The Last Of Us Recap: Episode 4 Ellies got a gun

Ellies got a gun. Ellie plays with a gun. Ellie…sniffs the gun? Weird start to the worst The Last Of Us episode yet. It's tough to follow up what I thought was one of the best one off episodes of any show I've ever seen with our favorite Guncles love story. Ellie reads some more one-liners to Joel, and Joel explains how the world used to be. Ellie finds a Hank Williams cassette, and Joel says that's even before his time. Hank Williams or cassettes? Because I'm 33 and remember both things. Ellie finds Frank's gay porn magazine and asks why the pages are stuck together. This scene is right out of the game.

It's interesting how cleared out the roads are compared to The Walking Dead, but The Last of Us is in a 20-year time jump, so it makes sense. I know I wrote that this episode wasn't the best, but boyyy oh Chef Boy r Dee, am I excited to see them eating my favorite canned Italian entree.

Joel drives into a roadblock, and when a dude runs into the road asking for help, he can tell it's an ambush, just like in the game. They don't get hit by a garbage truck though they get shot at and crash into a laundry mat. This scene was a tough battle in the game, and the intensity carried over into the show. Ellie uses the gun Joel wouldn't let her have to save his ass.

The guy she shot Brian, starts pleading for his life and claiming he can trade, but Joel isn't convinced. He finishes Brian off while Ellie turns away. In the game, Joel doesn't really appreciate that Ellie saved him, which contradicts Pascal's Joel. In the show, Pascal feels bad that Ellie had to take a life. He shows her the proper shooting stance and tells her to keep the gun in her bag, not her pocket, so she doesn't go all Plaxico Burress.

In the game, there are posts for Dawn of the Wolf Part 2 all over town, and Joel tells Ellie he saw it. She asks him who made him see a teen movie, and he says I don't know; stay focused, which shows he is avoiding telling Ellie about Sarah.

**flashlight time**

Kathleen Coghlan is the leader of the Kansas City resistance group, and they take things just as far as Fedra, if not further. The game doesn't give this resistance group personality past what you can see from the spray-painted messages and gutted, burnt, and hanging FEDRA Officers. The group is humanized by Melanie Lynskey's Coghlan in the show. Kathleen took over for her late brother Michael. I recognize Lynskey from her role in Yellow Jackets; her character is pretty close in The Last of Us. If you watch the behind the episode where she talks in her standard New Zealand accent, it is very shocking.

Kathleen is interrogating good Dr. Edelstein. She's obsessed with finding someone named Henry and hates FEDRA and collaborators— or snitches forced to help FEDRA. Her brother Michael was the resistance leader, and she blames Henry for his death. Kathleen is insulted that Dr. Edelstein thinks FEDRA is more intimidating than her and points a gun at his head and says the line of the episode.

"Have I satisfied the necessary conditions for you to talk," said Kathleen. The doctor pulls the ultimate plea saying, "I delivered you"… like damn, I was the first one who saw you on this earth, cold-blooded doc. In the next episode, we discover why she thinks Dr. Edelstein knows where Henry is.

Jeffrey Pierce plays Kathleen's right-hand man Perry. Perry voiced Tommy in the IP. He gives Kathleen the bad news about the encounter with Joel, and she immediately blames Henry. With a hate blindfold, she takes out her frustration in the interrogation room by shooting the doctor who delivered her in the face. This shows how vital justice is for her because docs must be critical in this world, and she just took his life without a second thought.

This character development for the resistance is dope because it fills in the game's long but fun-to-play-through chase scene. A Mad Max-style humvee chases the player, and the hell-on-wheels vehicle is a boss fight. You can't hurt it, and it is being driven through the streets, stalking you for kill shots as you try to advance through the buildings.

In the game, Joel and Ellie are in a book store, and she does a Batman voice for the comic she is reading, saying "endure and survive" to make fun of the way Joel talks. She mocks his super serious attitude in the show a lot, which helps because it helps to show some depth in Joel's character. The brooding hero is played out, and they acknowledge that constantly. The Last Of Us pays homage to some of the Naughty Dog games that paved the way with merch for those games in the toy store.

Back to the show, Perry tells Kathleen the ground is shaking, which you would think might be important, but apparently, it is not.

Back above ground-- 33 floors to be exact- with Joel and Ellie. Joel puts glass in front of the door so no one can sneak up on them. I like how this show gives us their sleeping situations- in this episode, they have some couch cushions pushed together. It's like when we had college parties, and we would wake up with 78 people around the apartment with their creative beds made out of whatever they could find.

Ellie's diarrhea joke makes Joel laugh, and they fall asleep. The joke is, did you know diarrhea is genetic? It runs in your genes.

They get snuck up by a kid with a red mask painted on his face pointing a gun at them.

Alright, so why didn't I love this episode? It felt like a setup episode for the next one. In the show's first three episodes, we meet characters and close their arc within the episode, so I have become spoiled by that. This episode was the first time we meet characters, and their arc doesn't end abruptly, with Joel and Ellie on their way to the next exciting adventure.