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I clicked it. I thought they were eggs. I thought they were eggs or something. Come on, 11. Not gonna be that easy. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Almost gives me vibes of the sleepy hollow tree, but just way bigger. Yeah. What? Damn it! What are you doing? I need food for my battery. You had a fully charged battery. You didn't make a dent. No, we're not getting through that thing. Whatever it is. Not this way.

We have to. We don't even know if Holly's on the other side. Hmm. Battery. Beep jerky. Deep jerky. Delicious. Uh-oh.

We gotta go. Linda Hamilton? Yeah, so can like it. Oh, no. Oh, God, they did. Shit. Oh, no. They got her.

Oh, no. I need you to answer. Answer me. I'm not mad. I just need to know you're safe. Oh, is that them? Oh, yeah. Oh, is that, uh, yeah? I think she saw us. Uh, I think she's pulling the Delorean back in reverse. Get in. Not only did you take him, you cut off all communication.

Yes, I mean, in retrospect, that was a bit inconsiderate. Is this funny to you? Oh, sorry, it must be my tone. My mother says I sound perpetually and sincere. I don't want him leaving my goddamn side. I'm right here, Mom. You can talk to me, right? And I'm not a kid anymore.

I am still your mother. Doesn't mean you know what you're doing. Oh, buddy. Because my plan, it actually worked. I spied on Vecna and tapped back into the hive mind. and we found out that Holly was just the beginning. Beckna's going to take more kids. Damn.

That's right. So next time you order me to stay by your side, I wouldn't count on it. Woo! Ooh, nice. Beach. In the future, we will try to leave a note. That is a terrific interaction, though. Awesome.

This music is sending chills down my spine, Tara. Oh, God, is this kid frozen? Oh, he's just, okay. Yep, that's why I was just, it's like, holy crap, is Clark Kent here? Tara, I think we can go to credits now. Now. Yep.

synthesizers. I'm going to shout out my... Billy Bobby Brown is pregnant with a kid. I'm going to shout out my real roomie. I heard him skipping this the other day, and I called him out for it. I said, how dare you skip this title sequence? And he responded back with, I'm sorry, I've got to be somewhere. I have to, I'm on a time crunch.

I said, okay, understandable. I skip it every time. It was an unforgivable offense, Tara, by you and him. You can't skip this. It's too good. No, I just get. I'm like, get on with it. I want the show, not the credits.

I love it. Credit sequence is great. Music is great. Love it. I love it. I love it. Chapter 3. The Turnbow trap.

All right. What do you think Sean Levy directed this one? No, look, Caitlin Schneider. Oh, Frank Derrubon? Oh, that's cool. My favorite movie director ever. What movie? Shawshank Redemption, not Schindler's List.

Uh-huh, that's right. It's just, you wish to be with them. I understand, but you cannot offer them comfort in Hawkins, Holly. The only comfort they have is knowing that you are here, safe with me, safe from the monsters. I love she has the piece that Mike gave her on her necklace. Yeah. I thought BlackBreece might cheer you up a little. They're your favorite, aren't they?

How did you know that they're my favorite? Yeah, exactly. It's just a hunch. Yeah. Perhaps tomorrow I'll make chocolate chip pancakes. He loves those. Who does? Your classmate, Derek.

Derek is coming here. Oh, didn't she say she didn't like Derek earlier to Mike? Should I just let the monsters eat him? Oh. No, you can't do that. While I'm out, you'll have the whole house all to yourself. Everything which is mine is yours. But in return, I need you to promise me one thing.

Something very important. Do you think you can do that? You must never. Under any circumstance, go out into the woods. Do you understand? Is that where the monsters live? But they won't find you. That is as long as you know.

trying to find them okay she's still learning oh and if you don't mind bring my mail in won't you Tiffany oh is that for what she wanted how did you know it's a hunch a hunch who is watching just now oh oh it's the rocket slide oh it's the rocket slide from West Craven's New Nightmare. Could be that character piece from Dungeons and Dragons or protector. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just playing around.

Huh. This is wild if it's a practical set, but I wouldn't be surprised, CGI too. Probably save on costs. Base alpha one checking in, or rapid checkpoint H. For Hercules. Yeah, like the wide scope is CGI, but, um...

You're saying just the initial right in front. The wide scope of it, yeah. And you guys take five. You heard, man. Smoking if you got him. Jeez. He's doing the Peter Dinklage thing on the wall. But he's not Tyrion.

Uh-oh. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Not one of ours.

Come on. Uh-oh. Get on the hedgehog. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Dude, I feel like monsters are going to come after them at some point.

But maybe only one monster needs to go after them, Hopper. but he's a lovable one oh he's got shit of her she's going to die oh hey whoa we're kicking enemy fire and he backed up an aircraft

now yeah if monsters don't show up I don't know how they're getting out of here do we only bring one freaking hop get your ammo come on I don't have any more

It might be another clip in there. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all I'm assuming. Come on now. Oh, he has a grenade, okay. Ooh, cool. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. All right, take him down.

Let's go Yeah, give Elle some relief Nice Later, hedgehog Oh, oh There we go Oh Oh

Woo man to use your head. Good teamwork, a effort all around. Holy shit. Yeah, bike crash. Flew head first to do a light post. Look, I'm sorry about missing the crawl.

It's definitely a bike messenger. Dump yourself up. Yeah, it looks like he already did. Is that broken? Just don't touch it. I wasn't going to, I just wanted to see if you have... This isn't a social call, kiddos. Let's go.

Gabe Nancy a look. How can you be sure, sure that Derek, the next target. Because I saw. I've learned that when I'm close enough to the hive mind, I can tap into it. I was Derek Turnbow. I'm positive. Hold on.

I'm a little lost. Shocking. I was Vecna, but inside Derek's mind. Vecna's like a psychic serial killer. The power of the mine flare. We did some digging at the hospital, and it turns out that before you took Holly, Vecna, stalked her. But it didn't appear as Vecna. He appeared as Henry.

Yep. We think he was trying to earn our trust. Now, why he went to all that trouble, we don't know. But I highly doubt his long-term goal is friendship. Whatever he's planning, we have to stop him. And we have to save Derek. And Holly. We need to make sure he doesn't see us or know where he is, so we'll need to blindfold him.

So that Beckna can't find him. Yeah. Why, Mom, you're okay with just kidnapping a child. Better than Henry kidnapping him. Now's not the time to play it safe, Jonathan. If I may. Most gaping hole is, even if by some miracle this plan even works, Holly's still missing.

Hopin'L, still M-I-A. There might be a way. A way to save Derek. Aunt Holly. Let's go. We're going to need to recruit someone that the family trusts, someone that can gain access to the house. Hi?

This person will knock the family out. Then we'll extract the family from the house with sleeping pills or something. I might know where we could get some benzos. Those things could knock an elephant on its ass. From his girlfriend? Or maybe Murray? He'll send his demos to grab him. Only he won't find Derek.

He'll find us. And we'll be ready. Flame throwers. We stick them with one of these. Nice. The demo will lead us back to its lair. To Vecna. To Holly.

Hey, yo. Nice music kick in. Yeah, good needle drop. Uh, she wants that tie. There it is. I don't think he's going to take too kindly to her being in his room. No, he said, don't leave my own. Oh, is that whoever was watching her across the street?

Probably. It looked... Henry? Oh, Derek, if this is you, it's not funny, you barf bag! Who the hell was that? I heard a growl. It's Nancy Thompson. I knew it.

Get out. I need your help. Meet me at the axe. Henry. I was definitely not Henry that left that. Nice map. Is that the wall? The rocks?

