This article contains spoilers For “The Last of Us” season 2, episode 6.

Just when viewers thought that “The Last of Us”, season 2, was made with Joel (Pedro Pascal) making them cry, the show Les enrole immediately. Episode 6 is the response of the second year season to “Long, Long Time” and “Left Behind” – a story focused on the flash which offers a preview of a special relationship between two characters.

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This time, the development points are null other than Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), which are shown by exploring a history museum – a scene that Naughty Dog video games probably knew – and deriving slowly over the years, while the Ellie is more and more independent and the surviving pragmatism of Joel. However, before arriving at all of this, we are entitled to the greatest surprise of the episode: a flashback meeting between young Joel and his father as a law enforcement officer. After the scene succeeded in Joel’s father as a severe disciplinary, he realizes what his sons came to see him as and sit down to have a sincere conversation with Joel. Admitting his shortcomings, he tried in Joel to become a better father than he was.

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This heavy scene becomes important at the end of the episode, where Joel relayed the same message during a last discussion on Porch with Ellie, and the two begin to repair their battered relationship. As such, the actor who plays Joel’s father in the flashback scene is crucial,, Because he must both wear enough gravitas to crediblely play Joel’s father And Provide a speech which will later be revealed to be a major motivation for Ellie once she will discover Dina (Isabela Merced) is pregnant. Fortunately, the show threw Tony Dalton, who is more than capable of all this and more.

If Joel and Tommy’s father (Gabriel Luna) seems immediately familiar, it is because Tony Dalton is a recognizable figure in the television scene of the Prestige. Dalton began his acting career on screen in 1997 and built a name in Mexican television productions. In 2004, he won his first major role in the Telenovela “Rebelde”, on which he played Gastón Diesro until 2006 up to 225 episodes. Soon, more major roles in other television programs – such as the dramatic series “Flor Salvaje”, the criminal program “Dueños del paraíso”, and the “Sr. ávila” awarded – followed.

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With the experience drawn from the big roles in the shows on the theme of the crime, Dalton made his American breakthrough playing one of the most frightening drug lords who have ever honored the small screen. Presentation of his Big Cartel Big Invincible Cartel Big Shot Lalo Salamanca to “Metter Call Saul” has solved some of the biggest problems of writersas well as for the spectacle of his scary villain … that, like any fan of the show can confirm it, is say something. The ruthless but charming Lalo of Dalton made his debut in season 4 of “Better Call Saul”, and stole the scene after the scene to the sixth and last season of the show.

However Vince Gilligan was originally against the addition of fans’ favorite lalo for “Better Call Saul”, “ Dalton immediately became one of the greatest advantages of the show. He has since continued to settle as a key figure in the worldly circles of the Marvel cinematic universe Jack Duquesne, alias the sword. The affable Dalton Duquesne plays a major role as a false antagonist on “Hawkeye”, and his vigilant for the longtime vigilante Persona made a dark start in “Daredevil: Born Again” season 1.

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New episodes of “The Last of Us” hit HBO and Max on Sunday evening.