The Last of Us 2 Chapter 33: The Shortcut Walkthrough (Seattle Day 2)

This walkthrough for Seattle Day 2 – Chapter 33: The Shortcut in The Last of Us 2 (TLOU Part II) will guide you through all objectives. It also includes Collectibles and other Items (Artifacts, Trading Cards, Journal Entries, Training Manuals, Workbenches, Safes, Coins, Weapons, Upgrade Parts, Skill Unlock Supplements).

For other Chapters see The Last of Us 2 Walkthrough.

Day: Seattle – Day 2
Chapter: The Shortcut

Collectibles:

• Artifacts: 6
• Coins: 2
• Workbenches: 2
• Safes: 1

Follow Lev

After the cutscenes at the start of the chapter you will be back outside the Aquarium following Lev. If you check your inventory you will already have one of the collectibles for this chapter, Artifact #1: Amputation Supplies. Follow Lev along until you reach a flooded area and he points out the building to you. To the right of the waterfall is a building “FRANKLIN’S BARBER SHOP”. Go inside and look behind the checkout to find the Nevada Coin.

Go back out front and climb the broken road to the left of the waterfall. Look to the immediate left and you should see a beam you can walk across. Go try the door, then Lev will jump in and unlock it for you. In this room you can find crafting supplies along with 10 Supplements.

Go back across, and you now want to jump across the broken sections of road to get into the building on the other side of the rushing water.

Go up the stairs in the building to the second floor, then look just in front of the door in the room you enter to find Artifact #2: Survivor Plea. Break the glass on the window to get onto the fire escape (where you are supposed to go to progress) but then also break the window to get into the room that the note was in front of to find 7 Parts.

Follow the Road

Now head up the fire escape to get to the roof of this building. From the roof do a sprinting jump across to reach the highway. Go left first and beside an open car door you can find 8 Parts. Then you can continue down the road.

At the end of the roadway you need to go left into the blue building from its balcony. Go inside, then on the table with the whiteboard you can find Artifact #3: Neighbour Exchange. From this note, you can figure out the safe code 30-23-04. Go through the door on the right into the large bedroom to find the Safe, which will have 8 Parts in it. You can also check the other rooms for the supplies, and there will be 7 Supplements in the bathroom.

Head out of the apartment and up to the roof. On the rooftop once you go up the stairs onto the higher level of the roof take a right and look inside the fenced-in area for 9 Parts.

Get Through Infected Store

Follow the bridge off the roof and drop down to the balcony below. In this store there will be a total of 6 Infected, with 1 of them being a Shambler. The windows inside are all intact, so if you break any of them you’ll have all the infected on you outside. To get them moved away, go to the right side of the balcony and look just to the right of the large window to see a smaller one that’s broken. You can throw an item in there to alert the Infected and have them move away from the windows. You could then toss a pipe bomb through one of the windows, so that the explosion will keep the infected away (and hopefully kill a couple) then you can sneak inside to deal with the others.

Check through the building for supplies, then when you’re ready to leave climb out the window at the back over top of the crashed van. You’ll have to jump across some more broken roadway, then enter a store on the other side named “INTERBAY”. Directly across from the entrance you should see a body, check beside it for Artifact #4: Scavenging List.

Left from the door you can find a Workbench, then around this room there will be 28 Parts total. Two groups of them out in the open, then some more each in drawers behind the cash register and by the stairs.

When you’re ready to continue go up the shorts steps and across the next part of broken roadway. Climb into the store, then take an immediate right and go to the window on the side. Drop out onto the blue platform, then at the end you can find the Colorado Coin. Go back inside and down the hallway going left, entering into the “Examination Room”. In a drawer on the right you can find 19 Supplements.

Scale the Building

Go back to the main room and then head through the blue doors. Climb up the rubble, then go down the hallway to the right. To get to where Lev jumps to, go through the door to the right then jump across the smaller gap. Go across and follow Lev up the ladder to the next floor. You’ll go across the first wooden bridge, then you should check the floor right after to find 7 Parts sitting on the ground.

Follow Lev up another floor, then he will jump across some bars. You need to go into a room on the left to progress, and midway through you can grab Artifact #5: Seraphite Truce from a table on the right.

Fight Scars

Follow Lev up one more long ladder, then at the top you will be shot at by a number of enemies. There will be 4 total who attack, and they are actively aware of where you are right away. You can sneak around them somewhat by going left through the side room, but that is basically the only path around them. Once all 4 of them are dead you can search the floor for supplies, then go around to the far side to climb another ladder.

In the next room there is a shrine you can interact with if you want, then have some optional dialogue with Lev. After that go into the room on the right where you can find the second Workbench for this chapter, along with 13 Supplements and 21 Parts on the shelves in the room. When you’re ready climb up the next ladder.

Fight More Scars

Once you reach the top of the ladder you will be in another large area with more Scars to fight. This time at the least they aren’t aware of you from the start, and they also all are on the sections of building opposite from where you are. There are a total of 7 in this area, spread between the floors of the sections of the building across from you. If you have available crossbow bolts this is a great time to use them, as the enemies are typically very spread apart so you can take them out one by one without alerting the others as long as you do it in one shot each.  Enemies will all be primarily weapons, plus one of the heavy axe enemies that will be normally on the bottom-most floor. To get up top to where you need to go you basically have to work your way around the entire area to get to the top. The way to exit is through the door that is under the covered area.

After going through the door Abby will block it, and you are safe from enemies. In this room you can first go over to the right to find 10 Supplements, then head to the left to find 13 Parts on the shelf to the left of the red toolbox.

Continue Higher

After grabbing the items in this room, go over to the elevator where Lev will be waiting. Interact with the door to close it, then you’ll start your way up. Once the elevator stops you can interact with the next door to get off. In the hallway after you can find 6 Parts on a bed, then Artifact #6: Seraphite Orders on the wall to the right before going into the next room.

After grabbing those you can continue following Lev. After the first bridge you will have to crouch under a structure to continue. Instead of doing that, climb up to the right side and then up onto the metal structure. At the end, you can find 11 Parts.  After grabbing those continue following Lev until you reach the end of the chapter.

This finishes Chapter 33: The Shortcut in The Last of Us Part 2. Next is Chapter 34: The Descent.

For all other Chapter Walkthroughs, check out our full The Last of Us 2 Walkthrough.