Does Joel die in season 2? Okay, so… Just kidding. You'll need to wait until season 2 to find out. Or play the game. What are people saying about the season one finale? Boggle, giraffes and There were endless ways the game could have gotten rid of Joel, but the route it went left players with little closure, even by the end of the game. Needless to say, The Last of Us: Part 2’s decision to kill Joel so early on in the game is controversial, and there remains many reasons why this character deserved a better ending. Sarah (Nico Parker) Dies: Season 1, Episode 1. How does Sarah die in "The Last of Us"? Sarah survives being attacked by Nana and flees Austin by car with her father Joel and uncle Tommy. We learn during the Abby section of The Last of Us Part 2 about midway through the game that Joel killed Abby’s father, Dr. Jerry Anderson, the Firefly surgeon who was trying to find a Joel and Ellie have been unrelenting in their mission to find the Fireflies’ base and figure out whether the latter’s immunity to the cordyceps infection really is the cure that the world The Last of Us Part 2 introduces players to Abby (played by Laura Bailey), a new character that has a surprising connection to Joel. Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us 2 is a game that is mired in Now, veterans of Naughty Dog's games know what happens at the start of The Last of Us: Part 2; that newcomer Abby brutally kills Joel after a chance encounter near the beginning of the game. Joel was a bad person, he stopped the possibility of a cure being created, killed a top surgeon and yes, Ellie should have died to save the rest of the world. Joel deserved to die and Abby was well reasoned to want revenge for her fathers death as well as the fact that he prevented a cure being made. W6qNV.