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The Last of Us Recap: Seattle at Last
The Last of Us
Day One
Season 2
Episode 4
Editor’s Rating
Ellie and Dina finally reach Seattle, only to be caught between its warring factions.
Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO
In case you’ve forgotten, what remained of the U.S. government and its military did not vanish with the onset of the Cordyceps outbreak. In fact, it’s still the dominant force in much of the East Coast, as far as we know. But Ellie and Joel left FEDRA, the blanket term for government forces, in their rearview mirror long ago. So it’s kind of a shock that this episode opens with a group of FEDRA soldiers yucking it up inside an armored vehicle. Where are we? When are we? The answer is Seattle in the recent past, where a seasoned soldier (Josh Peck) is holding court as he recounts a story of confronting “voters” with the help of a brutish, slow-witted comrade-in-arms named Greenberg who does not understand the word disseminating.
Why do they call them “voters,” Burton (Ben Ahlers), a fresh-faced recruit, asks. It’s here that a previously unheard voice of authority pipes up to clarify. “It’s because we took away their rights,” Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), their leader, says. We’ve heard of Isaac. He leads the WLF. But all that’s in the future as this scene unfolds. When the vehicle reaches a blockade, the FEDRA forces find themselves surrounded by voters. Isaac tells them he’s heading out alone to talk to them. This is true, but there’s more going on here. Pulling out Burton, Isaac first walks up to the leader of the citizens, then casually tosses a grenade in the back of the vehicle. He’s selling them out to join the WLF, to all appearances, because he believes in the WLF cause. Does Burton share this belief (or, at the very last, want to survive)? “Now make your choice,” Isaac tells him shortly before the opening credits kick in.
The Last of Us’s fourth second-season episode leaves Burton’s choice unresolved until later. Instead, it flashes forward 11 years to the season’s main timeline, where Dina and Ellie scavenge an already ravaged pharmacy for anything that might be useful. They don’t have a lot of luck, unless a long-expired jug of milk counts, but Dina spies something that might be useful (though what remains unclear at the moment).
Seattle looks strangely beautiful. Wilderness has already reclaimed much of the city (the parts spared from bombing, at least), and there’s little that appears ominous as they enter Capitol Hill, a neighborhood filled with rainbow flags and Pride symbols that Ellie and Dina don’t understand. But around the corner, they find skeletons, an overgrown tank, and other signs that the area once served as a battlefield. Ellie likens the burned corpses inside the tank to the doomed astronauts of Apollo 1, a reminder of her fascination with the space program (evident by the posters in her room back in Jackson), and that she has interests beyond revenge and survival.
Still, revenge remains pretty high on Ellie’s to-do list, and when Dina spots the letters WLF painted on the satellite dish of a local TV station, she’s eager to rush in. Dina suggests they exercise caution rather than rushing in, so they stash Shimmer and wait until dark inside a music store. This, too, speaks to Ellie’s other interests. Finding a well-preserved guitar, Ellie tunes it and plays a lovely acoustic rendition of A-ha’s “Take on Me” while Dina looks on tearfully. It’s a tender moment during a break in the action; it seemingly never occurs to either that they could walk away and leave this quest behind.
And what about Isaac? He’s still around, we soon find out, and he’s still a believer in the WLF cause. But any idealism he’s held onto is now coupled with sadism. We watch him waxing poetic about cookware he could never afford in the time before the infection, but it’s revealed that he’s now using these “strange benefits of the apocalypse” for destructive purposes. Copper might be ideal for cooking, but it’s also well suited for torturing “Scars,” the derogatory term for Seraphites, the scar-faced followers of a still-unnamed prophet we heard about in the previous episode. Though naked and defenseless, the Seraphite refuses to divulge any information about his people’s whereabouts, prompting Isaac to kill him. “Good,” Burton, now 11 years older and a hardened WLF soldier, says as he stands guard outside the door. “Scar got what he deserved, fucking animal.”
