Tommy's Dam
Tommy's Dam brings Joel and Ellie to Jackson County, Wyoming, months after Pittsburgh, where they find Joel's brother Tommy helping run a hydroelectric plant for his wife Maria's settlement. It is a short chapter built around a reunion and two fights with bandits, one at the dam and one at an old ranch house.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Jackson
Storylines
Part 7 of 12 in Main story
Found in
- Hidden Pines CorralHidden Pines Corral is the abandoned ranch house in the Jackson County woods where Joel and Tommy catch up with Ellie after she rides away from the dam. It is the setting of the Ranch House section of Tommy's Dam, ending in a bandit ambush.
- JacksonJackson, Wyoming is the home of Tommy's community and covers both the town and the wider Jackson County, including the hydroelectric dam and the Hidden Pines Corral ranch. You visit it twice: in Tommy's Dam and in the short closing chapter, Jackson. It is the one safe, working settlement in Part I.
- Jackson County Hydro Dam ReservoirThe Jackson County Hydro Dam Reservoir is the hydroelectric plant that powers Tommy's town of Jackson, and where Joel and Ellie finally find Tommy in Tommy's Dam. It is the setting of the Hydroelectric Dam section and a bandit attack.
Good to know
- Chapter 7 of 12; set months after the Suburbs, along the Snake River trail.
- Sections: Hydroelectric Dam and Ranch House.
- 7 collectibles: 2 artifacts, 2 comics, 2 Firefly pendants and the training manual Smoke: Chemistry.
- The only enemies are bandits.
- Buckley the dog appears in this chapter; petting him earns the Who's a Good Boy? trophy.
- Tommy says the Fireflies are working out of the science building at the University of Eastern Colorado.
Sections in order
1. Hydroelectric Dam: the walk in, the reunion and the bandit attack on the plant. 2. Ranch House: chasing Ellie to an abandoned ranch and the fight there.
Hydroelectric Dam
On the trail Joel tells Ellie how Tommy joined and then quit the Fireflies, and how the brothers parted badly. Armed guards stop you at the plant's gate, and Tommy greets Joel with a hug before introducing Maria, who runs the nearby settlement with her father. Ellie chats with Maria about learning to ride. Tommy offers Joel a photo he found in their old Texas house, and Joel turns it down. The two then watch the crew bring the generator back online.
The argument and the attack
In private Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie to the Fireflies, and Tommy refuses because he has a community to look after. The argument turns physical before bandits hit the plant and the brothers fight them off together. The plant schematics, a power plant map, the comic Foreign Element, Oliverio's pendant and the smoke bomb manual are found in this section.
Ranch House
Ellie takes a horse and rides off, and Joel and Tommy track her through the woods, fighting more bandits, to the Hidden Pines Corral ranch house. More bandits arrive while you are there. B. Pino's pendant and the comic Zero Point are the two collectibles in this section.
Joel changes his mindSpoilerShow
At the ranch Ellie confronts Joel for planning to leave her with Tommy and brings up Sarah, insisting she is not his daughter and that they are fine together. Tommy had agreed to take her after the attack, but on the ride back Joel decides to see the trip through himself, and Tommy tells them where the Fireflies are before they say goodbye.
- B. Pino's Firefly PendantB. Pino's Firefly pendant sits on a desk in the Hidden Pines Corral ranch house, in the Ranch House section of Tommy's Dam. It belonged to Brent Pino.
- Foreign ElementForeign Element, issue 5 of Savage Starlight, lies next to a body by a crashed car on the riverbed walk to the dam in Tommy's Dam.
- Oliverio's Firefly PendantOliverio's Firefly pendant is on the bottom shelf of a cabinet below the control room at the hydroelectric dam, in Tommy's Dam. It belonged to Ryan Oliverio.
- Plant schematicsThe Plant schematics are an optional artifact in the control room of Tommy's dam. You can only take them after the bandit attack: fight back through the control room and grab them from the central table where the two engineers stood earlier.
- Power plant mapThe Power plant map is an optional artifact in the brick guardhouse outside Tommy's hydroelectric dam. Before you try the dam gate, go into the guardhouse in the corner and look at the wall to find it hanging there.
- Smoke: ChemistrySmoke: Chemistry is a training manual in the control room of the hydroelectric dam in Tommy's Dam. Smoke bomb clouds last 10 seconds longer once you have it.
- Zero PointZero Point, issue 12 of Savage Starlight, sits on a window bench upstairs in the Hidden Pines Corral ranch house during the Ranch House section of Tommy's Dam.
- BuckleyBuckley is the dog at Tommy's hydroelectric dam in Jackson County. You meet him in Tommy's Dam outside the generator building as Tommy walks Joel to his office, and Joel can stop to pet him.
- CallusCallus is the horse Joel and Ellie ride from Jackson County to the University of Eastern Colorado and beyond. He first carries Joel when Ellie runs off in Tommy's Dam, and Ellie names him on the road to the university.
- Ellie WilliamsEllie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- Joel MillerJoel Miller is the man you play for almost all of The Last of Us Part I. A hardened smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, he takes a job escorting 14-year-old Ellie out of the city, and the drop-off turns into a year-long trip across the country to find the Fireflies.
- Maria MillerMaria Miller is Tommy's wife and the leader of the settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. You meet her at the hydroelectric dam in Tommy's Dam, where she first holds Joel and Ellie at gunpoint before learning Joel is her brother-in-law.
- SethSeth is a Jackson resident on guard duty at the hydroelectric dam in Tommy's Dam. He is the man beside Tommy on the wall, rifle trained on Joel and Ellie, when they first reach the gate.
- Tommy MillerTommy Miller is Joel's younger brother, a former Firefly who now helps run the settlement at Jackson, Wyoming. He drives Joel and Sarah through the chaos of the prologue, and twenty years later Joel tracks him down at a hydroelectric dam in the chapter Tommy's Dam, hoping he will take Ellie to the Fireflies.
- Winston AsherSergeant Winston Asher is a FEDRA soldier who once kept a camp and a horse in Boston's Liberty Gardens mall. In Left Behind, Ellie and Riley find his empty camp in Mallrats, and his notes show how he saw the two girls.
Related missions
Image: Naughty Dog / PlayStationStoryLakeside Resort
Lakeside Resort jumps to winter and puts you in control of Ellie near Silver Lake, Colorado, hunting with a bow and searching for medicine. She runs into two strangers, David and James, and for part of the second half the game switches you back to Joel.
- Story
The University
The University sends Joel and Ellie on horseback across the University of Eastern Colorado near Boulder, looking for the science building where Tommy says the Fireflies are based. It mixes quiet exploration with a dorm full of infected and a fight against armed looters inside the lab building.
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Jackson
Jackson is the short closing chapter of the main story: you play as Ellie, walking through the woods with Joel toward Tommy's settlement in Wyoming in the spring of 2034. It has one section, the Epilogue, and one collectible, the comic Singularity.
- Story
Hometown
Hometown is the prologue chapter of The Last of Us Part I, set in and around Austin, Texas, on the night the infection breaks out in September 2013. You play as Sarah Miller exploring her house, then as her father Joel as the family tries to flee the city with his brother Tommy.