to trust or team up with them but Ellie bonds with the younger brother Sam. While still in Pittsburgh, Joel and Ellie come across another duo, two brothers named Henry and Sam. ![]() Although he’s upset that Ellie violated his rule of not getting involved in any acts of violence, Joel reluctantly admits to himself and Ellie that he’s thankful she rescued him. As he reaches desperately for his submerged gun, a hand grabs it and shoots the bandit, saving Joel’s life. In an intense fight with one of the bandits, Joel is nearly drowned. Their car is totaled, and they are again forced to travel on foot. When they reach Pittsburgh, Joel and Ellie are ambushed by a group of bandits. Joel and Ellie then hit the road, driving west in search of Tommy. Nonetheless, owing a debt to Joel, Bill helps Joel and Ellie get a car. Bill, obviously nihilistic and hiding the pain he feels from being alone, advises Joel against helping Ellie. ![]() Eventually, they find Bill, whose partner abandoned him and committed suicide. Although Ellie is eager to be armed and help Joel fight the infected and other enemies, Joel is reluctant to trust her. So Joel decides they should seek out the help of an old friend of his, a grizzled old kook named Bill who lives alone in the suburbs outside Boston. The problem is that Tommy lives out west and Joel and Ellie are on foot. Joel figures that their best bet is to find his now estranged brother Tommy, a former member of the Fireflies, in the hopes that Tommy can help them find other Fireflies. ![]() Joel and Ellie are now left alone, with no plan in place or Fireflies to help them out. Believing in the importance of saving Ellie’s life in the hope that her immunity could be used to develop a vaccine, Tess heroically sacrifices herself as Joel and Ellie escape. As they battle the infected, Tess is bitten. When the trio attempts to meet up with a group of Fireflies to hand off Ellie, they discover that the Fireflies are all dead. But 20 years of mercilessly killing any and all people in his path, infected or not, has hardened Joel’s heart and made him reluctant to become emotionally invested in anyone. As Joel and Tess make their way out of the militarized zone, Joel starts to take a liking to Ellie, who reminds him of his daughter Sarah. The young girl in question is named Ellie and as Joel and Tess soon discover, she is immune to the virus that has devastated civilization. After Robert is killed, a Firefly named Marlene offers Joel and Tess a deal: smuggle a young girl out of Boston, and they’ll get their weapons back. Joel and Tess track down Robert and discover that he’s sold a bunch of their guns to the Fireflies. Tess, his partner in crime, bangs on his door one morning and tells him a man named Robert sent a couple of goons to attack her. Attempts to manufacture a vaccine have failed and the Army has declared martial law in major American cities, provoking the formation of a violent revolutionary group called the Fireflies, who demand that democracy be restored.Ģ0 years after Sarah’s death, we find Joel living in a militarized zone in Boston, eking out a living as a smuggler. As the opening credits roll, a series of news broadcast audio snippets convey what’s happened to the country since the outbreak. ![]()
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