The Last of Us Episode 5

The hit HBO series arrives on Friday instead of Sunday this week because of the Super Bowl.

[HBO’s “The Last of Us”](https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/02/hbo-max-is-releasing-the-last-of-us-episode-5-early-ahead-of-super-bowl-sunday.html) is headed our way [early](https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/02/hbo-max-is-releasing-the-last-of-us-episode-5-early-ahead-of-super-bowl-sunday.html) this week. sharing fears, even a bit of backstory with each other, while keeping just enough hidden (like who it was that Ellie hurt/killed in the past). And all while establishing Ellie can actually handle a gun, which comes in handy. She’d rather seal off a problem area and deal with it later, but the ground is literally quaking. (The At episode’s end last week, they managed to corner our dynamic duo by taking Ellie hostage. [Because of the Super Bowl](https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/02/hbo-max-is-releasing-the-last-of-us-episode-5-early-ahead-of-super-bowl-sunday.html) on Sunday, Feb. 10 on [HBO Max](https://go.skimresources.com/?id=126006X1587338&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbomax.com%2Fseries%2Furn%3Ahbo%3Aseries%3AGYyofRQHeuJ6fiQEAAAEy) and HBO on demand. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and followed at [@AmyKup](http://www.twitter.com/amykup) on Twitter. [NJ.com](http://nj.com/) with a subscription. How long will the first season of “The Last of Us” be? [first episode of “The Last of Us” is streaming for free](https://go.skimresources.com/?id=126006X1587338&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbomax.com%2Fcollections%2Fwatch-free%2Fthe-last-of-us-s1-e1%3Futm_id%3D1011l5873%26utm_source%3Dfuturepublishing%26utm_medium%3Daffiliate%26clickref%3D1100lwvrUtn6&xcust=xid:fr1676057768814hdc) on HBO Max.) And there will be much more to come, since HBO already announced a second season.

The latest episode of the HBO Max series will air early. We wonder why ...

Episode 5 of The Last of Us will air on Friday night rather than on Sunday night as a result of Super Bowl 57. [Super Bowl](https://www.sbnation.com/super-bowl) 57 week and the [Kansas City Chiefs](https://www.arrowheadpride.com) will take on the [Philadelphia Eagles](https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/) on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Joel and Ellie are ambushed and crash their truck. As a result, The Last of Us has been moved to an earlier date for the latest episode. Normally, the show would air on Sunday night starting at 9 p.m. ET on HBO Max.

The Last of Us episode 5 kicks off early ahead of Super Bowl LVII. While HBO's live-action adaptation of the Naughty Dog and PlayStation video game ...

Episode 5 of The Last of Us will air in its regular time slot on Sunday, February 12th, at 9:00 p.m. That's the same length as episode 4, which was Back-to-back-to-back HBO encores will air at 10:01 p.m., 11:02 p.m., and 12:05 a.m., with new episodes continuing to release on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. Since its [record-breaking series premiere](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/the-last-of-us-insanely-successful-debut-on-hbo-max/) on January 15th, The Last of Us has seen three consecutive weeks of audience growth: the most recent fourth episode, titled "Please Hold My Hand," scored [another series high](https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-last-of-us-episode-4-ratings-series-high-hbo-please-hold-my-hand/) with 7.5 million viewers across [HBO Max](/category/hbo-max/) and linear telecasts on HBO. PT on HBO Max and HBO On Demand. While HBO's live-action adaptation of the Naughty Dog and PlayStation video game typically airs new episodes weekly on Sundays, the next episode will be [available to stream early](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/the-last-of-us-episode-5-releasing-early/) on Friday to avoid a ratings competition with the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

The group is led by a new character, Kathleen, played by Melanie Lynskey, who is on a revenge drive and is looking for Henry and Sam. To tease the upcoming ...

The group is led by a new character, Kathleen, played by Melanie Lynskey, who is on a revenge drive and is looking for Henry and Sam. The series makes a point that Henry is responsible for the death of Kathleen’s brother, whom she now wants to avenge. The Last of Us is turning out to be the most extraordinary video game adaptation by far.

