Last of us part 2 plot theory

Theory

Guys If you hear me out, I would be very glad. Here is my theory on the last of us 2 plot.

the game opens with you playing as Joel as he recaps the ending of the last game to Tommy, later you meet Ellie and play guitar for her before she heads to sleep, it then flashes forward to 6 years later while Ellie is in bed with DinaYou go through a general routine in Jackson, getting ready, having breakfast with Dina etc, before Jesse dispatches you and Dina on your first patrol mission, you do these for about 5 hours in order to get the player to care about Ellie and Dina’s relationshipafter returning from a patrol Jesse explains Tommy has been kidnapped by bandits and they have to rescue him, Ellie, Dina and Jesse head out together, but Joel stops her before she leaves the house (that’s where his scene from the release date trailer comes from)The 4 get caught in a blizzard and separate, Ellie manages to find Joel’s horse outside a cabin, she heads inside and down to the basement where we see Abby beating Joel with a golf club and Tommy unconscious across from him, Abby caves in Joel’s skull and Ellie’s hearing and sight gets fuzzy while we transition to a flashback from her and Joel’s adventures (these happen many times throughout the game)

Abby and her crew then leave and Jesse and Dinah rescue Ellie and Tommy, while Ellie is unconscious we get our first flashback to Abby’s past, we see her in her room playing with other children and being supervised by a guard when gunshots go off from Joel killing the guards in the other part of the building, (the scene is intentionally reminiscent of a school shooting as you watch the security guard force the children to hide while he stacks chairs against the door) later he leaves and you make your way to the operating room where you find your father deadit transitions back to Abby’s perspective during Joel’s death before once again cutting to a flashback of her first day in Seattle, as she makes her way through the building as her and another member of the group are told to go out on guard duty.

Ellie wakes up after Abby’s level and she immediately runs to Jesse telling him they need to go to war, Jesse explains they can’t do that as they need to protect the people of Jackson despite Ellie’s wishes, then Ellie tells him that she’s going to hunt down all of Abby’s group, when she gets back to her house Tommy comes in and tries to talk her out of getting revenge, Ellie gets angry at Tommy and tries to provoke anger with him and tells him to come with her but he refuses, the next day Ellie takes a horse and leaves with Dina

we spend time with Ellie and Dina travelling to the city before are they are attacked by Seraphites and forced into a tunnel filled with infected, Jesse then comes and rescues Ellie and the two set off to find Dina

other then the patrol missions, the small free roam sections and the tunnel scene the infected barely appear, the main feature is that when you get into a gunfight with an enemy the gunfire will draw them to you and you’ll have to deal with them as well as the enemy

anyway you switch back to Abby after this and her and her partner are trying out some kind of mini carnival he’s created, they shoot arrows at targets and after the two end up having sex, then we go back to Ellie and Jesse where they’ve managed to find a car and a following down Dina, the seraphites are holding her in an abandoned building, where Jesse and Ellie sneak through and rescue Dinah before they can kill her, the three are separated and you play through the scene from the first gameplay trailer where Ellie sneaks through the forest looking for Jesse and Dina, Ellie finds the two and just as they are about to escape the seraphites discover them and begin a shootout, Jesse is shot in the throat during this and bleeds out, Ellie and Dina are forced to leave his body and escape barely with their lives

we once again transition back to Abby as her and her boyfriend are patrolling the two get ambushed by seraphites, her boyfriend escapes while Abby is taken captive by them, this is where Abby’s trailer plays out, after she is cut down from the noose by Lev the screen cuts to black as she swings the hammer at the clicker, we go back to Ellie as she finds herself at a building filled with Abby’s people, her and Dina massacre their way through their before Ellie recognises Abby’s boyfriend and unsuccessfully attempts to interrogate him before he dies

we then go back to Abby as her and Lev scout a nearby hospital for supplies as they need to amputate Yara’s arm, they gather the supplies and kill a few infected, the two pass by Jesse’s body near the road, although Abby doesn’t recognise this signifies to the play that Abby and Ellie are not far away from each other, they unsuccessfully amputate Yara’s arm and end up having to leave her to the infected as Abby and Lev run away

we go back to Ellie again as her and Dina start to argue about the cost of their mission and whether or not this is worth it or what Joel would have wanted, during this scene we get Joel’s first appearance as a projection in Ellie’s mind as he tells her to go home while Dina yells at her, Ellie takes storms off into the woods where she sees survivors of the group gathering wood and heading back to their log cabin, you follow them in a stealth section before kicking down the door and gunning down all of them, the very first trailer for the game then plays with ghost Joel asking if Ellie is sure she can go through with this

Dina arrives at the log cabin and sees the slaughter that Ellie unleashed, she tells Ellie she can’t kill her as well as her child and leaves her. we get another flashback to Ellie and Joel before we show Ellie walking through the city in modern day, Joel tries to convince her to turn back before he starts to say that “she’s always known who those guys were” and saying that “ I only lied to protect you”, Ellie looks at Joel and asks him again to swear that he didn’t lie to her about the Fireflies, he looks at her, ashamed of himself and Ellie storms off in tears knowing the truth now

Ellie finally spots Abby and Lev entering a Theater from far away and begins sprinting into it and then sneaking inside, before she gets inside Dina returns and said she needs to make sure her child has a mother, the two of them make their way through the theatres basement hunting for Abby. we switch control to her as she gets Lev to hide in the Ventilation shaft, we have a stealth section where we choke Dina unconscious and then repeatedly stealth attack Ellie, Abby chokes Ellie and beats her and Dina near death but Lev stops her before she can cut Dina’s throat, she tells Ellie if she ever sees her again she’ll kill her and the two leave Ellie and Dina

Dina is bleeding out on the floor from the battering she took from Abby and could possibly have a miscarriage, Ellie tries to move but is too hurt, we end up having to mash the buttons on our controller while Joel yells at us to get up, we then drag Dina out into the rain as Ellie tries to wake her up but fails, Ellie begins crying fearing that Dina is dead, suddenly a group emerges from the woods with flashlights, the man leading them raises his arms and tells Ellie he means them no harm and that they look like they could use some help, it then cuts to black and we get our final Joel and Ellie flashback where (and while it never gets used gameplay wise) Joel is teaching Ellie how to swim, this scene is by far the saddest in the game and while he’s teaching her Joel accidentally calls her Sarah, months later the pair are back at Jackson and Dina has given birth but Ellie is still not at peace and longs for revenge she puts on Joel’s winter jacket and sets off after Abby, we then cut back to Abby as she and Lev are searching for fireflies in a neighbourhood, Abby begins searching house to house in the neighbourhood for signs of fireflies, as she opens the closet in of the rooms Ellie jumps out and on top of her and begins repeatedly stabbing her in the neck with a knife, control switches to Ellie and the play must mash square to knife Abby in the throat repeatedly, Lev bursts in and threatens to kill Ellie before giving up and asking her to “just go” the game ends with Ellie standing outside the porch covered in blood, soaking in the sun and realising her vengeance didn’t make her happy, only empty