THE LAST OF US Episode 3 Trailer Breakdown | Theories, Characters And Game Easter Eggs

Ok so the trailer for The Last of Us Episode 3 is now out and throughout this video we’re gonna be breaking down the new look. So far, the show has given us an in-depth look at some of the characters that we briefly got to meet in the game and this extra character development has really helped the audience see who these people are. For example, episode 1 had a whole day in the life of Sarah and it seems like Episode 3 is going to be fleshing out way more than what we got in the source material.

Originally, we met Bill in Lincoln, and it was only after moving through the town that we discovered what happened to Frank. In this video we’ve got a lot to talk about but big spoiler warning if you haven’t played the game and don’t want to know what happens. If you enjoy the video, then please hit the thumbs up button and don’t forget to subscribe for breakdowns like this every day. With that out the way, thanks for clicking this, now let’s get into the video.

Who are Bill and Frank in The Last of Us?

Now the new look opens with Bill sat in front of some CCTV monitors. In the game you arrived in Lincoln to find it completely abandoned by humanity and all that was left was Bill who guarded over the town. He’d set up traps throughout it and after saving you from one of them you went to his home in the church. He said that there’d been a military caravan that had crashed in the town recently and you made your way out to it in order to steal a truck battery. Here you found that it had already been taken and with the infected swarming you were forced into a school. After surviving a bloater, you made it to the other side and travelled through a neighbourhood which is when you came across Frank.

Turns out that he and Bill had been lovers but after a while Frank got to the point where he couldn’t stand him and thus, he made a break for it when the caravan crashed. Unfortunately, he got bit along the way, and he ended it all after leaving Bill a note saying how much he hated him. Now you were able to use the truck he’d hooked the battery up to and drive to Pittsburgh which I’m guessing will be coming later down the line.

This episode itself seems to be detailing Bill’s time in the twenty years after outbreak day and also his relationship with Frank.

Now on the screens, we can catch a group of people and Fedra soldiers. My guess is that the whole town leaves and this is when Bill can set it up as his home free from the control of others. Love the old PC we can catch to the left and this seems like it’s running Windows 2000. He says not today you new world order jackboots and it seems like he might even be a conspiracy theorist that thinks the Government has unleashed the cordyceps to take control. We’ve of course just lived through something similar, and I think every time I logged into Facebook my uncle was saying something like this.

We see him basically doing a Tony Stark and welding away which is when a trap is sprung, and we meet frank. If you’ve watched the white lotus, then you’ll instantly recognise this guy as being Murray Bartlett who plays Armond.

I also think that casting Nick Offerman is genius, and he suits being Bill down to a T. The guy looks exactly like how he does in the game, and they even have the belt of shotgun bullets that he wears over his shoulder. Bill is one of the most interesting characters in the first game and we learn very little about him. He’s very much a closed book and in some ways, he mirrors Joel. Both end up looking after someone that they initially don’t want to, and they see just how heartbreaking that can be.

Now intercut with this is shots of Bill eating on his own. We catch him pulling a carrot out of a garden and in the background, we can see a white church. This is potentially where he’s holed up at. He’s living a very solitary lifestyle, refusing to let people in and this is what keeps him alive. However, he clearly lets Frank in and the two are pretty many opposites to each other that are gonna have to learn to get along. Frank is just a normal guy whereas Bill is a doomsdayer that’s prepared for every eventuality so that he can survive. I think their relationship is gonna be fascinating to watch and with the latter being a control freak it’s gonna be interesting to see how the tension between them plays out.

Are Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us Episode 3?

Now during this we also see Ellie walking around a house. She’s wearing the classic red T-shirt that she had in the game and in a draw, she finds a gun and a letter. It’s possible that this letter was the one left behind by Frank and this would build upon what we talked about earlier.

This gun is also the one that she uses throughout the game, and it’s based on a Beretta 70s series. Originally, she didn’t get this until much later on and she picked it up at the hotel when Joel was being attacked. Joel had forbidden her from having weapons but after she saved his life here, he decided to trust her more.

Now we then cut to Joel warning Bill that there will be Raiders soon. In the game, he said that he’d never actually been to Lincoln himself and going out there with Ellie was an act of desperation because of Tess’s death.

We can actually see her in the background standing with Frank and I’m guessing that they’ll pop up throughout the episode showing their meetings. They of course had the whole thing with the radio set up in episode 1 and we’ll probably see them trading with the pair.

Now this prediction of raiders comes to pass, and we see people attempting to swarm one of the fences. Bills trap sets off and it burns them, but it seems like something bad goes down as he ends up telling Frank to call Joel. Episode 1 of course ended with 80s music playing on the radio and this signified danger. From here we cut to Joel and Ellie on the road probably making their way out to him.

They pass some corpses in the road, and you’d often stumble across these when you were making your way through the game. One of them looks like a kid and it shows how dangerous that the world is now.

From here we see a shot of a truck ramming through a fence, and we know from other scenes of the trailer this that is Bill driving this.

We also see Ellie opening up her knife and moving it near one of the infected heads. This is a stalker that has started to go blind and he’s on his way to becoming a clicker due to the fungus now growing out of his eye. Due to Ellie crouching down I’m guessing this guy is on the floor somewhere and he might be stuck in one of Bills traps.

I was thinking for a second that he could actually not be attacking Ellie due to her already being infected. It would kinda break the rules of the game though and the Clicker in episode 2 of course went after her. There was that one that gave Tess the kiss of death as well, so I really doubt that’s the case with it. Instead, I think it’s probably in a bill trap that they come across when they’re making their way out there.

The trailer ends with Bill reassuring Joel that they’ll be fine but whether this is true or not remains to be seen. He looks pretty out of it when he tells Frank to contact Joel and I think he’d only do this in dire circumstances. Now Lincoln was a part of the game where you never actually fought against any humans. It was swarming with infected but as for raiders and the like they were completely absent. Therefore, Bill might not have been as prepared for this and this is why he ends up getting Frank to get Joel. The radio message at the end of episode 1 also teases that and I’d of course love to hear your thoughts and theories for the episode next week.

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