WEBVTT - HBO's The Last of Us Ep. 3 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.480 Warning. This podcast contains spoilers for HBO's The Last of 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.800 Us episode three. Plus at the end of that conversation, 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.000 we're going to have a spoiler filled conversation that will 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.319 spoil the Last of Us video game. So if you 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.320 have finished the Last of this video game, you will 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.279 be able to listen to that conversation. And if you 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.599 don't care about that, you will also be able to 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.680 listen to that conversation. Don't worry, We're also going to 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.640 call that out very very loudly, very very obviously when 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.960 we get to that point in the conversation to give 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.919 you an opportunity to hit stop and move on. You 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:53.599 have been warned. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion and 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.560 I'm Rosey Night and welcome to x ray Vision, the 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:01.120 Crooked Media podcast where we dived it's your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.040 and pop culture. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.360 In this episode, we are gonna be digging into the 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.000 airlock on one of the most heartbreaking episodes of TV 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.800 sure that you will see in a long time, The 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.160 Last of Us Episode three. I'm Ready, but I'm not Ready. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.760 It's definitely a like a little bit of a devastating 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.080 hit to take on a Sunday, like at ten o'clock 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.240 at night to like turn that off and be like, fuck, 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.240 now I gotta go to sleep. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.080 Yeah, what do I do with my life now? And 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.720 in that out we got a very exciting Star Wars 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.280 theory from one of our lissons. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:45.400 Well, let's get into it. We're shipping out of the 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.520 airlock and into the beautiful, scenic streets of bill'stown for 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:56.120 the heart wrenching third episode of HBO's The Last of Us. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.200 What an incredible hour of television title A long long 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.200 time written by Craig, isn't directed by Peter Horr. It's 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.680 just an incredible hour of storytelling. We opened ten miles 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.680 west of Boston. It's early morning. Joel as his as 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:17.799 is his extremely compartmentalized way, has gone off alone to 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.600 mourn Tests. He makes a cairn on the banks of 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.079 a river and he goes back to the campsite that 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:30.320 he's sharing with Ellie. Ellie is torn by the loss 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:35.160 of Tests and her potential culpability for that, but she's 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.800 holding it together and already just seeing them. There's signs 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.280 that Joel is warming to her, despite the fact that yeah, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.760 he doesn't want treating her with frostiness. He's letting her 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.680 user it's jacket as a blanket. He shares his food, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.640 presumably tests food. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:03:00.120 Yeah, it's whether it's an uncomfortable alliance. But Joel he 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.280 he remembers what tests his lost words. Well, you know, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.480 he knows this was important tests even if he kind 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.440 of resents Ellie for. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.959 I mean, he's a working man, and he's a man 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.960 that will do the job whether or not it's a 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.960 job he enjoys, you know, doesn't. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.919 Really good way out She has very Joel, he's he's 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:20.839 never really changed over these twenty years. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.680 No, no, no, it's like, did he love working as a contractor? 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:24.640 I doubt it. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:25.440 Did he do it? 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.480 Did he do it? He did it? Ellie says, I've 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.200 never been in the woods, more bugs than I thought 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.360 trying to make small talk. Joel doesn't want to make 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.040 small talk, does want to make any kind of talk. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.880 He doesn't want to be talking talking. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.320 But Ellie clearly wants to like preempt any kind of 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.720 test talk and get something off her chest. She points out, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.320 And I think pretty I. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.920 Loved this moment. I thought it was like it really 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.160 sets up who Ellie is. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.720 Absolutely, she basically says Hey, don't blame me for this, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.920 like that was terrible what happened. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.840 She's like, you made a you has chose to call 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.840 you wanted Joel battery or whatever, and you made a 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.880 choice and that's what happened. So don't blame me. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.160 And so you didn't have to take me. You made 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.280 that choice. None of this is my fault. And they 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.640 move on in silence. It's a five hour walk to 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.800 wherever they're headed. Ellie asks you all if he has 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.880 gone this way a lot? Just trying to make conversation. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:23.920 She asks about the scar in his head, which he 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.720 says he got in a shootout. The guy missed and 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.200 he missed as well. And she's like, well is that 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.200 you know? Is that because you suck at shooting or. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.760 She's like, oh, but you're allowed to have a gun. