[theme music playing]
[people cheering, chanting]
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
[all in unison] Fuck you, FEDRA!
Come on!
[man grunts]
- [man 2 laughs] - [man 3 grunts]
[gunshot]
[all cheering]
Higher!
[man on PA] Kansas City belongs to the people.
Collaborators, surrender now, and you will receive a fair trial.
We have control of the QZ and the open city.
Anyone caught hiding will face charges of counter-revolutionary activities.
Kansas City belongs to the people.
Collaborators, surrender now.
- [men clamoring] - [rifles firing]
[rifle firing]
[woman whimpering]
[door opens]
[Kathleen] You know, Perry, I used to be so scared of these people.
Now look at them.
Did it feel good
betraying your neighbors to FEDRA?
Watching us get thrown in prison,
watching us hang,
so that you could get medicine,
alcohol, fucking apples?
Did it make you feel better?
Did it make you feel safe?
How does it make you feel now?
Well, I'm not FEDRA.
Lucky for you. [chuckles softly]
No one here has to die.
Yeah. We could put you on trial.
You're all guilty, so that's how that'll go.
And you'll do some time. Easy.
But first, you have to do something for me.
Where is Henry?
[slams both palms] You're informers.
Inform.
Where is Henry?
[sighing] I guess they don't know.
- Kill them. - [people gasp]
[man] He's with Edelstein.
- [indistinct murmurs] - [woman sobs]
Edelstein was a collaborator?
Well, he was a lot more discreet than you fucking idiots.
Where are they?
He said he was meeting up with Henry and Sam.
Okay.
[man] He had a place to hole up in the open city
in case things went bad.
But things have gone great, haven't you heard?
Kansas City is free.
Hole up where?
[stutters] He didn't say.
I swear, I've told you everything I know.
Of course you have.
You're a rat.
He's still in the city. Okay?
I want our people going door-to-door until we find him.
- Now? - Oh, I'm sorry.
How long do you think we should wait?
Should we wait a day or two? Should we wait a week?
Oh, fuck it. [scoffs] Let's give him a month.
I'm not saying we do nothing.
We already got a perimeter around the city. We can wait him out.
Door-to-door will take a lot of men, and there are other things
- that probably need... - He's not my seventh priority, Perry.
Is that what he is to you?
No.
Are we really putting them on trial?
No, we are not really putting them on trial.
When you're done, burn the bodies.
It's faster.
[people wailing]
[woman screaming]
[distant gunshot]
[gasps, sighing]
[Henry] You sure they don't know about this?
I got it from a FEDRA officer.
Patient.
Owed me a favor.
He said he found it himself, never told anyone about it.
- What if they get to him? - They already did.
- He won't be talking. - Fuck.
Okay. Water? Toilets?
The apartments below are tied into the QZ main.
We can use those, but we have to be fast and careful.
- Food? - Whatever you brought.
I barely made it out as is.
So we're fucked on food?
- Ammunition? - Empty.
[Henry] Yeah, so is mine.
We weren't shooting our way out of this anyway.
[Henry] No. So we'll sneak our way out.
How?
- Tunnels. - [Edelstein] Tunnels?
Why go to the trouble?
You can kill yourself right here.
[Henry] Twenty cans, and six pounds of jerky for the three of us.
If we stick to the minimum,
I think we can make it 11 days?
So that's how long we have to figure it out.
[Edelstein] Is he scared?
Yeah. Well, he saw a lot.
Nothing I can do about that now.
He's scared because you're scared.
[banging]
What?
Yeah, yeah.
[theme music playing]
- [car screeching] - [gunshots]
[car crashes]
[gunshots]
[men speaking indistinctly]
[gunshots]
[gunshot]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[glass clatters]
[Ellie] Joel.
Joel!
[breath trembling]
Eyes on me. Eyes on me.
You don't have to worry about what to say.
We don't wanna hurt you.
We wanna help you.
Okay.
I don't know what the next step is with something like this,
but if I lower my gun, we didn't hurt you,
so you don't hurt us, right?
That's right.
That's a weird fucking tone, man.
That's just the way he sounds. He has an asshole voice.
Joel, tell him he's okay.
- Everything is great. - Dude.
[Henry] Fuck!
Okay. Listen.
I'm gonna trust you.
Yes.
But if either of you guys try anything,
yeah?
Yeah?
[Ellie] Yeah.
Can I sit up?
Yeah.
Slow.
