Instead, they sported tendrils, used to communicate over vast distances and seen when Tess gets bitten in Season 1 Episode 2. Spoilers ahead for The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5. But in the Season 2 trailer, we got a glimpse of Ellie surrounded by spores in the air — with no gas mask, of course, because she’s immune. In the game, when Ellie reaches Seattle she tracks Abby’s sidekick Nora to the Seattle hospital. Ellie encounters spore-expelling Infected in The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5.