What Will Happen in Episode 7?
Episode 6 “Kin” ends with Joel and Ellie fleeing the University of Eastern Colorado on horseback. Just as they discover that the Fireflies have left the facility, a group of armed men approach the building. Joel and Ellie try to sneak out, but are attacked by one of the men. Joel kills him, but not before the guy stabs him with the broken end of a baseball bat. Joel makes it onto the horse with Ellie shooting behind them as they flee. With some distance between them and the University, Joel falls off the horse and collapses in the snow.
Even though the trailer doesn’t give us any indication whether or not Joel is still alive, fans of the video games will recognize the storyline that this episode appears to be taking on. Left Behind is a downloadable add-on set after Joel’s injury in The Last of Us Part I. Told from Ellie’s perspective, the gameplay moves between Ellie taking shelter in an abandoned mall while trying to find medicine for Joel and a flashback to before Ellie was bitten as she spends a night with her friend Riley in a different abandoned mall in the Boston QZ.
In the trailer, we see Ellie in FEDRA school before she sneaks off to an abandoned mall with her friend Riley (Storm Reid). Even if you aren’t familiar with the story of the game, Ellie told Tess (Anna Torv) in episode 2 of the series that she was bitten in an abandoned mall, so it shouldn’t be too much of a spoiler to say that this episode will likely show us the events leading up to Ellie’s bite and why she doesn’t like to talk about it much.