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"Convergence" is the seventh and final episode of the second season, and the sixteenth episode overall, of HBO's The Last of Us. Directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado and written by series co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin, alongside Halley Gross, the episode aired on HBO on May 25, 2025.

Synopsis[]

As the Wolves and the Scars prepare for a battle that could potentially end their longstanding feud, Ellie's search draws her away from her friends and toward a devastating confrontation.

Cast and characters[]

Main cast

Guest starring

Co-starring

Plot[]

Changing plans[]

As the WLF notify their teams to cease radio communications, Jesse tends to Dina's wound in the lobby of the Pinnacle Theater. Dina frantically tells Jesse she cannot die while not telling him why. Jesse tells her he has to force the arrowhead through her leg rather than pull it out, to avoid tearing an artery. Before he does so, he offers her some of the alcohol he used to clean her wound, but she refuses, arousing his suspicions.

Later, as Jesse keeps watch, Ellie returns from the hospital. She barges past him to the dressing room where Dina is resting. Dina confirms the baby is fine and has Ellie remove her shirt so she can clean her wounds. Ellie tells Dina she found Nora, but she only said in regards to Abby's location the words "whale" and "wheel", likely due to the infection affecting her mind. She admits that she made Nora talk by hurting her, and is haunted by the realization it was not difficult for her to do, and that she left Nora to die in the end. Dina suggests Nora deserved it, but Ellie replies that she may not have. She reluctantly tells Dina everything: the group that killed Joel were former Fireflies getting revenge for his rampage in Salt Lake City, including his murder of Abby's father, and that he had done so to protect Ellie from being used to create a cure. Dina asks if Ellie knew who they were, which she denies, but she admits to having known what he did the whole time. Dina, now knowing the truth, declares that they need to go home, while Ellie reluctantly nods.

Avoiding a war[]

The next morning, Ellie and Jesse pack their bags as they plan to rendezvous with Tommy before all four can go home. Dina emerges from the dressing room and gives Ellie her bracelet as a good luck charm. Jesse offers to let Ellie stay with Dina, but Dina turns down the offer and gives Ellie a stare as she leaves with Jesse. On the way to the rendezvous point, a bookstore, Ellie asks Jesse to explain how he found them. Jesse reveals they found Shimmer first (noting she's still at the music store and fine), spotted the WLF television station and used that to triangulate their position, splitting up to cover more ground, which was how Jesse found the theater. Ellie tries to express her appreciation, but Jesse interrupts by asking about Dina's insistence that she couldn't die and refusal to drink alcohol. Ellie denies any knowledge, but Jesse reveals he's already figured out they are a couple and he figures Dina probably would tell Ellie things she wouldn't tell him, like the fact that she's pregnant. Now the stakes are higher for Jesse: as a future parent, he cannot let Dina nor himself die, except they are stuck in a war zone because of Ellie's actions.

While venturing through the streets, Ellie and Jesse notice a mural for a different Seraphite Prophet, leaving them to wonder if there is more than one. While taking shelter from a sudden rainstorm in a garage, they overhear gunfire. Taking cover, they witness Burton and other WLF soldiers chase a young Seraphite into the garage, forcing his clothes off and preparing to torture him. Ellie tries to intervene, only for Jesse to force her to remain still until they leave. Ellie protests that he was just a kid and they could have saved him, but Jesse insists they were outnumbered and he is not willing to risk his life for whatever war the WLF and the Seraphites have going on.

At a WLF base camp in the parking lot of a former Costco Wholesale store, Elise Park informs Isaac that the storm is a convergence zone, meaning it will get bigger and cover their attack. She adds that the officers are onboard with the plan but the rest of the soldiers are reluctant, to which Isaac wearily suggests Elise is too, before asking if they have heard from Abby. Elise replies in the negative, noting they also have not found Owen and that Mel is also missing. Isaac is suspicious that all of Abby's crew has disappeared. Elise notes they still have Manny, but Isaac replies they have plenty of Mannys and even some Owens and Mels, but there is only one Abby. Elise questions why he cares so much, to which Isaac explains the honest truth: both he and Elise are very likely to be dead by the morning, leaving the WLF without a leader, a role he had long believed Abby would take on. Elise bluntly replies that Abby has "fucked off", and that maybe this wasn't Abby's fate after all.