Looks like it. All right, well, here we go. You got your Boy Scout on, so let's go Boy Scouting. That Humvee hit pretty good. They don't know what's missing yet. They will soon. Okay. Minds me of the bus they hid in the end of season one

against the Demogorgon. Yep. Seems like our military friends found you crypto. Like that Superman reference. And he was also in Suicide Squad, and he mentioned Superman. That would not be brain dead. Ah.

That soldier. He said he peed on. on the big wall. Maybe he knows what it is, or how to get through it. It's highly doubtful. It's interrogate him and torture him. We go back, we tell everybody what we saw, and we make a new plan. You think they'll know how to get through the wall? I don't know. Maybe, yeah.

They won't, and we'll be back to the first square. If they don't, maybe Nicole Kidman will. If he knows something, he's been trained to resist interrogation. Yeah, but 11 could get it out of him. Good point. And if he peed on it, it equals that he's not scared of it. He's got to know that there's a way in and out. Convoy information I might be able to get out of him.

Classified information, that's not going to happen. With my help, it will. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did she get inside his mind, right? You get to ask him about the convoy. You get what you want, and I get what I want. This is all about growing up and parents allowing their children to. Ha ha ha ha.

Get me the hell out of here! You're stubborn punk ass. You know that, right? Einstein. Ah, I hate chalkboards. They have captured the fascination of scientists and science fiction writers alike. Can anyone tell me why that is? Erica.

Just what's neat about wormholes? Oh, God. Erica. Wormholes are neat because they allow matter to travel between galaxies or dimensions without crossing the space between. Yes. We're done, girl. Another galaxy, another time even. So why are we doing it now?

Apparently unstable. They're enormous gravitational force. You're part of the crew. You have 60 seconds to explain why you interrupted by favorite class. Erica, this is really serious. 57, 56. But basically, everything went bad at the call last night. Wouldn't know.

I wasn't invited. That's why I'm excited. We're gonna need you to get us into the Turnbow house. Not possible. Of course it is. Just make plans to hang out with Tina. Tina and I don't hang. You hang non-stop.

She's your best friend. Was. Oh, snap. I'd rather learn about wormholes than apologize to Tina and help you all save dipshit there. Sorry. Time's up. Hey, Tina, is that a reference to Tina in the first nightmare in Elm Street? It's about saving Holly.

Vecna took her. And yeah, now he's after dipshit. there, but we have a plan. It's a bit insane. But after it's over, I don't think Tina's going to want to talk to you ever again. Well, why the hell didn't you just start with that? All right, here we go. Shoot us down. You could always just kiss her again. I knew that was your goddamn bull cut.

Oh. Did I look like I knew what I was doing? I mean, yeah. Love it. Oh, so cute. How did you know that with Vicky, right? How did you know that Vicki wanted to... Make out?

Oh, well, we volunteered together. You know, they were like signals. What do I do about Mike? Bump of the elbow and shared look. It all just kind of accrued, like a snowball rolling down a hill and... Mm-hmm. Let's say the, uh, snowbowl we came an avalanche. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Oh, God, that looks awful. Sure does. He's gonna have Venzo's. Jackpot, Jesus, we could not have a Hawkins with this shit. Okay, so I couldn't get any ethanol, but I was able to... Murray! A creepy, child-sized CPR dummy. It's purpose of mystery to me.

Shotgun shells, per our lovely lady's request. I know Tara would appreciate those. Some water balloons. Purpose also a mystery, but... I did take the liberty of selecting the grenade style as it felt thematically appropriate. These 3,000 feet of barbed wire. Oh, shit. Some sparkling new spark plugs for Bilbo Baggins.

Hey. Spark plug, that's it? Nice Lord of the Rings reference. It wasn't a goddamn Christmas list, Murray. That's exactly what it was. And the fact that Santa Murray scrounge all this up in a single afternoon in what is likely the most heavily secured location outside of the of the White House Fort Knox in Area 51.

Tell them. So, count your blessings, hang some mistletoe, puck her up, and kiss my jolly ass. I love it. Thank you for the Sparkbox. Oh, tested. It's not fast enough to keep up with the demo, not without serious modifications. Yeah, Henderson, what the hell do you think I'm doing?

A lighter van is a faster van. Yeah. Can you go to the front and empty the window washer fluid? Oh, the window washer fluid. Oh, the window washer fluid. That'll do it. Good job, Steven. You know what? Maybe we should go back to the agreement from yesterday. What agreement?

The no-talking agreement. Oh, yeah. Beamer time. What are you doing? Henderson, I'm using that. On the beamer? I said I'm using that, man. What do you...

Yo, hey, get off the beamer, man. We don't need half the crap in there for our mission. In fact, the only thing we really need is a telemetry tracker. Anderson. Anderson, I'm dead serious. No, Tompkins. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Hey, it's a boy. Whoa! Okay, transmitter. Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are we doing? It looks like you're loading my telemetry tracker into a shotgun shell,

and what I presume are the hopes of firing it into an interdimensional being. Oh, I like that. If the heat from the exploding gunpowder doesn't destroy the transmitter, the force from the recoil will. And is that a fact or... A theory.

A theory. A theory. We gotta test it up then. Let's test it then. Yeah. Let's go, girl. Things were stagnating that your mating competition was making move. Hey, whatever you two are conspiring about back there, do it later.

Her apologies, my lady. I mean, hell, man, the two of you were brought together by shared trauma in the first place. This is the stuff of faith. Grow some balls and get it over with already. If you don't shut up right now, Santa, I swear to God, I will shoot this tracker into your potato sacks. And you know I'm a good enough shot to hit any mark, no matter how small. I love Nancy. Let's go, girl.

Quite large, actually. Potato sex Oh boy Well, did you look at that, Santa Another miracle At the very least Couldn't hurt her mood Does have a point

Is he gonna juice her in the barn With some John Coltrane in the back Oh my God He's gonna ask her to marry him Holy shit Oh my God Jonathan. We are moving here.

We're moving and we're groving. I mean, I hope she says yes. I just don't know where the relationship's at right now and how she feels about Steve. I need to know about that fleshy wall. I don't know a damn thing about it. I'm just a grunt.

Grunt. I just know you can pee on it. I used to be a grunt, so I know the difference. You're something else. Some kind of special forces puke. Mm. But guys like you and nom, you know,

guys who cut the ears off enemy corpses. make a necklace out of them yeah massacre a group of unarmed scientists all in the pursuit of one little girl she's a freak she took down a helicopter just by looking at it and it was awesome you whoever you are

you took out more of my guys so go to hell I'm already there look around you yeah those guys I killed I'd kill them a hundred times over I kill a thousand guys like you attack one person there I've left dude the intensity from David Harbour

So good. Yep. Why'd you tell us her name? Well, her name. You told us her name. Us, that little girl you're looking for. The one you called the freak.

Tiny brain of yours is mistaken. She can see everything. That's what I said to you earlier. Is she going to get in his head? So you might as well start talking. Because if you don't give me answers, she'll find them. So why don't we save some time?

This is such a cool visual. Where is Dr. I don't know what I'm just going to enjoy this hmm Gable Ridge is what is that Clark Gable Gable Ridge Road face how is you doing to me I don't really exactly know how it works but I know it's probably not a good

idea to have her rooting around there for too long she she wants the freak that's her mission that's all I know I can see what I could see at some point, Tara, that glass just coming up broken and chattering and then grabbing either people in there or Linda Hamill, oh, someone, I don't know. Oh, for sure, yeah. Okay. Like a vault. There's a door.

door secure door down the corridor down the hallway what's behind that door i don't know wow there's something back there he doesn't want me to see imagine if it was vekna i know it's not i can make it stop but you got to tell me to what's behind that door does it have something to do with the wall excuse you i don't come on do it's behind the door dude oh is he starting to break his mind? I don't know. Just get rid of my head. Oh.