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.520 The gun, She's like, where is can I? I notice 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.080 you have two guns, so what's up? 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.120 How's a gun? 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.160 There's two of us. I have no gun. You have 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.279 two guns? Can we share? No? That's a hard note 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:52.520 on absolutely on firearm socialism. They arrive at a Comby's, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.640 a Cumberland farms staple of New England life. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.120 I was gonna say that was that was the you've 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.240 been the Trumpies. Yeah, like this is like they were like, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:02.200 this is real. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.320 Joel is like, I got a cachet of stuff hidden 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.400 here where you need it. And here we get a 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.040 moment ripped from the game. Ellie sees a Mortal Kombat game. Now, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.479 a Mortal Kombat game in the in the show not 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:16.400 what was it? 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:21.640 Ninja something, Angel Eyes the Angel Knives was the main character, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.920 and it was kind of a very brutal video game 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.320 with like a black lead who had like Wolverine type 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.000 clause and she and Ellie. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.039 Knows everything about Mortal Kombat, which they don't give the 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.880 backstory here, but I would assume it's the same from 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.040 the game, which is she knew somebody who knew the 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.960 Federal Orphanage who knew all about it, and she just 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.359 really wishes she could play it. Meanwhile, Joel is like, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.719 where I myself? And Ellie calls him out on it, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.839 and he says, I'm zeroing it in on it all right. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.000 I'm just like zeroing it on wherever I hid my stuff. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.560 So Ellie heads off. This reminded me of twenty eight 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.680 days later in the moment where they stop at a 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.360 like a roadside gas station killian Murphy goes off on 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.520 his own just to do whatever. Ellie heads off on 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.720 her own. She finds a trap door, she goes down 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.600 it clavi a plan, great plan. I don't know how 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.600 she was planning to get up quickly if she needed to, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:16.440 but that's fine. She finds a fresh box of tampons, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:17.839 which is total score. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.560 Yeah, I mean that's like what the million nola's in 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.160 the zombia worth. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:27.160 More than baggies probably, And then she hears the trademark 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.960 sound of an infected somewhere and she swings her flashlight 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.039 over and there is one trapped by collapse debris. And 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.479 this is a really interesting moment where Ellie takes the 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.480 opportunity provided by the safety the fact that this effect 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.800 is trapped in the privacy, to like test whether she 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.039 can kill a thing. Basically, you know, can I kill 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:49.400 this thing? 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.120 And is it really does this kind of like really 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.479 clinical moment where she cuts open its head to see 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.000 what it's underneath, and because also I think as well, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.840 that's that moment of self discovery, of wondering what would 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.920 happen to her or is that already inside her? 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:05.280 Like this? 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.480 But it also has this scariness to it, of that 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.120 disconnect from humanity of a kid who's grown up around this, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.280 who can just cut open a living being's face and 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.640 then you kind of wait, and there's this moment of 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:22.120 silence that almost goes too long before she actually kills it, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.200 and there's kind of this connection. Oh, it's really creepy. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.920 Yeah, it really resonated with me in that. You know. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.240 I'm sure as a kid people have had the experience 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.320 of like the kids in the friend group who are like, oh, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.600 let's burn caterpillars with a magnifying glass or let's kill this. Yeah, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.520 the creepy kids, the creepy kids, right, And it felt like, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.920 here is this moment Joel's not around, nobody's around where 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.520 she can kind of let the creepy kid out, especially. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.120 Because she's around these adults who kill people all the time, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.480 and there's this boundary that she's testing here. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:55.560 But obviously I do it? 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.160 Can I do it? And the infect it is trapped 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.720 like an animal, kind of trapped under glows. It's a 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.880 really intense moment. It really jury very absolutely delivers on it. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.560 I mean, there's that moment where she points the blade 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.880 of the knife at it to see like, is it 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.240 gonna be afraid? Is there any recognition that it's in 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.840 danger right now? And then you sensed an almost relief 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:25.120 that there wasn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, back upstairs, Joel 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.640 found his stuff and now he's hiding his assault rifle 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.040 because there's no AMMO and so it's basically useless. So 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.080 he's like, wait, hold on a second, you're just like 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.360 throwing it in a hole. Can I have it? Joel 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.640 says no. They walk on. They pass an airplane crash. