

Joel was lightly injured in the attack, so Tess gave him a health kit to patch himself up. They almost made it through the checkpoint but the local militia group, the Fireflies, bombed a truck, prompting the military to close the checkpoint as they chased the terrorists. Whilst heading to the checkpoint, they discussed how rations must be low and watch as four people are forced from a building to be scanned, with one being infected. She then convinced Joel that they could regain their stolen weapons cache, revealing that Robert was hiding in an "old warehouse in Area 5". Tess revealed that she was attacked by "a couple of nobodies" sent by Robert, another local smuggler who was overdue on paying them a considerable amount of weapons. Joel remained stoic, asking why she had a gash on her face and attempted to clean it with a rag doused in alcohol.


Tess tried to calm him by showing that she did get "enough ration cards to last a couple of months". Joel asked why she did not wait for him when she went to trade ration cards for pills in the West End district. Tess, having come back from a deal, entered Joel's apartment in the Boston Zone. The Last Of Us Part 2 Spoiler-Free Reviewġ2 June 2020 Events of The Last of Us Confronting Robert Bill would gather supplies for the two which they would then smuggle into the quarantine zone. īy the summer of 2033, Tess and Joel became acquainted with Bill, a lone survivor living in Lincoln. With Tess having various contacts in the Boston underworld and a no-holds barred approach, she and Joel earned a ruthless reputation, to the point where their fellow survivors (including Ronnie) within the QZ did not attempt to cross them.

The two became close, Tess even affectionately calling him "Texas" and the two flirted with each other during their missions, heavily relying upon each other in the post-pandemic world. The two became partners Joel serving as the muscle while she was the brains in their operations. After the Cordyceps brain infection outbreak, she became a smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, living in Area 4. Tess was born in Rockford, Illinois, on February 26, 1982.