The only way to watch this week's episode early is through streaming. If you still subscribe to HBO through your cable provider, all you need to do is enter ...

Once the episode becomes available, you can stream it through your HBO Max account. If you still subscribe to HBO through your cable provider, all you need to do is enter your cable username and password into HBO on Demand or HBO Max. “Endure and Survive,” Episode 5 of The Last of Us, will premiere on “Endure and Survive” may be available a couple of days early, but you have the same premiere time to keep in mind. The episode will also premiere on HBO’s linear channel on Sunday, February 12 at its regular time. As long as you have access to HBO on Demand or HBO Max, you can watch Episode 5 of The Last of Us two full days before its typical Sunday night premiere.

We got to meet Melanie Lynksey's character Kathleen, along with a brief introduction to brothers Henry (Lamar Johnson) and Sam (Keivonn Woodard). We'll ...

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Newcomers to the series, who know nothing about the games, will go on a wild and emotional journey as the story of Henry and Sam, and their time with Joel and ...

The final moments of The Last Of Us Season 1 Episode 5 shows Ellie and Joel burying Sam and Henry. Henry and Joel burst in and Henry shoots Sam in the head, killing him. They are told it is time for lights out and to get some rest, but Ellie almost immediately tells Sam to get up and the continue to read the comic. She is about to kill them when a clicker jumps her and kills her, allowing Sam, Ellie, and Henry to make it to safety. She is going to kill Henry but her plans are foiled when a truck falls into ground and opens up a massive hole for the infected, who Henry said live under the city, to swarm them all. That is when a bunch of trucks and people, led by Kathleen, show up and Joel has to shoot them from window as Henry, Ellie, and Sam run from them. Joel discovers an old man with sniper rifle at the window and is forced to kill him after giving the man a chance to hand over his gun. They find them and it picks up where The Last Of Us Season 1 Episode 4 left off — with Sam pointing a gun at Ellie, and Henry pointing one at Joel. When Joel sees Ellie and Sam having fun and laughing together with the pun book, he agrees to help. Joel can clearly handle that department so Henry suggests he will show the way and Joel will clear the way. This is when Henry realizes that the man who was helping them is not coming back and he tells Sam, who gets visibly upset after asking if he was killed and Henry answers probably. We then see Henry and Sam meet up with Edelstein, who shows them an attic room they can hide in — this is where we saw all of the superhero drawings last episode.

Joel and Ellie have been dealing more with humanity recently, but this week the undead reclaimed center stage.

(Quoting the comic, Ellie says, “To the edge of the universe, endure and survive!”) Right before the end, they share what frightens them both, with Ellie admitting, “I’m scared of ending up alone.” Then Sam — poor, doomed Sam — asks the question that everyone should have probably been asking while they were trying to kill each other. Sam and Henry hide out for 10 days in Edelstein’s hidden loft, with a small supply of canned food and a big bag of crayons. As always, the great dream in nearly all post-apocalyptic stories — and heck, maybe in life itself — is to find a secure space with some food and something to do, and then to stay put for as long as possible. The point of these two scenes is to show that Kathleen had defensible reasons to destroy FEDRA and everyone who helped them — but she knows she took things further than Michael would have. As she pulls out her gun, she adds, “It ends the way it ends.” Henry and Sam are, as suspected, the people who sneaked up on Joel and Ellie in their high-rise office building hideaway at the end of last week’s episode. What distinguishes “The Last of Us” from its predecessors is that the series isn’t about the downfall of human society per se. On the way though, Henry chooses to come clean to Joel, to let him know that Kathleen has reason to be furious. On that night, she begins her tireless search for Henry, a former FEDRA informant who she blames for the death of her sainted brother, Michael. The result was some of the most straight-up thrilling sequences in this show since Episode 2. Though the fortresses on that show kept getting bigger — and the people inside them better organized — year after year, some catastrophic disaster would befall the living and the undead would capitalize. Romero’s human characters set up barricades against the teeming masses of mindless monsters; but then over and over they would get distracted by their own bickering, let their guards down and then either get shot by outsiders or eaten by ghouls.

