
Tess then reveals that she was bitten during an earlier fight with infected Clickers on the way there, and begs Joel to finish what they started and get Ellie to the Fireflies. Joel, Tess, and Ellie make it to the meeting point only to find that the Fireflies became infected and killed each other. The young girl, Ellie, is immune to the Cordyceps infection and Marlene hopes to get her to a doctor who is working on a cure. After another smuggler screws them and the Fireflies (an anti-FEDRA militant group) over by trying to sell them both the same broken battery, Joel and Tess are hired by the Fireflies’ leader Marlene to smuggle a young girl outside the city and get her to the other Fireflies that are heading west.

After not hearing from Tommy in weeks, Joel is worried about him. Joel is trying to find a truck and a battery that will get him and Tess to his brother in Wyoming. There, he works as a smuggler with his partner Tess. Twenty years later, Joel is now living in the Boston Quarantine Zone, which is run by FEDRA, the military regime that has risen from the remains of the US government. They try to escape the city with Joel’s brother Tommy, but Sarah is killed by a soldier patrolling the city’s border, despite neither of them being infected. Joel Miller is living in Austin, Texas with his daughter Sarah when the outbreak hits. In 2003, the world was changed forever by the Cordyceps Brain Infection, a mutated parasitic fungus that turns its host into a zombie-like creature whose only goal is to spread the infection further.

In the UK, The Last Of Us episode 9 will air at 2 am on Monday, March 13 on Sky Atlantic and NOW, with a 9 pm repeat that same night.
