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The final scene of "The Last of Us" Season 2 is as intense as the show, which is really saying something. On the third day in Seattle, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) tries to pilot a small rubber boat in a driving thunderstorm, crossing Seattle port to the dockside aquarium, where she believes Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) is the woman who killed her father Joel (Pedro Pascal). Instead, a huge wave rushes Elie into the territory of the venous dynasty, also known as Scar, a violent religious sect that strung together and knocked down anyone they believed to be the enemy. That's exactly what they've done to Ellie until she was saved when the Washington Liberation Front (or WLF) launched a night-time sneak attack at the main camp in Scars, and they gave up on Ellie to defend their home.

ThenAfter she got rid of the noose, Ellie returned to the boat and finally broke out on the scar territory behind her, finally reaching the aquarium. But Abby is not there. Instead, Ellie finds Abby's friends, Spencer Lord and Ariela Barer; she holds them in the muzzle and asks them to show her where Abby is. Owen tries to shoot. Ellie opens fire and kills him, Mel is shot in the neck during the firefight - Ellie realizes Mel is pregnant. When Mel bleeds, she begs Ellie to cut the fetus from her uterus. But Ellie didn't know how. When Mel died, Mel fell into helpless pain.

Tommy and Jesse (Young Mazino) track Ellie to the aquarium and take her back to the abandoned theater of Ellie’s girlfriend, Isabela Merced. They agreed with Jackson's route, and Tommy left Ellie and Jesse at the theater to start and began packing in the hall. Suddenly, the loud noise was shocked. Ellie and Jesse play the theater, and Jesse is shot and killed immediately. Ellie covers Tommy's head. She heard the voice and asked her to stand up. It's Abby.

Ellie and Abby face to face for the first time since Joel's death. Ellie tells Abby that she killed Abby’s friend and beggs Abby to let Tommy go. "I'll let you liveAbby said, full of anger. "You've wasted." She pointed the gun at Ellie, Ellie screamed, Abby shot, and the screen cut into black.

Suddenly, we chopped Abby on the couch and fell asleep. Another of her WLF compatriot Manny (Danny Ramirez) wakes up and tells her WLF commander Isaac (Jeffrey Wright) that she wants to see her. She awakens herself and strolls along what we realize is the WLF headquarters, in the football field that once was the home of the Seattle Seahawks. The word “Seattle: Day 1” appears on the screen and the plot is over. We've been back for three days and now this story focuses on Abby.

This twist almost completely reflects the 2020 video game "Our Last Part". In the game, Ellie completely disappears because the player advances as Abby, which is a radical empathy. Twisted pair exhibit Not very clear.

In a May 23 press conference on this season 2 finale, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (written the episode with Halley Gross, co-author of Druckmann on Part 2) said they don’t know much, or, rarely, yet — they expect Ellie, Dina, Dina, Tommy, and Jesse to appear in Season 3.

“Even if I thought I knew exactly what it was going on now, I was still experienced and could know that we might have different developments from the two weeks from now,” Mazin said. "I can only say we haven't seen the last one in Kaitlyn Dever, we haven't seen the last one in Bella Ramsey, and we haven't seen the last one in Isabela Merced, and we haven't seen many people who are currently dying in the story."

"Whether you see them on the screen or not, their presence will be on the entire screen," Druckmann added.

In an interview typeRamsey is even more certain, saying they "probably" play a smaller role in Season 3.

"I haven't seen any scripts yet, but yes, I do hope that," Ramsey said. "I think I'll be there, but not a bunch. We've had a conversation about that. I'll get a little bit about it, but I can't tell you."

In the press conference, Mazin did offer clearer clarity on other aspects of Season 3, mainly about unresolved questions about the origins of WLF and Seraphites, and what made them cause the war.

“These questions are correct and will be answered,” Majin said. "How did this war begin? Why? How did the Six-Winged Man begin? Who is the (their) Prophet? What happened to her? What happened to Isaac? What happened to the end of Episode 7? What was this explosion? All of this will become clear." As for whether Season 3 will bring back more flashbacks - maybe a look at what Joel and Tommy did in the 20 years of the pandemic and the show's beginning - Druckmann won't rule it out.

He said: "I wouldn't have guessed we'd have a short story before writing this season, so you went," he said, referring to Joel's childhood from episode 6. "You can't predict these things."

Mazin also said he and Druckmann were involved in how to incorporate Abby’s story into the show, including combining with Ellie’s narrative, or alternating plots between them, to induce several options. But in the end, they decided to stick to the structure of the game, which Majin admits is a huge risk to a hit show that has killed one of the stars in episode 2.