Though they don’t yet know it as they scope out the TV station, this is what Ellie and Dina are up against. Or at least part of what they’re up against. Inside, they find a horror show of slain Wolves, all hung from the ceiling and disemboweled. On the wall, Ellie finds a strange rune and the words “Feel Her Love” etched in blood. Ellie can’t know it yet, but she stumbled upon the aftermath of a confrontation between the Wolves and Seraphites, in which the Seraphites won. We’ve seen what cruelty the WLF can exact. Now here’s an example of what their enemies can do. “What the fuck is wrong with Seattle?” Dina asks, and it’s easy to see why.
But Ellie and Dina barely have time to consider this before trouble starts to arrive in the form of Wolves responding to a call for backup. It doesn’t take long for this to go south, forcing Ellie and Dina to fight Wolves and then flee in the rain. They find shelter, but not safety, in a dilapidated subway line, where they again have to evade the Wolves searching for them. When the soldiers find themselves fighting infected, they turn this chaos to their advantage and escape, but just barely. There’s one other issue: Ellie is bitten in full view of Dina as she attempts to save Dina’s life.
This, understandably, freaks out Dina. After they take shelter in a nearby theater, Dina pulls a gun on her best friend with every intention of putting her down. It’s confession time. “I’m immune,” Ellie tells her, then promises she will wake up unchanged and that Dina can hold a gun on her for as long as she feels is necessary. Dina goes along with this, and when it becomes clear that Ellie is telling the truth, two dramatic events happen back to back: Dina reveals she’s pregnant, and the two begin making out. When they wake up, each eats some jerky to counteract morning breath before kissing again. Postapocalyptic life clearly has its downsides.
As the sun comes up, Ellie tells Dina the whole story, about how she’d been bitten before and why she covered the bite with tattoos. Then Dina makes her own confession: She has wanted to be with Ellie for a long time. In fact, she’s imagined a future in which the two make a life together, with kids and everything. Dina has wanted this for a while, despite the complicated relationship with Jesse that led to her pregnancy. “We’re all having a baby,” Ellie concludes. Then a message on the WLF walkie-talkie they’ve stolen prompts both Dina and Ellie to leave these thoughts aside. They know where to find WLF headquarters and Abby. Ellie suggests Dina stay behind, things being different now. But Dina won’t be left behind. The episode ends with her saying a single word to define their situation: “Together.”
• The conflict between the heavily armed WLF and the less resourced but still dangerous Serpahites, a deeply religious group not averse to violence, doesn’t map directly onto any real-world situation, but it’s hard to ignore parallels between current global hot spots. Specifically, Neil Druckmann has spoken about how he drew inspiration from growing up in Israel and witnessing the cycle of violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That’s a heavy topic for a zombie show to take on, of course, but the series so far seems to be following the example of the game, which attempts to immerse players in the middle of morally knotty situations. We see that both the Wolves and the Seraphites are capable of atrocities. We also see that each side has its own reasons for what it does. In some ways, it’s an expansion of themes that the series has already introduced. We love Joel, but it’s just as easy to see why Abby would think him a monster. And why Ellie would think Abby a monster. And on and on. That Ellie and Dina repeatedly put their feelings for each other to the side in the interest of vengeance is one of this episode’s saddest details. Sometimes hate takes precedence over everything else, no matter the cost.
• Ellie is too young to remember “Take on Me” being a hit the first time around. Then again, she’s too young to remember anything being a hit the first time around. Globally, it’s the biggest song ever recorded by the Norwegian pop group A-ha, but A-ha enjoyed a long career after that breakthrough, finding consistent success in Europe. They’re still around, though, apparently, they’ve become one of those bands whose members don’t really interact with one another when not onstage.
• If you put money on Josh Peck (a) showing up in an episode of The Last of Us and (b) playing a huge jerk, well, you just had a big payday.
• You know what’s always a good thing? When Jeffrey Wright shows up. He’s reprising the role he played in The Last of Us Part II (the game, in case there’s any confusion).