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.960 Joel insists, if flying wasn't actually that cool, it wasn't 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.320 that great, it was pretty You had to take off 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.520 your shoes, which I can't even explain to you what 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.800 that was about. That's the whole thing. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:55.960 It's a whole different time. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:57.680 Yeah, And like you had to sit in the middle 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.040 seat and pay twelve dollars or whatever it is for 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.440 a for a sandwich, which do you even understand what 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:04.559 money was? 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:07.840 Many? 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.839 Does that ring a bell at all? And Allie's like, dude, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.760 you got to go up in the sky. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.520 Yeah, and he's like, and they got to go up 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.280 in the sky too, and they crashed, So classic optimistic 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:18.920 Joel that. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.160 It reminds me of Station eleven when they're explaining the 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.400 Internet to the kids, like so you could just like 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:27.600 look up anything. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.600 It was just like having every book in the world 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:30.679 just in your pocket. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.160 Like, yeah, yeah, it was Actually I guess now when 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:39.319 you say it that way, it's pretty cool. He then 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.720 they start talking about like, Okay, what was the fall like, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.920 and a conversation actually that we've been having in our 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.400 discord and have and fans have been having, which is, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.440 how did this thing start? Like if the in fact 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.720 you have to bite people, it must have there. How 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.400 did who's a chicken in the egg? 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:54.800 Question? 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:55.240 Yeah? 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.360 But what Joel kind of reveals, Hey, and this is 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.680 different from the game is this was like a day 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.560 in the game, it's over months. But here he's like, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.840 it was dun, dundun. It was in the theory is 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.400 which we've talked about. I don't want to say we. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:11.760 Were right. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.480 Our discord discord was definitely right, but basically like it 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.480 was in it had been in the food, it had 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.080 been in the wheat, and people started to get sick 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.280 and it just happened really quickly. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.640 So something I think is really interesting about this reveal 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.160 is that means that where we saw the doctor in 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.720 Jakarta last episode, that was probably zero. That was probably 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.800 ground zero, and that was probably the beginning. And by 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.800 the time that Sarah and Joel and Tommy heard about it, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.400 that was when it was starting to spread. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.440 So he says, yeah, like it probably was a very 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.800 very basic food stuff got into the food supply, hit 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.560 supermarket shelves on a Thursday, this is two thousand and three. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.640 People bought it, used it, made raisin cookies out of it, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.199 biscuits biscuits, and infected themselves. And then the next day, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.600 late Friday, September twenty six, two thousand and three, the 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.120 shit absolutely hit the fan and by Monday it was 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.680 all gone. They later cut across They come to a 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.880 stretch of the path where Joel's like, let's cut across 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.600 the woods. So there's something up there that I don't 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.760 want you to see. And all He's like, what, like 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.920 you murder a guy? Like is it gonna be? Is 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.360 it something that can hurt me? He's like no, He's like, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.080 then I want to see it. So they go and 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.640 it is a mass grave. And what we learn is 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:35.600 that in the chaos and confusion of Outbreak day post 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.120 outbreak Day, and this is now a week after outbreak Day. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.800 Joel says, this happened. The military went small towns across 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.520 the country, evacuating people, telling them you're going to ACZ 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.720 and that was true. But if there was no room 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.600 at the QZ, you were going to a mask grave 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.440 where you're going to get gunned down. And that was it. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.040 And Allie says, why why not just like leave them? 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:59.920 And Joel says, because it's people. In fact, it exactly 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:12.000 x ray Vision will be back, and we're back. We 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.440 flash back to nine thirty, two thousand and three. Federal 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.360 forces are evacuating a town, which, man, they got that 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:21.400 together pretty quickly. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:22.320 Oh they were ready. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:23.000 They were ready. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.319 The conspiracy theorists probably have a lot of thoughts about 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.520 how quickly they were able to militarize and evacuate these 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:31.440 I mean, there's a lot. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.120 Of questions, right just to pause here, It's like number one, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.960 do the president un any bread? Like on Thursday night? 