The Last Of Us recap: Story gathers pace in episode 2, complete with nightmare scene
Bella Ramsey and Anna Torv in episode two of The Last of Us.
The first episode of the Last Of Us (Sky Atlantic) opened with the devastating double punch of the zombie apocalypse, and of lead character Joel losing his daughter Sarah (not to the infected but to the police state it immediately spawned). But that opener also had to carry the heavy load of establishing the dystopian new reality sprouting, like toadstools around a rotting tree, in the decades following the cataclysmic arrival of the fungoid plague.
With all of that world-building out of the way, episode two is where the story gathers pace. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Tess (Anna Torv) need their car battery back from the Fireflies so that Joel can continue his hunt for his missing brother Tommy. To get it, they’ve agreed to escort potty-mouthed teen Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to Boston’s old state capital, now bang in the middle of the infected zone. They’ve also just discovered she is immune to the bite of the Infected – making her a potential saviour of humanity (assuming a vaccine can be synthesised from her DNA).