Get up slow.
Who are you?
My name's Henry.
That's my brother, Sam.
I'm the most wanted man in Kansas City.
Although right now,
my guess is you're running a close second.
- Where'd you get these? - [Ellie] From Bill.
He's dead.
He says thank you.
I'm guessing you don't have much, so this means a lot.
How old is he?
- He's eight. - Cool.
I'm Ellie.
I'm Joel. Look, you ate, we didn't kill each other.
Let's call this a win-win and move on.
Well, I'm betting that y'all came up here
to get a view of the city and plan a way out.
And when the sun's up,
I'll show you one.
Welcome to Killa City.
[Joel] No FEDRA.
[Henry] Not as of ten days ago, no.
We always heard KC FEDRA was...
Monsters. Savages.
Yeah, you heard right.
Raped and tortured and murdered people for 20 years.
And you know what happens when you do that to people?
The moment they get a chance, they do it right back to you.
But you're not FEDRA.
No. Worse.
I'm a collaborator.
I don't work with rats.
Yeah, you fucking do.
Today you do.
'Cause I live here and you don't.
That's how I followed you here.
I know this city, and that's how I'm gonna help you get out.
Why help us?
I saw what you did.
The way you killed those men.
Now, I know where to go,
but I don't know how to make it through alive.
Not if it's just me and Sam.
You seem capable enough. You're armed.
You're wrong, and wrong.
Never killed anyone.
And pointing an unloaded gun at you
was the closest I've ever come to being violent.
So that's the deal.
I show the way,
you clear the way.
- [Ellie chuckling] - [Sam giggling]
[both chuckle]
Haven't heard that in a long time.
So how are we getting out?
[Henry] Highways. Downtown.
Us.
This whole area belongs to Kathleen.
- She's in charge? - Leader of the resistance.
You can see the way we're bounded by highways.
They got people posted all around the inside perimeter.
If we get close, we get caught.
No question.
So how do we get across?
- Boom. - Kansas City has a subway?
No, but they do have maintenance tunnels.
There's a bunch of buildings all put up by the same developers,
and they share these tunnels, including a bank building here.
So we enter the tunnels here,
travel underground, and pop up here.
Westside North. Residential.
There's an embankment on the other side of the houses.
We head down, pedestrian bridge over the river,
free as a bird.
You're right.
That's a great plan. So what do you need me for?
You notice anything strange about this city?
I mean, other than the strange shit you've already seen?
No Infected?
Oh, there's Infected. Just not on the surface.
FEDRA drove them underground 15 years ago
and never let them come back up.
It's the only good thing those fascist motherfuckers ever did.
So you want us going into a tunnel?
Everyone thinks that it's full of Infected.
Including Kathleen, which means
that we're not gonna be running into any of her people.
But you see, what I know is...
it's empty.
You've been down there?
No. But the FEDRA guy that I worked with
told me that it's clean, completely clean.
- They cleared it out. All of it. - When?
Like three years ago.
Okay, maybe there's one or two, but you handle it.
What if there's more?
Or one of those blind ones that sees like a bat?
Wait, you ran into a Clicker?
- Two of them. - And you're still alive.
You see?
You're the right people.
If it gets bad down there, we turn around
and run right back out the same way we came.
That's your great plan?
No, that's my dicey-as-fuck plan.
But as far as I can tell,
it's our only shot.
They're saying they're going to help us escape.
Right?
We need to get out of sight.
- [Joel panting] - Uh, I think it's this way.
This should be it.
You ready?
Get your gun out.
You see? It's empty.
The plan is good.
[Joel shushing] "The plan is good"?
We've been down here two seconds. We don't know anything.
Your dad's kind of a pessimist.
- He's not my dad. - I'm not her dad.
[Joel] Just point your light forward
and be ready to run.
[eerie underground sound]
[Ellie] Whoa.
No.
[Joel] I heard about places like this.
People went underground after Outbreak Day.
- Built settlements. - [Ellie] What happened to them?
Maybe they didn't follow the rules and they all got infected.
No way! I love these!
[Ellie] I have issues
4, 5, 6, 11.
[mouthing]
[exclaims softly] So cool.
"To the edge of the universe
and back,
endure and survive."
Endure,
survive.
Endure, survive.
Fuck yeah, man! [giggling]
[Joel] Keep it down. We're not out yet.
[Ellie] Oh, come on. Can we just rest here for a while?
There's, like, actually shit to do here.
