Please Hold to My Hand/Transcript

The following is the full transcript of "Please Hold to My Hand", the fourth episode of the first season of HBO's The Last of Us.
== Transcript ==
Ellie: We have to do this every hour?
Joel: Gas breaks down over time—this stuff's almost water. Back in the day, we'd drive ten, twelve hours on one tank. You could go anywhere.
Ellie: So where'd you go?
Joel: Pretty much nowhere.
Ellie: Nice! How does that work?
Joel: It's a siphon. It's when liquid… travels against gravity… because pressure--
Ellie: You don't know.
Joel: I know it works. No wandering!
Ellie: Okay. This is your fault, then. "It doesn't matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery."
Ellie: What's his name?
Joel: Whose name?
Ellie: Your brother.
Joel: . 
Ellie: Younger or older?
Joel: Younger. 
Ellie: Why isn't he with you?
Joel: Long story.
Ellie: Is it longer than 25 hours? 'Cause I think that's what we got.
Joel: Tommy's what we used to call a joiner—dreams of becoming a hero. So he enlists in the Army, right outta high school. Few months later, they ship him off to . That's what they called that war, it doesn't matter. Point is, being in the Army, it didn't make him feel much like a hero. Cut to twelve years later, outbreak happens, he convinces me to join a group making their way up to , which I did—mostly to keep an eye on him, keep him alive. That's where we met . [Joel takes a swig of his drink.] And that whole crew, we, uh… Well, for what it was, it worked. Then Tommy meets . She talks him into joining the . Same mistake he made when he was eighteen. Wants to save the world… Pipe dream. Him, Fireflies, all of 'em… delusional. 'Course last I heard, he quit the Fireflies, too. So now he's on his own out there, and… I gotta go get him.
Ellie: If you don't think there's hope for the world, why bother going on? I mean, you gotta try, right?
Joel: You haven't seen the world, so you don't know. You keep going for family. That's about it.
Ellie: I'm not family?
Joel: No. You're cargo. And I made a promise to Tess. And she was like family.
Ellie: What if you don't find him?
Joel: I will.
Ellie: How do you know?
Joel: I'm persistent. You got up pretty early, if you wanna grab more sleep…
Ellie: [Scoffs] I'm not even tired.
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