The True Meaning of One Key Detail From the Latest 'The Last of Us' Episode

The latest episode of The Last Of Us sees Ellie (Bella Ramsey) grappling with the fallout from (SPOILER ALERT) Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) death.

However, for fans who are just watching the show, one way Bella memorializes Pedro Pascal’s character may raise a few questions. After Joel’s death, Bella leaves coffee beans on his grave.

In the lore of The Last Of Us, coffee is seen as a luxury commodity in the wake of the Cordyceps infection. Whenever Ellie and Joel were in a place with a coffee pot or that used to sell the beverage, the latter would often make a comment about how he misses coffee.

In season two’s second episode, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is killed by Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), who seeks revenge for the death of her father—the surgeon Joel killed at the end of Season 1 to save Ellie (Bella Ramsey). The doctor had planned to operate on Ellie in hopes of creating a cure for the Cordyceps plague, though the procedure would have cost Ellie her life.

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Despite the shocking death of Pascal’s character, The Last Of Us co-creator and showrunner Craig Mazin is not worried it will tank ratings.

“Look, if the emotional response is not intense, then we f--ked up. This is not to say, “Great job us.” It’s important that people be upset but also that they now connect to the characters in the show who are just as upset, if not more so, than they are,” Mazin said in to The Hollywood Reporter, . “What do they do? Also, characters that we think are gone are not always gone. But I’m not concerned that ratings will fall off the edge of a cliff, I don’t think that’s how it works. I also know how powerful the rest of this story is and also how invested we are in these other relationships. But Joel will always be there.”

Season 2 of The Last Of Us is currently airing on HBO.