Despite Joel’s protesting and his insistence that he’s responsible for her, Ellie shows that she can protect herself, that he’s taught her what she needs to know, and she says she’s a natural. The next morning, we see that Joel has fallen asleep, but Ellie wakes up early and has decided to take second watch. Joel says he’ll take the first and second watch, so Ellie can get some sleep. But Joel reassures Ellie, saying that if Marlene told them the Fireflies could make a cure, they can do it. But then Ellie gets quiet and asks Joel if the vaccine will work, and she admits that she tried to save Sam by rubbing her blood into his bite wound. Ellie says she's read everything she could about space, and that her favorite astronaut is Sally Ride-which Joel managed to guess. Growing up in the quarantine zone, where she was trapped by the ocean on one side and walls on the other, there was nowhere else to look but up. Joel asks Ellie what she’ll do, and she looks at the moon. Then Ellie asks what happens if they find the Fireflies, and they make a cure thanks to her: what then? What do they do next? When Joel flinches at the idea of them still being together after that, Joel says he would probably get an old farmhouse and some land and start a sheep ranch. When he regains composure, Ellie reminds Joel that all they need to find Tommy and the Fireflies is to cross the River of Death.Īs it’s getting dark, the pair decide to cross in the morning, camping out for the night, where they dine on a rabbit stolen from the couple, while Joel duct tapes his shoe together, and shares a drink from his flask with Ellie. As they leave the couple’s property, Joel stops and clutches his chest, the panic seemingly getting to him. This revelation seems to shake Joel, scared that this couple who has been here a long time might know what they’re talking about. The man says they never see who is past the river, but they see the bodies-some infected, some not-and if Tommy is west of the river, he’s gone. When Joel asks for advice on going west, the man says, “yeah, go east,” and to never go past the river ever, because past the river is death. The man says he hasn’t heard of Tommy, and the woman clearly hasn’t heard of the Fireflies either.
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