2 Universes, one filled with evil, flashing
sparks of bloodlust all around. The other, filled with a balance of good and
evil, but evil nonetheless. 1959 A new start for an innocent family in the
small town of Hawkins Indiana. With a small fortune Victor Creel has tried
moving on from not only his recurring thoughts of the second World War, but his old life. A new start indeed, with his wife Virginia
and two kids Alice and Henry. There was something different about Henry
though, he had a sense, some form of sense beyond our understanding. He never fit in with anyone, he was a sensitive
child. Teachers and doctors described him as broken,
were they really so far off? After moving Henry knew that it would be nothing
different there than anywhere, he would be treated the same. One day he creates and bond and finds comfort
in something others fear, a nest of Black Widows within the bathroom vent. The apparent misunderstood and most important
of the predators providing structure for the weak. Henry grew this hatred, this hate of humans,
specifically the civilizations structure of time and evolution. Eat, sleep, work, reproduce then die. But he was able to control and connect to
his unheard of sense, realizing he didn’t have to be apart of society’s mindless play. He began to learn about his abilities, telekinesis,
seeing into other’s memories, creating hallucinations and more. He used these abilities on wildlife, such
as telekinesis on rabbits and other animals. He caused his father to hallucinate parts
of his traumatic memories, such as a baby burning in a cradle, a memory from the war
where he ordered the shelling of a building thinking there were German Soldiers inside,
only to find himself horribly wrong. He would scare Virginia with spiders crawling
from the drain and give Alice horrific nightmares. They thought it was a demon’s doing, well
Victor did. Virginia thought her own son was somehow doing
these things, she somehow knew. She wanted to send him to a doctor but nothing
came of it. One fateful night, Henry decided to make his
next move. While the four ate dinner “Dream a little
Dream of…” the radio glitched randomly. Victor got up to fix it until the lights above
started to flicker. No one knew what was going on, that is no
one besides Henry. Virginia was lifted up until the air quickly,
crack, snap and crack. Eyes burst she falls back down to the kitchen
table as Henry’s nose bleeds for the use of his power. Victor picks him up as they begin to run away
from the house, Victor tries to slam the door open to free his children, only to be sent
back to that cold day. He was back in the building, seeing that baby
cry all over again. “Dream a little Dream of…” he snapped
out of his hallucination, his nightmare, only to turn around into a nightmare far worse. His daughter's eyes burst, bones cracked,
and Henry himself on the floor bleeding out his nose after knocking himself out, almost
killing himself, using too much of his power, he didn’t know his limits. Shortly after the police come to the house,
arresting Victor for the murder of his own family. He takes an insanity plea, leading to him
being put into Pennhurst Asylum. There, with nothing else left in his life,
he comes up with a decision, an attempt at suicide, to cut his own eyes out himself,
and join his family. But the people at the Asylum caused him to
fail, patches stopping the bleeding, causing him to live permanently blind, sitting in
the dark rooms of Pennhurst Asylum for the rest of his years. Henry wakes up slowly from his coma caused
by the massacre, only to see Dr. Martin Brenner. Dr Brenner was apart of a program named MKULTRA,
a program designed to study and develop mind control, with operations taking place in Hawkins
National Laboratory, and Henry was someone he was interested in testing on, someone his
mother had mentioned to him in the past. Dr Brenner takes him, somehow convincing everyone
Henry died shortly after reawakening, and creates a device called Soteria to suppress
Henry’s abilities, not just supernatural, but his literal ability to escape the lab. Dr Brenner tattoos a designated number onto
Henry, 001, beginning to include other students into the program, 002, 003, 004 and so on. He wanted to create these powers from scratch,
and so he gave Henry the alias of Peter Ballard to become an orderly for the children within
the Rainbow Room, a place to play around, testing powers on games and more. In 1969, a woman by the name Terry Ives took
part in MKULTRA under the supervision of Dr Brenner. She was experimented on, mostly with the intake
of mind-altering, psychedelic drugs. But throughout her time in these experiments
she was unknowingly pregnant to her husband Andrew, who unfortunately died in the Vietnam
War. Terry went into labor with “Jane Ives”
in June 1971. But Dr. Brenner kidnapped Jane so he could
experiment on her. He covered it up as a mischarage in the third
trimester. But Terry saw and heard the baby’s life,
so when she woke up and her sister Becky telling her she’s sorry for her mischarage, she
didn’t believe it. She tries to get up and find him but gets
put to sleep. But in 1974, Terry planned to return to her
baby. She was going to take Jane back by force with
a gun she kept in her safe, she went into the lab, and after being asked for her badge
and knowing she didn’t have one, she aimed the gun at a security guard. She saw him reach for his gun and shot hin. Terry went into every room she could until
she saw a room with a Rainbow on it, the Rainbow Room. She opened it and saw Jane and Kali (who was
008) playing in there, and as her child was finally in arms reach, Terry was grabbed and
pulled out by guards. She was strapped down and forced by Dr Brenner
into a platonic state, turning her mind to mesh but keeping her alive. From then on she would only know the words
“Breathe, sunflower, rainbow, 3 to the right-4 to the left, 450” with Becky becoming her
personal caregiver. During this security breach within the lab
and the rainbow room being breached itself, it seems as though 008 had miraculously escaped
aswell. 1979 was a very important year for this town
of Hawkins, and most importantly Eleven. Throughout the years the Numbers had been
practicing how to do different things, for example one thing they practiced was controlling
lights with their mind, but there was one common theme throughout the training, Eleven
would be the subject of bullying from the other Numbers, they’d call her weak as she
didn’t progress as fast as the others. There was a catalyst of events that occurred
this year, beginning with Peter talking to Eleven about One, and how he truly exists
no matter what Dr Brenner says. Peter also mentions that Dr Brenner (who the
Numbers call Papa) lies sometimes. He tells Eleven stories about One, and how
he was able to use memories from his past that made him sad, but also angry, to help
him find his strength. He asks Eleven if she has a memory like that,
with no response he mentions the strange woman calling her “Jane”, who he reveals to
Eleven is her mother Terry, who she thought died giving birth. She realizes that maybe Papa lies afterall. After that event all the Numbers play a game,
another training activity, to stay in the circle drawn for the two numbers competing,
the last person standing in the circle after all the numbers gets an extra hour of free
time in the Rainbow Room. The first round was Two against Six, and Two
won. Then Two against Five, Two won. Next, Two won, over and over and over, until
it was Two against Eleven. After Peter wishes her good luck (which makes
Dr Brenner suspicious), they begin. They seem pretty tied until Two pushes Eleven
back, but she holds her ground. Dr Brenner told everyone earlier not to use
emotions as it’ll make them fail, which contradicts what Peter said to Eleven earlier,
but luckily she knows that Papa lies. She thinks about Terry, the only time she
would ever see her mother in her entire life. This makes her sad and angry, she finds and
controls her strength and pushes Two out of his circle, winning the round. Dr Brenner is now convinced Peter said something
to her to help her, which during Eleven’s hour of playtime in the Rainbow Room, he punishes
Peter for. Eleven sees him being punished and returns
back to the Rainbow Room to avoid getting caught, but the other numbers are awaiting
her arrival. Eleven had embarrassed Two in front of Papa,
he was extremely mad. The cameras were turned off, this was happening
after hours. Four of the Numbers used their mind to push
Eleven around the room, bullying her with their powers. After threatening Eleven to never tell Papa
about this, the other numbers returned to their rooms. The next day, Dr Brenner knows something happened
and checks up on Eleven, and she stays true to the threat and tells Papa she can’t remember
what happened. He gets all the Numbers to line up to teach
them about rules. The rules which Dr Brenner knows were broken,
someone caused Eleven a concussion. Two makes a mistake, deciding to speak, calling
Eleven clumsy and stupid and that she must’ve fallen. Papa makes Two steps forward and they collar
him. He gives him a lecture about his rights and
how the rules are the exact same as everyone else’s, and all apply the same. Papa shocks Two to get a confession out of
him, yet he keeps lying. Eventually the Numbers are sent back to the
Rainbow Room, and Eleven continues to play her game by herself. The three numbers who helped Two attack the
other night stare at her, they are all angry that she technically caused Two to get shocked
and hurt. They mess up her chips, yet Peter intervenes
by picking up one himself. He offers to play Chess with her instead. He tells Eleven not to change emotions no
matter what he tells her because the cameras are watching. He goes on to explain that Two is doing fine
and recovering, but as soon as he is released, he and his friends are going to kill her in
the Rainbow Room, and that Papa will allow it to happen, that he’s been setting it
up in multiple ways. Eleven is more powerful than the others, and
Papa can’t control her, which makes him frightened of her. He tells her she needs to escape today, and
passes her a card to get through the doors. She returns to the room as all the Numbers
are still playing games. Dr Brenner walks in after some time and asks
Ten if he’s up for lessons, Ten uses a magic 8 ball to tell him yes, and so he grabs Ten
away. This is her opportunity, she goes to the guard
and tells him she’s feeling sick, so he takes her to the nurse who’s currently treating
Two, and tells her about Eleven feeling sick, but as soon as he turns she’s nowhere to
be seen. Eleven escapes into the sewers and plans after
reuniting with Peter, she plans to climb through the sewers which lead into the woods. After Peter reveals he cannot go with her
because of the Soteria device which weakens and tracks him, she says she can help him
by pulling it out with her powers, he helps her, she helps him, and she does exactly that,
pulling Soteria right out of his body, which reawakens his true powers. Before they can begin to crawl away, guards
find them and so they run away until they’re cornered by the armed guards. Peter tells Eleven she doesn’t have to be
afraid of them anymore, as he shows her his true self, Henry’s true power, One’s true
power and takes out all the guards. He takes her into a Supply Closet and after
showing her his 001 tattoo, tells her to stay put. *alarm sound* she hears the alarms ring, she
cannot stay put. She goes outside and hears on the dead officer’s
radio people screaming and yelling. Something is wrong here. She walks around the lab and sees dead bodies
everywhere, not just of staff, but of the Numbers. All the Numbers are dead. She watches as One kills Two with his mind,
she attempts to run away but he turns around and forces her to stay in the room with him. He talks over what happened in his past, the
Creel House Massacre, the creation of all the Numbers, and more. One offers for Eleven to join and escape with
him, to help reshape and remake the world to make it better. But surrounded by the dead bodies of all her
brothers and sisters and previously seeing Papa on the floor, she uses her strength to
say no and push One all the way to the wall. He gets up and they ready themselves to duel. A duel between two minds. A duel between One and Eleven. A duel between Henry and Jane. Eleven tries to use the memory of her mother
again to feel sad and angry to overpower him, but he pushes her down and around the room,
eventually pushing her off the ground and doing what he did with his mother years ago. She remembers her birth, hearing her mother’s
voice, her mother’s love, and she uses all the strength in her left to push One away
and free herself from him. She continues to think about all the murdered
children, all those innocent souls like herself, lives taken away, and she uses all the strength
in her body, all the power in her mind, everything she has, and pushes One not through the wall,
but through a Gateway between dimensions, a Gate into the Upisde Down. The Gate shuts and closes itself in. Dr Brenner walks into the Rainbow Room with
the Gate now shut. He asks Eleven what she’s done, but Eleven
can’t focus and faints, by using too much of her power she’s sent into a coma, losing
her memories, including her speech skills. Dr Brenner sees the video tapes and learns
what happened to Eleven and Henry. Henry falls through the landscape of the Upside
Down, being hit by the lightning that surrounds its plane. He explores this new realm, seeing monsters
running around. As he continues exploring he sees a giant
cloud of particles, a shadow that connects everything in the Upside Down, and he uses
his powers on it, making it take a new form, a form of something he was obsessed with as
a child, a form of a giant spider. This is his first of many changes to this
plane as Henry has no plans of dying so easily. Jim Hopper and his wife Diane Hopper had a
daughter named Sara. They ran around the park playing around until
she began to hyperventilate. Hopper tried to calm her down, but sometime
later it was discovered she was diagnosed with cancer. She lost her hair and had to stay in hospital. Jim would keep a straight face for his daughter,
but at the stairs closeby he’d cry knowing what’s going to happen to her. The cancer consumed her and caused the death
of Sara. Jim believes the cancer was caused by his
squadron coming in contact with Agent Orange during the Vietnam War when he was 18, and
after coming home he and his co-workers would try to live normal lives and set up families,
only for their children to be still born or born with deformities. After a while Jim and Diane split up and Hopper
moved from the big city and returned back to his old town, Hawkins. Within Hawkins, in 1982 Hopper’s old school
friend Joyce gets a divorce with her husband Lonnie Byers, Lonnie moving away to Indianapolis
and Joyce raising her two sons Will Byers and Johnathan Byers on her own with Lonnie
never coming to events and making excuses. Back in the lab, Eleven is breaking Coca Cola
cans, slowly but surely regaining her powers. Overtime they’ve been training her to become
as powerful as she possibly can be. On occasions she shows brief proof of this,
such as when she kills two guards with her powers, or when she’s able to listen to
a conversation happening in a different room of the lab. As always Dr. Brenner wants to push her to
her limits, he puts her inside of a Sensory Deprivation tank to spy on someone far away
from Hawkins, to spy on a Russian agent from the KGB to gain any form of information. But while inside The Void, she loses contact
with the Russian agent, only to find herself finding contact with something else. A monster growls at Eleven and out of fear
she runs away from the sound, begging the scientists to let her out. November 6th 1983, a day that will never be
forgotten. Dr Brenner sends Eleven back into the tank
to make contact with the monster, telling her the monster cannot hurt her from wherever
it is, that the monster is calling to her and wants her, so she reluctantly agrees and
ventures into the Void. She sees the monster and walks up to it slowly. She attempts to touch it, to make contact,
and contact was made indeed. The monster screamed at Eleven and out of
fear she returned to reality, screaming her head off. Eleven uses her power to accidentally open
a gate to the Upside Down like she did years ago. This permanent gate opening has a major effect
on the Upside Down. But without a moments notice, the Lab descends
into chaos as the monster enters through the gate, killing multiple people. Although amongst all the chaos, in a rush
of adrenaline Eleven is able to escape the Lab through the pipes which Henry advised
her about years ago. The monster escapes the lab too, in order
to retrieve more victims. Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, Lucas Sinclair
and Will Byers are all playing Dungeons and Dragons in Mike’s basement. They’re all fighting the Demogorgon. Will has to make the decision between a protective
spell or an offensive fireball, he chooses fireball but rolls the dice off the table. While the others look for the dice, Karen
(Mike’s mother) and Ted (his father) tell them it’s time to pack it up and for his
friends to go home as it’s a school night. Will finds the dice and it was a 7, which
was a miss, Lucas tells him to lie to Mike about it as Dustin goes to give Nancy (Mike’s
sister) leftover pizza, to which she completely ignores him. Besides Mike, they all agree Nancy’s changed
after beginning to date Steve Harrington. When Dustin and Lucas leave, Will tells Mike
alone that he truthfully missed and that the Demogorgon got Will. He leaves as the lights flicker behind him. They all split up as they ride home, but as
Will rides past the Lab, his light flickers and turns itself off. Will looks back up to the road as he sees
a tall shadowy figure turn to him. Will crashes his bike in the woods on the
side of the road, and as he hears the monster growl from the street he runs away through
the woods all the way home. Will locks the door behind him, and yells
around the house wondering where Joyce and Johnathan are. He looks outside his windows only to see the
figure followed him all the way home, he goes to ring the police but the phone line is jammed
and staticy, he only hears the slight growl of the monster. He looks at the door and sees the figure appear
as it growls, opening the door on its own. Will drops the phone and runs outside to his
shed where he knows a gun is. He scrambles to put bullets inside of the
gun and after loading it, he aims at the door. The monster growls as it appears behind him,
Will turns around and is frozen in fear when he sees the monster as the light brightens. The Demogorgon takes Will into the Upside
Down. The next morning Joyce and Johnathan realize
Will didn’t come home last night, she calls Karen to see if he stayed the night but she
denies this. She goes to the police station to report her
son as missing. Hopper tells her not to worry as 99% of the
time a missing child is with a parent or relative. Hopper tells her to go and contact Lonnie,
and Joyce asks that he just finds Will. Meanwhile within Hawkins Lab, they shut off
the entire East Wing of the lab, quarrenting and evacuating it. Dr Brenner and other scientists investigate
the area and find that the gate into the Upside Down is spreading into the lab and they still
don’t know where Eleven is. The missing Eleven wanders the woods and walks
into Benny’s Burgers. She sneaks into the kitchen, eating some fries
that were for the other guests, but as Benny Hammond was returning from serving the customers,
he sees her eating and runs in to catch her, but when he does he realizes not only is it
a girl unlike he thought, but she also had a shaved head and looked pretty beaten up. He cooks her a burger and asks her a few questions,
especially due to how quickly she was munching down the food. Benny goes and calls Social Services about
it, thinking she’s either abused or kidnapped or something as such. But someone else was listening to his call
and got her exact location. The three boys use the device called the “Heathkit
Ham Shack”. Mr. Clark tells them that it can communicate
to other parts of the world such as Australia. While they’re all having fun they hear a
knock at the door. Hopper interrupts as he grabs the other boys
to talk to them about Will. They tell him he might’ve gone down Mirkwood. They ask to help look for Will with the police,
but Hopper shuts them down instantly and says for them to go home and don’t go investigating
on their own. Hopper and his team search the road they were
talking about and down the road’s hill they find Will’s bike abandoned. They go to the Byer’s home to show Joyce
his bike they found and they begin investigating the house. Hopper goes and investigates their shed, turning
the lights on and looking around. He sees the bullets packed open with a few
spilling out of it, the lights break and he hears smiley movement coming from a covered
spot in the shed. He alerts the others to go begin a search
party. Jonathan and Joyce prepare Missing Persons
posters and Johnathan blames himself for not being there for Will. Joyce tells him he’s not to blame and for
him not to do that to himself. They get a phone call and she hears only breathing
and growling until she’s electrocuted by the phone. Later in the day Agent Connie Frazier arrives
at Benny’s, she acts as Social Services and shoots Benny dead. Eleven runs out and two guards come to stop
her, but she kills them both as she runs wild into the woods. Mike, Dustin and Lucas go and search for Will
in the woods on their own even after being told not to. They keep searching until they hear rustling
in the woods and run into Eleven. They sneak Eleven into Mike’s basement and
after giving her some clothes for her to change into, Eleven shows him her 011 tattoo and
reveals that’s her name, Mike nicknaming her El. After searching for Will the entire night,
the police and volunteers still have no clues. Hopper arrives and she tells him about the
burnt phone, Joyce tells her that she heard breathing, and not just any breathing, but
Will’s breathing. Hopper decides to go to Lonnie’s because
they didn’t hear from him, Jonathan tries to go but Hopper tells him to stay put. They all continue their search throughout
the day. Mike goes to check on Eleven and give her
some food, he tries to get her to go to the front and talk to his mum so she can get proper
help. But Eleven says she doesn’t want his mum
to get help, that she’s in trouble with Bad Men who want to kill her, and will kill
him if found. His mum yells as he has to go to school. Jonathan hangs the missing posters at Hawkins
High School, and after Steve and his friends give him a stare, Nancy goes over to him and
apologizes for everything. Jonathan leaves the school and travels away
from Hawkins, to his father to hopefully find Will. Dustin and Lucas realize Mike isn’t there
at school today, hoping his plan didn’t fail. Mike ends up sneaking home that day after
his mum leaves so he can stay with Eleven. Eleven explores his house, and eventually
they get to Mike’s room where she sees an image of Will, she seems concerned. Karen arrives home early and hears Mike, he
puts Eleven into the closet before Karen finds her, Mike lies about feeling sick today, and
Karen thinks he stayed home because of the things going on with Will, that she’s not
upset about it. After school Dustin and Lucas come over and
are confused why Eleven’s still there, and they all argue. Lucas suggests going to Mike’s mum, but
Mike tells him they might die if they do, but before Lucas can get out the room and
tell Karen about her, Eleven uses her telekinetic powers to slam the door shut forcefully. Agents from Hawkins Lab heard the call to
the police about the burnt phone and go to the Byer’s home covering as Hawkins Power
and Light, but with none of the Byer’s home, they investigate the shed where they find
material from the Upside Down, they know the Demogorgon is loose and might have taken Will. The police find Benny’s dead in his diner
and it’s been staged to look like a suicide. Hopper goes and interviews one of Benny’s
friends. With the information he gives Hopper thinks
that Benny’s friend saw Will at Benny’s. At night they get the police to look around
Benny’s, and Mr Clark finds a piece of clothing in a tunnel that leads right into Hawkins
Lab. But earlier in the day and outside of Hawkins,
Johnathan arrives at Lonnie’s, and Lonnie doesn’t knock where Will is either. Jonathan drives back home and searches the
woods himself while taking photos. On the other side of the woods, Nancy and
Barbara go to Steve’s night party while his parents are away. While they all are having a fun time, Barb
cuts her hand on a can by accident and she goes to Steven’s bathroom. The rest party in the pool and scream having
fun, which alerts Johnathan who runs over thinking something’s wrong. After the pool Steve’s friends go to Steve’s
mum’s room. Nancy goes upstairs with Steve and on her
way up tells Barb kindly to go home. Upstairs Steve gives Nancy clean clothes,
and eventually they kiss and begin to have sex. Barb however goes to sit outside at the pool
bleeding into the pool. Johnathan takes pictures of all these events,
