Will there be new beginnings for Joel and Ellie?
The coda, as Ellie and Joel hike the last miles back to a new beginning in Jackson, is bittersweet — asense of contentment tinged with an undercurrent of sadness. Joel, having fed Ellie a story of others with immunity and no cure in sight, talks freely about his past for the first time — opening up about Sarah in a way he’s been unable to until now.