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SEATTLE – The husband of a pregnant woman killed in a random 2023 downtown Seattle shooting has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.
The complaint alleges the agency failed to act on clear warning signs exhibited by the suspect, Cordell Goosby, before he opened fire on the family.
Cordell Goosby in the foreground with the crime scene, including the white Tesla the couple were shot in, in the background
King County prosecutors say Goosby shot a married couple sitting in their car on 4th Street in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood on June 13, 2023. It resulted in the death of 34-year-old Eina Kwon, who was 32 weeks pregnant at the time. Her husband, Sung Kwon, was also injured in the shooting.
Goosby was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder for the act, but he was found not guilty by reason of insanity this year.
The lawsuit, filed by Kwon and his attorneys, claims that Goosby was being supported by the King County Regional Homelessness Authority and was provided with other services leading up to the shooting.
In the weeks leading up to the attack, Goosby allegedly told his case worker that he was hearing voices, experiencing paranoia, and thinking of conducting drive-by shootings. The complaint alleges Goosby’s case worker was repeatedly ignored by the agency’s supervisors when bringing up Goosby’s declining mental state.
An employee responsible for initiating psychiatric holds reportedly declined to see Goosby after he texted his case worker he needed to leave Seattle fast before he hurt someone, saying he would get to it in two days. The next day, Goosby carried out the shooting.
What they’re saying:
My wife and daughter should still be here. My family will never be whole again, and every day I think about the life we were supposed to have together. I am bringing this case forward because the people who were supposed to help this man looked away when it mattered most. I don’t want another family to experience the unimaginable loss that I am left with,” said Sung Kwon.
“KCRHA knew their program participant, Mr. Goosby, was in crisis. He asked them for help. He told them, over and over, that he was hearing voices and thinking about shooting people. He was threatening KCRHA employees. The warning signs could not have been more clear. Instead of getting him help or alerting law enforcement, KCRHA told its own staff to wait it out, and discouraged others from contacting police, as well. Eina and Evelyn Kwon paid for that delay with their lives,” said Julie Kline, the Schroeter Goldmark & Bender attorney representing the Kwon family.
What’s next:
The lawsuit seeks damages for wrongful death, the death of a child, and personal injury to be determined at a future trial.
FOX 13 Seattle has reached out to the King County Regional Homelessness Authority about the lawsuit and is waiting to hear back.
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The Source: Information in this story came from a press release from Seattle-based law firm Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, a complaint filed in King County Superior Court by Sung Kwon, and previous FOX 13 Seattle reporting.
SEATTLE — The widower of Eina Kwon, a pregnant woman who was gunned down while sitting in traffic in downtown Seattle, has filed a lawsuit against the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, alleging the agency knew of escalating and threatening behavior by the gunman in the weeks leading up to the shooting.
Cordell Goosby shot Kwon and her husband, Sung Kwon, at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Lenora Street in June 2023.
Seattle Police Department officers are seen investigating the shooting in Belltown near the intersection of 4th Avenue and Lenora Street on June 13, 2023. (KOMO News)
Earlier this year, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Video showed the shooting was completely random as Goosby walked up the Kwon’s car at a turn light and opened fire. Eina Kwon and her baby were killed, while Sung Kwon was shot and survived his injuries.
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The case sparked a severe backlash about the dangerous conditions on the streets of downtown Seattle during a year that set a record for homicides in the city.
According to Sung Kwon’s lawsuit, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) knew Goosby was growing delusional and violent prior to the shooting, including the day prior, when the agency declined to screen him immediately for psychiatric admission.
Weeks of escalating behavior
The lawsuit brings to light many allegations about Goosby’s interactions with KCRHA workers in the weeks before he attacked the Kwon family.
A photo showing{ }Cordell Goosby being arrested in Belltown on June 13, 2023, following a shooting that killed Eina Kwon. (KOMO)
In April 2023, the complaint says KCRHA staff started receiving complaints about Goosby’s behavior at his county-funded apartment on 1st Avenue West in Seattle. The lawsuit alleges neighbors told KCRHA staff about an overwhelming odor of marijuana and noise coming from Goosby’s apartment, the lawsuit alleges.