but while his camera reloads, Barb is taken into the Upside Down. Barb is chased by the monster in the Upside
Down until she’s caught and dragged into the pool. Back in Mike’s basement, Eleven figures
out which piece is Will’s, she flips the Dungeons and Dragons board upside down and
places the Demogorgon game piece on the board to demonstrate that he’s hiding in the Upside
Down and the Demogorgon is after him. They all plan to go and find the Upside Down
as well as the Demogorgon. At night, Joyce’s phone goes off and she
hears breathing again. The lights begin flickering when he says “mum”. The phone electrocutes again but the lights
flicker at specific points in the house, creating a path to Will’s room. “Should I Stay or Should I Go” begins
playing from Will’s room. The lights flicker and then intensify, only
for everything to turn off and for the Demogorgon to stretch out of the wallpaper, Joyce runs
out of her house. Before driving away she hears the song come
back on aswell as the lights beginning to flicker more, so she gets out and begins to
walk back inside. Chief Hopper and officers Powell and Callahan
investigate at Hawkins National Laboratory, looking through the other side of the pipe
and discover that the employees are lying to them. The video tape they played to the police about
that night as “proof” Will wasn’t there had no rain whatsoever, but that night of
the search there was rain. They go to the library where they discover
the incident that happened with Terry Ives, but also that Dr Brenner was involved in Project
MKUltra. Hopper thinks the piece of clothing from the
hospital gown belonged to Will and that they might’ve gotten Will apart of MKUltra. He might’ve seen something he shouldn’t
have and been at the wrong place at the wrong time. Joyce hangs Christmas lights all over her
house. Karen and Holly come over to check up on Joyce. While Joyce and Karen are talking, Holly sees
the lights flicker and follows them to Will’s room, only to see something come out the walls. When Joyce picks her up and realizes she saw
something in the walls, she kicks Karen out of her house. Nancy went home sometime last night and discovered
that Barb is missing when she’s not at school the next day. Nancy has been looking for Barb all day and
when she goes to find Steve she sees them picking on Jonathan. Jonathan is revealed to have taken pictures
of the party and specifically Nancy. Steve grabs his photos and rips them up, and
then he breaks his camera right in front of him. Nancy sees the photos of Barb and grabs more
of the photo pieces planning to put them back together just in case. During school she goes to Steve’s house
to find Barb, she finds her car still there empty. She goes into the woods to search for her
but is scared away from a strange noise and a figure running around. She goes straight home and tells her mum something
bad might’ve happened to Barb. Eleven meets the boys outside his house at
3:15 like they planned. They walk in the woods and end up at Will’s
house. Eleven claims that he’s hiding there. They see a bunch of officers and ambulances
heading down the road, so they get back on their bikes and follow them all the way to
the quarry. A body (claimed to be Will Byers) is found
there. The boys, Eleven and Hopper all watch this
unfold in front of their eyes. Mike gets super annoyed at Eleven, thinking
that she’s lied to them all about Will being alive. Annoyed, Mike rides off all the way home to
hug his mum. Will tells Joyce using lights that he’s
alive, but not safe. Knowing that he can communicate with the lights,
she begins to write the alphabet on the wall so he can use it to say full words. He tells her through the lights that he’s
“RIGHT HERE”. When she asks what to do, he tells her to
“RUN”. When she realizes what the message is, the
Demogorgon breaks through the wallpaper again, this time fully, she sees it and runs out
the house. She runs into Johnathan and they exchange
a hug while the police are coming down the road to tell her the news. The police look around the house after Joyce
tells them about the monster in the walls. She claims that the body is not Will’s. She tells them about the Demogorgon she saw,
the animal that looked human but without a face. After the police leave, she goes to the shed
and grabs an axe, sitting on the couch, awaiting its return. She falls asleep until Johnathan wakes her
up early the next morning to go confirm it’s Will’s body. There Hopper learns Gary didn’t do the autopsy
which he usually does, that someone from State did. Joyce and Johnathan see the body, but she
leaves not believing it is really Will. After a small argument about her lying to
him, Eleven proves to Mike that Will is alive as she makes contact with him through the
walkie-talkie with her powers, hearing him singing his comfort song. Mike asks to stay home for the day and after
getting the boys to come over (and after a slight argument), they know they need a stronger
signal to reach Will again as it keeps cutting out every known and then. So they give Eleven a full on makeover (which
Mike compliments) and go to school to make contact through the AV Club’s super radio. They get confronted by Mr Clark and they lie
to him about Eleven and why they want to use the radio, and they’re successfully given
the keys by Mr. Clark. Out of respect they go and attend the assembly
for Will. Nancy tells the police about everything like
the party, thinking that the figure she saw took Barb. They basically create a story that might explain
where she’s gone, that maybe out of jealousy of her and Steve she ran away. After Nancy and Karen go home and have a small
argument, in her room Nancy constructs the picture she took from Johnathan of Barb, and
after piecing it together she recognizes the figure slightly. She goes to see Johnathan (who’s currently
looking at coffins for the funeral) and she asks about the image and what it could be. She makes Johnathan remember and realize that
the faceless figure is what his mum has been talking about the whole time. They go to the school's Darkroom to help make
the image clearer and find out that it truly is the faceless monster. Shepard, a worker at Hawkins Lab, enters the
Upside Down through the gate to see what’s really through there on the other side while
being attached to a security line. But while inside he talks about how everything
is still there but all rotten and different. They attempt to reel him back in but he is
taken by the Demogorgon as his security line comes back with blood all over it. After the assembly ends Mike confronts the
bullies about disrespectfully laughing during it. They bully Mike about it all, which causes
him to get sent over the edge and go and push Troy over. Troy gets up to fight Mike, but is stopped
midway. Eleven makes Troy pee himself to help Mike
out. After running away, they go inside the AV
Club. Eleven uses her powers to find wherever Will
is. At the Byer’s, Joyce hears someone banging
on the wall and hears Will screaming for her. Joyce breaks down the wallpaper and sees him
through an opening, an opening to the Upside Down. He keeps screaming, describing home but dark
and cold. Eventually the opening begins to close and
luckily the boys heard all of Will’s side of the conversation, until eventually the
machine sparks a fuse. Back at the Byer’s, Joyce breaks down the
wall to see if anything’s there, only for there to be nothing. Hopper talks with Gary, and discovers that
a lot of troopers followed the autopsy and were with the body, claiming jurisdiction,
kicking him out. So he goes to talk to the state trooper David
O’Bannon, who found Will’s body. Hopper figures out that he’s lying and after
David leaves because Hopper’s getting too close. Hopper finishes his drink and goes to beat
up David outback, Hopper learns that the people who told David to find the body there also
told David to make sure no one else gets too close to the body. So Hopper goes to observe the body itself,
he tells the lady at front that he forgot his hat, and Hopper punches the guard out
cold that was standing in front of Will’s body’s room. After getting the keys he enters and finds
the body. After touching it he realizes the body feels
weird. He grabs a knife out his pocket and after
a few moments cuts it slightly open, revealing that it’s a fake body, stuffed with cotton
like a plush. This is not Will’s real body. He immediately goes and breaks into the Lab
and enters the Restricted Area he saw earlier. After being confronted, overpowering the two
guards and stealing their access card, he keeps going forward and sees Eleven’s old
room as well as the Gate itself. He stares in awe as well as fear, only to
be put to sleep by the scientists. Will’s funeral is held and everyone attends
including Will’s father Lonnie who returns to Hawkins, as well as other people who cared
for Will. After the funeral Jonathan and Nancy meet
and prepare to find the Demogorgon and possibly kill it if they do. The boys try and talk to Mr. Clark about dimensions,
and how they could possibly travel there, using the Vale of Shadows as an analogy (as
last night they remembered the Upside Down and how maybe Will was where Eleven was, but
on the other side). He gives them an example of a Flear and an
Acrobat, saying that in order to travel there, it would require a massive amount of energy
that would need to tear a hole in time and space, and that if there was already a gate,
it would disrupt the magnetic field. Hopper wakes up in the morning remembering
all that happened last night, he knows he must’ve been drugged and they somehow know
where he lives, and he finds a bug in his place as in his lab Dr Brenner learns that
Eleven was in the AV Club helping the boys locate Will, as Dr Brenner knows they can’t
hear Will’s voice any other way. It was definitely Eleven. He sends the same actor from before over to
the school to “inspect and repair” the device El broke, confirming their suspicion. Back at the Byer’s, Joyce and Lonnie argue
as it turns out Lonnie was only here for the money he could get through a business and
so she rightfully kicks him out. Hopper learns that Barb’s car was found
by the same people from the State doing their job for them again, and also that other kids
went missing near Mirkwood. He goes to team up with Joyce, and after he
finds the chip in her house, he admits to her that she was right about Will from the
beginning, the whole time. Mike, Dustin and Lucas try to locate the Gate
with their compasses thanks to Dustin's idea, the compasses are pointing in the wrong direction,
but the only thing capable of breaking a compass is a large power disrupting the magnetic field,
much like the disrupted field Mr Clark was talking about, so they begin their hunt. But to keep them safe, Eleven distorts all
their compasses to lead them in the wrong direction. Lucas realizes this and a fight breaks out
between them, and Eleven knocks Lucas unconscious before escaping. After Nancy practices hitting with the bat
and Johnathan with his shooting, they both realize they aren't doing too good. They meet up and swap weapons to try, and
Nancy takes a good shot. Nancy and Jonathan go searching for the Demogorgon. They find a bleeding dear suffering and plan
to end its suffering, until it gets dragged away into the bushes. Eventually Nancy finds the gate and enters
the Upside Down, seeing the monster and running. Johnathan yells to Nancy through the gate
he finds on the other side, and Nancy follows his voice and returns through the Upside Down
as the gate shuts. After this Jonathan sleeps over at Nancy's
place, which Steve sees when looking in her window. The next morning they talk over what they
saw and the clues they have so far, and realize the monster seems to be lured by blood. Nancy and Jonathan purchase weapons to kill
the Demogorgon. On their way back they see a sign saying Nancy
is a slut. A fight breaks out between Jonathan and Steve
because of this, Jonathan throwing the first punch, resulting in Jonathan getting arrested
by the police because quite frankly he won, but also because he was the only one they
could catch. Back at the Byer’s Joyce and Hopper read
the documents over and talk about it, and realize maybe Terry Ives was telling the truth
and maybe he had been following clues towards her stolen daughter instead of Will. So they track down Terry Ives and travel to
her house. Her sister Becky tells them about Terry's
involvement in Project MKUltra, the Isolation Tanks, and her belief that she really did
have a daughter no matter what the doctors say. They leave the house and are alerted to Johnathan
being arrested. Agent Connie Frazier visits Mr Clark’s house
and finds out about Mike, Dustin and Lucas. Eleven is going around the wilderness and
then into the city, stealing eggos from shops and more while Mike and Dustin are looking
for her, but not with Lucas, he's still annoyed at Eleven and doesn't want to continue anything
with the boys if they have to be with El again and would rather go straight to the gate. So Lucas goes out on his own to locate the
gate, and follows the false magnetic north indication to the Lab where he figures out
that the Hawkins Power and Light Vans that were outside his house were fake, disguised
by the Lab. In the woods looking for Eleven, Mike and
Dustin are spotted by Troy and James and they run away. They’re caught and Mike yells for them to
let Lucas go and not to cut him, but in order for them to do that, they order him to jump
off a cliff. Mike decides to risk his own life for Dustin
and jumps down into the quarry. But as he jumps, he is caught by seemingly
nothing and is levitated to safety by Eleven. She pushes James to the ground and breaks
Troy's arm. After the bullies flee and Dustin remarks
she’ll kill them if they try and hurt them again, El falls to the ground drained and
apologizes to Mike, saying she’s the monster because she opened the gate. Mike comforts and calms her down, saying she’s
not the monster as she saved him from dying. Mike, Eleven and Dustin hug. Mike, Dustin and Eleven head home, but the
actor from before sees them all and contacts other agents to come to Mike's home and all
the agents begin to gear up. Lucas saw the same vans that are now leaving
the Lab at Mike's house. So Lucas screams at them through the walkie
talkie that they know about Eleven and are coming after them. They see the actor and then more vans incoming. After grabbing their bikes and Eleven seeing
Papa, they flee. They go to and reunite with Lucas and as they're
chased down the road and a car approaches them, Eleven flips over the car with her mind,
stopping the other cars from advancing. They ride far enough away and stop, leading
to Lucas apologizing to Eleven, and Mike and Lucas to reconcile. The agents then head to Mike's home to find
anything of Eleven's and to tell Mike's parents that Mike is in danger and to trust him, and
for them to tell him where they all might’ve gone. At the Junkyard the boys and Eleven see helicopters
are out looking for them. Hopper and Joyce arrive at the station and
after the other officers notify them of the stuff they found in his car, Hopper asks to
speak to them, and they all look through their proof of the Demogorgon. Hopper becomes aware of the incident with
Troy, as Troy's mother went to the station and reported the girl, which Hopper recognised
by Troy describing her head being shaved and that she has supernatural abilities, and that
she hangs out with the boys. Hopper, Joyce, Johnathan and Nancy leave the
station and on their way home they see the huge amount of agents at the Wheeler house
and plan to find the boys first. They go to the Byer's house and use the Walkie
Talkie to communicate with the others getting their location off of them. Vehicles approach the others and they think
Nancy and Hopper betrayed them. At least they thought until Hopper beats up
the agents who arrived first and save the boys and Eleven. They all meet and talk about the information
they know so far, including the fact that Hopper knows where a gate is, and they all
plan to communicate with Will and Barb. But Eleven can't reach them with the Walkie
Talkies and they can no longer use the AV Club machine, but Hopper and Joyce remember
the Sensory Deprivation Tanks, so they all call Mr. Clark (who's date they're rudely
interrupting), and they ask how to build the tanks, and Dustin manages to convince him
to tell him how. They need salt, lots of it. So Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Eleven, Joyce, Hopper,
Nancy and Jonathan break into Hawkins High and they all help in different ways to make
the sensory deprivation tank for Eleven to use, with Joyce giving her some advice and
thanking her for all the help. She readies herself and enters the Void. She finds Barbara dead and screams that she’s
dead to tell the others, Joyce calms her down telling her she’s safe and okay. Eleven calms down and channels her powers
to find Will, and she sees Will weakened in the Upside Down’s Castle Byers, and after
telling him that they’re coming for him and to hold on a little longer, he disappears
in the Void and Eleven wakes up as the monster approaches and finds Will in the Upside Down. Joyce and Hopper go to find a way to enter
the gate through the lab as Johnathan and Nancy plan to lure and kill the monster to
Joyce's house, breaking into the station and stealing back their equipment in order to
distract the Demogorgon away from Joyce and Hopper when they enter the Upside Down. But they’re caught breaking into the Lab,
and after interrogating Joyce and then Hopper, Hopper ends up promising to reveal Eleven's
location and that he’ll never reveal to the public anything about the agents or the
operations going on in their Lab, but only as long as they leave the 3 boys alone and
only deal with Eleven, but also that they’re both allowed to go into the Upside Down and
find Will themselves. Nancy and Jonathan set traps for the monster
in the Byer’s home and reload all their weapons. In order to lure the Demogorgon they cut their
palms. Unexpectedly Steve arrives and thinks that
Johnathan hurt Nancy because her hand is bleeding, but when he enters and starts wondering what
all the equipment is for, Nancy aims a gun at him telling him to leave now until the
lights begin flickering, they look around for the Demogorgon as it breaks through the
ceiling. Nancy starts shooting it but they all run
to lure it into their trap, but it seems to disappear as the lights return to normal and
the noises stop. Steve asks questions about what the fuck he
just saw, but is told to leave one more time. This time he dashes away with fear, but when
he faces the house and sees the lights flickering again, he bravely re-enters the house and
before Nancy gets eaten by the Demogorgon after she saved Johnathan from it, he hits
the monster with a bat and knocks it away, they get it into the trap and light it on
fire, but as they check the trap again, it's disappeared. They follow the lights to the door where Johnathan
realizes it’s Joyce in the Upside Down, outside Nancy asks where it’s going but
Johnathan tells them it’s not the monster Dustin and Lucas go look for food in the gym
while Eleven rests, and they find chocolate pudding. Mike invites Eleven talk and he invites her
to the Snow Ball and they kiss, revealing that they like each other. The agents come to the School to capture Eleven
after Hopper told them her location, Mike warns everyone about the agents knowing they’re
here because he thought it was Nancy coming back. They find the pool and know they’re here,
so they search everywhere until they find all four of them in the hallway. They corner them but Eleven stares coldly
into her eyes and kills them all at once much like One did to the kids many years ago, blood
pouring out of their eyes. With a drained Eleven the agents eventually
grab the boys, and Papa grabs Eleven. But she tries to get out of Papa's hands and
back to Mike and her friends. But the Demogorgon arrives, being lured by
all the blood, it jumps through a gate killing all the remaining agents as well as seemingly
killing Dr Brenner. The boys pick up Eleven and run into a classroom. They listen as the gunshots stop, wondering
if it's dead. But the Demogorgon knocks the door wide open
and heads towards the boys and Eleven. Lucas tries his best to knock the Demogorgon
away and hurt it, but before it can harm the boys, Eleven pushes it to the wall as strong
as she could like she did with One long ago. Eleven’s nose bleeds as she turns and bids
farewell to Mike, she then turns back to the Demogorgon and screams, using all the power
she possibly can. She disintegrates the monster, but in the
process disappears herself. Joyce and Hopper enter the Upside Down in
protective suits and find Castle Byers destroyed. They follow a train that leads from the Byer’s
to the Public Library, where they search, finding Barb and eventually finding Will with
a long tendril down his throat, which Hopper helps pull out of his throat and through his
mouth. They get Will on the ground and Hopper and
Joyce perform CPR on him, trying over and over and over, and eventually he begins to
breathe. Hopper puts one of the oxygen apparatus on
him and they help bring him back into the real world he is brought to Hawkins General
Hospital. Emergency arrives at the school and everyone
reunites with their parents. Will wakes up later in the night in the real
world to see Joyce and Johnathan. He asks where he is and Johnathan tells him
he’s home, safe, and that he made a new mixtape for him. Jonathan goes to get the boys and they all
wake up and rush in his room and hug Will, they begin telling him stories about what
he missed but he coughs and they realize he’s still obviously hurt, and Will says the Demogorgon
got him, but they say its dead thanks to Eleven, and they continue to share stories all at
once anyways talking about the events that passed and the journey they embarked on. Outside the hospital, Hopper is picked up
by a government car. After defeating the Demogorgon, Eleven awakes
in the Upside Down at the same place she disappeared. She walks through the school and finds the
Demogorgon's temporary portal he used to get into the school. She walks towards it and tests it, she uses
her powers to make the gate bigger for her to fit through and enters through it, coming
back into the real world. She walks all the way to Mike's house and
spots that the agents are outside still looking for her, and the agents give the Wheelers
the “stay quiet” treatment as they try to get any information out of Mike. Eleven sees him and they briefly share a glance
through the window as Eleven runs away and hides out in the local woods. Eleven wanders the woods, killing a squirrel
and trying to cook it for food. While cooking the squirrel she encounters
a random hunter. She knocks him unconscious using her powers
and steals his coat and hat for warmth and keeps running across the forest. One Month After Will returned it’s Christmas
Eve and Mike, Will, Dustin and Lucas play Dungeons & Dragons in Mike's basement again,
and Will fireballs the Thessalhydra and wins the game. Jonathan comes down to pick Will up, and after
he leaves and Dustin and Lucas begin fighting, Mike turns to the pillow fort he kept intact
to keep the memory of Eleven, he truly misses her. While leaving Nancy stops Johnathan and gives
him a gift and a kiss. Nancy and Steve gave Jonathan a new camera
for Christmas. Hopper leaves the office early taking a bunch
of Eggos with him, he goes to a box in the forest and places Eggo waffles within it. The Byers have dinner and Will excuses himself
to go wash his hands. But within the bathroom Will coughs up a type
of slug creature and momentarily phases into the Upside Down, returning for a moment before
phasing back. It seems there might be some lasting effects
from his time cross dimension. Eleven discovers the box of food that Hopper
has left for her and takes it. Hopper leaves food for Eleven again, and this
time she reveals herself to him. He is shocked but happy to find her there. He takes her to his grandfather's cabin and
she begins living with him in, and they turn it around and furnish it to be her new house. They set up things to learn like Morse Code
and they set up traps in the woods so they know if anyone gets close. After cleaning, he creates rules, the “Don’t
Be Stupid” rules. Rule 1. Keep curtains drawn, 2. Only open the door if she hears his secret
knock and 3. Never go out alone, especially not in the
daylight. Throughout the span of about a year, Sam Owens
becomes the new Director of Operations at Hawkins Lab. Will begins to have appointments at the Lab
so they can monitor for any lasting effects of his time in the Upside Down. Underneath the Lab however, they begin regular
burning on the Gate's original entrance in an attempt to stall any of the Upside Down's
spread. Outside of the shady business at the lab,
Mr. and Mrs. Holland hired Murray Bauman to investigate Barb’s disappearance as Joyce
begins dating Bob Newby and William (nicknamed Billy) and Maxine (nicknamed Max) Hargrove
move to Hawkins. On the 28th of June in Russia, the Russians
are trying to open the Gate to The Upside Down with their own research program similar
to Hawkins Lab. They use two keys, turning them at the same
time to begin the process. The machine is powered, it shoots and charges
up before shooting the wall, slowly opening a gate, slugs coming out. The machine is working. However, their efforts turn futile as the
