The Last of Us (2023) s02e07 Episode Script

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[PENSIVE THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[THEME CONCLUDES]
- [RAIN FALLING]
- [RADIO BEEPS]
[SHAUNA] [ON RADIO] Jimmy K.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [DINA EXCLAIMING]
[JIMMY] [OVER RADIO]
Yeah, go for Jimmy K.
[SHAUNA] Tell your division
we're going silent, Isaac's orders.
- Call your boats back. Radio silent.
- [DINA] Pull it out!
I swear to God,
if you don't do it, I will.
- [JESSE] I said maybe.
- [JIMMY] Alright, copy.
- [JESSE] This is gonna hurt.
- It already fucking hurts!
[DINA SCREAMING, WAILING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[PANTING] Jesse, don't let me
You can't let me die.
- Yeah, I know.
- No, you don't.
Listen, if I pull it, it's
gonna tear an artery.
- I need to push it through.
- How do you know that?
- What if it's the wrong way?
- I know where the arteries are.
- No, you don't, you're not a doctor!
- Dina, shut up!
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Hey.
Dina.
I got you, alright?
I got you.
[DINA SOBBING]
- [WAILING]
- I know, I know.
I know. Have some, okay?
- No.
- It's gonna help. Have some.
I said no.
[THUNDER CONTINUES]
[JESSE] Okay.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANING LOUDLY] Just do it.
[DINA SCREAMING]
[RAIN PATTERING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[LOUD BANGING]
[ELLIE] It's me.
- [BANGING]
- Jesse! Dina!
What's the name of your horse?
[ELLIE] Shimmer. I'm alone.
Open the fucking door!
[HEAVY RAIN FALLING]
[ITEMS CLATTERING INSIDE]
- Where is she?
- What happened to you?
Dina? Is she
She's okay. She's in the dressing room.
- [WHISPERING] Dressing room.
- Ellie, where were you?
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING SOFTLY]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[DINA SOFTLY SNORING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELLIE SIGHS]
Hi.
Let me see.
Is the baby ?
- It's okay.
- How do you know?
I just do.
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
Sit over there.
Alright.
[EXHALES SHARPLY] Shirt off.
[WINCING]
- Okay, arms up.
- [GRUNTING]
[DINA] Three, two, one.
[GRUNTING]
[ELLIE SIGHS]
[WATER SLOSHING]
[ELLIE WINCING]
So, are you gonna tell me what happened?
[ELLIE] I found her.
I found Nora.
Good.
Does she know where Abby is?
Yes, but she only said two words.
"Whale", and then "wheel".
- What does that mean?
- I don't know. Maybe nothing.
She was infected,
it was already setting in.
Hm.
- [WATER SPLASHING]
- [DINA SIGHS]
[WHISPERING] I made her talk.
I thought it would be harder to do.
But it wasn't.
It was easy.
I just kept hurting her.
Did you kill her?
[ELLIE] No.
I left her.
Yeah, well, maybe she got
what she deserved.
[WATER SLOSHING]
[ELLIE] [WHISPERING] Maybe she didn't.
[GENTLE, SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
It was a long time ago.
Before I came to Jackson.
There was a Firefly base
in Salt Lake City.
They had a hospital there.
They were gonna use me to make a cure.
But it meant that I would have died.
And Joel found out.
And he killed everyone in the hospital.
Everyone.
He killed Abby's father.
He was a doctor, and
Joel shot him in the head.
To save me.
[ELLIE BREATHING SHAKILY]
So, that's why they came.
[ELLIE SNIFFLES]
Did you know who they were?
[SWALLOWING HARD]
But I knew what he did.
I'm sorry.
We need to go home.
[DINA GRUNTING SOFTLY]
- [BIRDSONG]
- [WATER DRIPPING]
- [WALKIE CLICKING ON]
- [RADIO STATIC]
Do you have any extra nine-millimeter?
Thanks.
[DOOR OPENS]
You shouldn't be on your feet yet.
I'll go back to the couch in a second.
