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[theme music playing]

[water running]

You want your jacket back?

I've never been in the woods.

More bugs than I thought.

- Look, I've been thinking about... - I don't want your sorries.

I wasn't gonna say I'm sorry.

I was gonna say that I've been thinking about what happened.

Nobody made you or Tess take me.

Nobody made you go along with this plan.

You needed a truck battery or whatever, and you made a choice.

So don't blame me for something that isn't my fault.

How much longer?

[Joel] Five-hour hike.

We can manage that.

Have you gone this way a lot?

No Infected?

Not often, no.

What are you looking out for?

[Joel] People.

[Ellie] Are Bill and Frank nice?

[Joel] Frank is.

[Ellie] How'd you get that scar on your head?

- [Joel sighs] - What? Is it something lame?

Like you fell down the stairs or something?

- [Joel] I didn't fall down any stairs. - Okay, so what then?

Someone shot at me and missed.

See, that's cool.

You shoot back?

- Yeah. - You get him?

No, I missed, too. It happens more often than you think.

'Cause you suck at shooting or, like, in general?

In general.

You know, seeing as it's just the two of us,

- I was thinking I should... - No.

[birds chirping distantly]

"Cumberland Farms."

Hang back a minute. I gotta grab some stuff I stashed.

Stashed? Why do you have stuff stashed here?

You ask a lot of goddamn questions.

Yes. I do.

[Ellie] So, are you gonna answer me or what?

[Joel] We hide supplies on routes in case we find ourselves short on gear,

- which I currently am 'cause... - No way!

You ever play this one?

I had a friend who knew everything about this game.

There's this one character named Mileena who takes off her mask

and she has monster teeth, and then she swallows you whole

and barfs out your bones.

Oh, man.

You forgot where you put your stuff.

No, I'm just zeroing in on it.

It's been a couple of years.

Okay, well, I'm gonna take a look around,

see if there's anything good.

[Joel] Trust me, it's all been picked over already.

[Ellie] Maybe, maybe not.

- Is there anything bad in here? - [Joel] Just you.

Ah. Getting funnier.

[slams]

Fuck.

- [Joel] You all right back there? - Yep!

[grunts softly]

Fuck, yeah.

[shrieking sound]

[hissing breath]

- [groans] - [gasps nervously]

[broken shrieking]

[floor pops]

[breathing heavily]

[stabbing]

Ellie?

[thudding]

Ellie!

Ellie?

Picked over, my ass.

[Ellie] What are you doing?

There's not much ammo out there for this thing.

Makes it mostly useless.

Well, if you're just gonna leave it there...

No.

Holy shit.

You fly in one of those?

- Few times, sure. - So lucky.

Didn't feel like it at the time.

Get shoved into a middle seat, pay 12 bucks for a sandwich.

Dude, you got to go up in the sky.

Yeah, well, so did they.

[Ellie] Grim.

So everything came crashing down in one day?

- [Joel] Pretty much. - [Ellie] How?

I mean, no one was infected with Cordyceps, everybody's fine,

eating in restaurants and flying in planes,

and then, all at once?

How did it even start?

If you have to get bit to be infected, then who bit the first person?

Was it a monkey? I bet it was a monkey.

It wasn't a monkey. I thought you went to school.

FEDRA school. They don't teach us

how their shitty government failed to prevent a pandemic.

No one knows for sure, but, best guess,

Cordyceps mutated.

Some of it got into the food supply.

Probably a basic ingredient, like flour or sugar.

There were certain brands of food that were sold everywhere,

all across the country, across the world.

Bread, cereal, pancake mix.

You eat enough of it, it'll get you infected.

So the tainted food all hits the store shelves

around the same time, Thursday.

People bought it,

ate some Thursday night or Friday morning.

Day goes on, they start to get sick.

Afternoon, evening, they got worse.

Then they started biting.

Friday night, September 26, 2003.

And by Monday, everything was gone.

That makes more sense than monkeys.

Thanks.

Sure.

What?

We'll cut across the woods here.

[Ellie] Isn't the road easier?

[Joel] Yeah, it's just...

