The Last of Us season 2 ending explained: Is [SPOILER] dead?

Episode 7 noticed Ellie lastly come face-to-face with Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) once more, amid her quest for revenge after Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) demise. However Abby actually is not about to go quietly.

Fortunately, The Last of Us has been renewed for season 3, so we all know the story will proceed, however we have been left on a huge cliffhanger.

This is what you should find out about how The Last of Us season 2 ended – and people dramatic last scenes! Beware of sport spoilers – and potential season 3 spoilers – forward, although!

The Last of Us ending defined: Is Ellie useless?

No, Ellie is not useless, and her story will proceed in future seasons of The Last of Us – except the present takes an enormous departure away from the sport.

Nevertheless, she actually got here near demise just a few instances in episode 7. One of these brushes with demise comes consequently of an encounter with the Seraphites.

Ellie figures out that Abby is within the aquarium and, after a struggle with Jesse (Younger Mazino), goes to search out her alone, whereas he goes to fulfill with Tommy (Gabriel Luna).

However, after surviving a harmful journey on a ship, Ellie washes up on shore and inadvertently falls proper into the clutches of the Seraphites.

She narrowly avoids being killed and strung up when a sign signifies that the Seraphites’ village is underneath assault, and so they depart her.

Undeterred, she arrives on the aquarium to tackle Abby and encounters Owen (Spencer Lord) and Mel (Ariela Barer).

When Owen grabs a gun, Ellie shoots him useless – but additionally by accident fatally injures Mel, who reveals she’s pregnant in her dying moments. She asks Ellie to chop out her child – however she’s unable to, and sobs over Mel’s useless physique. Tommy and Jesse discover Ellie and take her away.

After they arrive again on the theatre, Ellie and Jesse make their peace – however they quickly hear a disturbance and discover that Abby has tracked them down.

Whereas Jesse is instantly shot and killed, Ellie pleads for Tommy’s life. However it’s not Tommy that Abby desires as, she factors her gun at Ellie. Because the episode cuts to black, we simply hear a single gunshot.

Is Jesse useless?

Sure, Jesse is useless. When he and Ellie hear a disturbance within the theatre, he opens the door first – and Abby instantly shoots him useless.

Jesse’s demise is much more heartbreaking following his realisation that Dina is pregnant earlier within the episode. He causes that he cannot die, and tries his utmost to get Ellie, Tommy, Dina, and his unborn baby out of Seattle.

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What does Abby’s flashback imply?

The finish of the episode sees a flashback to Seattle day one – just a few days in the past – indicating that we’re set to see the identical few days from Abby’s perspective.

Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann beforehand opened up about wanting followers to really feel some empathy for Abby – and the way troublesome that’s within the present in comparison with within the sport, the place you play as Abby.

In consequence, Abby was launched quite a bit earlier within the present.

“The first query I bear in mind asking Neil [Druckmann] was, ‘Why did you do it that manner?’ As a result of I am at all times attempting to get underneath the hood of his intentions there,” Mazin beforehand informed RadioTimes.com.

Mazin continued: “He mentioned he felt like there was one thing concerning the mechanics of enjoying, and I agree, as a fan of the sport and video video games normally, the place if you grow to be somebody you’ve gotten an instantaneous connection to them. And it may be very complicated to be somebody after which additionally to do issues that you just want the individual would not be doing.

“However in tv, we do not have that. We do not have that nobody can say, ‘Oh, once I was Joel or once I was Abby’. We watched them and our feeling was on this medium, it was vital to present folks sufficient context, as a result of we weren’t [going to do] an extended stretch the place there would simply be Abby, as a result of the sport was saying you are Abby now, you’ll be able to’t simply press triangle and be Joel or Ellie, you must be Abby for a very long time. We do not have that.

“We had selections of when to deliver folks out and in, and so we thought it was vital to situate Abby.”

It appears we’ll see much more of what made Abby who she is when season 3 rolls round.

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