I promise.
Give me your wrist.
The other one.
It's for good luck.
Not sure it's been working for you.
I'm alive.
I can do this alone,
if you want Ellie to stay.
No.
- [BAG ZIPPING]
- We'll be safer together.
Our rendezvous point's not far.
Assuming Tommy's there,
we should be back
- well before sundown.
- Okay, good.
You okay to barricade?
Yeah. Go.
Yeah.
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
[SCRAPING, THUDDING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
- Where's the rendezvous?
- The bookstore.
You ever gonna tell me
how you found the theater?
You ever gonna tell me what
happened to you last night?
We followed the likeliest
path into the city.
Found the place you stashed Shimmer.
She's still there doing alright.
Not that you asked.
And then, we saw the WLF
sign on the TV station,
figured that's where you went,
split up a two-square-mile area
around it and began searching.
That's how I found the theater.
Oh, you make it sound easy.
It took two days and
a lot of close calls.
Thank you.
I mean it, honestly.
Look, I know you're angry
Last night, Dina said, "I can't die".
Not, "I don't want to die". "I can't".
And then I offered her whiskey,
and she refused.
Dina, the girl who's never turned down
a free drink in her life,
seconds before I was gonna
push a crossbow bolt
- through her leg.
- That's weird.
- I don't know why she
- Yes, you do.
I'm not stupid and I'm not blind.
Ellie, I see the way you two
look at each other.
It's different now.
Yeah, and I bet she even tells
you things she wouldn't tell me.
Like how she's pregnant.
Fuck.
[JESSE EXHALES SHARPLY]
Oh, shit, you were guessing?
Oh, God.
Look, she's obviously gonna tell you.
So, just act surprised, okay?
None of this has to change
things between us.
Everything changing doesn't
have to change things?
Well, how 'bout this for something new?
I'm gonna be a father,
which means I can't die.
But because of you,
we're stuck in a war zone.
So, how 'bout we skip the apologies
and just go find Tommy
so I can get us and my kid
the fuck outta Seattle?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
There's more than one of her?
[JESSE] I guess so. I don't know.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
We need to move faster.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
- [RAIN PATTERING]
- [BOTH PANTING]
Please tell me we're close.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
Think we have two more blocks.
Let's give it a minute,
see if it dies down,
- and then we'll
- [GUNSHOT]
- Shit.
- Go.
- [SOLDIER 1] I see him!
- [SOLDIER 2] You're fucking dead, Scar!
- [GUNSHOT]
- Nowhere to run!
[JESSE] There, there,
there. Go! Get down!
- [GUNSHOT]
- [SOLDIER 2] He's heading off in the garage, keep going!
- Get on the ground!
- [SERAPHITE PANTING]
You piece of shit!
[SERAPHITE] [CHANTING]
The world is not in balance,
but I've done my part to right it.
[SOLDIER 2] How'd you get past our line?
- [SERAPHITE CONTINUES CHANTING]
- How?!
The world is not in balance.
But I have done my part to right it.
[CRYING] She has led me
through the storm.
Now I must rest.
- May she guide me.
- I'm sorry, what?
May she guide me. May she guide me.
- [PUNCH THUDS]
- [SERAPHITE SCREAMS]
[BURTON] Get his clothes off.
[SERAPHITE] No! No!
Wait! Wait! No!
Stop it! Get off of me!
- [SERAPHITE] Stop!
- [SOLDIER] Come on, you little piece of shit!
- [BURTON] Drag him.
- [SOLDIER] Fucking go!
- [SERAPHITE SCREAMING]
- Let's fucking go!
- [SERAPHITE CONTINUES YELLING]
- [BURTON] Let's go! Go!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- Get the fuck off!
- Ellie.
Ellie.
- Ellie!
- What?!
There are six of them and two of us.
- What do you think would've happened?
- He's a fucking kid!
Ellie, these people
are shooting each other,
lynching each other,
ripping each other's guts out.
Even the kids.
I am not dying out here.