“Endure and Survive” takes its title from the catchphrase of a comic book that Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and her new friend Sam (Keivonn Woodard) find while ...

(Plenty of other dramas — whether about zombies or about, say, running a funeral home — have been known to decide that suffering is interesting in and of itself.) While it’s a brutal ending to a brutal hour, though, it does not feel unfair or manipulative. And yet, the worst in the episode is still to come. He has survived, but he cannot endure what he has seen and done, and so he shoots himself to avoid having to live with it all. She couldn’t let go of her hatred of Henry, and it kills her, Perry, and everyone who trusted her, while returning the city to a condition somehow even worse than when it was under FEDRA’s totalitarian rule. It’s also a nice touch that we get subtitles whenever the brothers are talking in a scene from their point of view, but when the perspective shifts back to Joel and Ellie, the captions go away, because they don’t know sign language. It’s so potent in its human conflicts, in fact, that it’s easy to forget about the infected at all(*), until Kathleen’s revenge mission inadvertently releases all of them from the underground places they’d been trapped by FEDRA for the last 15 years. Sam is sweet and curious and creative, even as he is keenly aware of all the danger that surrounds him and Henry. Remember when Rust Cohle on [True Detective](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/the-dark-thrills-of-true-detective-231598/) explained that time is a flat circle? [the Bill and Frank spotlight](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/the-last-of-us-season-1-episode-3-recap-hbo-nick-offerman-murray-bartlett-gay-love-1234667212/), but a great example of how strong an on-format Last of Us can be. [Bella Ramsey](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/bella-ramsey/)) and her new friend Sam (Keivonn Woodard) find while traveling out of Kansas City with Joel ( [Pedro Pascal](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/pedro-pascal/)), plus Sam’s older brother Henry (Lamar Johnson). She wants to have fun, wants to explore all the artifacts of the before times, wants to live a life. Like a lot of comics language(*), it sounds more dramatic than it actually is, since “endure” and “survive” have roughly similar meanings.

This Last of Us review contains spoilers. · This assertion from Henry (Lamar Johnson) to Joel is the most thought-provoking moment in “Endure and Survive,” ...

The Last of Us is so much more than a creature feature. But the sniper showdown and subsequent carnage that ensues is so tremendously entertaining that it’s easy to forgive the script’s minor shortcomings. [infected horde](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-last-of-us-are-the-infected-zombies/) is scary as hell, an impressive feat in 2023, after more than a decade of zombie content on our screens. Watching the brothers die the way that they do is just plain awful, and Bella Ramsey’s whimper in reaction to Henry taking his own life is utterly heartbreaking. Does the added backstory add to the drama of their deaths? Henry and Sam’s tragic ending plays out almost exactly as it does in the game, the major difference being the added context of the insurrection and the conflict with Kathleen. There just doesn’t seem to be enough time to develop many of them (Frank and Bill being the big exception, of course). The scene from the game is every bit as soul-crushing as the show’s version, so it calls into question whether all of the drama involving Kathleen and her cohorts served this moment whatsoever. But several elements of Joel and Ellie’s stop in Kansas City simply don’t develop and blossom as well as [Tess, Bill, and Frank’s stories](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-last-of-us-bill-story-changes/) did. The two-part story of It’s a reference to Henry giving up Kathleen’s slain brother Michael, the beloved leader of their Kansas City resistance group, to FEDRA in exchange for treatment for his kid brother Sam’s (Keivonn Woodard) leukemia. It’s an acknowledgment that, for some people, it’s worth committing evil unto others—and in certain cases, all others—if it’s done in the name of someone you love.

Unfortunately, the episode fell a little short of what's come before this season, and I can't help but think it's partly because what works in a video game just ...

