Tommy's Dam

"Tommy's Dam" is the seventh chapter of The Last of Us Part I. The player takes control of Joel Miller.
== Characters ==
Main and supporting
* Joel Miller 
* Ellie Williams
* Tommy Miller
* Maria Miller
Enemies
* Bandits
Minor
* SethOnly appears canonically in The Last of Us Part I remake.
* Callus
* Earl
* Buckley
* Steve
Mentioned
* Fireflies
* Marlene
* Winston Asher
* Houser
* Sarah Miller
* Ryan Oliverio
* Brent Pino
== Plot ==
=== Hydroelectric Dam ===
Along the Snake River Trail of Jackson County, Wyoming—months after Henry and Sam's deaths—Joel tells Ellie about his brother Tommy joining and quitting the Fireflies, and how they got separated on bad terms. She wonders if he will help them, to which Joel responds, "I guess we'll find out". They go past a dam, and encounter a small grave with a teddy bear on it, that makes Ellie think about Sam and his robot toy. Joel refuses to talk about it, and he tells her to just move on with her life. They eventually reach the closed gate of a power plant, and are held at gunpoint by several people. Tommy is among them, and he greets his brother with a hug. He introduces them to Maria, his wife, who along with her father, is in charge of a nearby self-sustained settlement of people, and are using the power plant for electricity. Ellie talks to Maria about how she learned to ride a horse after noticing one outside of the plant, prompting Joel to ask her who taught her. As he shows Joel around, Tommy says he went back to Texas a few months back, and tries to give Joel a picture of him and Sarah together he found at his house, but Joel refuses. The brothers later witness the workers getting the power generator up and running again.
In private, Joel tells Tommy about Ellie's immunity and asks him to bring her to the Fireflies, which Tommy refuses, since he is now responsible for all the people of his community. Angered, Joel shoves him and calls him ungrateful for all the years he kept the two alive, but Tommy replies that he's "got nothing but nightmares from those years". As he says this, the plant is attacked by bandits, forcing Joel to help Tommy fight them. After eliminating the bandits, Tommy (seeing Joel and Ellie interact) agrees to take her, but Ellie, suspecting that Joel is going to leave her, steals one of their horses and runs off into the woods.
=== Ranch House ===
After fighting more bandits, Joel and Tommy track her down to an abandoned ranch house, where Ellie confronts him about dumping her on Tommy. She brings up Sarah, saying that she is not his daughter and they are doing fine together, which just seems to confirm his decision. More bandits arrive at the ranch house and the brothers manage to kill them all. However, as they are heading back, Joel has a change of heart and decides to go with her himself. Tommy informs them that the Fireflies are in the science building of the University of Eastern Colorado, and Joel bids him goodbye.
== Walkthrough ==
== Collectibles ==
"Tommy's Dam" contains the following seven collectibles:
#	Name 	Type 	Section 	Location
1	Foreign Element 	Comic 	"Hydroelectric Dam"	As you hike along the riverbed on your way to the hydroelectric dam, and before reaching the bridge, climb the rocks to the right. Search next to the crashed car and corpse to find the comic on the ground.
2	Power plant map 	Artifact 	"Hydroelectric Dam"	Enter the brick guardhouse that sits in the corner before trying to enter the gate to the dam. The map can be found hanging on a wall inside.
3	Smoke: Chemistry	Training manual	"Hydroelectric Dam"	Inside the dam's control room (after meeting the two "geniuses" with Tommy), approach the control panel where a third worker sits. The manual sits on the left side.
4	Ryan Oliverio 	Firefly pendant	"Hydroelectric Dam"	Follow Tommy out of the dam's control room and descend the stairs on the left. Enter the nearby room in the back and search inside a cabinet to find the pendant on the bottom shelf.
5	Plant schematics	Artifact 	"Hydroelectric Dam"	After the bandits attack the dam, fight them and cut back through the dam's control room. You can find the schematics on the central table the two workers were standing at before.
6	Brent Pino 	Firefly pendant	"Ranch House" 	Enter the Hidden Pines Corral ranch house and head to the back right room of the ground floor (with the fireplace and single chair). The pendant is found on top of the desk in the corner.
7	Zero Point 	Comic 	"Ranch House" 	Enter the Hidden Pines Corral ranch house and head to the second floor. Enter the first room on the left. The comic is found on the bench against the far left window.
== Transcript ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* In the cinematic trailer, Ellie is holding a regular 9mm pistol at the dam, but in-game, she holds her unique Beretta pistol.
* In one of the rooms upstairs at the ranch house, there is a copy of the real world board game on the window sill. 
* This is the only chapter where Joel wears his red shirt. Furthermore, this chapter, "The Firefly Lab", and "Jackson" are the only chapters without any infected enemies.
* In the original game, Tommy's gun is a standard bolt-action rifle. In The Last of Us Part I, it has been changed to his custom sniper rifle from Part II or a similar-looking rifle.
=== Mistakes ===
* In the very beginning of the chapter before the player reaches the dam, there is a flock of birds that flies by over the river. If the player turns around and watches those birds fly away they will either just disappear or go through some of the terrain.
* When the player gets to the dam and reaches the bridge, Ellie will turn her wheel faster than Joel will turn his. Even if Joel begins first, Ellie will beat him every time, despite Joel being much stronger than Ellie
* At this same part, the dam is designed to force the player to make their own bridge. On the right behind the shiv door, there are mounting brackets on the wall that would indicate a walkway of some sort fell down, but it doesn't connect to anything, so there would be no way for a worker to get to the area where the shiv door is without using the bridge that Joel and Ellie make.
* When the player arrives at the ranch house, the horses change. Tommy's horse is a paint when they arrive, and when entering the house there are two paint horses and Callus. When they have killed the bandits, each horse is now unique, and have changed positions.
* In the cutscenes, Tommy's hunting rifle has a scope, but not in gameplay. This is fixed in the Part I remaster.
== Gallery ==
Tommy's Dam.jpg|Joel in front of the dam's gates.
== Notes ==
Category:The Last of Us Part I chapters
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