Oh. Oh, is he dead? Probably. Yeah. I heard it behind the door, louder than before. The doctor's keeping someone there. Someone powerful like me. It has to be.

Vecna? They have him. They have Vecna. Wow, it was. Okay. Oh. Waved to Dylan on the way past. She's just a fairy princess.

All right, here we go. World is a scary place. You probably hate me right now. Good acting, Erica. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Tina. She's going to pull out that she, use like peppers or something or vicks to like make her cry i love it she's in job she's in

remember there's no america without erika sinclair i'm confused i thought your sister said that tina was mean oh no no she's not mean she's a villain like kill the puppies for her fur coat kind of villain now erika done something different this time sorry your pie's got a little kick a little hen of um nutmeg nutmeg Brilliant Brilliant Tina Fat fat

Derek Remember what we talked about If you don't have something nice to say Don't say it at all Such good parenting I agree Derek My spears

Spears Oh they're starting to get woozy Tara Peers Holy shit Dad's wasted again I used a low fat creamer So you can enjoy guilt free

Thanks but I'm just not hungry Ugh. Please. Why would I want you back? Because you're still jealous of me and Josh and you want to sabotage our chances of being together. Oh, God. Oh, oh, oh.

Ken? Oh, God. Where are you going? Oh, she's getting loosey, too. It wasn't an accident. It was that ball. Oh, shit. Not that hard.

You gave Joshie a black guy. I won't even look at me. Well, that's stupid. You didn't throw the... He's gonna fall any second. You humiliated him. He humiliated himself by crying like a goddamn fist. Ow?

10? Oh my gosh. Oh! Down she goes. She's going to have to knock her out. She's going to fall into it. Erica! She going to have to just knock her ass out?

Erica, I told you to call 911! And I told you to eat your damn. Yeah! Erica! We are prepping. Now we got to what, blindfold him, right? Yeah, so they can't. Beckner can't see where they're going.

Oh, I hope this works, Tara. This reminds me, too, when they prepared the house in season one at the buyer's home for the demigorgon. We're home aloning this shit. where Nancy Thompson this shit for Nightmare and Elm Street with Freddie. Oh, my God. Oh, opah. That was a sick wine cellar.

Sorry, wine. Tara's like, not the wine. Yeah. Oh, that's a good trap. Nice. Very well done. Kevin McAllister. Would really be fans of these.

He was ahead of his time. This is going to work. They had better work. It's not like we're conspicuous or anything. But I swear to God this demo better show. If we took out an entire family for nothing, my conscience will never recover. I shouldn't have talked to you that way, and I was a jerk, and I'm sorry. I know I can be.

Overprotective? I can be a lot. That's not true. When I couldn't find you this morning, I don't know. PTSD, dude. Well, yeah, gave her shades of season one. Tonight, all this started. I wasn't even home.

Yeah. Finally do get home. What do I do? I smoke cigarettes, drink cheap wine, and watch Cheers Reruns until I pass out. What happened to me? It's not your fault. She also assumed he was at Mike's. Jerry's still out on your new friend.

She certainly is interesting. But one thing I know for sure, she's not your mom. And I am not going to look away. You don't have to look away, Mom. I just... I need you to trust me. Yeah. Even though my plan last night kind of sucked.

Kind of? Hey. Let's get your coat on. It's a lot harder to save the world if you have the sniffles. Very true. Yeah, I hear you just stop talking. I think we got company. Uh-oh.

Status check. Taggers. In position and set. Launcher? Set. Catcher. Set. Trackers?

Set. Let's do this thing already. Okay. We have come prepared. It's inside. Minimized chatter. Inside. Keep your trap shot.

Oh, this is a terrifying tracking shot. Oh, such a sick of room. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm here to collect Derek. Pee Wee Herman's big adventure. Nice. Oh, the CPR dummy. Woo!

Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. Yeah. Yes. Nice shot. Oh, that's just like home alone. Just like home alone. And that's just like Nightmare and Elm Street. Two coming together.

Whoa. Oh, come on, come on. Damn. Whoa. Oh, you are going to fall down. Nice jump, Lucas. Whoa. You better snap that hand.

You get in the hard bar. Come on now. There we go. Come on. There we go. Nice. This is incredible teamwork. Excellent job.

Woo! Awesome. Awesome. Nes me! Let me! All right. Oh, shite. Come on.

Come on, come on, Mike. Oh, God. Oh, no. Wow! Will they... It flipped! Signal acquired. Headed our way.

How close. Okay. Dustin, how close? Whoa, whoa. Oh, God, it's... Shit. Oh, God. Hold your horses.

Bering northwest and fast. Oh, come on. Devil tag. Oh, Beamer. Repeat. Tracker's in pursuit. Hit it! There we go. Holding.

Turn right. Right, right, turn right now. Oh, damn. Nice. You're gonna grab! He said right, Jesus Christ! Hennerson, what are we doing? I lost the signal.

Come on. Come on. I got it. Left. Oh no. Dude, Steve needs to be in the Fast and the Furious universe. Why would they turn around? Maybe he's trying to shake them? No, that's impossible.

It doesn't know it's being tracked. Oh, are they waking up? I'm sorry, okay. I'll probably explain this to at some point, but for now, please just don't move. I thought he'd like two slices of hot. Shit, but, yeah. We're southeast. That's why it turned around.

Right. Vecna's scene. He knows where we are. Shit. What the heck are we gonna do now? I would think. Hello? Henry?

Are you there? Hmm. Henry? It's got to be the government that left her that note. Because if Henry's was the government, the government tries to get her because he... Ah. The shite, Tara. Who is there?

Oh, oh. Who is that? I need answers. It's a young Henry Creel before he was corrupted. I really don't know who this is. I swear if it is a young Henry Creel, that'll be insane. The note did say Henry, right?

Is it a young Henry? Tara? No, it's not. Oh, my God, Max? Max. What? Max! Nice!

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play your first $5 lineup. That's code Rejects to get $50 in lineups after your first $5 lineup. Price Picks, it's good to be right. All right, episode four, three, two, one. I know you're scared, but I promise you, we are here to help you. Yeah. Do you know who I am? Child Kidnapper. Yes. I'm not evil. I'm just mom.

That's my son. I said that she's going to say, I'm just a kidnapper. Zombie boy. You know why they call him that? Because he died and came back to life. When he went missing, he was taken by a scary monster. Yeah. That scary monster is after you.

Yeah, I know. Mr. Whatzit told me. Tell him. Just why you need a... No. No. Mr. Whatzit is not who he says he is. Oh, God. He is lying to you. All these monsters they work for.

him now that's why we took you here to this barn we thought this barn was safe but he's found us so we have to move you again somewhere he can't find you so if i untie you will you cooperate come with us oh god he's gonna like run and start screaming you're a fair i don't trust derrick yeah i knew it this little dude hey man i get it but you're gonna be eaten by monster oh maybe not all right well the door get the door Nobody out by me getting up! Get away from me! Get me!

I need the rope. Let me go. Oh boy, help me. Oh, boy. This kid. Yeah. Okay. You're not getting past Erica, buddy.

Oh, no. Derek is savage. Listen. And that savageness is going to get him into the upside down. I'm liking what he's, if I was kidnapped, I'd probably do the same thing. You're going to be dinner, buddy. Uh-oh. Oh, shit.

Yep, here we go. Now, do you believe us, Derek? Yeah. Have Eddie. You want him. You're going to have to come through me. That's right, Joyce. That's right.

Let's go. Mama Bear. Thank you. Right in the head, right in the head, Joyce. You're doing good, you're doing something. I don't know why. Maybe Will. Robin and Erica are not.

