The Last of Us (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Endure and Survive - full transcript

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

Fuck you,
FEDRA! Fuck you, FEDRA!

Aaah!

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...



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

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?

You're informers...

inform.

Where is Henry?

I guess they don't know.

- Kill them.
- He's with Edelstein.

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.

- 'Kay.
- He had a place to hole up in the open city

in case things went bad.

But things have gone
great, h-haven't you heard?

Kansas City is free.

Hole up where?

He-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. Let's
give him a month.

I'm not sayin' we do nothin'.

We already got a
perimeter around the city.

We can wait him out.
Door-to-door would take a lotta 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
puttin' 'em on trial?

No... We are not really
putting them on trial.

When you're done, burn
the bodies. It's faster.

You sure they don't
know about this?

I got it from a...
a FEDRA officer.

Patient.

Owed me a favor.

He said he found it himself,

never told anyone about it.

- And what if they get to him?
- They already did.

- He won't be talking.
- Fuck.

Okay. Water? Toilets?

Uh, 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.

Yeah, so is mine.

We weren't shooting
our way outta this anyway.

No... so we'll
sneak our way out.

How?

- Tunnels.
- Tunnels?

Why go to the trouble?

You can kill
yourself right here.

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.

Is he scared?

Yeah... Well, he saw a lot.

Nothin' I can do about that now.

He's scared because
you're scared.

What?

Yeah... yeah.

Joel.

Joel!

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.

Okay, um...

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
fuckin' tone, man.

That's just the way he sounds.

He has an asshole voice.

Joel, tell him he's okay.

- Everything is great.
- Dude.

Fuck!

Okay... listen...

I'm gonna trust you.

Yes.

But if either of you
guys try anything...

yeah?

Yeah?

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?
- 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.

No FEDRA.

Not as of 10 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.

Haven't heard
that in a long time.

So how are we gettin' out?

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. It's a great plan.

So what do you need me for?

You noticed 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
goin' 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... you
ran into a Clicker?

- Two of 'em.
- 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.
- Oh, 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 outta sight.

Uh... I, I-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.
- Shh.

"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.

Just point your light forward...

and be ready to run.

Whoa.

No.

I heard about places like this.

People went underground after
Outbreak Day. Built settlements.

What happened to them?

Maybe they didn't
follow the rules

- and they all got infected.
- Mm.

No way! I love these.

I have issues...

four, five, six, 11.

Ah. So cool.

"To the edge of the universe...

"and back.

Endure and survive."

Endure.

Survive.

Endure. Survive.

Fuck yeah, man!

- Hey, keep it down. We're not out yet.
- Ah, c'mon.

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.

Yes! Come on! Yeah!

Come on. Pass it back.

Yeah!

Okay.

If you were

collaboratin' to
take care of him, I...

I shouldn't have
said what I said.

I don't know your situation.

And I'm not sayin' they
should let it go but...

Ah, that was awesome!

All things considered,
seems kinda cruel...

Yeah.

To send a whole
army after you for that.

Yeah.

- Yeah!
- You know, I wasn't, uh...

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?

Kinda man you'd follow anywhere.

I mean, I wanted to.

Well... I would've.

Yeah, but, uh,

Sam, he, uh...

he got sick.

Leukemia.

Yeah, anyway, um...

there was one drug that worked,

and, whoa... big shock...

there wasn't much left of it

and it belonged to FEDRA.

And 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, am I the bad guy?

I don't know what
you're waitin' 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.

Yeah, where'd he go?

We've waited long enough.

- And?
- We haven't found 'em yet.

What about the man
who killed Bryan?

Well...

we're not doin' so good.

Who told you I was here?

Your mom.

Why are you talking to my mom?

We didn't know where you were.

Oh.

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,
if there was lightning

or tornadoes or gunfire.

He said 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.

Good.

- Do you know where we are?
- Yep.

The other side.

No. No one is here.

No one's gonna be here
because... my plan worked.

So much goddamn talkin'.

I'm just saying... I delivered.

Make this right,
go down the street,

embankment behind
the last house...

and we're out.

So we cross the
river and then what?

- Where ya gonna go?
- Don't know yet.

Well, we're goin' 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, "No, Ellie.

Never, ever, ever happening."

And then
I'm like, "I'm gonna ask you

a million more times."

And he's like...

Move, move!

Go!

- The fuck is that comin' from?
- Shut up.

- - Fuck.
- Let's move. Let's go.

- What are you doin'?!
- Gettin' the fuck outta here!

Oh shit, oh shit!

What do we do?

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?

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.

Anthony? Anthony?

Anthony, hold
them where they are.

- We're almost there.
- Fuck.

Run!

Run!

Run!

There's cars everywhere.

Why do you think you're
in front? Clear them.

Go! Go, go, go, go!

- You okay?
- Yeah.

- He's up there.
- Fuck.

Two and two! Around
the back, take him out!

Dead end, Henry.

Gonna step on out?
Save us some time?

No?

That's all right.
Doesn't matter.

I'll come out!

Just let the kids go!

No.

Sorry.

The girl is with the
man who killed Bryan.

And Sam...

- well, Sam's with you.
- You don't understand!

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.

It's time, Henry.

Enough!

Okay.

It ends the way it ends.

No!

Run 'em
down! Run 'em down!

Run. Find cover.
Don't look back.

Run!

Help! Get the fuck away!

Get the fuck off me!

Sam!

Come on, come on!

Go, go!

Stop!

This way now! Move!

"Pew.

"Pew.

"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-it's not great.

No.

Look, I don't know exactly
how I'm gettin' to Wyoming.

I'm probably walkin'.

But...

- you know, if you want to.
- Yeah.

Yeah.

Um...

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?"

Hey.

"I don't see any
weird movements.

"Stiff? Negative.

"Damage here 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!

Monster is it still you inside?

Ah, fuck.

My blood...

is medicine.

Mm-mm-mm-mm.

I promise.

Promise... Promise.

Hey.

- Nope, nope, nope.
- Joel!

Joel!

Ellie.

Are you okay?

Easy, easy, easy.

Henry, gimme the gun.

- What did I do?
- Shh.

What did I do?

What-what-what did I do?

- Sam?
- Henry, gimme the gun.

Gimme the gun.

Gimme the gun, Henry.

Gimme the gun. Shh.

Henry, no!

Oh God.

Which way's west?

Let's go.