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May 30, 2020 1 min, 24 secs

This secret epilogue only appeared during Last of Us: One Night Live, an underappreciated but totally official 2014 stage production written by the game’s creator Neil Druckmann?

Last of Us: One Night Live was a 2014 fan event hosted by Neil Druckmann.

You can watch most of the event online, including a fun operatic version of the game's climax — the only scene missing is the secret epilogue that takes place weeks after the ending of The Last of Us.

Druckmann described the scene as a way of “saying goodbye” to Joel and Ellie long before the sequel began development, and he asked the audience to not record it, noting it would never be made public.

From a mix of information from VentureBeat, Geoff Keighley, an IGN community article, Neil Druckmann himself, an online narration and NeoGaf users, here's what occurred in the scene:.

In the One Night Live epilogue, Joel and Ellie have moved into the settlement in Jackson founded by Joel's brother Tommy.

In the original production, Neil Druckmann makes a director’s note that this was after Joel’s lie from the end of the game where he tells Ellie that the Fireflies couldn't use her to develop a cure for the Cordyceps infection.

Druckmann implied that Ellie knew that Joel was hiding the truth on some level, which accounts for the tension.

Before starting work on Last of Us Part II, Neil Druckmann referred to the scene as a goodbye to Joel and Ellie, but it’s easy to see how elements from this scene have been incorporated into the sequel.

The actual ending of the first game leaves things uncertain: Does Ellie know that Joel is lying.

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