[In the snowy mountains, Ellie kills a rabbit with her bow.]

Ellie: Oh, this won't last very long.

[She sees a deer nearby and ties Callus to a tree.]

Ellie: You'll just startle it.

[She starts tracking it.]

Ellie: Where'd you go? There he is.

[She chases the buck and wounds it. It spooks again afterwards.]

Ellie: Shit, he heard that.

[Eventually she gets in another good shot, but it still runs off.]

Ellie: Oh man. How are you still alive?

[She finds an old mining camp.]

Ellie: What is this place? Everything's cool. This place is not creepy at all. Oh.

[The stag is dead nearby. She goes to check but hears a footstep.]
Ellie: Who's there? Come out!

[Two other hunters are also there. She readies her bow.]

Man: Hello...we just want to talk.

Ellie: Any sudden moves and I put one right between your eyes. Ditto for buddy boy over there. What do you want?

David: Um, name's David, this here's my friend James. We're from a larger group -- women, children. We're all very, very hungry.

Ellie: So am I -- women and children -- all very hungry too.

David: Well maybe we could, ah, trade you for some of that meat there. What do you need? Weapons, ammo, clothes--

Ellie: Medicine! Do you have any antibiotics?

David: We do. Back at the camp. You're welcome to follow us--

Ellie: I'm not following you anywhere. Buddy boy can go get it. He comes back with what I need, the deer is all yours. Anyone else shows up--

David: You put one right between my eyes.

Ellie: That's right.

David: Two bottles of penicillin and a syringe. Make it fast. Go on.
[James runs off.]

Ellie: I'll take that rifle.

David: Of course.

Ellie: Back up.

[She swaps out her bow for his rifle and holds him at gunpoint.]

David: He's probably gonna be awhile. You, ah, mind if we take some shelter from the cold?

Ellie: Bring him with us.

[David drags the deer inside and they build a fire.]

David: There. You know you really shouldn't be out here all on your own.

Ellie: I don't like company.

David: I see. What's your name?

Ellie: Why?

David: Look, I understand it's not easy to trust a couple of strangers. Whoever's hurt, you clearly care about them. I'm sure it's gonna be just fine.
Ellie: We'll see.

[A clicker enters the house. David grabs a nearby gun and kills it mid-lunge.]

Ellie: You had another gun?

David: Sorry.

[More infected approach.]

David: Okay, I'd really like my rifle back now.

Ellie: No, you have your pistol.

David: I hope you know how to use that thing.

Ellie: I've had some practice.

[He shuts the door and puts a tarp on the deer.]

David: No matter what, we have to keep them out. Let's hope they don't find him. Cover the windows.

Ellie: Okay.

David: Make every shot count now.

Ellie: I've done this before.

David: You weren't kidding. You're a better shot with that thing than I am. Gimme a hand with this.

Ellie: Agh, c'mon, c'mon.

[They barricade a window, but a clicker grabs Ellie. David saves her.]

Ellie: Oh shit.

David: Nothin' over here. Oh lord, there's a whole lot of 'em comin' at us. Don't let 'em come through the windows.

[The infected keep coming.]

David: Screw it. We're gettin' outta this room!

[He kicks down a boarded-up door nearby.]

David: Alright, kid. This way.

Ellie: Fucking infected.

David: C'mon. I'll block their path. Cover the stairs!

[He barricades the stairway.]

David: Follow me. Through here.

Ellie: Okay. Do you know where you're going?

David: I've never set foot in this place.

Ellie: Oh. Great.

David: It's clear. This way.

Ellie: Right behind you.

David: How you holdin' up?

Ellie: You don't need to worry about me.

David: Alright. Stay close.

Ellie: Oh shit!

[He hops a catwalk barricade safely, but Ellie falls down to the ground floor.]

David: Hey, kid -- you alright?

Ellie: I'm fine...

David: More clickers. Get outta there!

[She climbs back up a ways. David kills a clicker to open her path.]

David: You alright?

Ellie: Oh, there you are.

David: C'mon -- door's this way. There. That ladder could work.

Ellie: Here. C'mere, boost me up.

David: Okay, ready?

Ellie: Hang on...

David: Alright. You be quick...keep a lookout for those things.

Ellie: I know.

[She kills a clicker on the catwalk.]

David: What's goin' on up there? Everything alright?

Ellie: Yeah, it's okay. Alright. Here you go.

[She drops the ladder down.]

David: C'mon. Alright, look out. Through here. Come on, kid! We need to find a way outta here. There's gotta be a way outta here.

[In a far elevator room, Ellie finds a corpse.]

Ellie: Geez. Looks like someone already fought those things and lost.

David: Ah, Lord. I've been lookin' for these boys. Doesn't matter. Grab their gear. I'm gonna look for an exit. Keep your eyes open for anything we can use!

