Ellie and Joel’s lives are about to change drastically, as the sixth episode of The Last of Us finishes on a cliffhanger. While the story of Henry and Sam in The Last of Us Episode 5 had major ramifications for the broader show’s narrative, the events in Episode 6, which take place at the university and involve Joel and Ellie, had their own. tvacute.com, then, is a full breakdown of the events leading up to Episode 6’s a shocking cliffhanger in The Last of Us.
Episode 6 of The Last of Us focuses largely on Joel and Ellie’s journey to Jackson, Wyoming, where Joel meets up with his brother Tommy. Following their conversation with Tommy, he informs Joel that the Fireflies maintain a camp on campus. After some tense character development involving Joel’s developing feelings for Ellie and the impact those sentiments are having on his psyche, Joel and Ellie finally resume their journey to Eastern Colorado University.
Ellie helps him mount their horse, and they ride swiftly away from the marauders. However, things don’t look good for Joel; he falls off the horse in the deserted rail yard, blood gushing from his wound. All she can do is cry as the ghost of her failed attempt to save Sam haunts her thoughts. She cries out, “I can’t do this without you,” but no one is there to hear her but the silent rail yard and the freezing sprawl beyond it. Ellie tries to shake him to wake him up but to no avail.
The primary question for fans who have not played The Last of Us is whether or not Joel dies when he collapses from his stab wound at the end of episode 6. Yet, in the last moments of The Last of Us, Joel is not killed. In The Last of Us, episode 7, Bella Ramsey’s Ellie is left to fend for herself after Joel, despite being mortally wounded, collapses from blood loss. The cannibal storyline, in which Ellie meets David while searching for a cure for Joel’s wounds, will most likely be used in the following episode.
