Mark
Mark is a Boston quarantine zone resident who is only talked about. In The Quarantine Zone, Joel can overhear Ronnie telling a friend that soldiers caught Mark using fake ration cards.
- Role
- Minor
Appears in
Found in
- BostonBoston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- Quarantine zoneQuarantine zones are the walled, military-run safe areas FEDRA set up across the United States after martial law was declared. Most have since fallen to infection, revolt or abandonment. Boston's North End zone is the one you live in and play through at the start of Part I, and you pass the dead zones of Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City later.
Good to know
- Tried to feed his family with forged ration cards during the 2033 summer food shortage.
- Was caught at the distribution center.
- Ronnie defends him because he has a family to feed.
- Reached the Boston zone with his family, but his brother stayed outside.
- After the beating, soldiers hauled him off to FEDRA lockup.
The overheard conversation
Ronnie and another man lean on a wall near a checkpoint. The friend asks where Mark is, and Ronnie says soldiers beat him badly and dragged him off, with no word since. The friend calls Mark an idiot; Ronnie asks what else a man with a family was supposed to do.
Why it matters
It is a quick look at how harsh FEDRA rule is inside the zone, where weeks of half rations push ordinary people into crimes like this.
When you hear about him
The talk comes in 20 Years Later, the chapter's opening section, as Joel and Tess head for the checkpoint. On that same walk Tess notes people queuing at a ration line that has not even opened, and soldiers in hazmat suits haul residents out of a condemned building.
Related characters
- Minor
Ronnie
Ronnie is a short-tempered Boston quarantine zone resident Joel passes near a checkpoint in The Quarantine Zone. If you stop to listen, he is gossiping about his friend Mark, and he snaps at Joel for staring.
- Protagonist
Ellie Williams
Ellie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- Protagonist
Joel Miller
Joel Miller is the man you play for almost all of The Last of Us Part I. A hardened smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, he takes a job escorting 14-year-old Ellie out of the city, and the drop-off turns into a year-long trip across the country to find the Fireflies.
- Minor
Malick
Malick is a tough in the Boston slums who tries to block Joel's path in The Quarantine Zone. Tess knows him and sends him back to his seat with a single word.