Oh. I do get that scary. Nice job. Damn, Will felt that. We got it. Way to go, guys. Oh, wow, look at that. Oh, he got scared and ran off.

off oh did we get oh we did get it okay awesome well they hit it with that tracker yeah what are you doing man we gonna turn around I drive fast enough I think the beamer can punch a hole straight into the gate what oh yeah baby use that German engineering let's go head on to the metal baby yeah no way That's what I'm talking about. We're not going to make it. It's not going to work. Yeah, you will.

No, you're going to make it. You're going to make it. You're going to make it. You're going to make it. Beam, beam, beam. Nice. Love this. It did it.

I wanted to go, no. Okay, thank goodness. Okay, fine. We've seen a little more vehicles in there, but It's so intriguing. Oh, what happened to Will? I got you. Yikes.

What he just saw. Although he did say that Mr. What's it said a monster was coming. So maybe that still doesn't prove anything. Oh, the sword and the stone. Cute little doggy Oh, it doesn't look good? Alan Miller? What is this about? It's your daughter, sir

Uh, okay Directed by the Duffer brothers Looks like our boys taking us on the shortcut through Roan Cemetery That's almost the county line Doesn't this thing ever get tired? Unfortunately, it looks like the opposite, I think he's speeding up Yeah, we're going to be shitting you, man. Can you go faster?

Let's see. Ooh. Yeah, we can. Good advertising, though, for BMW. Works in the upside down, too. Well, then listen harder, Henderson. You want to try to put these on? We're nice cars.

What is that? Do they cost a lot? Steve. Uh, pay attention to the road, dude. See? Watch out! Steve, look out! Oh, boy.

Okay. Jonathan, Nancy, Dustin, it's Joy. Please answer me. Any luck? On the plus side, I guess that means they made it through. I want to see where they're headed. Right, we can track what to thing. Oh, with Will.

He's like a warg. Kind of taking over the role of his mom. Didn't she usually do the designs? Totally. Now I know where they're headed. Absolutely. It's so clear to me. I could feel it's important to him. It's Mr. What's it? What's it?

His real name is Henry, aka Vecna, aka 1. That's too many names. Uh-huh. Why won't you just zip it and listen? Shit. Hey, tell him. I wasn't supposed to see it. Sometimes at the squawk, when a signal comes in too strong, it overloads the whole system.

I think that's what this was, an overload. You didn't just tap into the hive mine. You jacked right into the goddamn control center. Where was Holly? It was attached to this spire. By her. She became a part of it. Oh, wow.

And there were others. There was three others. I thought Beckner was just coming from shit. Uh-huh. So did I. But I only knew about Derek because he walked right past me. All right. Serendipitous timing.

You hear that? Serendipitous. I don't know what that means. Night one, Beckney kidnaps Holly. Night two, he takes three more. He's escalating. Yeah. Eight more, if this is accurate, which brings him to a total of 12.

of 12 why kids and why swell i don't know he's got to eat we have to stop him before he takes any more and by dustin and the other's time to find this place did you forget we're quarantined that's not all there's another problem yeah it's we saw soldiers load debby miller onto a bus with a bunch more kids and then we followed them for two blocks more and they loaded more kids onto it yep i don't think they're taking them to school that's not the only one that wants these kids yep 11 was at the wheeler house the same night holly was taken 24 hours later we've got three more missing kids that's not a coincidence and you believe 11 has taken these kids for what purpose killing them protecting

them the reason doesn't matter so cold so heartless and these children where are they now arriving at the maxi any moment which is where I want you report to the maxi colonel that's an order with all due respect these kids are in danger to use them as bait seems seems what sergeant do not question me sir Oh. Are you telling me you can't protect him, Sergeant? No, ma'am. Good.

That's in any way to manipulate him. I'm sorry for scaring you. I haven't seen anyone in a really long time, so I guess I got excited. She's so excited. It doesn't look that deep. Not enough for stitches. What do we call them raspberries? You can talk to me.

You do remember me. I've been to your house, like a lot. Yeah. You're Max. You skateboard and never take off your walk room. That's me. Exactly. She's always running up that hill.

Still. You should get going. It's not safe here. Where are we going? My home. Do you know Henry? Yeah, you could say that. That was me.

That was me. Henry is a lot of things, but in trouble with the monsters. Henry is a lot of things, but in trouble with the monsters is not one of them. No, but look. I know what the note says. Holly. Holly. I know what the note says because Henry didn't write it.

I did. I don't understand. She's trying to save you, girl. I had to make sure that you came here. You're one of them, aren't you? The monsters. Do I look like a monster? I don't know.

Maybe you're in disguise. dressed weird and you're in a coma. Okay, well, would a monster know that your brother tried to get a Mohawk until your sister stopped him? They're to question that. Saving him from possibly the greatest social humiliation that a freshman

has ever experienced at Hawkins High. Maybe it would have been pretty rocker. What color was this mohawk? Hot orange. And personally, I think the use of the word hot is a bit ironic, but people say I'm too negative. I just think I'm honest. Would a monster know this?

Cool. Come on. Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think her collection's complete? Welcome. And she always does a good job of making you feel the wonder and like of what she's like discovering. The actress is playing Holly.

It even comes with a view. Nope. Don't get that view in Hawkins. Well, maybe depending where you stand. Where are we in a memory? exists inside a world of a thousand memories. I know it might look nice, but it's not. This place, this world, it's a prison.

Henry's prison. Mm-hmm. I've been deceived. Great visual. Like what the F is going on? It's OK, sweetie. These are the good guys. They're going to keep everyone safe.

Yeah. Right. To go get eaten by a monster. There is something to be learned in that. What you don't want to happen. I repeat... Cargo has arrived. They're taking them into a barrack second from the library.

Tunnels. Haven't gotten any hopper or 11 yet. Tunnel of the Max Z runs right underneath the barracks. Hmm. Barracks is gonna be heavily guarded. I mean, we have to dig up into the barracks, unnoticed. Yeah. Grab the kids, get them to Murray, smuggle them out of pockets.

All before anyone notices they're gone. Sounds easy. What? What? Oh, sorry, did I say that out loud? I thought I was talking in my head, but you guys know Tom. I'm Harry, right? None of you have seen the great escape.

I have not. Have you seen that? It's about these POWs, right? But I know Tom and Harry. I mean, it's like a... And they're stuck in a barracks just like this one, and they need to escape. So they dig these tunnels,

and they call their tunnels Tom and Harry. They have to hide the tunnels from the Nazis, so they put Tom in this dark corner, and they put Harry under the stove, and they put in the washroom. And personally, for us, I like... The character... She doesn't.

Never mind. Okay. Say we go. Exactly. This is not the way you want to come out. How do we find the washroom? And how do we get the kids to it? How do we even know which kids are being targeted by Beckno?

We use an inside man. Someone who could get into the barracks. Measure the distance of the washroom. Find out which kids have actually seen Mr. Watson and somehow avoid the military altogether. Maybe the teacher that they're friends with. Well, that's a lovely plan, but isn't it a tad? Missing impossibly. Yeah.

Who are you going to get to do this? Bond? Magnet? No, no, we don't want a super spy. Tom Possible. We want the opposite. We want someone no one would suspect. Someone that could just walk in.

No questions asked. The one kid, the military failed to wrangle. Oh, kid. Derek. Love it. What? They're gonna be like, send this kid back. We don't want him.