Consequences[]

Ellie and Jesse arrive at the bookstore but find no sign of Tommy. The two choose to hunker down. Ellie looks around the store and finds a copy of the Sesame Street book The Monster at the End of This Book, which she reads with amusement before deciding to take it as a gift for Dina's child. Jesse compliments her choice, prompting Ellie to offer to talk about things between her and Dina. Jesse stops her and reveals the truth: he loves Dina, but not in the way Ellie does. He had fallen in love with an artist girl from the trading group that came through town from Alberta on their way to Mexico, and the two had an intense two-week relationship that had to end as the girl did not want to leave her family. She had invited Jesse to join their group, but Jesse declined out of a sense of duty to Jackson and his belief that he should put others first. Ellie sarcastically chides his righteousness, but Jesse retorts that if he had gone to Mexico, no one would have saved Ellie in Seattle. They are interrupted by a radio broadcast from a WLF team at the marina reporting an ambush by a mysterious sniper. Jesse concludes this must be Tommy and that he needs help. Observing the coast from an upper floor, Jesse points in the direction of where they can hear the sniper fire, but Ellie spots a Ferris wheel further down the waterfront and realizes what Nora's last words meant: Abby is in the Seattle Aquarium, which has a giant mural of a whale on its exterior. Her thirst for revenge reinvigorated, she declares they need to grab a boat to track her down, but Jesse insists they need to find Tommy. Ellie claims he will be fine and they need to finish her mission, arguing if three more people had voted with Jesse he would have already been joining her. Jesse reveals he had actually voted against Ellie's proposal, having known that Ellie was thinking of herself over the community. Infuriated, Ellie calls Jesse a hypocrite for letting a kid die simply because he wasn't in their community, arguing her own community was killed in front of her while she was forced to watch, and Jesse would do the same if it happened to him. Jesse tersely tells her he hopes she makes it before leaving to find Tommy.

Dina tensely waits in the lobby of the theater for Ellie, Jesse, and Tommy's return. Ellie arrives at the dockside and watches as Isaac and other members of the WLF board their boats as they leave for a nearby island. She boards her own boat so she can reach the aquarium, but the waves from the storm knock her off her path and she washes up on the shore of the island. A group of Seraphites appear and quickly capture her. Despite her pleas that she is not with the WLF, the Seraphite boy who presumably saw a WLF logo on Ellie's boat,[1] orders her execution, as they hang a noose around her neck and prepare to ritually disembowel her, but are interrupted by a warning alarm from their village, choosing to leave her behind. Ellie boards her boat and heads back to the aquarium, only to notice explosions and gunfire from the island.

At the aquarium, Ellie finds signs of activity but no sign of Abby. Rounding a corner, she finds Mel and Owen in the middle of an argument regarding their plans to leave with Abby. Ellie reveals herself and holds them at gunpoint, as they recognize her with shock. Borrowing a tactic she had seen Joel do, Ellie tells Mel to bring her a map on the table and point to where Abby is, and that Owen will need to point to the same location. As Ellie counts down, Owen tells Mel she will kill them either way, which Ellie denies, claiming she is not like them. Mel moves to get the map, but Owen stops her and claims he will do it instead. However, he makes a move for a gun hidden under the table, forcing Ellie to shoot him, but the bullet passes through Owen and mortally wounds Mel. As Mel starts to bleed out, she reveals to Ellie that she is pregnant and begs her to cut her baby out of her stomach before she dies. Ellie tries to do so, but is unable to discern Mel's delirious instructions and watches helplessly as Mel bleeds to death. Horrified at what she has done, Ellie breaks down in tears over Mel's body. Sometime later, Tommy and Jesse arrive. Tommy consoles Ellie and escorts her out of the aquarium, while Jesse wearily surveys the carnage.

Ambush[]

At the theater, Dina opens up the barricade and hugs Tommy with relief, but watches as Ellie walks straight past her, traumatized. Later in the auditorium, Tommy maps a path out of Seattle using the southern part of town, suggesting they leave in the morning when it is light and hopefully the storm has ended. Seeing Ellie nearby, he tells her that Abby's crew made their choices and there was nothing she could do about it, but Ellie points out that after all the destruction she caused in her quest for revenge, Abby still gets to live, which she reluctantly realizes she will have to make peace with. Tommy leaves to start packing for their trip back to Jackson, leaving Ellie with Jesse. Ellie thanks Jesse for coming back, which he initially suggests was because Tommy forced him to, but then admits he did it by his own choice. The two admit if either of them were in trouble, the other would have done anything to save them.