machine malfunctions, causing the gate to begin closing slowly and for the machine to
blow up, killing all of the scientists below. They observe the damage and see the Gate shut
completely. The general orders henchman Grigori to kill
the main scientist who worked on this machine. The other scientist Alexei is given one year
to successfully build the machine for a gate to be opened. Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will gather any amount
of money they can get and go and play at the Palace Arcade trying to beat Dragon’s Lair
when they all discover Dustin no longer has the high score on Dig Dug. While the boys argue with Keith trying to
figure out who “MADMAX” is, Will sees the Upside Down spores and when he goes to
ask his friends about it, he has yet another vision of the Upside Down where he hears a
beast call from the bloody clouds. He snaps out of it when Mike calls his name
and they head back inside. The next day, Murray goes to the station and
tries to tell Hopper about a girl with a shaved head who he claims has abilities and is possibly
a russian spy. Hopper goes and investigates the mysterious
degradation and rot on Merrill Wright's Pumpkin Patch, and Merrill thinks it was his neighbor
Eugene McCorkle who did it, although having no evidence. New siblings Max and Billy arrive at Hawkins
Middle & High. Max is introduced to the class, and the boys
realize that Maxine’s nickname Max may be connected to MADMAX. The boys talk it through and try to figure
out if it’s her or not, and they’re fairly certain it is. She drops a note in the bin and they rush
over to see what it says, Dustin searches the bin and they read “Stop spying on me
creeps”. Joyce arrives at school and they go and have
another check-up appointment at Hawkins Lab to see if there were any lasting effects of
his time in the Upside Down. Will talks to Dr. Owens about his vision at
the arcade, that he saw this storm in the Upside Down and that he felt frozen in fear
and felt as if an evil was looking at him, wanting to kill not him, but everyone else. Dr. Owens tells Joyce and Hopper that it’s
going to get better before it gets worse, and that it’s some mix of PTSD and an “anniversary
effect” due to it being almost a year after he was stolen. He makes sure they know that Dr. Brenner and
all of those people are gone now. After they leave, Dr. Owens goes to watch
the Scientists apply the heavy flames to the Gate’s entrance yet again. Dustin and Lucas stay outside the Arcade to
see if it’s really her, and it seems as though the two are gaining a bit of a crush
on Max. Both of them see her and Billy arrive and
argue, and after watching Max play Dig Dug they confirm she’s MADMAX. The Wheelers are having a yard sale and Mike
has to pack two boxes himself, so he heads into the basement and begins packing. While down, Mike uses the walkie talkie and
attempts to contact El for the 352nd day in a row. After Mike finishes, Dustin and Lucas contact
Mike and tell him about Max. After Mike hangs up they split off and go
home, and Dustin hears rattling from inside his bin. Nancy and Steve have KFC at the Holland’s,
and hear that they’ve hired Murry to help find Barb. Nancy excuses herself and begins to break
down in the bathroom, because she knows that no matter how hard they try and how much money
they pay, they’ll never find Barb. Will and Johnathan have a talk about “Zombie
Boy” and how everyone treats Will, but Johnathan tells Will that he’s right and he is a freak,
but it’s okay to be a freak rather than being normal and lame. Within Hawkins Lab everything seems to be
going off the rails. But back at the Byers, Will wakes up and goes
to the bathroom. But while washing his hands hears lightning
outside, he goes to his door seeing the red flashes through the window as the door opens
on its own. Will gets goosebumps on his neck as he sees
the Upside Down once again, he looks at the evil he felt at the Arcade and sees a spider-like
creature in the clouds staring right at him. Halloween rolls around and Hopper promises
Eleven he’ll be home early at 5:15 so they can watch scary movies together. He sees Joyce and they talk about what Will
drew last night, a picture of the spider creature he saw which they realize is a perfect match
for outside, but he tells her they need to just wait it out. He then goes to the station and sees more
Pumpkins rotting, and Eugene thinks Merrill killed his crops and everyone else's crops
around town. He goes to Eugene’s and after seeing some
form of goo near the dead crops and starts thinking of the Upside Down, and they begin
marking how far it goes into the woods from the farm. Whilst within the Lab, a scientist ventures
into the Upside Down and heads towards a satellite they have set up within it which was causing
the chaos last night since its battery got fried. He turns the battery back on and the controls
return to normal. Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will dress up as Ghostbusters
and go to school. Dustin turns in fear as they all realize that
no one else is even wearing costumes to school. Dustin and Lucas spot Max skating down the
hallway. Later that day after class, they go and talk
to Max and begin trying to impress her, and ask her about going trick or treating with
them. She doesn’t necessarily say no but walks
away after the invite. On their way home, Billy yells at Max as they’re
stuck in Hawkins and she blames it on him. He drives quicker along the road and as they
keep going Max sees the boys riding home and tells Billy to slow down. He laughs about hitting them and getting a
strike and Max turns the vehicle. Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will go trick or treating,
Jonathan letting Will go on his own as the rest of them instead of tagging along. Jonathan heads to Tina’s Halloween party
which Billy is absolutely showing off at, and when he sees Steve, Nancy leaves and goes
to get drunk, telling Steve they’re meant to pretend to be normal teenagers again. The boys keep getting 3 Musketeers and walk
along the street talking about finding better houses until they’re jumpscared by Max and
she joins them for trick or treating. Mike is annoyed about Max joining them for
Halloween, he splits from Will when he slows down to think about the situation. But while briefly alone, Will is scared by
multiple people and falls over with his camera. He looks up only to see the Upside Down spores,
he’s back. He hears monsters lurking around and sees
a giant shadow rise in the distance, staring at him and then moving closer. He runs down the stairs as the shadow follows
him down, until he’s grabbed by Mike and snaps out of his vision. Mike tells the others he’ll take Will home
and that he’s bored anyways but they can keep going. Will talks to Mike about his vision, about
the new shadow monster that was coming for him, and they briefly talk about Eleven and
both agree that if they’re both crazy they’ll go crazy together. At Tina’s, Steve tries to stop Nancy from
drinking more and accidentally gets it all over her, they go to the bathroom to clean
it up and Nancy tells Steve that everything is bullshit, including her love for him. Johnathan sees Steve leave the bathroom and
then the party and goes to pick up Nancy and takes her home responsibly while she’s drunk
so she can go and rest. Hopper loses track of time and rushes home
to the cabin after bargaining with a child for the Halloween Candy, and he gets home
eventually and after being let in, he tries to guilt trip Eleven into coming to eat with
him as she shuts herself in her bedroom, watching TV until eventually turning it into static
to enter the Void to visit Mike telepathically, who at the same time was trying to contact
her through her walkie talkie. He asks her to give him a sign if she’s
still there, and she does as he feels her presence through the Void but doesn’t see
her, so he turns off his walkie talkie and walks away. Dustin arrives home after the fun night trick
or treating and hears the rustling in the bin again, this time the bin shakes violently. He goes to investigate and discovers the creature. He takes it inside and it shakes in his ghost
trap, he tells his mum he just rigged it up to make it look like he caught a ghost. He goes into his room, tapes Yertle the Turtle
out his cage and puts the creature inside. He figures it might be hungry and that’s
why it was in his trash, so he gives it 3 musketeers and figures out it won’t come
out if it's hot. He calls it D’Artagnan, or Dart for short
and studies creatures for a while before falling asleep while Dart begins to shake and growl
violently. The next morning Dustin goes straight to the
Library and tries to order books about reptiles and other creatures. But he can only borrow 5 at a time, so he
redirects her attention and steals the books. Eleven is still upset at Hopper and he baits
her out with an Eggo extravaganza. He knows she visited Mike last night in the
Void, and Hopper offers to check on him. They argue a bit about when she’ll be able
to leave properly and see Mike and she pushes the table and slams the door shut with her
powers. Bob takes Will to school and they talk about
him walking around last night and about nightmares. He tells Will the story of Mr. Baldo, a clown
that would appear in his nightmares every night. Every night he would run away from the clown,
but one night the nightmares stopped after he stood his ground and yelled at Mr. Baldo
to go away. Lucas and Max start to talk about what’s
going on with Will. Dustin barges in and arrives late, telling
the boys to go and meet in the AV Club at Lunch and then Max as his bag rattles, he
brought Dart to school. Hopper and his officers put together their
information on where they saw the rot stop, and Hopper figures out that all “the ends”
make circles that all lead back to the Lab. Hopper goes and talks to Dr. Owens about it,
that it's all spreading from the Lab, and Hopper asks him to convince him that there’s
not a leak and they got it covered, to go to every area on the map and do tests. Hopper tells Dr. Owens to keep his shit out
of his town. He needs to convince him. While back at his cabin, Eleven breaks all
3 of the rules. She ventures outside and sees a mum and her
child, asking her where the school is. She uses her powers to distract the kid and
then the mum as she walks away. At lunch, he opens the trap and they all meet
Dart. They pass the creature around from Max, to
Lucas, to Will, then to Mike. They talk about what it is, Dustin says he
researched all different species, but none quite match Dart, as if it’s a brand new
one. But while talking they see that there’s
something moving within it and shine the light to it and it gets scared and roars. After hearing this, Will remembers hearing
its roar in one of his visions. The bell goes and they all talk about possibly
showing Mr. Clark. Nancy and Johnathan have lunch and talk about
last night at Tina’s and then all of the stuff that’s happened. Nancy comes up with an idea to arrange over
the phone to meet Barb’s parents and tell them the truth about what happened with her
and the monster, Nancy gives a location and time to meet up, but the Lab hears what she
says. Joyce checks the footage from Will’s attack
last night and after calling Bob figures out how to connect it to her TV and begins watching
it through. She sees the bullies and him falling over,
and then calling for Mike, but also sees a figure in the recording’s static. She grabs paper and draws the figure, seeing
that it's the same figure that he drew the other night. After learning AV Club was possibly canceled,
she heads straight for the school. Back at school, after the bell Dustin is about
to show Mr. Clark Dart and clarifies it's his discovery and not his, but Mike rushes
in and tells them they need to go. They go inside the AV Club, locking the door
on Max so they can talk about it. Mike tells them that he saw something like
Dart last year but also heard it in one of his episodes, and that maybe Will can somehow
see into the Upside Down. The monster rattles in the cage and Mike grabs
the light to prepare to attack just in case. Dustin opens the cage and it grows legs right
in front of them. It roars and Mike attacks, but Dustin stops
him from hitting it directly. Max picks open the door trying to get inside
and see what they’re talking about and so it escapes and runs down the hall. After meeting with Dr. Owens at one of the
sights and him showing that they’re going to go and test it, Hopper learns that Eleven
left as the mum called the police. At this time though Eleven’s at the school
and sees their bikes. She goes inside the buildings to find them,
while all of the group are looking around for Dart. Mike goes into the gym and runs into Max,
and he and Max argue about her joining the group and Mike accidentally spills about El. Max shows him tricks in the gym with her skateboard,
and Eleven sees them having fun and decides to use her powers to knock Max off her board. She tells Mike about how it felt like a magnet
that pushed her off the board and Mike knows it sounds like Eleven, so he goes and checks,
but sees nothing. Will goes inside the toilets and finds Dart,
he contacts the others about where it is, but Dart squeals at him. He drops the Walkie Talkie and runs outside,
only to phase into the Upside Down. He looks around and sees a shadow turn the
corner and start to follow him, he runs as fast as he can trying to outrun the shadow
until he exits the school building. Dustin finds Dart before the others and puts
it under his hat. Mike, Max and Lucas come inside the bathrooms
and Dustin tells him that Dart’s not there, but Mike realizes Will isn’t either. Will remembers Bob’s words about Mr. Baldo,
so he stands his ground as he watches the shadow rise from the school. He yells at it to go away over and over until
the shadow attacks Will and goes inside of his body. Joyce speeds to the school, checking the AV
Club learning he’s not there, she hears Dustin calling out and looking for Will and
meets with them, Lucas runs inside telling them all where he is as Mike and Lucas find
him on the field, as in the Upside Down Will is getting taken over by the shadow, and after
the shadow is fully inside with him, he instantly snaps back to reality. As Joyce takes Will home, the boys can tell
it's getting worse as it's now 2 episodes in 2 days, Max however doesn’t fully know
what’s going on. At the Byers Joyce talks to Will, telling
him to tell the truth and confronting him about the shadow figure. He tells her that it’s like a feeling, that
he tried to make it go away and that it got him, that he felt it everywhere, and that
he wants it all to be over. Eleven returns back to the cabin with Hopper’s
figure staring coldly into the dark. He asks her questions about where she went
and who might’ve seen her. She has a heated argument with Hopper about
wanting to leave. He grounds her, no eggos, no TV for a week,
but before he can continue she uses her powers to stop him from moving the TV. So he bumps it to 2 weeks, and she doesn’t
bug, so he bumps it to a month, then to never again. She tries to fix the TV and Hopper calls her
a brat, chucking the dictionary to her but Eleven catches it with her mind and flings
the dictionary at Hopper, then knocking him over with the couch, slamming things around
the house and then locking the door. Eleven screams and all the windows within
the cabin smash. The next morning he goes to work, hoping that
she cleans up before he comes back home, and she uses her powers to clean up the house
until she finds a trapdoor while cleaning and opens it. She finds a box containing info on Hawkins
Lab, she grabs it and finds Terry Ives' file, and then decides to contact her via the Void. She sees Terry repeating words in her chair,
until she suddenly stops and turns. Terry feels Eleven’s presence, and while
shocked calls out Jane, and Eleven leaves the Void, realizing her mama’s still alive. Will wakes up and Joyce realizes that he's
actually naturally colder, and when Joyce goes to give him a warm bath, he goes to it
and drains all the water, saying that he prefers it cold. Hopper eventually arrives and Will attempts
to explain the shadow monster to them, saying he now just knows things, old memories in
the back of his head, but not his memories, and not even memories at all, as if its happening
right now. Will mentions that he feels like something’s
growing, spreading, killing. Joyce tells Will instead of talking with words,
maybe draw it out. Mike tries contacting the Byers but they don’t
pick up, so Mike, Dustin and Lucas (and not Max) go to the AV Club and they discuss what
happened on Halloween Night and what might’ve happened on the field. Mike plans to go to his on the way home and
that they must find Dart. So Mike goes to the house to see Will and
reveals to Joyce that he knows about the shadow monster. Nancy and Jonathan are waiting at the place
they told Barb’s parents to meet. They notice people staring at them and following
them and go to their car to drive away, only to notice their car isn’t starting. They are surrounded and forcibly taken to
Hawkins Lab, as the Lab were listening to their conversation about revealing the truth
to Barb’s parents. When they get there Dr. Owens gets them to
follow and lead them to the Gate, telling them they can’t reverse this mistake and
that they’re trying to stop it from spreading, but the main reason they don’t want them
revealing anything is that the Soviets for example might not even think of it as a mistake
and might try and replicate it, creating a new gate, and that’s the possible consequences
of revealing what really happened to Barb. But unbeknownst to Owens, they recorded his
speech. After school Max is annoyed at Lucas and the
group for basically ditching her for no reason (at least to her knowledge). Billy sees them argue and in the car, tells
her not to hang around him anymore and to stay away. Dustin however heads straight home and discovers
that Dart broke out of the turtle cage, he searches his room to find a much larger Dart,
feeding on the lifeless body of Mews, as it eventually turns to him and screams. Joyce and Hopper realize that although it's
just lines and dashes, they actually connect with each other, and they join together over
a long, long time in order to form the larger image. They see it all laid out and realize it looks
like roots with a dirt color code, they think of what he said about it and how it's spreading
and killing, and Hopper realizes what it might be, that he’s drawing vines. Hopper goes to one of the pumpkin patches
and digs down, until he hits some sort of goo, he discovers below is hollow and digs
a large enough hole to hop down, only to find himself in a seemingly endless underground
tunnel, with the Upside Down’s spores floating all around. Hopper explores the cave and upon spotting
something on the roof, is sprayed directly with spore-like particles not once, but twice,
and slowly loses consciousness as the hole he entered rebuilds itself. Will tries to explain his connection to the
shadow monster to Mike. Mike tells Will that he’s a spy now, spying
on the shadow monster. But Will tells Mike what if the shadow monster
is spying on them. But Mike assures him that they won't let it
and Will will be safe from it. Jonathan and Nancy check into a motel before
making their next move with their plan, and while inside they talk about last year and
how they still have their scars and they share a moment, talking about why nothing happened
between them and head to sleep. Will wakes up suddenly and Mike notices, they
go and tell Joyce that he saw Hopper and how he’s in trouble and might die in the tunnels,
and he draws and then points out where he saw Hopper, marking an X on the exact spot,
so Mike and Joyce look around until they find the place that fits. Hopper regains his consciousness, spitting
out goo, and he decides to try and escape straight away, and after he realizes his hole
is covered, he covers his mouth up and keeps investigating, and he finds a graveyard. He lights a match and realizes that the vines
don’t like fire, so he lights a larger fire on a stick and begins trying to escape. While resting for a moment due to his exhaustion,
vines tangle around him and trap him. He falls over and gets fully trapped. Dustin’s mum keeps looking for Mews and
he smartly sends his mum away. As soon as she leaves Dustin instantly starts
preparing his trap for Dart. He opens the door, letting Dart loose, and
he runs to his shed and watches as Dart follows his trap. When Dart approaches the door he runs out
and hits Dart right into the cellar and locks him in there. He attempts to get help from anyone else,
but he can’t reach anyone. He goes to the Wheeler’s to find Mike, but
they’re no help. Eventually though he finds Steve ready to
apologize to Nancy about earlier, and he grabs Steve’s attention, gets in his car and gets
his help to kill Dart. Eleven gets a ride to Terry Ives's home where
she meets Becky, who first sends her away until Eleven unlocks and opens the door on
her own, saying she wants to see her mum. Becky lets her in and Eleven discovers her
mother who’s stuck in a state she doesn’t understand. They both talk and Becky shows Eleven the
room that was meant to be for her. She notices that the lights are flickering
and makes a path straight to Terry. Eleven realizes she wants to talk, and is
able to connect with her through the Void, and is able to see the memories replaying
inside Terry's mind of everything that happened to her baby until she was forced into this
state. Eleven tells Becky what she saw in Terry's
mind, and that she thinks Terry wants her to find the girl (Kali) who was with Eleven
as a child. Becky helps her find a picture of Kali, and
at night Eleven uses the Void to locate her. Eleven goes to tell Becky she found her. Becky calls the police about Hopper and Joyce
and for the police to try and locate them and bring them to Terry’s. But Eleven overhears this and steals money
from Becky, leaving to find Kali. Jonathan and Nancy drive to and meet with
Murray Bauman and they tell him the truth about Barb's disappearance. After talking, Murray decides the best way
to take down Hawkins Lab is to make a "watered down" version of the story as it’ll be more
believable than the full on truth about interdimensional monsters. Nancy, Jonathan, and Murray Bauman send out
the evidence against the Lab to national newspapers. After they do so, he sets up a bed for Nancy
and Johnathan can sleep on the pull out, although he tells them to just cut the bullshit and
sleep together. Eventually Nancy and Jonathan give in to their
feelings and sleep together. Lucas is able to lure Max into the back and
he decides to tell Max the truth about what happened last year, telling her to accept
the risk, but she doesn’t immediately believe him and thinks Lucas is making up a story
and she leaves, and they argue outside of the room and when she starts talking about
the top secret information outside, he shuts Max up and tells her that she’s going to
get them killed if she keeps talking, and Max asks him to prove it. Billy arrives and she has to leave, Billy
confronting her about Lucas. The lab looks at the soil samples from the
pumpkin patches, and watches them react weirdly to heat, and all the samples do the same with
a hive mind. Bob arrives at the Byers and Joyce asks him
to help "find the X" Will drew, and Bob realizes the drawings are a map of Hawkins itself and
he helps locate the X. They leave to find Hopper, when they don’t
know where to go Will tells them where he is and leads them down the right path, where
they see the vines and decide to dig down. When they get down they search for Hopper
and are able to help cut him free. Before a moment's rest, workers from the lab
arrive in the tunnels and they burn it fully, which causes Will extreme pain as he collapses
to the ground and begins to have a seizure. Will is rushed to Hawkins lab, they don’t
understand what’s going on as he said he’s burning but there’s no burn marks, they
keep asking questions until he’s eventually put to sleep. Dustin and Steve travel to Dustin’s, upon
arriving Steve grabs his bat. Steve eventually goes down and discovers that
Dart has shed his skin again and that he escaped the cellar by making a tunnel that unknowingly
to them leads to the larger tunnels, which after the scientists discovered that Will’s
connected to them burning, they go to the Byers house and take photos of everything,
the vines he drew and the shadow monster etc. Back at the lab, Joyce talks to all of the
head scientists and gets mad at them, wondering what’s wrong with her boy. Lucas eventually is told by Erica that Dustin
yelled about a code red, so he uses a walkie talkie and talks to Dustin about it, which
they tell Lucas to meet Dustin with Steve on the tracks. Lucas goes to Max’s house and tells her
that he has proof, and to avoid Billy, Lucas goes around the house and Max gets on his
bike as they ride to Dustin and Steve. Dr Owens shows Hopper the Gate, but not like
it was before, the now grown Gate, larger than ever. They go all the way down and figure out that
the tunnels are connected to the Gate, Hopper asks why they haven’t burnt it and Dr Owens
tells them about the complication while in Will’s room, Joyce tells Bob about what