Wouldn't be so bad to wait the light out a bit.
Safer in shadows when we pop back out on the other side.
[Ellie] Yes! Come on! Yeah!
Come on, pass it back.
[Ellie] Yeah!
Okay.
If you were collaborating to take care of him,
I shouldn't have said what I said.
I don't know your situation.
And I'm not saying they should let it go, but...
all things considered, seems kinda cruel
to send a whole army after you for that.
You know, I wasn't
exactly telling you the truth before.
About me not killing someone.
There was a man, a great man.
You know, he was never afraid,
never selfish,
and he was always forgiving.
Have you ever met someone like that?
Kind of man you'd follow anywhere.
I mean, I wanted to.
I would've...
Yeah, but...
Sam, he...
He got sick.
Leukemia.
Yeah. Anyway,
there was one drug that worked,
and, whoa,
big shock,
there wasn't much left of it.
And it belonged to FEDRA.
If I wanted some,
it was gonna take something big.
So I gave them something big.
That one great man.
The leader of the resistance movement in Kansas City.
And Kathleen's brother.
Yeah. So, you still think they should take it easy on me?
Or am I the bad guy?
I don't know what you're waiting on, man.
The answer's easy.
I am the bad guy because I did a bad-guy thing.
But you get it, though.
You might not be her father,
but you were someone's.
See, I could tell.
- [Ellie roars] - [Sam giggles]
[Ellie] Yeah! Where'd he go?
We've waited long enough.
[men shouting indistinctly]
[knock on door]
- And? - We haven't found him yet.
What about the man who killed Bryan?
Well...
we're not doing so good.
Who told you I was here?
[Perry] Your mom.
Why were you talking to my mom?
We didn't know where you were.
Have you been back to the room you grew up in?
No. Fuck no.
It's a couple hundred miles away. It's not exactly worth it.
Right.
When Michael and I were little,
this room seemed so big.
I was really scared of thunder.
So when there was a storm,
Michael told me that this wasn't a room at all.
That this was actually
just a big wooden box.
A big wooden box that nothing could get inside of.
And it didn't matter if there was lightning or tornadoes or gunfire.
He said [voice breaking] as long as we were together
in our perfect box,
we would be safe.
He did that for me.
And he did stuff like that all the time.
He was so beautiful.
I'm not.
I never was.
He would be horrified by the things I've done.
And if you've come to tell me
that Michael wouldn't want me to hurt Henry,
that he would want me to forgive,
I know that too.
He told me.
The last time I saw him alive
in jail,
he told me to forgive.
And what did he get for that?
Where is the justice in that?
What is the point of that?
Your brother was a great man. We all loved him.
But he didn't change anything.
You did.
We're with you.
[sighs softly] Good.
[door opens]
- [Joel] You know where we are? - [Henry] Yeah.
The other side.
No one is here.
And no one's gonna be here because my plan worked.
So much goddamn talking.
[Henry laughs] I'm just saying, I delivered.
Make this right,
go down the street, embankment behind the last house,
and we're out.
[Ellie] So we cross the river and then what? Where are you gonna go?
Don't know yet.
Well, we're going to Wyoming.
What? It's a huge state, it can fit two more people.
Yeah.
Maybe we just call this one a success and say our fond farewells.
No, he'll change his mind. Trust me. This is how it goes.
He's like, [in a deep voice] "No, Ellie. Never, ever, ever happening."
And then I'm like, "I'm gonna ask you a million more times," and he's like...
- [gunshot] - Fuck!
Move! Move! Go!
[gunshot]
- The fuck is that coming from? - Shut up.
- [gunshot] - Shit. All right.
Fuck, let's move. Let's go.
- What are you doing? - Getting the fuck out of here.
- [gunshot] - Oh, shit! Oh, shit.
What do we do?
[gunshot]
All right.
- Stay here. - What?
If you don't move, he's not gonna hit you.
I'm gonna go around,
try to get in the house through the back,
and then I'll take him out.
But if you go out there, he's gonna kill you.
It's dark and he has shit aim.
- Nobody's gonna kill me. - Then he's gonna kill us.
Do you trust me?
[gunshot]
- [gunshot] - [glass shattering]
[gunshot]
[gun loading]
Put the gun down. Slide it over to me.
And then stay up here for another hour.
That's all you have to do.
Please don't do it.
Please.
[gunshot]
[bullet clinking]
[radio chatter]
[Kathleen] Anthony?
