The Last of Us Team Is as Excited as You Are About Part 2’s Best Scene

The video game The Last of Us Part II is filled with unforgettable moments. Life or death decisions, big revelations, all of it. In our minds though, the best moment in the game, and we wrote about this when it came out, takes place in an empty, decrepit museum. It’s a place where Joel (Pedro Pascal on the show) brings Ellie (Bella Ramsey on the show) for a very special present. A place we see briefly come to life in the latest trailer for The Last of Us season two, which starts April 13.

Fans of the show may not have realized what they were seeing, but anyone who’s played the game knew. Season two was remaking that scene. And it sounds like the wink was done very purposefully. “In the trailer, you see Pedro and Bella both by the space capsule in the museum,” Last of Us co-creator/executive producer Craig Mazin said at a recent press conference, in which io9 participated. “That scene is the first thing that Neil [Druckmann, co-creator] ever showed me from The Last of Us Part 2. It’s beautiful. And watching [Pascal and Ramsey] kind of inhabit that and make it their own was pretty spectacular.”

The explanation came after Mazin, Druckmann, and the cast were asked if there were any moments from the game they were excited to bring to life on the show. And while the museum was mentioned specifically, Mazin also mentioned something else. “I don’t want to say what it is, but there is a scene in the final episode of the season… it’s quite impactful in the game, but there was this kind of evolution of it as we put it on film that kind of blows me away,” he said.

Whatever that scene is, we assume it’s a major spoiler. And, to be frank, explaining exactly what happens in the museum knowing audiences everywhere will now get to experience it on the show, would be a pretty big spoiler too. So we won’t do that. But, again, you can read it about here, certainly watch it on YouTube somewhere, and see it soon when The Last of Us season two returns to HBO on April 13.

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