"You keep asking people, 'I know you like this, we'll take it away and give you this now." "And hope they go, 'Oh, you know, we really like it.'"

As for Ramsey, they type The difficulty about their tragic final scene directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado, why they like to be beaten by rain and oceans on that dinghy, their secret sign language and Merced's secret sign language, and Ellie's scene with seraphite the most horrible.

Let's start from the end. Apparently, more happened after cutting it to black. Is that where you stop shooting?

To be fair, I haven't actually seen it yet, so I don't even know where it cuts. But yes, I remember it was abrupt and we did stop there. I actually found this really difficult. I think we should keep going because it's hard to stop like suddenly. But yes, that's where to stop. mwa ha ha!

At the last moment, a lot has to happen. What is the emotional choreography of the scene?

Yes, that was a crazy scene. I saw my friend being shot straight in front of me and seeing Tommy being threatened and dying, which was so much. We actually did the scene a few times to get it right. It was a very tricky balance because obviously so many miserable things happened before her eyes, but at the same time, she met Abby, who had been waiting for so long. It was a very challenging scene for me, talking to directors Craig and Nina to figure out that the proper balance is traumatized and shocked, and the goal is that Ellie must kill Abby must kill Abby in front of her, but obviously the table on the table turned around and it was on her. It's just a crazy moment.

Which part of the balance is the most challenging?

From being straightforward sadness to seeing Jesse being shot to being subsequently in submission mode and defending my own life, it’s so specific. If it were someone else, the scene was easy, but because it was her, a lot of things happened on Ellie's head at that moment.

I'm fascinated by the differences between the show and the game, especially with Ellie's confrontation with Owen and Mel. Killing Mel was an accident on the show, and Mel was alive when Ellie realized she was pregnant - and in the game, the opposite was true. What do you think of these changes?

I saw most of the gameplay of the second game, but I haven't seen that scene so I don't know of any changes. For me, what I read in the script and what I did that day is how. That's another one - in the last episode I had a lot of challenges! But yes, that's a dark scene. I'm really happy to do this and absolutely fear because of how bad! It might be worse than seeing Joel Die because I think at that moment Ellie realized that she had become all the parts she would never want to be. Now, she saw her actions, sadness and the consequences of revenge and could not stop and think for a second.

Before the season 2 premiere, you told me that you listened to really optimistic music before these scenes. What are you listening to?

I don't actually think I'm listening to anything. It's definitely different from Joel Dying. I really had to stay in some headspace. Joel died, it was so direct, so intense, so big. This one is quieter, intimate and still. It will definitely become darker to the darkness inside me in advance.

Ellie spent a lot of time beating up by elements on that boat. Is this fun? I think you are in some kind of tank with the fan blowing water on your face.

Yes. It was right at the end of the shoot, so I was absolutely exhausted on the last little tether. But this is so interesting. I love the water and water features and I spend all day in a heated water tank in the studio. I really have the best time. I also know how to make boats and things like that, so it's exciting for me to be in the water and turn to the yacht.

The scene at the beginning of the episode is that Dina takes Ellie's shirt with Ellie tends to wounds, and Ellie admits to Dina what Joel does, which is so sweet and fragile. What is that?

It's really beautiful. In that soft scene, people have a real feeling about the scene. So cautious. It feels like a brief and rare pause and breath. In "Our Last Man," especially this season, two people sit down in a scene with an emotional, tender moment that doesn't seem to be painful.

Isabela Merced told my colleague Kate Aurthur that in the subway sequence of episode 4, you guys create a secret sign language for each other. How does this work?

We realize there are many times when we try to say to each other, like, "Do you need a toilet now? Because I do it, but do we have time?" Isabela, especially wearing skinny jeans, sometimes feels uncomfortable, she will say, "Can you cover me up when I like me?" So Isabela proposed it. She was like, “We should create a logo for this, so we don’t have to do this awkward thing when people around us try to say it.” Unfortunately, I really don’t remember them right now, but it’s good, nonverbal communication.

Does it involve a really intense action sequence, and you need some support? That's part of what Isabela seems to be talking about.

Well, everything is easy. We do have a “I really don’t want to do this now.” But it’s done somehow, and we both know we have to do it. I think it might be like weird head shaking and tongue. It's a comfort to know that there's someone with you.

What was it like to film Ellie being kidnapped and almost stripped of scars? Of all the horrible things in that episode, this is the scariest thing for me!

I think scars are the scariest part of the season. Like the rope around my neck, the real feeling of the rope - obviously, I was on the seat belt and it didn't actually happen, but it was tight. Therefore, action is not difficult. I'm totally safe, but it's easy to deceive my mind and think it's not. All the scariest parts are the funniest shots.

This interview has been edited and condensed.