Here’s everything we’re dying to know after The Last of Us episode 7, which is based on Naughty Dog’s 2014 The Last of Us video game DLC titled Left Behind.
The Last of Us episode 7 catches up with Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as she tries to take care of a dangerously injured Joel (Pedro Pascal). When the episode, titled Left Behind, begins, Ellie and Joel have hunkered down in the basement of an abandoned house. Joel isn’t nearly as concerned for himself as he is for Ellie, though. He orders her to leave him behind and travel back to the Wyoming compound his brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), now calls home.
Moments later, Left Behind cuts back to months earlier, when Ellie was still a FEDRA trainee in Boston. The flashback episode then follows Ellie and her best friend, Riley (Storm Reid), as they share an unforgettable night in an abandoned Boston mall. In the episode’s closing moments, viewers witness the infected attack that not only brought Ellie and Riley’s night to a tragic end, but also resulted in Ellie discovering her immunity to The Last of Us’ fictional Cordyceps virus.
The episode, in other words, tells a largely standalone story, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still have some questions about both The Last of Us episode 7 and the remaining two installments of the series’ first season.Does Ellie still have her and Riley’s photographs?
In one of The Last of Us episode 7’s best moments, Ellie and Riley pose for a handful of pictures together in an abandoned mall photo booth. The photos don’t turn out particularly well, but Riley tells Ellie that she can keep them nonetheless. The photos, notably, aren’t referenced again in Left Behind.
Given how protective she is of both her pun books and switchblade, it seems fair to assume that Ellie has likely held onto her and Riley’s photo roll. However, The Last of Us has yet to confirm if that’s the case.