In the morning, she wakes up and sees Sam sitting on the edge of the bed and she must think that her blood medicine worked because she goes over to him and touches his shoulder. What did I do?” Joel tells him to give him the gun, but Henry points the gun at his own head and pulls the trigger. Everything to do with Sam and Henry and Ellie and Joel worked great, but everything else felt sloppy and tacked on, like pieces glued together that didn’t quite fit. What did work in this scene were the rest of the infected pouring out of the hole in the earth and overwhelming Kathleen and her thugs. They bury them outside of the little motel and head off, on foot, toward Wyoming. Joel makes for the children but Henry pulls a gun, tells him to stop. In the end, Sam is bitten and reveals this to Ellie who cuts herself, telling him that her blood is medicine. Take out the Bloater also and have a similar showdown with the hunters, hunted and infected (though scaled way down because we just don’t need 75 goons chasing down our heroes in big zombie-proof trucks, this isn’t Mad Max!) and I guarantee it would have felt more intimate and worked better. Bloaters are a type of Cordyceps mutant-zombie-monster that’s not just more disfigured and sensitive to sound like the Clickers we’ve met earlier, it’s pretty much covered head-to-toe with fungal growth, and somehow it’s grown into a giant. The two are adorable, which makes the ending even more awful and horrific. The video game bit in Episode 5 that I’m referring to is the Bloater. The Last Of Us aired two days early this weekend rather than delay a week to avoid conflict with the Super Bowl this coming Sunday.

Not long after an episode that made pop culture stand still—the HBO series delivered another unforgettable tale.

Sam secretly reveals to Ellie that an infected scratched his leg—and the infection is clear as day. As Ellie runs around to try and help Henry, Joel snipes the infected from his window. Joel goes around through the back of the house and takes out the sniper. “I know why you did what you did,” she reveals to Henry, “but did you ever stop to think that maybe [Sam] was supposed to die?” Whoa! “No, because the girl is with the man who killed Brian,” she says. Henry says that he can help them get out of the city in the morning, and later shares his story with Joel. In a tense scene, the four of them get acquainted and share food. Jumping forward in time to their ambush of Joel and Ellie, Henry informs them, “We don’t want to hurt you, we want to help you.” Classic good guy talk. Kathleen resents him for selling out their secrets to FEDRA—and she blames him for the death of her brother. “Is that what he is to you?” Kathleen, we get it. Scared and hiding from the bloodthirsty Kathleen, Henry helps Sam color the walls with crayons to fix the “ugly” place where they’re both holed up. Dropped in the middle of a protest that turns violent, we see Henry hiding with his younger brother, Sam, who is deaf.

A bloater is considered to be one of the end stages of infection for victims of the cordyceps fungus ravaging the world of The Last of Us. Unlike the more ...

Here's a close-up look at the many characters we'll meet in The. Pedro Pascal is Joel<p> Game of Thrones/The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal stars.

It becomes Ellie’s turn to burden the heavy weight of grief; her final apology to Sam is one last punch in the gut. The heartbreaking reveal of Sam's bite is shown in a way only a child could in a touching scene played out superbly by the young actors. The remains of Ish’s community - one of the most devastating side stories from the game - is a treasure trove of Easter eggs, ranging from the joy of a Savage Starlight comic to the tragedy of the doomed commune's abandoned nursery toys. It's a great dynamic, and the moment they realise their motives are shared is a great instance of bonding. This video covers 9 minutes of gameplay that takes place after Cal crash lands on Koboh and must seek out help to repair his ship, The Mantis.](/videos/star-wars-jedi-survivor-9-minutes-of-gameplay-ign-first) Sam’s willingness to open up to Ellie almost gives her a sense of responsibility and her first taste of what it’s like to be in charge of someone's safety - an important step towards her understanding what it’s been like to walk in Joel’s shoes for the time they’ve spent together. The frenzied cutting from close to wide shots gives a great sense of scale and terror, as the trademark chattering of Clicker throats is met with that of gunfire. The Last of Us has kept its infected cards relatively close to its chest so far, and it's a surprise that it has gone over two and a half episodes without much more than a glimpse of them at this point. Memorable images aplenty are painted, but none as harrowing as the arrival of a young girl Clicker who flings herself around the car that Ellie finds herself trapped in. Fugitive brothers Henry and Sam add a welcome layer of warmth to Joel and Ellie’s relationship, helping our protagonists progress on both their physical and emotional journeys, as well as leading them to one of the action high points in the series. This ending comes in two segments, each presenting the two distinctly different horrors of the world of The Last of Us. There’s a natural lack of judgement and therefore an increased sense of trust.

Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal in "The Last of Us." Liane Hentscher/HBO. Editor's Note: The following contains major spoilers about the fifth ...

If the third episode resonated because of its romantic underpinnings, the latest one (dropped early on HBO Max, and available in its regular slot on HBO opposite the Super Bowl) ultimately came around to unimaginable loss, and making viewers acutely feel it. This one wasn’t afraid to push things to the max and make the viewers uncomfortable and feel the pain of loss along with the characters.” Yet as Mazin noted in the video that followed the episode, those subplots also inform and impact the relationship between Joel and Ellie, which was evident in their unspoken exchange at the end. Before someone references the game on which the series is based, a brief reminder that TV shows and games are different animals. Ellie bonded with the younger one, the eight-year-old Sam (Keivonn Woodard), laughed with him, found a few moments to behave like kids with him. Sam decorated the places he and his brother, Henry (Lamar Johnson), were forced to hide with childlike drawings.

Joel and Ellie's escape from Kansas City makes for The Last of Us' most violent and shocking episode yet. A recap of “Endure and Survive,” episode 5 of ...

“I am the bad guy because I did a bad guy thing,” Henry tells Joel, and the line speaks directly to the complicated morality at the heart of the episode and the series. Rather than setting up a system to sustain the insurgency’s promises of freedom and equality, she uses her power to continue a vendetta, in the process perpetuating the totalitarianism of FEDRA under a different name. It’s the most shocking moment in an episode that features a man having his head torn from his body (R.I.P. It’s as cheery as such a place can be (as long as they don’t think too hard about why it’s now abandoned), and it contains some issues of the comic book they both love, the one whose hero pledges to “endure and survive.” And then all hell breaks loose in the form of a scary, chaotic fight scene from which Ellie, Sam, and Henry barely escape (but Kathleen does not). Henry reveals himself as “the most wanted man in Kansas City” (or “Killer City,” as he calls it later), making him a natural ally, and they share a meal. Emerging from the tunnels, Joel, Ellie, Henry, and Sam stroll the streets of suburban KC with a sense of victory. We got a glimpse of Sam (Keivonn Woodard) last week, but we really got to know him and his brother, Henry (Lamar Johnson), over the course of this episode, which follows them from the early days of the uprising that drove FEDRA out of Kansas City through their end in a motel somewhere outside of city limits (if it’s even possible to talk about Kansas City as a place with city limits after that infected attack). Remember: The credits end with silhouettes of Joel and Ellie for a reason. Henry hasn’t really thought through the middle part of the plan, resulting in a standoff made all the tenser by the “weird fucking tone” Joel uses to reply to Henry. It opens with scenes from the aftermath of the KC insurgency’s FEDRA toppling, which finds ecstatic citizens chanting “Freedom!” and “Fuck you, FEDRA!” as they fill the streets. If you’re reading this immediately after finishing “Endure and Survive,” the fifth episode of The Last Of Us’ first season, it’s okay to take a moment before reading further.

The fifth episode of HBO's The Last of Us has arrived early, and we're back once again to compare how faithful of an adaptation this week's biggest moments ...

[our review of episode 5 of The Last of Us,](/articles/the-last-of-us-episode-5-review) we said it is "an excellent closing to a chapter packed full of memorable moments – some thrilling, some haunting. Additionally, the video above will let you see the scenes from both the show and the game in action. But, how close does their fateful and tragic meeting in the show compare to the game?

Episode 5 of The Last of Us sees Joel and Ellie fight humans and infected alike, including our first Bloater.

A sniper targets the group on their way out of the city. They form an unlikely alliance, and Henry explains he knows a way out of the city. If there’s one thing The Last of Us isn’t, it’s subtle. Humans truly are the real villains in The Last of Us. The Last of Us is officially past the halfway point now, and there’s no turning back. We see the mutilated bodies of FEDRA soldiers, some of them dragged through the streets, some hoisted up in the air.

