Joel's Choice to Save Ellie

Theresa: I think what makes the question interesting is to say maybe there's a strong possibility that this would actually cure the...or make a big difference anyway. For purposes of the show, let's just stipulate that there was an 80% chance that tens of thousands of people would be cured. We're operating with the idea that the cure will work. Like now in 2023, do I think even half the country would take a vaccine to keep mushrooms from sprouting out of their fucking head? No, I don't. But for the sake of the game and the moral dilemma at the show, at the show center, we kind of have to operate how Joel thinks."