There's stuff up there you shouldn't see.

[Ellie] Well, now I have to see.

[Joel] I don't want you to.

I'm serious. Ellie.

Can it hurt me?

No.

You're too honest, man. Should've said axe murderer.

Uh, whatever it was, I think it's gone.

About a week after outbreak day, soldiers...

went through the countryside, evacuated the small towns.

Told you you were going to a QZ, and you were,

if there was room.

If there wasn't...

These people weren't sick?

No, probably not.

Why kill them?

Why not just leave 'em be?

Dead people can't be infected.

[baby crying]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct announcement over P.A.]

[woman] Mommy's here.

[door closes]

[footsteps approaching]

[soldier] No, sir. We're in the basement now. There's no one here.

[officer] Let's check back with the others.

Not today, you new-world-order jackboot fucks.

[vehicle revs]

["I'm Coming Home to Stay" playing]

[safety alarm blaring]

I'll be coming home soon, baby...

Yes, when I get back with you, baby

You know I ain't going to leave no more

[power down]

Yes, when I get on that train, baby...

That was fast.

- [engine revving] - [crashing]

I'll give you all the love in the world

I've had in store for you Since I've been gone...

[song continues]

Oh, yes

[sputtering]

[motoring on]

Well, I ain't going to leave no more Little girl

This time I'm coming home to stay

Well, I ain't going to leave no more Little girl

This time I'm coming home to stay

I'm 'on give you a new good mother

Every night and every day

Oh, yes

[song ends]

Hmm.

[doorbell buzzes]

Keep coming.

- [gunshots] - [Bill chuckles] Whoa.

It doesn't get old.

["White Room" playing]

[electronic lock clicks]

["White Room" playing]

In the white room with black curtains Near the station

Silver horses...

...ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes

[doorbell buzzes]

Dawn light smiles on you leaving My contentment...

I'll wait in this...

[electronic security lock beeps]

[Frank] I'm not infected!

Are you armed?

- [Frank] No. - Why did you take that long to answer?

[Frank] I don't know.

I thought about lying for some reason, but a reason didn't come.

Look, I'm just trying to get to Boston.

[Bill] Alone?

We started with ten.

But yeah, I'm alone.

From where?

Baltimore QZ.

It's gone.

[breath trembling]

Are you hurt?

There's just a bruise.

Oh, fuck.

[Bill] Stop there.

How'd you get that?

[clicks, beeps]

Boston is that way.

You can make it by nightfall.

I'm really hungry.

Haven't eaten in two days.

It doesn't sound very long out loud, does it?

- It feels long. - I'm letting you go, so go.

All right, look...

- First, my name's Frank... - [Bill] Oh, yeah?

[Bill] Here's the thing, Frank.

If I feed you, then every bum you talk to about it is

gonna show up here looking for a free lunch.

And this is not an Arby's.

Well, Arby's didn't have free lunch. It was a restaurant.

I won't talk about it to any bums or hobos or vagabonds, I promise.

You already know I'm bad at lying.

[water trickling in the shower]

I left some clothes here for you.

[Frank] What?

Clothes!

[Frank] Thank you! Almost done.

- Although, can I have five more minutes? - Sure.

Sure!

[Frank] Thank you! This is amazing!

[cutlery clattering]

[thud on door]

[moans]

What the fuck?

Everything tastes good when you're starving.

Yeah, but not like this.

[sighs excitedly]

My God.

A man who knows to pair rabbit with a Beaujolais.

I know I don't seem like the type.

No, you do.

[sighs in relief]

[bell tolling]

- There is more, if... - No, I can't.

I want to, believe me. But...

Whoo [chuckles].

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

So, I guess I'll be going then.

But first...

I've been staring at this the whole time.

- Is it antique? - 1948.

Wow! You know how much these are worth?

Currently, nothing.

"Fur Elise." "Tales of Hoffmann"? Yuck.

- These aren't yours. - My mother's. Could you not...

This is you.

[chuckles]

Oh, my...

Oh, my God. It's my favorite.

