The Last of Us episode 5

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.

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. Ellie also agrees to stay up with the nervous Sam, but she dozes off. 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

The episode begins on the night of Kansas City's fateful uprising. Though we'd seen FEDRA commit atrocities in Boston -- like hanging people who left the QZ -- ...

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. Of course, as we learn, the truth is nowhere near that simple,but it suits her to claim that it is. 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.