What other international elements were there? Neil Druckmann: We wanted to make it very character-driven, so it was focusing on this one scientist, and the dread and the realization when she understands that we’re fucked. We don’t have that, so then the question is, “What does the rest of the world look like?” Initially, we were going to have much more of an international view of things, but I think where we went was to just talk about where it started, and ground people in the science of it as best we could. One of them was “What’s going on in the rest of the world?” One of the things that Neil always talks about is how in the game your perspective is really connected completely to either Joel or Ellie, depending on who you’re moving with your controller. How did you decide to open with this flashback to Jakarta?Ĭraig Mazin: It started with a conversation that Neil and I were having early on, where I would ask him some of my patented, annoying questions. With Variety, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann talked through the flashback sequence, that grotesque clicker kiss, replacing the cordyceps spores with fungus tendrils and more from Episode 2. It’s the first time “The Last of Us” has peeled back a bit of the mystery behind the fungus’ origins, while providing a new, if brief, perspective on how the rest of the world was affected by the outbreak. In another surprising expansion from the “Last of Us” game, the episode starts with a flashback to Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2003, where a mycologist discovers one of the first people to die from cordyceps. In a shocking departure from the video game, an infected male walks up to Tess, with spindly, fungal tendrils reaching from his mouth, and plants a disgusting kiss on her, just as the lighter sparks and causes a fiery explosion. In one final act of heroism, Tess urges Joel to take Ellie onward to find a cordyceps cure using Ellie’s immunity.Īs infected humans surge toward Tess, she stands perfectly still and attempts to ignite a cache of gasoline with a lighter. But instead of finding Firefly soldiers, all that’s waiting for the trio are infected corpses.

After Tess is bitten by a clicker, she hides her fatal injury until they reach the Capitol building rendezvous point. “Infected” adapts several early levels from the game, in which Joel, Ellie and Tess must sneak through bomb-shelled streets, a flooded hotel and an abandoned museum to drop off Ellie with Firefly rebels.

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