Snitches get a lot more than stitches.
Kathleen’s in pursuit.
He’s apparently providing refuge for Henry and Sam.
Keivonn Montreal Woodard as Sam in ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
She orders a reluctant Perry to gather his men and go door-to-door in search of Eldelstein’s hideout.
Before that, though, she’d like him to execute all of the informers.
“No trial,” she says.
Jeffrey Pierce as Perry and Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen in ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
“Burn the bodies.”
No mercy for snitches.
Now, we see Henry give Sam a bag of crayons and the order to decorate the place.
Keivonn Woodard and Lamar Johnson as Sam and Henry on ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
In Sam’s drawings, the superheroes are battling FEDRA officers.
Fast forward 10 days, and Henry and Sam are out of food.
Eldelstein’s missing and Henry (correctly) fears him dead.
The Infected explode from the ground in ‘The Last of Us’ episode 5.HBO
Hunters continue to patrol the streets outside.
Any movement is risky, but they have no choice.
Though guns are drawn, the quartet quickly realize they share a common enemy.
The Bloater arrives in ‘The Last of Us’ season 1, episode 5.HBO
An uneasy alliance is formed over dinner.
In exchange, Henry wants Joel to serve as his muscle, whether it be against Hunters or Infected.
“I show the way, you dump the way,” he says.
Kathleen, however, doesn’t know this.
She still believes the tunnels are crawling with Infected, meaning she won’t have any Hunters stationed there.
Fingers crossed, that means a clear path for them.
(Now’s perhaps a good time to recall the subterranean threat teased in last week’s episode.)
The coast is clear when they make their way below ground, but Joel is on guard.
“Be ready to run,” he warns.
They encounter a surprise before long, but not one they expected.
Through a door they find what looks like a classroom.
There’s tables, chairs, toys, comics, and drawings galore.
Ellie and Sam, who’ve become fast friends, ask if they can play for a bit.
Henry opens up about why he snitched on Kathleen’s brother.
Sam had leukemia, he reveals, and the one medicine that made a difference belonged to FEDRA.
He would do it again, but he’s under no delusion that he’s righteous in this situation.
“What did he get for that?”
“Where is the justice in that?”
She and Henry have something in common: ruthlessness.
Unfortunately, their good luck runs out.
He sneaks up behind him only to see it’s an old man.
“hey,” Joel says.
He doesn’t want to kill him.
But when the old-timer squeezes off a shot, Joel’s forced to shoot him dead.
Suddenly, the sniper’s radio chirps.
It’s Kathleen’s voice.
“Anthony, hold them where they are,” she says.
Just as it’s about to crush them, Joel’s bullet finds the driver’s forehead.
Still, there’s too many Hunters and Henry, Ellie, and Sam are quickly surrounded.
Henry gives himself up, asking her to let the kids go.
“It ends the way it ends.”
Before she can pull the trigger, though, the sound of collapse and falling earth.
A sinkhole has opened beneath the dozer, swallowing it.
Perry tells Kathleen to run when it begins marching in their direction.
But, for the second time tonight,she’s interrupted by the Infected, this time fatally.
Hope you and your bro reunite in the afterlife.
Joel invites Henry and Sam to Wyoming with them, and Henry accepts.
Ellie and Sam, after all, have become inseparable.
Sam, in notes to Ellie, reveals that he’s scared.
He shows her a fresh bite on his leg.
Concerned, Ellie shows him her wound, telling him she’s immune.
“My blood is medicine,” she says.
Using a knife, she draws her blood and confidently rubs it into his wound.
Unsure if this will work, Sam asks if she’ll stay awake with him.
She does, giving him a long hug.
In the morning, she wakes to find Sam sitting on the edge of his bed.
She calls his name and he turns around with wild eyes and a tortured shriek.
Their struggle wakes Joel and Henry.
Joel, without thinking, turns his gun on Sam.
Henry stops him, then shoots the boy himself.
“What did I do?”
he asks, staring at the spreading pool of blood.
He shoots himself in the head.
Outside, they dig graves for Henry and Sam.
Ellie leaves a note on Sam’s grave: “I’m sorry.”
It ends how it ends.