really happened to Will, and the fact he’ll probably have to sign a lot of confidentiality
documents. Will wakes back up but when he asks who Bob
is, they realize he’s losing his memory. They test Will and it’s proven he knows
his own name, doesn’t know Dr Owens, he knows Mike, but doesn’t know Hopper. They ask him about last night and what he
remembers, and he tells them that the soldiers hurt Will and upset the shadow monster. They bring in a piece of the vines they tested
on and begin to do a burn test, burning it slowly which causes Will a sting, they keep
going and Will gets more hurt and hurt until it's too much. They know Will’s connected to a hive mind
of sorts. Dustin and Steve lay food on the tracks in
order to possibly lure Dart to them to kill it, and while doing so they talk about relationships
and Steve gives him advice about it all and also about his hair and what he uses. They walk all the way to the junkyard as Lucas
and Max arrive. Dustin and Lucas argue about telling Max and
about Dart until they reconcile and all of the kids help Steve fortafy the junkyard and
prepare it for a possible battle against the young Demogorgon. Eleven arrives in Chicago and finds Kali’s
gang, who threaten Eleven, but then Kali uses her powers to make spiders appear out of nowhere,
and Eleven and Kali reconnect. Jane and Kali reconnect for the first time
since the Rainbow Room, they show off their tattoos and hug. They swap stories about what’s happened
to them and Kali shows off her powers to Eleven, creating a butterfly in Eleven’s mind, and
the two bond. Kali gives her a bed and more to stay overnight. Kali and the gang talk about Eleven, how she
can find people without moving, and they plan to go hunt the next day. Eleven uses the Void to hear a message from
Hopper. As outside the lab Hopper radios to the cabin,
he tells her about where he is and that he’s sorry about what happened. But inside the lab, the head scientists talk
about what's going on with Will, and how something is spreading in his brain. No one has suggestions on what to do and how
they can’t delay the burning, Dr Owens doesn’t like the idea as it’ll kill Will and he
goes to think. Joyce gets up to go talk to Dr Owens. While she argues with the guards the shadow
monster inside of Will thinks about what to do and Will tells Mike that he knows how to
stop the shadow monster. Earlier in the day Johnathan and Nancy woke
up and ate breakfast at Murray’s, who noticed their weird behavior. They leave Murray’s and go to the Byers,
which they see the drawings all over the wall and the shadow monster, aswell as proof that
the lab has been there taking photos. Back inside the lab they lay out all of the
photos along the table, and Will tells them where to go as the shadow monster doesn’t
want Will to see a specific location. So, the scientists gear up and head to that
very location Will told them about. Kali introduces Eleven to the entire gang. They tell Eleven about what they do, that
they find and kill the “Bad Men”, aka the people who hurt them in the lab. Kali goes to train Eleven, and much like One
told her in her past, she says to use her anger to focus on her power and pull an extremely
heavy train towards her. So she channels her anger and uses it to successfully
get it all the way to her and Kali as she falls from all the energy she used and the
gang congratulate her from the side. Then, Eleven remembers and locates Ray Carroll,
and they all plan to murder Ray that night. Eleven uses her powers and locates him in
the Void. They all gear up and give Eleven a complete
makeover to make her fit in with them more and to properly join the gang. The whole gang with Eleven hop in the van,
which inside they test out and then give Eleven her own special mask. They arrive at a gas station and Kali uses
her powers to distract the worker and they rob it for stocks. The worker comes back out and aims the gun
at them, and Eleven uses her powers to push him away to the wall, and as officers come,
they all run away into the van and escape. That night, they arrive at Ray’s house,
getting out of their vehicle to go and kill him. Eleven opens the door and turns the TV off
to distract him as they enter. Dottie and Axel begin looting the house while
Kali reminds him of his crimes against them. Eleven pushes him to the wall and Ray tells
them he did what Dr Brenner told him to do, and that he’s alive and he can help them
find him. Eleven doesn’t believe this and decides
to psychically choke him, slowly but surely killing him, but after seeing a photo of Ray
with his children, Eleven changes her mind as the others find those children calling
the police, so she lets him live and prevents Kali from shooting him. They run quickly and head back to their hideout. Lucas and Max have a moment until they hear
Dart’s scream. Lucas sees the beast and tells them where
it is, so Steve grabs his bat and chucks Dustin the lighter. He goes outside to face the growling beast
until Lucas spots another one in the distance, not just one more, but multiple. Lucas yells at Steve and he sees all the different
Demogorgon’s. Dustin yells for him to abort the mission
and Steve barely escapes as they shut the door. The Demogorgon Dogs keep trying to get inside
as Dustin tries to get more help, but there’s something above Max, the Demogorgon Dog growls
as Steve pushes Max aside to fight it, but it screeches and runs away. They all do. Back underground the scientists are almost
at the location when Hopper notices they’ve just been led to the graveyard. They notice that nothing’s there as strange
noises are heard and a fog appears. Will tells them he’s sorry and he told him
to do it, they shouldn’t have upset him and Mike realizes they’ve been lured for
another reason, it’s a trap for more kills, so the shadow monster can get revenge on the
soldiers. The Demogorgon Dogs kill them all, one by
one and then leave the graveyard. Hopper sees the elevator moving slightly and
they all witness the Demogorgon Dog climb up and reach the Lab. At the hideout Kali tells her how she escaped
using her powers, and how she was able to survive after. After Eleven recalls that Ray said Papa is
alive, Kali gives her visions of Papa. But Eleven kicks Kali out her head as she
tells Eleven about fighting back, but the gang is ambushed by the police as they slowly
enter their hideout. Up in Eleven’s room, she tries to locate
Mike and Hopper using the Void and sees Hopper seeing the agents being killed by the dogs
and Mike yelling about Will’s trap. But she returns back as police enter the building. But Kali gives all the officers a vision,
but the vision that they’re all not there. They escape the hideout but on their way out
are confronted by more police. Kali uses her powers to make them envision
a wall being raised all the way to the sky that blocks them from getting over. But after talking and as the illusion starts
to break, Eleven abandons the group after seeing Hopper and Mike in danger, and runs
as fast as she can away to escape the police, and eventually take the trip back to Hawkins
to save her friends. Back at the lab, the Demogorgon Dog tries
to break the glass, Dr Owens assuring it can’t. So more Demogorgon Dogs are called and all
try to break the glass. Dr Owens alerts the lab as the Demogorgon
Dogs break through. Hopper and Dr Owens climb the stairs as other
scientists use the elevator. The elevator opens above and they’ve killed
all the scientists. After Will stutters to forget his own mother,
she puts Will to sleep. Hopper and Dr Owens enter and see them all,
they head to the Security / Surveillance Room and witness as the Demogorgon Dogs have fully
invaded the Lab. Eventually all the power turns off, and the
Lab is sent into darkness. Max’s parents arrive home and see Max isn’t
there, so they walk in and ask Billy (who’s in a good mood, seemingly getting ready for
a date) where she is. He says he doesn’t know and gets briefly
abused by his father. He realizes he’s gonna have to skip his
date and look for his sister. His sister and the boys walk down the tracks
and Lucas realizes Dustin hid Dart the whole time. As they all argue Steve hears a screel from
the woods and goes to investigate, and they all see that the Lab is completely shut off
in power, which it never, ever is. Back inside the lab, Dr Owens is planning
how to find an exit, and they learn they need to restart the power. Hopper goes to do it but Bob stops him, realizing
no one else can go restart it and unlock the doors besides him as he’s the only one who
can use computer code. Bob tells Hopper alone to not wait for him,
as soon as he gets the doors open, for Hopper to get them all out. Jonathan and Nancy arrive at the lab, realizing
the power is out as they hear something in the woods. It’s the rest of the crew, Steve, Dustin,
Lucas and Max. They talk briefly until they hear the monsters
from within the lab and realize something terrible is happening inside. Bob goes all the way down and turns the power
back, the gang outside see the lights turn on and try to open the entrance gate. Bob opens all the doors, including the front
gate, but as a Demogorgon Dog comes downstairs, Bob activates water to spray on the floor
above to give him an escape. Dr Owens stay as the others all go to escape
the lab, but as Bob goes upstairs himself Dr Owens tells him to stop, as the Demogorgon
Dogs are coming down the hall, so Bob heads into a supply closet until it passes. As he’s given the all clear and leaves,
a broomstick falls and makes a noise, alerting the Demogorgon Dog, causing him to run and
sprint out of there. He opens the main doors and shuts them behind
him. Joyce sees him and is glad he escaped, but
as they share a glance, one jumps through the door and kills Bob grosumely. Hopper walks in and shoots it off, but as
he does a lot more enter and start to chase, so Hopper grabs Joyce and pulls her out as
they rip Bob apart. The Demogorgon Dogs try to break the entrance
door and Johnathan pulls up, so they get in and all escape. The rest of the kids and Steve get into Hopper’s
Van and they all drive straight to the Byers as the monsters all feast on Bob. Hopper tries to contact military backup, and
with little to no hope Hopper goes to comfort Joyce. They all talk about what’s going on and
discuss their options against the Demodogs (Dustin’s name). Mike figures out that they’re all connected
and have a hive mind. They gather everyone else and talk about the
Mind Flayer, which is the best analogy to what’s going on. That it’s all leading to a war, the Mind
Flayer trying to invade their world and take over, but if they can kill the Mind Flayer,
they can kill its army, and Joyce agrees they have to do it. But they don’t know how, until Mike realizes
that the only one who knows how to kill this thing is Will, and Mike tells them he can’t
spy if he doesn’t know where he is. They all set up and camouflage the shed together,
making it impossible for Will to know where he is. They grab Will and tie him to a chair and
just in case Joyce prepares to put him to sleep again. When they’re all ready, Hopper wakes Will. Will doesn’t know where he is and screams
for them to let him out, the Mind Flayer is talking through Will. Eventually Will calms and Joyce talks to Will
about his birthday and happy memories from his past. Jonathan talks to Will about the day Lonnie
left, that they built Castle Byers to replicate his drawings of it, that they stayed out during
the rain to finish building it even after they got sick. Mike talks to Will about their friendship,
the first day they met, and how they were both each other’s first friend. They’re starting to get through to Will,
and ask him to talk to them instead of the Mind Flayer. But Will freezes back up and tells them to
let him go. But Hopper realizes Will is tapping on his
chair and recognizes the morse code, so they all re-enter the house and realize Will is
telling them he’s still there, talking to them in a form of communication the Mind Flayer
wouldn’t realize is communication. Jonathan grabs “Should I Stay or Should
I Go” and plays it as they share more stories with Will from his past as Will keeps communicating. It makes the message “Close Gate”, but
as soon as they figure it out, the phone inside rings. Will closes his eyes and the Mind Flayer sends
the Demodogs to his house. They put Will to sleep and walk outside the
shed. They hear the Demodogs outside and inside. The entire crew gather and prepare themselves
with any weapons they have and set up preparing for battle against the beasts. They all listen to the noises outside and
follow it with their weapons until a Demodog bursts through the window dead. Hopper checks and confirms its dead as the
door unlocks itself. They all face a gun towards it as the door
opens wide and shoes walk in the house. Eleven returned to everyone. Mike sees Eleven for the first time in almost
a year and can’t believe his eyes. They hug and Eleven tells Mike she heard every
call, and Hopper confirms he was hiding Eleven the entire time. He grabs Mike to talk alone and they argue
briefly until he gives up, crying in Hopper’s arms. Eleven hugs Dustin and Lucas and they talk
briefly, Max tries to introduce herself but due to earlier Eleven ignores her and goes
straight to Joyce. She goes and talks to Will, and then sees
the message about closing the gate, Eleven telling Joyce she can close the gate, the
gate which the Mind Flayer is preparing to enter through, and the gate the Demodogs are
guarding. Billy during this time visited the Sinclair’s,
who told him to visit the Wheeler’s, Karen answering the door and talking to him about
Max. They playfully flirt as Billy gets the Byers
location and prepares to head there. Eleven confirms she can do it no matter how
big it is and if there’s Demodogs there or not, and Mike tells them that if the brain
dies, all of the army dies, including Will. They realize they need to make the host uninhabitable
and get whatever it is in him, out. They need to take him far away, which they
plan to take Will to Hopper’s cabin. Steve tells Nancy to go with them, so she
joins the Byers. Mike and Eleven talk to each other, promising
they won’t lose each other again. The two cars leave as Mike, Dustin, Lucas,
Max and Steve stay behind. Eleven tells Hopper she went to go and see
her mum, and they both talk about what they should’ve and shouldn’t have done, Hopper
tells Eleven about Sarah and that she’s gone, and that’s why he tries to protect
her as much as he can, and they reconcile as they head directly to the Lab. Back at the house, Dustin and Steve put a
Demodog in the fridge. They all think of a plan, to get the Demodogs
attention to make a clear entry to the gate. They plan to set “the hub” aka the graveyard
on fire but Steve doesn’t agree to this plan, it’ll kill them all, but out of nowhere
Billy arrives. He sees Steve outside, and Billy confronts
him. Billy tells Steve he can outright see Max
and her friends in the house, punching Steve and walking inside. He confronts Lucas and pushes him to the wall,
telling him to stay away from Max, but Lucas kicks him in the balls. Billy says Lucas is gonna die, but Steve grabs
him and punches Billy, knocking him down. After a small conversation, Billy and Steve
begin to fight and throw each other around the house. Steve eventually ends up on the floor, being
beaten up by Billy. Max grabs one of the syringes and before Billy
can keep hitting him, stabs him with it, he takes it out of himself and falls to the ground. Max confronts him, telling him to leave her
and her friends alone while holding Steve’s bat, he laughs it off and she hits right below
him. Joyce, Jonathan, Nancy and the sleeping Will
arrive at the cabin and set up a bunch of heaters to aim at Will. They turn all of them on and they start to
burn Will. Hopper and Eleven arrive at the Lab, Eleven
being afraid to return at first. After all this was the place she spent most
of her childhood being experimented on. Hopper tells her not to do anything until
they’re below to say her strength, so they go and enter the lab. Steve wakes up slowly, seeing Mike and then
Dustin, and then seeing Lucas and Max driving. He starts to freak out knowing what’s happening
and Max speeds up, they roughly turn the corner as they approach the pumpkin patch. Will wakes up and starts to hurt, Joyce turns
the heaters up higher to speed up the process. Will starts to hurt more and more while the
pumpkin patch is invaded by the boys and Max. They grab gas, cover their mouths and eyes
and with a rope go down into the tunnels with Steve taking charge. Hopper and Eleven meanwhile are walking through
the Lab and discover Dr Owens bleeding on the stairwell. He helps him and Dr Owens finally sees Eleven,
and the two meet. Hopper tells Dr Owens that after this is all
done, he should help Eleven live a normal life as they continue into the Lab. Underground in the sewers, Dustin gets sprayed
by the spores and over exaggerates as he’s perfectly fine because his mouth was covered. They all find the hub and begin to fill it
with gasoline while Will is still screaming his head off, Jonathan and Joyce argue about
turning it off until they see the Mind Flayer taking full control of Will as he begins to
break out, grabbing Joyce by her throat. Back in the lab they’re almost at the Gate
as they hear Demodogs in the room right next to it. But Steve and the gang prepare to light the
hub up as Nancy uses a burning poll to stab Will so he lets Joyce go as Hopper goes into
the room to start shooting, but the gang burn the hub completely and they run to escape
the tunnels as the Demodogs escape the lab and the Mind Flayer escapes Will. Will wakes up alive and they hug him. Johnathan contacts Hopper, telling him to
close the gate. The others are escaping the tunnels as Mike
trips and his leg gets tangled up. Eleven is now halfway down the elevator to
the gate, facing the Mind Flayer dead on, it’s almost in their world, ready to take
over. The others help Mike and they are all confronted
by Dart, they know it’s Dart due to the yellow spots on him. Dustin goes to Dart and feeds it as it lets
them all pass. Eleven continues closing the gate, thinking
about Kali’s advice as the others are trying to escape the tunnels, all the Demodogs are
heading towards them, so they all climb out one by one, first Max, then Lucas, then Mike,
but before Dustin goes the Demodogs turn the corner and run right to them ready to kill. Mike and Lucas look in confusion as the Demodogs
run right past them, they realize Eleven is closing the gate. The Demodogs are now attacking Hopper and
Eleven as he shoots as many of them as he can as they keep coming. The Mind Flayer pushes through the Gate, sending
one of its arms into the real world, aiming at Eleven to kill her. But Eleven remembers everything that’s happened
to her, and uses both of her hands and raises in the air as she screams, stopping the Mind
Flayer’s advance. The Mind Flayer growls at her as the gate
shuts. The Demodogs fall down and all die instantly,
Hopper holds Eleven as they calm down on the elevator next to the now-closed gate. One month later, Hawkins lab shuts down completely
as Murray sits outside waving them off. Barb’s public, being exposed to a liquid
from the lab. Residents of Hawkins no longer think they
live in a safe town. Hopper reunites with Dr Owens and he gives
Hopper an envelope, giving Hopper a fake birth certificate. Hopper asks if she can go out for one night,
to go out to the Snowball. Joyce and Will practice dancing as Johnathan
records. Lucas practices asking Max to the dance as
Max and Billy share a glance, Billy leaving her alone. Dustin uses the spray Steve told him to and
he drives Dustin to the Snowball and he gives him some final advice before sending him off. They shake hands as Dustin enters, seeing
Mr Clark as Steve sees Nancy and drives off. Nancy serving drinks and Johnathan taking
photos. Dustin reunites with the others and they all
talk about his hair. “Time After Time” starts playing and Lucas
invites Max to dance, Will gets asked by a random girl to start dancing and Mike hits
him, hinting for him to go and dance, so he accepts. Dustin knows Max is no longer an option and
goes to ask Stacy, being rejected, he then goes to ask another girl until not even getting
a chance to be rejected as she walks away. Nancy sees Dustin alone as he heads to the
gymnasium seats and cries. Nancy walks over to him and asks him to dance. They all look at him and Nancy as she teaches
him to dance. Outside Joyce sits along her car thinking
about Bob. Hopper offers and gives Joyce a cigarette
and they talk about it, Hopper comforting Joyce. Inside Mike waits and sees Eleven enter as
they go to dance. Nancy and Dustin are having a good time, Will’s
having a good time, Lucas is having a good time with Max as she kisses him, absolutely
shocking him, and Mike and Eleven finally kiss after so long apart. They’re all finally happy and moving on,
but things aren’t over for any of them as the Mind Flayer lurks in the Upside Down,
pissed off, angrier than ever. In Between the Snowball and Summer Break,
The Soviet Union had finally perfected the Key. After buying properties and land in East Hawkins,
the USSR creates a secret Russian facility underneath the Starcourt Mall which keeps
it hidden. Mayor of Hawkins Larry Kline is aware of the
Russian infiltration. Steve and new girl Robin Buckley work at Scoop’s
Ahoy (an ice cream shop) and Nancy and Johnathan work at the Hawkins Post, and Billy works
at Hawkins Community Pool. June 28, 1985 rolls around and Hopper goes
full dad mode on Eleven and Mike, and after Mike leaves he heads to Starcourt Mall to
go and hang out with Will, Lucas and Max. They rush and head into Scoop’s Ahoy in
order to get Steve to let them through the back so they can sneak into the movies for
free. They sneak into a showing of Day of the Dead,
and while watching, the power randomly goes out, not just at the movies but all around
the mall, as a gate is being opened right underneath them, and in Brimborn Steel Works,
the remaining piece of the Mind Flayer that was trapped in Will and then trapped in our
world, reawakens. When the power returns, Will feels something
he hasn’t in a long time, a dark feeling, an evil presence, something he so desperately
tried to move on from. Dustin returns home from his trip at Camp
Know Where, and he wonders why his friends aren’t picking up, thinking they’ve forgotten
about him. While sitting on his bed, Dustin gets scared
as toys begin moving on their own, all heading in one direction. He follows them to the hallway. But the toys aren’t just moving on their
own, the gang are all there, they all remembered. Eleven stops using her powers on the toys,
and as Dustin confusingly looks at them all, the crew creep behind them and welcome him
home. Dustin shows them all his machines and stuff
they made at Camp Know Where, including Cerebro, a device that can reach all the way from North
Pole to South. But while talking about it Dustin spills that
he has a girlfriend named Suize who comes from Utah, so they all head out to set up
Cerebro to introduce the crew to Suzie. They travel up a large hill, and Eleven and
Mike leave to go home for a curfew, obviously lying. But as they continue forwards, Will feels
that dark feeling again as he gets those major goosebumps, as at Brimborn a large amount
of mice all head down into the basement and begin blowing up and exploding out of nowhere. The gang eventually reach the top and begin
assembling Cerebro. When they finish Dustin tries to contact Suzie,
but she doesn’t respond straight away, maybe just busy eating dinner, so they all begin
waiting with Dustin. While cleaning, Nancy picks up the phone as
Mrs Doris Driscoll calls the Hawkins Post about deceased rats. Hopper tries to take Joyce’s advice and
talk properly to Mike and Eleven, and it was all going well until Mike and Eleven start
messing around. So he makes up the excuse that Mike’s grandma
is in danger and takes him in his car as he tells Mike strict rules about continuing in
their relationship as they ride back to his house. Back with Cerebro, Suzie is still not responding,
so Max and Lucas (and then Will) leave, but when they leave Cerebro eventually activates
as Dustin accidentally picks up a Russian communication. Underneath Starcourt, the gate is continuing
to remain open as long as Alexei’s machine is working. Billy drives ready to meet up with Karen for
some “swimming lessons”, but his car gets hit with something. He gets out and discovers some form of goo
on his windshield. He hears rustling around the area and asks
who’s there until being grabbed by something and pulled down into the basement of Brimborn,
which below he got attacked by something that seemingly grabbed his face. Billy resurfaces and drives to the nearest
phone box to call for help. But while calling, he phases into the Upside
Down and sees an army walking towards him, an army whose leader is himself. The other Billy asks Billy to build the army. Hopper tells Joyce about it all and organizes
a date at Enzo’s. When he has to leave due to rioters at Town
Hall, Joyce goes and notices the magnets acting weird. At Starcourt, Dustin reunites with Steve and
they instantly bond again. Dustin tells him about Suzie, and how the
crew left him last night, but also tells him about the secret Russian communication he
intercepted as well. He just needs help translating the communication. Eleven goes to Max to talk to her about Mike
