Episode 6 - “The Price”

HBO's The Last of Us Podcast

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Tv & Film

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Host Troy Baker and The Last of Us showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann are joined by special guest and co-writer of this episode, as well as The Last of Us Part II game, Halley Gross! The group chats about why they decided to structure this episode around Ellie’s birthdays, why they didn’t want to change a thing about the Apollo 15 launch scene, what brought two Naughty Dog colleagues to tears on set, and why Neil considers the porch scene the most important moment of the entire story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You lied to me.
0:07.0	You looked me in the eyes and you lied.
0:11.0	And it was the same face, the same fucking look.
0:16.0	But I think I knew already.
0:25.1	I knew this whole time.
0:35.9	Welcome back to the official podcast for the HBO original series The Last of Us.
0:39.8	I'm Troy Baker and I'm joined as always by the showrunners of the HBO series Craig Mason.
0:45.9	Hello, Troy.
0:47.1	And Neil Druckman.
0:48.3	Hi.
0:49.0	With a very special guest, co-writer of The Last of Us Part 2 video game, Hallie Gross. Welcome Hallie.
0:56.6	Hi, Troy. Today we're unpacking episode six of season two, which is titled The Price. It was
1:01.8	written by Neil, Halley, and Craig, and directed by Neil. Listeners, you know the drill. Spoilers ahead.
1:16.1	This is nice.
1:18.6	Isn't it nice? Just a wonderful little gathering.
1:22.7	Where I'd like to start is talking to you, Halley.
1:26.5	Your contribution to Part 2 was very visceral.
1:29.6	What was it like coming from the game into the show? Obviously, you have a vast amount of experience writing for television. How was this different for
1:35.4	you? Oh, it was really exciting because when you're working on a game, there's so much to do,
1:41.1	there's so much material that you're really just filling the volume of the space that you have. And it's never done. The deadlines just come. So getting a chance to get a
1:51.0	second crack at these characters, at telling this story in a new way, was extremely exciting for me.
1:58.0	And I was so moved by what the guys had done with season one that I was
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