By June 2023, those complaints had escalated into reports of Goosby fighting strangers, displaying aggressive behavior, and talking about shooting people.
The day before shooting the Kwons, a KCRHA case worker notified her supervisors that Goosby had told her he needed to “leave Seattle fast before he hurts someone,” the lawsuit claims.
Goosby also apparently claimed people were in his vents talking to him and he was being “gang stalked”
“(KCRHA case worker) sought out (KCRHA supervisor), whom she understood to be the point person for initiating an evaluation by a Designated Crisis Responder for involuntary psychiatric admission,” the lawsuit states. “(Supervisor) declined to see Mr. Goosby that day, telling (case worker) he would get to it on Wednesday.”
Day before the random attack on the Kwon family
On June 12, 2023, Goosby confronted a property manager at his apartment complex while screaming, saying he hadn’t eaten in days and was being antagonized by neighbors.
The lawsuit claims the property manager called a KCRHA supervisor, who then discouraged the manager from calling police and assured him, “Goosby was not dangerous.”
A photo of Goosby’s county-funded apartment. (KOMO)
“By the end of the day on Monday, June 12, 2023, KCRHA had taken no steps to help Mr. Goosby or intervene in any way and did not notify law enforcement of Mr. Goosby’s threats to hurt (case worker) and others,” the lawsuit states.
But after talking with the KCRHA staff, the apartment manager called Seattle police and reported Goosby was in crisis.
According to an SPD case note included in the lawsuit, the apartment manager said Goozby was enraged about claims that people were talking to him all day and night, and said “if they don’t stop, you know what’s going to happen.”
The police report notes KCRHA staff had been notified, and the officer advised the apartment manager to call back “if (Goosby) ever seemed on the edge of committing a violent act.”
4th and Lenora Shooting
At 11:00 a.m. on June 13, 2023, the Kwon family was in their Tesla driving to their Belltown restaurant when they stopped for a turn light at 4th Avenue and Lenora Street in downtown Seattle.
Armed with a stolen gun, Goosby ran up their car at random and started firing through the glass.
Eina Kwon was shot in the head and check and did not have a heartbeat when paramedics arrived. She was rushed into surgery at Harborview Medical Center, but she and her 32-week old baby both died.
Flowers sit at Lenora Street and 4th Avenue on Thursday, June 15, 2023, in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood to honor Eina Kwon. (KOMO News)
Sung Kwon was shot in the arm and treated for his injuries.
Goosby surrendered to Seattle police immediately after the shooting. He was charged with murder in the first degree and went through multiple competency evaluations until being deemed not guilty by reason of insanity this spring.
Why family says KCRHA is responsible
Lawyers for Sung Kwon allege KCRHA had a “duty to exercise reasonable care” to prevent Goosby from harming the Kwon family.
“Mr. Goosby was a KCRHA program participant and KCRHA undertook to provide him with housing and case management services,” the lawsuit states. “KCRHA failed to implement or enforce policies and procedures for supervising and responding to program participants who pose a danger to others. KCRHA failed to adequately hire, train, and supervise personnel to handle program participants who pose a danger to others. It failed to provide guidance, protection, or support to personnel, so they were enabled, empowered, or equipped to take reasonable steps to address program participants who pose a danger.”
The suit claims KCRHA staff asked with reckless disregard of the safety, and sought to prevent others from contacting law enforcement about Goosby’s threatening behavior.
“KCRHA was negligent in its failure to take reasonable care as it related to its knowledge of Mr. Goosby’s mental state and behavior thereby creating, combining with, or increasing the foreseeable risk of improper conduct of Mr. Goosby, which KCRHA knew caused a foreseeable risk of injury to others,” the lawsuit states.
The complaint does not list a specific dollar amount, but seeks for damages to be determined at trial.
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