and what’s happening between them. Eleven and Max go to Starcourt to have fun
while the boys go in order to figure out how Mike can apologize to Eleven. Back at the pool, it’s almost Billy’s
shift as Karen goes to talk to him about her missing last night. She goes to him and apologizes, while doing
so Billy loses any focus on her words and he eventually attacks Karen and knocks her
out cold. But he snaps back to reality and tells Karen
to stay away from him. He is completely disoriented as he walks to
his shift, but he feels extremely hot, as if the sun is burning him alive. He realizes he has a giant sunburn and heads
into the showers. He sees something growing and goes to check
it out, but as he touches it he has a vision of the Mind Flayer and hears otherworldly
sounds. Heather comes in and asks Billy to take her
to “him” and Billy snaps into reality and realizes she never said that, but he decides
to give in and kidnap Heather. While at the Mall, Steve and Dustin try to
translate. Robin intervenes to swap turns with Steve
so she can cure her ice cream slinging boredom. Nancy and Johnathan go to visit Mrs. Driscoll. They go down into her basement where they
discover fertilizer being torn apart by what seems like rats teeth. How does she know it's a rat? Well to their surprise, it turns out she caught
one of them. Jonathan takes photos of the rat as it crazily
shakes and runs around its cage, but as Johnathan goes to recharge, it stops and starts shaking
violently as if something is hurting it, but Nancy grabs Johnathan and they leave, as the
rat eventually explodes within the cage and its remains transform into a running object. At the Mall, Eleven and Max go shopping and
have fun while Mike, Lucas and Will try to locate some type of gift that’ll help Mike
when he apologizes. After a while Dustin and Robin get their first
sentence “The week is long”. The girls leave Starcourt and they find the
boys outside. Knowing Mike was lying to her, as the bus
arrives she breaks up with him. Joyce decided to travel all the way to Scott
Clark’s house and talk to him about the magnets not working properly. They talk about how a large machine that creates
its own electromagnetic field would need to be created in order to affect objects such
as magnets, but it would cost way too much. But completely out of Joyce’s mind, she
missed the date with Hopper. “The week is long. The silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow
in the west. A trip to China sounds nice if you tread lightly.”,
a message fully decoded now by Dustin, Steve and Robin. They talk about what it could mean while Steve
realizes that the code didn’t come from Russia, but it came from there, right there
in Starcourt. Billy travels back to Brimborn and takes Heather
out of his trunk. He walks through the building, going down
into the basement and setting her down, giving her to the growling beast. She screams as Billy watches. His sister and Eleven have a sleepover, they
talk and Eleven travels into the Void to see what the boys are doing and talking about. Hopper arrives home, and thinking Mike is
in her room is extremely mad but then extremely surprised to see Max. His night gets turned around. Eleven and Max play a game to decide who to
spy on in the Void. The bottle lands on Billy and so Eleven visits
the Void. She sees his car running and heads towards
it, hearing Billy talking to Heather who’s screaming. Within the Void, Billy turns around somehow
sensing Eleven watching him. The next morning Will awakes Mike and Lucas,
trying to get them to finally play Dungeons and Dragons with him like the old times. Joyce travels to Hopper’s, talking to him
about the magnets, admitting she missed their date to go and talk to Mr Clark about them,
they argue a bit until she asks Hopper what if it's them, the scientists from the Lab. She asks him to take her to the Lab and go
investigate to prove to her that it’s NOT them. So they both go and travel to the Lab. Eleven and Max go and talk to Bill at her
house. They enter his room and he’s not there. But they discover his bath is full of ice,
as if he was trying to get himself cold. They then see a bucket filled with items of
Heather’s. They go to the pool and ask where Heather
is, finding out she didn’t show up to work that day. They see a picture of Heather and Eleven attempts
to use the Void to find her. Within the Void she sees Max’s postbox,
then a door, which upon opening she sees the bathtub filled with ice. Suddenly Heather jumps out, asking for her
help, until she’s dragged back into the bath and falls into the Void as Eleven tries
to grab her. Back at the Mall, Steve and Dustin are spying
around the mall looking for evil Russians. They eventually find someone who has a duffel
bag, thinking he’s the evil Russian. They follow him all around the mall until
he goes into the Jazzercise to teach dance, and Steve and Dustin realize they’re terribly,
terribly wrong. Robin gets a delivery and reads the name Lynx,
thinking Lynx is the Silver Cat. So she looks around the mall, seeing a Chinese
place, a shoe store, and the blue and yellow handles of the clock, and everything within
the Russian code is suddenly connecting. Mike, Lucas and Will play DND until they get
a phone call and think it's Eleven, after they start talking about girls again, Will
asks them to keep playing, but Mike and Lucas joke about the campaign. Will gets rightly pissed off and leaves to
go home. They argue outside and Mike tells Will that
they’re not kids anymore, that things change, and Will rides away in the rain. Hopper and Joyce break into the lab and look
around. They go to where the gate was and see there’s
nothing there, that the holes have been filled, that it’s all over. They talk about their PTSD from the events
throughout the past couple years. They also talk about how Joyce is planning
to move, but he just wants her to feel safe here in Hawkins. But while talking, they hear noises from within
the Lab. Hopper goes investigating and gets jumped
by Grigori and they fight, and he knocks Hopper out as Joyce sees Grigori riding away on a
motorbike. Back at the Byers, Mike and Lucas arrive to
apologize, but Will is outside in Castle Byers. He feels like garbage, remembering events
that didn’t involve the Upside Down whatsoever, everything that was normal, all the good times
they had as kids. He cries as he rips the pictures apart and
destroys Castle Byers in rage. He tears it down one hit at a time. Nancy proposes her newspaper idea to the Post,
but they instantly shut it down. After being made fun of, Jonathan tags along
as they decide to go to Mrs. Driscoll’s again. After no response, they go inside the house,
already creating the excuse that “she might have fallen”. They don’t find her anywhere and head down
into the basement, seeing her eating the fertilizer. Dustin, Steven and Robin sit on top of the
Mall, looking at the Mall guards getting items imported. Eleven and Max arrive at Heather’s, where
her father Tom and mother Janet Holloway are eating dinner with Billy. But after talking with Billy, they see Heather,
so they eventually leave, and while watching them go, Billy remembers El from somewhere,
and has visions of her being the one who closed the gate, which seemingly activates him as
Will has goosebumps and senses the evil. While back inside the Holloways, Billy and
Heather knock out and kidnap Heather’s parents. They take them to Brimborn, which passing
is an ambulance carrying Mrs. Driscoll who wants to go into Brimborn, but is being taken
to the hospital after Nancy and Johnathan called. But back inside, Tom and Janet see what seems
to be a fleshy physical version of the Mind Flayer’s figure, which grabs their faces,
injecting something into them. Hopper wakes up in his cabin and throws up
the next morning. Joyce and him talk about what happened and
Joyce tells Hopper that it wasn't a car he was driving. Eleven and Max awake as Lucas and Mike keep
ringing, trying to get their attention and for them to come to Mike’s house. They try to contact Dustin who is watching
over the imports at the Mall, and they know the guards who have guns don’t want anyone
seeing what’s in those boxes, after Steve talks to them about possibly fighting the
guard himself, Robin goes to buy something that’ll help. Tom is angry at Nancy and Johnathan. Telling them facts, the facts that they disobeyed
a direct order to drop the case, they falsely identified themselves as reporters, they broke
into her house, she almost died on the way to the hospital, and he also reveals that
she’s a paranoid schizophrenic, but also tells them both they’re fired. Will tells everyone about his feelings, his
senses of evil, the same sense he felt when the Mind Flayer was close. Eleven tells Will that she closed the gate,
but Will says they might’ve locked the part of the Mind Flayer that was in Will inside
of their world, with them, and that the Mind Flayer would want to attach himself to a new
host. Hopper and Joyce arrive at the Town Hall. Hopper goes to talk to Mayor Kline about the
motorcycle guy and knows that he’s lying to him. So Hopper threatens Kline to reveal more information,
punching him and almost taking his finger off. Kline tells him that Grigori works with the
people who own Starcourt, that they own the mall, they want to expand East Hawkins and
want more land, so Hopper takes him from his office as they head to find the records of
those land purchases. They find the documents and Kline warns them
about what they’re getting into, and Joyce puts together that maybe the machine might
be a real thing, just not in the Lab, but in one of the sold locations. Robin arrives back with the blueprints for
Starcourt Mall. They talk about the air ducts, that they can
travel straight from Scoop’s Ahoy to where they’re trying to get into. They open the ducts and try to fit Dustin
in, which is just not working. Robin recruits Erica to try and get her to
go through the ducts as she’ll fit. They organize a plan with her that she gets
free food for life if she does it for them. Mike, Eleven, Will, Lucas and Max go to the
pool and see Billy in full clothes. Will tells them all that the Mind Flayer will
only use Billy if it needs him, not just every second every day. They remember that anything Upside Down related
doesn’t like heat, so they plan to do a Sauna Test. Back in the Mall, Erica travels the vents
as Hopper and Joyce enter one of the many locations but find nothing. Erica breaks in and gets to the room, opening
the main doors successfully. They all head inside and open one of the boxes,
and prepare to find out what’s truly inside. Steve turns and pulls something out, a green
liquid. While they study what it might be, the room
shakes. Then shakes more and more, until they’re
unable to even open the door. But then, they fall. They keep falling and can’t get out until
they eventually stop. They’re stuck in the Russian Elevator, even
after climbing out, as they’re way too far down. Back at the pool, the test commences. They lock the door on him, turning the lights
off, taunting him and directing him all the way to the Sauna. Eleven knocks Billy to the wall and they lock
him in there, turning the heat up and beginning the real test. Nancy arrives at the hospital to visit Mrs.
Driscoll, and inside notices weird behavior as her heart rate increases, way too fast. Back in the Sauna, Billy keeps yelling and
yelling for them to let him out until he falls. He starts crying, telling them that it’s
not his fault, that he’s done bad things, and that “he” made him do it, that a giant
shadow made him do it. He keeps crying to Max when he grabs a piece
of the floor. But Will senses it, Billy is activated. Billy smashes the window and tries to get
out until Lucas shoots him down, and the lights begin flickering. The Mind Flayer prepares to leave Billy’s
body, becoming inhabitable as it did with Will, as in the hospital Mrs. Driscoll is
screaming, the Hive Mind is activated. Billy knocks the door open and faces Eleven. Eleven and Billy fight, Eleven trying to knock
Billy away. But Billy pushes back, dragging her around
and grabbing her throat. But Mike hits Billy down and tries to hit
him again until Billy grabs the pole, throwing it away then confronting Mike, but Eleven
picks him up into the air and they both scream at each other as she throws him outside the
building and he runs away. Billy talks to Heather about Eleven, that
she knows about the Mind Flayer. But their army, their army grows larger and
larger as the beast continues to feed and grow in size. Hopper and Joyce arrive at the next property,
Hess’ Farmhouse. They go investigating and find Alexei and
another scientist in the hidden basement. But Grigori is on his way and arrives at the
Farmhouse, walking above them all and heading down into the basement. Hopper aims a gun at Grigori’s head and
prepares to shoot, but Grigori calls his bluff, and Hopper does shoot but misses as Grigori
knocks him down and fights Hopper. They fight and Joyce tries her best to help
but fails. They grab Alexei and bring him with them as
they leave the basement as they cover it back up and Grigori shoots at them, and they head
away from the Farmhouse, now with Alexei as a hostage. Their car breaks down and after trying to
fix it, the car sparks a fuse, and then blows up, causing them to have to walk through the
forest while Grigori searches for them. Alexei runs away from them and leads them
to a 7 Eleven. Inside, they grab drinks and supplies. Hopper goes outside and takes a random citizen's
car, saying it’s a police emergency. They take his car to transport the criminal,
and drive away. Eleven tracks Hopper in the Void and they
know he’s heading to Illinois with Joyce while Nancy calls Johnathan and asks him to
get Will on the phone, which worries both Nancy and Johnathan. The crew are talking about how to stop the
Mind Flayer, and Mike and Lucas get distracted, talking about the girls. But Nancy and Johnathan arrive at Mike’s
basement. Nancy shows them the temperature of Mrs Driscoll
being cold and they talk about the Hive Mind and how they were both activated. They talk about Heather, which makes Johnathan
and Nancy remember Tom’s weird behavior, so they all get in the car and go. After staying overnight, workers eventually
arrive at the elevator, taking the supplies. At first they’re suspicious because they
smell Steve’s piss, but they shrug it off, pack and leave. As the door shuts, Steve jumps down and uses
one of the jars to stop the door from shutting completely as they all get through. They see a super long hallway and begin walking. They realize they may be making a machine
down there underneath the mall, and when Robin asks why do it in Hawkins, Steve and Dustin
wonder if the Russians know about the Upside Down. They arrive at a hub of sorts, where Erica
sees a store from inside the Mall, it all seemingly leads down here. They all sneak across the hub and enter a
random area. But there’s a Russian guy in there, Robin
tries to convince him not to shoot, but Steve runs to him and fights him, and surprisingly
beats him. They grab his key card but up a flight of
stairs, they all see through windows the Gate being powered and staying opened by the machine. It seems they’re making it bigger and bigger,
and Steve and Dustin know exactly what they’re looking at; the Gate. They head back but the Russian guard Steve
beat is no longer there, he went and got help. They all run as Security chases them, and
they head towards the Gate. They run downstairs, beating guards over and
run away. Steve and Robin make sure Dustin and Erica
can escape as they hold the door, eventually being surrounded. At the Holloway’s, Eleven forces the door
open as they all look for clues about what’s happened. It seems as though all the Flayed are eating
chemicals, and maybe they’re making something. They follow the clues and realize that Billy
and Heather must’ve taken them somewhere. Mrs Driscoll wanted to go to some place, and
they all agree they should just take her there and find out the source, where it’s all
coming from and where all the Flayed are taken. They all go to the hospital and Johnathan
and Nancy go to see Mrs Driscoll. But inside they see no one there, she’s
gone. Then, Tom arrives and Johnathan hits him with
a flower pot, but outside in the hall Bruce appears. The Hive Mind is activated. They run down the hallway and go inside of
a room, locking it, trying to call the front desk. Bruce smashes the glass window and unlocks
the door, Jonathan gets strangled by him and Nancy gets flicked away. Bruce grabs a chair and hits Johnatha’s
back. But Nancy grabs a pair of scissors and stabs
him in the back. Nancy runs out the room with Bruce following
as Jonathan tries to get himself back up but Tom knocks him back down. Tom knocks Johnathan around and Nancy hides. Johnathan tries to grab a pair of scissors
but Tom hits him down and grabs the scissors himself, about to stab Johnatahn, but Nancy
hits Bruce with a fire extinguisher, so due to the Hive Mind, Tom drops the scissors in
pain. Johnathan picks them back up and stabs Tom
as Nancy hits Bruce again and again. Downstairs the rest of the crew see the lights
flickering as Tom and Bruce melt into complete flesh and head to each other. They combine and mix to form one big monster. The monster growls at them and heads towards
Nancy as she runs through the halls. Nancy locks herself in a room but the monster
itself deforms and flows through the door, and reforms inside the room. Jonathan can’t get in to help as the kids
climb up the stairs to reach them. The monster takes shape and hits Nancy across
the room. The monster goes to Nancy and screels right
in her face but Eleven knocks the door open and pushes the monster around the room, right,
left, up, down and then all the way out the window. They all run outside and see the monster deform
and head into the sewers, making its way to the larger fleshy monster, the physical form
of the Mind Flayer. Hopper, Joyce and Alexei arrive at Murray’s
and they learn that Murray knows Russian. Joyce goes and yells at Murray, which honestly
scares him. Mayor Kline is setting up the 4th of July
celebrations at Hawkins Fairgrounds. But Grigori arrives and talks to Kline. The Russians want Kline to find Hopper, and
Kline tells him to bring some backup next time. Back at Murray's, Hopper arrives and gives
Alexei food and drinks. They ask Alexei questions, and he annoys Hopper
to the point Hopper throws him out and gives him the keys to the car, telling him he can
go get the slurpee himself. Hopper thinks he won’t drive away, but Alexei
unlocks himself and gets in the car, ready to leave. He begins driving away, but when they go outside,
they realize Alexei didn’t leave, and decides to return to them. Back under the mall, Dustin tells Erica about
everything that’s happened. They try to stop one of the fans so they can
crawl through and away, and Dustin realizes Erica is a nerd. But with Steve, they interrogate him and keep
hitting him until he answers their questions, and they hit him one more time until he’s
knocked out, and they drag him into a different room with Robin, and they put both of them
in chairs and leave them there. Back in the Void, Eleven searches for any
of the Flayed but can’t find them for some reason. They all talk about what’s going on and
Mike slips that he loves El, but she eventually finds Billy. Back at Murray’s, they learn that they’ve
tried making Gates in Russia but it hasn't worked, Alexei tells them that they’re opening
a doorway between worlds, and Hopper and Joyce both realize exactly what’s happening. Alexei tells them that location matters, the
Russians somehow knew the doorway was opened here once so they knew it could work here. Alexei tells them that they can’t actually
get there as it’s a fortress guarded by Russians. It’s impossible. Impossible turned possible as Dustin and Erica
leave the vents and find a vehicle. They find a cage that Erica wonders if they
might be trapping a Demogorgon in. She finds a dangerous weapon and they decide
to drive. Robin tries screaming for help and Steve wakes
up. They plan to go and grab scissors so they
can break out but they fail, and on the floor they bond. Until the Russians walk in, pick their chairs
up and drug them. After more time in the Void, Eleven finds
Billy again, just sitting in his room, but on the 4th of July? No way, the Mind Flayer obviously wants them
to find Billy so he can find out where they all are. But Eleven remembers how she went through
Terry’s past, and decides to try and do the same with Billy’s past. Billy grabs her and she falls back in the
Void. She successfully enters his mind, seeing Billy’s
mother watching Billy surf the waves. But Eleven sees the clouds of the Upside Down
inside Billy’s mind and heads towards it. She sees Billy’s father yelling at him,
and Billy running away. She then sees Billy’s mother and father
argue, Billy trying to get in the way and stop his dad from hurting her, but his dad
pushes him out the way and abuses her. After that happened, his mother left and Billy
started becoming abusive, being influenced by his father. She sees Billy meet Max for the first time,
and eventually sees the source, seeing Brimborn. They tell Eleven to get out of the Void now
they know where the source is, but Eleven comes back to an empty cabin. Everyone is gone, no one is there. She screams for Mike but Billy enters the
empty cabin. Outside of the Void, back at Hawkins, all
of the Flayed stop celebrating 4th of July and head to Brimborn. Billy tells Eleven they’ve been building
an army, a monster, for Eleven, and just for her. He tells her it’s time and he’ll kill
her, her friends, and then everyone. Eleven knocks Billy out of her head as she
reawakens in the Cabin back in reality. Back in Brimborn all of the Flayed, and I
mean ALL of the Flayed are melting, joining and combining with the Mind Flayer as it grows
larger and larger, breaking out of Brimborn and ready to begin its hunt. At Murray’s, Hopper gets someone to tell
Dr Owens that they’re opening a gate, that there’s an entrance at Starcourt Mall and
Hopper knows how to get there, but they need to bring lots of backup. He hangs up but then Joyce calls back and
yells at the guy on the other side to tell Dr Owens to bring his men to Hawkins right
now. After the call they all go and travel back
to Hawkins. Steve and Robin shout at the Russians that
they must’ve messed up the drugs because they just feel good, as if they’re on normal
drugs. The Russians enter and ask them who they work
for, Steve once again tells them they work for Scoop’s Ahoy and they got there by accident. They start to cut Steve’s finger, but Robin
tells them they just heard a code that the Russian’s accidentally broadcasted their
message around town. They tell them that Dustin probably called
Hopper who called the military, and the Russians ask Steve if that’s so, and Steve says yeah
it is, and right on cue alarms start going off. The main boss runs to see the hole in the
ground that goes who knows how far down. Dustin runs in and shocks the doctor. Freeing them both, and they drive away to
the elevator. Dustin uses the keycard to activate the elevator
and they head up to the Mall. They head outside but the Russians are heading
straight for them, so they all run back inside the mall and sneak into a showing of Back
to the Future so the Russians don’t find them. Erica watches over Steve and Robin as Dustin
goes to try and get in communication with anyone. The gang can hear the fireworks from Mayor
Kline’s Fun fair at Hopper’s Cabin. Eleven tells them all what happened in the
vision, what Billy told her about. But Nancy hears something among the fireworks. They all head outside and see the giant Mind
Flayer in the distance heading towards them. The whole gang grab supplies and weapons,
and begin boarding up Hopper’s Cabin, shutting all the doors for no surprises. All getting away from the windows and joining
together. They hear it get closer and closer until it
breaks through and attacks Eleven, but Johnathan hits it with an axe so it knocks him out the
way. It goes to kill Johnathan but Nancy shoots
it twice until she runs out of bullets, so it goes to kll Nancy until Eleven grabs it
with her powers and rips it apart. It retreats but then comes back, not just
one, but two this time. Eleven holds them both and then snaps them
both apart, but no rest as the Mind Flayer breaks through and grabs Eleven’s leg. They all try to save Eleven as Nancy shoots
it and Lucas keeps chopping it apart with his axe. They all save Eleven but there’s a part
of it on her leg, Mike rips it off and Eleven screams. The monster stares at them all and Eleven
gets up and rips its face to shreds. They all run out of the cabin while the Mind
Flayer is distracted and they get in the car and drive away. Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Alexei all head
to Hawkins while Alexei gives them information on how to properly close the gate while the
crew arrive at a gas station and start getting supplies as Eleven is wounded, wounded really
badly. Lucas and Will find the best fireworks in
town as Mike and Eleven talk but then hear Dustin on the Walkie Talkie. But Mike can’t hear them properly as Dustin’s
batteries die. Dustin heads back asking for batteries, but
notices the drugged Steve and Robin are completely gone, as they’re both drinking from the
