Instead, on the show, Joel revisits their convo from the start of episode three. Those words eventually come back to bite Joel, foreshadowing events in the second game. It's a little weird the game cut this line and moment. In the game, Joel tells Ellie, 'No matter how hard you try, I guess you can't escape your past. Joel gets a bit emotional, but thanks Ellie for the photograph. The guy who tried to kill Joel was himself.īefore arriving at the hospital in the game, Ellie hands Joel a photo of him and his daughter, Sarah, that she stole from the Jackson, Wyoming community.

We get a different tender scene between Ellie and Joel that goes back to a conversation in episode three where Joel said he got a scar from a guy who tried to kill him. On the official 'TLOU' podcast, coshowrunner Neil Druckmann revealed that he wrote a short story origin for Ellie a long time ago and attempted to have it made into a live-action short. Fans merely theorized that her mother was bitten while pregnant or that Ellie's father was infected at the time of her conception.

We never learn in the game how Ellie wound up with that growth. In the game, a surgeon's recording says the cause of Ellie's immunity 'is uncertain' however, Marlene tells Joel there's a cordyceps growth inside of Ellie they 'believe' mutated. It makes normal cordyceps think that she's cordyceps. It produces a kind of chemical messenger. 'Our doctor thinks that the cordyceps in Ellie has grown with her since birth.

'It does hint at and give some theories as to why Ellie is immune, even though we don't answer that conclusively,' Druckmann told press in a conference for the finale, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Īfter tests are run on Ellie at the hospital, Marlene tells Joel the following: The finale implies that Ellie's immunity is linked to her mother, Anna, getting bit by an infected in the moments leading up to Ellie's birth.Īs a result, it's presumed that Ellie has some built in immunity to the infection or a mutation of the fungus, but we never receive a definitive answer. It often indicates a user profile.Įllie gets bitten in episode seven of 'The Last of Us.' Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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