The Last of Us (2013 Video Game)

Annie Wersching: Tess

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• Tess : What do you know about me? about us?

  Joel : I know that this is not you.

  Tess : Really? Guess what, we're shitty people Joel it's been that way for a long time...

  Joel : No, we are survivors...

  Tess : this is our chance...!

  Joel : IT IS OVER, TESS! now we tried... let's just go home...

• Ellie : Holy shit. We actually made it.

  Joel : Everyone okay?

  Tess : Yes. Let's move.

  Ellie : You guys are pretty good at this stuff.

  Joel : It's called luck, and it is gonna run out.

• Ellie : [about Tess, in horror]  Holy shit... she's infected.

  Tess : Joel...

  Joel : Let me see it.

  Tess : I didn't mean for this...

  Joel : Show it to me!

  [Tess resentfully jerks her shirt collar aside, revealing a festering bite on her clavicle] 

  Joel : Oh, Christ.

  Tess : Oops, right?

  [to Ellie] 

  Tess : Give me your arm!

  [pulls Ellie's sleeve back, points at the month-old bite mark on her arm] 

  Tess : This was three weeks! I was bitten an hour ago, and it's already worse. This is fucking real, Joel! You have got to get this girl to Tommy's. He used to run with this crew, he'll know where to go.

  Joel : No, no, no! That was your crusade, I am not doing that!

  Tess : Yes, you are! Look... there's enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me. So you get her to Tommy's!

• Marlene : You hand her off, come back, the weapons are yours. Double what Robert sold me.

  Tess : Speaking of which, where are they?

  Marlene : Back at our camp.

  Tess : We're not smuggling shit until I see them.

  Marlene : [wearily]  You'll follow me, you can verify the weapons, I can get patched up.

  [gestures to Ellie] 

  Marlene : But she's not crossing into that part of town. I want Joel to watch over her.

  [Joel and Ellie protest at the same time] 

  Joel : Whoa, whoa, I don't think that's the best idea.

  Ellie : Bullshit, I'm not going with him!

  Marlene : Ellie!

  Ellie : How do you know them?

  Marlene : I was close with his brother Tommy. He said if I was ever in a jam, I could rely on him.

  Joel : Was that before or after he left your little militia group?

  Marlene : He left you, too. He was a good man.

  Tess : Look, just... take her to the North Tunnel and wait for me there.

  Joel : Jesus Christ...

  Tess : She's just cargo, Joel.

  Ellie : Marlene...

  Marlene : No more talking. You'll be fine. Now go with him.

• Ellie : Hey, fuck you, man! I didn't ask for this!

  Joel : Me neither. Tess, what the hell are we doin' here?

  Tess : What if it's true?

  Joel : I can't believe-!

  Tess : What if, Joel? I mean we've come this far, let's just finish it.

  Joel : Do I need to remind you what is out there?

  [Tess glances knowingly between Joel and Ellie] 

  Tess : I get it.

  [Tess walks away with Ellie, leaving Joel frustrated but with no choice but to follow] 

• Ellie : [looking up in wonder at the ruins of Boston]  Holy moly. I guess this is what these buildings look like up close. They're so damn tall! So, what happened here?

  Tess : They bombed the hell out of the surrounding areas to the quarantine zones, hoping to kill as much of the infected as possible. It worked, for a little while.

  Joel : Hmph.

  [a clicker screeches in the distance, alarming Ellie] 

  Ellie : Uh, what the hell was that?

  Joel : Tess, you hear that?

  Tess : Yeah. Sounded pretty far away, though.

  Joel : Shit.

  Ellie : Are we safe?

  Tess : For now. Come on.

• Tess : You know, I was thinkin'... after we get back, we can take it easy for a little while.

  Joel : [scoffs]  You wanna take it easy?

  Tess : Hey, you're the one always going on about laying low.

  Joel : And you always brushed me off.

  Tess : [suggestively]  Well. I won't this time.

  Joel : I'll believe it when I see it.