The Last of Us Episode 8 begins with a new group of survivors realizing they don’t have enough food to feed their people. He has only a week left, even with rationing. The situation is getting worse by the minute.
Meanwhile, Ellie checks Joel’s stab wound after stitching it up. Joel barely moves. Ellie takes her gun and leaves the house. She ventures into the woods and sees a deer. She shoots once but runs away. She gives chase, but two of the survivors of this new group, James (played by trojan bakerwho voiced Joel in the video game) and David, find the deer first and decide to capture it.
Ellie stops them abruptly. David explains that they are from a larger group who are starving. He says he’ll make a deal with her. He needs meds for Joel, so he agrees. Ellie orders James to find the medicine and bring it back in exchange for half of the deer.
Ellie comes across a dangerous group
David and Ellie are left alone. He offers her shelter and fire while they wait. Ellie learns that David is a preacher. He wasn’t a believer in God until After the apocalypse. She left the Pittsburgh QZ after it collapsed and slowly picked up new people as they traveled until they found their permanent settlement in Silver Lake.
David doesn’t believe in luck. “I think everything happens for a reason,” he tells Ellie. David says he sent 4 of his men to a nearby town for food and only 3 returned. What he didn’t do was killed by a “crazy man” who was traveling with … a girl. Crazy? Joel The girl? ellie.
The game turns against Ellie. James points his gun at her, but David tells him to put it down. He orders James to give Ellie medicine for Joel. Ellie doesn’t bite when David says he can protect her. She runs to Joel to give him penicillin. She lays down next to him to try and warm up.
David announces to his people that he will send a group tomorrow to follow in Ellie’s footsteps so they can find Joel and “bring that man to justice”. The daughter of the man who killed Joel says they should kill Joel and Ellie. David slaps her in front of everyone.
Ellie continues to give Joel more penicillin and he seems to be doing a little better. As she leaves, she sees crows flying in the distance. She soon sees a group, including David and James, walking in the snow. James demands to bring Ellie back because she will be just another mouth to feed. He thinks “maybe it’s God’s will” that she die here. David doesn’t approve of this mentality.
Ellie runs back to Joel and hands him a knife. She tells him that she will push the group away from him. She mounts her horse and shoots at them. David yells at her men to bring her back alive. James chases Ellie and shoots her horse, knocking her to the ground. Before James can kill her, David shoots. He takes her back to the settlement. He orders his men to look for Joel. “If you’re so hungry for revenge… give in,” he says.
Joel gets up
One of the men moves the piece of furniture Ellie has placed in front of the cellar door to protect Joel. When she goes down to the cellar, Joel is no longer on the mattress. Joel gets up and looks at him again. Joel stabs the man in the neck, killing him.
When Ellie wakes up after being thrown from her horse, she is in a cage. She asks David why they keep her like an animal. “Because I’m afraid of you,” she says. She says the others want to kill her and she can’t survive on her own.
Meanwhile, Joel captures two of David’s other men and demands to know where Ellie is now. He stabs a man in the leg when he doesn’t answer the question. The man finally tells Joel that Ellie is in Silver Lake. Joel shows no mercy and stabs him in the stomach after getting the answer he needed. Also he doesn’t hesitate to kill the other boy.
“You have a violent heart”
Ellie quickly realizes that David is far more sinister than she could have imagined. She discovers they are cannibals and not everyone in the settlement knows it. David basically says that desperate times call for desperate measures. “You remind me of me,” David says to Ellie. “You are a natural leader, you are intelligent, loyal, violent.”
And he adds: “You have a violent heart and I should know better… I’ve always had a violent heart”. David wants Ellie to join him and lead her people. “We’d make this place perfect,” he says. He wants more than Ellie by his side. “Imagine the life we could build,” David tells her, hinting that he wants a sexual relationship with her. When he touches Ellie’s hand, she breaks her finger. She tries to take her keys, but he slams her head against her cage. He runs quickly out of the room.
Joel fights his way through the freezing cold to reach Silver Lake. He follows a trail of blood and finds the dead horse and three bodies hanging nearby. David returns to James to retrieve Ellie from the cage. He bites David as he fights them. They place it on her cutting board and prepare to kill her. Ellie screams that she’s infected (but she doesn’t mention that she’s immune). “And now you too,” she says to David.
He continues: “What did you say? Everything happens for a reason, right? Ellie’s confession gives her enough time to grab the butcher knife and stab James in her neck with it. She runs out of the room and dodges many of the shots David fires at her.
‘I catch you’
Ellie picks up a burning piece of wood and hides from David. She throws it at her, hitting the curtains behind him. The curtains catch fire. Instead of running away, David continues looking for Ellie. He doesn’t believe she’s infected. The fire keeps roaring around you.
Ellie runs to David and stabs him in the stomach. He throws her to the ground in response. He kicks and pins her as she tries to push him away. “The fight is the part I like the most,” she says. Ellie manages to grab the butcher knife that has fallen from her hand and she stabs him repeatedly, splattering her face with blood.
She runs away after killing David and Joel approaches her from behind. When she turns around and sees it’s Joel, she starts crying in her arms. “It’s okay, girl. I got you,” Joel says to Ellie as he comforts her.
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