Escape from Liberty Gardens
Escape from Liberty Gardens is the final chapter of Left Behind: Ellie and Riley run from a horde of runners through the Boston mall, climbing scaffolding to find a way out. It has no collectibles, and finishing it unlocks the gold trophy Don't Go.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Boston
- Province
- Liberty Gardens
Storylines
Part 6 of 6 in Left Behind
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.
- Colorado Mountain PlazaColorado Mountain Plaza is the snowbound mall near Boulder where Ellie hunts for medical supplies in Left Behind's present-day chapters. You play Back in a Flash, So Close and The Enemy of My Enemy here, fighting both infected and hostile survivors.
- Liberty GardensLiberty Gardens is an abandoned two-level mall in Boston where Ellie and Riley spend a night together in Left Behind's flashback chapters. You explore it in Mallrats and Fun and Games, and it gives the final chapter, Escape from Liberty Gardens, its name.
Good to know
- Left Behind chapter 6 of 6; July 2033 in Liberty Gardens, with a closing scene at the Colorado Mountain Plaza.
- No collectibles.
- Enemies: runners only.
- Completing the chapter finishes Left Behind and earns Don't Go.
- Riley carries the gun; Ellie fights with her switchblade and bare hands.
Sections in order
1. Escape: the run through the mall and up the scaffolding. 2. Revelation: the aftermath, followed by a short present-day scene in Colorado.
Escape
The girls barricade a door with a crate, leaving their backpacks behind, but more runners wait on the other side. Riley shoots a lock off and you sprint over a truck. A runner grabs Ellie under some rubble and she has to kick it off, then she leaps on one attacking Riley and stabs it repeatedly. Runners block the upper halls, so you drop onto the scaffolding below and work toward an open window.
The fall
At the window the ledge breaks and Ellie falls back into the mall. A runner tackles her, Riley shoots two more, another knocks Riley down, and Ellie kills it with her switchblade.
RevelationSpoilerShow
When it is over, Ellie finds a bite on her arm, and Riley shows a bite on her hand. Ellie smashes plant pots with a pipe and breaks down. Riley lays out their choices: end it now, or hold on together for as long as they can. Ellie wants a third way and there is none.
Back in ColoradoSpoilerShow
In the present, Ellie stitches Joel's wound, mentioning she has done this before. She ties him to a sled, wraps him in blankets and leaves the Colorado Mountain Plaza with Callus, which leads into Lakeside Resort.
- CallusCallus is the horse Joel and Ellie ride from Jackson County to the University of Eastern Colorado and beyond. He first carries Joel when Ellie runs off in Tommy's Dam, and Ellie names him on the road to the university.
- 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.
- Riley AbelRiley Abel is Ellie's best friend from the military school in the Boston quarantine zone and the co-star of the Left Behind DLC. She appears in the Liberty Gardens flashback chapters Mallrats, Fun and Games and Escape from Liberty Gardens, and Ellie brings her up during the main story.
Related missions
- Story
Fun and Games
Fun and Games is the fourth chapter of Left Behind and the busiest one for trophies: Ellie and Riley ride a carousel, wreck a photo booth, play pretend in Raja's Arcade and hold a water gun fight inside Liberty Gardens. Along the way Riley finally explains why she brought Ellie to the mall.
- Story
Mallrats
Mallrats is the second chapter of Left Behind and the first full flashback: Ellie and Riley dodge a patrol in Boston, cross the rooftops and slip into the abandoned Liberty Gardens mall. It is a calm, story-driven chapter with Halloween masks, a brick-throwing contest that unlocks a trophy, and a breaker switch that brings the mall's lights back.
- Story
Back in a Flash
Back in a Flash is the first chapter of Left Behind. After a short flashback to Riley's surprise visit at Ellie's school in Boston, you play Ellie in the snowed-in Colorado Mountain Plaza, searching the mall for anything that can help Joel.
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.