Their conversation is interrupted by a commotion from the lobby. They run out of the auditorium to investigate, only for Jesse to immediately fall to a gunshot to the head. Taking cover, Ellie stares at Jesse's lifeless body and overhears someone barking orders for her to stand up or she will shoot Tommy, as Tommy tells her to run. Ellie rises to find Abby holding Tommy at gunpoint, as Abby recognizes her. Ellie pleads with her to let Tommy go, revealing she was the one who killed Abby's friends and knows why Abby killed Joel, offering herself up if she lets Tommy go. Abby furiously tells Ellie she had let her live, and Ellie wasted it, before pulling the gun on her. A shot rings out.

Day one[]

Three days earlier, Abby is awoken from her sleep by Manny, informing her that Isaac wants to talk to them. She tells him to give her five minutes while she wakes up. She walks out onto a balcony overlooking the Seahawks Stadium, which houses a massive compound for the WLF.

Transcript[]

Main article: Convergence/Transcript

Behind the scenes[]

Production[]

  • The episode's title, "Convergence", refers to both the storm's "convergence zone" that Elise Park mentions as well as Ellie and Abby's stories converging in the final moments of the episode, with the transition into Abby's narrative for the third season.
  • Ellie ending up on the Seraphite island is based on a deleted scene from The Last of Us Part II.
  • In the game, Ellie's confrontation with Owen and Mel takes place in a cavernous space, and ends in a physical struggle between the three, resulting in Owen and Mel's deaths, only for Ellie to find out afterwards that Mel was pregnant. Craig Mazin pitched the television show's version of the scene to Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross as a means for Ellie to directly face the collateral damage her revenge quest is causing, through Mel being killed by accident and Ellie being unable to help her save her child. Druckmann feels it continues the emotional thread of what parental figures in the series will do to protect their children, shown with Joel and his actions to protect Sarah and Ellie.
    • A behind-the-scenes video of Season 2 reveals that the game's version of the fight was filmed.[2]

Easter eggs and references[]

  • A mentioned character in this episode, Melissa, is a reference to a mentioned character from the video game The Last of Us Part II, who was also a member of the Washington Liberation Front.
  • While inside of Kingston Bookstore, Ellie picks out a copy of the 1971 Sesame Street storybook The Monster at the End of This Book. Written by Jon Stone, the book is a meta-story featuring the Muppet monster character Grover who, fearing the titular monster, tries to stop the reader from turning pages, only to learn in a plot-twist that he was the monster at the end of the book the entire time. Critical reviews of this episode note parallels in the idea of the protagonist (in this case, Ellie) discovering they are the monster in their own story.[3][4]
  • Jesse mentions a trading group that came from Alberta, referencing the Canadian province that served as the primary shooting location for Season 1.
  • Costco is seen in Seattle, and is now operating as a WLF outpost[6]
  • The Season 2 finale scene shows a surgical room with bloodied rags and surgical tools at the Seattle Aquarium, similar to the video game scene, where Yara had her arm amputated.
  • At the ending scene of the finale, when Abby wakes up, the fictional book she was holding is called "Thieves of the City", written by the fictional author, Ben Davidoff.[7][8] In the video game, the book Abby was holding was a real novel called City of Thieves, written by the real author David Benioff. It is clearly possible that since the real novel was made in 2008 as the Outbreak Day started at 2013 in the video game universe, the creators of television adaption, made it a fictional version of the book, due to the Outbreak Day starting at 2003 in the TV show.
  • As Ellie and Jesse are walking on the streets of Seattle, they see a mural of a different Seraphite Prophet. This is a reference to the different murals the player sees of her in the game beyond the one shown in episode 5.

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Episodes of HBO's The Last of Us
Season 1
"When You're Lost in the Darkness" · "Infected" · "Long, Long Time" · "Please Hold to My Hand" · "Endure and Survive" · "Kin" · "Left Behind" · "When We Are in Need" · "Look for the Light"
Season 2
"Future Days" · "Through the Valley" · "The Path" · "Day One" · "Feel Her Love" · "The Price" · "Convergence"
Season 3
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