Intense Horror in "The Last of Us" Season 2 "Future Days

You will remember that Joel saved Ellie from certain death at the hands of the Fireflies and then lied to her about it. The second season of The Last of Us begins five years after the conclusion of the first season. Joel, who had grown to view Ellie as his daughter after his own died in the early stages of the epidemic, needed to prevent Ellie from playing a key role in the development of a cure because of her immunity to the cordyceps infection. Ellie was taken to Jackson after he killed all the Fireflies, where she currently resides with Joel's brother Tommy and a few other people.