Warning: This story incorporates spoilers for The Final of Us Episode 2.
After The Final of Us premiered on HBO final week, followers fashioned a principle about how the worldwide unfold of the cordyceps an infection began. Because of among the occasions in final evening’s second episode, plainly fashionable principle has been confirmed.
In Episode 1, eagle-eyed viewers observed that Joel, Sarah, and Tommy managed to narrowly keep away from consuming merchandise containing flour. For instance, Sarah would not make Joel pancakes for breakfast on his birthday, the characters refuse a proposal for biscuits from the neighbors, Sarah would not eat the cookies she bakes on the neighbor’s home, and Joel forgets to purchase himself a birthday cake after an extended day at work.
This led to a well-liked Reddit publish that steered the preliminary cordyceps outbreak was unfold by contaminated flour. Episode 2 kicks off with a prolonged scene set in 2003 Jakarta, proper firstly of the pandemic. The trendy-day scene focuses on a mycology professor who sees the beginning of the cordyceps an infection up shut. She finally learns the unusual happenings began at a close-by flour mill, basically confirming the fan principle. Good job, web sleuths.
And if there was any doubt left from that rationalization, HBO creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann confirmed it additional in an interview with Selection.
“When she talks about the place these folks labored and what was occurring in that manufacturing unit — yeah, it’s fairly clear that’s what’s occurring,” Mazin stated. “We preferred the thought of that science, and we attempt as greatest we will to ensure that our analysis all connects. [The mycologist] asks the place it occurred, and the man says a flour manufacturing unit on the west aspect of the town. We’re completely speaking about — there’s the world’s largest flour mill in Jakarta — in order that’s a wonderful principle and I feel folks ought to hold working with it.”
It marks a delicate change from the video games, which had the virus originating from contaminated crops in South America (though it was by no means acknowledged overtly).
For extra, try our full overview of The Final of Us Episode 2, the present’s introduction of its creepiest monster, and why the online game adaptation curse is a fantasy.
Logan Plant is a contract author for IGN protecting online game and leisure information. He has over six years of expertise within the gaming trade with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Swap Participant Journal, and Lifewire. Discover him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
