Showrunner Neil Druckmann delves inside the episode he directed with his writing partner Halley Gross and actor Joe Pantoliano.Showrunner and episode director Neil Druckmann, writer Halley Gross, and actor Joe Pantoliano go behind the scenes of season 2's "The Price.

Below, Neil Druckmann — who co-wrote the PlayStation game The Last of Us Part II and serves as a showrunner on The Last of Us, directing this week’s episode — discusses some of the hour’s pivotal moments and tangled moral and emotional quagmires.

The next episode of HBO's "The Last of Us" will see the return of Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller in a flashback episode set before the Season 2 premiere.