Season 2

Complete listed story — includes the ending

S2E1 · Future Days

Five years after Joel massacred Fireflies at the Salt Lake City hospital and rescued Ellie, they have settled in Jackson, Wyoming. The time interval has left their relationship strained, for which Joel receives counseling from psychotherapist Gail. She admits her resentment towards Joel for killing her husband, Eugene, and pushes him to tell the truth. Joel admits to saving Ellie. On patrol, Ellie and Dina encounter a new kind of "stalker" infected in a supermarket and warn Jackson's council. Ellie and Dina kiss at a New Year's Eve dance, prompting a homophobic slur from the bar owner, Seth. Joel intervenes and shoves him, which angers Ellie. She chastises Joel and he leaves. Infected tendrils begin to enter Jackson through a broken pipe while Abby —who swore revenge on Joel for the hospital massacre—approaches the town with her friends, Owen, Nora, Mel, and Manny.

S2E2 · Through the Valley

Abby shelters with her team in a lodge near Jackson and considers a plan to kill Joel, but the others secretly consider retreating, concerned about Jackson's security. While Abby scopes out the town, she accidentally awakens a large horde of infected hiding under the snow. She escapes narrowly and is saved by Joel, on patrol with Dina. The horde attacks Jackson, which suffers heavy casualties in the ensuing battle. Abby brings Joel and Dina to the lodge, where she sedates Dina and corners Joel, revealing the Firefly doctor Joel killed was her father. Abby shoots Joel in the leg and brutally beats him with a golf club. Ellie enters the lodge but is restrained by Abby's party, who force her to watch helplessly as Abby stabs Joel in the neck and kills him. Ellie swears to kill Abby in return as her group leaves. While Jackson begins to recover from the battle, Ellie, Dina, and Jesse return home with Joel's body.

S2E3 · The Path

Three months later, Dina tells Ellie that the group who killed Joel—members of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF)—are based in Seattle. At a town hall meeting, Ellie tries to persuade the council to send a group to Seattle out of justice, not revenge, but they oppose. Ellie gathers weapons to leave for Seattle alone but Dina joins and helps her prepare. Seth, who vocally supported Ellie during the town hall, helps them leave Jackson. The next morning, Ellie leaves coffee beans on Joel's grave. Later, she and Dina encounter a group of dead Seraphites—a religious group based in Seattle—including a young child, the sight of which causes Dina to vomit. They arrive in Seattle and note the lack of WLF members. Elsewhere, a convoy of WLF soldiers march through Seattle with armored vehicles.

S2E4 · Day One

In 2018, Isaac kills his FEDRA squad and switches his allegiance to the WLF. Eleven years later, now the WLF's leader, he tortures and kills a Seraphite who refuses to share information about his group. Taking refuge in a music store, Ellie serenades Dina with a guitar, a skill she learned from Joel. At night, they find several WLF soldiers brutally killed by the Seraphites. They escape a WLF backup squad and an infected horde in the subway, but Ellie takes a bite to save Dina from infection. As they hide in an abandoned theater, a heartbroken Dina prepares to shoot Ellie, who explains her immunity. Dina confesses to Ellie that she is pregnant, and they have sex. The next morning, they learn by radio that Nora is based at the Lakehill hospital. Dina vows to finish the mission with Ellie.

S2E5 · Feel Her Love

En route to the hospital, Ellie and Dina encounter more dead Seraphites. Ellie questions bringing Dina, but Dina reaffirms her commitment to their revenge quest. They are ambushed by stalkers in an abandoned warehouse and saved by Jesse, who traveled to Seattle with Tommy to rescue them. Pursued by the WLF, the three enter a local park and witness the Seraphites disembowel a WLF soldier. Dina is shot in the leg with an arrow, and Jesse carries her out of the park while Ellie creates a diversion. After evading the Seraphites, Ellie continues to the hospital and corners Nora in a quarantined basement filled with airborne Cordyceps spores. Nora, becoming infected, realizes Ellie was the immune girl from the Salt Lake City hospital. Ellie shares that she already knows what Joel did to save her, and beats Nora with a pipe to learn Abby's location.

S2E6 · The Price

A series of flashbacks show the decline of Joel and Ellie's relationship: for her fifteenth birthday, he gifts her a homemade guitar; on her sixteenth, he takes her to an abandoned museum, where she is enamored with its space exhibits; on her seventeenth, he angrily interrupts a moment of intimacy between Ellie and Kat, causing tension; on her nineteenth, he takes her out on her first patrol. They rescue Gail's husband Eugene, who has been bitten. Joel promises to escort him back to Jackson to say goodbye to Gail, but executes him instead. Joel then lies, telling Gail that Eugene chose to kill himself rather than endanger her. Ellie reveals the truth, deducing that Joel also lied about the Fireflies. Nine months later, after the New Year's Eve dance, Ellie confronts Joel. He tearfully confesses the truth about his actions at the hospital but admits he has no regrets. Ellie doubts that she can forgive him but pledges to try.

S2E7 · Convergence

Ellie regroups with Dina and Jesse, shaken by her own brutality against Nora. She shares a clue from Nora about Abby's location, then divulges the story of Joel's massacre to Dina, who suggests they return home. Jesse and Ellie search for Tommy, but Ellie deduces that Abby is hiding in an aquarium and leaves to pursue her. Ellie is captured and nearly executed by the Seraphites, but escapes to the aquarium to find Owen and Mel. She holds them at gunpoint and demands Abby's location. When Owen grabs a gun, Ellie fatally shoots him and the bullet strikes Mel, who reveals that she is pregnant; she asks Ellie to save the baby via a caesarean, to no avail. Jesse and Tommy recover a devastated Ellie and bring her back to the theater. Later, Abby ambushes them, killing Jesse, injuring Tommy, and holding Ellie at gunpoint. A gunshot rings out. Three days earlier, Manny wakes up Abby, having both been summoned by Isaac.