History Recap / TheLastOfUs2023S1E6Kin

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

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Joel manages to kill a raider but is impaled by a baseball bat in the process.

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

** Joel tells Ellie that he'd one day like to have a farm and raise sheep there, which is exactly what Ellie and Dina do in the second game after returning from Seattle.

* ForbiddenZone: The hunter and his wife tell Joel and Ellie that the entire region west of the river is a death trap from which no one returns. Gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when they encounter a patrol on horseback. The area is actually part of the territory of Jackson, and its defenders leave out the bodies of those who tried to infiltrate or invade it as a warning to others.

** A young girl who’s strongly implied to be Dina is seen staring at Ellie while she’s eating.

* DarkReprise: Once again, Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again" plays over the ending of the episode and the credits, although this time it's a more haunting piano rendition of the song.

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

* DarkReprise: A haunting piano cover of Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again" plays over the ending of the episode and the credits.

** Ellie's horse Shimmer briefly appears as a foal. Maria lets her pet Shimmer on its nuzzle.

** Ellie doesn't run away from Jackson to the ranch where she and Joel have their "mighty thin ice" conversation when she hears about Joel's plan to send her off with Tommy. Instead, the conversation happens at their house in town.

* 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 the game, we have very little information on Maria's life prior to meeting Tommy.

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

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

* AdaptationalSympathy: While in the game Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie primarily because of Tommy's Firefly connections, but in the show Joel also feels that his infirmities would prevent him from keeping Ellie safe the rest of the way, citing his getting ambushed by Bryan in Kansas City as an example of what could go wrong, and he tearfully pleads with Tommy for this last favour.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Joel gets impaled by a broken baseball bat

* EarlyBirdCameo
** Ellie's horse Shimmer briefly appears as a foal. Maria lets her pet the horse on its nuzzle.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Joel [[spoiler:gets impaled by a broken baseball bat]]

* AdaptationalSympathy: While in the game Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie primarily because of Tommy's Firefly connections, in the show Joel also feels that his infirmities would prevent him from keeping Ellie safe the rest of the way, citing his getting ambushed by Bryan in Kansas City as an example of what could go wrong.
* EarlyBirdCameo: