Joel and Ellie's short-lived moment of calm, explained by the level designer. Comments; A breakdown by The Last of Us level designer Peter Field gives new insights on that famous giraffe scene. In the eighth episode of The Last of Us, “When We Are in Need,” Ellie faces her greatest challenge since she left the Boston quarantine zone with Joel and Tess. After Joel was badly wounded at Ellie has been with us (has been us) since the start. Ellie and Joel's relationship is long and deep and powerful — strained sometimes, particularly in the opening hour of TLOU2, but real In their confrontation, she says “He did what he did to save me. There’s no cure because of me, I’m the one you want.”. It seems Ellie thinks Abby is mad at Joel for taking away the cure, I don’t think she realizes she killed her father. In all of Ellie’s dialogue with Abby’s friends, it never came up. So I wonder if this would 5 Having Selfish Morals. You might be inclined to think it was a father’s love that motivated Joel to save Ellie in the end, but that’s just not the truth of the matter. The reality is that unexpectedalice. • 4 yr. ago • Edited 4 yr. ago. I saw somewhere that the original plan was to make him whisper “Sarah” as his dying words, but Troy decided to make Joel stayed quiet. And Ashley also said the last thing that Joel thought (since Ellie was in front of him) was “It’s okay baby girl. You will get through this.”. HBO. "It's okay, baby girl. I got you," Joel told her, representing her safe place. And in this moment, we knew that Ellie was his too; having once called his daughter Sarah "baby girl", Joel's Let Ciri decide her fate and respect her decision. I think that Joel did the right thing because I believe even if the doctors had killed Ellie trying to make a cure that it wouldn’t work in the long run. So in the end Joel made a selfish decision that was the right decision at the end of the day. Huh. As it turns out, Joel only told Ellie a partial truth back then. In reality, his scar comes from a failed suicide attempt. After Joel's daughter, Sarah, was shot and killed by a soldier in 2003 (in episode 1, "When You're Lost in the Darkness"), Joel was overcome by grief, and a few days later, he attempted to shoot himself in the head. Before the time jump, in 2003, Joel was living in Austin, Texas with his daughter Sarah. The Last of Us episode 1 opens in 2003 and follows Joel, Sarah, and Joel's brother Tommy attempting to NKw6me.