The Boy (Logan Pierce)
Dies: Season 1, Episode 1
How does the boy die in “The Last of Us”?
This unnamed character stumbles into the Boston Quarantine Zone. Alone and malnourished, she is bound and interrogated by FEDRA soldiers, who promise her food and shelter. They test him which turns red, indicating he is infected. He dies off-screen, and a woman and Joel are responsible for throwing his body into a pyre. The woman says she cannot bring herself to throw the baby into the fire, so Joel does it for her. The Boy plays a minor role, but he establishes that FEDRA has the means to detect the infection. (Viewers later see that Ellie also scans red.)