Two grunts in the tower by the Westgate. Hmm. One more in the tower. the tower by the east gate one two three four on the ground i hope to god you're right in vekna is in there because we might just die trying to break in i am right now well you can't be right about everything because your theories aren't exactly lining up why not you heard kryptonite he's affecting us in there he doesn't have his powers and he doesn't have his powers how could you have anything to do with holly's kidnapping you can ask him before i kill him how high is that fence

you're not jumping that and that roof is metal hey what watch me do it and time me you hit that on a jump you're gonna alert the whole damn base not if i time it with the thunder it's seven seconds one two three four five six you got it boom baby okay you got lucky hopper you copy dustin hey hey uh it's hop i copy okay well they're alive well is you over yes um here over okay yay terrific i don't know what you're doing right now Hope and optimism misrestored. Meet us at Rhone Cemetery Church, please. Rhone Cemetery, how the hell are you contacting up?

From there. Right, you don't know. We're in the upside down. Yay. We're in here to track a demigorgan using our telemetry tracker, only to then hit a wall. You hit a wall. What kind of wall exactly? Hard to describe.

Oh. Sort of... Huge. Disgusting. It smells like Henderson's armpit. Bless you. Cemetery. We did about a quarter mile southeast of the Old Hagen Bridge.

Yeah, they're pretty close. opposite side of town oh never mind fascinated we don't know what it is but we think that holly's behind it don't bother trying to break through you you can't we're working on a solution uh oh right okay so the wall's just huge listen we gotta keep the airwaves clear all right we'll come get you just stay put you think they're safe i mean compared to us yeah let's go see if that training is paid off you're gonna let me jump let's go before i change my you already beat the time deckness curse it never goes away with each victim that he took he created a new gate

gate to the upside down when he took me he opened the fourth final gate splitting hawkins into wait but if mr what's it i mean henry took you gnarly how are you here you mean shouldn't i be dead it's okay it's a fair question eleven i definitely should be and for a moment i was oh yeah savage then i felt something calling to me thank god for 11 oh oh This is so cool seeing from her perspective when 11 woke her up. Ooh. Shit.

That was the scene where we saw 1 and 11 when she banished him, right, into the upside down. Don't go out there. There's sandworms. Oh, wow. Is this Henry in high school? Miss, tickets are only 50 cents. Ah, that's joys.

Better see you there, her. Where's Hopper? Wow, de-aged her. Nice shot, jerk. No, that's just, they just did ADR. That's not even her. Somehow, I was in another time, Hawkins, 30 years ago. Time travel.

Only, I wasn't actually there. Not really. I was just an observer. I would love if we had a show. You saw Hopper's name on there. And that's when I understood. I was trapped inside Henry's mind, his memories. Yeah, so Henry did go to high school with them.

Prison world ruled by an evil psychopathic piece of shit. Mm-hmm. Like Camazzo. Camazazazaw, it's like this dark planet that's under the control of it, which is this giant disembodied evil brain. Anyways, Meg's dad, Meg's the main character. He gets taken prisoner fare. So Henry's kind of like it, and you're kind of like Meg's dad.

Okay, well. Mm-hmm. I don't know if Meg's dad would agree. But the way I see it, when you're a prisoner and a messed up prison world, you really only have a few doors open to you. Door one, you take your own life. Door two, accept your fate, or door three. You escape?

I chose door three. That seems like the best door. I like door three. So I kept moving from memory to memory. Only this place is a maze. I became lost. Yeah. Turned around.

I got so turned around. I actually ended up right back at the beginning. And that's when I heard her. Running up that hill. I heard Kate Bush. Yeah. Is she one of your friends? You could say that.

I wish. Didn't Lucas put it on for her and when she was right? True. Bars dropped. To guide me out of Beckna's mind. Back to the light. This music was coming from Lucas.

From the real. real world even after all this time he hadn't given up on me never if you follow this music then it would lead me out of here back home at least that's what i thought back to lucas then everything went wrong oh no oh henry's back there this is just a ruse where's Derek love the jansport backpack cool I'm gonna see, I don't think, I love it. It's just, my school is missing. They're like, oh, yeah, we thought it was a kid, it's okay. That was easy enough.

Got the man on the inside. Move it. Shit, remote laser blasters? Might just me. I love how intrigued he is, because we saw his room. Boy, can't get me. Boys. Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is a private chat.

It was exactly as he was. That was a cool dragging shot. It made me a little dizzy, but I still liked it. Breaking Bar, shovel, five safety goggles, a surveyor's wheel, and hold for applause. Murray was Amazon before Amazon existed. Santa Slay is ready for his reindeer. We got built-in benches, seatbelts, foam padding.

Foam padding. Don't want to break any eggs in route now, do we? I'm in. I'm in, feel coffee. Repeat, I'm in, feel coffee. Yes, yes. Copy. We copy. Where are you? Bathroom. Backstall.

Forty-five of my paces from the front entrance. Love it. Good job. Now, round of anyone who's seen Mr. Wessett. And we'll be there soon. He's good. And remember, you're not dead Derek. You're delightful, Derek. Yeah.

All right. I love it. That's why you were chilling to go. Oh, you could see the spick of it. Sweet Nike's 11. you lead that's right you thought ell and ripley's were nice check mine out will destroy your kryptonite all right al got a time with that seven seconds too

two three all right come on come on you got this you got this six seven a little bit longer maybe i counted Oh, that was sick. Nice job, Al. Nice. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Cool, cool, cool. So smart to use the thunderous cover.

Wait, you're too early, you're too early. All right. Sorry. Ooh! That's what I'm talking about. That's some 11 juice right there. Snapperooney. Yeah.

For trusting me. For teaching me and trusting me. For that too. And that too. With this in mind, I've been sent by Mr. What's it to gather the chosen ones. If you've been visited by Mr. What's it, speak now. And I will lead you to our savior, to safety. All right.

Eric's gone mental. Derek, were you talking about Henry? Yeah. Yep. Anywhere from Derek yet? Not yet. Give them time. It hasn't been that long.

I just can't get over the fact. At the fate of the world, rest on Derek freaking turbo. Derek's got this. Your mom and Robin are getting along better. Well, it didn't hurt that mom scared off that demo. So when you're mom, when she had her axe, you could see her through the demo's eyes? Yeah.

And I was so close to the hive. It's like I could... We will not fold under pressure. I could feel what it was feeling, like, that I was still in there, too. I was afraid for my mom. You wanted the protector? Yeah, but I just couldn't. Open Sesame.

Have fun. Thanks. Are you positive if you didn't? Didn't want. Turn off the scary movie. Protect your mom, not the other way around. I mean, that's what I was thinking. I thought he had control, because I saw backing off.

I can't like to control the hive mind like a puppet master. So maybe when you tap into the hive, you can pull the strings too. Exactly. Except I'm not Vecna. You sort of are. You're trying to say that I'm evil and hell-bent on destroying the world? Totally.

Something when you were in his mind. No, I'm just saying that, you know, you're like a wizard, like him. In D&D, Mike, not real life. In real life, you're more like a sorcerer. That's the name of the episode. Because your powers don't come from a book of spells. They're innate.

Listen, as far as crazy theories go, I've had crazier. Oh, she sees what I see, Tara. And with 11 in the upside down, we really need some magic up here. It's such a wild image seeing the beamers stuck in the wall. Oh, what are we seeing? I'm just saying that maybe you shouldn't be making the calls from now. It was not just his call.

It was mine because it's my sister. I agree with Steve. Okay, we can't just sit here. I don't know what it's a word like this wall can't go on forever. There has to be a way around it. there isn't that hurt him this wall is a circle a circle completely surrounding the upside down and how exactly do you figure that because unlike you i didn't sleep through algebra one tell him frequency coming from the wall and it took me a bit to place but i've heard it before

rather we have you might be the charming one i'm the brains you remember when we were out looking for hop and you heard that sound off of irwin road yeah you said it was an interference it was but this interference it wasn't coming from a military broadcast or an em i ah it was coming from this wall, which is important because that gives us the center. The DOE, the Department of Energy. Re-Angulate it. Hawkins' lab. What are the chances that the center of this wall just so happens to be in the very place where all of this starts?

