When Ellie finally returns home, she finds that Dina and JJ are gone. Eventually, Ellie gets the upperhand on Abby and begins to drown her, before a flashback of Joel sees her letting go - of both Abby and the revenge mission that has cost her everything.Īs Ellie breaks down in tears on the beach, Abby sails off with Lev. It's an uncomfortable and violent affair, both Abby and Ellie are broken by their desire for revenge - their vendettas have taken over their lives and and cost them those that they love. But, as Abby and Lev are about to make their escape, Ellie decides she's not going to let her closure go that easily and forces Abby into a final fight. She's almost unrecognisable from the warrior we once knew.įeeling empathy for her nemesis, and perhaps wanting to be the one who is responsible for Abby's death, Ellie frees Lev and Abby, escorting them to some nearby boats. Gone is Abby's long plait and muscley figure, and instead we see a thinner woman with all her hair cut off. Despite being badly wounded, she breaks into the Rattlers compound, picking them off one-by-one, in search of Abby only to discover that, following an escape attempt, the pair have been strung up on some pillars on the beach - left to die.Įllie makes her way to the beach and finds a much weaker Abby than she previously encountered. Hot on the heels of Abby and Lev, Ellie is soon caught in a Rattler trap, before breaking free and forcing her captors to tell her where Abby is. We then cut back to Ellie, who has arrived in sun-kissed Santa Barbara several months later. However, while it seems that Fireflies have been residing in the house that Abby's tip has led them to, they're long gone, and the pair are captured by a group called the Rattlers and taken hostage. While Ellie seems haunted by what happened years before, Abby and Lev have let go, in search of a better future. The pair have now developed a relationship akin to that of Ellie and Joel's: the grizzled adult and the smart-mouthed teen. Meanwhile Abby and Lev who, following the lead given to them by Owen before his death, are in search of the Fireflies in a suburb in Santa Barbara. Despite Dina telling her that she won't put herself or JJ through this ordeal again, Ellie sets off for Santa Barbara, where Abby is apparently living on an abandoned ship on the shore. But Ellie hasn't moved on and she later decides to follow the lead, in a final attempt to avenge Joel's death. Things come to a head when Joel's brother Tommy shows up at the house, telling Ellie and Dina that he has located Abby, and berating Ellie when the couple tell him that they've moved on. After all, she never truly got her revenge. Despite appearing to have moved on, Ellie can't sleep and suffers flashbacks to her ordeal. However, it becomes evident that Ellie is suffering from PTSD in the aftermath of Joel's death.
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