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.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Boston
- Province
- Liberty Gardens
Storylines
Part 2 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.
- 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 2 of 6; July 2033 in Boston.
- Places: the streets and rooftops near the zone, then Liberty Gardens.
- 2 collectibles, both artifacts: a wanted poster on a table in an apartment you pass through, and a warning note in the room beside the circuit breakers.
- Brick Master trophy: win the brick-throwing contest against Riley.
Sections in order
1. Escaping the Streets: through a ruined building and onto the roofs. 2. Liberty Gardens: into the mall and Winston's old camp. 3. Funhouse: the Halloween store and the brick contest. 4. Secrets of Boston: the circuit breakers.
Escaping the Streets
The girls duck into a building to avoid soldiers, and Riley tells how she found the Fireflies by following a member into an alley and ending up face to face with Marlene. An alarm on the roof turns out to be a patrol returning from outside the wall. Ellie jokes that she should join too; Riley says she asked, and Marlene wants Ellie to stay in school.
Liberty Gardens
Riley dodges every question about why they are at the mall. On the way down a dead escalator you find the camp of Winston, who died of a heart attack. You can look at his photo, and when Riley finds his whiskey, Ellie can take a swig or pass. A rubble path collapses, so Ellie boosts Riley up to unlock a Halloween store instead.
Funhouse
Riley jumps out in a mask and pushes Ellie into a wolf mask until she roars properly. You can try other masks and quiz a fortune-telling skull toy. From a balcony above two parked cars, Riley proposes a race to smash the windows with bricks, with the winner asking the loser a serious question. If Ellie wins she can ask about her mother and Marlene or about why Riley left; if Riley wins she asks what it would take to be close again.
Secrets of Boston
Riley explains the military has power but keeps the breakers off where it does not want it used. She forces open a breaker box and lets Ellie flip the switch, and the mall's interior lights come on. At the doors to the next area Ellie raises their fight again, and Riley says she is back and did not mean what she said.
- AnnaAnna is Ellie's mother, known only through a letter Ellie carries and a few remarks from people who knew her. You can read her letter, the Note from mom artifact, from Ellie's backpack at the start of Lakeside Resort.
- Corporal "Dickhead"Corporal "Dickhead" is the nickname Ellie and Riley give a FEDRA officer at the Boston military boarding school. He is only talked about in Left Behind, as the man who took their water guns away.
- 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.
- 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.
- Winston AsherSergeant Winston Asher is a FEDRA soldier who once kept a camp and a horse in Boston's Liberty Gardens mall. In Left Behind, Ellie and Riley find his empty camp in Mallrats, and his notes show how he saw the two girls.
- Wanted posterThe Wanted poster is an artifact in the Left Behind DLC flashback chapter Mallrats, set in Boston. It lies on a table in an apartment Ellie and Riley pass through on their way to the mall.
- Warning noteThe Warning note is an artifact in the Left Behind DLC flashback chapter Mallrats, set in Boston. It sits on a table in the room next to the circuit breakers Riley has Ellie flip to bring the mall's power back.
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
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.
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.
- Story
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.