History Recap / TheLastOfUs2023S1E6Kin

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Joel and Ellie arrive at the Firefly base in Boulder, Colorado and discover that the Fireflies have moved on, probably to Salt Lake City, Utah.

* MundaneLuxury: Ellie is amazed at the quality of food in Jackson after being forced to subside on decades old canned food.

** The university only features a single encounter with the raider gang, and Joel and Ellie immediately ride away after Joel gets stabbed.

Ellie and Joel have been traveling west for three months, and it is now deep winter. The episode opens with them taking a hunter's wife hostage in his cabin and interrogating both of them to learn their exact location when he returns. The hunter warns that if they plan to continue west across the river they will find only death, but Joel is resolute to continue and find Tommy, and they leave without incident. Later on that night, they discuss their dreams and their futures over a campfire.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Maria gives Ellie a menstrual cup and instruction manual. Ellie quips "Gross" when she folds it according to the directions.[[note]](As Episode 3 clearly implied, Ellie is comfortable dealing with her cycle, but it makes sense that a fourteen year old might be a little taken aback by this more involved process.)[[/note]]

** The university only features a single encounter with the cannibal gang, and Joel and Ellie immediately ride away after Joel gets stabbed.

* MortalWoundReveal: A non-lethal version. Joel manages to kill one of the cannibals but is impaled by a broken baseball bat in the process. We first don't see the injury until the camera pans down his body to reveal the broken shaft sticking out of his stomach.

** Joel kills one of the cannibals with a chokehold similar to his stealth kill animation in the game.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Ellie crying over a bleeding-out Joel by the side of an old railroad, his fate uncertain.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: When Joel asks if everyone in Jackson is a communist, Tommy says no. Maria clarifies that because Jackson is literally a commune, they are in fact communists. Tommy, a Texan veteran, has some things to consider.

* AdaptationalExpansion: Maria reveals to Ellie that she once had a son named Kevin, who according to a memorial in her house died just two days after Outbreak Day. In both the game and its sequel, very little information on Maria's life prior to meeting Tommy is provided.

* AdaptationExpansion: Crossing over with EarlyBirdCameo, the show depicts the town of Jackson when Maria brings Ellie and Joel directly there. In the game, only the dam is seen.

* AdaptationalExpansion: Maria reveals to Ellie that she once had a son named Kevin, who according to a memorial in her house died just two days after Outbreak Day. In both the game and its sequel, very little information on Maria's life prior to meeting Tommy is provided.* AdaptationalSympathy: In the game, Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie primarily because of his Firefly connections (although it's still implied to be his fear of watching another child die - something Ellie catches up on, it's an implication that's easy to miss). In the show, Joel is terrified that he is too weak and afraid to keep Ellie safe, citing the ambush in Kansas City as an example of his inability to guard her, and he tearfully pleads with Tommy for this last favor.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Maria reveals to Ellie that she once had a son named Kevin, who according to a memorial in her house died just two days after Outbreak Day. In both the game and its sequel, very little information on Maria's life prior to meeting Tommy is provided.

* AdaptationalSympathy: In the game, Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie primarily because of his Firefly connections (although it's still implied to be his fear of watching another child die - something Ellie catches up on, it's an implication that's easy to miss). In the show, Joel is terrified that he is too weak and afraid to keep Ellie safe, citing the ambush in Kansas City as an example of his inability to guard her, and he tearfully pleads with Tommy for this last favor.

** A young girl who’s strongly implied to be Dina, a major character from the second game, is seen staring at Ellie while she’s eating. Then Ellie yells at her. [[note]]The moment itself is a reference to a side conversation in Part II where Dina mentions how the first time she saw Ellie was her eating all the jerky.[[/note]]

* InternalReveal: Ellie finally finds out about Sarah after finding a memorial dedicated to her and Maria’s son at Tommy and Maria’s. Ellie initially assumed she was also Maria’s child.

** A young girl who’s strongly implied to be Dina is seen staring at Ellie while she’s eating. [[note]]The moment itself is a reference to a side conversation in Part II where Dina mentions how the first time she saw Ellie was her eating all the jerky.[[/note]]

* BatterUp: One of the raiders comes at Joel with a bat, but snaps it at the handle when he swings wide and hits a tree. In the ensuing struggle, however, Joel is stabbed by jagged piece the raider held onto.

* BinocularSHot: A guard at the settlement watches the oncoming group through a binocular.

* EvilDetectingDog: Jackson uses a dog as a low-tech cordyceps detection system, trained to attack if it senses the infection. Fortunately, while Ellie's infection is detectible to blood scanners, the dog doesn't smell it.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Joel manages to kill one of the cannibals but is impaled by a broken baseball bat in the process.

* AdaptationalSympathy: In the game, Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie primarily because of his Firefly connections (although it's still implied to be his fear of watching another child die - something Ellie catches up on, it's an implication that's easy to miss). In the show, Joel is terrified that he is too weak and afraid to keep Ellie safe, citing the ambush in Kansas City as an example of his inability to guard her, and he tearfully pleads with Tommy for this last favor.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Maria gives Ellie a menstrual cup and instruction manual. Ellie quips "Gross" when she folds it according to the directions.[[note]])(As Episode 3 clearly implied, Ellie is comfortable dealing with her cycle, but it makes sense that a fourteen year old might be a little taken aback by this more involved process.)[[/note]]