And, if Lincoln is the only world he knows, then he is the sole survivor. The end of the world came and he's a survivor. When he emerges from his house, it's not horror that lights up his face, but relief. He cradles a shotgun in his lap, prepared to go down fighting should the soldiers searching his house above find him. A bearded, middle-aged man, Bill ( Nick Offerman), hides alone in a basement he's outfitted with monitors, weapons, survival tools, and much more. One Lincoln resident, however, did foresee such a fate. This is our portal into the past: It's now September 30, 2003, a few days after the outbreak, and the woman in that dress is led onto an evacuation truck with her blanket-wrapped baby, clearly unaware of the fate that awaits them. In the pit we see two skeletons, one adult and one child, bearing the rotted vestiges of a floral dress and rainbow blanket. It began on a Friday, and by Monday "everything was gone." This leads her to ask how the fungus first took hold: "If you have to be bit to be infected, who bit the first person?" Joel explains that, after the Cordyceps genus mutated, it found its way into the food supply (recall: the Jakarta incident occurred in a factory producing flour and grains) and spread quickly from there. Ellie, who was born into an infected world, marvels at the idea of flying in the sky. She stabs it in the head, putting it out of its misery.įurther down the road, the pair spot the ruins of a fallen plane. She's never seen one this clearly, and she's disgusted. Fascinated, she takes a closer look, taking her knife and cutting into its forehead to reveal the writhing fungus beneath. She also finds an immobile Infected, buried up to its shoulders in tumbled debris. Ellie geeks out over a Mortal Kombat 2 cabinet before heading into the basement in search of goodies. Along the way, they stop at an old convenience store where Joel stashed some gear. He gives her a curt nod, one that dissolves the tension as they head towards the home of Bill and Frank, the pair Tess said they should seek out before heading west. "Don't blame me for something that isn't my fault." Nobody made you go along with this plan," she says. Joel's grief over the loss of Tess ( Anna Torv) is manifesting as a cruel coldness towards Ellie. An awkward tension fills the air between Joel ( Pedro Pascal) and Ellie ( Bella Ramsey) as they navigate the woods outside Boston.
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