Rose Graham is the KATX Channel 2 News reporter Sarah watches on Joel's bedroom TV in Hometown. Her live report from downtown Austin is the first real sign that the riots are something worse.
In the early hours of September 27, 2013, Rose tells viewers the reported riots seem tied to the nationwide pandemic and that infected people turn aggressive. A guardsman warns of a gas leak, and she is cut off mid-sentence when an explosion hits behind her.
What happened to Rose after the explosion is never shown.
Woken by a call from Tommy that drops before she can answer, Sarah walks the upstairs hallway, passing the birthday card she forgot to give Joel and a newspaper dated September 26 about infected people filling Texas hospitals. Rose's report is playing in Joel's empty bedroom. After the blast, the orange glow is visible through the window, and police cars race past outside as Sarah goes downstairs.
Jimmy Cooper
He is the first infected you see in the game, during the outbreak night in Hometown.
Sarah Miller
Sarah Miller is Joel's 12-year-old daughter and the character you control at the start of The Last of Us Part I. In Hometown you walk her through the family house near Austin on the night the infection breaks out, before Tommy drives the family into the chaos.
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.
Tommy Miller
Tommy Miller is Joel's younger brother, a former Firefly who now helps run the settlement at Jackson, Wyoming. He drives Joel and Sarah through the chaos of the prologue, and twenty years later Joel tracks him down at a hydroelectric dam in the chapter Tommy's Dam, hoping he will take Ellie to the Fireflies.