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.120 You know, like how in the the Cavilian leadership, like 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.920 who what's left do you? How do you get let's 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.520 say this did happen and you're telling up some kind 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.520 of military force Okay, you got to round people up 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.280 and taking the qus and those that don't make it, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.080 you just kind of I'm asking you to be a 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:59.000 mass murderer. You have to imagine that, like a large 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.920 number of people wouldn't do this right, I would. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.040 Say that my cynical twenty twenty three opinion, it would 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.600 depend where you were getting them from. There are certain 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.160 places in the way that they militarized the country where 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.600 there would probably be people who would be more eager. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.280 And also it's a life or death situation, you know, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.920 it's could you do that? I mean also, is it 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.800 a real martial law? Is the president still there ordering 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.040 that or are these just segments of the army that 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.760 are left? Is there? I would love to know that. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.400 This is the I find this all the storytelling choices 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.720 in this show so brave. I'm so happy. From the beginning, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.160 I said I want season one to be the first game, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.920 and that's what they're doing. But I could also watch 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.480 a whole series just about the establishment of FEDERA. Yeah, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.360 and how who is in charge, who's making those decisions, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.360 who's setting up the qzs, How would they know? How 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.760 quickly could they do that? What was a QZ and 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.920 how did they get to be the places that they were, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.920 Like was it just a space in town? And how 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.040 did you keep the infected out? And before you had 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.200 the tests, how did you know who was infected? There's 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.319 just so many interesting questions and that kind of brutality 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.720 of these like mass graves is like, is just so horrific. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.120 But it seems, as Joe said that that was basically 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:19.200 as normal as anything else at the time, Like it 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.080 just began and people accepted it. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.040 George W. Bush about to eat a piece of toast 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.640 and a secret service guy and Andy Carr come up 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.960 and solid fucking toast out of his hand. So we 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.360 flashed back to September thirty, two thousand and three towns 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:39.520 being evacuated. We see on the evacuation truck the woman 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.920 and her child that eventually are going to be skeletons 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.160 in this mass grave and watching all of this from 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.640 his underground bunker which has is fully self sufficient and 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:55.760 it has like full CCTV TV and a secret entrance. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.480 Below the basement is a bill and he's been waiting 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.040 for this. He's been waiting for years. He thought this 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:08.480 would happen someday and Unfortunately he was right. He whispers, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:13.040 not today, you knew world order, Jack boot Fox. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.480 And they come knocking on his door. They kick down 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.240 his door, presumably, and they don't find it. He's deep 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.200 in the basement. He's safe. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.720 So the coast is clear and Bill emerges and it's 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.160 party time. It's time to set up shop. He gets 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.640 his neighbor's boat. He rips everything out of the boat 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.040 so he can use it as like a trailer. He's 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.400 gathering supplies from home depot. He's getting all the best wines. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.560 He's taking everything from the grocery store that he needs. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.920 He goes to the nearby power plant and make sure 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:42.840 the gas is on. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.160 Yeah, he's just loving life. He's setting up this whole 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.480 street to become his home. It's kind of idyllic post 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:51.800 apocalyptic suburb. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.320 It's a beautiful deal. He sets up a defensive perimeter 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.040 anchored by an electric fence. He got the electricity on 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.920 with the generator. He's got lots of traps, man traps, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:02.640 fire traps. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.400 He's got traps the shooting zombies if they come close. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:11.000 He's saws, circular saw traps. This guy is he loves 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.080 making the traps. He's a saw I. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.280 Was gonna say he's he's got big jigsaw energy. He 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.320 would do well as a serial killer if the apocalypse 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:19.960 had not happened. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.160 And he's also a gourmand. He plants all. He enjoys 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.760 the finding things in lot chickens. He's got some pork shoulder, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.000 pork butt, ready to wine, sautee it up in a 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:36.400 in a beautiful wine sauce. He's he's living very fat. