I also wanna talk about how interesting Nora explaining to Ellie what Joel did was.
I know we're tired of them bringing it up, spelling out Joel's actions, but this is the first time that we see Ellie confronted with that info. It's not the first time she's heard it, but we as the audience didn't know that (unless you played the games, obviously).
And her reaction is SO interesting. Because not only do we get her ackowledgment that she knows already, but she continues on with her mission.
We learn that she knows that Joel killed all those people in the hospital for her. She knows that he shot the doctor to save her, ruining the world's chances at a vaccine. She knows that he took away the one thing that was meant to make all the horrible things that have happened in her short life mean something.
She understands that Joel killed Abby's father, that she was filled with the same grief and anger that Ellie feels now. She knows exactly how Abby felt.
She doesn't give a shit, and proceeds to torture and kill Nora for the information she wants. She still wants to kill Abby. She still wants to go ahead with everything, despite having Jesse and Tommy and Dina waiting for her.
We see Ellie go from not being able to look at Joel, to throwing everything away to avenge him. We finally see the three months of accumulated emotion burst out in this moment. We get to see how Ellie has truly been feeling, what the toll of Joel's death has done to her.
That simple "I know" marks the point of no return.
There is no way that Ellie can every truly come back from this.
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