1 00:00:17,260 --> 00:00:18,260 Max. 2 00:00:20,770 --> 00:00:23,416 Max. Max, can you hear me? Max. 3 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,520 Come on. Open your eyes. Yes! Yes, Max! 4 00:00:27,020 --> 00:00:28,166 Can you hear me? 5 00:00:28,190 --> 00:00:30,190 Max! 6 00:00:30,980 --> 00:00:32,610 Yes! Stay with me. Stay with me. 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,280 All the way, Max. 8 00:00:36,070 --> 00:00:37,450 Yes! That's it! That's it! 9 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,016 Hello, Lucas. 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,170 Yes. Max. Come on, Max. It's me. I'm right here. I'm right here, Max. 11 00:00:54,050 --> 00:00:58,760 Are you... are you... are you okay? Do you... do you hurt anywhere? 12 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:04,180 I can't feel... much. 13 00:01:04,930 --> 00:01:07,850 Do you... do you feel this? Do you feel my hand? 14 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:09,900 A little. 15 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:12,530 Can... can you... can you see? 16 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:18,570 The lights are really... are really bright. 17 00:01:19,620 --> 00:01:20,620 Hey. 18 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,870 You haven't used your eyes, okay, or your muscles for a long time. 19 00:01:25,910 --> 00:01:27,806 Okay, your body's just weak, 20 00:01:27,830 --> 00:01:30,840 but it just needs to readjust and learn again. 21 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:34,630 You are going to be okay. 22 00:01:35,260 --> 00:01:36,300 You're gonna be okay. 23 00:01:39,340 --> 00:01:41,010 I knew you were there. 24 00:01:42,470 --> 00:01:44,390 I always knew you were still there. 25 00:01:46,350 --> 00:01:47,940 I saw you. 26 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:54,230 Waiting for me, playing my... my song. 27 00:01:55,860 --> 00:01:57,070 You bored of it yet? 28 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:01,910 Are you? 29 00:02:07,410 --> 00:02:08,710 It turns out 30 00:02:10,290 --> 00:02:11,880 that the whole time, 31 00:02:14,050 --> 00:02:15,800 I didn't even need it. 32 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,800 I just needed you. 33 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:23,986 Just you. 34 00:02:24,010 --> 00:02:28,520 I don't wanna swim forever 35 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:36,940 when it's cold I'd like to die. 36 00:02:39,990 --> 00:02:45,450 - I don't wanna... - My god. - Max. 37 00:02:47,950 --> 00:02:51,056 You're here. You're really here. 38 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,580 I'm here. 39 00:02:53,380 --> 00:02:54,500 Hey, welcome home, kid. 40 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,106 Took your sweet time, didn't you? 41 00:02:58,130 --> 00:03:00,380 Screw you, Wheeler. 42 00:03:06,260 --> 00:03:07,406 Where am I? 43 00:03:08,770 --> 00:03:11,616 Yeah, that would be confusing... 44 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,836 You were being hunted by the demo-dogs, 45 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:16,416 and we were all seconds away from becoming lunch 46 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,360 when Mrs. Wheeler came and... 47 00:03:19,610 --> 00:03:21,336 Did the laundry. 48 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,660 Holy shit! Mom! 49 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:26,280 Vecna. 50 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,540 He'll be angry. 51 00:03:30,580 --> 00:03:32,080 He'll try and find me. 52 00:03:33,460 --> 00:03:35,340 He'll know we escaped. 53 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:38,250 Where's Holly? 54 00:03:41,010 --> 00:03:42,010 Where is she? 55 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:00,770 Jonathan. 56 00:06:02,190 --> 00:06:04,530 Jonathan. 57 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:06,780 Jonathan, stop. 58 00:06:08,490 --> 00:06:10,596 What? 59 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:13,410 If we hurt ourselves, we're really screwed. 60 00:06:14,660 --> 00:06:16,200 Yeah, I guess you're right. 61 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,500 God. 62 00:06:23,170 --> 00:06:25,800 Okay, so now what? 63 00:06:26,380 --> 00:06:27,880 Anything else you wanna confess? 64 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:37,930 Stay back. 65 00:06:47,030 --> 00:06:48,400 Sorry we're late. 66 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,256 You okay? 67 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:57,200 Yeah. Yeah, we're okay. 68 00:07:02,710 --> 00:07:03,920 Thanks. 69 00:07:05,670 --> 00:07:07,936 Was that weird? I'm sorry. That was weird. 70 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,486 I didn't... we just... we both thought... 