The season 2 finale of The Last of Us airs this Sunday night on HBO and HBO Max. Last week took us into the past to show how Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) drifted apart over the years. But the week before that, Ellie was still at large in Seattle, hunting down Joel's killer. Last we saw, she had gotten back to the theater where she and Dina (Isabela Merced) had been hiding out during this mission. They'd been joined by Jesse (Young Mazino), who had traveled all the way from Jackson to bring them home.
HBO has released a bunch of images from the season finale. Naturally, most of them are of Ellie, who's in the final leg of this journey. Here she is in the relative safety of the theater:
At some point, Ellie will venture back out into war-torn Seattle. One scene takes place in what looks like a long-abandoned bookstore:
All this looks pretty normal. And then suddenly we're in a horror film as Ellie peers through an open doorway:
Ellie has been suffering all season, but the finale might just take her to the limit as she crawls through the mud in the Seattle rain:
How does it come to this? We'll find out soon enough.
We have one image of Dina on her lonesome in this batch. She's at the theater:
Jesse is there as well, looking hilariously annoyed that he had to travel all this way just to pull these two chuckleheads back from the brink of disaster:
Am I the only one who finds Jesse surprise face very funny?
But he has a serious face, too:
The image below looks like it was taken in the same bookstore where Ellie was hanging out earlier, so apparently Jesse goes out into the city with Ellie. Remember that Tommy (Gabriel Luna) came with Jesse to Seattle, so perhaps they're out looking for him:
Finally, we check back in with Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), the leader of the paramilitary Washington Liberation Front, aka the WLF, aka the Wolves; they have a lot of names.
We haven't seen Isaac in a while. What will his role in the finale be? Tune in this Sunday night to find out.
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