THE LAST OF US Episode 2 Trailer Breakdown | Theories, Characters And Game Easter Eggs

Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I’m your host Paul and this video we’re breaking down the brand new Last Of Us Trailer released at the end of Episode 1. This gives us a lot of insight at what’s coming in Episode 2 and the weeks ahead and throughout this video we’re gonna be talking about the characters, easter eggs and what we think will happen due to what happens in the game.

Because of this there will probably be some spoilers here so if you don’t want to know anything then I highly suggest that you turn off now. If you enjoy the video then pleas smash the thumbs up button and don’t forget to subscribe for breakdowns on the show every week. With that out the way, thanks for clicking this, now let’s get into The Last Of Us trailer.

How did The Last of Us Episode 1 end?

Now episode 1 ended with the group heading out into Boston and we got the shot of the iconic twin skyscrapers from the game. This is probably the next stop and I imagine that episode 2 will centre around them heading out into the city like what they do in the game. Their first stop was these skyscrapers which we see later on except this time its in daylight. In the game you found that the road to the state building had been destroyed and thus had to climb up the left one of these before ascending into the right. Here you ran into clickers for the first time after discovering one attached to the wall and you made your way into the basement before popping up on the other side.

Huge shoutouts to everyone on our last video for pointing out that there was actually a glimpse at one on the rooftop in the storm which I missed so call the video everything I missed and hit the thumbs down if you don’t mind.

Anyway they did some really cool things with the physics in the skyscrapers, especially the one at an angle and I can’t wait to see this brought into the show. The skyscrapers look so good in the trailer and they’re one of the most iconic landmarks in the game.

Now the fact they’re travelling on this journey is cemented by the Civil War museum that opens up the new look. In the game after you made it through the skyscrapers you passed into this and it was full of infected. They’ve really managed to recapture the look of it with the antique muskets and weapons being in display cases that we see the group hiding behind.

The clickers sound absolutely terrifying and in case you don’t know these are infected people who’ve had cordyceps so long that it’s actually grown out of their eyes making them blind. When you’re first hit by them they attach to your brain and this is so that they can control your behaviour.

From here they start to sprout out through the body and eventually they eat their way out of the front of your face. This is why they’re referred to as clickers because they see using echo location. With highly tuned hearing you have to be more silent than a fart in a lift and this is why we see Joel and co standing behind the display. Echo location works by them hearing sound bouncing back off something and thus if they were out in the open they’d instantly pick up on them. Now because they’re blind they aren’t alerted to flashlights which is why Joel can stand there shining it.

Over the top of this we hear Ellie asking if Joels ever killed one before and mirroring this we see her approaching one under rubble with her knife drawn. This is at the stalker stage in which they’ve been infected for a while and the fungus is transforming them

Now this kinda sums up the infected and what the creative team were really going for when they started to design them. They’re very much supposed to be sympathetic villains and when you’d come across them in the game you’d often find them weeping in a corner.

Clickers in The Last of Us

I can imagine having a parasite attach itself to your brain and slowly send you mental isn’t a very pleasant experience. It’s also eating away at your tissue as well so it’s probably more painful that a Heavy Spoilers pun when you’ve got a headache.

That’s very much the feeling I get from my guy Barney Rubble here with him being very much at the mercy of Ellie. She moves her knife over his head and mirroring the clickers we can see the fungus growing out of his eye.

Just doesn’t seem like he’s a very fun guy….ey…and I warned you about them puns. I warned you.

Now here we get Joel and Ellie sat down talking. I’m not sure where this is but I’m guessing it happens quite early on due to how much Joel shuts down the conversation. She asks if he finds it difficult killing the infected knowing that they were people but as we know he doesn’t really mind killing people even if they’re people.

Anyway from here we get a shot at a character who was touched upon in the first episode and actually get a lot filled in about how the show is gonna handle things. It looks like they’re adapting the additional DLC left behind and this basically goes in-depth on what happened to Ellie the night she got bit.

This had us meeting Riley who we learned in Episode 1 was with Ellie when she got infected.

Ellie was training at a FEDRA camp which she was drafted in to as a child and her best Bud Riley had ran off an joined the fireflies.

Her friend Riley comes in and pulls her out her room and we learn that she’s joined the fire flies and is being shipped off the next day. She basically wants to have one last night with Ellie and she takes her to an abandoned Mall in the QZ that’s off limits. Here they ride a merry go round which we see playing out in the trailer. It’s basically a date for the pair and they end up kissing at the end of it with Ellie asking Riley to stay. She says yes but it’s cut short by the infected swarming them and both the pair get bit.

We see Ellie looking at her arm and you might also notice that in the shot before that she’s wearing the t-shirt she was in episode 1. We know she was picked up by the fireflies and was wearing this when she was chained up so this likely leads directly into episode 1.

Now from here we cut to the group walking along a street with the Boston State building directly in front of them.