[plays piano]

[singing] Love will abide

Take things in stride

Sounds like good advice

But there's no one at my side

- [continues singing] - No, no, no. No, thank you. Sorry.

- Not this song. Not this song. - Well, I'm not a professional.

Well, neither am I, but...

And then I'll leave.

[plays piano softly]

[Bill singing] Love will abide

Take things in stride

Sounds like good advice

But there's no one at my side

And time washes clean

Love's wounds unseen

That's what someone told me

But I don't know what it means

'Cause I've done everything I know

To try and make you mine

And I think I'm gonna love you

For a long, long time

So, who's the girl?

Girl you're singing about?

There is no girl.

[Frank] I know.

What's your name?

Bill.

Go take a shower, Bill.

Okay.

Have you ever done this before?

Not with anyone?

- With a girl a long time ago... - Yeah, I know, so...

I'm gonna start with the simple things.

- [deep exhaling] - [chuckles nervously]

- Okay. - Okay.

But before I do, I want you to know that I'm not a whore.

I don't have sex for lunches,

not even great ones.

So, if I do this,

I am gonna stay for a few more days.

Is that okay?

Yeah. Yes.

[Bill] Oh, fuck you!

Come on!

Hey! Would you stop?

Do I ask for things? Ever?

Why am I even saying that?

This isn't for me. This is for us.

Who cares what they look like?

I do!

Our home isn't just our house. It's everything around us!

- Give me a fucking break! - Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot.

I live in this world.

You live in a psycho bunker where 9/11 was an inside job

and the government are all Nazis.

- The government are all Nazis! - Well, yeah, now! But not then!

I am asking for some paint

and some gasoline for the lawnmower. That's all.

I'll do everything else myself.

- It is not a... - Bill, if you say "resource management,"

so help me, I will run through one of your trip wires.

- [sighing grimly] - [deep breath]

Okay, okay.

- Just tell me why. - I did.

Paying attention to things,

it's how we show love.

This is my street too.

Just let me love it the way I want to.

And I'm fixing up some of the shops.

Not the stupid ones.

Just the wine shop and the furniture store.

And the clothing boutique.

The boutique?

Are we hosting formal garden parties now?

No.

But we are gonna have friends.

[scoffs] Excuse me?

We're gonna make friends,

and we will invite them to visit.

We don't have friends, Frank.

We will never have friends,

because there are no friends to be had.

Well, I've actually been talking to a nice woman on the radio.

You what?

[Tess] Well, this really is just amazing.

- [Frank] Right? - [Tess] Mm-hm.

Can you not, please?

- I'm the same way. - You're a paranoid schizophrenic, too?

I'm not schizophrenic.

[Tess clears throat] Well, can I just say,

gun aside, which I get, by the way,

how nice this is to have a civilized meal

in such a beautiful place.

It's been so long.

I mean, I want to thank you.

Even if we don't end up working together,

I really needed this.

We are working together.

We are.

You know what? Let's go inside. Tess, I want to show you something.

- I have been wanting to see inside. - Bring your wine.

- [Bill] Not inside. Frank! - [Tess] Thank you, yes.

Frank!

[door closes]

I understand.

If my...

If mine...

brought strangers into our situation, I wouldn't be happy either.

But of all the people he could've found on the radio,

we're actually decent people just trying to get by.

Oh.

Well, aren't I the lucky one?

There's stuff we have in the QZ that you don't have here.

Books, medicine, machine parts.

We can help each other

and get that gun out of my face.

So, what, you were...

a prepper, or something?

A survivalist.

Maybe you are decent people.

Maybe not. Doesn't matter.

We're self-sufficient here.

I don't need you or your friend complicating our lives.

Is that clear?

That fence has got a year on it, tops.

Galvanized wire already started to corrode.

I can get you ten spools of high-tensile aluminum.

Last you the rest of your life.

Lives.

- [Tess] Are you sure about this? - Yeah. I mean, it's not a gift.

- You come back, we'll trade. - All right.

And I had this idea that we should use codes for the radio

in case anyone's listening.

That's a good idea. Like, with what?

[Frank] I was thinking, like, the decades.

Like, the '80s, trouble.

[chattering indistinctly]

FEDRA's never gonna come up here.

And you're well-protected against stray Infected.

But sooner or later, there'll be raiders.

And they'll beat that fence and your tripwires.

They'll come at night,

quiet and armed.

We'll be fine.

Pick it up.

I can't.

Just one more loop around.

I got something to show you.

[Bill] Huh?

Not that.

[groaning softly]

[Frank] Nearly there.

- [Bill pants] - [laughs]

You can make it.

- What? - It's okay.

- Ready? - Yes.

- [Bill exclaims] - [Frank giggles]

I traded Joel and Tess one of your guns for a packet of seeds.

Which gun?

A little one.

[laughs heartily]

- [sniffles] - [Frank] Mm.

I'm sorry.

For what?

Getting older faster than you.

I like you older.

Older means we're still here.

What?

I was never afraid before you showed up.

Not on the strawberries.

Right.

- [rain pattering] - [thunder rumbling]

[device beeping]

[light crackling]

- [distant explosion] - [man shouts indistinctly]

[Bill] Shit.

- [explosion] - [men yell indistinctly]

Bill!

Bill!

Bill?

- [gunshots fired] - Bill!

- [men yell indistinctly] - [gunshots fired]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

[man screeches]

Bill! Bill!

- [Bill] Get inside! - [gunshots]

- No! - We gotta get you inside.

- No! - [Frank] Bill, inside, now!

- [gunshots] - Hold on to me.

- I got you. - [explosion]

[man yells]

- [Bill grunts] - Okay.

- [Frank] There we go. - [Bill grunts]

[man screams]

- [heavy breathing] - [Frank] Okay.

We got this.

- [Bill groans] - Can you hold your hand there for me?

Hold your hand there.

Frank.

- Frank! - [Frank] I'm right here.

- Frank, leave the gas on. - I'm right here.

- I'm right here. - [Bill] Leave the gas on.

The fence will kill the rest of them.

Okay, yep.

- I made a list for you. - Uh-huh.

Tell me about the list.

- I have copies of all the keys. - [Frank] Good.

[Bill grunts] Yeah.

- Call Joel. - Uh-huh.

You can't be here alone.

I'm not alone.

- You're here. - [Bill] No.

Call Joel.

- Okay, here we go. - No.

[Bill sobs, groans]

- It's okay. - Call Joel.

- He'll take care of you. - [Frank] There we go.

[Frank] Okay.

Okay.

[Frank] Bill?

Bill.

[Bill] Mm.

[Frank] It's getting cold.

[Bill] Okay.

- [Bill] Let me bring you inside. - [Frank] Yeah.

Okay. There we go.

- Okay? - Mm-hm.

- We'll get you warmed up. - Yeah.

- Did you take your pills? - No.

One orangey,

a little whitey,

and a big roundy.

[Frank grunts softly]

Took most of the night.

[chuckles softly] I'm exhausted.

God damn it.

You got to be kidding me.

I don't want you falling asleep in the chair.

- I won't. - You will, and then your feet get blue.

- Bill... - I'm not fighting about it.

- Back in bed. - I promise you, I'm gonna stay up.

- Why? - 'Cause this is my last day.

Wh...

What if we find a doctor?

What if someone shows up who can help?

Who's coming, Bill? The door-to-door MRI salesman?

There wasn't anything to cure this before the world fell apart.

I've made up my mind.

Bill.

Bill.

Come here.

[Bill grunts softly]

[sighing sadly]

I'm not gonna give you

the "Every day was a wonderful gift from God" speech.

I've had a lot of bad days.

I've had bad days with you too.

But I've had more good days with you than with anyone else.

Just give me one more good day.

Starting now. Make me some toast.

[Frank chuckles]

Then take me to the boutique,

where I'll pick outfits for us.

You'll wear what I ask.

And we'll get married.

And you'll cook a delicious dinner.

Then you will crush all of these up,

put them in my wine,

I will drink it.

Then you will take me by my hand,

bring me to our bed,

and I will fall asleep in your arms.

[crying]

[stuttering] I... I can't.

Do you love me?

