Joel Kills Marlene and Saves Ellie Full Scene - The Last of Us Episode 9 HBO Ending

Joel taking Ellie back from Fireflies, Joel kills Abby's father and Marlene the Fireflies leader.
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[markmauk]

Joel is a merciless and cold blooded killer while also being a loving and caring man which is extremely hard to play, but Pedro Pascal did it.

[tebyher]

"If the lord gave me a second chance to going back to that moment, i'll do it all over again"

-Joel Miller

[MinersLoveGames]

I love Pedro's take on the "You'll just come after her." line. In the game, it's much more cold and matter-of-fact. She's one last threat to deal with.
Here, it's much more subdued and non-chalant almost, like Marlene's a mere after-thought barely worth his time.

[kevsdigitalartsmore]

If I were Joel I’ll do the same thing. Call me selfish. I ain’t losing a daughter if it’s within my control, especially after losing one in the past.

[WestAirAviation]

What makes humanity not worth saving is that the Fireflies didn't give Ellie or Joel a choice or let them say goodbye; Instead they tried to snatch their lives away with the same brutality as every other threat we've encountered along Joel and Ellie's journey.

The irony is that, had they sat Joel and Ellie down and explained the situation, Ellie would've elected to sacrifice herself, and she'd have been more than capable of talking Joel into accepting it. But the Fireflies were so devoid of humanity, at that point, that they never even considered it. And so some viewers may conclude that the only thing worth saving were the families already safe at Tommy's town, to which Ellie and Joel belong.

[Dionysus]

Part of me imagines that if the Fireflies hadn’t flashbanged them, captured them, and gone on to simply TAKE what they needed, this ending might have been avoided. It might have been a conversation where Ellie made her own choice, and Joel may have accepted it. But they were attacked, Joel was disarmed and restrained, Ellie was lied to, and the Fireflies behaved like tyrannical assholes. In a number of ways, Joel was perfectly justified in killing every last one of them.

[supersnow]

Cold blooded to the very end. That's our Joel everyone.

[aeris...]

Omg the real voice of marlene doing the scene in a real show its come full circle

[damedeviant]

Pedro did a great job. He’s not full of rage like in the game - he’s just cold, almost detached and matter of fact. It really highlighted the anti-hero dichotomy better, that this was a terrible act done out of love.

[thefightingfadoraguy]

3:38 "You pull that trigger you'll never-"

[OneReallyGrumpyJill]

I always found Joel intimidating not because he was some sadistic fuck or because he was a raging massive of muscles, no, he was always scary because he just doesn't care - there is no pity, no honor, no grieve or glee - killing is just another way of getting the result, and he will do it in the most direct and efficient manner possible.

[catenystrom]

Pedro Pascal was just incredible in this role, vulnerable, scary, grumpy, funny, so full of grief, yet in the end, showing such love and devotion...he DESERVES that Emmy.

[DeadShot]

Quick note; The music playing here where Joel lies to Ellie, and makes the decision to leave with her- its the EXACT track that plays in Part 2 after that infamous scene.
The subtle connection already begins as Joel seals his fate.

[lseward]

It was clear that Joel and Ellie thought it was Ellie’s blood that would be used as a cure - not her brain. Plus, it was also clear the people didn’t realize what they were doing - they were just Hoping it would work.

[mckfrr]

I know some people agree with Marlene. But my thing is, if it does work, how do you know if Marlene will actually give the cure to everyone else outside the fireflies and not just use it as power and leverage over the other groups like Fedra. She could be like, give me this or make me a queen and I’ll give you some of the cure. I don’t think the cure should be held by one group. I think it should be a major effort by all groups coming together discussing how to make it or how to distribute it. It’s too dangerous to give power to one group like that. Look what happened to Kansas City fedra. Henry was right, you torture and kill people for so long, those same people will torture and kill you right back.

[IIBloodXLustII]

And here is where we learn that Ellie wasn't actually given the choice either. They were going to kill a little girl on a chance without giving her any kind of choice at all.

[tkell]

Amazing. Granted they got handed an amazing script, but they really nailed it.

[strpe]

The most disturbing bit is that she’s not immune. You can’t be “immune” to fungal infection. She infected with a benign strain. They deadass could have just taken a sample from her veins and infected another person with said strain like with the zombie one. Dissection was complete overkill

[Kevin_Kennelly]

That final scene "You'd just come after her."
That is called "moral certainty".

[GUSXNMAN]

I can see what they were going for with Joel being almost possessnt with rage and anger to the point were his fight or flight mode kicked in and he choose fight . I like this version but I prefer the games version because in that one Joel sounds devastated and borderline crying when he says the line "you'd just come after her" like he knows what he's doing is bad but can't stop because he wants another chance at being a dad so badly that he'll go to extreme measures to get it.