‘The Last of Us’ 1×04 ending explained: Who are the brothers that surprise Joel and Ellie?

— SPOILERS of chapter 1×04 of ‘THE LAST OF US’ —

Episode 4 of ‘The Last of Us’ has introduced us to Melanie Lynskey as Kathleena character who is postulated as a great enemy for Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsay). But he has also left us with a great cliffhanger by introducing into the series Henry and Sam, two young brothers hunted by Kathleen’s group of ‘Hunters’.

After a long truck ride in which Joel and Ellie have continued to hit it off, understand each other and get along better and better, your vehicle is broken into by looters in Kansas City. Joel confronts them, killing two, but is surprised by a third. Ellie comes to his aid shooting the gun he hid at the end of episode 1×03 of ‘The Last of Us’. The looter is mortally wounded, and asks for mercy before Ellie’s disconcerted face, visibly affected.

Joel takes charge of the situation and ends the life of the attacker so that Ellie does not take the blame, but this opens a conversation in which we discover more about the past of both. This isn’t the first time Ellie has killed another human being., although at the moment he does not want to develop the subject further. Trained by Phaedra, it seems that Ellie’s past is not as innocent as one might think. Joel, for his part, admits to being a looter at the beginning of the apocalypsealthough he denies having killed innocents (in a not very convincing way, it must be said).

‘The Last of Us’: Who are Kathleen and the ‘Hunters’?

The trio that has assaulted Joel and Ellie are part of the Hunters, a group of survivors that has taken control of the Kansas City quarantine zone and is led by Kathleen. The next chapter will delve more into his story, but for now what we know is that the community is searching for Henry, a mysterious figure who betrayed them. Upon discovering that an outsider has killed three of his men, all suspicion turns to Henry, who is blamed for the altercation.

The Hunters are a fairly large community and armed to the teeth, so they presume an even greater threat than the clickers themselvesabsent in this episode.

The search for Henry intensifies and Kathleen’s army combs the city door to door. Joel and Ellie sneak into a towering building and settle on the 33rd floor for the night. There, despite Joel’s security measures, they are surprised by a young man and his little brother: Henry and Sam.

Who are Henry and Sam in the video game ‘The Last of Us’?

At last we put a face to Henry (lamar johnson), and it doesn’t look as bad as it was portrayed to us. Henry is a young African-American who remains hidden from the Hunters along with his little brother, Sam (Keivon Woodard), from which we can see some drawings of masked superheroes found by Kathleen and company in their obsessive search.

Henry, who looks quite a bit younger than in the video game, is shown pointing a gun at Ellie, while Sam is shown with a superhero mask painted on his face, scared.

We will have to see how its history develops in the series and what its origin is, but we can take the game as a reference to get an idea. Although we are already seeing that there are multiple differences between the video game and the ‘The Last of Us’ series.

Although, beware, they are coming possible SPOILERS of the video game and, therefore, of the HBO series Max.

In the game Henry and Sam are 12 years apart. Both brothers lived for most of their lives in the Hartford quarantine zone, until the army abandoned the area and supplies ran out. After their parents died, the brothers had to forage for supplies in Pittsburgh and were attacked by the Hunters just a few days before Joel and Ellie’s arrival in town.

Henry and Sam manage to flee and they run into Joel and Ellie, allying with them to… Try to escape? We will see. Let’s leave it here. Although we have warned of spoilers, what can come (if they follow the same story as in the video game) is so shocking that we prefer that you discover it for yourselves.

Perhaps we will find out in the next episode, the 1×05 of ‘The Last of Us’, for which we already have a trailer and which also comes with good news: it will arrive two days before so as not to coincide with the Superbowl.