Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 3 as well as The Last of Us: Part II.
The Last of Us Season 2 dedicated the bulk of its latest episode, “The Path,” to exploring the grief and rage that Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was feeling following the death of Joel (Pedro Pascal). But it also took a detour to introduce a strange group of people, with strange scars marking their cheeks; this group also communicates via a series of whistles, and one of their…