One was changed heavily to finally reveal the answer to the season’s biggest mystery: what happened to Eugene, and how did it cause a rift between Joel and Ellie? In The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 6, Ellie and Joel are out on Ellie’s first patrol. When he returns to Jackson to tell Gail what happened, with some fabrications — Joel says Eugene was brave and shot himself. “That's not what happened,” Ellie immediately says. To Ellie, it means avoiding what could have been her true purpose in life: sacrificing herself for the greater good of humanity.