Following closing week’s slight departure from Ellie and Joel’s journey out west, The Ultimate of Us episode 4 amenities absolutely throughout the twosome as they uncover themselves coping with new threats in Kansas Metropolis, a location not featured throughout the distinctive PlayStation sport. And that’s not the one deviation from the provision supplies all through its 45-minute runtime.

Elsewhere, we get launched to mysterious new character Kathleen (carried out by Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey) and research further about what Joel’s brother Tommy obtained as a lot as sooner than he ran away from the Boston QZ. Beneath, we delve into all that and additional as we highlight the massive changes between the sequence’ fourth chapter and the provision supplies.

Unsurprisingly, this textual content accommodates spoilers for The Ultimate of Us episode 4, so proceed with warning must you’ve however to tune in and don’t have to know exactly what happens. All up to date? Successfully, let’s get into it…

Kansas Metropolis location

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Having pinched a car and a whole bunch of supplies from Bill’s Metropolis, The Ultimate of Us episode 4 sees Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) proceed on their travels to Wyoming. Midway, they go by way of Kansas Metropolis, and get critically waylaid when Joel crashes their car all through an ambush and they also’re pressured to aim to find one different mode of transport.

Kansas Metropolis wouldn’t operate throughout the sport, nevertheless we are going to assume it was impressed by the half set in Pittsburgh. Inside the provide supplies, hunters administration the metropolis having overthrown FEDRA and the military, which resembles the events of the episode. Joel moreover crashes their car proper right into a grocery retailer in Pittsburgh. Lastly, on the very end of ‘Please Preserve My Hand’, we meet Sam and Henry, too, two characters who Sport Joel and Sport Ellie cross paths with throughout the Pennsylvania spot.

Ellie kills an individual

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Technically, Joel strikes the killing blow on the bandit in Kansas Metropolis, nevertheless Ellie’s first “kill” stays to be barely fully completely different to the video video games.

In 2013’s The Ultimate of Us, Ellie shoots an individual trying to drown Joel in a flooded lodge lobby. “I shot the hell out of that man, huh?” she quips as she’s going to get her palms dirty for the first time. Inside the current, she moreover saves Joel – this time taking photos and paralyzing an individual all through an ambush. Joel, though, is the one to finish the job whereas Ellie heads by way of the crawl home and away from the brutal scene. So: an identical means, nevertheless a particular location.

The HBO sequence moreover carefully hints that Ellie has killed sooner than – one factor that’s not the case throughout the PlayStation sport.

Sam and Henry being hunted

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Inside the sport, Henry and his 13-year-old brother Sam are passing by way of Pittsburgh having fled Hartford, Connecticut. Like many survivors, they stopped throughout the metropolis to scavenge supplies nevertheless uncover themselves getting ambushed by crooks and hunters who’ve taken over the position.

Inside the current, they seem to have been based in Pittsburgh and are literally on the run from ruthless insurgent chief Kathleen. Whereas their appearances are pretty blink-and-you’ll-miss-them in episode 4, we do glimpse Henry and Sam, carried out by Lamar Johnson and Keivonn Montreal Woodard respectively.

We don’t really meet them, till you rely episode 4’s dramatic cliffhanger, nevertheless Henry is namedropped plenty of situations. At this stage, all everyone knows is that Kathleen is after Henry on account of he gave up particulars about her late brother to FEDRA. We’re sure to hunt out out further in a short time, offered that Henry and Sam stumbled all through a sleeping Joel and Ellie throughout the remaining moments of ‘Please Preserve My Hand’.

Tommy’s backstory

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In episode 4, we get a peek into Tommy’s historic previous with Joel from 2003 onwards.

As Joel tells Ellie, Tommy is a “joiner”. He tagged along with Tess’s group for an indeterminate time period, then adopted the Fireflies, having met the group’s chief Marlene. He later left their faction – though he and Joel are nonetheless on good phrases. We moreover research definitively that Tommy was a battle vet who enlisted merely sooner than Operation Desert Storm.

The foremost diversion proper right here from the video video games is that Joel and Tommy nonetheless talk after Tommy’s break up from the Fireflies. There, they’ve a interval of spherical four-to-five years with out seeing each other, with Tommy now residing in Jackson, Wyoming. It’s unclear if that could be a location that may appear throughout the HBO sequence.

Episode 4 introduces a couple of new, distinctive characters

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Kathleen is arguably primarily probably the most fascinating new character launched in The Ultimate of Us episode 4, nevertheless she’s not the one one. Jeffrey Pierce, who voices Tommy throughout the sport, stars as her gun-toting, beard-sporting right-hand man Perry, whereas Jon Getz performs a doctor Kathleen executes in her blinkered pursuit of Henry.

Lastly, Juan Magana brings bandit Bryan to life. Very just like the doctor, though, he won’t be in any future episodes…

The Ultimate of Us continues on Sunday, February 5 on HBO and HBO Max throughout the US, and Sky Atlantic and NOW TV the following day throughout the UK. Make sure you not at all miss an episode by testing our The Ultimate of Us launch schedule and our breakdown of what variety of episodes are in The Ultimate of Us.

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