It wasn’t the final of Pedro Pascal.
The actor made his huge return to “The Last of Us” Season 2 within the sixth episode – even if the seasons’s second episode brutally murdered his character, Joel.
He wasn’t a zombie or a ghost, however slightly, the Might 18 episode featured Joel in flashbacks.
That is according to what collection co-creator Craig Mazin instructed The Put up, as he stated that although Joel died, Joel and Ellie “spend quite a bit of time together in this season…more than people might think.”
Spoilers forward for the sixth episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2.
Based mostly on a well-liked online game of the identical identify, “The Last of Us” is about in a dystopian future the place society has damaged down, there are zombie-like creatures, and gruff smuggler Joel has shaped a pseudo father/daughter relationship with teen lady Ellie (Bella Ramsey).
This episode crammed in what occurred within the five-year hole between Season 1 and Season 2, and answered the query of precisely why Joel and Ellie’s relationship soured earlier than his demise.
Their father/daughter relationship fell aside due to two foremost fractures.
The primary is that whereas they’re out on patrol, they see that Eugene (Joe Pantoliano) received bitten by an contaminated, so Joel executes him.
Eugene pleads for Joel to permit him to say goodbye to his spouse, Gail (Catherine O’Hara). As an alternative, Joel kills Eugene and lies to Gail about what occurred. Ellie is so livid that she doesn’t yell at him in non-public — slightly, she exposes his lie instantly.
Then, Ellie later finds out precisely what occurred on the finish of Season 1, when Joel slaughtered a number of individuals so as to save her.
Ellie is resistant to the an infection that turns individuals into zombies – however, as Joel confesses in the course of the episode, if different individuals used her to make a treatment, that might have killed her.
Ellie is outraged that Joel selected to kill individuals as a substitute of letting her die to make a treatment.
“Then I was supposed to die,” she exclaims. “That was my purpose! My life would have mattered. But you took it from me. You took it from everyone!”
“Yes, and I’ll pay the price, because you’re gonna turn away from me,” an emotional Joel replies.
With tears in his eyes, Joel provides, “But if somehow I have a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.”
Ellie tells him that’s as a result of he’s “selfish,” and Joel replies that it’s, “because I love you.”
He explains that he loves her, “In a way you can’t understand…maybe you never will.”
However, he says, if the day comes sooner or later when Ellie has a toddler and feels that kind of affection, “well then…I hope you do a little better than me.”
After that emotional confession, Ellie tells Joel: “I don’t think I can forgive you for this. But I would like to try.”
Tragically, she by no means received the prospect. That dialog occurred shortly earlier than Joel’s demise.
Within the second episode of Season 2, Joel was killed by the brand new Season 2 character, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
He had beforehand slain Abby’s father throughout his killing spree to guard Ellie.
So, Abby killed Joel as revenge. She viciously beat him almost to demise with a golf membership after which stabbed him within the neck – all whereas a crying Ellie watched.
Paradoxically, since Abby slayed Joel as revenge for him killing her dad, this has pushed Ellie into an identical revenge journey.
The top of the episode catches as much as Ellie within the current day, persevering with her seek for Abby and quest to avenge Joel.