Ellie: See anything?

David: It's a dead end. How on earth did they use this building?

Ellie: So what do we do?

David: We hold our ground.

Ellie: Is there any other choice?

David: We die. Get ready.

Ellie: You hear that? They're on the roof!

David: I know!

[They fight off the rooftop wave.]

David: We're doin' fine, kid.

Ellie: It doesn't feel like it.

David: Just stay focused. We'll make it. Here come more!

Ellie: How many of these things are there?

David: I have no idea. Just keep at it.

[They hear an odd infected noise.]

David: That doesn't sound good.

Ellie: It's a bloater!

David: A what?!

Ellie: One of those big fucking guys.

[They slay the bloater.]

David: Hey, kid!

Ellie: Yeah?

David: You know, I think we did it.

Ellie: Like we killed all of 'em?

David: Don't sound so disappointed.

Ellie: More like disbelief.

David: I'll check the bridge.

[They go to the bridge.]

David: Listen.

Ellie: No infected.

David: No infected. What'd I tell ya? Alright. Let's head on back, check on that buck of ours.

[They return to the deer cabin and crouch by the fire.]

David: You handled yourself pretty nice back there. Ha, whew, I say we make a pretty good team.

Ellie: Psshh. We got lucky.

David: Lucky? No, no...no such thing as luck. No, you see I believe that everything happens for a reason.

Ellie: Sure.

David: I do. And I can prove it to you. Now, this winter has been especially cruel. A few weeks back, I ah...sent a group of men out -- nearby town to look for food. Only a few came back. They said that the others had been, ah, slaughtered by a crazy man. And get this, he's a crazy man traveling with a little girl. You see? Everything happens for a reason.

[She puts him back at gunpoint.]

David: Now don't get upset. It's not your fault. You're just a kid. James, lower the gun.

[Ellie turns around to see James has had her in his sights the whole time.]

James: No way, David. I'm not gonna let her go.

David: Lower the gun. Now give her the medicine.

[He tosses the parcel on the floor.]

James: The others won't be happy about this.

David: Yeah, well, that's not your concern.

Ellie: Move the fuck out of the way.

David: You won't survive long out there. I can protect you.

Ellie: No thanks.

[Medicine in hand, Ellie runs back to Callus.]

Ellie: Let's get outta here. Come on.

[Eventually she returns to the lakeside resort she's been holed up in.]

Ellie: Come on. Okay...

[She goes to the room where she's been nursing a feverish Joel back to health.]

Ellie: Joel? Oh... I only managed to get a little bit of food. But...I did get this. Move your arm. Oh... Here we go.

[She gives him the injection, causing him to whinge.]

Ellie: Sorry. All done. That's it. You're gonna make it.

[She lays beside him and gets some sleep. In the morning, she hears hunters.]

Ellie: Oh, fuck. They tracked me. I'm gonna draw them away from here. I'll come back for you.

[She leaves the garage, lowering the door quietly.]

Ellie: Easy... Go... C'mon...

Hunter: Are you even sure she's here?

Hunter 2: Man, there were horse tracks down the fucking street. She's here.

[She tries sneaking by on Callus, but gets blindsided by a hunter.]

Hunter 3: Hey! I got her! Get your ass ov--

[She stabs him in the throat.]

Hunter 2: What are you waiting for? Shoot her!

Hunter: But David said--

Hunter 2: Fuck David. Shoot her now!

Ellie: Go!

[She rides through the deserted resort, evading hunters' gunfire.]

Hunter 4: There!

Hunter 5: Grab her!

Hunter 6: Aim for the horse! Don't let her through!

Hunter 7: Get your ass off that damn horse!

Hunter 8: Shit! She's running!

Hunter 9: She's getting away!

Ellie: Come get me, you fuckers!

Hunter 10: Shoot the horse! Shoot the fucking horse!

[She almost makes it out, but Callus is shot, throwing them both down a bank.]

Ellie: Oh man... No... Oh shit. Okay...

Hunter: She fell down the hill somewhere. I don't see her though.

Hunter 2: She's running for the cabins!

[Ellie takes refuge in a cabin nearby.]

Hunter: Are we really killing her? David said he wants her alive.

Hunter 2: He doesn't get to make that call. James to me it's the girl from the university. How many of our guys were killed there?

Hunter: Oh shit. I didn't know that was her. Screw David, then. I ain't taking a chance with this.

Hunter 2: I just want to finish up and go home. I'm freezing my ass off.

[She kills the rest and finds the exit along a broken cliffside path.]

Ellie: Nature track... Okay, that should get me out of here. You got this, Ellie. Okay, don't fall in the water. Don't fall in. Oh, shit... Okay.

[She finds blockage at a culvert.]

Ellie: Here we go. I got this. Agh...

[She finds a large hunting lodge on the riverbank.]

