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Our Last of Us episode 3 breakdown is here! Last of Us episode 3 tells a touching story about two men who find one another in the midst of the outbreak. Their story closely mirrors the larger story of Joel and Ellie.

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A 'lot of you may be thinking that the episode didn’t move the story forward very much, because we spend most of it with two side characters who are already dead. But this episode was necessary for a few reasons. It perfectly encapsulated the theme of the series, and serves as a microcosm for Joel and Ellie’s journey.

Doug: Say what now?

Basically, this episode shows what’s really at stake for humanity. Are people going to survive, or are they going to live for something? And, it’s everything that I want from an adaptation. When the series was announced, I thought that all you would have to do to make a show was refilm the cutscenes into a movie, because the story of the game is so good. Well, [obi wan, i was wrong]. This episode shows the right way to adapt one medium into another.

Doug: What do you mean?

Well, let me tell you what the Bill story is like in the game. For one thing, Bill has rigged up an entire town with traps, not just one street of a subdivision. I think the show changed this for budget reasons, but it also made the story more personal. Bill isn’t interested in the town, he just wants his house, his own little fortress to protect.

Then Joel and Ellie try to avoid the traps in town, and there’s even a sequence where he hangs upside down and has to shoot infected to save her–then Bill saves his life and they go to grab a car battery before zombies can kill them.

The key difference is that we don't meet Frank. We hear about him. [clip]

Doug: Hey Bill’s voice sounds familiar.

That's because he’s voiced by W Earl Brown, Dan from Deadwood. [clip].

Doug:Oh, uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Then when they find Frank’s body, it just seems like he’s Bill's buddy that did himself in [clip]. Though, in hindsight, there are hints that they were romantic. [clip] But we don’t find out that Bill is gay until Ellie reveals the playgirl magazine she found in his house [clip].

And the only real indication we get about their relationship was a note that you find in the house:

Well, Bill, I doubt you'd ever find this note cause you were too scared to ever make it to this part of town. But if for some reason you did, I want you to know I hated your guts. I grew tired of this shitty town and your set-in-your-ways attitude. I wanted more from life than this and you could never get that.