After the major cliffhanger at the end of episode 5, The Last Of Us Episode 6 is almost here, and I’m sure many of you are wondering what might happen next. This article is for you if you can’t wait since we’ll be discussing the new characters, hidden messages in the game, and all of our theories about what might happen next. There will be major spoilers in this article as we discuss the backgrounds of Henry and Sam as well as the places and events that occur there.
Kathleen begins the conversation by discussing her group’s overthrow of Fedra. Although Kathleen is a brand-new character in the series, we can piece together what’s going on differently. In the game, all of the moments that we have seen take place in The Last of Us Episode 6 occurred during the Pittsburgh chapter, but we can somewhat use that as a starting point to guess on what is happening in Kansas.
In the game, when you arrived, you discovered that the Fedra had been overthrown by rebels, who did so because Fedra had been starving the public to the point of extreme hunger. I believe that we will see that actually happen in The Last of Us Episode 6, and we could even see a flashback to when Fedra was overthrown.
The Last Of Us Episode 5 Recap
Kathleen says everything is going great because it appears that she has a bunch of people gathered around her and is giving them a story about what happened. However, it appears to be total carnage because of the flames, the fact that people are getting bottles slammed over their heads, and the fact that trucks are sweeping the region in search of Henry and Sam. In the game, bottles are used as both weapons and things to divert the clickers’ attention.
We catch Kathleen asking where Henry is, and this is a similar scene to the one with the doctor in the last entry. She’s clearly out for blood, and my guess is that we’ll learn why she wants to kill him and his brother so much.
In the game, they had a completely different back story, and the pair traveled from Hartford to Pittsburgh once the military abandoned their QZ. Here though, they were in with Kathleen’s crew already and some of the collaborators that f**ked over some of her people.
We see trucks roaming the streets shining flashlights, and this is very reminiscent of the RUN truck from the game that drove by the toy store as you hid in it. In the game, Henry and Sam took Joel and Ellie to their hideout which was located in an office building.
Overlooking a gate to the bridge leaving Pittsburgh, they waited for nightfall to make their move due to the area only operating with a Skeleton crew at that point. We see a lot of stuff set out at night here, so there could be a similar thing going on.
Now a big change from the game is that it looks like Sam is deaf. There was a clip released in the weeks ahead trailer that showed them speaking in sign language, and here it seems to further confirm that theory. Sam wasn’t deaf in the game, so potentially, this is me just grasping at something that isn’t there, and they could be talking in sign language so that they don’t alert the trucks.
Clickers are of course, a big threat in this world, and thus being able to communicate without making noise is pretty important. The subtitles on this bit also look exactly like how they do in the game, which is a nice bit of attention to detail.
Who Are Henry And Sam In The Last Of Us?
Anyway, It is possible that this Henry and Sam stuff is a flashback, as he doesn’t have the orange face paint that we saw him wearing at the end of episode 4. Now it seems to be following the game quite a lot as after breaking out of the city, the characters made their way through some sewers which we learned used to house a colony. As you got to the entrance, you saw that it had been painted to look like a magical castle which is what we see here.
In the game, a character called Ish had washed ashore after spending months at sea trying to escape infected. He made a little home in the sewers, but when he got hungry, he ended up traveling out into the suburbs beside it, where he came across a family of survivors.
Ish started trading things with them, and over time they built a relationship to the point he actually invited them to come to live with him. Slowly a community was built out from there that had a lot of families. And one of the big things about the Last Of Us is that kids were pretty much overlooked, and they were either killed or cast to the side because they just slowed other Adults down. This is one of the main reasons Henry left Hartford, and seeing a location like this is a massive change up from what we typically get.
Now unfortunately infected go in, and thus, the place was overthrown, leading to several people being killed. Ish managed to make it out, but I’m hoping we get an infected scene down here like what we do in the game. Episode 4 had the tease of there being something underground, so they might build on that and then go from there.
Henry Kills Sam
Now we get intercut with these moments that are shots of Joel and a figure walking away. I’m guessing the one behind him is Ellie, and yeah, there are only two people for a reason.
Upon making it to the radio tower, you had to pass through some suburbs, and during this time, the rebels arrived before the infected started to swarm the location. Sam was bit during this, and the next morning, he turned, leading to his brother shooting him. Henry then shoots himself; it looks like this might happen in the episode.
We see Ellie and Sam on a bed passing notes to each other and also watch Joel cocking a gun as he sits up in a room. This has a scope on the end of it so I’m guessing this is the sniper section that happens just as you exit the sewers. You come upon a big street, and then down the end of it, there’s a sniper shooting at you, which you have to get to. The houses in the area are full of rebels, but eventually, you clear the way and kill the sniper.
From this point, you take control of the gun, and then the RUN truck shows up, and you have to then shoot. It looks like something similar is happening here, but instead of raiders, it’s, of course, Kathleen’s forces. Then we see Ellie running at one point and firing backward, and the truck chasing her has a battering ram on the front similar to the Run one.
Now speaking of having to Run, Joel shouts Run, and we watch as infected come out like in the game. They seem to be walking out of a burning house, and it could be the one that we see an explosion at earlier in the teaser.
In the game, when the Run Truck arrived, a raider popped out the top throwing Molotov. When you shot him, he dropped it inside and then crashed, alerting the infected. They could do something similar here with Joel, who shoots the truck and lets them free.
The Last Of Us Episode 6 Release Date & Preview
The Last Of Us Episode 6 will release on 19 February 2023 on HBO. Episode 6 is titled “Endure and Survive”. At the time of writing, 9 The Last of Us episodes are scheduled for this season. This means there will be only three episodes left after this week’s episode.
Now we are finally getting a bloater in the show, which they’ve held off from dropping until now. Originally in Bill’s section, you came across one in the school, but this was changed up to give us the Frank stuff in episode 3.
These are superinfected people that have likely had cordyceps since outbreak day, and over the last twenty years, they’ve changed into giant mushroom men that can rip you apart with their bare hands. They’re one-hit kills and completely brutal, basically tearing you apart once they get their hands on you. It’s a big thing for the show, and it looks like it’s setting up a major action scene in this episode. Judging by the people in one of these scenes, it also looks like Kathleen and her crew are there, so we’re gonna get a big moment between the infected and humans.
The Last Of Us Episode 6 Release Time & Where To Watch
Episode 6 of The Last Of Us will air at 9 pm PT in the US. TLOS episode 6 release timings for the rest of the world are as follows:
- 9:00 pm Pacific Time on Sunday, 19 February 2023
- 11:00 pm Central Time on Sunday, 19 February 2023
- 12:00 am Eastern Time on Monday, 20 February 2023
- 10:30 am Indian Standard Time on Monday, 20 February 2023
- 1:00 am Australian Standard Time on Monday, 20 February 2023
You can watch episode 6 on HBO and can stream it on HBO Max.
