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After an exceptionally intense episode two, The Last of Us season two brought us a third episode that felt somewhat more subdued. Still, we got to see a lot of interesting character development occur, including how Ellie is processing Joel’s death, the changing ways Dina feels about Ellie, and Tommy’s growing sense of responsibility for his late brother’s charge. Although not much action occurred in The Last of Us in this chapter of season two, there’s still a lot to process, nevertheless. Here’s our full recap of The Last of Us season two, episode three.

Ouch. We learn a seemingly painful truth from Ellie in The Last of Us season two, episode three. She and Joel never got real closure, at least, so she says. In a bid to get out of the hospital where she has been recovering after Joel’s death, Ellie tells Gail that after their New Year’s Day scrap, she and Joel never made up. “I got home, he was on the porch, and I should have talked to him, but I didn’t.� She even says she regrets that.

That said, Ellie is lying to Gail about pretty much everything. She’s also lying in basically the whole episode. Could Ellie also be lying about her last conversation with Joel on The Last of Us? It’s possible, but for now we’ll have to take her at her word.

The wheels of revenge just keep turning on The Last of Us season two. Ellie is all healed up in the third episode of the second season and that means it’s time for revenge on Abby. Dina reveals she actually learned the names of Abby and her crew of Fireflies, AND she knows where they’re from. Dina reveals that she clocked the yellow W.L.F. patch (complete with an image of a wolf) on the bags of Joel’s killers. And Dina knows from Eugene that small regional groups across the country were all trying to fight FEDRA at some point, including the Washington Liberation Front out of Seattle. Ellie and Dina confide in Tommy, who insists the mission for revenge on Joel’s death be put to the town council.

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The council votes and rejects the proposal 8 to 3. But obviously, that doesn’t stop Ellie. She, with help from Dina and an unexpected source, saddles up and leaves Jackson, heading to Seattle to take on the W.L.F. Fireflies all by themselves. What could go wrong?

Just a couple of episodes ago, during The Last of Us season two’s premiere, Seth was calling Ellie and Dina slurs. Now, it seems like he’s fully come around to the idea that was wrong and that Ellie and Dina are two people worth supporting. He stands up for the idea of revenge for Joel’s death at the Jackson council hearing as well. We’re not so sure Seth’s redemption arc was given the space it needed, but we kind of like Seth, so we’ll take it.

At the end of the day, Seth allows Ellie to go on her revenge trip to Seattle. Whether that’s a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but it’s what Ellie wants and needs more than anything. Seth gives Ellie and Dina two weeks� worth hard tack, bandages, alcohol, medicine, and batteries for their journey. And that’s no small amount of resources in the material. He also says that he’d go with them, but he caught some friendly fire in the New Year’s Day attack. He and Ellie shake hands before she leaves, and it seems he’s at least tenously forgiven for now. Hopefully, he’s learned his lesson about being a hateful bigot.

In approximately 12 minutes of screentime or so, Ellie and Dina cross hundreds of miles and arrive to Seattle. We see them about nine miles from their destination at the end of episode three. Our first look at The Last of Us� Seattle makes it seem fairly abandoned, there are decrepit cars and old FEDRA posters everywhere, and of course� just a small massacre which we know to be done by the W.L.F.

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It’s quiet, Ellie and Dina note, too quiet. But hey, at least no one is shooting at them yet.

And, indeed, looks can be deceiving. In the last few minutes of The Last of Us season two, episode three, it becomes apparent Seattle is in fact teaming with the W.L.F. and its militia. There are checkpoints, an advanced military and security system, and guard towers with walkie-talkie communications in place. Most disconcertingly, the W.L.F. has working tanks and other vehicles, as well as a large standing army. GULP!

We don’t see Abby in Seattle, but we do see one of her crew, Manny, working for the W.L.F.

In this episode, we briefly meet an old-fashioned kind of religious cult that seems to believe in a figure whom they call “The Prophet.� They seem to have absconded from even post-apocalyptic technology, dressing themselves in medieval-feeling ways and using hammers to protect themselves. They claim to seek distance from war and are attacked by the W.L.F. We’ll call this group the Scars, but in The Last of Us video games, they are known as Seraphites.

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The W.L.F. appear to slaughter a group of peaceable Seraphites. And Abby and Dina conclude that Abby and her crew must have hurt the group. After what Abby did to Joel, we can’t say we blame them. However, we do feel that Abby spoke about the W.L.F. having a moral code to never harm the defenseless. Is she mistaken? Or are the Scars more involved in this “war� than it seems.

“Some people just can’t be saved.� That’s what Gail had to say to Tommy about Ellie. She notes, “Nurture can only do this much, the rest is nature. If she’s on a path, it’s not one Joel put her on. They were walking side by side from the very start.� If so, Ellie is riding off to Seattle to meet a very sticky end. Can the cycle of revenge be broken? It doesn’t seem like it if The Last of Us season two, episode three is any indication. But we’ll hold out a little hope.

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You can cut the sexual tension between Dina and Ellie like a knife. And so we have to ask, when, not if Dina and Ellie will get together. Dina claims she’s back with Jesse, but she also asks Ellie to rate her kissing abilities as someone who kisses girls. (Which Dina doesn’t do, of course.) Uhuh. We’d say, hurry up, you two, it’s the apocalypse. But we know queer women. Not even the apocalypse can hurry that yearning along.

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