![]() ![]() 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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