So the lab created the wall. Right. No idea, but I think we should find out. Let's go! The music, it led me to a new memory. Swear the shot. Only, something was different about this memory. I was there.

It was the day that Henry cursed me. I still had the music to guide me. Right. I followed it, and it led me through new memories. Terrible memories. Let's go! Follow me into death. Yeah, I was thinking about her brother there.

And it felt like they would never end. Then eventually they did. It was the night that Fechna killed me. The night he took me prisoner. I finally found it. Ah. The way out. Full reflection show.

Next karaoke song, you better be singing this one, Tara. Aw. one of the gates and i was so close so close i could feel it was a hand on mine and it was like i was there like i was with him in that hospital all right we did see the heart monitor increase No. Lucas. Lucas! Lucas!

That's scary. So close. Hello, Max. Oh. What a contrast to see him say hello Max, like in human form. And I kept running. into uh not allowed to go in there i'll never forget the look on his face that day he was scared terrified there's something about this cave this memory he won't come in it's like his

krypton night and here i'm safe so i turned it into my sanctuary it's his worst nightmare my home i took door two shitty door two except your fate that was until you showed up until you came and now door three is back escape i have a plan a plan to get us out of here and it's going to take time more time than we have now all right henry will return to his house soon and when he does he cannot know that you're gone you you want me to go back there back to him back to henry no i yeah i know it's scary you can do it girl if you want to escape camisots this is the only way it's the only way tell me what i need to do right Fearful to brave.

I like it and determined. Talk to him, Robin. Hey. Do you, um, play a chance to remember Tammy Thompson? Yeah, isn't she that terrible thing? Yeah. But in the ninth grade, I thought that she sounded like Whitney. God damn Houston.

I mean, the first time I saw her, oh my God. Like, time slowed down. You'll always love her. Her hair blew in the wind, and she just looked perfect, so goddamn perfect. And it was right then and there that I knew she was the ones. There was always this part of me that kind of scared me, you know? But I thought that if Tammy loved me, wouldn't be so scared anymore. And then he showed up, Steve the Hare, Harrington.

Oh, God. Tammy fell for him hard. My entire fantasy life with her, along with the rest of my life, pretty much imploded before my eyes. But then when I was cleaning Batchett out of my parents' garage, and I found this. This 8mm film reel. You know, and it was just from the silly movie that I made in the fourth grade, but I got it up on the projector. All of a sudden, I was looking at this little version of myself.

I could hardly recognize her. You know, she was so carefree, hearless. She just loved every part of herself. Hmm. And that's when it hit me. I was never about don't have damn. It was always just about me. Yeah.

Always stay true to yourself no matter what. I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so goddamn scared. Scared of who I really. Always miss 100% of the shots you never take. Once I did that, I felt so free. It's like I could fly, you know? Like, I could finally be...

Rock and Robin. Hmm. Rock and round it. Hey, guys. Take your time, will you? Oh, man. That's such a beautiful interaction. Let's just hope it's not too hard.

If it is, I'm soft. They were having a heart to heart. I like. Very. It was vulnerable and it was emotional. I appreciate it. Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Don't she say he's a dead man, Lindemmel? Take me the kid. Damn it! Damn it! Whoa!

Make a sound, it'll be your last. Not if you understand. Come on, let's go. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. I don't have clearance. I didn't ask if you have clearance. I asked, how do we get through?

get through you can't thanks for your help yeah i don't see brad pitt okay 11 let's go Imagine that's Dustin and crew. Oh, shit, shit. Oh. Oh. I guess it's good now that Dustin, Robin, and them are on the way. They're also digging through the dick, right? yep we're through we made it oh she can hear them oh she can hear them

gonna bust up in her face we're gonna bust the pipe it's gonna go Not a good sound. I feel like water. You might. Yeah, it might be. I hope you know how to swim. I want you to picture yourself on a beach. The water is blue.

Blue as a smirk. You listen to it, lap the sandy shore. This is just too good. It's called visualization. Mom does it when she's out of Valium. All right, here we go. Let's go! Now that restroom really is gonna be out order.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, be careful, please. Great job, step by step. Oh, no, that's not good. It's gonna blow! Indeed. Sounded a bit like a rave for a second. Good trap by Hopper though. Nicely done. Good job Hopper.

I have been looking for you for a very long time. My name is Dr. Kay. Yeah, don't worry, honey, we know. I know who you are. Know who you've taken. We've come to kill you. And I also know that you and your men are going to die. Let's go.

Normally, it's the other way around when Linda Hamilton's involved, but tonight, L's got you on lock. You just gave away your position. Oh Damn Nice job Hopper Uh-oh, uh-oh That's gonna be a good cover though

Nice, you're gonna be Terminator 2 vibes T-800 versus T-1000 Oh Oh! Damn, that's gotta burn. Nice! Oh, that's gonna grab him. Oh, God, oh.

Get out of there, Hopper. Oh, God. Oh, no. It's best not to struggle, the greater the perceived threat, the more aggressive its response. Hmm. You're all right with your jacket. Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.

Are you by chance looking for Mr. Whatzip? Go quickly, please. I love it. You look up at the sky, searching for clouds. Mr. Water's gonna start coming out of here, yeah. Now we're gonna be in real trouble, like maybe right now. Uh-oh. No, no, no.

She's not with us! Mr. Watson? What's it? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh, no. Yeah, we're screwed. Oh, God, you let the walk he talks again.

Ah, I love it! He might be making up to block the door. Okay, all right. I see what's going on here. Good job, Derek. So you're the reason, the reason she's been so hard to track. Hmm. The thorn.

in my side and after all that effort to hide her you bring her here desperate times desperate measures why risk her life what do you know that I don't oh it's actually holding back if you can believe it oh god oh yikes but in the cold it thrives Woo! Come on, Elle, push through. Grab those scissors. Like, why would she... I figure she'd tie her up, at least, but I guess not. I don't know why she'd leave 11 in there alone.

Tell her. In your current state, I'm afraid that won't work. Mm. Nice. Whoa! There you go, Levin. Nice that. Okay, okay, okay. There we go. There we go. There we go.

Gonna need her for clearance, right? We're too late. Cavalry's on its way. I'll be quick. Nice. Nice. Where are the damn kids? Grocery delivery. Where's everyone else? Come on, sweetie.

Oh my god, I want that girl's outfit. You get down here right now, or monsters gonna eat you. Tell her. Oh, okay. Oh, no. Oh, no. I was like, there's no way these military police

against us with this water. Okay. Where do you think you're going? Ew, why'd you say it like that, you weirdo? What are you doing? You gotta go. Who are you got to go? Come on.

What about you? Take this compass. You're gonna follow it northeast. That'll take you to the graveyard. You're gonna find Nancy and the other. Oh, he's a suicide mission. If anything happens, I gotta make sure that he goes down with me. No.

It's only way. It's only one. No. No. I wish you to know something. From here on out, I want you to know. I don't know how proud I am of you. Hopper.

I'm proud of who you are. Hopper! I love you, Jane. Oh, please. No. Rapper! Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, going back to his daughter's. It's a memory right there. Hmm... Great cut. All right, kids. Come on, find a seat in the back. Okay, let's have some fun, huh? This gonna be great, huh? This woman... Joy Spires? She broke into the barracks. She's been helping them escape through some kind of tunnel.

I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? They're under our protection. If I may reject officer, I'd say. officer I've seen what's coming you and your men can't protect shit right Derek oh don't touch him oh no oh no this is not good here it comes will will will are you okay it's like he we've got to get in you got to feel it see if you can control it you got to steer it a different way buddy they're here Oh, is that a poltergeist reference?

