Bill's Town
Bill's Town brings Joel and Ellie to Lincoln, Massachusetts, a small town that Joel's paranoid contact Bill has rigged with traps to keep the infected out. Bill owes Joel a favor, so you team up with him to find a working car, which means a trip through a clicker-filled graveyard and an infected high school.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Lincoln
Storylines
Part 4 of 12 in Main story
Found in
- LincolnLincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.
- Lincoln High SchoolLincoln High School is the infected-filled school at the end of Bill's Town, where Joel, Ellie and Bill go looking for a military truck's battery. The High School Escape section and a bloater fight in the gym happen here.
- St. Paul's Lutheran ChurchSt. Paul's Lutheran Church is Bill's fortified home and armory in Lincoln, and the base you visit in the Safehouse section of Bill's Town. Bill gives Joel a shotgun and nail bombs here before the group heads out through the graveyard.
Good to know
- Chapter 4 of 12; August 4, 2033.
- Sections: The Woods, Safehouse, Graveyard, High School Escape.
- 15 collectibles: 11 artifacts, 3 Firefly pendants (Wang's, Vincent's and Mrozik's) and the training manual Shiv: Sharpening.
- Shiv: Sharpening is the first training manual in the game and earns the Self Help trophy.
- The first bloater of the game waits in the high school gym.
- Enemies: runners, clickers and a bloater.
- Bill hands Joel a siphon hose when they part, for draining gas from abandoned cars.
Sections in order
1. The Woods: into Lincoln and its traps. 2. Safehouse: Bill's bar and his church base. 3. Graveyard: sneaking through clickers to the school. 4. High School Escape: the school, the gym and the escape by truck.
The Woods
Ellie sees forest for the first time. Past an old water tower you follow a column of smoke into town, where barricades, nail bombs and snares guard Bill's safehouses. A snare in a garage leaves Joel hanging upside down, shooting runners while Ellie saws at the rope, until Bill shows up and leads you through a laundromat into a bar. Four notes and Wang's pendant are here.
Safehouse
Bill is angry about the noise. Joel asks for a car to reach Tommy in Wyoming, but Bill only has parts, and the battery they need is in a military truck at the high school. At his church you stock up; Ellie asks for a gun and Joel says no, and Bill says this job settles what he owes Joel. Bill's map, three of his notes, Vincent's pendant and the shiv manual are in this section.
Graveyard
The three of you creep through a graveyard full of clickers, then fight across the rest of town to the school, clearing runners outside and climbing in through a window where the army truck crashed. A boy's diary and Mrozik's pendant are here.
High School Escape
A horde drives you inside, and Bill finds the truck's battery already gone. You fight through the halls to the gym and a bloater, then escape into a nearby house where a truck sits in the garage with the battery in it. Everyone pushes it downhill to start it, Ellie steers until you are clear, and Bill sends you on your way with the hose.
Frank and his noteSpoilerShow
In that house the group finds Bill's former partner Frank, who took his own life after being bitten; he had taken the battery to leave town. If you pick up his note and give it to Bill, Bill reads it, crumples it and throws it down. Picking up the crumpled note afterward earns the In Memoriam trophy, and both versions of the note count as artifacts.
- Baseball batThe baseball bat is a blunt weapon that swings faster than the pipe or 2x4 and lasts six hits. The first one sits on top of a washing machine in the laundromat in Bill's Town.
- BowThe bow is the quiet long gun. Joel finds it at an abandoned camp in Lincoln during Bill's Town, and its arrows can often be pulled back out of bodies, which makes it a stealth tool and an ammo saver.
- Nail bombThe nail bomb is a crafted proximity mine made from a blade and an explosive. Bill gives Joel his first one inside St. Paul's church in Bill's Town, and after that you can craft your own.
- Pump shotgunThe pump shotgun is Joel's close-range long gun, handed to him by Bill in the cellar of his church during Bill's Town. It kills most humans and infected in one blast up close, but loses power fast with distance and reloads one shell at a time.
- BillBill is a paranoid survivalist and mechanic who lives alone in Lincoln, a town he has rigged with traps against the infected. He owes Joel favors from their smuggling deals, so in Bill's Town Joel asks him for a car, and Bill joins you to find the parts.
- Ellie WilliamsEllie 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.
- FrankFrank is Bill's former partner in Lincoln. You learn about him in Bill's Town through the Note from Frank, and he also turns up earlier in The Outskirts as the contact named in a smuggler's note.
- Joel MillerJoel 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.
- Bill's MapBill's Map is Bill's hand-annotated map of Lincoln, on a table with an engine near the door you come in through at his safehouse, right after you meet him.
- Bombs NoteThe Bombs Note is on a table to the left in the side room off the nave of Bill's church. Go into the room on the right, the one Bill makes clear is not the confessional.
- Boy's DiaryThe Boy's Diary is on the windowsill of a child's bedroom painted with stripes and cars, upstairs in the second house with the dry pool in the new territory beyond the church graveyard.
- Fences NoteThe Fences Note is another of Bill's reminders, on the table in the back room of his safehouse near the pipe he handcuffs Ellie to.
- Hunters NoteThe Hunters Note is a reminder Bill left on a table in the room at the end of the hall upstairs. Leave his safehouse, go up the stairs, turn right and walk to the last room.
- Mrozik's Firefly PendantMrozik's Firefly pendant sits on a tumble dryer in a house past the church graveyard, in the Graveyard section of Bill's Town. It belonged to Peter Mrozik.
- Note from FrankThe Note from Frank is on a table in a house you search with Bill during the High School Escape section. It is in the room closest to where Bill finds his partner, Frank.
- Note from Frank (Crumpled)The crumpled Note from Frank only appears if you give Frank's note to Bill in the garage during High School Escape. Bill reads it, crushes it and tosses it on the floor; pick it back up for a separate artifact.
- Note to BobThe Note to Bob is caught in the barbed wire on the ground at the end of Lincoln's main street, past the camper van and the Marquis Music Store, in The Woods section. It gives you the code to a safe.
- Note to RachelThe Note to Rachel lies on a table in the house with the banging door in Bill's Town. After you get the bow and cross the rooftops, enter the room with the infected; the note is under a wall where Rachel's name is painted with an arrow.
- Perimeter NoteThe Perimeter Note is one of Bill's reminders, resting on top of a drawer in a back room of the Marquis Music Store on Lincoln's main street during The Woods section.
- Pills NoteThe Pills Note is a reminder Bill wrote to himself, found on the floor at the far end of the room up the stairs and to the left after you drop through the broken fence in The Woods section of Bill's Town.
- Shiv: SharpeningShiv: Sharpening is the first training manual, on the bar inside Bill's safehouse in Bill's Town. It makes every shiv you craft last one extra hit.
- Vincent's Firefly PendantVincent's Firefly pendant hangs from a telephone pole near Bill's church in the Safehouse section of Bill's Town. It belonged to Alex Raymond Vincent and has to be knocked down.
- Wang's Firefly PendantWang's Firefly pendant is on the roof of a camper van in The Woods section of Bill's Town. It belonged to Hui Wang, and you climb up a car to reach it.
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- Story
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