[PANTING] Not for any of them.
This is not our war.
Let's go.
- [THUNDER CRASHING]
- [PEOPLE SHOUTING]
[SOLDIER] Can't leave it there.
You gotta move your truck.
[INTENSE RAIN FALLING]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
[THUNDER CONTINUES RUMBLING]
[PARK] Good news.
Melissa and Kristi are saying
the storm's a convergence zone.
Mm-hmm.
It's gonna get even bigger.
Orders have been relayed
verbally, everything's set.
- [SOLDIERS SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
All the officers are on board,
but I think the rank and file
are a little scared.
Aren't you?
It'll be dark by 21:30.
- We'll start the staggered load in
- Any word on Abby?
Not since yesterday.
And we still haven't found Owen.
Mel is missing now, too.
So, her entire crew just disappears,
tonight of all nights?
We still have Manny.
Well, we have a lot of Mannys, don't we?
And enough Owens and Mels.
But only one Abby.
Okay, what the fuck?
She's a good soldier. Great, even.
But we have an entire
fuckin' army out there,
and you're acting like
she's the most important.
What [SCOFFS]
You in love with her or something?
[LAUGHING]
[PARK SCOFFS] I mean, I don't know.
You wouldn't be the first old man to
Okay, okay. No.
[RAIN PATTERING LOUDLY]
[THUNDER CONTINUES RUMBLING]
By the time the sun comes up tomorrow,
there's a very good chance
you'll be dead.
There's an even better
chance I'll be dead.
So then, what happens to that
entire fucking army out there,
who despite their badass name,
are very much sheep?
Who leads them?
Who secures our future?
It was supposed to be her.
Well, she's fucked off, Isaac.
So, maybe it wasn't.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[JESSE] Fuck.
Is that your shit?
Yeah.
[ELLIE] Alright. So, if he's not here
[JESSE] It's gonna be fine.
He'll make it back.
- Well, what if he's in trouble?
- "What if"?
He is in trouble. We're all in trouble.
[THUNDER CONTINUES]
Here we are again.
You and me in bad fuckin' weather.
[INTENSE RAIN PATTERING]
[GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]
[JESSE] You picked a good one.
I should have thought of that.
Listen, about me and her,
I don't really know what to say.
Right now, we got a lot of problems.
Like a wounded pregnant girl.
Maybe Tommy's dead. Maybe we'll be dead.
So, let me at least just
get this one off the table.
Yes, I love her.
But not the way you do.
[SIGHS]
Remember that group
that stopped by Jackson
for a few weeks on their way
south to Mexico?
Uh, from Alberta?
Yeah, they had some
decent shit to trade.
There was this girl with them.
She was a couple years older than me.
I don't know if you remember.
She was selling paintings,
like landscapes and shit.
- Were they good?
- No.
I bought four of 'em. [CHUCKLES]
That fuckin' feeling
when you're falling for someone
and they're falling right back.
Hm.
- So, what happened?
- Best two weeks of my life.
But she couldn't stay.
Didn't want to abandon
her family like that.
So, she asked me
to go with them instead.
And I wanted to.
More than anything.
Then, why didn't you?
Because the people of Jackson
took me in, raised me,
cared for me, because everyone there
is counting on me to be the next Maria.
Because I was taught
to put other people first.
Okay.
Got it. So, you're
Saint Jesse of Wyoming
and everyone else is a fucking asshole.
You can make fun of me all you want,
but let me ask you this, Ellie.
I go with that girl to Mexico,
who saves your ass in Seattle?
[SOLDIER] [ON RADIO]
Under fire! I repeat!
We are under fire. Under
fire, Southlake Marina.
- Sniper, not a Scar!
- [GUNSHOT OVER RADIO]
- Unidentified
- [GUNSHOT]
Goddammit!
Two of us pinned down. We need backup!
- [SOLDIER 2] No radios. Repeat.
- Sniper.
- No radios.
- It's gotta be Tommy.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
This is South Lake.
There's two piers right here.
It's gotta be one of them.