And here we were thinking this scene couldn't possibly get any sadder. Alex Welch. 1 hour ago. With the ...

The Inverse Analysis — Across its first five episodes, The Last of Us has proven that it’s not only capable of faithfully bringing its source material to life, but adding to it in satisfying ways. The closing moments of Episode 5 only continue that trend. Episode 5 ends by bringing one of the most tragic moments from the game to life. This sequence of events is mostly lifted from the game. The decision to have Sam tell Ellie about his bite mark therefore seems like a small change, but it accomplishes several goals. Unfortunately, that means the TV show sends both Henry (Lamar Johnson) and his younger brother, Sam (Keivonn Montreal Woodard), out in heartbreaking fashion.

It's graphic and horrible, and 8-year-old Sam (Keivonn Woodard) witnesses some of this violence as his older brother Henry (Lamar Johnson) rushes him into ...

He briefly aims the weapon at Joel before turning it on himself and pulling the trigger. Just as she prepares to shoot Henry, a mass of infected climb up from underground and butcher Kathleen's forces. Joel manages to sneak up and take the guy out, but not before he calls for backup. Their survivor community grew to nearly 50 people (including a guy called Danny), and they carved out a little haven under the postapocalyptic hell above. [a section of the game](https://youtu.be/SnIbo5WUGQU), the tunnels lead our heroes into suburbia, where a sniper's bullet cuts through their jovial atmosphere. Joel spots a child's drawing of two people holding guns, with the caption "Danny, Ish, our protectors." Joel initially dismisses Henry as a rat but ultimately acknowledges that he was right to do whatever it took to keep Sam safe. FEDRA managed to clear the city of infected by forcing them into these tunnels. Despite Joel's "asshole voice," they form a tenuous alliance and enter the subterranean maintenance tunnels. The episode opens with a flashback showing how Kathleen's civilian militia force overthrew FEDRA 10 days before Joel and Ellie got into town -- the people rose up against this oppressive force and pretty much slaughtered its members in the streets. Her brother Michael was killed by FEDRA (the Federal Disaster Response Agency), which runs quarantine zones with the remnants of the US military and represents one of the last remaining bits of the government. The encounter came as the smuggler and his teen buddy tried to escape Kansas City.

The Last of Us Episode 5 featured some food for thought on ethics and morality in a post-apocalyptic world thanks to Henry and Sam.

In The Last of Us Episode 4, Joel confessed he used to ambush people to get their goods. Does it even make sense to talk about “good” and “bad” in a world where tomorrow is no certainty? One of the first scenes involving the protagonist in the Boston Quarantine Zone featured Joel throwing the body of a little girl into the flames. With tears in his eyes, Henry told his dramatic story to Joel before asking if he was a bad man for what he did. “Endure and Survive” told the backstory of Sam (Keivonn Woodard) and Henry (Lamar Johnson), the two characters introduced pointing their guns at the head of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) at the end of The Last of Us Episode 4. Since the series premiere, Joel was shown behaving in a way considered amoral in a normal society.

In The Last of Us Episode 5 the HBO series expands on its moral exploration of life after the apocalypse while bringing one of the games most tragic stories ...

In the end Kathleen gets what she wants: Henry and Sam both die in upsetting fashion, but so does Kathleen and all of her followers consumed both metaphorically and literally by their quest for revenge. Kathleen has lost her ability to forgive others (even if she does pause for a moment before pulling the trigger), whereas when he gave up her brother Henry lost his ability to forgive himself, something that directly leads to his tragic death at the end of the episode. In Henry's mind he had to make an unconscionable choice, one that made him "the bad guy" but in Kathleen's perception she's the hero on a righteous quest to make things right. Henry's love for his brother, the hope he manages to instill in him, and his guilt over what he had to do makes him an incredibly sympathetic portrayal of someone who was, for all intents and purposes, a fascist collaborator. Henry's choice was the right one for him and Sam, the only person he had left in the world. Of course, as we learn, the truth is nowhere near that simple,but it suits her to claim that it is. He could inform on the kind, forgiving, and generous man who was leading the rebellion in Kansas City or let his brother Sam die of Leukemia without the aid of medication that only FEDRA had access to. It's revealed that Kathleen's enemy Henry was put in the most horrific of positions. In the latest episode of HBO's The Last of Us, the series takes that thread -- adapting the game's violent community known as Hunters -- while adding a morally complex context that asks viewers to consider what lengths they would go to to survive. [portrayal of Kathleen all the more terrifying](/articles/the-last-of-us-hbo-who-is-kathleen-and-why-is-she-so-mad-at-henry) as she looks like an average person that any of us could know. The people in Kansas City have done what they had to do in order to be free and to live another day, but that's not enough. In a world where most people have lost someone that they love, she's been consumed by FEDRA’s murder of her brother and is happy to burn down the world in order to find the person that she blames.

