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Bus Depot
Bus Depot opens in the spring of 2034 as Joel and Ellie walk into Salt Lake City, aiming for the Fireflies at Saint Mary's Hospital. The route runs along a highway full of dead cars, through the Logan James bus station and an abandoned quarantine zone, and down into a flooded tunnel full of infected.
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- Story
- Region
- Salt Lake City
Storylines
Part 10 of 12 in Main story
Found in
- Logan James Bus StationLogan James Bus Station is the abandoned Salt Lake City bus depot that Joel and Ellie walk through in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot, on their way to Saint Mary's Hospital. It leads to the scene where Ellie spots the giraffes.
- Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City, Utah is the last stop on Joel and Ellie's search for the Fireflies. It is an abandoned quarantine zone where the Fireflies hold Saint Mary's Hospital, and you play the Bus Depot and The Firefly Lab chapters here in spring 2034.
Good to know
- Chapter 10 of 12; April 28, 2034.
- Sections: Highway Exit and Underground Tunnel.
- 9 collectibles: 3 artifacts, 3 Firefly pendants (Perich's, Nicole Hoo's and Natalie Hoo's), 2 comics and the manual Bomb: Shrapnel.
- Enemies: runners, clickers and bloaters.
- Ellie runs ahead to show Joel a herd of giraffes wandering the city.
- The platinum trophy, It Can't Be for Nothing, takes its name from something Ellie says in this chapter.
Sections in order
1. Highway Exit: the highway, the bus station and the giraffes. 2. Underground Tunnel: the medical tents, the infected tunnel and the flood.
Highway Exit
Ellie is quiet and distracted after the winter, and Joel struggles to get a conversation going. You cross a highway clogged with abandoned cars, an empty quarantine zone and the bus station, where Ellie suddenly runs off and Joel follows her to a group of giraffes. Watching them, Joel offers to turn around and go back to Tommy's to start over. Ellie refuses: after everything, she says, it cannot all be for nothing.
Highway Exit collectibles
Most of the chapter's pickups are in this first section: the family photograph, a note to a wife, the Salt Lake Q.Z. map, the comic Precipitate, and the Perich and Nicole Hoo pendants.
Underground Tunnel
Past rows of medical tents, Joel says he worked in a triage camp like this in the first months of the outbreak. Ellie hands him the photo of him and Sarah that she took from Maria at the dam, apologizing for stealing it, and he thanks her. The tunnel ahead is full of infected, and past them the way floods, so you climb across half-sunk vehicles. The comic Catalysis, Natalie Hoo's pendant and Bomb: Shrapnel are found down here.
The floodSpoilerShow
A bus gives way and the current drags both of them under. Joel pulls Ellie to the surface, but she is not breathing, and as he starts CPR a Firefly soldier orders him to stop. Joel ignores him and is knocked out.
- Bomb: ShrapnelBomb: Shrapnel is the last training manual, on top of a box truck in the underground tunnel of Bus Depot. It doubles the blast radius of nail bombs.
- CatalysisCatalysis, issue 13 of Savage Starlight, sits at the end of the ventilation ducting that runs along the underground tunnel in Bus Depot.
- Family photographThe Family photograph is an optional artifact in an overgrown camper on the highway at the start of Bus Depot. Before you leave the highway, climb into the camper in the middle of the road and check the dining table on the left.
- Natalie Hoo's Firefly PendantNatalie Hoo's Firefly pendant lies in a corner behind a city bus on the ramp down to the underground tunnel in Bus Depot. It belonged to Natalie Hoo.
- Nicole Hoo's Firefly PendantNicole Hoo's Firefly pendant hangs from a light fixture outside the bus station in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot. It has to be shot down or hit with a thrown object.
- Note to wifeThe Note to wife is an optional artifact in the Salt Lake City bus station. Search the luggage along the wall opposite the ladder; it is in an open suitcase along with some crafting parts.
- Perich's Firefly PendantPerich's Firefly pendant is tucked among rocks behind a guardrail at the freeway exit in the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot. It belonged to Katerina Perich.
- PrecipitatePrecipitate, issue 9 of Savage Starlight, is on the floor of the men's restroom in the bus station during the Highway Exit section of Bus Depot.
- Salt Lake Q.Z. mapThe Salt Lake Q.Z. map is an optional artifact in the triage area outside the Salt Lake City bus station. Go to the small tent in the far corner where the workbench is and take it from the table on the left.
- 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.
- 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.
Related missions
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The Firefly Lab
The Firefly Lab is the second-to-last chapter, set inside Saint Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City, where the Fireflies have their base. It is a single section played as Joel, and its five collectibles include the recordings that explain what the Fireflies have learned from Ellie.
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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.
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Jackson
Jackson is the short closing chapter of the main story: you play as Ellie, walking through the woods with Joel toward Tommy's settlement in Wyoming in the spring of 2034. It has one section, the Epilogue, and one collectible, the comic Singularity.
Image: Naughty Dog / PlayStationStoryLakeside Resort
Lakeside Resort jumps to winter and puts you in control of Ellie near Silver Lake, Colorado, hunting with a bow and searching for medicine. She runs into two strangers, David and James, and for part of the second half the game switches you back to Joel.