History Recap / TheLastOfUs2023S1E5EndureAndSurvive

* KickTheSonOfABitch: On paper, Kathleen is a resistance fighter against FEDRA who took up the mantle after her brother was betrayed. She succeeded in turning the city around, until infected came and killed them off. If not for Kathleen's detestable brutality and callousness, it would be a sad story.

* CueCardPause: Ellie pulls this joke on Sam. When he asks her if she isn't afraid, she writes "I'm scared all the time" on the board. Then she add "... of scorpions". Sam is not amused.
* CurbStompCushion: Though the militia are overwhelmed by the stampede of Clickers, they are shown inflicting heavy casualties in the horde, with the last shot of them showing that their numbers were depleted, save for the Bloater.

** Kind of a theme of the episode. Kathleen sacrificed everything to avenge her brother, only to lose her city, her people, and her own life when they're overrun by infected that could have been avoided by prioritizing properly and letting Sam and Henry go. Henry lost Sam to a random bite from an infected after giving up Michael to get medicine and spending weeks on the run, killing himself in despair. All of them lost everything and gained nothing.

** She also blames FEDRA for killing people without a fair trial, only to [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves order the same]] to be done to the collaborators after she is finished with them.

* DrivenToSuicide: Henry shoots himself out of despair after killing an infected Sam.

* HealthcareMotivation: Henry explains to Joel that he ratted out Kathleen's brother to FEDRA in order to get medication for his [[LittlestCancerPatient terminally ill brother]].

Henry proposes that they join together so all four of them could escape Kansas City by way of the maintenance tunnels. Joel is unconvinced of his plan, especially after learning that Henry was a FEDRA informant, but Ellie is fine with it. Ellie befriends Sam, who is deaf and communicates through sign language and a writing board. The new group makes their way to the tunnels. They discover an long-abandoned shelter within the network and decide to rest for a short while. Henry opens up to Joel about his past, teling him that he had sold out the resistance's former leader, Kathleen's brother and a good man. Henry had done so in order to procure the medicine to handle Sam's leukemia. In another part of the city, Perry finds Kathleen, who has holed up in her childhood home. Kathleen talks about her brother and admits that he is much better than she would ever be and would be ashamed of her actions today. Nonetheless, she will not be convinced to stop. Perry acquiesces, telling Kathleen that she had done more for the movement than her brother did and will continue to follow her orders.

Kathleen and her resistance members clear out the crowded roads with a huge truck leading the way. Joel manages to shoot the driver down and it careens off the side and into a house, exploding after its fuel tank ruptures. Kathleen calls out for Henry to reveal himself. Henry does so and tries to negotiate for Ellie and Sam's safety, though Kathleen remains unmoved. She prepares to execute Henry. They are all interrupted as a rumbling spreads from the burning house with the crashed truck. A massive horde of infected begin spilling out and start attacking the resistance members. Ellie tries to find a hiding spot as Joel starts picking off infected with his newly-acquired sniper rifle. A very large infected emerges from the hole and Perry sacrifices himself in order to let Kathleen escape. Ellie rescues Henry and Sam and together they attempt to leave the carnage behind. They are briefly interrupted by Kathleen, still on her plot to avenge her brother. She is killed when a small infected jumps on her. Joel arrives and the four finally escape from the now-doomed Kansas City as an endless number of infected emerge and overrun the survivors.

* AllForNothing:
** Henry became the number one target of a newly revolutionized QZ because he turned Kathleen's brother over to FEDRA in order to get medicine for Sam's leukemia. Both manage to escape execution by Kathleen's forces ''and'' a whole horde of infected, only for Sam to be bitten by one of the latter. When he turns, Henry is forced to shoot him, and he immediately falls into such intense despair that he turns the gun on himself.
** The same applies to the whole Kansas City QZ. After finally overthrowing the fascist FEDRA government, its leader was so obsessed with avenging her brother that she failed to deal with the infected under the city. Consequently, they all emerged from underground as soon as the first opportunity presented itself and, with the greatest armed forces unable to stop them, headed towards the rest of the QZ, presumably dooming all the remaining civilians.

* LifeSavingMisfortune: Joel kills the driver of the bulldozer, who drives into a house. The fuel ignites and causes an explosion, which creates a sinkhole that releases the horde of Infected in the tunnels. Since the alternative is a definite death by angry revolutionaries, it works out for him and Ellie.

* ImmuneToBullets: Perry unloads into the Bloater, but all he succeeds in doing is pissing it off.

* BlatantLies: The Kansas City Resistance promised a fair trial to any FEDRA collaborators who surrendered, announced from the back of a truck dragging the mutilated corpse of a FEDRA officer. Later, Kathleen clarifies to a group of collaborators that she meant that they'd be thrown in prison after a [[KangarooCourt show trial]] instead of being killed outright. Except she doesn't even keep that promise as the moment she leaves their holding cell, she orders Perry to execute them and burn the bodies.

** Henry celebrates the success of his escape plan after the group makes it safely through the tunnels, only for a shot to ring out - a sniper has them pinned down and Joel quickly discovers that Kathleen and her mercenaries are not far behind.

* LesCollaborateurs: After FEDRA has been overthrown in Kansas City, the Resistance around Kathleen starts rounding up and killing those who have collaborated with the system. Even Joel is disgusted when he learns Henry was a rat. However, the show paints the collaborators in a sympathetic light, emphasizing how their decisions were driven by the need to survive.

* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Joel urges the sniper not to try anything stupid but the old man doesn't listen and gets shot before he could turn his rifle on Joel.

** Instead of handling the previous episode's ominous sinkhole, she continues to devote all of the resistance's resources to tracking down Henry and Sam. When that cave-in is revealed to be an army of Infected, the resistance is swiftly and brutally destroyed (though, to their credit, they never would have stood a chance against a horde that size).

* MoodWhiplash: After they made it out of the tunnel, everyone is in a good mood and Ellie cracks a joke about Joel when suddenly a shot rings out and everyone is rushing for cover.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Rather than deal with or run away from whatever was making the floor cave in the previous episode, Kathleen focuses all the resistance's efforts on finding Henry and Sam. That "whatever" is revealed in this episode in all its horror: a ''stampede'' of infected with a BLOATER among their ranks. They make short work of every resistance member that showed up with Kathleen.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Sam reveals to Ellie that he was bitten, she tried to use some of her blood to cure him because of her immunity. It doesn't work, as immunity doesn't really work like that. And even if it did, she'd likely need to donate a lot more than just a drop of blood for it to be effective.

** A subtle example with Kathleen. When she corners Henry, Sam, and Ellie, she tells Henry that he shouldn't have screwed with fate by attempting to save his terminally ill brother. Only a few moments later, the kicker arrives as a horde of Infected pours out from underground, killing Kathleen and her entire resistance- she tempted fate by neglecting to deal with the signs of Infected in order to chase Henry, and she's paying the price.

* ZergRush: Dozens of clickers pour out of the crater the truck makes. Even without a bloater, the militia had no chance. ''Dozens more'' pour out after the resistance loses, and they just keep coming as the horde heads towards the city. It's safe to say Kansas City is done for.