In addition to being an unusually hopeful look at The Last of Us' bleak world, Episode 3 is significant for another reason: being, hands down, the biggest change from the source material yet. The question is that is it always going to inspire Joel to do the right thing? We'll have to wait and see.' And it's hard for Joel to say, 'Well, it didn't work with Tess, but now what am I supposed to do? Stop being who I am? This is legitimately why I'm here.' And so it's the happy ending and Bill's understanding of who he was as a human being that inspires Joel to do the right thing here. 'He's given Joel this posthumous instruction that men like you and me are here for one reason, to protect the people we love, and God help any motherfuckers who stand in our way. has managed to inspire Joel to take Ellie west,' Mazin says. 'I'm particularly happy about the way Bill. Showrunner Craig Mazin and game creator and show executive producer Neil Druckmann spoke to IGN about the gut-wrenching episode, explaining why they chose to tell a story about two people who found love in a hopeless place. making himself a laced glass of wine as well, as he can't bare to imagine life without his lover.īefore all that happens, the series gives us glimpses into their relationship throughout the years, including their most romantic of highs and the realistic frustrations of any romantic partnership living out 20 years together in the apocalypse.

He asks Bill to lace his glass of wine with sleeping pills, and Bill does as he's told. But it's not because he was infected it's because he's succumbing to a terminal illness and chooses to go out on his own terms.

It charts their relationship from beginning to end, which starts after Bill (played here by Nick Offerman) finds Frank (Murray Bartlett) stuck in one of his traps and still ends with Frank deciding to end his own life. But the show changes that almost entirely, leaving Ellie and Joel for a bit to give us an episode devoted to telling Bill and Frank's love story.

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