Anthony?
Anthony, hold them where they are. We're almost there.
Fuck.
[Joel] Run!
Run!
[Percy] There's cars everywhere.
Why do you think you're in front? Clear them.
[siren blaring]
Go, go, go, go!
[tires screech]
- [gun fires] - [crashing]
[Ellie panting]
[vehicle roaring]
[indistinct loud chatter]
[explosion]
- [Henry] You okay? - Yeah.
- [soldier] He's up there. - Fuck.
[soldier] Two and two. Around the back, take him out.
[gun loading]
[Kathleen] Dead end, Henry.
You wanna step on out, save us some time?
No?
That's all right. Doesn't matter.
I'll come out.
Just let the kids go.
[Kathleen] No.
Sorry.
The girl is with the man who killed Bryan, and Sam...
Well, Sam's with you.
- You don't understand! - [Kathleen] But I do.
I know why you did what you did.
But did you ever stop to think that maybe he was supposed to die?
He's just a fucking kid.
Well, kids die, Henry.
They die all the time.
You think the whole world revolves around him?
That he's worth...
everything?
Well, this is what happens when you fuck with fate.
Get ready to take him and run. Yes.
Do it.
[Kathleen] It's time, Henry.
Enough.
[breathing heavily]
It ends the way it ends.
[truck creaks, rumbles]
[shrieking noises]
[screeching shrieks]
[shrieking stops]
[clamoring, shrieking]
[rifles firing]
[indistinct shouting]
- [gunshot] - [person grunts]
[Henry] Run!
- [gunshot] - [people screaming]
- [gunshot] - [woman screams]
Run 'em down! Run 'em down!
[woman whimpering, yelling]
- [people clamoring] - [radio chatter]
[gunshot]
[man groans]
[monster growls]
[sputtering, growling]
[hissing groan]
[grunts]
[growling]
[groaning]
Run. Find cover.
- Don't look back. Run! - [monster groans]
- [groaning continues] - [Perry grunts]
[croaking]
[gunshot]
- [shrieking] - [whimpering]
[man] Help!
[Henry] Get the fuck away!
Get the fuck off me!
[gunshot]
[Henry] Get the fuck off me!
No! No!
[screeching]
[Henry] Sam!
[gunshot]
[Ellie] Come on! Come on!
Go, go!
[Kathleen] Stop!
[Kathleen yells]
[Kathleen screams]
This way now! Move!
[all screaming indistinctly]
"As the Raven 01 approaches the red planet."
You think they'll be okay?
Yeah, I think.
It's easier when you're a kid anyway.
You don't have anybody else relying on you.
That's the hard part.
Well...
I guess we're doing a good job then.
What's that comic book say?
- "Endure and survive"? - "Endure and survive."
That shit's redundant.
- Yeah, it's not great. - No.
Look, I don't know exactly how I'm getting to Wyoming.
I'm probably walking.
But...
- You know, if you want to... - Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it'd be nice for Sam to have a friend.
I'll tell him in the morning.
New day, new start.
"Bingo!
Should we knock?"
"I don't see any weird movements. Stiff?
Negative.
That means you're in Sector 153. Stella, can you hear me?
I read you." Okay, from here.
Do I not look scared?
"Never."
I'm scared all the time.
Of scorpions!
[Ellie] Oh, fuck.
My blood is medicine.
- [stutters] - Mm.
I promise.
Promise.
[mouthing] Promise.
Hey.
[hisses, shrieks]
- [Ellie screams] - [Sam growls]
- Nope, nope, nope. - [Ellie screams] Joel!
- [Ellie yells] Joel! - No!
[Sam screeches]
[Ellie] Joel!
- [screeching stops] - [Ellie panting]
[breathing heavily]
Ellie.
Are you okay?
Easy, easy, easy.
- [gasping for air] - Henry, give me the gun.
Henry, give me the gun.
What did I do?
[stuttering] What did I do?
- Sam? [voice breaking] - [Joel] Henry, give me the gun.
Give me the gun.
Give me the gun, Henry.
Give me the gun.
- [Joel] Henry, no! - [gunshot]
- [Ellie yelps] - [body thuds]
[Joel] Oh, God.
Which way's west?
[Ellie] Let's go.
["Fuel to Fire" by Agnes Obel playing]
Do you want me on your mind
Or do you want me to go on
I might be yours as sure as I can say
Be gone be faraway
Like fuel to fire
Sing quietly along