Alright, pack your shit. We're going up.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[DISTANT GUNSHOT]
- [GUNSHOT]
- You hear that?
It's in the right direction.
I don't see an easy way
north, but if he got there,
it means we can, too.
Ellie.
[WHISPERING] The wheel.
- The whale.
- What?
- She's in the fucking aquarium.
- Who?
Abby, the one who killed Joel.
She's in the aquarium.
It's too far to swim. We need a boat.
- What are you talking about?
- What?
No, Tommy's over there.
That's where we're going.
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
You don't know that's him.
- Yes, we do.
- We don't.
And even if it is, he's
got them pinned down.
For now. They called for backup.
Then, he'll pin more of
them down. I know him.
- He would want me to do this.
- [GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
And Jesus Christ, if three more
people had voted with you,
- you'd be coming with me.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY] I voted no.
Why?
Because everything you do,
you do for you.
Oh, my God.
- Ellie.
- Oh, my God.
Ellie, it wasn't in the best
interest of the community.
Fuck the community!
All you do is talk about
the fucking community.
You hypocrite.
You think you're good and I'm bad?
You let a kid die today, Jesse.
Because why? He wasn't
in your community?
Let me tell you about my community.
My community was beaten
to death in front of me
while I was forced to fucking watch.
So, don't look at me
like you're better than me
or like you'd do anything differently
if you were in my shoes,
because you're not,
and you wouldn't.
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
[HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES]
I really hope you make it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DISTANT GUNSHOT]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [METAL SQUEAKING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[THUNDER CONTINUES RUMBLING]
[WLF GUARD] Hey, let's move, come on.
Come on, we gotta meet 'em out there.
[GUARDS CONTINUE CHATTING INDISTINCTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MOTORS REVVING]
Load 'em up.
Let's go!
Last one's on board.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[BOAT MOTORS RUMBLING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[GRUNTING]
[MOTOR REVVING]
[GRUNTING]
[SHOUTING]
[WAVE CRASHING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[WATER LAPPING]
[ELLIE GASPING]
[ELLIE COUGHING]
[GRUNTING]
[CONTINUES COUGHING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DISTANT WHISTLING]
[ELLIE GASPING]
[GRUNTING]
[ELLIE EXCLAIMING]
[DISTANT WHISTLING]
[GASPING]
- [ELLIE SHOUTING]
- [SERAPHITES GRUNTING]
[ELLIE CONTINUES SHOUTING]
[ELLIE WHIMPERING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
No! I'm not from here! I'm not a Wolf!
Tell them.
[GASPING]
[GRUNTING, STRUGGLING]
[CHOKING]
[GASPING, CHOKING CONTINUE]
[HORN BELLOWING]
The village. The village!
[ELLIE GASPING]
Leave her!
[ELLIE YELPS]
[GASPING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[GRUNTING]
[MOTOR REVVING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DISTANT EXPLOSION BOOMING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[GRUNTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[GRUNTING]
[WAVES CRASHING]
[THUNDER CONTINUES RUMBLING]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[THUDDING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MEL] for her, so don't
make me sound like
I'm being some kind of heartless bitch.
I'm not. And let's be honest,
this isn't about them anyways, Owen.
You're talking about being
behind enemy lines
alone at night.
This is suicide under
normal circumstances,
and you want to do this now?
Do you even understand what's going on?
[OWEN] I understand everything,
but I don't have a choice, do I?
It's Abby.
Of course, you have
a choice. And so do I.
And I am choosing no,
also because it's Abby.
Fine, I'll do it on my own, like always.
I can make it there and back in 30.
If you're still here,
you can get on board
and keep going with us.
If you're not, you're not.
Fuck you, Owen.
[ELLIE] Hands up.
- Where's Abby?
- You gotta be kidding me.
Okay. Easy.
I'm the one who kept you alive, right?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GUN COCKING]
We don't know where she is.
You were just talking about
her, so, yes, you fucking do.
You, bring me that map.
