Episode 3 - “The Path”
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What happens in the aftermath of Joel’s death?
And I want to point out, boy, we just get right into it. Yeah. Cool. So the episode starts with these epic shots of Jackson in the aftermath. Not only the attack on Jackson, but also the attack on Joel. Yeah. We see this very somber, almost ritualistic thing that's happening between Tommy and someone underneath the sheet that we can assume is Joel. We see the wrist and the watch. Tommy begins doing this beautiful cleaning of the body. And he says, give Sarah my love. What were both of your mentality going into this episode, obviously knowing what would follow after episode two? Was there hesitation? Was there trepidation? Was there excitement? What were you feeling going into episode three?
Well, I felt every single thing that you just said. We knew that Joel's death was going to impact the audience in a profound way. It certainly impacted us in a profound way. And it seemed to us that these first moments needed to show a kind of respect for the character. and needed to acknowledge what had happened here. And we wanted to begin with family because all the way back in the beginning, before Boston QZ and the world ending and Ellie, there was Joel and Tommy and Sarah. And now it's down to Tommy. Joel and Sarah are gone. And starting with family there was incredibly important. And we wanted to get a sense that this town was going to need to heal.
This episode, I find, is one of the more special in the season. It's something, you know, in the game, Joel dies, and then we have a very short period of time, because we have to get back to an action, because we made an action game, where we have, like, a sort of a wake. where you're honoring who this person was, and you get to sit with these characters who are just grieving. They don't have a new goal yet. They're not doing anything other than just grieving. And this was such a great opportunity to work with Craig and expand on it in the show. We get to spend quite a bit of this episode just seeing the weight of not only Joel dying, but something that's new for this story, this version of the story is what happened to Jackson. And he wasn't the only one to die.
A lot of people have died. The town was destroyed. The town was wrecked in many ways. And that scene that, you know, beautiful scene that Craig wrote with Tommy and Joel, I find it very moving. And I remember there used to be more dialogue there. And Craig and I discussed it, went back and forth. But that Sarah line does bring it back to the beginning in an interesting way because there's also something lovely we would like to all believe, which is when people pass away, they are reunited with their loved ones. And the most horrific thing that has ever happened in Joel's life is the loss of his daughter.
Out of that beautiful line, give Sarah my love, the camera begins to move back. And we see that it's not just Joel and Tommy that are in this room, but there are the bodies of presumably everybody that died in that attack.
Well, we care about Joel. And Joel died. And Tommy is taking care of Joel. But look at all these other people. Do they count? What do their families do? What do their brothers and children do? Do they seek justice for what's happened? Do they go out there and find more infected and punish them? Everybody is grieving.
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