71 00:07:10,510 --> 00:07:12,736 - We were goners. Yeah, we did too. - Yes. 72 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,446 Turns out that shield generator of yours... 73 00:07:14,470 --> 00:07:16,826 Isn't really a shield generator. Yeah, we know. 74 00:07:16,850 --> 00:07:20,076 Well, you'd think that would have been good information to share. 75 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:21,786 Well, we tried. 76 00:07:21,810 --> 00:07:22,956 Antenna snapped. 77 00:07:22,980 --> 00:07:24,206 His fault. 78 00:07:24,230 --> 00:07:26,956 Okay, so then what the hell did I shoot? 79 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:28,506 Exotic matter. 80 00:07:28,530 --> 00:07:30,926 And we're supposed to know what that is? 81 00:07:30,950 --> 00:07:33,700 It's all in here. Look. Check this out. 82 00:07:34,870 --> 00:07:37,266 Dr. Brenner's notebook from '83. 83 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:39,096 This thing is a gold mine. 84 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,436 All his research into the gate, how he created it, what it really is. 85 00:07:43,460 --> 00:07:45,266 I'm still deciphering it, but... 86 00:07:45,290 --> 00:07:47,226 Yeah, this shit will fry your brain. 87 00:07:47,250 --> 00:07:50,380 Cliff notes, Holly isn't on the other side of the wall. 88 00:07:53,220 --> 00:07:54,640 Then where is she? 89 00:07:55,470 --> 00:07:57,656 I don't know... exactly. 90 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,060 But wherever she is, it's not the upside down. 91 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:25,096 When he took me, he opened the fourth, final gate, 92 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,330 splitting Hawkins in two. 93 00:09:05,250 --> 00:09:06,620 You can do this. 94 00:09:33,820 --> 00:09:35,700 - What was that? - What was what? 95 00:09:36,950 --> 00:09:38,280 Holly. 96 00:11:07,370 --> 00:11:09,136 Voyager beta. 97 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,160 Any signal yet? 98 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:14,090 Negative, voyager Alpha. Voyager gamma? 99 00:11:14,670 --> 00:11:17,066 A big, fat zero over here. 100 00:11:17,090 --> 00:11:19,696 Your balloon experiment is a dud, snookums. 101 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,616 Let's just put the antenna on the Van and drive. 102 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,076 As I've said, voyager gamma, given the uneven terrain 103 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:26,786 and forested nature of Hawkins, 104 00:11:26,810 --> 00:11:29,156 a vehicle is simply not the most expedient way 105 00:11:29,180 --> 00:11:30,616 to pinpoint a telemetry tag. 106 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,416 "Expedient"? We've been building your goddamn balloon experiment 107 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:34,336 for six hours! 108 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,086 Yes, but once we trilaterate the three signals, 109 00:11:37,110 --> 00:11:39,756 I'll be able to pinpoint Dustin's precise location. 110 00:11:39,780 --> 00:11:42,546 You can't trilaterate shit if we can't get a signal, 111 00:11:42,570 --> 00:11:45,546 so let's just cut our losses now 112 00:11:45,570 --> 00:11:48,580 before your star student winds up dead in a ditch. 113 00:11:49,750 --> 00:11:51,250 "Cut our losses..." 114 00:11:59,210 --> 00:12:01,090 Fortune favors the bold. 115 00:12:04,430 --> 00:12:06,300 I've secured a location on Dustin. 116 00:12:06,890 --> 00:12:08,326 Loose your balloons, voyagers. 117 00:12:08,350 --> 00:12:10,076 - Come again? - Wait, hold on. What? 118 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:14,060 We need more height. Loose your balloons. 119 00:12:18,190 --> 00:12:19,570 Negative 80! 120 00:12:20,190 --> 00:12:21,916 Negative 44. 121 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:25,216 I take it back, snookums, you mad, mad genius! 122 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,160 Thank you, voyager. Calculations incoming. Hold tight. 123 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:49,960 You are going to be my spy one last time. 124 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,480 Will. 125 00:12:58,190 --> 00:13:00,166 Hopper just radioed. 126 00:13:00,190 --> 00:13:02,400 Max is safe. She got out. 127 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,070 Hey, this is good news. 128 00:13:07,990 --> 00:13:10,926 None of this would have happened if it weren't for you. 129 00:13:10,950 --> 00:13:12,120 Everything's gonna be okay. 130 00:13:12,790 --> 00:13:15,056 But for how long, mom? 131 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,936 If Lucas is right, today is the day, 132 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:19,816 the day vecna's gonna act. 133 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,710 I thought I had him. But the truth... 134 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,800 The truth is I never stood a chance. 