Ellie: That's the way back. Hang in there, Joel.

Hunter: Cover the grounds! Make sure she's not hiding somewhere over here!

[She kills the searchers.]

Ellie: How do I get outta here?

[She finaggles herself into the lodge.]

Ellie: I don't wanna get trapped in here. Agh, where's the way out?

Hunter: She's on this side of the lodge!

[She kills the last pursuers and tries to exit, but David sneakily grabs her.]

David: Relax... Keeping you alive here. There you go. There you go.

[He knocks her out with a sleeper hold. She wakes up later in a cell. There's a hunter chopping up a corpse nearby.]

Ellie: Oh...

David: How are you feeling?

[He appears with a dinner tray.]

Ellie: Super.

David: Here. You should eat. I know you're hungry -- been out for quite some time.

Ellie: What is it?

David: It's deer.

Ellie: With some human helping on the side?

David: No. No, I promise. It's...just the deer meat.

Ellie: You're a fucking animal.

[She gobbles down some of the food.]

David: Oh...you're awfully quick to judgment. Considering you and your friend killed how many men?

Ellie: They didn't give us a choice.

David: And you think we have a choice? Is that it? You kill to survive...and so do we. We have to take care of our own. By any means necessary.

Ellie: So now what? You gonna chop me up into tiny pieces?

David: I'd rather not. Please tell me your name.

[She shoves the food plate out of her cell.]

Ellie: You're so full of shit.

David: On the contrary, I've been, ah, been quite honest with you. Now I think it's your turn. It's the only way I'm gonna be able to convince the others.

Ellie: Convince them of what?

David: That you can come around. You have heart. You're loyal. And you're special.

[He runs his hands over hers in a very creepy manner.]

Ellie: Oh...

[She puts her hand on his, then breaks his finger. She tries to grab his cell keys, but he knocks her head into the cell door.]

Ellie: Oh, fuck...

David: You stupid little girl. You are making it very difficult to keep you alive. What am I supposed to tell the others now?

Ellie: Ellie.

David: What?

Ellie: Tell them that...Ellie is the little girl that broke your fucking finger.

David: How did you put it? Hmm? Tiny pieces? See you in the morning, Ellie.

[Meanwhile, Joel finally comes to back in the resort cabin.]

Joel: Ellie? Ellie?! Where the hell are you?

[He goes outside.]

Joel: Ellie! Where'd she run off to?

Hunter: Oh shit! He's over there!

Joel: Shit.

Hunter 2: Move it! Don't let him get ya!

[He slaughters the hunters. Later, he's grabbed by one as he enters a street.]

Hunter: Gotcha, asshole. Finish him off!

Hunter 2: Hold him still!

Hunter: Oh shit!

[Joel kicks one guy in the nads, then headbutts the other.]

Hunter: Son of a bitch!

Joel: You come with me. Come on...

Hunter 2: Let me go. I'll...fuck you up...

[Joel brings them to a basement and starts beating them for information.]

Hunter 2: What do you want? What the fuck?

Joel: You wait here. Now...the girl...is she alive?

Hunter: What girl? I don't know no girl.

[He stabs him in the leg.]

Hunter: Fuck...

Joel: Focus right here. Right here. Or I'll pop your goddamn knee off. The girl.

Hunter: She's alive. She's David's newest pet.

Joel: Where?

Hunter: In the town. In the town.

[He puts the bloody knife in the merc's mouth and holds up a map.]

Joel: Now you're gonna mark it on the map. And it better be the same exact spot your buddy points to. Mark it.

Hunter: It's right there. You can verify it. Go ask him. Go on. He'll tell ya. I ain't lyin'. I ain't lyin.

[Joel chokes him until his neck snaps.]

Hunter 2: Fuck you, man. He told you what you wanted. I ain't telling you shit.

Joel: That's alright. I believe him.

Hunter 2: No, wait!

[Joel kills the second guy. Meanwhile, a Ellie's still in her cage.]

James: Wake-y, wake-y. Come on.

Ellie: Let go!

James: Get--

Ellie: Stop!

[She bites David's hand when he draws near, earning a knee in the stomach. They lift her onto the slaughtering table.]

David: I warned you.

[He raises his cleaver.]

Ellie: I'm infected! I'm infected!

David: Really?

Ellie: ...and so are you. Right there. Roll up my sleeve. Look at it!

David: I'll play along.

[He sees the old wound and grows quiet.]

Ellie: What'd you say? Everything happens for a reason, right?

James: What the hell is that?

David: She would've turned by now. It can't be real.

James: Looks pretty fucking real to me!

[Ellie quickly takes the cleaver and cuts into James' neck, rolling off the table towards the doorway. David fires a few rounds but misses. Ellie grabs a switchblade from a nearby cabinet before jumping out into the blizzard.]

