Salt Lake City sets the scene for "The Last of Us" season ender

• In episode 9, the main characters Ellie and Joel arrived in Utah's capital city in search of Saint Mary's Hospital where the Fireflies, a revolutionary militia group, are stationed to help find a cure.
• Ellie, who is immune to the disease, appears to be a possible key to unearthing a remedy.

Reality check: While this storyline takes place in Salt Lake City, most of the series was filmed in Canada.

Details: Still, the depiction of Salt Lake City was fun to see, including glimpses like:

• Abandoned medical tents and a giraffe — presumably from the Hogle Zoo — munching on vegetation sprouting out of a deteriorated building were spotted in the downtown area.
• Some structures like 99 West on South Temple built in 2011 were featured in the skyline even though the fungal outbreak supposedly occurred in 2003.
• The Salt Lake Temple was under construction.
• The I-15 North freeway was filled with abandoned cars and overgrown weeds.

Yes, but: Our snow-topped Wasatch Mountains remained untouched.