Episode five of HBO's The Last of Us marks the midpoint of our nine-episode journey. That's right, we're halfway there, and Ellie and Joel are.

“Are you ever scared?” he writes on his pad, a question he effectively asks her aloud in the game. Joel and the gang emerge outside of Kathleen’s territory in a suburban neighbourhood that seems safe at first glance, and the mood is relatively light as Ellie begins does her best Joel impression and encourages Henry and Sam to come with them to Wyoming. Kathleen stops them yet again, but her success is short-lived, as a young infected — who I think but I’m not certain is the same one that chased Ellie out of the vehicle a moment before — leaps on her and absolutely shreds her to bits. “You think they’ll be ok?” Henry asks about the kids as they read Savage Starlight together in the next room, and Joel, in his own taciturn way, offers a kind of comfort to Henry, as a fellow protector of a young charge. Sniper bullets continue to rain down on them, and just as in the game, Joel opts to sneak around and try to come at the sniper from behind. “I know why you did what you did,” she says, “but did you ever stop to think that maybe [Sam] was supposed to die?” When Henry protests that Sam is just a kid, she replies that kids die “all the time.” That may be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that by her moral calculus, Sam’s life should have been totally disregarded, while Michael’s life should have been prioritised above all. (Around this same stretch of the game, Ellie will occasionally say “Endure and survive” after Joel has finished taking out a group of enemies and it seems like the two are safe for the time being.) In fact, the very same drawing of Ish and another adult named Danny that we see in the show is seen here in the game. Joel stays on guard but nothing is stirring in these subterranean passageways, and at last they come to a place that looks quite different, where the walls are decorated with the kinds of colourful drawings you might see at a preschool. “Haven’t heard that in a long time,” he says, mirroring a moment from the game in which Ellie and Sam playfully eat blueberries together and Henry says it’s been a long time since he saw Sam crack a smile. This is all quite different from the game, in which Henry and Sam weren’t native to Pittsburgh (where the game’s version of this storyline takes place), but had just come there from Hartford, Connecticut in search of supplies. “Is that what he is to you?” I’m starting to feel like the way she prioritises finding Henry above all other concerns may backfire on her in some way.

Episode 5 of The Last of Us starts with us in the past, as Kansas City breaks down into chaos and rioting after the outbreak. They string up police officers ...

He’s in a state of shock and unable to deal with the grief, so Henry turns the gun on himself and fires. There’s a sniper up in the building across the way and Joel is forced to try and get the jump on him and head round the back. Ellie saves two of the infected and they manage to get away. The silence that follows, with winter rolling in, is so perfectly captured in the game that it’s crazy they’ve managed to capture this storyline so effectively in the TV show too. The same underground that Henry and Sam intend to go down into to sneak past the soldiers. With the fighting over, the four manage to find a safe refuge away from the carnage. Sam and Ellie strike up a friendship, as the four formulate a plan together to get out of “Killer City”. So the leader of the Kansas City resistance – and Kathleen’s brother – ended up killed in the process of getting the medicine. Joel’s group make it out of the tunnels and through to the other side. Among the survivors are Henry and Sam, who keep their heads down and try to survive. Fast forward 10 days and both Sam and Henry are down to their last can. Henry notices Joel inside and the pair change their plans.