135 00:13:28,010 --> 00:13:31,786 And he knew it. He's always known it. 136 00:13:31,810 --> 00:13:35,430 That's why, out of everyone in Hawkins, he chose me. 137 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:43,126 Because he knew I was weak, and he knew he could control me. 138 00:13:43,150 --> 00:13:44,756 That is not true. 139 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:47,006 It is, mom. It is. 140 00:13:47,030 --> 00:13:48,740 I was his vessel. 141 00:13:49,740 --> 00:13:53,740 A vessel to channel his powers, to spy, 142 00:13:54,330 --> 00:13:56,580 and... and to build. 143 00:13:57,870 --> 00:14:00,266 "To... to build"? 144 00:14:00,290 --> 00:14:01,920 The tunnels. 145 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,010 They didn't spread from the gate on their own. 146 00:14:05,590 --> 00:14:10,986 Every night, I jacked into the hive and took control of the vines, 147 00:14:11,010 --> 00:14:16,180 using them to tunnel, infecting our world with the upside down. 148 00:14:17,060 --> 00:14:19,350 So many died because of me. 149 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,690 And if I could do all of that, 150 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,030 what could he do with 12 more like me? 151 00:14:27,610 --> 00:14:29,216 You listen to me. 152 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,216 None of what happened is your fault. 153 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,240 Do you hear me? 154 00:14:33,660 --> 00:14:36,056 And as for his big plan, 155 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,136 he's not gonna have 12 vessels, or whatever the hell he calls them, 156 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,396 because he just lost Holly, and she'll know where the others are. 157 00:14:42,420 --> 00:14:46,460 Sweetheart, this is not over, not by a long shot. 158 00:14:47,630 --> 00:14:48,670 You're wrong. 159 00:14:49,470 --> 00:14:51,406 You're wrong, mom. 160 00:14:51,430 --> 00:14:53,026 It's my fault. 161 00:14:53,050 --> 00:14:54,446 No. 162 00:14:54,470 --> 00:14:55,850 No, baby. 163 00:15:04,730 --> 00:15:06,280 Go! Go! 164 00:15:17,910 --> 00:15:20,226 I couldn't see where Holly was gonna wake up. 165 00:15:20,250 --> 00:15:22,880 But I figured 166 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,000 wherever vecna was keeping her, 167 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,800 it had to be in the upside down. 168 00:15:30,220 --> 00:15:31,220 So... 169 00:15:32,220 --> 00:15:35,656 I told her to just go home. 170 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,696 Home? Home as in our home? 171 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,366 Meaning we have to get back into the upside down. 172 00:15:40,390 --> 00:15:42,996 - Where is the nearest rift to you? - Off cornwallis, I think. 173 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:44,586 About a mile and a half, give or take. 174 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:46,046 Lucas, do you copy? 175 00:15:46,070 --> 00:15:46,996 - Robin. - Yeah. 176 00:15:47,020 --> 00:15:48,020 Lucas! 177 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,216 Erica, I really can't talk right now. 178 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,086 Okay, so vecna took out those soldiers, 179 00:15:54,110 --> 00:15:56,136 so it should be a lot easier to get into the Mac. 180 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,966 No. They're gonna have reinforcements by now. 181 00:15:57,990 --> 00:15:59,596 I can break through a plate. 182 00:15:59,620 --> 00:16:04,266 Are you saying that Holly is trapped under a steel plate? 183 00:16:04,290 --> 00:16:06,476 Without context, that might sound troubling, 184 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:10,316 but she's not pancaked under a giant hunk of steel or anything. She's... 185 00:16:10,340 --> 00:16:11,566 How do I talk about this? 186 00:16:11,590 --> 00:16:15,116 - Well, there's this world under ours... - Under the plates. 187 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:16,276 The upside down. 188 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:18,946 Yeah, and it's just like Hawkins, only way suckier. 189 00:16:18,970 --> 00:16:22,406 Guys, guys, guys. Okay, you really won't believe this, 190 00:16:22,430 --> 00:16:26,020 but Erica and Mr. Clarke came through. They found Dustin and the others. 191 00:16:27,190 --> 00:16:30,780 All right. Well, they're gonna be able to find Holly a lot easier than we are. 192 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,950 We better hurry. We got company. 193 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,550 Hey, hey. Are you okay? 194 00:16:51,130 --> 00:16:52,486 I'm fine, Michael. I'm fine. 195 00:16:52,510 --> 00:16:54,946 No, with all due respect, Mrs. Wheeler, you're not. 196 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:58,576 You could get an infection, hemorrhage, god forbid, stop breathing. 