This story contains minor spoilers for The Last of Us season 2, episode 6. It's no secret that fatherhood is a major theme in The Last of Us. But while Joel exists as Ellie's surrogate father figure in both the original video games and the HBO television adaptation,

Joel's appearance on the latest episode of "The Last of Us" was an emotional one. On the May 18 episode, Pedro Pascal returns as Joel after his character's heartbreaking death in the second episode.

Episode 6 was full of flashbacks, but one took us back a bit further than the others. The episode opens in 1983, when Joel and Tommy are teenagers. Joel is trying to cover for Tommy so he doesn't get in trouble with their dad, and this results in Joel and his dad having a conversation at their kitchen table.

The next episode of HBO's "The Last of Us" will see the return of Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller in a flashback episode set before the Season 2 premiere.

Sunday night’s episode of The Last of Us Season 2 hit pause on Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) increasingly dangerous mission to find Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) to help explain how she really got to this point in the first place.

This week’s episode of The Last of Us had a lot of drama to unpack and take in, but one of the most significant details in the flashback-heavy episode is pretty easy to miss. Iv

Pedro Pascal's Joel returns to "The Last of Us" in an episode about the conversations death leaves unfinished.

When you follow that through, it seems pretty clear that the flashback at the end of episode 5 is building up to something. The Last of Us is well known for breaking the mould with its standout episodes, some of which — think episodes 3 and episodes 7 in Season 1 — take us on journeys into the past.

Turns out Ellie was actually more pissed at Joel over the whole Eugene situation than, you know, the mass murder.

The Price,' the penultimate episode of season two, brought back Pedro Pascal for a stunning series of flashbacks.