8 details you may have missed on the latest episode of 'The Last of Us'

Troy Baker plays one of the leaders of the group we meet on episode eight, James.

Baker famously voiced Joel in "The Last of Us" video game series. On HBO's "inside the episode" featurette, Baker said he thought he was going to wind up playing a clicker or one of the infected on the show.

You can see the rest of the "TLOU" cast here.

That's a nod to a banner seen in the game when Ellie faces off against David later in that dining space. In the game, we never see the rest of the community dining together.

In the game, when David and Ellie wait for James to return with medicine for Joel, the two become ambushed by a group of infected. It turns out David hid a gun from Ellie as she held him at gunpoint. As a player, you realize David could've used it against Ellie, but decided not to do so. With a herd closing in, the two work together to fight them off.

Once they're safe, David mentions they make a good team. Ellie says they simply got lucky and it's then that David reveals his connection to her and Joel. He knows they were responsible for the death of some people in his group, which led to Joel's injury.

The game does a better job at luring fans into a false sense of security that, for a fleeting moment, David may actually be a trustworthy person. It's more of a massive shock to the system when, after killing infected side by side, he reveals his true intentions toward getting revenge on Joel and, later, preying on the teenage Ellie.

On the show, David always came off as a creep. Even though we saw him in his own community at the episode's start, there was never a moment that made viewers consider that he possibly had Ellie's best intentions at heart because the two were never forced to work together.

Oddly, episode eight doesn't contain any infected, making it feel like the cordyceps infection is less of a threat in the show than the game.

During the episode, we learn some members of David's group have resorted to killing and eating people since food became scarce. The same's true in the game, but it's more explicit. At one point, Joel happens upon bodies strung up like cattle as they're being prepped.

On the show, David claims only a few people in his group know they're eating people; however, it's hinted earlier in the episode that some others may know the truth.

When a cook asks about the meat she's brought to prepare, a man hesitates briefly before telling her it's venison. She doesn't respond and starts to cook the meat in a stew, but her body language gives off the vibe that she knows it may not actually be deer meat.

Even though David may believe his flock's none the wiser about the source of their food, it simply seems like the group may have turned a blind eye to the truth because they'd rather remain somewhat ignorant than starve.

On the episode's behind-the-scenes featurette, co-showrunner Craig Mazin confirmed the group is eating their own dead.

Others may not question what they're eating out of fear they may lose shelter and a place in the community. David makes it clear that he doesn't like to be questioned or to receive back talk.

When a young girl angers David, he slaps her in front of the group. There's a slight suggestion that this group of survivors may live in fear of this man who came to power during the apocalypse.

On HBO's featurette after the episode, a behind-the-scenes look shows that Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was atop a fake horse on a moving track. It wasn't simply visual effects.

On HBO's official "The Last of Us" podcast, coshowrunners Mazin and Neil Druckmann estimate that not much time has passed at all since Ellie has sewn Joel up and received antibiotics from David and James.

When David serves Ellie food on the show, she refuses it, even after David says it's venison.

In the game, Ellie ultimately decides to trust that David's telling her the truth when she presses him about the food she's served. She eats some of it before tossing it back his way.

That's what he used to call his daughter, Sarah. That's how he's finally seeing Ellie.

On the episode featurette, Druckmann says Joel hasn't used that nickname in 20 years since his daughter died.