
After they’ve rolled (moved), the season’s fifth episode concentrates on Seattle’s Pinnacle Theater. It’s “Day Two” in Seattle, we learn, and Dina and Ellie are strategizing. By intercepting the Wolves’ signals, Dina locates their position and maps a route towards the hospital. Meanwhile, Ellie investigates their short-term abode, a stunning concert venue arranged for a performance that won’t occur. Intrigued, Ellie plays the guitar but recollections of pain make her stop when Dina approaches to discuss their approach. This involves penetrating an unidentified building possibly teeming with infected, which Dina describes as “reckless.” They decide to proceed, leading them past a gruesome scene of slain Seraphites beneath a mural portraying their prophet. Ellie offers Dina the chance to retreat, but she declines and shares her backstory instead. In this chilling narrative, Dina, at eight years old, returned home to find her family slaughtered by a lone raider. She survived by killing him, and she holds a grudge against revenge. “Would it have mattered if my family had harmed his people first?” she ponders, but the question is hypothetical. They move forward.