water fountain outside. They stare at the ceiling but get extremely
sick and rush to the bathroom as they throw up. While at the fair Hopper and Joyce are trying
to find their kids, but Kline sees them both and goes to call Grigori. Eleven uses the Void and she finds Dustin
at the movies. They all head out to go to the Mall with Lucas’s
fireworks, but back in the store Eleven’s blood on the floor starts coming alive. Back in the Mall Steve and Robin talk and
before Steve asks Robin to date him, Robin comes out to him about being a lesbian before
Dustin and Erica find them in the bathroom. Back at the station Billy arrives and finds
the blood from Eleven, he’s right on their tail. Murray and Alexei talk about closing the gate
and Murray takes him to the Fair as Joyce and Hopper see the Wheelers and learn they
don’t know where the kids are either. Dustin, Steve, Robin and Erica join the crowd
after the movie finishes so they can blend in and exit the Mall. It works but they see Russians at the door
checking security. So they all run the other way, heading down
the stairs. Alexei is having fun at the fair and wins
the big prize. He walks to show Murray the prize but is stopped
by Grigori as he finds and then shoots Alexei. Murray helps Alexei and goes to find Hopper
and Joyce to warn them about the Russians being there with them, and that they got Alexei
and Hopper sees the Russians and they run away. Russians are absolutely everywhere, so Hopper
sends Joyce to go find Murray, get the car and meet him around back. Hopper goes into a giant funhouse and begins
fighting. Joyce and Murray go back to Alexei and realize
he's dead, as Hopper beats up the Russian and steals his walkie talkie and gun, and
inside the Mirror Maze Grigori searches for Hopper, and Hopper comes out of nowhere and
shoots Grigori multiple times. More Russians are coming, so Hopper leaves
the funhouse and goes down the slide, running to Joyce and Murray as they drive off away
from the Fair. But as they’re driving away, Murray translates
that the Russians have found the kids somewhere in the lower level of the Mall, so they head
straight for it. Within the Mall the Russians are looking around
and getting closer and closer, about to kill all 4 of them until a car starts going off
randomly and then hits all the Russians away. Dustin, Steve, Robin and Erica see all the
Russians on the ground and then see Eleven and the crew, and the two groups unite. They all talk to each other about some of
the stuff they’ve learnt until Eleven walks away from the group and falls to the ground. They all go to Eleven as they check her leg. There’s a lot of puss and something moving
around within it. They don’t know what to do as Eleven screams. Jonathan goes and finds a knife, then heats
it up. He gives Eleven a spoon to stop her from screaming,
and Johnathan tries to cut her leg open and then puts his hand in her leg and tries to
grab the moving piece out of her. After a lot of screaming they stop and Eleven
uses her powers and gets it out of her leg herself, flinging it far away as Hopper steps
on it, and now everyone is at the Mall and unites. They all talk about the new Mind Flayer monster,
and how it destroyed Hopper’s cabin. They all talk about the fact they need to
close the Gate again. Murray shows them the blueprints of the underground
and Dustin and Erica tell them about the Russian facility as they were just down there. Hopper tells them to navigate them but they
need to drive to Cerebro. Hopper gives them the keys and Steve drives
Dustin, Robin and Erica to Cerebro. Hopper, Joyce and Murray head into the Elevator
as Mike, Eleven, Max, Lucas, Will, Johnathan and Nancy plan to drive away to somewhere
safe, but the car doesn’t start. They wonder why the ignition cable is gone
as Billy's car rumbles. Nancy tells the kids to go into the Mall as
Billy watches. The three heading to the Gate talk about their
plan while they head down the Elevator, and as it opens they are instantly spotted by
the Russians and when Murray messes up, Hopper shoots and kills literally all of them. The Scoops Troop arrive at Cerebro as the
Mall group are all trapped as Billy disabled their car. Mike keeps trying to get in contact with the
Scoops Troop as Nancy spots one of the cars inside the Mall, and they realize they don’t
need the car to work, just the ignition cable. They all try and flip it over but can’t,
so Eleven gives it a try. Underground the Russian group convinces the
guard to let them through and find the vent. The Scoops Troop radio to them and help Murray
navigate in the vents. Above them the Mall group flip the car all
the way over as Eleven tries to break a Coca-Cola can again. She’s lost her powers entirely as she can’t
do it. While Nancy and Johnathan look for a cable,
Will gets goosebumps and Max hears something above them. Mike looks up and sees it, warning the others
about it as the Mind Flayer breaks through the glass roof and enters the Mall. Grigori arrives underground as Murray keeps
navigating the vents. The Scoops Troop all notice the Mall lights
flickering and radio to them, and instead of the crew, the Mind Flayer picks up and
screams at them. Lucas, Nancy, Jonathan and Will are hiding
together as Mike, Eleven and Max are hiding together. The Scoops Troop can’t contact them so Steve
and Robin go to the Mall to help. The Mind Flayer searches around the Mall,
looking around for any of the crew. Mike, Eleven and Max run into the Gap to try
and escape the Mall, but the Mind Flayer hears and sends out grabbers to find them as Murray
arrives in the Control Room. The Mind Flayer grabbers keep searching as
Murray turns off a bunch of switches and the Russians set the alarm off. Lucas uses his wrist rocket and shoots a balloon
that’s in the store across from Mike, Eleven and Max. The Mind Flayer gets distracted and both groups
head out the mall. Underground Hopper and Joyce arrive at the
safe that holds the two Keys they need to shut the Gate, and the passcode is Planck's
Constant but they’re wrong about what it is, but Dustin knows someone else who might
remember it. The Mall group head into the car as Billy
drives towards them full force as Nancy shoots. Billy gets closer and closer, about to hit
Nancy and the crew but Steve drives directly into him. The Mind Flayer starts heading towards them
as Steve and Robin enter the Mall group’s car. Dustin contacts Suzie, and as the Mind Flayer
is chasing after the Mall group, he tries to get Planck's Constant off of her, but she
won’t give it to them unless he makes not talking to her up to her, right now. So Dustin and Suzie duet “Never Ending Story”
and straight after, Suzie gives them the code and it works as Hopper grabs the suitcase
with the Keys. Billy gets out his burning car and sees Mike,
Eleven and Max trying to escape the mall, they see Billy and run back inside, Max shutting
the gate behind them. The Mind Flayer randomly turns around to go
and hunt Eleven as Billy catches and reopens the gate. The Russians are trying to get into the Control
Room as Hopper and Joyce successfully reach the Main Key Room. Billy gets inside and Max tries to snap him
to reality but is slapped by Billy, and Billy knocks Mike to the ground and then knocks
Eleven out. Hopper and Joyce put the keys in and prepare
to shut the Gate on 3, but out of nowhere Grigori appears and hits Hopper from the back,
and they all begin fighting. Upstairs Billy takes Eleven all the way to
the main lobby of the Mall and places her down, ready for the Mind Flayer. It enters and prepares to take Eleven, reaching
out to her until it gets hit by a firework. Lucas and the gang all fight by throwing fireworks
at the Mind Flayer. Grigori and Hopper fight all the way to the
front of the Gate’s Machine as upstairs the Mind Flayer is being hurt as they keep
throwing fireworks at it, which is hurting Billy due to the Hive Mind. Eleven tries to escape but Billy drags her
back. Back below, Joyce gets back up and sees Hopper
fighting Grigori. The Mall group are all running out of time,
running out of fireworks, and Dustin screams for them to close it NOW. Max reawakes and helps Mike back up. As the Mind Flayer keeps getting hit, Billy
keeps getting affected, and Eleven uses this opportunity to talk through to Billy, to talk
to him about his mother and one of his happiest memories in his life. Hopper pulls Grigori to the machine, hurting
him. Hopper then throws him in it, killing Grigori,
and the machine starts to go wild after that interference. The Mall group run out of fireworks and the
Mind Flayer instantly heads to take Eleven. Mike and Max see the Mind Flayer facing Eleven
and Billy as it reaches for her again, but this time Billy catches it. Billy gets hit multiple times by the Mind
Flayer. Dustin yells for Joyce to close the gate now,
right now. Hopper knows he can’t get back and turns
to Joyce. The Mind Flayer hits Billy one more time,
ripping parts of Billy straight out of him, as Hopper smiles and nods at Joyce, and she
twists both Keys at once. The machine malfunctions and blows up entirely,
closing the Gate. Thanks to this the Mind Flayer rustles around
and dies in the Mall. Joyce looks over to where Hopper was, and
he’s gone. But before it blew up, Hopper decided to jump
down below in the empty hole between the Gate and the machine, eventually reawakening. Max goes to Billy and he apologizes to her
and dies in her arms as Joyce heads further to where Hopper stood but Murray grabs her
and tells her they need to go now as Russians head inside to get them both. Hopper climbs the ladder to get back up to
where the machine was, but the Russians find him still there, and knock him out cold. Dustin and Erica turn around to see the U.S.
Military flying over and eventually arriving at Starcourt. Dr Owens leading charge towards the now burning
Mall. The army infiltrates the Russian base and
searches everywhere, and Dr Owens sees the remains of the now closed Gate. Outside the Mall, Joyce and Will reunite as
Eleven sees her, but she realizes there’s no Hopper. She knows this means Hopper is dead and can’t
believe it. Hopper however, was taken by the Russians
all the way back to Russia. He’s asked who he works for and keeps repeating
he works for no one. So they put him in the Elephant, which creates
only one breathing source, so they hold it to stop him from breathing. After struggling for ages Hopper is dragged,
knocked out. They realize he’s still alive and they send
Hopper to Kamchatka. There, they shave his head completely and
begin preparing him for the prison. Dmitri sends him to his room as one of the
Russian prison guards. Three Months after the burning at Starcourt,
Larry Kline is arrested and ousted as Mayor and the public begin to believe possible satanism
is to blame. Steve and Robin go to apply at Hawkins Family
Video, and they both get the job. The Byers however, are moving away from Hawkins
with Eleven (Joyce taking her from Hopper’s hands). Everyone helps them move and pack items, and
Jonathan and Nancy say goodbye as Eleven attempts to use her powers again, but nothing happens. Mike promises her powers will come back one
day, and that they’ll be able to see each other at Thanksgiving. But Eleven confronts Mike about the love stuff
he said ages ago, and Eleven tells him she loves him too and they kiss. Joyce finds the letter that she wrote for
him that was going to be used for Mike and Eleven. But after Eleven asks about it, Joyce realizes
he never actually got to reading it. So Eleven sits and reads through his emotional
letter as all of them say their final goodbyes to the Byers, all the kids split up from Will
and Eleven, and Nancy splits with Johnathan, as Joyce leaves the house feeling like this
is the right decision. After the Byers begin driving away, the group
rides away from the Byers home one final time. Sometime after, Max gets home and continues
to miss Billy a whole lot, as Dustin and Lucas give Erica Will’s old Dungeons and Dragons
set, and as the Byers drive out of Hawkins, for good. Throughout the months between the Byers leaving
Hawkins and March 21st 1986. In California, Joyce gets a home job, Jonathan
becomes a stoner with his new friend Argyle, and Will and Eleven go to a new school, which
unfortunately she’s getting bullied at, mostly by a girl named Angela. But she continuously writes to Mike, who always
writes back. While back at Hawkins, Mike, Dustin, Lucas
and Max join Hawkins High School. The boys join a Dungeons and Dragon Club named
“Hellfire”, run by Eddie Munson (who’s been held back quite a lot) as Dungeon Master,
and other students like Gareth, Jeff, and this guy too. While Max reluctantly sees a counselor to
deal with her brother’s death, and she's now moved due to her stepfather, Billy’s
father, leaving. On a side note, Officer Powell becomes the
new chief of police. At a prep rally at the school for their upcoming
Basketball game, Jason Carver gives a speech dedicated to the people who have died due
to strange events over the past few years. He reveals that the championship game will
be tonight, but that means he’d have to skip out on their DND campaign tonight. So Mike and Dustin confront Lucas about it,
but Lucas tells them he’s sick of being bullied and seen as a loser, and that this
is his chance to change people’s perspective, so he respectfully asks them to understand
and to hopefully move back the campaign. At the Byers, Joyce gets a weird package from
Russia. She opens it and sees nothing but a Russian
Doll. Whilst at school, Eleven presents her diorama
of Hopper and her old cabin for her project. Angela gives her grief, trying to be specific
about the project, and Eleven barely gets through it. Max goes to see the counselor, seeing Chrissy
(Jason’s girlfriend) leave terrified. She talks to Mrs. Kelly and lies about her
sleeping fine, and she doesn’t open up even after a push from Mrs. Kelly. After her meeting, Lucas invites her to the
game and talks to Max about how he’s worried she’s not okay. She tells him that she’s just changed, and
goes to the bathroom to take pills for her headaches, but she hears Chrissy throwing
up, and after checking in with her then leaving, Chrissy hears her mother, and then sees a
monsters feet below the stall, and her abusive mother bangs on the stall until she snaps
back into reality. Eddie reads a newspaper on how Dungeons and
Dragons influences children into satanism and murder. Mike and Dustin go and sit with them and ask
about moving the game. No one seems to like the idea, and Eddie tells
them that he sees them as the ones he’ll pass down the torch too when he leaves Hawkins
High, and he tells them he needs to go and find someone as a replacement, they aren’t
moving Vecna’s Curse. So Mike and Dustin go around the school, searching
for someone, and after finding no one at Hawkins High, they eventually go to get someone who
attends Hawkins Middle. Chrissy goes to an undisclosed location behind
the school in order to buy drugs from Eddie, but before he arrives she has a hallucination
of a clock in a tree as it chimes and spiders crawl out of it. She snaps out of it when Eddie meets with
her, and after they talk, he’s ready to sell it to her, until she asks for something
stronger. Eleven walks out of class as normal, but gets
confronted and bullied by Angela and her friends, who destroy her diorama. Eleven attempts to use her powers against
Angela, but she fails, and has a huge embarrassing moment, until the teacher arrives and takes
Angela away, knowing it was her who did that to Eleven. After a call with Murray, Joyce needs to check
whether there’s an explosive device in the doll, afterall she ruined Russia’s plans
with the Gate not even a year ago. So she destroys the doll with a rock and reads
a letter that was within it, reading “Hop is alive. He looks ford too date. Pleeze to make resarvazion, call number. Open twelve day P.E.T.T. No govt, pls. Kind regards, Enzo.” The championship game comes around for Lucas
as Vecna’s Curse comes around for Mike, Dustin and Erica, the newest recurrit, who
at first gets rejected by Eddie, until Erica argues and convinces him to change his mind. Both games begin, and go smoothly, until eventually
it all depends on the Sinclairs. Lucas shoots the ball in the final seconds
of the game, as Erica rolls the dice as their last chance to kill Vecna. Lucas scores as Erica rolls a 20, and both
the Sinclairs win their games. Max overhears the game results and when feeding
her dogs, sees Chrissy head into Eddie’s trailer. Eddie’s looking for “the Special K”
to sell to her. But while he looks for it in his room, she
hears the grandfather clock and goes to Eddie, only to see it’s not Eddie in his room,
it’s his mother. She goes outside the room and she’s no longer
in the Munson Trailer, but now in her own house. She sees her father and screams as Eddie finally
finds the drug. He goes to give it to Chrissy, but she’s
frozen dead still, he tries to snap Chrissy out of her trance as Chrissy runs to the front
door, trying to get out, only to see Henry Creel walk down the stairs, telling Chrissy
her suffering is at an end. He reaches for Chrissy as in the real world
she begins floating to the top of the trailer. All her bones crack in her body and Eddie
screams as her eyes close themselves in. The next morning Max sees the police arrive
at Eddie’s, and after trying to see what’s happening, she sees Chrissy’s body on the
floor. Argyle, Jonathan, Will and Eleven sit at the
airport as Mike arrives in California. Eleven tells him she has the whole day planned,
so they go and fulfill those plans as Murray also arrives in California, and heads to the
Byers. Benny’s Burgers is being used as a hangout
spot for the Basketball Team, and Lucas throws up in the toilet as they obviously had a heavy
night last night. They hear the story on the news before Jason
sees the police coming to them, and he knows that it’s not good news. The police ask him questions about her, and
when they ask about drugs and things Chrissy will never do, they mention Eddie, and Jason
thinks Eddie did this to her, which the police can’t deny yet. So the Basketball Team with Lucas devise a
plan to find Eddie and get revenge before Eddie kills again. Max arrives at Dustin’s and tells him what
she saw, that Eddie didn’t look like he just killed someone, he looked like he saw
something else do it. At first they deny it being Upside Down related
as the gate’s shut, but they aren’t so sure. Only Eddie knows what happened so they head
out to find him. Murray and Joyce talk about the situation,
and they decide to give that number a call in a safe way, while Mike, Eleven and Will
go to the Rollerink for fun, but Will notices that she’s lying to him about having friends
and going to parties there. But back in Hawkins, Dustin and Max ride to
Hawkins Family Video and use their computer to find the numbers of all his friends as
they fill Steve and Robin in on what’s happening, as Nancy and Fred Benson talk to the police
to enter the area of the crime scene “to see Max”. But the police asks about Fred and talks to
him about the kid he murdered, his scar from his car crash, and the police calls him a
murderer. Fred snaps out of it and they’re both allowed
to check in on their friend. Back in the Rollerink, Angela arrives, and
Mike and her meet. Eleven shouldn’t have used her name as the
name of her “friend”, as Angela takes her out to the rink, and Will sees a camera
guy in the rink setting up to record her, so he tells Mike the truth, and as Angela
tells Eleven to stay put in the middle of the rink, the DJ changes the song to Wipeout,
as everyone calls Eleven a freak. Mike goes to the DJ and tells him to stop
the song, and when he does, one of Angela’s friends pour a drink all over Eleven as everyone
laughs, and Eleven glides away. Mike and Will look for Eleven and Will confronts
Mike about him avoiding him all day while Eleven is crying in a supply room. She sees them laughing at the footage and
goes to Angela, asking her to apologize and tell Mike they’re really friends. Angela laughs it off, mentions how she can’t
talk to Hopper about it, and they walk away. Eleven gets extremely mad, grabbing someone
else’s roller skate and preparing for a hit, and she calls Angela’s name. Angela turns around and Eleven smacks her
on the nose and Angela starts bleeding a lot. Mike and Will see what’s happened and Eleven
cries. After Joyce and Murray set up they call the
number, learning they’ll need to pay a $40,000 deposit to “Fish n’ Fly” in Alaska to
a man called Yuri. Enzo hangs up the call, and they try to figure
out what a woman in the background was saying. So they take it to Johnathan’s speakers
and learn Enzo might be a prison guard who Hopper bribed. Max hears about Reefer Rick who’s Eddie’s
supplier, and Eddie crashes there sometimes, but they don’t have his full name so they
can’t find his address. But Robin realizes they might not need a last
name, they look at all the Rick’s who’ve been there borrowing movies and find a Rick
who’s been borrowing a lot of Cheech and Chong movies, so they think they’ve got
the right one and head to his house. Nancy goes to talk to Eddie’s Uncle, Wayne
Munson, while Fred starts to hear the clock chime. Wayne tells Nancy that Victor Creel might
have something to do with it, while Fred now sees the clock in a grave in the woods. He sees a group of people calling him a murderer
and he runs. The crew arrives at Rick’s and no one’s
home. So they go around the back of the house and
see a boathouse with the door opened slightly. They check all around the shed and find out
someone has actually been there. Steve pokes around a boat with junk covering
it, and when he turns to talk to Dustin, Eddie jumps out, taking Steve as a hostage and pointing
a broken bottle at his throat. Dustin calms him down, and he lets go of Steve. They ask Eddie what happened, and Eddie claims
they won’t believe him, but Max tells him to try them, as they’ve all seen Stranger
Things. Eddie explains to them exactly what happened,
and says he knows he sounds crazy. But Dustin readies Eddie to prepare for what
he’s about to tell him, and Dustin explains to Eddie about the Upside Down, and they compare
the recent events to Vecna’s curse and Vecna himself. Nancy keeps looking for Fred and reports him
missing to the officer. Fred runs into the road and sees a burning
car, exactly how it was in his crash. Fred sees the kid burning alive, and he falls
backwards into a grave. He sees a large tunnel connecting to the grave,
and Vecna walking down it. Vecna confronts Fred, eventually reaching
for him, and in the real world Fred levitates in the sky, and his bones crack, eyes close
in and he falls dead in the middle of the road. After killing Fred, Vecna lowers in the Upside
Down, and detaches himself as he’s seemingly feeding the Upside Down. After seeing the photos of the recent murders,
the U.S. Military arrive at Dr. Owens, and they ask him about the murders, whether they
remind him of anything. Jack Sullivan says everything can be traced
back to Eleven, and maybe she’s doing more remote assassinations. Dr Owens tells him that Eleven is dead, but
Jack isn’t convinced and the Military search their home for any evidence about her whereabouts,
and they fly off. When Johnathan and Argyle finally arrive at
the Rollerink, they all head home. Upon arriving they see Murray cooking Risotto. They all have dinner and Joyce lets everyone
know she’s heading to Alaska for a conference tomorrow. She tells the high Johnathan to look after
everyone while she’s gone, and the Rollerink incident comes up, Mike saying Angela didn’t
look okay, so Eleven gets up and heads into her room pissed off. The Basketball team heads out to find Eddie,
as Eddie and the crew brainstorm about what they could do. But while talking the police and ambulances
drive past to take away Fred’s body. Nancy gets interviewed as the Hawkins crew
arrive, and when she sees them she feels comforted, but also frightened as she knows what this
could all be leading to. Mike and Eleven talk about how they’re falling
apart as police arrive at the Byers, they’ve come to arrest Eleven and they take her to
the station. Jonathan goes to call Joyce but she’s on
the plane with Murray as they leave for Alaska to start the journey to save Hopper. Hopper however is continuing to work in Russia
when Dmitri talks to Hopper about how Joyce is actually coming like they planned. He knocks Hopper out to seem like nothing
suspicious is going on. The Hawkins group talk about how it’s connected
to the Upside Down, and they talk about Vecna. They talk about the victims and how they seemingly
saw something before they died. They realize that if you saw a monster you
wouldn’t go to the police, you’d go to your shrink. The Hawkins Crew go to visit Mrs. Kelly’s
but Nancy and Robin split from the group to go and follow Nancy’s lead about Victor,
seeing if he has something to do with it all. Back at Eddie’s trailer, a gate is opening
to the Upside Down. Within the Upside Down, Vecna prepares to
target his next victim as he rises. Within his own Void, he chooses Patrick. As the basketball team arrives at one of Eddie’s
friends' houses, they see the “Corroded Coffin” (their band) practicing and confront
them about Eddie’s whereabouts. Gareth tells them that Dustin might’ve found
them because he was calling around asking for Eddie. At the police station, Eleven gets put into