You're gonna point to where Abby is,
and then you're gonna do it,
and it better fucking match.
You have five seconds.
- Four.
- She's gonna kill us either way.
[ELLIE] No, I won't.
Because I'm not like you.
Three.
Two.
I I'll do it. I'll do it.
I'll show you.
Slowly.
S-Slowly.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUNSHOTS]
[MEL] Oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh
[BODY THUDS]
[GROANING]
Knife? [GASPS] Do you have a knife?
I have, like, 30 seconds.
Get the fuck over here, please.
Please, please, please.
- Knife. Knife.
- [SWITCHBLADE CLICKING]
You're gonna take it out.
You're gonna get it out.
What?
- I don't know how to do that.
- I do. I do.
One incision. That's all it is.
And then, be sure to tie the cord.
Work fast. Work fast.
[LABORED BREATHING] Work fast.
- Work fast. Very fast.
- Okay. Okay.
How deep?
- Deeper than you think.
- Which way?
Which way?
Low transverse. Transverse.
What? I don't know what that means.
Low transverse.
Low transverse.
What? Tell me what that means.
[WEAKLY] You're doing good.
You're doing really good.
Is it out?
Is it out?
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOBBING]
[BLOOD DRIPPING]
[TOMMY] Ellie?
Ellie.
Oh. Oh, God.
Hey.
Let's go, come on. It's okay, it's okay.
Come on. Come on.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[DINA GRUNTING SOFTLY] Shit.
Oh, thank God.
- [RAIN PATTERING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
[TOMMY] The park is no go,
so we stick to the south
on our way outta town.
Not a good idea to move
her in this weather,
so pray for sunshine.
Get the horses at first light
and don't look back.
[CREAKING]
Hey.
You know, they were part of it, too.
They made their choices.
That's all there is to it.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
But Abby gets to live.
[TOMMY] Yeah.
Are you able to make
your peace with that?
Guess I'll have to.
[THUNDER RUMBLING SOFTLY]
I'm gonna start packin' the duffels.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Thank you for coming back.
Maybe I didn't want to.
Maybe Tommy made me.
Did he?
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
Nope.
[SOFTLY] Because you're a good person.
[SOFTLY] Yeah.
But also, the thought did occur
if I were out there somewhere,
lost and in trouble
you would set the world
on fire to save me.
I would.
- [CLATTERING]
- [TOMMY SHOUTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[BOTH PANTING]
[GUNSHOT]
- [GASPS]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[ABBY] Stand up.
Stand up!
Hands in the air or
I shoot this one too.
- Just run, Ellie!
- Shut the fuck up!
Stop! Stop!
[TOMMY GROANING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
You.
Just let him go.
He killed my friends.
No, I did.
I was looking for you.
I didn't mean to hurt them.
I know why you killed Joel.
He did what he did to save me.
I'm the one that you want.
Just let him go.
I let you live.
I let you live.
[PANTING]
- And you wasted it.
- No, no, no!
[GUNSHOT]
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[RINGING INTENSIFIES]
- [RINGING STOPS ABRUPTLY]
- [CLOCK TICKING]
- [LOUD BANGING]
- [MANNY] Hey.
- [ABBY] Oh, shit.
- You up?
- Well, yeah, now.
- Cool. Alright, come on.
Isaac wants to talk to us.
Okay. Just let me wake up.
- I'll be there in five minutes.
- Alright.
It's your funeral if you make him wait.
Uh-huh.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[BARKING CONTINUES]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS]
["BURDEN IN MY HAND"
BY SOUNDGARDEN PLAYING]
Follow me into the desert ♪
As thirsty as you are ♪
Crack a smile and cut your mouth ♪
And drown in alcohol ♪
I shot my love today ♪
Would you cry for me? ♪
I lost my head again ♪
Would you lie for me? ♪
Fear is strong and
love's for everyone ♪
Who isn't me ♪
Kill your health and kill yourself ♪
And kill everything you love ♪
And if you live,
you can fall to pieces ♪
And suffer with my ghost ♪