The Last of Us Season 2 Finale: Fan Theory Confirmed in Abby-Ellie Showdown

The Last of Us season 2 finale ends with a major cliffhanger — and the fan theory about where this season ends has been confirmed.

Spoilers for The Last of Us season 2, episode 7 below.

The episode opens with Ellie (Bella Ramsey) returning to the abandoned theater where Jesse (Young Mazino) had just removed — quite gruesomely, we might add — the arrow out of Dina’s (Isabela Merced) leg. Yes, she’s still alive … and still pregnant.

Ellie goes to check on Dina and reveals that she tortured Nora (Tati Gabrielle) for information about Abby’s (Kaitlyn Dever) whereabouts. Nora, kind of, gave Ellie details on how to find Abby, but more on that in a second. During their conversation, Ellie shares the truth about why Abby murdered Joel.

“We need to go home,” Dina declares after hearing Ellie’s admission. Ellie agrees.

Before they can leave Seattle, however, Ellie and Jesse must find Tommy (Gabriel Luna). On the way to their rendezvous point, Ellie accidentally confirms Dina’s pregnancy to Jesse — putting even more tension between them.

There’s a little bit of an aside here in order for Issac (Jeffrey Wright) to explain why Abby is so important. He needs her to take over the Washington Liberation Front (WLF) if something happens to him during the ongoing turf war with the Seraphites. However, Abby is missing.

The unspoken issues between Jesse and Ellie continue to mount as they make it to an abandoned bookstore and Tommy is not there. When a storm comes to Seattle, they are forced to stay put and the two argue. Much to Ellie’s surprise, her relationship with Dina is not Jesse’s issue. He basically accuses her of being selfish (which, yeah) and reveals that he voted “no” to the people of Jackson sending out a hunting party to get revenge for Joel’s death. Ellie didn’t love that, so she does what she does best: flees.

By this point, Ellie figured out what Nora meant by “whale” and “wheel.” Abby and her crew are stationed in the aquarium which has a whale painted on the side of the building and is by a ferris wheel — so that’s where she heads. On the way there she briefly gets captured — and almost disemboweled — by the Seraphites who let her go. It seems their war against the WLF became more important than murder.

After making it inside the aquarium, Ellie sees Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord) from Abby’s crew. Ellie ends up killing both of them in self-defense and, surprise, Mel was pregnant. Jesse — because he knew where Ellie was heading — eventually makes it into the aquarium with Tommy before heading back to get Dina and finally leave Seattle.

But the best-laid plans often go wrong. Back at the theater, the trio are planning their escape route when Tommy gets injured, Jesse gets killed and Ellie and Abby come face-to-face.

“I know why you killed Joel. He did what he did to save me. I’m the one that you want,” Ellie says while Abby has her gun pointed at Tommy. “Just let him go.”

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Abby replies, “I let you live, and you wasted it.”

Abby lifts her gun, and the screen goes black. A gunshot could be heard with no answer as to who got shot.

With three minutes left in the episode, the show shifts to Abby’s point of view. Manny (Danny Ramirez) wakes up a rather clean and less wounded Abby. The screen reads “Seattle Day One,” confirming what fans of the video game had previously speculated: The Last of Us season 3 — which was renewed earlier this year — will tell Abby’s story before she and Ellie have their stand-off.

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