HBO's The Last Of Us: 9 Scenes We Want To See
4. Ellie Saves Joel
During the story, Joel is injured after he is launched off a balcony at the University of Eastern Colorado - finding himself impaled by a pipe upon landing on the ground. Despite Joel being near unconscious, Ellie manages to both transport her bulky companion away and fight off Hunters in the process.
We don't get to see a lot of this though - in the main game at least - as we instead experience Joel's fading consciousness before eventually, the screen fades to black. The truth behind how Ellie saved Joel isn't a complete mystery though, as these scenes play out in the game's DLC, Left Behind.
We know that HBO's The Last of Us is incorporating the Riley storyline from Left Behind so there's no reason why the scenes of Ellie saving Joel can't also be intergrated into the show's narrative.
This moment highlights both the lengths Ellie is willing to go to to save Joel, and also her growing combat skill which sets us up nicely for the following sequence involving David.