They're here. Oh. Take the nearest threat, engage on site. We're all going to die, we're going to die! All right. Will, what can we do here? Whoa! Oh, forget about it.

Oh, my God. Forget about it. Look at him. Wild. I mean, look, if a bed can protect you or a desk or a bed can protect you from a nuke, can protect you from a demigorgon, right? I think he can protect you from a nuke, but sure. We need some flame throwers.

Okay, now you're in his mind. How do we turn him, Will? You're in there, Will. Oh, no. Yep, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, God.

Oh, no. Shite. Come, show it. Whoa! Whoa! Wow! Coming after the kids! Those demos run! Whoa, wild. Wild.

Very long. Awesome. Hey, we're getting out of here, all right? Eyes on me, stay close. Nice. Come on. We have it right now I'm not running a guy I'm not ready to die

I think we can make it Alright Get into the tunnels and get the hell out of you Yep okay eyes on me remember One two three eyes on me Alright Okay all right all right all right Jesus

That was a real cut within that shot, even though there was one hidden cut I saw amazing, amazing Oh, he feels it, right? Hold on, baby, hold on! Because he felt it when they got hit by the car. The hell just happened! I have no idea, but I love it! But I love it! So do we.

They've got to get him also disconnected from the hive mine, too. As much as it's helping them, it's hurting him. Oh, thank goodness. Now we can get to work, Eleven. It was behind that door. It's not the sister from season. Oh. Is it from season two?

The sister? Yeah, it is. I was wondering when she would come back. Okay, girl. Let's start making Beckna see some weird ass shit then. uh that looked like vectna from the hand oh yeah he looks like a new wild man

good luck at that shoot away just waste and bullets man look he looks so armored up even more so than before uh huh Can't just stand there. I don't think his plane throw is going to work on him. Ah, he's too powerful. Okay, we got to run to the freaking Raider Shack in the tunnel, y'all.

Yeah. Oh, God, y'all are dead. Nice. Damn. Oh. Oh no, they can rip through there. Yeah, they can. What are we doing here?

Do something, Murray. Return, though, to Vecna. Are they going to feel Vecna in the thing calling them? Maybe, I don't know. Nice. Good job, good job, good job. Keep whipping them. But I was wondering if a tip-over was going to happen.

Oh, no. Bank them, guys. Bank up. Oh, no. Sisters, combined powers. Oh, my God. Jesus. That's what I'm talking about.

That looked awesome. And gnarly as hell. That was, wow. Oh, no. What she going to do? mama bear let's go joyce you stay away oh Joyce

yeah all right so what can we do here well come on buddy oh can you see them you know you know why I chose them to reshape the world

Oh no Lucas dang because they are weak uh weak in body and mind uh the perfect vessels you were the first and you broke so easily oh savage you showed me what was possible what i could achieve some minds it turns out simply do not belong in this world they belong in mine oh oh okay well i guess you'll warn your lesson because you shouldn't have kept him all Control this one, Will? And this one?

See. Sometimes people just need proper motivation. Technically just said it might be weak. Well, let's go. What do we do? What do we do? Come on, Will. You're going to kick in, but how do we do it? I was looking for the answers in somebody else, but... It was in you, buddy. I thought that was the ending, too.

A young William. Do you want to be friends? Didn't she say she watched old people? footage of herself too, Robin. I just, uh-huh. He did just stop being so, God damn scared. Yeah, because this is where he's free, he's most self.

Playing with Mike as a kid, like really, really young. Scared of who I really was. Wow, it's so good. Oh, young Jonathan. Once I did that, I was so free. It's like I couldn't fly. He's a wizard, a sorcerer. Are they floating now?

Well, you've got the power. What up, Will. Can't come for Will. Oh! That's so cool. All right, Elle, you've got some cool competition now. What did you say? He was like a warging it out.

He's a warg. Oh, he got you too, yosh. Damn. Back up, up will, dude. Oh, you shouldn't have given the power, Vecna, and kept him alive. But we're glad you did. Cool. Damn, he's pulling a Vecna on them.

Do the spine snap, snap their necks, and do it all. Wow. Awesome. Okay. Yeah, he's doing the Vecna on them. Oh, my God, yeah. That was one of the ones. of the coolest sequences in the entire show awesome holy shit they didn't go well this is what you were

made for whoa dope a f that was awesome sauce that was awesome sauce let's freaking go he's free no longer scared hell yeah oh so good that was amazing all right guys we just got done watching the new Stranger Things. Red is all get up. Episodes three and four of season five. If you are on

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Okay. So I'll let you give some quick open thoughts about how you feeling, Andrew, about what's going on here. Oh, my God. So much to talk about. It was incredible. That was one of the most badass and coolest moments ever with Will. This kid has been through so much torment, so much anguish, what Vecna has put him through throughout the seasons. And to call him weak like that.

And the heart to heart that he had with Robin will tell him that, hey, no matter. matter what, all and through, you've got the power within you, you know, all the, you, no matter what happens, you are the answer. And I thought that was just such a beautiful interaction, it's one of my favorites actually in the entire series. And then to see him, like, believe in himself. Because at the end of the day, we only have ourselves, right? And when it comes to, when we're, I mean, we have support systems, of course, and that's what helped him there in that moment with Robin. But when we have to look for answers, uh, uh, as well as the support systems we have. We have to find that strength within us as well. And I love

that Will did that. And that was just one of the coolest badass reveals. And we got a little hint to that too. When we saw that the Demogorgon was kind of backing out of the barn, it looked like Will was sort of controlling it there. So he was starting to get a feel for it. I'm curious to see what's going to happen with, like at some point they're going to have to destroy the hive mind. I hope that means Will doesn't have to sacrifice himself and be taken with it. But all on that was one of the most badass things I've ever seen, just seeing him have the power right there, and seeing him

that, especially right after Vecna, just called him weak and just everything he's put him through, as I just mentioned. So, such an incredible moment for Will, and that I don't remember that actor's name yet, but he really sold the moment there so much. You could just

buy, it was such a cathartic thing for him, just after everything that has happened, all the pain, and just to be able to like really embrace that that moment right there and have that type of power was so beautiful so well executed and then also to feel the emotionality too of what hopper was prepared to do having encompassed that too with seeing what happened with his daughter he's just not losing another daughter is just not an option and even though he's got a family now with Joyce with all the other kids and with Elle he's willing to do with whatever it takes to protect that family. And I think that's just sad and beautiful at the same time. And that was really endearing.

And yeah, there's a lot more I can talk about, but just keeping on the short thoughts, what did you think of the episode? I'm really, really loving it. I do really like the new character, Derek, that they threw in there. We're getting to, in getting to season five, when you throw in a new character, they're still throwing in a kid that feels very 80s, nostalgic.

It's, nowadays, we, they're not. they're not actually going to cast like a chubbier kid who's like eating and and that he gets made fun of he was a little bit of a bully we did see him that's just why people were like screw screw you Derek but i really like that they kept it they're still keeping it in his writing it's still very old school which i love it's sort of like it's very nostalgic him being the trap um i think is a lot of fun and it throws in like some new blood in there i think the most surprising thing for me is how much less 11 was in, I believe, in both of these episodes. Her and Hopper haven't been in the episodes as much. I don't mind it. I did really like

the shootout. I thought that was a lot of fun with Hopper, her using her powers, but she gets snapped off right away because of the sound. So now that was. We're finally getting into it. Like, the sound is off. Hopper's there. What are we looking at? We found eight. And Will has got freaking ward powers.

