The last of us season 2 episode 5 Easter eggs and video game changes

The episode of the last of us this week was a speed run of a well -known video gift.

HBO is the last of us live action adaptation The latest episode, season 2 episode 5: Feel Her Love, this week. With just a short 44-minute term, the spectators may not have expected much from this episode. Instead, they got everything: an indication of the Stalker level of the last of us Part II, a climatic confrontation with Nora, spores and much more!

This episode fits part of the events of Seattle: Day One from Ellie's point of view and is packed with references to the game. Here are all changes and Easter eggs that we discovered in the last US season 2 episode 5:

The Cordyceps infection develops into the games

At the beginning of the episode, we hear from the WLF Sergeant Elise Park that the basement of the Lakehill Hospital in 2003 were in the first Cordyceps patients. Now the WLF soldiers that they have sent to clear the basement without being bitten. According to the park, “it is in the air.”

Well, well, well. We have closed an element from the games that this series has completely left out: Spores. In the games, the Cordyceps mushroom has always shown spores in areas in which it is very concentrated and bound to its surroundings. As such, surviving gas masks need to survive. In the series, spores are rather represented as the development of the cordyceps infection, and another sign that the plague continues to grow and changes over time.

We have seen that before. A serious debate about the existence of stalkers used to find in the series, as few believed that the Cordyceps infection was able to change at all. However, it is now clear that the infection does not stagnate. Similar to the games, the infected people can become much more dangerous and take a drastically different forms over time. Speaking of …

The rat king comes

We could attack here, but when we are told that the basement of the Lakehill Hospital is empty, the series feeds this line outside of our hand: “nothing but rats”. Technically, this is right. In the last of us part II, Abby goes to the basement and hits a rather fearful enemy called Rattenkönig, an unholy fusion of infected people who have been rotten in a sealed room for decades.

It remains to be seen whether the series will actually adapt this atrocation in Abby's part of the story, but the domino stones are set up for them. There are only two things that are in Abby's way, and both changes made in the series.

First, there are now spores in the basement, and Abby may not be equipped to navigate them unscathed. Second, Abby only went into the basement to maintain medical care because the Wlf packed up and left the hospital. In the series we still see Nora in the middle of the treatment of patients, and the WLF apparently remains depressed – an early sign that we will see that Abby's action plays a little differently.

It is Stalker City over there

In the last of us part II, Ellie collapsed on the way to the WLF hospital in the Seattle Conference Center. Unfortunately, she discovers that the building has now become a conference of the stalkers. These twitching, patient and creepy infected people hide behind Office descendant and corridor corners to provide the player an unpleasant surprise until they get out.

The series adapts this level with a few changes. We still get office switches and tons of stalkers, but Ellie and Dina meet these infected people during a tense encounter in a warehouse. Outside of this warehouse, there are various shipping boxes that also serve as familiar pictures for everyone who have gone through Abby. She takes Yara and Lev to a safe harbor near these boxes and is temporarily opening to drive to the water front aquarium in Seattle.

The stalkers are perfectly adapted in the series to the point that it is hard to believe that video game Ellie managed to beat 10 at once (to be fair, she had bombs). In the series, Ellia and Dina only survive thanks to the unexpected appearance of a friend.

Jesse, Dina and Ellie meet the seraphites

Here the episode makes its greatest change so far. When Ellie and Dina for a certain downfall through bloodthirsty stalkers in the direction of a certain fate are suddenly saved by a irritated Jesse. Jesse reveals that both he and Tommy are looking for Ellie and Dina the day after their departure. This means that Tommy is also somewhere in Seattle, although it is hard to believe that HBOS leaves the same trace of its destruction as his video game counter.

In the game, Jesse previously meets with Ellie in Hillcrest, a suburb of Seattle affected by WLF. He saves them from fate like in the series and the two go back to the theater. Ellie puts on while he is resting and then has her first encounter with the seraphites in the forest, where she is shot by an arrow.

In the series, these beats are covered differently. We saw what Hillcrest seemed to be in an Isaac-centered review Last week, And so the book seems to have been closed forever for these suburbs. The series skipped Hillcrest and lets Ellie go directly from the fight against Stalker to the seraphites, and this time she has both Dina and Jesse in tow. The series then writes Dina by shooting her shot with an arrow instead of Ellie's leg. The two are not seen again, and it is believed that they then fled back to the theater.

Nora and Ellie get on the wrong foot

As soon as Ellie arrives in the WLF hospital (after a video game-like encounter with a patrolling dog that catches her smell), we get a simple adjustment of the game. Ellie meets Nora in a moment of vulnerability, just like in the game, and then chases her through the hospital corridors. Nora ends up in the basement in which she breathes spores what is new to the series, but not in the games, and we hear that the Wlf refuse to rejuvenate the two out of fear.

Ellie then reveals Nora that she is immune. In return, Nora Ellie reveals that Abby had killed Joel because he had massacred a hospital full of fireflies, including Abby's father. This is a pretty big change for the series, since Abby's motivations of killing Joel, never completely crystallized for Ellie in the video game. The two hardly communicate without the use of their fists.

Ellie then strikes Nora while looking for information about Abby's whereabouts, but we don't find out whether her violent interrogation methods actually bear fruit.

In the end everything was a dream

After this violent parts, Ellie then wakes up in a bedroom in Joel's house, where the two greet each other with grin. This feels like an alluding to the old cliché “It was all a dream”, but the fans of the game will know that the series has now distributed many flashbacks in favor of a simple story by Ellies revenge history without jumping back and forth in the timeline. It looks like we have a flashback-helpful episode next week, in which we will be gripped almost all flashbacks of the game from front to back within a one-hour term.

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That's it for now! Check our reporting over The last of us season 2 episode 4: day one here, here, here, And stay up to date to get more Easter eggs and references from upcoming consequences.