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It’s so overdone it’s practically calendar art: Ellie wanders amber fields of grain beneath an endless golden-hour sunset.

Ellie and Dina have created an idyllic nuclear family as they pass their days on an equally idyllic family farm.

Abby, whose relationship with a lot of her friends was poisoned or scarred in some way by the bloody vengeance they saw her take, can’t play the monster in front of her last friend in the world, this surrogate little brother she’s ended up with. Lev, the kid Abby has taken under her wing for much of the game, begs Abby to stop. She is on the verge of killing Dina right in front of Ellie when Abby’s newest (and last, as it turns out) friend intervenes. The two women fight, and Abby gets the better of Ellie in a cat-and-mouse duel in the theater’s backstage. It probably should have been, given that this turns out to be the game’s final verdict on Ellie’s misguided quest. This could be the start of the game’s denouement. And now, as Abby confronts Ellie with every reason to kill her and virtually no option to spare her, she calls it a waste. Abby let them keep their lives (a point just about all of Ellie’s victims try making to her). Tommy and Ellie weren’t part of Joel’s crimes.

For them, revenge and justice were one and the same. But that’s not who Abby or her closest friends were. If Abby's goal was to inflict pain on Joel, it certainly would have hurt him to watch them die. Because Abby is right: she and her strike team could have killed Ellie and Tommy. It’s an insightful turn of phrase and probably the moment the game comes closest to sticking the landing.