Like, let's freaking go. Now I'm like, oh, it's really about to take off. But these episodes were really, really good foundation. And I also agree that, you know, again, as I said, we did talk in great detail about the Lily Allen affair with freaking David Harper. Now listen, I'm just saying this for people who I am viewing, sometimes him in 11, and I'm thinking, did they do these scenes together or did they have to like not? Because she's like suing him or whatnot. Overall, I still think that the chemistry was there between 11 and Harbor. I know, I use his real name, Harbor.

Oh, David Hartman. Anyway, I still think that chemistry is definitely there. and I felt it. And I thought it was such a sweet moment when he calls her Jane. And he just says, I love you, Jane. He goes back to her OG name that we haven't heard in a long time. And I just like, I adored it. I also really love the nostalgic throwbacks where we go back to the Rainbow Room. We're in there with Max. Max is sent there. We do see that disaster that we've seen before in previous seasons. And now that she's teaming up with Holly, I think that's a lot of fun. And now that we're all together, you know, sort of, with more of us in the upside down.

And then we've got Joyce and the rest of them sort of helping with the kids. There's still a lot going on as they're always in, is in every single episode here with Stranger Things. It's still, it's a lot of fun. And I love it. I did want to say that I was reading that the Turnbow reference. So in chapter three, it's called the Turnbow Trap. And the Turnbow reference, it's a throwback to the Turnbow Land and Development, which is a Hawkins power player previously on signage that you would see.

So that's like that paid off. And then they said something else about season two. I was reading, I might find it here in a sec, that they were like, oh, yeah, we planned this in season two, which I thought was very cool. Obviously, I really like this last episode, I think, the most because of the one shot. There was a hidden shot with the Demigorgon flying in towards the camera, but they did all of that action on set with all of the kids, all of the military, all of the trucks, working with special effects, working around it, going all the way around the freaking building, and back and hiding. That was a wunner. Yes, there was a hidden shot. Of course.

It does not matter. My point being is like that was such a brilliant shot. And when the Duffer brothers direct, they're the ones that have the long oneers, which I am obsessed with. They've done it in most of the stuff that they direct. And I wish that we could get them for all of them. But I don't know if they're going to direct, you know, the last three. I would hope.

But I did really love that. I would say the last, I mean, there's still four more episodes, so I would say the last two. I would guess that they're going to be. They usually do in the previous four seasons. But I was so intrigued by when we were with Max and Holly and we were looking at some of Henry's memories. And we saw that Henry, for a moment, did go to high school with Joyce and with Hopper. I don't know how much of that they're going to unpack here in the next four episodes. If they don't do too much into that, just throwing something out there really quick, I would love it.

some point of like even a spin-off if they go into that. I know that are going to have to talk about the upside down and that Joyce and Hopper never knew about the upside down. So how do you incorporate that? Whatever the case is, I'd love for the Duffer brothers or whoever wants to tackle that. I'd prefer to be the Duffer brothers. But I would love to spend a lot of time just dealing in that high school environment and with Henry and with Hopper and Joyce. I think that there's a plateau of things you could do there. But either way, I thought that was something interesting that they just at least gave us a nod to and showed us that there's a connection there. So I don't know how well they knew Henry, but I would imagine he was an outcast and someone

that they just knew of if they didn't know very well. But that was definitely intriguing. And then how close to Max came to escaping, I got to imagine too that might have been Vecna's doing that with the tape, or we saw that the tape was at the end of its course, right? and it needed to be rewound but just so many different things that I love about this season so far granted we don't have to wait too long

thankfully but I am so damn invested in the season now the stakes have really been raised we got the kids are you know back into the upside down rather from Vecna and he's going to use them as hive mines and now we've got to

save the day with them with the crew so and also too we got that emotional drama that's being with Nancy, the love triangle with Nancy, with Steve and Jonathan and we know that Jonathan wants to propose to Nancy. You saw the moment where Nancy

was agreeing with Steve and that really, you could see how much that hurt Jonathan that just, because they're having this whole, you know, kind of standoffish thing going for Nancy and to see her

agree with him in that moment, That did not feel good for Jonathan. So I wonder if he's going to be questioning himself if he should be proposing to her. I hope not. No, I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I just said I hope not. But he's definitely dismayed right now. And I feel for him because a lot of shit's already going down with what they are dealing with. With Beckna and the demigorgans and all that.

But they're going to have to have a serious talk, though. So it just, again, it creates a lot of emotional drama that we as viewers, find interesting, but it's going to be fascinating to see what the result is going to be. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you could read it a little bit on Jonathan's face. I think basically what Steve's argument and a Nancy going, I agree with him, it was like common sense juice that I was like, yeah, hopefully that I don't think they'll make small things turn into huge things. My assumption is I still don't think there is an actual triangle. I think they are making fun of that they are sort of like, hey man,

what's going on here. Except I really do genuinely believe when Steve was like, you mean Nancy, my good friend? And I'm like, listen, we know that yes, he was in love with her. He probably still obviously has love for her and could still, let's pretend Jonathan's not the picture, could still very much fall for her.

I don't foresee that happening. I foresee her actually staying with Jonathan, but that's just me. I agree with that. I do. Also, so the Duffer Brothers, their whole plan back from, season two, they actually did know that Will

was going to be in the center of this and basically link up with Henry and that's where he gets those like powers. It's not that like, oh, did he have, you know, 11's powers all along? We saw him just pull a Vecna move. He can get into the hive mind. Yeah. And that's where we see

the whites. The eyes and the nose bleeding and all of that, which was very, very cool. To me, that was one of the most exciting twists ever. When I felt it coming because I'm like, why would Vecna basically be like, come towards me, Will, I'm

going to give you a talking to, but now that he's got his kids, he's just going to let him go. But I assume, obviously, Henry had no idea what Will was capable of. Yeah. Of his, you know, telekinetic psychic, like type of

abilities, which I think is just so cool that he could save not one but two, three friends. Possibly more if he does the training like 11 did. We've seen 11 do some amazing shit, but that was on a different level, and that was very Vecna-esque.

And we know that 11's powers are very derived from Vecna because he was number one and she's number 11. But still, I've yet to see 11 do something to that, like, multitude of things at once where she's doing multiple things. But that was so freaking cool. And I have no doubt that the Duffer Brothers, had, I mean, you can tell that they've had a plan in place for a long time. If not, they're really good at coming up with things on the fly.

So either way, I'm loving this. That reveal and that twist of him having the powers was so good. And whether the fact that you know that the good guys will win in the end, I think 11 and will have something that Vecna does not. They have something worth fighting for, love. And they have an amazing support system where Vecna, Henry, views the humans as broken and as a virus. So it creates an interesting piece of emotional drama,

and I can't wait to see how this ends. The last four episodes are going to be dynamite. And like I said, the stakes have truly increased and raised. I really do not know who's going to survive and who's going to die. So I think that adds a level of intrigue, but that also adds a level of I'm really scared as shit, too, because I don't want anybody at any time. They could get rid of anybody at any time.

They really could. You don't know. Which would work really well for, obviously, a final season. But just in case you guys didn't know, you can watch the finale in theaters. It'll be playing in 350 theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada. The screenings are going to take place at the exact same time as the Netflix global premiere. And the finale happens on December 31st at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. time that's 5 p.m. Pacific, and it'll only run through January 1st. So you only, you have two days

to watch the finale in the theaters. It's not going to go on for a week. But if you want to take your New Year's Eve or your New Year's Day and you want to watch the finale in a theater, you can look it up. It's probably near you, U.S. and Canada. I thought that was cool news that I would drop on you for now. We have loved watching this with you guys. I really hope that you leave a like you leave a comment um tell us what you are loving what are your favorite characters storylines um yeah just just tell us all the things tell us we're cool um we've appreciated being here with you guys uh subscribe to my podcast it's called the rage pod if you can i would really love that we're an apple spotify wherever you find your podcast also youtube and instagram um and don't forget

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