What sense does it make if Ellie says Sam is infected? She tells Joel and he shoots him immediately. Ellie saw a chance to save him. A glimmer of hope that Joel would never have allowed. There was no alternative. Sam is lost anyway, so you can try something. An interesting feature of the show so far is that real "brutality" is only shown to us when Ellie sees it. We see Joel beating the soldier to death in episode 1 because Ellie is there and sees it. Ellie tortures and kills the stalker in episode 3. We see Joel's sniper kills because Ellie sees them. We see Henry's death, Sam being shot and Kathleen's death. With all other killings (Old Sniper, Bryan) you only hear it because the camera is focused on Ellie while she doesn't see these killings herself. I found it really good to make Sam deaf. In the end, this opened the door for Sam to show Ellie the bite and then she could stay in the room with him without being attacked. He simply didn't hear her. Better than solved in the game and has given Ellie even more depth. She really hoped she could help Sam at that moment. In the game, Sam said nothing about his bite. Ellie entered his room the next morning and was attacked. The scream of Ellie here at the end went through and stuck. Joel now has Frank's shirt and Henry's backpack. Ellie and Joel switch sides at the end. That was the Tess moment from episode 2. Ellie runs ahead while Joel is still waiting at the grave. Tess gave Joel a mission he wanted to fulfill as her last wish. The relationship that Joel had with Tess was similar to Ellie and Sam. Ellie promised (unspoken with hope) Sam the cure here and couldn't keep this promise. She now wants to make sure that this never happens again. As Tess said at the time "save who you can save". Ellie really has a mission now. Indirectly get through her feelings of guilt. She wants her blood to work. Before that, she was someone who had no control over anything. Others have determined where she grows up and where she has to go now. "I didn't ask for this" were her words in episode 2. Now that has changed. Now conviction plays a role and she takes control. She wants to save the world so that there are no more Sam's. And while Joel gradually finds his humanity again and lets people into his life again, Ellie loses a little more of herself and she takes the lead here in the end. I think the series showed that more clearly in this way than the game did. In addition, Ellie and Joel have reached a new level of connection with each other. Wordless understanding. Both wanted to save the brothers during the attack. That wasn't Joel's "don't do it Ellie" look. That was the look "I'll give you fire protection Ellie". And Ellie has absolute confidence in Joel. In addition, Joel was not shaking because of the child clicker, but because Ellie was in danger from this clicker and he did not hit it. There was also a little joke about the game. The moment when the sniper shot and Henry and Sam senselessly ran out of cover, only to return immediately. This is how Ellie behaved very often in the game. She ran out of cover, right in front of the enemy and then back again. Btw. Lying in interrogation and killing traitors is nothing new or especially cruel, and it doesn't make Kathleen any different than many other countries before the pandemic. High treason is punishable by death. There are no more laws and certainly not enough food to take prisoners. Henry was willing to sacrifice 1000 people (men, women, other children) for his brother by betraying the leader of the resistance. Henry doesn't need a gun to kill, his words do. In the end, however, everyone got what they deserved. All except Sam. And Sam would have ended up living a little longer with leukemia than he got from the betrayal. Kathleen's death was deserved and poetic. She goes after children and is then killed by one. Karma. Nevertheless, she was right. "You don't fuck with fate" They are all infected. But there are different stages the older the fungus gets in a host, the more advanced the fungus is. Stage 1: Runner (currently infected) Stage 2: Stalker (Fungus is broken through the skull, but can still see. He hides and surprises his victims.) Stage 3: Clicker (fully blind, only hears) Stage 4: Bloater (the fungus completely envelops the host and the outer shell is difficult to break through, a walking tank). There is another stage (or an alternative to a bloater) and a special form. But that's not happening this season.

The stages of the infected that we have seen are runner which are newly infected, stalker which have one eye covered, Clickers which are totally blind and the bloater which is the big boy that came out of the hole this episode.

9:59 There are several names given in the game; runner, stocker, clicker, bloater, but all of them are considered infected.

A collaborator is someone who assists the enemy. (Since you said you didn't know that word)

Fun fact: Adam Basil, the actor who played the Bloater in this Episode is 6'6 Foot Tall (1.95 cm), and the full Bloater suit weight is at least 80 Pounds (40 Kg).

4:40 - we were shown a mountain of burnt corpses in the last episode.

The guy who is the right hand man of the crazy lady (old guy with the gray beard) was the voice actor for Tommy in the game. Also Marlene is the same voice actor as the game and the character in the game looks just like her. The guy who did the voice of Joel in the game also has an appearance in the next episode.

When the writers said that they changed some major parts of the story throughout this show from the game, I was praying and hoping that Henry and Sam don't die. I love these characters, and Tess, that just knowing that they're going to die is always heartbreaking. Good on the writers for making people like me care so much 👏😭

i think your cat prewatched the episode and knew what was coming 0_o

I saw one rude comment from a few videos back that was like "omg stop reacting to stuff," and it seems like you tried to lightly address it in your intro here. Just to balance out that feedback, I'm enjoying the predictions and think it's an interesting gimmick for the channel, even when extended to the non-mysteries haha. Keep it up!

I bet Viki gets many predictions correct, been getting quite a few correct - not just in this show.

#VikiRishViews, you're so sweet. I've just subscribed to your channel, so this is my first time commenting on your reactions.

yeah another heart breaking episode. I think initially Henry didn't understand what was happening and was just trying to protect his brother. Then realizing he had turned he just shot him. At this point it would almost be automatic to shoot the infected. Then realizing he had killed his brother he couldn't live with that thought. Happened pretty much the same in the game.

i don’t think Henry knew it was Sam that was infected. He probably thought it was a clicker and had no time to assess the situation. rip

and also she fall a sleep .that why she said sorry

BLOATER!!!!! 😂

Awesome reaction! I really think the extended pauses take away a bit from the reaction. The show creators don't intend some scenes to be paused in between, there's rythme and tempo they put in a movie or show and some scene follow each other straight away for important reasons sometimes. But great reactions nonetheless!