Ellie: Okay. Shit. Oh man. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

David: Where you going, Ellie? This is my town!

[Ellie takes shelter in a nearby storage room.]

Ellie: I need a gun. Okay, I can do this.

[She moves to the front of the store.]

Hunter: We heard gunshots!

David: Infected!

Hunter: What?

David: The girl. She's infected and she got out.

Female Hunter: This is bad, David.

David: Alright, I need you to round up everyone who isn't armed and get 'em to clear outta here. We're gonna find that girl and we're gonna kill her.

Female Hunter: Oh my god. I'll take the kids to the shelter.

[David and the woman split up; more hunters are nearby.]

Ellie: Oh fuck.

Hunter: Tired of this shit. He's crossed the line this time.

Hunter 2: I've been saying this for months.

Hunter: We've indulged him enough. This girl killed our men and now she's infected.

Hunter 2: Let's clean this mess up...then we can have a town meeting. Put his leadership up to a vote.

Ellie: They're everywhere.

[Ellie eludes the predators and heads deeper into town.]

Hunter: What if she bites someone?

Hunter 2: Relax. She's not biting anybody.

Hunter: I'm saying we could have a real situation here.

Hunter 3: We already have a situation and we're gonna take care of it. Now stay focused. Let's find her.

[She infiltrates a restaurant. David is waiting at the far exit.]

David: You're easy to track.

[He wrestles the gun away from her.]

David: How did you do it?

[Ellie escapes when David's attention notices the building catching on fire. He taunts Ellie as he hunts her in the restaurant.]

David: That's alright. There's nowhere to go! You want out? You're gonna have to come get these keys. I know you're not infected. No one who's infected fights this hard to stay alive. So what is it, Ellie? I gotta admit, you had me back there. For a second, you shook my faith. But only for a second. Oh, hey, Ellie? I'm sorry about your horse. I truly am. I hope you take comfort in knowing we won't waste any part of him.

Ellie: Ah, you fuck.

David: You know, I...I wish you hadn't killed James. He's a good kid -- just doing his job. In fact, all those people you killed. It's just gonna make our group stronger. Fewer mouths to feed. Stronger survivors. Ellie! Ellie, come on. I know you're dying to say something to me.

Ellie: Creepy piece of shit.

David: No? Nothin'? Sure about that? Alright then.

[She ambushes him, stabbing him in the neck. His point-blank shots miss by some stroke of fate.]

David: That was good, kid. It's gonna be alright.

[He puts his gun away and takes out a machete.]

David: You know, you keep surprising me. It's a shame you wouldn't come around. Give up now and I promise to be quick. Promise.

Ellie: Yeah, go fuck yourself.

David: Okay then. Don't say I didn't give you a chance. You know, I love how you think that you're better than this. Better than us. But you're not.

Ellie: Ah, you crazy fuck.

David: It didn't have to be this way, you know. You brought this on yourself. You did.

[Ellie ambushes him a second time, this time stabbing his stomach.]

David: Run, little rabbit, run.

[Ellie ambushes him a third time. David knocks her unconscious before slumping over himself. Meanwhile, Joel approaches Silver Lake's outskirts.]

Hunter: This is pointless. I can't see a thing.

Hunter 2: Just keep searching. If she comes through here, we gotta catch her.

Hunter: We should be guarding the shelter. We got an infected running around in the town and we're guarding the damn exit.

Hunter 2: Look. This kid is deadly and we don't know where she's gonna turn up. Just keep your eyes and ears open.

[Joel kills the guards and takes refuge inside. He finds Ellie's backpack.]

Joel: What is this? Why is Ellie's stuff here?

[He steps into a meat locker...filled with human corpses.]

Joel: Oh, Christ. I gotta find her. I gotta find her.

[He steps onto main street, seeing the burning building.]

Joel: Holy shit. Ellie...

[Meanwhile, Ellie awakens. She reaches for a knife, but David kicks her hard.]

David: I knew you had heart. Y'know, it's okay to give up. Ain't no shame in it. I guess not. Just not your style, is it?

[He kicks her again, then crawls on top of her, pinning her down.]

David: You can try beggin'.

Ellie: Fuck you.

David: You think you know me? Huh? Well, let me tell you somethin'. You have no idea what I'm capable of.

[She grabs the machete and slashes him, then crawls on him to stab him more.]

Joel: Ellie! Stop. Stop.

Ellie: No! Don't fucking touch me!

Joel: Shhh. Shhh.

Ellie: No--

Joel: It's okay. It's me, it's me. Look, look. It's me.

Ellie: He tried to--

[He embraces her.]

Joel: Oh, baby girl... It's okay, it's okay.

Ellie: Joel...

Joel: It's okay now.

[They say more, but the viewer can't hear the conversation. They leave the restaurant, letting the camera linger on the machete, presumably planted in David's face.]