The Last of Us Season 2 ending explained: Are Tommy and Jesse dead? Details revealed

The Last of Us Season 2 comes to an end with the explosive cliffhanger in Episode 7, titled Convergence. Along with tying together many major story arcs, the ending of Season 2 set up the third season and also revealed how it would move forward with Abby's story in the third season.

The ending of the seventh episode was extremely shocking and uncertain, but par for the course after the past six episodes, which have been full of vengeance, survival, and emotional and dramatic highs. We see Abby make it to the theatre following the people who killed her team to find out it was actually Ellie. Here's what happens in The Last of Us Season 2 ending.

The Last of Us Season 2 ending: Abby finds Ellie after Mel and Owen's deaths

It's hard to imagine that The Last of Us Season 2 could come up with anything more traumatic than Joel being killed in the second episode. Joel's murder has been the driving force behind Ellie's quest for justice or vengeance, whatever we call it. However, watching Jesse get shot in the head and dying instantly at the hands of the same person who killed Joel after he's been trying to move heaven and earth to make sure he gets Dina, his unborn child, Tommy, Ellie, and himself back to Jackson, might be a close second.

The Last of Us covered the majority of the first game in its first season. However, Season 2 has only covered some parts of the second game before concluding the season. The last episode picks up where Episode 5 left off, after a brief interlude of Joel and Ellie's flashbacks throughout the years in Episode 6. Convergence features Ellie trying to figure out Abby's whereabouts through her team. She ends up torturing some words out of Nora, leading her to the Seattle Aquarium, where she finds Owen and a pregnant Mel.

Ellie tries to get them to tell her Abby's location at gunpoint but ends up shooting both of them accidentally, in self-defense, when Owen reaches for a gun. This continues the chain of reactions leading up to Abby making her way to her team's killers. We see Abby for the first time after Episode 2 when she reaches the theatre and attacks Tommy. Ellie and Jessie make their way to the commotion, but Jessie is shot in the head by Abby as soon as they make their way out to where Abby is.

She holds Ellie at gunpoint and shoots just as the screen goes black, and we're taken back to Day 1 in Seattle, but this time in the WLF compound from Abby's perspective. Clearly, Season 3 is set to narrate Abby's side of the story in the three days that Ellie spends in Seattle in The Last of Us Season 2. This may shock viewers who haven't played the video game, but for others, a similar format is followed in the game, where the player switches from Ellie's to Abby's perspective of the three days.

We know for sure that Jessie is dead after the confrontation in the theatre. Abby was threatening to kill Tommy as well in front of Ellie's eyes as revenge for her team's death. But when Ellie tells her that she's the one who killed her friends, Abby points her gun at Ellie and says:

"I let you live. I let you live, and you wasted it!"

A gunshot is heard while Ellie screams no, but the screen goes black. So, we have no idea who shot the gun, if Tommy tackled Abby down, making her miss, or if Abby actually shot Ellie. There is even a possibility that Dina came out, and hers is the gunshot we hear, since she was also in the theatre during this altercation. We do know, for now, that Tommy is alive, as the gun was pointed at Ellie when the shot was heard.

The Last of Us Season 3 has a lot of ground to cover, with Abby's side of the story, as there was a major war brewing between the WLF and the Seraphites, with the WLF taking up dozens of boats with explosives up to the Seraphite Island, as well as Abby and her team falling off the grid for Issac and the rest of the WLF. So, we have yet another anticipatory wait in store for us for another season.

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