Towards the end of The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 3, Ellie visits Joel’s grave and leaves a few coffee beans – and it’s a secret reference to an unseen scene in the show.

Have you recovered from the trauma of last week’s episode of The Last of Us?

After all, how could anyone be expected to forget Abby blasting Joel’s knee with a shotgun, beating him to a pulp with a golf club, and then using the sharp end of the shattered club to stab him in the neck while Ellie watched, screamed, and begged her to stop?

As you’d expect, Episode 3 deals with the emotional fallout of his death, with Ellie and Dina setting off on a vengeful mission to Seattle. Before the leave, they make a brief stop, and there’s a little Easter egg.

Joel loves coffee, but the fact Ellie puts coffee beans on his grave is a nod to a scene we’ve yet to see adapted from The Last of Us Part 2.

Cast your mind back to Season 1; specifically Episode 4, when Ellie and Joel camp in the woods. The next morning, Ellie wakes up to the sound of Joel’s kettle bubbling away with coffee.

“It smells like burnt sh*t,” she later quips as he slurps away at his flask in the truck.

However, there’s another scene in the game that’ll inevitably happen in the show too (don’t worry, I won’t go into any other spoilers about its context or when it takes place in the timeline).