the system and taken away, and the boys can’t see her without their mum, who is currently
flying far away. Hopper asks another inmate if he can help
him out, and trades his soup with him for the inmate to agree to hitting his ankle near
the chains for whatever reason Hopper has. The other inmate hits over and over again
as Hopper sucks up the pain. Back in Hawkins Nancy and Robin arrive at
the Hawkins Library as Max visits Mrs. Kelly and tries to get her to tell her about anything
Chrissy said, but she doesn’t say anything. When Max goes to the bathroom, she sees keys
to the school and takes them, running out the house for them to drive away. The Basketball team arrives at Dustin’s
and knocks, but no one’s home. Lucas sneaks into Dustin’s room and radios
to him, and Dustin tells Lucas they found Eddie and to meet at the school. Before Lucas tells them about the Basketball
team, they ask Lucas what the hell he’s doing. Lucas tells them he was looking for clues
and he has Eddie’s location. Nancy and Robin find something on Victor Creel,
that he was put into Pennhurst Asylum and claimed a demon was in his home. The two leave as Dustin tells them to meet
at the school. They enter Mrs. Kelly’s office and look
through their files, noticing they all visited her. The Basketball group look around Hopper’s
Cabin as Lucas leads them out back and runs from them, heading to the school. While reading the files, Max learns that Chrissy
and Fred had the exact same symptoms as her, and she hears the clock chime and her name
being called from outside the office. Max follows the chimes and sees the clock
in the wall. Dr Owens intercepts Eleven’s path as Joyce
and Murray arrive. After a long day, Hopper arrives in his cell
and pulls his chains through the damage in his skin due to the other inmate. Dr Owens talks to Eleven about how Hawkins
is in danger, her friends are in the eye of the storm, but that he may have a way to bring
her powers back. But if she wants to get them back, they need
to leave now as the Military is out looking for them. So she agrees and they leave as Dr Owens’
crew arrive at the Byers in order to let them know what’s going on and to stay there for
protection. Nancy and Robin rush into the school and Max
shows them where the clock was. She talks to them about the symptoms of being
under Vecna’s curse, and she figures out she might die tomorrow. They hear something enter the school, so they
go investigate and hear incoming running, but it just turns out it was Lucas. He tells Dustin about the Basketball team
coming for Eddie and Dustin. But they tell Lucas about Max. They head to the Wheelers and talk about Victor’s
incident, and that he’s the only survivor. They talk about how the Upside Down could’ve
existed since the dawn of time, but they wonder how Vecna is even attacking with no gate. Nancy and Robin come up with a plan to lie
their way into Pennhurst and end up being able to speak with Victor. After they leave, Max finishes writing and
hands out letters to everyone, and only for them to read when she dies. Max ends up deciding to travel to East Hawkins
and convince Steve to take them, and when entering the car, Max hears the chimes of
the grandfather clock. At the Byers, they’re basically under house
arrest, as Jonathan comes up with a plan to hail Argyle to their house so they can escape. So the agents call Suffer Boys Pizza and grab
a snack. Mike and Will start packing and talk about
everything, why he might’ve been avoiding Will, and how they should work as a team,
as best friends. Will likes that idea as Argyle heads to the
Byers, Johnathan comes in and they prepare to leave, Will grabbing his painting as the
agents go grab the door. It isn’t Pizza though, it’s the Army. They shoot Agent Wallace and Johnathan goes
to look and sees Soldiers fighting Agent Harmon. He runs back into the den as the glass breaks
there so they run out and hide. They follow the agent around the house until
they make a final run and Harmon gets shot. Argyle arrives and they all get in, yelling
at him to drive. Argyle sees a soldier and upon more yelling,
finally drives away. Joyce and Murray arrive at Fish n’ Fly and
meet with Yuri. They give him his money but he recommends
they have some coffee while they wait as he needs to count the money. Back in the prison, Hopper decides to break
his pickaxe willingly and goes to grab another one. A guard gets one for him but he goes inside
and knocks out the guard. The other guards ask where the American went,
as he tries to pull the chains through the gap in his skin. The guard sees him trying to escape and gets
him to face him with his hands up, so Hopper faces him with his hands holding the chains
going across his face. They fight and throw each other around, but
eventually the guard opens fire to alert the others. He kills the guard and blocks the entrance
as the other guards try and get in. He climbs the roof and jumps off as they get
into the shed and see Dynomite lit. It explodes and kills a group of the guards,
and Hopper gets on a snowmobile and successfully escapes. At Pennhurst, Nancy and Robin arrive and meet
with the Director and get to go and visit Victor as Max gives letters to each of her
family members. But unknowingly to her, her mum is just outside
hanging laundry. She talks to her mum who came home early,
and tells them she’s scared because of the murders. They hug and she tells Max it’s okay, until
the sky turns dark, and it turns out she’s not hugging her mum, but hugging Vecna. Vecna threatens her, and tells her she’s
running out of time, and Max falls out of the vision, realizing her mum wasn’t even
there in the first place. She gets back in the car and they drive off,
as in Pennhurst Nancy and Robin talk to Victor. They get his attention by mentioning how they
believe his story, and that the same thing that killed his family might be back. Yuri counts all the money and makes a phone
call to Dmitri as Hopper gets into the safehouse he set up for him. But it turns out Yuri got more pay from the
Prison itself, so he gives up Hopper’s location, turns Dmitri in, and kidnaps Joyce and Murray. The Hawkins Group arrive at the Graveyard,
and after a small talk with Lucas, she goes to talk to Billy’s grave. Victor explains what happened with him and
his family to Nancy and Robin, he claims an angel saved him, they ask about the angel
but he just starts humming. Before they can get anymore information, the
Director interrupts after finding out they’re not who they say they are. Back at the Graveyard, Max reads her emotional
letter to Billy about everything that’s happened since he’s been gone, and that
despite everything, she wishes he was still here. After she finishes her speech, the sky becomes
night and Steve notices she’s been sitting there for too long. He goes to her but notices Max in a trance. He yells for Dustin and Lucas to come help
and they run to her immediately. Within her vision she sees Billy again, and
Billy tells Max there was a part of her that wanted him to die that day. He confronts Max, saying he’s here to end
her suffering, and she falls, looking back up to see Vecna take Billy’s place. She runs through the Graveyard as in the real
world Dustin goes to call Nancy and Robin. At Pennhurst, Robin makes the connection about
music to the story and how music might be a lifeline to reality, so they try to outrun
the guards and eventually get to their car. They drive away and answer Dustin’s code
red. Within her vision, Max sees a red fog, seemingly
calling to her, so she walks into it. Dustin however grabs a bunch of mixtapes and
heads to the others. Max arrives at a corrupted place within the
vision that she’s not ever seen before, as Dustin asks what her favorite song is. Vecna tells her she shouldn’t be there,
finding and then capturing Max. He puts her up on one of the poles as they
get “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush and play it. They see the portal and Vecna tells Max she
can’t be saved now, as the vines strangle her. He reaches for her and in the real world she
begins levitating into the air. Max sees the portal and closes her eyes, remembering
every happy memory that’s happened to her with her friends at Hawkins. She reaches out and pulls out a part of Vecna,
which causes him to let her go momentarily. She begins running away and Vecna tries to
get her, but Max runs and runs, eventually waking up in the real world again, falling
back to the ground as the rest of them surround her in relief. They saved Max. The California Crew get a number from Harmon,
who tells them to warn Owens and that Eleven’s in danger, but that they’re at something
called “Nina”, he passes them a pen telling them it’s the number and dies in the back
of the Van. The Military check around the Byers house
and find a note from Eleven to Mike, and goes to Wallace (who’s still alive) and confronts
him about her location. Eleven however, wakes up as they arrive at
a doorway in the middle of nowhere. They head down an elevator and arrive at a
secret facility. They walk through the hallways, seeing other
scientists surprised to see her. It’s almost like a min-Lab down there, and
they walk all the way to the Nina machine. She asks what it is, but Dr Brenner walks
out and tells her that they can’t ruin the surprise. They reunite briefly, calling them the Daughter
and Papa duo before Eleven runs away. She tries to get out but the guards at the
front grab her and they put her to sleep as Dr Brenner holds her. Back at Reefer Rick’s, Eddie requests a
food delivery from the rest of the crew. Nancy doesn’t see Max and immediately hangs
up, she wakes up the sleeping Dustin and they rush to find Max, who’s drawing in the kitchen. Max draws out what she saw in her vision and
Nancy puts together an image of a house. Victor Creel’s house. Within Nina, Eleven is forced to revisit her
memories, and has to act as she did when she was younger within the Lab. The California crew dig a grave to hide the
Agents body, and when Argyle realizes the pen doesn’t work, they wonder why he’d
give them a dead pen, and realize the numbers within it. They call the number and figure out they’re
calling a computer, so they plan to head to Suzie to get her help to get the location
of Nina. Joyce and Murray try to cut themselves out
with the JIF glass, but Yuri sees them doing so and Murray fights him with his karate skills,
as he’s a black belt. He defeats Yuri but the plane begins falling,
so they try their best to fly the plane, or at least they themselves land safely, which
they don’t do too well. Back in Nina, Eleven’s struggling as her
memories are mixing with one another. At Eddie’s trailer, agents arrive and look
around, seeing the crack in the roof, but they know what that is and move Eddie’s
uncle out immediately. While at Chrissy’s funeral, Patrick is hearing
the clock chimes, and when the Basketball team keep planning to find Eddie, he asks
if they might’ve cursed him, but they just laugh it off. The whole team leaves to go find Eddie. The Hawkins Crew arrive at the Creel House. After breaking in they explore and see the
Grandfather clock. They decide to split into groups and go look
for anything. The Basketball team arrives at Reefer Rick’s
and checks around his house. Eddie calls the others who are currently investigating
the house, but they see lights heading in a path. They follow the lights all the way to the
attic. The basketball team searches everywhere but
sees the boathouse outside open. After Patrick hears the clock again and snaps
out of it, they head to investigate, and the boat is missing. Eddie rows the boat away as he gets caught
and they swim towards him. Back in the Creel House there lights begin
shining too bright, as in the Upside Down Vecna is raised, connecting himself to Patrick. As Jason gets closer, Patrick stops swimming
as he hears the clock. He sinks in the water, but then gets raised
into the air. Eddie falls into the water as Parick’s bones
begin cracking, which causes the flashlights to break in the Creel House, as Patrick’s
jaw bursts and he falls back into the water. In Nina, Eleven awakes and strikes Dr Brenner. She runs out hoping to escape, hitting the
elevator. When agents grab her, she screams and her
powers return, blasting the agents away from her. Dr Brenner comes to her but Eleven threatens
to use her powers against him, so she tries but it doesn’t work. They aren’t coming back so easily. The elevator opens and Eleven has a choice
to make, but she wants to regain her powers and save her friends, so she grabs Dr Brenner’s
hand and they walk back to Nina to continue their work. Officers arrive, seeing Jason holding Patrick’s
body. Jason talks to the police, convinced Eddie
has the Devil’s powers. Agent Wallace is getting tortured and will
continue to be until he reveals Eleven’s location. Eleven is resting in her room as Dr Brenner
explains that her memories were messed up from the bite last year, and he explains how
it’ll all work, that she just needs to remember. He has all the video tapes from the lab and
he explains how Nina helps her not only see her memories, but experience it. It’s revealed she locked these memories
away and buried them when something big happened. But she goes back into Nina. Eddie steals a Walkie Talkie as Robin tells
the Hawkins Crew that they’re all screwed. But when they arrive at Reefer Rick’s, they
see the police making a news report, and Eddie is officially confirmed as a suspect to the
public. Eddie radios to them and tells them he’s
all at Skull Rock. So they all instantly go and head there. The California Crew arrive at Suzies, and
witness absolute madness within the household. They find Suzie outside messing with Cerebro,
and they tell her they’re Dustin’s friends and ask for her help. They all lie to Suzie that it’s for a top
secret console for Dustin’s birthday and they need to head to the location that’s
hidden within the clue. They get the location of Nina, printing it
out and then go to leave, when they discover Argyle smoking weed with Suzie’s sister. Yuri gets threatened by Joyce and Murray and
so he reluctantly helps them, while Hopper and the other prisoners think they’re about
to fight something, until they’re led to a different room to have a large feast. Their first good meal since they arrived,
but when they start talking about the monster, Hopper guesses its height and the fact it
has white-pale skin with no face and no eyes. The other inmate wonders how he knows this,
and Hopper tells them he’s fought one before and explains the Demogorgon to them, and how
this isn’t to give them energy, it’s to make them a better snack for the beast. This is their last supper. Joyce and Hopper are led by Yuri to a city
and enter Yuri’s safehouse. They find guns and threaten Yuri more until
he shows them how to get there, Yuri doesn’t care anymore as he knows they’ll die on
the way in. Their new plan though, is Murray acts as Yuri
and “Yuri” brings the two Americans in just like he said he would. Back in Russia, they’re about to fight the
beast until Hopper hits and has a fight with Dmitri. He knocks out a soldier in the crossfire and
steals something from a guard. They get given more time to recharge, and
Hopper tells him the Demogorgon’s weakness. He shows Dmitri the fluids he stole from the
supper and lighter he stole from the guard. The compass doesn’t match with Steve’s
memory so he takes them a different direction, where they eventually make it to Skull Rock
and find Eddie. Eddie’s name is shared a lot at the Town
Hall where the public are able to ask police questions. Before they continue, Jason walks in and starts
talking about how the Hellfire Club is Eddie’s satanic cult. He says the mall fire and all the unexplained
deaths were because of that cult. Erica interrupts saying it’s just a club
for nerds, but Jason says it's all a lie, and that they must cast out the evil. Everyone in the Town Hall goes to find Eddie,
and the Wheelers, Henderson and Sinclairs all head to the Wheeler's house as that’s
where they were just before, but they don’t see them in the basement. All the parents don’t know what to do, and
Karen calls the police to tell them if they find them, to bring them there. Back at Skull Rock, they all combine information
and know Vecna attacks from the Creel House, and they just need to find a way into the
Upside Down to kill Vecna somehow. Dustin however, figures out he was right,
that the compass was wrong. Try and remember, what breaks a compass? A large electromagnetic field, and the last
time that happened, it was a gate. They realize there may be a smaller gate somewhere
else that they haven’t noticed. So after Eddie agrees, they all go and follow
the compass’s false direction. Everyone in the town is hunting the kids that
night. The Hawkins Crew head through the bushes and
realize the magnet points somewhere in the water. There’s a gate in Lover’s Lake, maybe
Vecna does the same thing as the Demogorgon, leaving a small gate when it attacks. They find Eddie’s boat and Steve, Nancy,
Robin and Eddie get in the boat and head out into the water. They row until the compass goes nuts. They’re directly above it, so Steve readies
to go under. He dives under the water and sees dead fish,
but when he turns he sees a red glow in the distance. He swims towards it as police are closing
in on the crew. Steve sees the Gate, randomly in the middle
of the water. He goes to touch it but a vine hits it from
the other side, so Steve instantly swims up. Robin tells the others they found the Gate
as Max, Dustin and Lucas distract the officers and take them far from Eddie. In the water, Steve gets pulled down randomly
but back up, and then pulled down again. He gets dragged down the water, heads all
the way to the gate and eventually goes straight through it, popping out on the other side. Nancy jumps down as Steve gets pulled around
in the Upside Down and Dustin, then the rest get caught by the police. Eventually Robin follows, and then reluctantly
Eddie also goes in. Within the Upside Down, Steve observes the
red lightning and the landscape around him until he sees and hears Demobats flying right
towards him, not just one, but multiple. So he runs and grabs a rowing paddle, hitting
and fighting off the bats. Until he gets strangled by one and the others
begin to bite him. He tries to get them off of him but they keep
biting over and over. Steve gets strangled and eaten alive until
Nancy hits one with the paddle and they fight the Demobats off. More arrive and Eddie even helps. Nancy gets attacked by one as Eddie fights
his Demobat off, breaking the paddle. Steve bites one of them and holds it by its
tail, he then throws it around as Eddie stabs his right in the face. Steve flings his Demobat around over and over,
before stepping on his Demobat and ripping it in two. They fight them off and plan to return back,
but more Demobats guard the Gate, stopping them from going back in, so they run straight
for the woods. Officer Wallace reveals Eleven’s location,
as within Nina, they plan to go and watch the big event that happened in Eleven’s
past. So she returns to Nina, one final time. Back in Hawkins, the police interrogate Dustin,
Lucas and Max at the Wheelers with all their parents. They lie multiple times since they had no
preparation time to figure out a story, but that might work, so Max gets pulled away individually. In the Upside Down they need weapons to attack
and then re-enter through the Gate, so Nancy tells them about her guns instead of going
all the way downtown and wasting more time. But earthquakes are happening constantly,
something is going on that hasn’t happened before, but what? Eitherway, they all head to the Wheelers. The Upside Down group arrive at the Wheelers,
and on the other side Dustin and Lucas tell Erica what’s going on, about the new Upside
Down occurrences. They wonder why the gate opened up in the
first place. The last two gates were opened on our end,
one by Eleven making a psychic connection to the Upside Down and one by the Russians
with the machine. Dustin explains how Vecna is making a psychic
connection to all of the victims, creating multiple gates all around instead of just
having one, and they’d be making multiple gates for the Mind Flayer to take over the
world. In the Upside Down they enter the house, Steve
thinks he hears talking from someone else as Nancy, Robin and Eddie head upstairs for
her guns. But there aren’t any there. Nancy notices how she threw away the shoes
years ago, and that her chemistry cards from sophomore year are there, and how the wallpaper
is old and the mirror went to yard sale. Nancy thinks and grabs her Diary, reading
through it and finds the entries end on November 6th, 1983. They’re in the past, the Upside Down is
frozen in time from the first time a permanent gate opened, the first time Will went missing. This is a huge discovery to them, but they
hear Steve shouting for Dustin, as on the other side, they’re talking right in the
same spot. Nancy remembers the lights Will used to communicate,
and they all see that the lights are emitting some sort of energy bubble around them. Nancy goes to touch the bubble and in the
real world the light brightens. When she removes her hand, the light faints
away to normal. Nancy realizes they can use Morse Code, Dustin,
Lucas and Erica realize that the light is flickering as Eddie is spelling out SOS in
Morse. Dustin realizes this, and realizes that they’re
in the Upside Down. They grab Holly’s Lite Brite and take it
to Nancy’s room. They turn it on and it creates an energy bubble
in the Upside Down. It works perfectly, and they unplug it. The energy bubble stays there as they use
it to communicate to them cross-dimension. They tell them they’re stuck and Watergate’s
guarded. But Dustin tells them how there might be a
gate at every one of Vecna’s murder sites. So they all sneak out, grab their bikes and
begin to head to Eddie’s trailer. Erica pops a tire and the parents all gather
at the front of the house, watching as their kids ride away into the night. The kids ride in the real world, making their
way fast as in the Upside Down, they’re all in the same position and making their
way. But a Demobat sees them riding in the Upside
Down and thanks to the Hive Mind, Vecna notices. Murray arrives at the Prison as Yuri, showing
off the Americans that the Warden wanted, and they successfully enter through into the
Prison grounds. Within the Prison, Murray speaks to the Warden. But the Warden wants to put on a show for
them, and show them the caged fight. Joyce and Murray see Hopper, still alive. They begin the fight as the alarm goes off. They run and grab weapons individually, giving
Hopper a spear. Hopper covers it with a piece of flammable
cloth as the gate holding the monster back opens up. Hopper pours lighting fluid all over the spear
and cloth and Murray threatens the Warden. Hopper tries to light it, but it doesn’t
light. The Demogorgon bursts through the darkness
and attacks the Prisoners. Knocking all of them down, one by one by one,
smacking their skulls against the wall and more. Murray tells the Warden to get every guard
to shoot it, but that he can’t do that or else he’s a dead man himself. Hopper finally lights it as Dmitri’s weapon
breaks. Hopper can successfully push the Demogorgon
away, but someone tries to climb out of the pit so the Demogorgon runs around and knocks
him down, eating his head. Murray takes the Warden to a Control Room
and tells everyone there to open up the doors. The Demogorgon finishes up the other prisoners
besides Hopper and Dmitri. The Russian doesn’t open anything, so Murray
knocks them all out with his karate skills as the Demogorgon kills one final person,
but it’s still hungry. It heads towards Hopper but Hopper keeps fighting
it off with the fire. The Demogorgon gets a hit while it tries to
extinguish the fire. Joyce clicks random buttons, messing up the
electricity and then opens the door. Dmitri gets through the door and Hopper does
the same while holding it back. Joyce shuts the door as Hopper’s flame runs
out. The Demogorgon however, doesn’t want to
lose. It pushes the gate open itself and screams
as Hopper spears the Demogorgon right in its throat, which knocks the Demogorgon away and
the door shuts. Another door opens and Hopper walks through
ready to fight, but instead sees Joyce and Murray. Hopper and Joyce hug and embrace each other. Back within the Upside Down, they arrive at
Eddie’s. They see the Gate and it opens up completely. They look to see what’s through it and they
see the kids looking up at them, while they look up at the kids. They grab Eddie’s mattress and put it down
as a landing pad. They grab a piece of curtain and test the
physics going through a gate. It goes in between perfectly, and Dustin figures
out he can just let go and it’ll hold in position. Robin pulls on it and they realize it still
holds no matter what. Robin climbs out first and pops out on the
other side. Next Eddie starts climbing out, until he also
pops out on the other side. Nancy is next, and she starts to climb out,
until she pops out in the Void. She falls through the darkness, through the
empty abyss and eventually lands. She stands up and realizes she’s in Barb’s
pool. Steve tries to wake Nancy up as now Nancy
is in a trance, and everyone on the other side sees her frozen still. Nancy sees Barb’s body as Vecna talks to
her about Barb. Nancy arrives in Vecna’s Mindscape, and
