Stranger Things

Jonathan! Nancy! Jonathan!

Jonathan! Nancy!

What the hell are you doing?

Listen to me! Don't touch anything!

Maybe you missed?

- Maybe we should, uh… - Yeah.

Before you say anything, I know it's 5:00 in the morning,

but I need you to build me a telemetry tracker.

What? Erica, it is...

Five in the morning. She led with that, buddy.

I'm sorry. Who are you?

- My uncle. - Babysitter. Babysitter.

Who is it, snookums?

It's okay, sugar lump. Go back to bed. I'll just be one second.

Okay.

The librarian?

You get too loud in the sack, she shush you?

Okay, listen. You and whoever you are, this is highly inappropriate.

I will see you in class, Erica.

Dustin is in danger.

Danger? What kind of danger?

Like the life or death kind.

What do you say, snookums? You gonna keep playing with your bookworm,

or you gonna build us our tracker and save your star student?

Henderson!

Dustin!

Dustin. Hey. What the hell was that?

Was that the shield generator? Did they find it?

I was wrong.

I was terribly,

catastrophically wrong.

What?

After you left, I found a journal.

Brenner's journal.

The key to destroying that wall is in this lab,

but it is not a shield generator.

It isn't dark magic. Vecna didn't make it.

Science did.

Theoretical physicists call it exotic matter.

A single source of energy that is holding that giant wall together,

and I think Nancy just shot it.

How is that bad? That's why we're here, to get through this wall.

- You are not listening! - I am listening.

Vecna didn't make the wall. So he isn't on the other side,

which means Holly and the missing kids aren't either. Nobody is.

Then what the hell is on the other side of that wall?

Why'd it stop?

Dustin, what's on the other side of the wall?

Death.

Whoa.

Come on! Come on, let's go!

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!

Let's go! Let's go!

Get down! Get down!

This whole time,

everything we have ever assumed about the Upside Down has been

dead wrong.

The gate!

The gate!

I can clear a path!

No, no, no! You stay behind... stay behind me!

No! Goddamnit!

No!

No! No!

This place, the Upside Down,

it isn't another dimension. It's not another world.

It's a wormhole.

A bridge

between two points in time and space, between our world and another.

And if the bridge collapses?

It will take us with it.

All of us.

Go, go, go, go!

Are you okay? Are you okay? It's okay.

We're safe here. He can't get us here, okay?

Max…

Holly!

Come on.

Holly, sweetheart. Stop, or I'll hurt her.

I know you believe Max is your friend.

But she has tricked you, Holly. She has corrupted your mind.

She is a liar.

No! No, you're the liar!

I saw you! I saw what you really are!

You're a monster! A disgusting monster!

Holly!

If you don't come back with me right now and rejoin the other children,

I will have no choice but to hurt Max.

I may even have to kill her.

Then why don't you? Huh?

I'm right here.

Oh, that's right.

You're too scared of a stupid cave, you goddamn coward!

Things have changed, Max.

There are now other ways to get to you.

And Holly?

When your new friend begins to suffer,

and she will suffer,

you can either return to me and end her suffering,

or you can watch your new friend die.

Her life is in your hands.

Can someone please explain to me what the hell happened out there?

We burnt out the particles. I watched them fly up the tower.

- I mean, you guys saw that, right? - Hard to miss.

So Will should be unplugged from the hive mind.

- Theoretically. - But why didn't he wake up?

How did he see Max if she's with Holly?

Is this real? Is Vecna messing with us again?

This makes no goddamn sense!

The doctors, they never understood why Max was in the coma, right?

What? No. Why?

Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

So let's just assume for a second that everything that Will saw was real.

- He saw Max. He saw Holly. - Yeah, but how?

I'm getting to that. Let's say that, uh…

this is Will,

and this is Holly.

And…

uh, this, of course, is Max.

They're in three disparate locations, the Squawk, the hospital,

and some presently unknown place in the Upside Down. Right?

- Right. - Yeah.

But they share one very essential thing in common.

They're all unconscious.

What happens when Vecna captures you?

You go into a trance.

Which would look a heck of a lot like a coma.

No wonder the doctors are so clueless. Max was never in a coma.

She was in a trance.

Just like Will. Just like Holly.

It is hitting me like a Whitney Houston high note.

What if their minds…

are all in the same place?

In Vecna's mind.

Imprisoned.

At least, they were.

If Will's right,

then Max and Holly are now making a prison break.

And if they succeed,

they will return to their physical bodies,

and Max will come back to life.

And they'll have been in Vecna's mind, literally.

They'll know everything. They'll know where Will is.

- Where the kids are. - They might even know what he's planning.

- That's endgame. - The fate of the planet may very well rest

in the hands of your comatose girlfriend and your baby sister.

It's worth one more shot, right?

- Can you drive? - Not legally.

Good enough. Take Joyce's car. Do not get pulled over.

Get to Max. I'll stay with Will.

Okay.

Do you remember this place…

William?

No, no, no…

- Does it… bring back… - No.

Memories?

Max, Holly…

They got away, didn't they?

Did the leg slow you down?

You think you are clever, don't you?

But remember, I am the one.

The one who invited you in.

You were my vessel.

My spy.

My builder.

Builder?

How do you think the tunnels came to be, William?

You built them

each and every night you slept.

There is much power within you.

But make no mistake, boy.

They are my powers,

and they are stronger than ever before.

Much stronger.

Now, at last, it is time.

Time for my vessels to lead us to a new world.

A better world.

Too bad your world will never exist,

now that Max has one of your vessels.

There are ways to smoke a fox from its den, William.

And you are going to help me.

You are going to be my spy

one last time.

No.

Never.

The more you resist…

the more this will hurt.

Stupid.

- Hey! - What are you doing?

Seeing if he's still out there.

- He's not. - How do you know?

Because he knows he can't get us in here. Let's go.

He said that things had changed, that there were other ways.

Yeah, and he's totally full of shit. You should know this by now.

So we're supposed to what? Just do nothing? Accept our fate?

No, we're not accepting shit.

We're just staying alive until we're rescued.

- Rescued by Eleven? - Mm-hmm.

How do you know that was even her?

Unless you know somebody else with psychic powers