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.800 And he goes on like this for four years, scouring 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.240 the nearby area for supplies when he means and returning 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.480 to his little fortress town. And then one day he's 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.240 alerted by his security system that an effected he thinks 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.920 has fallen into one of his his pit traps around 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.760 the perimeter. He goes over to see what's what's occurred, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.840 and it's a guy who is named Frank. And Frank 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.880 has just escaped a couple days ago, escaped from the 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.440 Baltimore QZ, which apparently has been overrun, and he's trying 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.199 to make his way to Boston. And he was in 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.080 a party of ten and now it's a party of one, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:15.479 just Frank and Bill. Very very wary, gun always at 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.240 the ready, let's Frank out of the pit. And then Frank, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.560 who we are going to learn is just a very 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:27.840 very charming person who is eager to make connections with 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.199 other people and eager to show his worth as a 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.919 person who makes connections, makes a connection with Bill and says, hey, listen, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:40.119 I'm kind of starving and if I could just like 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:45.080 have a meal, that would be great, and Bill really 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.400 against his better judgment, Yeah, I just want to say. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.640 Bill says, like, my one of my favorite lines here, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.400 which is like, I really feel like they were They 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.560 were just like, this is nickoll Fermen playing Bill, and 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.000 I really feel like they with him. They were like, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.280 you can just play it like if Ron Swanson was 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.800 in a drama. Because Frank's like, oh, could I just 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.440 have one meal? I have any in for two days? 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.920 And then he's like, I realized that doesn't sound very long. 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.119 And Bill's like, you can't just come hen and get 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.639 a free meal. This isn't an Abby's. If you go 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.760 people are gonna be coming in a restaurant. And then 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.199 and and Frank's like Abby's a restaurant there there was 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.520 no free meals, And they kind of have this banter 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:23.399 and eventually like Bill decides he's gonna let Frank in. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.560 He also says Bill that, well, listen, if I let 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.879 you in, everyone come in and tell every hobo in 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.119 the area. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.880 Frank's like, I won't tell any hobo which, oh vagabonds will. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.520 Drift this which this should be our first hint that 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.000 Bill and Joel are on parallel tracks. Remember Joel on 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.680 the outbreak day passing a family on the road. No, 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:51.320 keep fucking going, We're not stopping. Bill, had Frank not 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.919 come into his life, is that guy who would not 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:59.000 have stopped for anyone. So Bill lets Frank in. He 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.800 lets him wash up hot water. It's fantastic, He gets 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.520 an extra so excited, just go to have a shower, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.600 easy in the shower, and then they have a meal 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.400 that is so much better than anyone could have expected. Apocalypse. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.959 Frank has definitely never eaten a meal that good in 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.359 like seven years. Even before the apocalypse, he was probably 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.840 not eating that good. Like Bill makes a Michelin start, 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.239 it's a really good meal, and he brings out the 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.399 best wine, and you start to suddenly realize that Frank 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.080 is not the only person who's seeking connection. Like Bill 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.160 might be scared of making a connection of trusting someone else, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.720 but having this person in his house. He's taking it seriously. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.560 He wants to be a good host, and it's it's 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.600 really sweet, and nick Offman just gives the most unbelievable 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.240 performance that is so endearing and awkward, and as he 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.639 kind of opens up to this idea that he's not alone, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.560 even just for this one night, he kind of starts 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.400 to spread his wings. He shows off the wakers. Frank 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.360 is like the most enthusiastic guest, like he's so happy 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.960 to have the shower, to eat this delicious food, to 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.880 drink the wine, like it's yeah, it's just really two 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.480 of them are so good together and talking leg of 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:20.960 rabbit with with garden vegetables with a jou with paired 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.200 with a baujolet as Frank notes like, oh my god, 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.040 the wine and protein pairing is perfect. 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.960 Uh. Then Frank's like, oh, like I said, she leve, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.159 but before I leave, I want to play your piano, 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.560 which I've been looking at this whole time. And he 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.439 goes over. He goes through the music books that he 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:38.600 has there. It's a lot of old people shit, but 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:44.720 then there is a Linda Ronstat music book uh, and 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.520 Frank sits down kind of hacks his way through a 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.280 version of Linda Rod's stat's a long long time. Bill 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.080 is like Bill, who we should note by the meal 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.639 and his reaction to this has very high standards for everything, 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.680 and you're ruining. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.920 He's playing like the jauntiest ship. It's like dun dud. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.320 This is really chunky, like b and Bill is. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:11.920 Like, no, absolutely, it's a ballad, my friend. So then 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.479