At first, Joel would not even trust Ellie with a gun and would yell at her to leave him alone, but after a serious fight between Joel and a group of bandits, Ellie took control of the situation by killing the thieves with a rifle that Joel was saving to us. Near the end of their very long and struggling journey, they were forced to separate by getting surrounded by Firefly officials and Joel got tazered. For the last major sequence, Joel broke into a hospital where Ellie was going to have a surgery that would kill her but cure the world of the disease and save the rest of the world's population, but Joel has gotten so attached to Ellie that he risked his life to fight to the operating room that Ellie was in and carried her towards the exit. Then the boss of the Fireflies shot Joel but told him to leave and run very far away, that she will risk her life as well and save both Ellie and Joel. The final cutscene was about Joel talking about his daughter sarah and on how Ellie was just like her when she was alive, saying that Joel was wishing Ellie was his