Vecna shows her how truly close they were to the truth, he shows her his entire story. At the same time, Eleven is rediscovering
the truth about what happened at the Lab. Outside of Nina, Dr Brenner and Dr Owens see
that it’s working, and Eleven regains her powers as she re-enacts herself sending Henry
into the Upside Down like she did so many years ago. Now Nancy is caught up with the truth, Vecna
begins terrorizing her. She runs away, trying to escape the vision. In reality the entire group is trying to find
any music to help Nancy, as she finds herself at a dead end. Vecna himself appears which causes her to
try and speed up. She eventually gets through the door only
to be back at the start of her vision, the lights flicker off and back on but she’s
now tied to a chair by Vecna’s tentacles. Vecna confronts her, telling Nancy to tell
Eleven everything she sees through a vision, a vision full of gates expanding, and spreading
all over and destroying Hawkins as the clocks chime. Nancy snaps out of it and falls to the ground. The Demogorgon is pissed off, finally losing
to someone. It climbs the cage and confronts the prison
guards. It screeches and they all shoot it, but eventually
they run out of bullets, so it goes and kills them all. The Russian group hears noises coming from
a room above them, so they go and investigate, only to see a Demodog tied to a chair being
dissected, it screams and screams until Hopper puts it out of its misery. Hopper opens a curtain only to see multiple
Demodogs in tanks, and last but not least, a piece of the Mind Flayer going in circles. Dmitri finds a vent, so they all climb down
it to escape the prison. Eleven’s pulse is dropping, she’s waking
up from being knocked out. Eleven gets herself up and heads towards Nina. She shuts her eyes, and tries to use her powers. It works as she successfully lifts Nina into
the air, she has her powers back. Outside, on their way to Nina, Will and Mike
have an emotional talk, Will shows Mike the painting he’s been working on and carrying
around, and it’s of the Demogorgon fighting their Party from their Dungeons and Dragons
campaign they played the night Will went missing, the night the Upside Down events started. Will talks about things like Eleven needing
Mike no matter what, but it seems as though Will was talking less about Eleven, and more
about himself as he cries into his hands, which Johnathan notices. Back inside Nina, Dr Brenner explains her
coma and talks about how Henry is back. Dr Brenner explains how Henry is trying to
crack the barrier between our two dimensions, and that if he succeeds Hawkins will fall. Eleven goes to her room to enter the Void
in order to see if her friends are safe. Nancy explains everything she saw in her vision,
and they realize that there only needs to be four gates open before his plan is over. He’s only one kill away. The pressure of the entire world falls onto
them at that moment. Eleven sees them in the Void talking about
it and how much danger they’re in. Nancy plans how they’re going back into
the Upside Down to go and kill Vecna. Dustin remembers Eleven’s weakness is that
she goes into a trance-like state when she remote-travels. The body will be left defenseless if Vecna
attacks, only leaving the bats, so they’ll need a distraction for the bats. They don’t know who he’ll attack next,
but Max does, it’s her. She tells them all that she’ll drop Kate
Bush so he attacks her, and she’ll just need to survive long enough for them to kill
Vecna. They all plan to head to the War Zone to get
weapons and supplies for their mission. So they steal a stranger's van and head there
immediately. After Eleven hears all of their plans, she
rushes to Dr Owens, telling them her friends aren’t safe. He calms her down and decides to send people
to Hawkins for Max, but Eleven says she wants to be the one sent herself. Dr Brenner says her friends and her aren’t
prepared for the fight, that she needs to stay there and keep training, that she must
not leave. But Dr Owens tells her that she does have
a choice no matter what Brenner says, and Eleven makes her choice to return back to
Hawkins. Back in Russia, they escape the prison and
they all convince Yuri to get them a flight back to America. They arrive at Yuri’s safehouse and see
his helicopter, and they instantly think they’re doomed. Will it even be able to fly to America, let
alone at all? They decide to call Dr Owens to get a flight
out of there, but they have to wait for a call back from them themselves. The Hawkins Group arrives at the War Zone
and gathers weapons and supplies. While purchasing a gun, Nancy runs into Jason. Turns out the entire Basketball team is here
aswell. Jason confronts Nancy about Mike, and the
fact he’s in Hellfire. He asks if he’s there with her, or if any
of his friends are there either, but Nancy ignores the question telling him to let her
gun go. They all re-enter the van and drive away from
the store straight away. The California crew arrive at Nina’s coordinates
but don’t find anything there. They check their calculations again but Argyle
finds tire tracks starting from where they are that head off road in a certain direction. They all realize that those tires must be
big, so they must be military, so they prepare to follow the tracks, as the military head
to Nina. Dr Owens’ phone call gets interrupted as
the Nina guards confront him. Eleven goes to see Nina before leaving, thinking
to herself, but gets locked in the room. Dr Brenner confronts her, telling her she
can’t leave. He got the guards to hurt Dr Owens and lock
him up. If she leaves, they’ll kill Owens. Eleven confronts Dr Brenner about how much
of a monster he is, and she decides to push the door open with her powers. But before she can leave, Dr Brenner uses
a syringe to put Eleven to sleep. She knocks him away but it's too late. She begins to hurt him, but she starts to
fade out more and more until she drops Dr Brenner as she gets knocked out. The Hawkins Group make shields, a sawn off
shotgun, spears, and molotovs. They all prepare themselves and practice,
as Steve and Robin talk about their situation and how they have to try. Eleven wakes up in her room collared by Dr
Brenner, but the alarms go off as the Military has found them. They head to the Door and blow it right open
and head down the elevator. They get in and both their Military and the
Nina Military have a shoot off. Dr Brenner takes Eleven away and up the stairs. Sullivan finds Dr Owens and confronts him
about Eleven’s location. Eleven and Dr Brenner reach the top, but Brenner
gets shot by a soldier in the helicopter. They knock Brenner down, and when he tries
to get up they shoot him straight through the gut. Eleven sees him knocked out and they prepare
to shoot Eleven. They contact Sullivan and ask for permission
to shoot, but Owens asks them about a fair deal, to put Eleven in a coma and see if anymore
murders keep happening, and if they don’t, they’ll really need Eleven. But he doesn’t listen and gives permission
to take the shot. So they prepare to shoot until they hear horns
honking, only to see the California crew in their pizza track heading towards her. They ignore the truck and go to aim at Eleven,
but she’s now standing up, aiming at them, and she starts using her powers against them,
spinning them around and eventually using both hands to force them to the ground. The California crew reunite with Eleven and
they all hug. But after hugging Will, her collar is deactivated
and unlocked. Dr Brenner is barely alive. She walks to him and they talk about how proud
of her he is, and he asks her if she understands that all he wanted to do was help and protect
Eleven, all he did was for her. But she doesn’t agree to forgive him, putting
his hand down and getting into the Pizza Van. They all drive away as the Military head to
the top, seeing them escape. Dr Brenner sees them leaving and going far
away, so he gives in to his pain and dies, this time properly. Eleven tells them that they need to head to
Hawkins as soon as possible or else they’ll die. As in Hawkins, the group all dreadfully prepare
themselves for the mission ahead, all preparing themselves for war. Max, Lucas and Erica get out of the van at
the Creel House. They prepare themselves and head in. Nancy goes over the plan for the Upside Down
group, that they don’t move onto the next phase without everyone signing off on it,
and no one deviates from the plan no matter what. They all head back into Eddie’s trailer
and Steve goes into the Upside Down, landing professionally. He grabs a mattress for them all to safely
enter. Nancy goes in and they chuck her gun down,
Eddie enters and they chuck his shield down, Robin enters and they chuck the spears down,
then finally Dustin enters and they all go to begin the plan to kill Vecna once and for
all. The California crew try to get a flight to
Hawkins immediately, but keep getting denied. Eleven realizes that they don’t have to
go though, that she can enter Max’s mind when Vecna enters her’s and have a mind
fight. But they need a lot of salt for a Sensory
Deprivation Tank, and after Argyle does some measurements, he confirms he knows where to
go for salt. Back in Hawkins, the Creel House group finds
Vecna’s location. So Erica heads to the playground to use her
flashlight in order to create an energy bubble in the Upside Down. But a stranger who originally left to help
Jason sees them, and Jason now knows where the Hawkins Crew are. In Russia, Yuri purposely sabotages the helicopter. Hopper and Joyce talk about their date and
kiss for the very first time. The phone rings and Hopper picks up. Hopper tells them how Ellen told him on the
phone about how Owens is with a girl to fight off some evil in Hawkins, but all went off
grid, and that the California group is with her. They all know exactly what this means, that
Eleven is with the other kids and Owens to go and fight the Upside Down in Hawkins. Joyce puts together the fact a gate is open
in Hawkins, and they realize they don’t have to make it there in time. They know that part of the Hive Mind is in
Russia, so they can go and kill everything in order to give the kids the upper hand. So they decide to break back into the Prison
and plan. Dmitri goes to get Yuri in line to pick them
back up when they need it, and Hopper finds a flamethrower to use in the prison. The California group arrives at another Surfer
Boy’s Pizza. Argyle talks to the guy in front about how
they need to kitchen, but he’s going to meet someone at Taco Bell in 10 minutes, so
he wouldn’t be able to lend them it. But Johnathan convinces him to give them the
kitchen with the Purple Palm Tree Delight. He leaves and they all prepare the tub for
the tank, while the Upside Down crew barricades Eddie’s trailer as Argyle makes Pizza. In the Upside Down they finish and go and
grab Eddie’s guitar for their part of the plan as Steve, Nancy and Robin arrive at the
Creel House. The Russian group breaks back into the prison
noticing no one’s at the front gate. They open the vent and head inside, as Dmitri
talks to Yuri about how before losing money to cards and drinks, Yuri once led his men
to victory over the Chinese in Damansky, and eventually convinces Yuri to get in line. Lucas and Max talk using paper as they can’t
alert Vecna to their whereabouts, and Lucas takes the opportunity to ask about watching
a movie on Friday, which Max agrees to. Erica lights to them now that the Upside Down
group has arrived at the energy bubble. They light back and Erica talks to the Upside
Down crew about how they’re moving to the next phase, Distracting Vecna. Max turns off Running Up That Hill and yells
for Vecna to hear. She tells him to attack her and they follow
the light as Vecna begins moving up the stairs. Mike prepares Eleven glasses to block out
any vision, and after Eleven likes the taste, Argyle tries to get Mike to try pineapple
on pizza, while Johnathan and Will talk about how they should talk more like they used to. Johnathan tells Will that no matter what,
he’ll always love him because he’s always going to be his brother and they hug. They finish the tub and Eleven prepares herself
and then enters the Void. She sees Lucas and Max arriving at the basement
as the light fully brightens. Vecna is there. When the light fades, Max decides to put her
headphones to the side, and talk about how she’s been feeling. That she prayed for something bad to happen
to Billy, and that she stood there because she didn’t know if he deserved to be saved,
and that now she prays something bad happens to her. After talking, Lucas confronts Max asking
if she thinks that about him and he tells her that she’s sick. She realizes that Vecna is here, and he tells
Max that she’s now the chosen one, that she’ll be the one to break the world. Max is now under the trance and Eleven knows
Vecna is in her head. Max hits Vecna in the head and runs away from
him. Eleven holds Max’s hand in the Void and
closes her eyes, searching her past of happy memories to try and fully enter her mind. She succeeds and arrives at a skatepark. Lucas communicates to Erica that she’s in
the trace, so she tells the others and Robin contacts Dustin to begin Phase Three. So Dustin connects the AMP and Eddie uses
his guitar and starts to play Master of Puppets by Metallica, which grab the Demobats attention. So the rest head over into the Creel House,
as back in Max’s vision she runs away from Vecna, running into dead ends. Jason sees Erica and they turn into the playground. Erica begins running away until Andy tackles
her as Max is shown a vision of Billy during the Sauna Test. Dustin prepares Eddie to finish in 30 seconds,
as Max searches and tries to control her mind, remembering her happiest memories. In the vision Billy opens the door, and as
Eddie finishes the guitar solo, Max successfully travels to the Snow Ball. Eddie and Dustin head back inside the Van
and after locking it up, celebrate. Back in Russia, they eventually arrive into
the prison, and find a dying guard who tells them that the other guards shot the other
trapped Demodogs free by accident while trying to kill the Demogorgon, and that the shadow
is now in all of the monsters. In the Upside Down, they head into the Creel
House and begin traveling it while trying to avoid setting off the Hive Mind. Eleven in the Void tries to look for anything
wrong in the memory, and finds the SnowBall memory leaking into that memory. At the SnowBall the balloons start popping
blood and the music turns to Dream a Little Dream of Me as Vecna starts to take over. Lucas tries contacting Erica but Jason arrives
upstairs. He immediately tries to help Max, trying to
wake her up and save her. Lucas tries to stop him from waking her so
Jason aims the gun at him to stop him from doing anything. He tells Lucas to save Max or else he’ll
put a bullet through his head. In the Prison they plan for Hopper to be the
bait and lure the Demogorgons and Demodogs there, making Joyce shut the doors on them
so then Murray can burn them all down. Hopper finds which one he’s going towards
and they begin the plan. While in the Upside Down, Dustin and Eddie
listen to the Demobats going around, and they realize that there’s a small vent on the
roof. The Demobats knock open the vent, so Dustin
and Eddie scream and then run to begin stabbing the Demobats over and over. While traveling the house and steps away from
the attack on Vecna, an earthquake occurs and vines grab and then trap Robin. Nancy and Steve try and save Robin but vines
trap Steve and then eventually trap Nancy. In a matter of seconds, they’re all stuck
in the vines choking. Hopper alerts a Demodog and begins running
as the Demodog breaks open the door and begins its hunt. In the Upside Down Eddie uses his shield to
stab the Demobats and block off the vent entirely. They rest for moments, but then realize there’s
more vents, so they go to close it off but countless Demobats break through and enter. They slam the door shut and begin to head
into the real world. Dustin enters successfully and Eddie starts
to climb, only to stop himself and fall back down on his own accord. He cuts the curtain and moves the mattress
so Dustin can’t climb back through. Eddie runs out and gets on one of the bikes,
beginning to lure the bats away. Within Max’s vision, Vecna attacks and pushes
Max to the wall to stop her from being able to leave as Lucas explains Vecna to Jason. They talk about Chrissy and Jason gives Lucas
five seconds to wake Max up before he shoots, but Lucas dodges the shot and knocks Jason
over as Andy hears the gunshot, distracting him enough for Erica to hit him in the balls
and then with her flashlight. Jason and Lucas fight within the house causing
Jason to break the headphones. Vecna steps to Max and reaches for her. He goes to kill her but gets pushed away and
into the air as Eleven turns him around to see her. Eleven flings him through the seats while
Eddie keeps luring the bats away and Dustin tries to re-enter the Upside Down and makes
a large leap for it while the demobats knock Eddie off his bike as Dustin falls from the
portal, dislocating his leg. Eddie stops running away, and turns to the
Demobats, preparing himself to fight. The Demobats all head to him and Eddie blocks
their charge. Within the Prison, while Hopper is getting
chased Joyce sees a shocking device as within Hawkins, Lucas gets a few hits on Jason until
Jason uses glass to knock Lucas away. Within Max’s vision, Eleven talks to her,
but they hear Vecna returning. Vecna and Eleven face each other and prepare
to fight. Vecna uses a bunch of wood to attack Eleven,
but she deflects it, only for Vecna to push her away and drag her around with no effort
whatsoever. Dustin in pain sees the swarm of bats around
Eddie, as he’s fighting them all off, he successfully gets a few and asks for more
as Vecna heads towards Eleven. Max runs to him but he nudges her aside in
an instant. Eleven tries to push him away but Vecna catches
her and makes her rise. He brings her towards him, and after talking
about how he wants her to watch what happens, he pushes her all the way into his Mindscape. Vines grab Eleven and hoist her up on the
Creel House door, as she watches Max get hoisted herself. Eleven yells out about Papa’s death, which
stops Vecna for a moment. He heads to her and they talk about how Papa
is the monster, but Vecna denies this and claims he’s just a man who sought greatness
in others, and he tells her that everything that’s happened is thanks to her opening
the gate between the worlds. But now Vecna is taking it upon himself to
do so. He tells Eleven they’re all going to lose,
as Hopper gets knocked down by a Demodog and Eddie gets strangled and then eaten by Demobats
as Steve, Nancy and Robin are all getting strangled by the vines and Jason is choking
Lucas. Vecna heads towards Max and reaches for her,
which causes her to levitate in the real world, which Lucas witnesses. The California crew grab Eleven out of the
bath as she struggles to breathe. They lay her down on a table and Mike begins
to talk to Eleven about how he loves her, but is too scared to say it in case she realizes
she doesn’t need him and says it will make that day hurt more. After the speech to Eleven, he yells for her
to fight. She uses her powers to make the vines let
her go slowly but surely, as Lucas knocks Jason’s head into the window, and he hits
him once, twice, three times, and then knocks him out. Vecna successfully grabs Max, which causes
her body to begin snapping. Hopper is a moment away from being eaten by
the Demodog and Eddie coughs out blood as Dustin is rushing to help him. Vecna causes Max to snap her legs and arms,
and she begins bleeding out of her eyes as Lucas screams. Eleven gets out of the vines and screams,
pushing Vecna away from Max with all of her strength as Joyce runs in and shocks the Demodog. Vecna hits one of his poles, which lets Max
go, which causes Max to fall in the real world and makes the Demodog get off Hopper. But no rest as a Demogorgon and Demodogs head
to them. They run out and try getting in a cage, only
for the Demogorgon to knock it out the way. But Murray calls out to the beasts and begins
flamethrowing them all, which causes Vecna immense pain and causes the Demobats to all
fall as Steve, Nancy and Robin are freed from the vines. They grab their weapons and prepare to go
and kill Vecna, as there is one Demogorgon left to fight Hopper. Hopper shoots the Demogorgon but it stands
its ground. Hopper grabs a sword that’s on the ground
from the last fight and raises it as the Demogorgon prepares to fight. While in Vecna’s Mindscape, he tells Eleven
how they think they’ve won, but they’ve already lost. Steve, Nancy and Robin prepare themselves
to attack as they light a molotov. The Demogorgon roars and Hopper heads towards
it as Steve throws the molotov. Hopper slices the Demogorgon’s arm off as
the molotov hits Vecna directly causing him and his vines to start burning, but also causing
Eleven to be kicked out of his mind. Vecna falls as Max wakes. Vecna faces his enemies in rage and gets back
up, as Robin lights another and throws it at him, directly hitting once more. Nancy heads towards him and shoots him with
the shotgun once, reloading and then hitting him again, and again as Hopper dodges the
Demogorgon’s attack and slices its head clean off. Vecna screams and Nancy shoots one final time,
pushing Vecna out of his house as the Demogorgon’s head hits the ground and Vecna hits the ground
himself. Dmitri and Yuri arrive in the helicopter to
save Hopper, Joyce and Murray as in the Upside Down they see that Vecna’s disappeared as
Dustin heads towards Eddie, who after exchanging emotional words and their friendly love for
one another, dies in his arms. Erica gets inside the attic and Lucas tells
her to call an ambulance. Max can’t see or feel anything, horrified
by what's going to happen, she doesn’t want to die. Lucas screams for help but Max quiets as her
eyes close and she dies in Lucas’ arms. This emotional time is immediately disrupted
as the clock begins to chime. It chimes and the earthquake occurs, as upstairs,
a gate opens. The gate spreads throughout the house, ripping
Jason’s body in half and destroying the house entirely. The gate in Eddie’s trailer also spreads
itself out. Patrick’s gate spreads itself out as Fred’s
gate in the water spreads itself out. Hawkins falls as the gates continue to spread
more and more until eventually meeting in the middle. In the Void, Eleven sees Max dead, but doesn’t
want it to happen. So she puts her hand on Max’s heart and
tries to use her powers all the way from California to Hawkins in order to make it beat once more. Two Days Later, everyone leaves Hawkins as
the California Crew arrives, seeing the destruction of their town left by the gates. The Hawkins group pack the car full of donations,
but get interrupted by the Pizza van, and after a long week both groups finally reunite
with each other. They talk about everything and eventually
head to the hospital, where Lucas is reading out to Max, who’s laying in the hospital
bed completely out of it while her heart continues to beat. They reunite and Lucas explains what’s happening. Eleven goes and sits with Max, holding her
hand and trying to contact her through the Void. Eleven enters Max’s mind, only to see nothing
there. Max is seemingly brain dead, there is nothing
there. Steve, Dustin and Robin give their donations
and ask to help more. Robin meets Vicky and they begin talking,
learning Vicky is no longer with her boyfriend, and they bond as Steve watches with joy. Dustin however, meets Eddie’s uncle Wayne
and tells him how he was with Eddie when the earthquake hit. He then pulls out Eddie’s necklace and gives
it to Wayne, telling him how he’s dead, that he died a hero, fighting until the end
for a town that hated him. Mike, Will, Eleven, Jonathan, Nancy and Argyle
arrive at Hopper’s old and destroyed cabin. They all help clean it up, and as Eleven heads
into her old room to clean, Mike and Will sit down to talk. Mike hopes Vecna is dead, but Will says he’s
not. Now he’s in Hawkins, his connection to the
Upside Down has returned. He knows Vecna is alive, and he knows he won’t
stop until he’s taken everything and everyone. Mike promises they will kill him, but they
hear a government car outside. Inside her room, Eleven hears someone approaching
the door, only for Hopper to be the one who opens it. Eleven instantly starts tearing up and they
reunite, hugging each other after so long apart. They talk about their new looks and they hear
Joyce outside. So they head outside, seeing Joyce, and Eleven
goes and hugs her. Mike and Hopper reunite and hug it out. While they all are getting back on their feet,
Will gets goosebumps on his neck. They all begin to see the sky turning darker,
and everyone witnesses as the Upside Down spores float from the sky. The whole town sees the spores. Lucas and Erica know what this means, Steve
and Robin know what this means, and Dustin knows what this means. The rest travel the woods to see the view
of the town, and they see as the flowers and plants are dying. They all see the Upside Down reaching into
Hawkins, the shadow now fully entering through. Mike and Will are stunned, as Johnathan and
Nancy are fearful and Hopper and Joyce hold hands, knowing it's not over. Eleven stares into the distance, watching
as the Upside Down invades Hawkins. This is only the beginning. The beginning of the end.
