TLOU: S2 E3 - The Path
The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 3: Welcome to Seattle... and to Hell
Ellie saying goodbye to Joel…
The dust hasn’t even settled over Joel’s grave, and already The Last of Us Season 2 is yanking us down an even darker, bloodier rabbit hole. After gutting our collective hearts last week, Episode 3 — titled "The Path" — slaps us awake and drags us into the nightmare we've been pretending wasn’t coming.
There’s no more kid-in-the-post-apocalypse Ellie anymore. There’s only vengeance now—and she’s wearing it like a second skin.
Tommy’s One Man Wake…
Ellie’s mourning doesn’t come with a scream or a tearful breakdown. It’s quieter. Meaner. It feels like sitting in a silent room, staring at a loaded weapon, knowing exactly what you’re going to do with it. Every breath she takes now is fueled by rage she can barely contain. Joel’s death didn’t just hurt her. It forged her into something new.
And with nothing left to lose, she and Dina head to Seattle to find the people responsible.
Our first Seraphite…
At first glance, Seattle looks almost... serene. Overgrown parks, misty streets, ruined skyscrapers draped in ivy—it’s like the apocalypse’s idea of a resort town. You could almost believe it’s a place to heal.
Almost.
The Last of Us laughs in your face for even thinking that. Because under all that peaceful decay is a city choking on violence. WLF patrols are everywhere. Seraphite cultists are carving messages into walls (and people). And the infected? Let’s just say they've been working out since Season 1.
Seattle doesn’t offer peace. It offers a death march.
Ellie getting the info she needs…
And right at the center of it is Ellie, stepping onto "The Path"—not sprinting toward revenge, but slowly, inevitably becoming it. She’s not hacking her way through like a wild animal. She’s stalking. Calculating. Making choices that peel another layer of humanity off her soul every time.
By the end of this episode, you realize: Ellie isn’t just fighting monsters anymore.
She’s becoming one.
And Dina? Poor Dina is watching it happen, desperately clinging to the idea that there's still something left to save. (Spoiler alert: There probably isn’t.)
In "The Path", we don’t just say goodbye to Joel. We say goodbye to Ellie—the Ellie who dreamed about comic books and space shuttles. That Ellie was buried next to Joel, whether she knows it yet or not.
Ellie and Dina making plans…
Now all that’s left is the ghost in her place.
Welcome to The Last of Us. Hope you brought your apocalypse bingo card because things are about to get even worse. And I, for one, cannot wait.
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