‘The last of us’ (1×08): Ellie unleashes her anger in one of the bloodiest episodes of the season

two weeks ago Joel (Pedro Pascal) was seriously injured in the sixth episode of the first season of The last of usand in the episode released this Monday we have met if the co-star of the popular post-apocalyptic series manages to pull off.

At the beginning of this penultimate episode of the season, titled when we are in needwe have been introduced to a new community of survivors in the frigid territory of Wyoming. David (Scott Shepherd), a middle-aged man, is the pastor who dictates some verses in honor of a recently deceased companion. After his sermon, the priest hinted in a conversation with his companion James that the community was going through a bad time of scarcity of resources.

Ellie (Bella Ramsey) has bumped into David and James just as she managed to catch a deer. The men are interested in hunting the young woman, and they propose to exchange it for whatever she wants. Ellie asks them for medicine for Joeland as James goes back to the village to get penicillin, David tells Ellie the story of how he became a Christian when the pandemic started, and why the man thinks faith is important in dark times.

David and James look for Joel

David tells Ellie that a man with a girl killed Alec at the university, a member of his raiding party. At that moment, Ellie runs off with the medicines James just gave her., and comes to supply them to Joel. Now the girl knows that they are after her, and she tries to wake up her partner, who is still dying.

David forms a siege party to capture the girl. Alec’s orphaned daughter has asked for blood in revenge for her father’s death, but David thinks of welcoming Ellie in the town to help her development. Joel, however, doesn’t mind killing him and satisfying his community’s wishes.

Alec’s orphaned daughter has asked for blood in revenge for her father’s death

More recovered, Joel has managed to violently get rid of the attackers who have come to his shelter, but not before finding out where on the map is silver lake to find Ellie. The young woman, for her part, has tried to attack the group, but she has been stopped by David and has locked him in a dungeon.

Ellie is invited to the community

In an intense dialogue between David and Ellie, the pastor tells the girl the motivations that lead him to save her life: he can create a stable community with her, and she could lead a happy and peaceful life. The inconsistencies in David’s character begin to appear: he is a believer in the value of every soul, but Ellie realizes that the village resorts to cannibalism to survive..

David comments that the cordyceps performs the same functions: it expands and survives out of love, to protect its own, and resort to violence if necessary. Through the bars, David approaches her hand to Ellie’s to indicate that she can trust him, and the girl seizes the moment. to break a finger and bite him.

With James’ help, they place Ellie on a cutting table. David is about to cut him with a butcher knife until the young woman tells them that is infectedand after his bite, david is too. The preacher stops her plan of attack, and in a clever maneuver, Ellie grabs the knife and plunges it into James’s neck. David begins to chase the girl throughout the villa’s dining room, where Ellie causes a fire with some embers. “Struggling is what I enjoy the most,” David confesses to the young woman’s most sadistic side. In a fierce scene Ellie reaches to pick up a knife and certifies as many cuts to David that blood comes to splatter on camera while everything around him burns.

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When Ellie, plunged into a nervous breakdown, manages to get out of the building, meets joelwho manages to calm him down, and together they walk away from Silver Lake. It seems that Joel will be able to live to tell it for one more episode, at least, since HBO Max will broadcast the series’ denouement next Monday.

two weeks ago Joel (Pedro Pascal) was seriously injured in the sixth episode of the first season of The last of usand in the episode released this Monday we have met if the co-star of the popular post-apocalyptic series manages to pull off.