Warning: This story contains spoilers for The Last of Us season 2, episode 4.
Josh Peck just made a surprise cameo on The Last of Us season 2.
During the cold open of episode four, the former Nickelodeon star, 38, appears as a FEDRA (Federal Disaster Response Agency) soldier in a flashback scene depicting the Seattle quarantine zone in 2018.
During the scene, which takes place inside an armored military vehicle, Peck’s character tells a story about another soldier named Greenberg.
“I’m f—— easy on voters,” he nonchalantly says as he recounts a time when he encountered a group of people while on duty for his fellow soldiers, including Isaac Dixon (Jeffrey Wright) and Burton (Ben Ahlers).
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“I got three voters against the wall. I caught them red-handed disseminating pamphlets… Turns out later it was some religious crap, but I didn’t know that,” he continues. “So I call for back up and guess who shows?”
“Greenberg,” the rest of the soldiers shout back with delight.
“He pulls up… and he’s in a f—— mood,” Peck’s character says, explaining to Greenberg that “I caught them out here disseminating. He goes, ‘What? You f—— perverts were out here splooging on my street?'”
After one of the people tries to explain what disseminating means, “Greenberg smacks his f—— head against the wall and there goes his teeth, just blood f—— everywhere. Greenberg goes, ‘No one asked you, jizz boy,’ ” Peck’s character concludes.
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That’s when Burton asks why they call people “voters.” But after Peck’s character is unable to explain why, Dixon speaks up. “We took away their right to vote and someone started calling them voters to mock them. So now you know,” he says, calling the soldier “thoughtless” for not knowing the backstory.
After their conversation ends, the armored vehicle gets stopped on the street after pulling up to a school bus blocking the road and a group of people start approaching them.
Dixon, defying protocol, steps out by himself to meet them before asking Burton to flank him. Once outside, a woman named Hanrahan (Alanna Ubach) walks up and the two identify themselves to each other before Dixon turns around and throws grenades into the vehicle, killing the rest of the soldiers — including Peck’s character — inside.
Dixon then turns to Burton and says, “Now make your choice.”
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While Peck’s cameo lasts only about four minutes — it’s a pivotal moment that introduces Dixon, a character from the video game series described by Deadline as a “quietly powerful leader of a large militia group who sought liberty but instead has become mired in an endless war against a surprisingly resourceful enemy.”
Wright, 59, reprises the role he first originated in the game, becoming only the second actor to cross over into the series adaptation as the same character after Merle Dandridge portrayed Marlene in season 1.
Burton and Hanrahan, meanwhile, are original characters created for the screen. While both of them are new to the series, the actors playing them are familiar faces to HBO fans, with Ahlers, 28, playing Jack Trotter, a footman for the Van Rhijn household, on The Gilded Age and Ubach, 49, back on the network after Suze Howard on Euphoria and Carol Atkinson on season 2 of the Max original The Flight Attendant.
As for Peck’s cameo, it’s just one of many in the series, notably following Jason Ritter as a clicker in a season 1 episode starring his wife, Melanie Lynskey, and Jennifer Aniston on the cover of 2003 PEOPLE issue in season 2 as well as several other actors — Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Jeffrey Pierce, etc. — who voiced characters for the video games.
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New episodes of The Last of Us season 2 air Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.
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