Episode 1 - Future Days
Written and directed by Craig Mazin
In Salt Lake City, a group of Fireflies bury the dead from the hospital massacre. Tending her father's grave, one such member Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), vows to find Joel and kill him slowly.
5 years later at Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming, Ellie (now 19) is estranged from Joel after telling her porky pies about the Fireflies.
Joel visits psychotherapist Gail (Catherine O'Hara), with original character revealing that client killed her husband Eugene.
During a patrol, Ellie kills a new type of infected capable of silent cover and stalking, but is bitten in the process.
At a New Year's Eve party, Ellie and Dina (Isabela Merced) kiss, prompting Seth (Robert John Burke) to call them 'dykes'. Joel attacks him for doing so, but Ellie doesn't need his fucking help.
As tendrils emerge through a broken sewage pipe, Abby and her crew observe the town from afar.
Episode 2 - Through the Valley
Written by Craig Mazin
Directed by Mark Mylod
Abby warns her past self not to enter the room where her father was killed.
When she awakes, Abby scopes out Jackson.
Ellie chats with Jesse (Young Mazino) who tells her that Joel is already on a patrol with Dina.
After Abby inadvertently awakes a horde of infected hiding beneath the snow, Joel rescues her and they meet with Dina, who says his name.
Uh oh.
Abby convinces them to go back to the lodge where her friends are waiting.
Amidst this, more tendrils are found inside a pipe, redirecting the infected to attack Tommy's settlement, resulting in multiple human casualties.
When Joel says they must leave, Dina is held at gunpoint and knocked out.
Abby gives a lengthy monologue and kneecaps Joel, then repeatedly bashes wound with a golf club until it breaks.
Ellie is restrained and forced to watch Abby apply the killer blow by stabbing him in the neck with the broken end.
Jesse turns up and Joel's body is taken with them.
Episode 3 - The Path
Written by Craig Mazin
Directed by Peter Hoar
Three months after Joel's death, Jackson is recovering from the assault by the infected.
At Joel's house, Dina tells Ellie she knows that Abby leads the Washington Liberation Front out of Seattle.
We briefly meet the Seraphites and a little girl called Constance, who hide after hearing Abby's crew closing in.
At a council meeting, Ellie's proposal to find and execute the people that killed Joel out of justice rather than revenge is rejected.
Ellie and Dina leave for Seattle, with Seth assisting unauthorised escape.
En route, Ellie visits Joel's grave and when they arrive on the city's outskirts, find a mass of Seraphite corpses.
Meanwhile, armoured vehicles and WLF soldiers take to the streets.
Episode 4 - Day One
Written by Craig Mazin
Directed by Kate Herron
2018, Seattle Quarantine Zone.
Opening shows Sergeant Isaac Dixon (Jeffrey Wright) killing a group of FEDRA soldiers and joining the WLF.
Eleven years later, Ellie and Dina enter a building and find a room of WLF members hung and disembowelled, with a Seraphite tag on a nearby wall.
After escaping inside a tunnel, pursuing soldiers inadvertently animate tendrils from the heat of flares.
Fleeing the infected horde, Ellie allows herself to be bitten to protect Dina. Presuming she's about to turn, Dina points a gun at love interest, forcing Ellie to reveal that she's immune to infection.
The next day, they hear somebody mention Nora over the radio and prepare to leave for Lakehill.
Episode 5 - Feel Her Love
Written by Craig Mazin
Directed by Stephen Williams
At Lakehill Hospital, Elise Park tells WLF commander Hanrahan about how she sealed her son Leon in the basement after his team discovered spores.
Area is where the infected were taken and placed in quarantine when the Cordyceps outbreak began in '03.
Seattle, Day Two.
After confirming Nora's location, Ellie and Dina take a shortcut through a derelict warehouse populated by stalkers.
Jesse rescues them and flee the WLF, taking refuge in a park controlled by the Seraphites.
He came with Tommy, but split up to cover more ground.
Ellie creates a diversion so Jesse and Dina can escape back to the theatre, while leading lady discovers the hospital.
When Nora refuses to give up Abby, Ellie beats her leg (not face) multiple times with a pipe, presumably killing her.
In a flashback, Ellie wakes to Joel greeting her.
Episode 6 - The Price
Written by Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross and Craig Mazin
Directed by Neil Druckmann
Austin, Texas 1983.
Javier Miller (Tony Dalton) confronts his son Joel (Andrew Diaz) about him beating up a dealer while Tommy (David Miranda) was buying pot.
2024.
On Ellie's 15th birthday, Joel gives her a cake and gee-tar.
2025.
Joel takes Ellie to a science museum, where she simulates the launch of Apollo 11 inside a spaceship module.
2026.
Ellie smokes pot with ex-girlfriend Kat who just tattooed her arm.
March 2028.
On her 19th birthday, Ellie goes on her first patrol.
They come across Eugene (Joe Pantoliano), revealing he was bit. With time not on his side, Joel promises he will see Gail in person. But after sending Ellie away to bring the horses, Joel executes him off screen.
Back at Jackson, Joel lies to Gail, saying her husband took his own life.
Ellie spitefully grasses on Joel, leaving Gail heartbroken, partly explaining why Ellie and Joel are estranged in Future Days.
Nine months later.
After Ellie scolds Joel for protecting her from bigot sandwich Seth during the New Year's Eve party, a new scene plays out on his porch.
She gives him one last chance to tell her what really happened with the Fireflies.
And he does, acknowledging there weren't any other immune people, no raiders, and she was the key to developing a cure (even though procedure would've killed her).
He also admits to murdering Marlene.
In the game, sequence happened right at the end.
Err, logic please?
Three months later in Seattle, Ellie approaches the theatre to rendezvous with Dina and Jesse.
Episode 7 - Convergence
Written by Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross and Craig Mazin
Directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado
Ellie tells Dina that she didn't murder Nora and simply left her to rot in the basement.
Seattle, Day Three.
Ellie and Jesse leave Dina behind to rendezvous with Tommy at a bookstore, but he's not there.
Over the radio, they hear WLF soldiers reporting a sniper at the marina.
Going upstairs, Ellie remembers the only two words Nora kept saying, 'the 'whale' and 'wheel', referring to the aquarium.
Nora didn't say any such thing by the way, at least not on screen.
Anyway, Ellie and Jesse embark on separate journeys.
Hearing Mel and Owen arguing, Ellie forces them to pinpoint Abby's location on a map. Owen goes for a gun and is killed instantly when shot in the throat. The bullet also catches the side of Mel's neck, who before bleeding to death, asks Ellie to perform a low transverse C-section to save her baby.
Err, WHAT?
Jesse arrives with Tommy and they go back to the theatre, where Abby is waiting in the next room. She shoots Jesse dead and holds Tommy at gunpoint.
How did Abby know of their location? In the game, Ellie left her map behind (dumb yes), but here - she's fucking psychic.
Even though Ellie tells Abby she killed her friends and not Tommy, Abby still points the gun at her and fires, but screen cuts to black.
Two days earlier, Abby is woken up by Manny, showing the WLF are stationed inside a giant baseball stadium.
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