Pedro Pascal has officially brought an end to his time with the massive hit HBO show, The Last of Us. In clips circulating online, the actor can be seen embracing his co-stars and the film crew as they cheer for him and wave him goodbye for what is seemingly his last day on set.

It wasn’t the last of Pedro Pascal. The actor made his big return to “The Last of Us” Season 2 in the sixth episode – despite the fact that the seasons’s second episode brutally murdered his character, Joel. He wasn’t a zombie or a ghost, but rather, the May 18 episode featured Joel in flashbacks.

The director and co-writer Halley Gross also tell TheWrap about the key scene from the video game he was most nervous to adapt The post ‘The Last of Us’ EP Neil Druckmann on Pedro Pascal’s ‘Homecoming’ in Episode 6: ‘It Felt Nostalgic for Everybody’ appeared first on TheWrap.

Below, Neil Druckmann — who co-wrote the PlayStation game The Last of Us Part II and serves as a showrunner on The Last of Us, directing this week’s episode — discusses some of the hour’s pivotal moments and tangled moral and emotional quagmires.

This story discusses major plot developments in "The Price," Season 2, Episode 6 of "The Last of Us," streaming on the service currently known as Max. When "The Last of Us" co-creator Craig Mazin called Catherine O'Hara to offer her a role in the second season of the HBO series,

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

Enter Season 2, episode 6, an installment of The Last of Us that alleviates my season-long quibbles for one heartbreaking hour. The episode reunites Joel and Ellie in a series of flashbacks spanning years, reminding us of both how impeccable Pascal and Ramsey's chemistry is and how much more well fleshed-out Jackson is compared to Seattle.

It has been exactly four weeks since HBO drama “The Last of Us” stunned viewers with a major cast shakeup. Luckily, we learned in Sunday’s sixth episode, we wouldn’t have to wait long to see Pedro Pascal’s Joel again.