There’s A Scene That The Last Of Us Won’t Show Us That’s Way Darker Than Anything In The Finale – Looper

A fuguelike state likely came over Gus Oates as he looked down from the second-story bedroom window of the cold, quiet brownstone where he’d remained with his mother years into his adulthood. Watching as his neighbors panicked, some fleeing, some securing their homes, he knew that time was short. His mother was a lost cause. It was Gus’s time now.

The pieces clicked together all at once. The only home he’d ever really had was with his sister, sitting at the edge of her bed, surrounded by her dolls. He’d always wanted to buy them new outfits and accessories to make his sister happy but lacked the means as a child to do so. Today was his day.

Unaffected by the sobs of his panicked mother, Gus Oates walked out into the outside world. He was possessed with a determination he had never before experienced. Brutishly, he pulled an elderly neighbor from the driver’s seat of his car as the old man tried to escape the city. Cold, dispassionate, the way he’d taught himself to be, he drove to the mall.

Looters milled around Gus Oates like river rapids around an immovable stone. Single-minded, he walked to the American Girl store, where he had to wrestle a real weirdo for a Felicity doll. Then Gus’s appendix burst for unrelated reasons, and he sat quietly in the corner, where cordyceps swiftly consumed him, turning him into the monster that bit Ellie later in episode seven.

Or maybe one of the infected wandered through the shop at some point and knocked a bunch of stuff over. Either way, huge drag. Maybe season two of “The Last Of Us” will do a flashback.

“Giraffest of Us.” Good stuff.