‘The Final of Us’ Season 2 finale: This demise is completely different within the sport

Spoilers forward for The Final of Us Season 2 finale.

The finale of The Final of Us Season 2 sees various deaths, however some deviate from the Naughty Canine video games.

Soaked to the bone and spiralling into her quest for revenge, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) catches as much as extra members of the Washington Liberation Entrance (WLF), particularly two who had been current for Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) brutal homicide in episode 2.

However there is a distinction in certainly one of these deaths between Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s adaption and The Final of Us Half II. This is the way it all compares.

How does Mel die in The Final of Us Season 2 finale?

Having attacked and left Nora (Tati Gabrielle) for lifeless within the spore-filled basement of Seattle’s Lakehill Hospital in episode 5, Ellie has began down a darkish, violent path of vengeance. Towards the tip of Season 2, episode 7 of The Final of Us, she lastly makes it to the Seattle Aquarium, the place she believes Joel’s killer Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) is holed up. As an alternative, she finds two of her closest companions: Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord) discussing imminent plans. Keep in mind, they’re each former Fireflies; Mel is the physician who put Dina (Isabela Merced) to sleep throughout Joel’s homicide, whereas Owen seems to be Abby’s associate, and the one who advised her to “end it.”

Throughout a tense confrontation with the 2, Ellie tries to make use of Joel’s map approach to make Owen and Mel hand over Abby’s whereabouts. Being nearer to Abby, Owen decides to attempt a fast draw as an alternative of ratting her out, however Ellie’s too fast with Joel’s highly effective pistol and shoots him via the neck. Tragically, the gun’s drive additionally means Mel is shot too — and he or she’s pregnant.

Tragically making an attempt to avoid wasting her unborn baby together with her medical abilities in her dying moments, Mel tries to information Ellie via the mandatory actions, nevertheless it’s too late.

How does Mel die in The Final of Us sport?

In The Final of Us Half II, the occasions main as much as Mel and Owen’s deaths are the identical. Owen is shot when he makes an attempt to disarm Ellie, however the change is that Mel assaults Ellie with a knife in response. It is kill or be killed, and Mel comes very near overpowering Ellie — you need to smash the sq. button to cease her ending you. Nevertheless, the tables are then turned and Ellie stabs Mel within the neck, and he or she dies immediately. Then, in Owen’s closing breath, he tells Ellie that Mel is pregnant. Whereas this information is horrifying to Ellie, you, as a participant, have really identified this since early within the sport — Owen tells Abby this once they first discover Jackson, earlier than she murders Joel.

Within the present, it seems Ellie doesn’t imply to kill Mel — within the scene, Mel is visibly pregnant. The sport would not embody a scene of Mel attempting to avoid wasting her unborn baby, nor Ellie attempting to assist her. Nevertheless, each scenes are chilly, exhausting reminders of The Final of Us‘ world of brutal tête-à-tête — a world Dina’s baby will quickly be born into — and Ellie’s spiral into all-consuming hate.

Abby’s personal act of revenge has seen her buddies falling one after the other — Nora, Owen, Mel — all at Ellie’s palms. It is an infinite cycle of violence, and one which possible will not finish on this leaking, crumbling tomb of an aquarium.

The Final of Us Season 2, episode 7 will premiere on HBO and HBO Max Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.