'The Last of Us': Who dies in Episode 5 'Endure and Survive'? Major characters killed off
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'The Last of Us' has surely taught us how to detain the dangerous. The post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. It is based on the 2013 video game developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set in 2023, twenty years into a global pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which forces its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and collapses society. It is the first HBO series based on a video game, and is a joint production by Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, Naughty Dog, the Mighty Mint, and Word Games. Druckmann, who wrote and co-directed the original game, assisted Mazin with scriptwriting for the nine episodes of the first season.
Regardless, the series follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting the teenage Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States. Guest stars include Nico Parker as Joel's daughter Sarah, Gabriel Luna as Joel's younger brother Tommy, Merle Dandridge as resistance leader Marlene, and Anna Torv as Joel's smuggler partner Tess.
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Apocalyptic drama inevitably means that a lot of people die, good as well as bad. Yet as is so often true when watching the news, a small-scale tragedy can hit harder than a mass-casualty event, especially when it involves an innocent. After the justifiable hoopla caused by its third episode, HBO’s 'The Last of Us' plucked at the heartstrings again in its fifth hour, subtitled “Endure and Survive,” which featured the characters of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) befriending a pair of brothers, one of whom was deaf. The cliffhanger ending of that episode introduced the characters, with 'The Last of Us' episode 5 paying off their story as well as multiple other characters introduced in Kansas City.
1) Anthony: the sniper
The first of these deaths come in the form of a minor character: Anthony the sniper. After successfully navigating the tunnels of Kansas City, Joel, Ellie, Henry, and Sam emerge in a suburban neighborhood seemingly uninhabited by the Hunters.
2) Perry
Perry is a supporting character in HBO's 'The Last of Us'. A former soldier, he was a survivor who serves as a rebel commander in a former quarantine zone in post-apocalyptic state of the country that has been ravaged by the Cordyceps brain infection. He dies as a large bloater then emerged from the hole in the ground. Recognizing it, he ordered Kathleen to run as he confronted it. His bullets did not deter the infected, which then tore Perry's head from his body, killing him.
3) Kathleen
Kathleen Coghlan played by Melanie Lynskey is an antagonist in HBO's 'The Last of Us'. She was the ruthless leader of a resistance group in Kansas City. However, after Perry sacrificed himself so Kathleen could escape, she chased Henry, cornering him at the end of the street. Before she could shoot, a child clicker leapt on her, punching and devouring her to death.
4) Sam
Keivonn Montreal Woodard's Sam is seen as a supporting character in 'The Last of Us'. He was a thirteen-year-old survivor from Hartford and the younger brother of Henry. In the aforementioned scene in which 'The Last of Us' underground Bloater and other infected attack, Sam is bitten before he, Henry, and Ellie can escape to safety. Sam's death comes the morning after when he turns and attacks Ellie, forcing his own brother, Henry to shoot him.
5) Henry
Lamar Johnson is seen as Henry Burrell, who is hiding from a revolutionary movement in Kansas City with his younger brother Sam. Johnson had played the game and wanted to avoid imitating the original performance, noting it had impacted him when playing. Regardless, Henry is a supporting character in The Last of Us. He was a survivor from Hartford and the older brother of Sam, who he was fiercely protective of, to the point of underestimating his comprehension and capability in hostile situations. He openly chastised Sam if he believed he did something that would compromise their efficiency or, in particular, his safety. Furthermore, after Henry shot his brother in the head. Distraught over his actions, he aimed his gun at Joel, shouting that it's "all your fault". Joel attempted to convince Henry to give his gun to him but the grieving brother pointed the gun to his own head and pulled the trigger, much to Joel and Ellie's horror.
New episodes of 'The Last of Us' release every Sunday on HBO.
