The Last of Us season 1, episode 5, "Endure and Survive" picks up right where the previous episode left off, and the action doesn't stop until the credits roll. In The Last of Us, season 1, episode 4, "Please Hold to My Hand", the formerly Fedra-occupied city of Kansas City, Missouri is introduced alongside one of the most important new characters introduced in the show, Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey). Kathleen is the iron-fisted leader of the "new" Kansas City. She and her brother liberated the city from a corrupt and dictatorial Fedra only recently.

However, what they replaced it with does not seem to be all that much better, and Kathleen's idealism for equality seems to have been lost in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. Number one on her hit list is someone named Henry, who betrayed the rebels, leading to her brother's death. The audience isn't introduced to Henry until the final moments of the episode,...