HHanrahan
Your soldiers are loyal to you. I think they're worried we're going to execute you.
PPark
If I was getting executed, Isaac would've come himself.
HHanrahan
There was a shooting near the borderline between us and the Scars. Treaty might be broken. He's dealing with that now. If it's war again, we're gonna need all the soldiers we have, so he's wondering why you apparently killed some of your own men.
PPark
[nods, mournfully] Leon.
HHanrahan
Jesus. [she helps herself to one of Park's cigarettes] What happened?
PPark
My unit is responsible for...
HHanrahan
[cutting her off] Securing the hospital. I know your orders. I gave them, Elise. What happened?
PPark
We cleared the ground floor up to the sixth. A few scattered infected here or there; nothing we couldn't handle. All that was left was the basement, B1, B2, B3. We were expecting the worst, the kind of environment they like. Plus, the old-timers said that down there was where they brought the first Cordyceps patients in '03. On top of that, we had an access problem. [pointing to her blueprints] These stairwells here, here and here caved in, and all the elevator cars were stuck in their shafts just below ground level. [taps on the blueprint] The only way in or out of the basement is here this stairwell. So yesterday, that's where I sent a squad, down to B1.
PPark
Nothing. The whole floor was empty, not even rats. So today, B2, hoping for more of the same, I sent another squad down, and I put Leon in charge, cuz... [pauses] He's my best. A few minutes in, he radios back. There's Cordyceps on the walls, the floor. Chances are, they'll find infected next, but that's what they were down there for, so I told him to proceed. Five minutes later, he radios again. But this time he... he was struggling to breathe. He could hardly talk. I thought... [her voice breaking] maybe he had been bit. I said, "Leon, were you bit?" He said... He said, "It's in the air." He said, "It's in the air. Seal us in." I knew it wasn't in the vents, or we would've all been infected weeks ago. So, I scrambled my other team, and we locked the only door to B2, and we locked the only door to B1. And we did what Leon said. We sealed them in.
HHanrahan
[rattled, but remaining calm] Nothing else has gotten out? [Park shakes her head] No-one else has gotten sick? [she shakes her head, taking a drag on her cigarette] Okay. The hospital's a resource we can't afford to lose. [stubs out her cigarette] I'll inform only the people who absolutely need to know, and no-one else. As far as I'm concerned, Sergeant Park, you resolved the situation permanently and heroically. We owe you a debt. [She gets up and heads to the door, but pauses on the way out, and turns back to Park] I'm sorry about your son.
[In the spore-filled basement of the hospital, Ellie finds Nora struggling for air. She advances on her, with her pistol raised].
NNora
[coughing] You stupid bitch. Spores! We're breathing spores. We're infected. You killed us both.
[Nora looks up at Ellie, and after a moment, the truth dawns on her]
NNora
You're... you're her. The immune girl. You're... You're real.
NNora
Don't you know what he did?
NNora
[indignant] You don't care? He killed... everyone in that hospital. Including the only fucking person alive that could make a cure from you. That was Abby's father. And Joel... Joel shot him in the head. That's what he did.
[Caught off guard, Nora scoffs, and continues wheezing. Ellie holsters her gun, and crouches down before her]
NNora
[coughing, and slumping back to the floor] No.
[Ellie turns around and sees some piping on the wall behind her. She picks up an L-shaped one and advances on Nora]
[Ellie violently strikes her with the pipe, causing her to scream in pain]
[Ellie strikes her again]
JMJavier Miller
Did I ever tell you about that time I stole a candy bar? I was... ten? Grandpa found out. Made me give it back, made me apologize to the cashier. And then we went home. Just before I got out of the car, man, he just... [mimes a punch] He broke my jaw. There was blood everywhere. Grandma thought I was dead. My mouth was wired shut for two months; everybody knew why. It was humiliating...
If you know what it feels like, then why?
JJavier
That's not why I'm telling you this. Okay, yeah, I've hit you. And I've hit Tommy. But never like that -- not even close. I mean, maybe I go too, far I... I don't know, I just... I don't know. But I'm doing a little better than my father did. And, y'know, when it's your turn... I hope you do a little better than me.
[Ellie's last conversation with Joel - after seemingly walking past him on his porch the night before his death, she doubles back and returns to him. He places the guitar down and gets up, picking up his mug and sipping it as he comes to stand next to her.]
Um... The people that came through last week. I'm a little embarrassed for what I traded to get it, but it's not bad.
[Long pause]
[referring to their earlier confrontation] I had Seth under control.
And I don't wanna ever hear about you taking me off patrol again.
Okay. [Another long pause] So, Dina... Is she your girlfriend now?
No. No, she... It was just one kiss. Didn't mean anything. I don't know why she did that.
[sighs. To herself] I'm so stupid.
Look, I don't know what Dina's intentions are, but... well, she'd be lucky to have you.
[turning to look at him, her tone now more confrontational] You're such an asshole. You lied to me. You looked me in the eyes, and you lied, and it was the same face. The same fucking look. But I think I knew already. I knew this whole time. So, I'm gonna give you one last chance. Tell me what happened with the Fireflies. If you lie to me again, we're done. [His face crumpling, Joel nods] Were there other immune people? [Joel takes a moment, but finally shakes his head] Were there raiders? [he shakes his head again] Could they have made a cure? [Joel visibly struggles, but finally nods. Ellie, shattered, begins to cry herself] Did you...? [Without needing her to finish, Joel nods again] And Marlene? [He nods again, and Ellie begins to breathe heavily as the emotion overwhelms her]
Makin' a cure... would've killed you.
Then I was supposed to die! That was my purpose! My life would've fucking mattered! But you took that from me! You took it from everyone.
Yes. And I'll pay the price... because you're gonna turn away from me. But if somehow, I had a second chance at that moment... I would do it all over again.
[bitterly] Because you're selfish.
[in a choked voice] Because I love you. In a way you... you can't understand. Maybe you never will. But if that day should come... If you should ever have one of your own... well, then... I hope you do a little better than me.
[takes a deep breath] I don't think I can forgive you for this. But I would like to try.
[As Jesse and Ellie, looking for Tommy, reach an exposed side of the building they are in, Ellie spots something in the distance. At the same time, there is the sound of gunfire]
JJesse
You hear that? It's in the right direction.
[Ellie looks through her binoculars and sees a large ferris wheel, and the Seattle Aquarium]
JJesse
[concurrently] I don't see an easy way north, but if he got there, it means we can too. [when Ellie doesn't respond] Ellie?
[whispering] The wheel. The whale.
She's in the fucking aquarium!
Abby! The one who killed Joel, she's in the aquarium! [Jesse looks at her in disbelief] It's too far to swim, we need a boat-
JJesse
What are you talking about!?
JJesse
[points] Ellie, Tommy's over there. That's where we're goin'.
You don't know that's him.
We don't, and even if it is, he's got them pinned down.
JJesse
For now. They called for backup!
Then he'll pin more of them down. I know him! He would want me to do this! Jesus Christ, if three more people had voted with you, you'd be coming with me!
JJesse
[pause] I voted 'No'.
[stunned, and enraged] Why?
JJesse
Because everything you do, you do for you.
JJesse
Ellie! It wasn't the best interests of the community...
[exploding] 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? [Advancing on him] 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.
JJesse
[angry, but resigned] I really hope you make it.
[He turns and walks away]