When you made your way through this part of the game you had that constantly off in the background with the golden dome acting very much as a waypoint for you, Tess and Ellie.

From here we get shots of the scenes in Boston with Tess saying that they’re just trying to keep her alive. We then get additional shots in the museum, see the rifles and then the clickers screaming at them. Now from here we get a shot that I don’t really recognise from the game. We see a person in a truck rushing towards a gate and looking at them we can make out a cap and that they have shoulder length hair. They seem to be on their own and as this leads into the Bill scenes I’m guessing that it’s him.

We catch him in his town Lincoln which was the next stop after Boston. Here we see Bill and Frank with the latter being someone that we never actually met in the game. By the time Ellie and Joel arrived at Lincoln he’d ran away from Bill and had tried to make a break for it by stealing a truck battery from a military caravan. This failed and thus Joel and Ellie were able to get it and make their own way using his truck he’d stolen.

It seems like we’re getting way more of their relationship played out as we see Bill warning there’s no friends out there and then a flash of the town being attacked.

We can catch Frank with a gun drawn and then the idea of them not having friends is cemented in the next shot in which we see Kathleen.

Played by Melanie Lynskey this is a brand new character for the show that looks like she’s leading a group of rebels. From the other trailers we could see that she seemed to be located in Pittsburgh which was hammered home by the truck with run on the front of it.

She’s in a position of power holding a gun to someone’s head and according to the reviews she’s gonna be a really big character. We then get what I’m guessing is the siege of Pittsburgh by the rebels. Fedra ran most of the QZs but since they were pretty much fascists that would hang people for going outside dissent started to rise amongst the citizens. They formed their own groups and took over but whether they were better or not is another thing entirely.

They were just as bad as FEDRA were and would rob and kill people who came into the city.

Now on the opposite side of this there were peaceful settlements such as Jackson which we see in the next shot.

If you look in the top left you can catch a sign for it with it advertising the lights festival 2003. The game took place in 2013 whereas this started off in 2003 so that the twenty year time jump could take us to present day. Looks…looks bloody better than the world we have mate ey having that.

Topical…so….anyway Jackson wasn’t a place that we really went through in the first game and it was only in the second one that we got to walk around the place. Obviously the showrunners have the gift of hindsight so they can sew the seeds for season 2 and we even have a nod to the second game in this wide shot of the town.

To the right we can see the Tipsy Bison and this was a bar in the game where a big scene went down at involving Joel and Ellie.

We then see Tommy now sporting facial hair and he’s basically one of the high ranking citizens of Jackson that lets them stay there. Joel initially wants Tommy to take Ellie to the Fireflies due to him being an ex member but after Ellie runs off J dog ends up doing it. Later on we see Tommy closing the gate on them, possibly saying goodbye to Joel.

Next we catch him looking at his watch on a rooftop and this is pulled directly from a scene in Boston.

Joel has a moment where he looks almost as if to remember Sarah and it’s a really subtle and touching moment.

Now from here we see Sam and Henry who are survivors that the group meet in Pittsburgh. They’ll probably be helping the group escape Kathleen and interestingly you can see Henry talking in sign language. Number of reasons for this including deafness obviously.

Why are they called Clickers in The Last of Us?

They could however be used to silently communicating with each other in order stay quiet and they might have had to learn this to not draw attention to themselves. Obviously clickers are gonna be a big thing in the show so that could be a reason for it.

Next we see some infected and a Bloater climbing out of the ground. These were heavily infected people that had basically mutated into massive hulking monsters that were capable of throwing toxic gas and acid at the character. They were completely terrifying and some of the scariest things that you came across in the game.

Next we see shots of Joel about to smash smash smash smmmmmash.

Then clickers attacking Ellie and lastly what I think is a shot from the final episode.

Now Imma give you another quick spoiler warning just in case you really don’t want the ending ruined….but….but…..but….they do eventually make it to the fireflies and then stuff goes down worse HBO probably cancelling this after one season cos Warner Brothers have no chill at the moment.

So Joel and Ellie actually make it to the fireflies and upon arriving there they almost drown which is when they’re picked up by the group. Joel awakens in a hospital bed and discovers that they’re prepping Ellie for surgery to remove the mutated strain from her brain. Only problem is that this will kill her and thus Joel goes Rambo on the entire place and kills all the soldiers and doctors. I think this is what we see playing out here as he’s clearly walking through a corridor and mercilessly shooting at people.

Anyway that closes out the trailer and though we’re only one episode down I have really high hopes of the season. If they can keep up just how good episode 1 was then we’re in for the best video game adaptation ever by quite a large margin.

I hope you enjoyed the video anyway and make sure you stay locked to the channel for breakdowns on the series every week.

Linked on screen right now we have our breakdown of Episode 1 which has every easter egg in it except for that clicker at the end. Hopefully you enjoy it and thank you for sitting with me until the end of the video. With that out the way, thanks for watching it, I’ve been Paul you’ve been the best.