'The Last of Us' recap: Bella Ramsey's Ellie on her own terms

So far we've spent a good 15 minutes with Joel and Ellie in conversations that weren't in the game. After cementing their relationship, the show finally returns to the game's story, except instead of Pittsburgh, the pair arrive in Kansas City, Mo., a more sensible, on-the-way location to Wyoming. In a scene ripped straight from the game, the pair encounter a man pretending to be hurt, and are jumped by the citizens of Kansas City, now freed from federal military rule. They crash the truck, and a firefight within a laundromat is lifted straight from the game. This echoes how enemy combatants from the second game react, calling out their fallen comrade's name in an attempt to humanize the "villains" of Joel and Ellie as other people trying to survive.