Stranger Things

Max.

Max. Max, can you hear me? Max.

Come on. Open your eyes. Yes! Yes, Max!

Can you hear me?

Max!

Yes! Stay with me. Stay with me.

All the way, Max.

Yes! That's it! That's it!

Hello, Lucas.

Yes. Max. Come on, Max. It's me. I'm right here. I'm right here, Max.

Are you… Are you… Are you okay? Do you… Do you hurt anywhere?

I can't feel… much.

Do you… Do you feel this? Do you feel my hand?

A little.

Can… Can you… Can you see?

The lights are really… are really bright.

Hey.

You haven't used your eyes, okay, or your muscles for a long time.

Okay, your body's just weak,

but it just needs to readjust and learn again.

You are going to be okay.

You're gonna be okay.

I knew you were there.

I always knew you were still there.

I saw you.

Waiting for me,

playing my… my song.

You bored of it yet?

Are you?

It turns out

that the whole time,

I didn't even need it.

I just needed you.

Just you.

- Oh my God. - Max.

You're here. You're really here.

I'm here.

Hey, welcome home, kid.

Took your sweet time, didn't you?

Screw you, Wheeler.

Where am I?

Oh.

Yeah, that would be confusing. Um…

You were being hunted by the Demo-dogs,

and we were all seconds away from becoming lunch

when Mrs. Wheeler came and…

did the laundry.

Holy shit! Mom!

Vecna.

He'll be angry.

He'll try and find me.

He'll know we escaped.

Where's Holly?

Where is she?

Jonathan.

Jonathan.

Jonathan.

Jonathan, stop.

What?

If we hurt ourselves, we're really screwed.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Oh, God.

Okay, so now what?

Anything else you wanna confess?

Stay back.

Sorry we're late.

You okay?

Yeah. Yeah, we're okay.

Thanks.

Was that weird? I'm sorry. That was weird.

I didn't… We just… We both thought…

-We were goners. Yeah, we did too. -Yes.

Turns out that shield generator of yours…

Isn't really a shield generator. Yeah, we know.

Well, you'd think that would have been good information to share.

Well, we tried.

Antenna snapped.

His fault.

Okay, so then what the hell did I shoot?

Exotic matter.

And we're supposed to know what that is?

It's all in here. Look. Check this out.

Dr. Brenner's notebook from '83.

This thing is a gold mine.

All his research into the gate, how he created it, what it really is.

I'm still deciphering it, but…

Yeah, this shit will fry your brain.

Cliff notes, Holly isn't on the other side of the wall.

Then where is she?

I don't know… exactly.

But wherever she is, it's not the Upside Down.

When he took me, he opened the fourth, final gate,

splitting Hawkins in two.

You can do this.

-What was that? -What was what?

Holly.

Voyager Beta.

Any signal yet?

Negative, Voyager Alpha. Voyager Gamma?

A big, fat zero over here.

Your balloon experiment is a dud, Snookums.

Let's just put the antenna on the van and drive.

As I've said, Voyager Gamma, given the uneven terrain

and forested nature of Hawkins,

a vehicle is simply not the most expedient way

to pinpoint a telemetry tag.

"Expedient"? We've been building your goddamn balloon experiment

for six hours!

Yes, but once we trilaterate the three signals,

I'll be able to pinpoint Dustin's precise location.

You can't trilaterate shit if we can't get a signal,

so let's just cut our losses now

before your star student winds up dead in a ditch.

"Cut our losses…"

Fortune favors the bold.

I've secured a location on Dustin.

Loose your balloons, Voyagers.

-Come again? -Wait, hold on. What?

We need more height. Loose your balloons.

Negative 80!

Negative 44.

I take it back, Snookums, you mad, mad genius!

Thank you, Voyager. Calculations incoming. Hold tight.

You are going to be my spy

one last time.

Will.

Hopper just radioed.

Max is safe. She got out.

Hey, this is good news.

None of this would have happened if it weren't for you.

Everything's gonna be okay.

But for how long, Mom?

If Lucas is right, today is the day,

the day Vecna's gonna act.

I thought I had him. But the truth…

The truth is I never stood a chance.

And he knew it. He's always known it.

That's why, out of everyone in Hawkins, he chose me.

Because he knew I was weak, and he knew he could control me.

That is not true.

It is, Mom. It is.

I was his vessel.

A vessel to channel his powers, to spy,

and… and to build.

"To… To build"?

The tunnels.

They didn't spread from the gate on their own.

Every night, I jacked into the hive and took control of the vines,

using them to tunnel, infecting our world with the Upside Down.

So many died because of me.

And if I could do all of that,

what could he do with 12 more like me?

You listen to me.

None of what happened is your fault.

Do you hear me?

And as for his big plan,

he's not gonna have 12 vessels, or whatever the hell he calls them,

because he just lost Holly, and she'll know where the others are.

Sweetheart, this is not over, not by a long shot.

You're wrong.

You're wrong, Mom.

It's my fault.

No.

No, baby.

Go! Go!

I couldn't see where Holly was gonna wake up.

But I figured

wherever Vecna was keeping her,

it had to be in the Upside Down.

So…

I told her to just go home.

Home? Home as in our home?

Meaning we have to get back into the Upside Down.

-Where is the nearest rift to you? -Off Cornwallis, I think.

About a mile and a half, give or take.

Lucas, do you copy?

-Oh, Robin. -Yeah.

Lucas!

Erica, I really can't talk right now.

Okay, so Vecna took out those soldiers,

so it should be a lot easier to get into the MAC.

No. They're gonna have reinforcements by now.

I can break through a plate.

Are you saying that Holly is trapped under a steel plate?

Without context, that might sound troubling,

but she's not pancaked under a giant hunk of steel or anything. She's…

How do I talk about this?

-Well, there's this world under ours… -Under the plates.

The Upside Down.

Yeah, and it's just like Hawkins, only way suckier.

Guys, guys, guys. Okay, you really won't believe this,

but Erica and Mr. Clarke came through. They found Dustin and the others.

All right. Well, they're gonna be able to find Holly a lot easier than we are.

We better hurry. We got company.

Hey, hey. Are you okay?

I'm fine, Michael. I'm fine.

No, with all due respect, Mrs. Wheeler, you're not.

You could get an infection, hemorrhage, God forbid, stop breathing.

If you think I'm gonna stay in bed when my daughter needs me,

you're out of your goddamn mind. Let's go.