At that point, David's jig is up, and he realizes that she isn't going to be a victim of his manipulation.
All I'm looking for is an equal." Ellie isn't buying his line of horse manure and breaks David's finger as she pretends to be reaching for his hand. In an almost cathartic exchange, David comes clean as to what his role is within the group saying, "They need God. And when Joel asks for verification of the location of the group at the Silver Lake Resort and then kills them both, it is almost verbatim from the game.Īs David has Ellie locked in a cage and begins to groom her and show him his true colors, he confesses that he is what amounts to a cult-like figure to the members of his group. When the group returns to exact revenge on Joel for their fallen comrade, Ellie is able to elude them for quite a while and even manages to kill some of them in the game and Joel stabs his attacker in the back of the neck instead of strangling him. David later reveals that only the inner circle members actually know that they're eating their own dead. Is it really venison from a deer or something far worse? We know it's the latter, but it's interesting to note that not everyone is on the same page about where their food is actually coming from. And it also appears that some of the group members are skeptical about what they're eating. The scene where he strikes Hannah for being disrespectful and then leads them in prayer is their attempt to flesh out that David is in no way a good person for viewers who haven't played the game. Showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann decided to go into the inner workings of David's group in far more detail than in the game. And as it turns out, the man that Joel killed at the end of Episode 7 was a member of David's cult, and he is motivated by wanting to find the man responsible for his death so that he can be brought to justice. As the two wait for James to return, you can tell that he's already grooming her as an addition to the group. David marginalizes his following and teachings as just some regular "bible stuff". Ellie asks if "Is this some kind of weird cult stuff?' It's the first and only time the word 'cult' is uttered in the episode. He offers her a spot among his people calling himself a "decent man". We didn't even hear you coming." Everything about David seems to be genuine in his dealings with her, and he comes across as earnest-almost like a father. He wants to get the deer she shot (Ellie uses a bow and arrow in the game) to placate his followers, but there is something far more nefarious in his dealings with Ellie. What David really wants in his barter with Ellie is two-fold.
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