The Last of Us S01E02 Summary

Do you need to catch up on the past week? I’ve got you covered. If not, here’s your recap of The Last of Us S01E02. The monsters are very real this week.

At the beginning of the episode, we went back 20 years to Jakarta. Military officers enter a restaurant and ask about an elderly lady eating alone. They put her in the back of a police car and apologize for interrupting her lunch. She wants to know what she did wrong. They don’t say anything and they know she’s a professor studying mycology. I think she’s being brought in to watch the outbreak. They take her to an institution and have her looked at under a microscope. She identifies it as ophiocordyceps. He tells her that the sample was taken from a human. She says that’s impossible.

We now see the scientist in a hazmat suit. A voice tells her that the dead woman she was looking at was not okay. The doctor begins to dissect a bite wound on the body. There is a fungus in the wound. She then opens the mouth and takes out more fungus, long strings of it. This fungus moves. She runs out of the room.

Later she drinks tea and discusses where the woman was found. She was found downtown and she was a perfectly pleasant woman before she went crazy. She was eventually shot by the police. The good scientist wants to know who bit her. They want her help developing a vaccine. She tells him there is no medicine that will stop it. He tells her what do we do then. She tells him to bomb the city. Bomb everyone in it. She is distraught and asks to be with her family.

We’ll pick up Ellie again. She was asleep and wakes up to see Joel and Tess with guns pointed at her. They know about her infection. Ellie says Marlene tested her every day. She describes the tests and eventually Joel and Marlene made her pee.

Joel’s hand is probably broken. It doesn’t look great. Now they fight over what to do with Ellie. Joel wants to leave her in the QZ. Tess wants to go ahead with the plan. Tess wants to know what’s so special about Ellie. Things get heated. Ellie doesn’t play nice or answer questions. Ellie tells them that there is a secret Fire Fly base with scientists and doctors and they need Ellie for something. Joel pushes back, claiming they’ve heard it all before. Joel reluctantly gives up. They prepare to leave. They refuse Ellie’s request for a gun.

When they leave you get an amazing view of a city that has collapsed. Skyscrapers have fallen down as the greenery around them has reclaimed their stolen spaces. We learn that the city was bombed to slow the spread. They have to make a long journey to get through the city. As they walk, Ellie discusses how she was bitten. We learn she is 14. There are a number of urban legends surrounding the Infected, and Ellie treats us to many of them. We hear a scream/scream and the group accelerates.

Joel opens a door and they appear to be in a hotel lobby. They have to go through the flooded lobby. Ellie doesn’t feel like it at all. She’s having some fun with the front lobby. Only to be afraid of a real skeleton. Joel responds quickly and they share a very small decent moment between the two. Further in the hotel it appears that one of the floors has collapsed. Tess keeps climbing up to find another way. Ellie and Joel finally have a semi-civil conversation. We learn that Joel is from Texas and Tess is from Detroit. He also tells her that he killed many infected. She wants to know if it was hard. Tess comes back, she has found a new way.

She leads them around in a different way. on the balcony there is a giant pit of people all connected by the mycelium. It sucks to see it, but finally Ellie is starting to understand how much danger there is. They decide to go through the museum. The museum door is covered in mould. However, it all seems to be bone dry. They have to go to the top of the museum. So they carefully enter. Mold covers every inch, but it’s cooked. There’s a dead man on the stairs. Like a fresh dead man. He’s been attacked. They think it’s one of the mold zombies. They are silent as they crawl up the stairs. The stairs are about to fall down. There is mold from the next level on the second floor.

The fungus they maneuver around usually appears to be desiccated fungus people. On the top floor, the group manages to avoid the stairs as they completely fall apart. The party begins to hear a series of clicks. There are two clicker style zombies. Joel tells Ella that they can’t see and that type of zombie can only hear and they use echolocation. The group is separated when the two clickers attack them. One goes after Joel, the other goes after Tess and Ellie. Joel and Ellie hide and eventually the group manages to kill the zombies.

They don’t leave the museum until we see that Tess has sprained her ankle Patrick Mahomes style. Ellie has also been bitten AGAIN. Joel and Tess tape her ankle. She’s had it with his pessimism. She’s not in good shape.

As they walk the streets of Boston again, Joel fights the urge to worry about Ellie’s new bite. They arrive at the Fire Fly base. There are some very fresh dead bodies hanging around. There is a trail of blood inside. Tess and Ellie go inside and there are more bodies. Looks like gunshot wounds. It’s a massacre. There’s no one left alive. Tess frantically searches for a clue while Joel is about to give up. Tess is infected. She shows Joel the bite and the fungus is already growing. Tess wants Joel to take Ellie to Bill and Franks. She makes him promise.

There’s a fantastically terrifying shot of the mycelium as they communicate from one of the dead bodies on the ground to a group of zombies hanging out a block away. A new twist on world-class zombie communications. Tess prepares the building like a bomb so she can sacrifice herself to kill any zombies if they enter. She sets fire to the building just as they begin. Ellie and Joel see the building burning from a distance.

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