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I guess you were right. Trying to leave this town will kill me. Still better than spending another day with you.
―Frank's note to Bill[1]

Frank is a character who appears postmortem in The Last of Us Part I. It is heavily implied he was Bill's partner and lover. After becoming infected, Frank took his own life by hanging.[2]

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What is the relationship between Frank and Bill in The Last of Us? toggle section
In The Last of Us, Frank and Bill were partners who lived together in Lincoln, Massachusetts. They fortified their town against the infected for nearly 20 years. Frank, heavily implied to be Bill's lover, ended his life after becoming infected.
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How did Frank die in The Last of Us? toggle section
In The Last of Us, Frank was attacked and bitten by infected. To prevent the progression of the Cordyceps brain infection, he hanged himself. Before his death, he left a note for Bill, expressing his frustration with Bill.
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Why did Frank leave Bill in The Last of Us? toggle section
Tired of life with Bill, Frank left to fetch a car battery from Lincoln High School. On his return, he was bitten by infected, leading him to hang himself to avoid the Cordyceps brain infection. He left a note for Bill, expressing his frustration with Bill's management of the town.
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How did Frank and Bill survive for nearly twenty years in The Last of Us? toggle section
In The Last of Us, Frank and Bill endured for almost two decades by strengthening their town against infected and rogue survivors, setting traps, and creating a trading network with smugglers Tess and Joel. Eventually, Frank left Bill due to disagreements over survival methods, stealing supplies and a car battery. Regrettably, he was bitten by infected and chose to end his life.
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In The Last of Us, Frank and Bill lived together in an isolated town, surviving the post-apocalyptic world. Bill's survival methods involved setting traps around the town and trading with smugglers. However, Frank grew weary of this lifestyle and left Bill to retrieve a car battery from Lincoln High School.
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Biography[]

Events of The Last of Us Part I[]

Frank lived in Lincoln with Bill. The pair survived for nearly twenty years together, fortifying the town against the infected and rogue survivors.[3] Bill described Frank as his former partner, someone that he cared about. Despite this, Frank eventually grew tired of Bill's methods of surviving and left him, stealing supplies and a car battery for his truck from a military vehicle at the high school and stashing them at his hideout. On the way back, Frank was bitten several times by a horde of infected.[2] 

He hanged himself in his house so as to not succumb to the Cordyceps brain infection. Frank left a note for Bill telling him how he "hated his guts", having grown tired of Bill's ways and how he managed the town.[1]

If the player determines, Joel gives the note to Bill after looting the area. Bill reads it, disheartened at Frank's words, but keeps up his bravado to get Joel and Ellie out of "his" town. Joel apologizes for Frank's death after they get the car started and wishes Bill farewell, since he is now truly alone.[4]

Frank was mentioned earlier in a smuggler's note, which Joel found near a corpse in the flooded subway just after losing Tess at the Capitol building. Frank had apparently made an arrangement to meet a smuggler who would sneak him into the Boston quarantine zone, and had procured false documents in order to do so.[5] However, Frank was bitten and infected while still in Lincoln, where he took his own life.[4] The smuggler was later killed by infected while waiting for Frank in the outskirts of the quarantine zone.[6]

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