The Last of Us Episode 5 Recap And Review

The Last of Us Episode 5 Recap 

Episode 5 of The Last of Us begins with us in the past, as Kansas City descends into chaos and riots after what happened. They tie the necks of the police officers and prompt the military to move in with additional firepower. Among the survivors are Henry and Sam, who keep their heads down and try to survive.

  

  PHEDRA Finally stopped, Kathleen rallies the townspeople and humiliates them. He goes on to tell them that he's not PHEDRA, but that he's basically going to be the defacto dictator here. He also wants Henry, but everyone is silent on his whereabouts until a guy speaks up and claims he's out meeting an informant with safe areas to hide in. This is Kathleen's attic we saw in the last episode.

  Henry and Sam relax and decide to feed their equipment. Henry believes he will have 11 days left, but Sam is afraid. Henry tries to calm him down, encouraging the little boy to lean against the walls.

  Perry thinks they already have a perimeter and should regroup, but Kathleen belittles him and talks to the trooper, telling him to move now and burn the bodies when he's done, because it's faster than wearing them. test.

  Fast forward 10 days and both Sam and Henry have reached their last box. With their informants gone and no food left, the couple decide to leave and walk. The couple is about to leave when suddenly gunshots are heard outside. This is the little skirmish inside the store with the 3 guys we saw in the last chapter.

  Henry notices that Joel is inside and the pair change their plans. They go to an apartment complex and that takes us up to the end of episode 4. Henry tells the couple that he wants to join hands and believes that they should help each other. Henry lowers his gun and decides to trust the four as they work together.

  Sam and Ellie become friends as the four of them devise a plan to get out of the 'Killer City'. Henry wants to help Joel and Ellie get out because he can benefit from it too. Showing an unloaded gun is the closest he comes to violence, so they need Joel's ruthlessness to find a way out.

  That's easier said than done when Kathleen controls everything, including the four highways around town. All of them were driven underground 15 years ago, so they are not infected. The same underground that Henry and Sam intended to go down to sneak past the soldiers. FEDRA, Henry's confidant, apparently cleared the place with his boys 3 years ago, but it's a clumsy plan based on outdated intelligence. Joel isn't sure.

The four make their way down to the maintenance tunnels with a few nice nods to the first game. The area includes an old community that settled underground after Epidemic Day. Joel and Ellie find old comics and end up talking together. Ellie and Henry think it's a good idea to stay there and play a little, so Joel lets them do it.

  As they do so, Henry confesses that he was not open about his earlier murder. It turns out that Sam has leukemia and the only medicine that cures him has been withheld by FEDRA. And so the leader of the Kansas City resistance—and Kathleen's brother—was killed while taking the medicine.

  Kathleen is completely blank. After killing the town's doctor last episode and humiliating all of its officers, he goes missing and returns to the childhood room his brother occupied before he was killed. Despite her brother telling her not to seek justice and revenge, Kathleen is determined to do just that.

  Joel's group exits the tunnels and crosses to the other side. Only... there's a problem. There's a sniper on the building across the way, and Joel has to jump over him and get behind him. This is another great moment from the game as Joel runs around under the cover of darkness and enters the house. There he finds an older man who happens to be working with Kathleen.

  Unfortunately, Kathleen and her group appear in their crowd. Joel uses a sniper to take out the truck driver while Kathleen's group stands outside the house. Kathleen is also totally fine with killing children and admits as much to her group. Unable to reason with him, Henry decides to confront him and orders Ellie to fire the killer shot.

  Now, all this time we have Joel with a sniper rifle, but before he can fire, the ground suddenly collapses and gut-wrenching masses of infected come out and attack Kathleen's group.  

Most of the infected are stopped, but something bigger emerges from the fire. Inflating. This makes short work of Kathleen's group, while Perry decides to buy them some time (i.e. buys Kathleen about 3 seconds before she literally disintegrates), which doesn't get very far as Kathleen is also killed. Ellie saves the two infected and they manage to escape.

  After the battle ends, the four manage to find a safe haven away from the carnage. Sam is infected. He was bitten and his leg is not good.

  Ellie agrees to stay with Sam, but he turns in the middle of the night. An infected Sam jumps on Ellie and knocks her to the ground, and Henry is forced to kill Sam in cold blood. She's in shock and can't deal with her grief, so Henry turns the gun on himself and fires.

  As Joel buries Henry and Sam outside, Ellie leaves a message on her chalkboard for Sam that reads, "I'm sorry."

  Episode Review

  Henry and Sam's storyline is a personal favorite of The Last Of Us, with the couple's initial shock working to wrap up a series of very action-packed chapters, leaving a sad and bittersweet aftertaste. The impending silence is captured so perfectly in the game with the arrival of winter that they were able to pull off this storyline so effectively in the TV show.

  The little changes with Kathleen's group are definitely the worst part of it, especially as we know from survival situations (not to mention the military) that a weak leader can destroy the entire group and lead to a rebellion. I'm not sure why Perry, who cuts a more formidable figure, isn't a straight woman. Moreover, Kathleen's actions were just erratic and crazy, especially when she went missing like this.

  Apart from that, the Henry and Sam storyline is perfectly played out in this series and marks a high point in this series. For those unfamiliar with the games, they'll be completely heartbroken by this revelation, and even if they revisit it (after playing the game more times than I care to say!), it's still difficult.

  Episode 5 is the best episode of the entire series. I hope the rest of the season can continue this excellence.