The last of us Season 1, Episode 5, 'Endure and Survive' picks up right where the previous episode left off, and the action doesn't stop until the credits roll. In The last of usseason 1, episode 4, "Please Hold to My Hand", the city of Kansas City, Missouri, formerly occupied by FEDRA, is introduced alongside one of the most important new characters introduced in the series, Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey). Kathleen is the iron-fisted leader of the "new" Kansas City. She and her brother freed the city from a corrupt and dictatorial FEDRA only recently.
However, what they replaced it with doesn't seem to be much better, and Kathleen's idealism for equality appears to have been lost in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. Number one on his hit list is someone named Henry, who betrayed the rebels, leading to his brother's death. The audience isn't introduced to Henry until the final moments of the episode, when Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who have snuck into town, are held at gunpoint by a younger Henry (Lamar). as expected. Johnson) and his deaf little brother, Sam (Keivonn Montreal Woodard).
A flashback reveals the fall of FEDRA in Kansas City
Kathleen led violent reprisals against the government
Although the Rebels' victory over FEDRA in Kansas City was mentioned in the previous episode, The last of usseason 1, episode 5, opens with a flashback to the moment the people won the war. It is clear that FEDRA was a violent and tyrannical organization that ruled less like a government and more like a dictatorship and that change was needed. However, The last of us is quick to show that some of the actions taken by the rebels in their reprisals are as violent as anything Kathleen mentions the government was guilty of..
FEDRA supporters are dragged down the street, lynched on the side of the road, beaten and shot in full view of drunken, cheering crowds. As leader of the rebellion, Kathleen visits the FEDRA prisoners in their cells and promises that they will all be killed if they do not reveal the location of Henry, whom she holds personally responsible for her brother's death and the setback of the rebellion. . She coldly interrogates and tortures them, before suggesting that their bodies should be burned. It would be faster than mass burials, in his opinion.
The pain of losing her brother pushed her over the edge, and although her last words to Kathleen were "forgive", time only seemed to worsen his injuries.
The pain of losing her brother pushed her over the edge, and although her last words to Kathleen were "forgive", time only seemed to worsen her injuries. The scene ends with Kathleen discovering Joel and Ellie's violent work, alerting her to their presence.
Joel agrees to partner with Henry
Henry knows a way out of Kansas City
The last of us season 1, episode 5, "Endure and Survive", then cuts to where the previous episode left off, with Henry pointing a gun at Joel and Ellie. After Henry learned of Joel and Ellie's presence in town, he had the brilliant idea of coercing them into getting them out of town. Joel defeats Henry, but Ellie convinces everyone to calm down, and over a hot meal, Henry and Sam's first in a long time, the quartet comes up with a plan. Joel will provide protection and food. Henry will show them a secret exit from the city through underground tunnels.
However, there is a problem: Henry was a FEDRA collaborator and Joel hates collaborators. After all, he was a smuggler. In truth, he would probably support Kathleen's rebels retaking the city if they hadn't tried to kill him in the previous episode. Henry's path is the only one it seems, and they reach a tenuous compromise. The new group walks through the tunnels beneath Kansas City, tunnels that Henry thinks aren't full of infected like everyone else is. He's not sure, though.
Ellie, Joel, Henry and Sam almost escape the city
Joel finds common ground with Henry
It turns out that The last of us Season 1, Episode 6 plays a trick on the audience, and the tunnels are, in fact, free of infection. As they travel to the outskirts of the city, they find a daycare center, built when people hid in the infected tunnels above. It's a cute room, full of toys and books, and Ellie and Sam immediately investigate a world neither of them have ever known.. There's no need to explain why that daycare is now empty, however, the silence is a rather unsettling hint.
Sam and Ellie find a comic book they are both fans of. In it, the superhero promises citizens to “endure and survive”. As they read together, Henry tells Joel why Kathleen hates him. His brother was once the leader of the resistance, and Henry was one of his biggest supporters, willing to follow him to the end. However, when Sam began showing symptoms of advanced leukemia, FEDRA promised Henry medicine if he revealed the location of Kathleen's brother, which he did.
Joel may not have been a collaborator, but he recognizes part of himself in Henry.
Joel may not have been a collaborator, but he recognizes part of himself in Henry. He is also willing to do things that he would at one point consider unthinkable, to protect someone. Henry made a choice, and in his opinion, making a bad choice makes him a bad guy. Joel doesn't always think that way, cconsidering the evil he has done is always a means to an end. These are divergent ways of thinking for two men who are not so different.
Kathleen and her forces are ambushed by the infected
The infected in Kansas City climb out of a hole
Henry's tunnel expedition works and he, Sam, Joel and Ellie head to the suburbs of Kansas City. As they walk through the city, gunshots are heard. One of Kathleen's snipers on the perimeter spots them, and by the time Joel reaches the nest and kills the man, Kathleen and her militia are already on their way. Looking back at the street where he left Ellie, Henry, and Sam, Joel lines up his rifle to shoot Kathleen before she kills Henry.
Kathleen takes her time and makes it clear that while Sam lived, many others died because of it, and who is Henry to make that decision? It is not an argument easily dismissed. She has a right to be angry, and there is a question of whether what Henry did was fair. Philosophy ends when a truck behind Kathleen crashes loudly into an ever-widening hole. Out of this hole come the former citizens of Kansas City, covered from head to toe in Cordyceps, and they are hungry.
Joel manages to clear the way for Henry, Sam and Ellie. The KC militia are all killed, including Kathleen's strong and kind protector, Perry (Jeffrey Pierce), who comes face to face with an infected swelling that reenacts one of the most gruesome death animations in history. The last of us video game franchise. Kathleen herself will not be long in this world and will meet her end with an infected child. The quartet escapes, running in the opposite direction of a horde of infectedadvancing toward Kansas City as sirens wail.
Henry makes a tragic decision
Ellie tries to give blood to Sam
Everything is fine, it seems. Henry and Sam's nemesis is dead, Joel and Ellie may have found two new friends, and all four are out of the danger zone. They find an abandoned house and spend the night, and That's where the tragedy of The last of us season 1, episode 5 takes place. Ellie discovers that Sam has been bitten and, in a desperate attempt to save him, cuts his arm to spread her immune blood into his wound. The two fall asleep together to see what tomorrow will bring.
In one of the most shocking deaths The last of usSam turns during the night and attacks Ellie in the morning. She pushes him away and Henry and Joel enter the room. Without a moment's hesitation, Henry shoots and kills his younger brother. Joel doesn't have time to say anything before Henry turns the gun on himself. It's a poignant moment that brings home the desolation and hopelessness of The last of us. However, this doesn't stop Ellie and Joel, who continue with the journey with a long way to go.