Stranger Things

Can you hear the drums, Fernando?

I remember long ago Another starry night like this

In the fire...

Dadgum it!

No!

Help! Help!

Mom!

Mom! Dad!

Mom!

Mom! Mom!

- Holly? - Mom! Mom!

- Mom, the monster! - Baby, what are you doing? What's wrong?

- Mom, there's a monster in there. - Holly, slow down. I can't understand you!

- Mom, there's a monster. The mon-- - Holly.

Whatever you saw, baby, it was just a nightmare.

- No, Mom! Mom! - Baby, it's just a nightmare!

I saw it. Please trust me, Mom.

Please, Mom, please. You gotta believe me. Please.

What the heck?

What's your location? Over.

Pickett, five minutes away.

You're way ahead of us. Radio as soon as you're there!

I will.

And Nancy, be careful.

Hold on.

There was something In the air that night

The stars were bright, Fernando

They were shining there for you and me

For liberty, Fernando

Though we never thought That we could lose

There's no regret

If I had to do the same again

There was something In the air that night

The stars were bright, Fernando

Karen!

Heavens to Betsy.

Karen!

Everything all right?

Holly?

Holly!

Holy smokes.

Oh God. Hey. Stay back. Stay back!

Back!

Go! Go!

Mom!

Oh, God!

Holly, get back!

Stay away from my daughter!

Mom, no!

It's inside.

I see it. Get ready.

Nancy, what's going on? Talk to me! What's happening?

Nancy!

Stay away from my daughter!

Mom!

Don't try to talk, okay? Just stay calm, okay?

You're gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine, okay?

You're gonna be fine.

Holly.

Go. Go, go, go, go! Go!

You're gonna be okay, Mom. I'm right here. Just stay with me. Okay?

Can you do that? Can you please stay with me?

I promise I won't let anything happen to you.

I'm gonna get you help. I just need you to hold on, okay?

Just hold on.

Vitals. Talk to me.

Female, 46 years old.

- Heart rate 120. BP 103/67. - Got a male, late forties.

Multiple blunt impact. Weak abdominal...

Pulse is thready and weak.

Lacerations to the right anterior chest and penetrating neck trauma.

We're right here. You're okay.

I'm sorry. You have to wait outside.

- Can't we stay with them? - We have to let the doctors do their job.

We'll update you as soon as we know something, okay? Okay?

I can't see a damn thing.

Cross-match, get to the bag.

Where’s my X-ray cart?

- Maybe four broken ribs. - Stand by to intubate.

This is our fault.

This is all our fault.

We got there as fast as we could.

I'm not talking about tonight.

We could have acted yesterday, last week, last fall.

We could've tried to get them out of Hawkins,

or... or at least told them the truth.

We could have done something, anything.

We couldn't have known any of this would happen.

Do you really believe that?

After all this time, it comes for Holly?

Holly, who has nothing to do with any of this.

It makes no goddamn sense.

It makes perfect goddamn sense.

Vecna told me this would happen.

He showed me.

And not just the four gates.

Holly, Mom, Dad dead.

And we just... we just chose not to believe him.

But now it's all coming true. Like, don't you get it, Mike?

Vecna's come back to realize his vision, to punish us.

He did it with Fred and Chrissy and Max,

and now it's our turn.

And he's not gonna stop.

He's not gonna stop until we're drained of every last ounce of suffering.

I'm not so sure this was about punishment.

Vecna doesn't leave things unfinished.

He doesn't hold back.

Because if this was really about making you guys suffer,

why leave your parents alive?

Why take Holly into the Upside Down

and not leave her body here for you to find?

Why not come here himself?

Why send one of his... his pets?

What are you saying? It's not Vecna?

What I'm saying is I don't know,

and neither do you.

There are just too many questions right now.

I... I just know I'm having serious déjà vu,

because this is exactly what happened to Will

at almost exactly the same time.

You know what date it is, right?

November 3rd.

Will was taken on the 6th.

We are less than three days away.

Three days away from the day that changed everything.

I don't know about you guys, but...

...I don't believe in coincidences.

Not anymore.

But we got Will back.

And we're going to get Holly back, 'cause she's not alone.

Eleven's in there with her.

And if anybody can save your sister--

It's El.

It's El.

Stay indoors!

Stay inside!

The daughter found her mother here.

We believe Mrs. Wheeler was trying to escape when she was attacked.

And no one saw this intruder?

No. By the time she got home, the intruder was gone,

along with her sister.

The daughter, she arrive alone?

That's what she told us, sir.

I want you to pull up all video surveillance

within a two-mile radius of this house.

- You think it could be her, sir? - Now.

Holly! Holly!

Holly!

Hop.

Hop!

Hop?

I'm sorry. Are you okay?

El.

How are you here?

Wait. Wait.

Wait. You gotta...

You gotta get out of here. It's not safe.

- There's-- - A Demogorgon.

I know. It's bleeding.

She must have hurt it.

What? Who?

Karen. With her wine.

What?

When I search for Holly, I can't find her, but she must be close.

- Holly? - We just need to find the blood.

Holly Wheeler? What are you...

El, wait! Goddamn it!

Whoa.

It's like everything went kablooey all at once.

Has this kind of thing happened with his visions before?

Where the lights go kooky and electronics short-circuit?

No.

So this is just, like, a fun, new development.

Aren't there any backup fuses or something?

Yeah, in storage, I think so. I mean, I hope so, right?

Oh! Uh... You'd like me to go get them?

- Yeah. - Right.

Uh, of course. I am totally on it.

I... I'll be right back.

I know it's hard to talk about,

but these... these visions,

were they like before?

Like when you had your now memories?

Only more intense.

It's like I was there. I was right there.

It's... It's like I was the Demogorgon.

I was seeing what it was seeing and thinking what it was thinking.

Do you have any idea why it would go after the Wheelers,

take Holly?

I don't... I'm not sure. It's...

It's so hard to remember everything. It's... It's almost like a dream.

This doesn't make any sense. I...

I... I must have somehow tapped back into the hive mind.

But we severed the connection.

I don't think it was ever... truly severed.

Ever since he took me, it's like I... I was...

permanently changed.

These feelings of connection, they come and go.

But that summer, after the gate opened,

I felt him again.