Yes.

Then love me the way I want you to.

[gentle music playing]

[leaves rustling]

[soft enchanting music playing]

[clinking]

[door opens]

Will it be enough?

Yeah.

Were there already pills in the bottle?

Enough to kill a horse.

This isn't the tragic suicide at the end of the play.

I'm old.

I'm satisfied.

And you were my purpose.

[sighing grimly] I do not support this.

I should be furious.

But from an objective point of view...

it's incredibly romantic.

[laughs nervously]

Take me to bed.

[soft instrumental music playing]

Stay there.

[fence opens]

What the fuck?

Bill?

Frank?

Stay there.

You hear anything, you see anything...

yell.

What if they're gone?

[door opens]

Ellie?

It's from Bill.

"To whomever, but probably Joel."

I figured I fell under "Whomever."

Came with this.

- So, they're dead? - Mm-hm.

You want to...

Go ahead. You do it.

"August 29, 2023.

If you find this, please do not come into the bedroom.

We left the window open so the house wouldn't smell.

It will probably be a sight.

I'm guessing you found this, Joel,

because anyone else would've been electrocuted

or blown up by one of my traps.

Hehehehehehehehe.

Take anything you need.

The bunker code is the same as the gate code, but in reverse.

Anyway, I never liked you.

But still, it's like we're friends.

Almost.

And I respect you.

So, I'm gonna tell you something,

because you're probably the only person who will understand.

I used to hate the world, and I was happy when everyone died.

But I was wrong.

Because there was one person worth saving.

That's what I did.

I saved him.

Then I protected him.

That's why men like you and me are here.

We have a job to do.

And God help any motherfuckers who stand in our way.

I leave you all of my weapons and equipment.

Use them to keep..."

Stay here.

Show me your arm.

I just finished making a truck battery. It's charging right now.

Okay.

And I have a brother out in Wyoming.

He's in some kind of trouble, and I'm heading out there to find him.

He used to be a Firefly.

My guess is he knows where some of them are out there.

Maybe they can get you to wherever this lab is.

All right.

Listen, about Tess...

If I'm taking you with me, there's some rules you've gotta follow.

Rule one, you don't bring up Tess, ever.

Matter of fact, we can just keep our histories to ourselves.

Rule two,

you don't tell anyone about your...

condition.

They see that bite mark,

they won't think it through, they'll just shoot you.

Rule three,

you do what I say when I say it.

We clear?

- Yes. - Repeat it.

What you say goes.

Okay.

[sighs] So, what now?

We grab what we can.

["Chains of Love" playing]

[Ellie] Holy shit.

This guy was a genius.

Why was the music on?

If he didn't reset the countdown every few weeks,

this playlist would run over the radio.

'80s.

Grab some cans from over there.

Nothing dented or swollen.

- Dude. - No.

There's a wall of them.

[Joel] Needs another hour.

They have hot water!

I'm taking a shower.

And then you're showering.

'Cause, seriously.

[puffs]

[footsteps approaching]

Oh, shit.

Don't you look pretty!

Shut up.

Nice.

It's your first time in a car?

It's like a spaceship.

No, it's like a piece of shit Chevy S10. But it'll get us there.

I think.

Seatbelt.

Seatbelt.

So cool.

[car engine starting]

Leave it.

Put it back. Ellie.

["Long Long Time" playing on car stereo]

And I think it's...

No, no. No, wait. No, leave it. Leave it. No, this is good.

This is Linda Ronstadt.

You know who Linda Ronstadt is?

You know I don't know who Linda Ronstadt is.

Oh, man.

It's better than nothing.

Wait for the day

You'll go away

- [device beeps] - [electric fence opens]

Knowing that you warned me

Of the price I'd have to pay

And life's full of flaws

Who knows the cause

Living in the memory

Of a love that never was

Cause I've done everything I know

To try and change your mind

And I think I'm going to love you

For a long, long time

Love will abide

Take things in stride

Sounds like good advice

But there's no one at my side

And time washes clean

Love's wounds unseen

That's what someone told me

But I don't know what it means

Cause I've done everything...