We’re again with The Final of Us Season 2, with mysterious new characters and geared-up new factions to keep away from just like the plague or be a part of, relying in your priorities within the apocalypse.
In Season 1 of Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s Naughty Canine sport adaptation, it was all about FEDRA and the Fireflies. However now, with the vast majority of Fireflies despatched into oblivion by Joel (Pedro Pascal) within the Season 1 finale, the faction has developed elsewhere.
In Season 2, episode 1, we meet Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her crew, who’re members of a bunch with a wolf emblem on their gear. However who is that this new faction? Are they good or unhealthy? And what’s their vendetta towards Joel?
Now, it will be unfeasible for me to let you know the whole lot about this group — in the event you’ve performed the video games, you may know what occurs with this group in The Final of Us Half II. However here is what I can inform viewers of the HBO collection concerning the WLF because it occurs in Season 2 (with no spoilers past what occurs within the newest episode on Max).
Wait, who’re the Fireflies once more?
One of many final conversations between Marlene (Merle Dandridge) and Joel (Pedro Pascal).
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They had been a extremely expert, revolutionary militia group whose intention was to liberate quarantine zones (QZs) from the U.S. authorities’s army arm, FEDRA, who in flip branded them terrorists. You may bear in mind Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) discovered their graffiti on partitions all by way of Season 1 — their motto was “When you’re lost in the darkness, look for the light.” You may additionally bear in mind Ellie was a FEDRA cadet together with her finest buddy and old flame, Riley (Storm Reid), whose plans to hitch the Fireflies had been fatally derailed.
The Fireflies’ chief, Marlene (Merle Dandridge), was the one who despatched Tess (Anna Torv) and Joel on the mission to retrieve Ellie within the first place, taking her from the Fireflies’ Boston QZ hideout to a Salt Lake Metropolis base camp the place docs had been engaged on a remedy for the Cordyceps pandemic (bear in mind, Ellie’s resistant to Contaminated bites). Marlene would even be the final Firefly killed by Joel on the hospital, after he realized Ellie can be sacrificed for such analysis — it is the massive level of competition between them.
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The Fireflies mentioned they wanted to kill Ellie for a remedy. Joel mentioned nah.
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And it is at this very medical facility we meet the WLF for the primary time in Season 2, episode 1, reeling from what they’ve discovered.
Who’re the Washington Liberation Entrance in The Final of Us?
Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) is a member of the WLF.
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A militia group hailing from Seattle, the Washington Liberation Entrance (WLF) are identifiable by their emblem that includes a wolf. Dina (Isabela Merced) spots certainly one of these logos, an upside-down yellow triangle with a snarling wolf within the centre, in Season 2, episode 2 within the group’s mountain base. Made up of former Fireflies and new members, the WLF are a little bit of a thriller at this level of the present, however the group will play a significant half this season.
In Season 2, episode 1, we meet just a few of them, together with Abby and her mates, Manny (Danny Ramirez), Nora (Tati Gabrielle), Mel (Ariela Barer), and Owen (Spencer Lord), who’ve found the remnants of Joel’s bloodbath of the Fireflies in Salt Lake Metropolis. To say they appear pissed is an understatement, however Abby is the one who decides they need to not report again to base however as an alternative discover the killer themselves.
Within the second episode (The Horrible One We Will not Get Over Anytime Quickly), Abby returns with Joel and Dina to the mountain cabin the place the remainder of her WLF members are primarily based. We all know that they are WLF from Mel’s backpack, which boasts the brand. When Dina notices it, issues turn out to be tense, and Joel asks if the group are Fireflies (a bunch he is aware of effectively from, you realize, massacring them).
Declaring the Fireflies “all gone,” Abby then begins her revenge on Joel, telling him she’s been a militia member for 5 years and that she’s been taught to solely assault those that can struggle again. “Our commander trained us to follow a code. We don’t kill that can’t defend themselves,” she says. “And right now, that’s you. But I am going to kill you. Because it doesn’t matter if you have a code, like me, or you’re a lawless piece of shit, like you. There are just some things everyone agrees are just fucking wrong.”
We’re unsure what Abby’s commander must say about that, however we do not know them but in any respect, actually.
Who’s the WLF chief?
In episode 1, Owen mentions the group’s chief, Isaac Dixon (Jeffrey Wright), who we have but to satisfy. He’ll play a significant function within the story, however all we learn about him for now’s that he is the commander of the faction and the group depend on his approval — and Abby’s gone rogue.
The Final of Us Season 2 is now streaming on Max. New episodes air weekly on Sundays 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
