‘The Last Of Us’ Recap: Joel and Ellie Face More Tragedies After Joining Henry and Sam

There is chaos and riots on the streets of Kansas City when The Last of Us begins episode 5 and Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey) is still determined to find Henry (lamar johnson). He’s managed to evade Kathleen so far, but he knows the walls are closing in around him and his brother Sam (Kevin Woodard).

Kathleen refuses to back down. She confronts a group of informants for “betraying” her neighbors at FEDRA. She tells everyone that she doesn’t have to die, but she wants something in return. She wants to know where Henry is. No one talks at first, so she tells Tommy (Jeffery Pierce) To kill them. A man finally says something and claims that Henry is with a man named Edelstein. He has no more information than that.

Tommy assures Kathleen that there is already a perimeter around the city, so sooner or later they will find Henry and Sam. Finding Henry is Kathleen’s top priority, for better or for worse. As she walks away, she orders Tommy to burn the informants’ bodies only when she is done killing them.

This Edelstein is the doctor Kathleen killed in episode 4. Before he was captured, he met Henry and Sam, who is deaf. With 11 days of food at the time, Henry believed he could come up with a solid plan to get Edelstein out of town when they ran out. When Edelstein leaves and doesn’t return after more than a day, Henry knows it’s time to go with Sam as they are out of food.

Before leaving, Henry paints an orange streak across Sam’s eyes. It’s time for Sam to be brave, like a superhero. On the way out, Henry watches Joel win the shootout after crashing Bill’s truck. Henry tracks down Joel (Pedro Pasqual) and Eli (Bella Ramsey) at night. Though he has them at gunpoint, Henry doesn’t want to hurt Joel and Ellie.

Henry and Kathleen’s history is revealed

Henry says he is “the most wanted man in Kansas City”. He tells Joel that he knows the city and can help them. Henry feels like Joel is the man to watch after watching him kill those men. Henry knows how to get out of town, but he doesn’t know how to get out alive. He says he has never killed anyone and would never kill them. The guns he and Sam had were empty.

Henry points out that they have to use the maintenance tunnels to avoid detection. He warns Joel that Phaedra brought the infected underground 15 years ago, but now the tunnels are presumably clean. They all go down together. It’s dark and silent. They come across an abandoned daycare that has been set up after the initial outbreak.

During a heart-to-heart talk, Henry reveals the truth to Joel. He’s already killed someone, someone he calls a “great man.” It all happened because Sam got leukemia. There was one drug that worked, but it was from FEDRA. To get the drug, he had to give Phaedra something big. He killed the leader of the resistance movement, who was also Kathleen’s brother.

a fatal blow

As they walk down the street on the outskirts of the city, shots are heard. Joel leaves Ellie, Henry and Sam behind to track down the killer. Joel easily defeats the boy, but Kathleen and her men are on their way. Joel continues shooting at the vehicles moving towards them and manages to shoot one of the truckers. The car crashes and catches fire.

Kathleen gets out of the car and asks Henry to show himself. Henry tells him he will give up if he lets the children go. Kathleen refuses to negotiate. She tells Henry that maybe Sam just had to “die”. Children always die, she says. She adds, “This is what happens when she fucks with destiny.” Henry orders Ellie to take Sam and run.

Henry comes out from behind a car to confront Kathleen. “It ends the way it ends,” she tells Henry before pointing the gun at him. Suddenly, the burning car falls into a hole. A swarm of infected emerges and begins attacking. Henry and Sam run, while Ellie gets in the car. A fan comes out of the hole and heads towards Kathleen and Tommy. Tommy sacrifices himself for Kathleen as she escapes.

An infected boy gets into a car with Ellie, who sees Sam and Henry under a car trying to fend off clickers. Ellie and Joel, who is pulling out the clickers that are coming to Ellie, help Henry and Sam out from under the car. As they run away from the chaos, Kathleen stops them. Before she can kill Henry, the young clicker Ellie confronted in the car attacks Kathleen. It ends as it ends, right?

Henry kills Sam after attacking Ellie

Joel, Ellie, Henry and Sam find shelter for the night. Henry wonders if Ellie and Sam will be okay. Joel says it’s easier to deal with all of this when you’re younger. It’s about resisting and surviving.

In the next room, Ellie spends time with Sam. “You are scared?” Sam writes to Ellie in her notebook. She Ellie admits she was “scared the whole time” and terrified of ending up alone. She asks Sam if she’s scared. “If you turn into a monster, is it still inside you?” he asks. She reveals the bite mark on a clicker’s leg.

Ellie shows Sam her scar. “My blood is medicine,” Ellie says hopefully. She cuts off her hand and places it on Sam’s bite. “Stay up with me,” she writes. The next morning, Ellie wakes up to find Sam facing the light. When she comes to him, he attacks her. He is already a runner.

Joel and Henry stand up. When Joel tries to go after Ellie, Henry pulls his gun on Joel. Sam continues to attack Ellie and Henry ends up killing Sam. Henry is in awe of what he has done when he looks at Sam’s body. “What have I done?” Henry says in surprise. He killed the only thing that mattered to him: his beloved brother. Joel begs Henry to give him the gun.

Henry can’t stand living in a world without Sam, so he takes his own life in front of Joel and Ellie. Joel and Ellie don’t leave them there. They dig graves for Henry and Sam. Ellie writes one last message to Sam in her notebook before leaving. Joel reads the note: “I’m sorry.” Ellie is already heading west, ready to put this latest nightmare behind her.

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