Sarah is the daughter of Joel and a temporarily playable character in The Last of Us. Little is known about her past prior to the outbreak except that she was raised alone by Joel in Austin, Texas.
In the prologue, Sarah waits up late for her father to return home and eventually falls asleep. When she wakes up again, she heads downstairs looking for Joel and finds him bloody and panicked in his study. Soon their neighbor attacks and Joel is forced to shoot them. Tommy shows up and the three try to escape the chaos of the city, but unfortunately Sarah is kills.