Warning, this podcast could date spoilers for the second episode of the last of us on HBO Max.

Hello, my name is Jason Cisepcione, and I'm Rosie Knight, and welcome to X-ray Vision,

the Crooked Media Podcast, where we dive deep into your favourite shows, movies, comics,

and pop culture. In this episode, in the airlock, we're digging deep into the last of us episode two.

Don't eat the bread. Don't eat it. No cake. And in nerd-out, we're doing a very relevant

theory from Brandon. Let's go Brandon. And if you want to,

supportive of the theories, if you want to jump around, as always, just check the show notes

for the timestamps. Coming up, the airlock.

We're stepping out of the airlock into the overgrown and ruined halls of a colonial museum

in Back Bay, Boston, for the last of us. Episode two.

Titled. In fact, it. Titled. In fact, it.

Show, of course, created by Craig Mason and Neil Druckman, creative director of the game

for Naughty Dog. Epeed by Mason, and, of course, this episode directed by a game,

creative director, Neil Druckman. Perfect timing as well, because

Neil's about to introduce the big bad. The big bad. The big boss. The big boss. And he does it well.

We open in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 23rd, 2003, a place where Joel at this time

was confused about its location. Didn't you? Didn't exactly know where it was. A military man

enters a restaurant interrupting the lunch of a woman who is dining there. Her name is

Ibu Ratna. She is a professor at the University of Indonesia, specializing in my college

E.K.A, the study of fungi. The man takes her to the skier wing of the hospital and shows her some

specimen under a microscope. And Dr. Ratna is like, oh, that's

op-fee-o-cordy steps. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Which is a fungus noted for its ability to take over

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