The Last of Us episode 8 begins with a brand new batch of survivors realizing they don’t have sufficient meals to feed their folks. They solely have every week left, even with rationing. The state of affairs is rising extra dire by the minute.
Meanwhile, Ellie checks on Joel’s stab wound after she sews it up. Joel is barely transferring. Ellie takes his gun and leaves the home. She ventures into the woods and spots a deer. She shoots it as soon as, nevertheless it runs off. She chases after it, however two of the survivors from this new group, James (performed by Troy Baker, who voiced Joel within the online game) and David, discover the deer first and determine to take it.
Ellie stops them of their tracks. David explains that they’re from a bigger group that’s going hungry. He says he’ll make a commerce along with her. She wants drugs for Joel, so she agrees. Ellie orders James to go get the drugs and convey it again in change for half of the deer.
Ellie Crosses Paths With A Dangerous Group
David and Ellie are left alone. He provides her shelter and fireplace whereas they wait. Ellie discovers that David is a preacher. He wasn’t a believer in God till after the apocalypse. He left the Pittsburgh QZ after it collapsed and slowly picked up new folks as they traveled till they discovered their everlasting settlement in Silver Lake.
David doesn’t imagine in luck. “I believe everything happens for a reason,” he tells Ellie. David says that he despatched 4 of his males out to a close-by city looking for meals and solely 3 got here again. The one who didn’t was murdered by a “crazy man” who was touring with… a woman. The loopy man? Joel. The lady? Ellie.
The tables activate Ellie. James has his gun pointed at her, however David asks him to decrease it. He orders James to present Ellie the drugs for Joel. Ellie doesn’t chew when David says he can shield her. She runs again to Joel to present him the penicillin. She lies subsequent to him to attempt to preserve heat.
David pronounces to his people who they’re sending out a gaggle tomorrow to hint Ellie’s steps to allow them to discover Joel and “bring that man to justice.” The daughter of the person Joel murdered says that they need to kill Joel and Ellie. David slaps her in entrance of everybody.
Ellie retains giving Joel extra penicillin, and he’s wanting a tad higher. When she steps outdoors, she spots crows flying within the distance. She quickly sees a gaggle, together with David and James, strolling by means of the snow. James questions bringing Ellie again as a result of she’ll simply be one other mouth to feed. He thinks “maybe it’s God’s will” that she dies out right here. David doesn’t approve of this mentality.
Ellie runs again to Joel and fingers him a knife. She tells him that she’s going to steer the group away from him. She will get on her horse and shoots at them. David screams at his males to convey her again alive. James chases after Ellie and shoots her horse, throwing her to the bottom. Before James can kill her, David lets out a shot. He carries her again to the settlement. He orders his males to go search for Joel. “If you’re so hungry for vengeance… deliver it,” he says.
Joel Rises Again
One of the lads strikes the piece of furnishings that Ellie put in entrance of the basement door to guard Joel. When he goes down into the basement, Joel isn’t on the mattress anymore. Joel is up and again at it once more. Joel stabs the person within the neck and kills him.
When Ellie wakes up after being thrown off the horse, she’s in a cage. She asks David why she’s being stored like an animal. “Because I’m afraid of you,” he says. He mentions that the others need to kill her, and she will be able to’t survive on her personal.
Meanwhile, Joel captures two of David’s different males and calls for to know the place Ellie is now. He stabs one man within the leg when he doesn’t reply the query. The man lastly tells Joel that Ellie is in Silver Lake. Joel exhibits no mercy and stabs him within the abdomen after getting the reply he wants. He doesn’t hesitate to kill the opposite man as properly.
‘You Have A Violent Heart’
Ellie quickly realizes that David is way more sinister than she ever may have imagined. She figures out that they’re cannibals and never everybody within the settlement is aware of. David principally says that determined occasions name for determined measures. “You remind me of me,” David says to Ellie. “You’re a natural leader, you’re smart, loyal, violent.”
He provides, “You have a violent heart, and I should know… I’ve always had a violent heart.” David desires Ellie to affix him and lead his folks collectively. “We’d make this place perfect,” he says. He desires extra than simply Ellie main alongside him. “Imagine the life we could build,” David tells her, implying he desires a sexual relationship along with her. When he touches Ellie’s hand, she breaks his finger. She tries to seize his keys, however he bangs her head in opposition to the cage. He rapidly runs out of the room.
Joel works his means by means of the freezing chilly to get to Silver Lake. He follows a path of blood and finds the useless horse and three our bodies hanging close by. David returns with James to seize Ellie from the cage. She bites David as she fights them off. They put her on the chopping block and put together to kill her. Ellie screams that she’s contaminated (however doesn’t point out she’s immune). “And now, so are you,” she says to David.
She continues, “What did you say? Everything happens for a reason, right?” Ellie’s confession provides her simply sufficient time to seize the butcher’s knife and stab James within the neck with it. She runs out of the room and evades a number of of the photographs that David fires at her.
‘I Got You’
Ellie grabs a bit of burning wooden and hides from David. She throws it in the direction of him, hitting the curtains behind him. The curtains catch fireplace. Instead of working out, David continues to seek for Ellie. He doesn’t imagine she’s contaminated. The fireplace continues to rage round him.
Ellie runs at David and stabs him within the abdomen. He throws her to the bottom in response. He kicks her and pins her down as she tries to struggle him off. “The fighting’s the part I like the most,” he says. Ellie manages to seize the butcher’s knife that was knocked out of his hand and stabs him over and over and over, the blood splattering on her face.
She runs outdoors after killing David, and Joel sneaks up on her from behind. When she turns round and sees that it’s Joel, she bursts into tears in his arms. “It’s okay, baby girl. I got you,” Joel says to Ellie as he comforts her.