197 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,906 If you think I'm gonna stay in bed when my daughter needs me, 198 00:17:02,930 --> 00:17:06,076 you're out of your goddamn mind. Let's go. 199 00:17:06,100 --> 00:17:08,706 Mom, mom, mom, mom. She's right. 200 00:17:08,730 --> 00:17:10,270 It's okay. Keep going. 201 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:13,046 Hey, you saved us. 202 00:17:13,070 --> 00:17:14,586 You saved us. 203 00:17:14,610 --> 00:17:17,296 And by some miracle, you're still here, okay? 204 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,466 But now, you need to trust me that we can handle this the rest of the way. 205 00:17:20,490 --> 00:17:23,596 There might be more of those things out there. 206 00:17:23,620 --> 00:17:25,386 They're called demogorgons. I know. 207 00:17:25,410 --> 00:17:29,856 There's so much that I need to tell you about this upside down and El, 208 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,686 but right now, all you need to know is 209 00:17:31,710 --> 00:17:34,946 that this group saved will when no one else could. 210 00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:36,236 We did that. 211 00:17:36,260 --> 00:17:38,446 And we're about to do the same thing with Holly. 212 00:17:38,470 --> 00:17:42,430 We're gonna bring her back to you, mom. I promise. Okay? 213 00:17:43,930 --> 00:17:44,930 Yeah? 214 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,546 Mr. Clarke, thanks for the assist. 215 00:17:58,570 --> 00:17:59,716 Don't thank me yet. 216 00:17:59,740 --> 00:18:02,346 We successfully trilaterated Dustin's position here, 217 00:18:02,370 --> 00:18:03,806 to precisely where I stand now. 218 00:18:03,830 --> 00:18:06,096 But by the time we arrived, he was Mia. 219 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:08,460 Well, he wouldn't be precisely here. He'd be under. 220 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:10,750 Sorry? 221 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:12,750 You didn't tell him? 222 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:14,816 - I... - Told me what? 223 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,510 Holy shit. 224 00:18:17,550 --> 00:18:18,840 Holy shit. 225 00:18:19,590 --> 00:18:21,430 Hey, over here! Over here! 226 00:18:23,140 --> 00:18:24,656 I got him! I got him! 227 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,480 I got Dustin! 228 00:18:32,230 --> 00:18:33,940 - I don't hear anything. - Patience. 229 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,876 Is anyone there? Repeat, this is Dustin. 230 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:40,296 Dustin, it's Mike. Holly's escaped from vecna, 231 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,426 and she's on her way to my house in the upside down. 232 00:18:42,450 --> 00:18:46,056 I need you to get there as fast as you can and rendezvous with Holly. Do you copy? 233 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:47,345 Holly's not at the house. 234 00:18:47,369 --> 00:18:49,516 We found her. We found Holly. Repeat, we... 235 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:50,960 Dustin, I'm losing you. 236 00:18:51,670 --> 00:18:52,670 Dustin? 237 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,380 Am I going crazy, or did he just say that he found Holly? 238 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:03,116 All right, let's hug this wall up here. 239 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:04,616 Why would she be at the lab? 240 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,326 Wherever she escaped from, the lab must've been en route to my house. 241 00:19:07,350 --> 00:19:09,786 She just happened to run into Dustin? What are the odds? 242 00:19:09,810 --> 00:19:10,706 Low as shit, 243 00:19:10,730 --> 00:19:12,836 but I say it's about damn time we had some luck. 244 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:13,746 Amen to that. 245 00:19:13,770 --> 00:19:17,376 I'm sorry. I still don't follow. Dustin is under those plates? 246 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:18,650 - Yes. - But not pancaked. 247 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,610 Hang on. Hang on. 248 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,460 Yeah, we got cameras all over that rift. 249 00:19:36,420 --> 00:19:38,816 I have an old spectrum analyzer back at the club. 250 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,986 If I can just locate their rf signal, I should be able to jam the transmission. 251 00:19:42,010 --> 00:19:43,220 That's cool. 252 00:19:43,930 --> 00:19:45,550 I think you're overthinking it. 253 00:19:46,390 --> 00:19:49,156 You're telling me alford wouldn't have doubled that score? 254 00:19:49,180 --> 00:19:50,906 Four from six from the field. 255 00:19:50,930 --> 00:19:54,076 Reggie's gonna be something special, you Mark my words. 256 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:55,360 Walsh can do no... 257 00:19:59,530 --> 00:20:01,110 You ain't seen nothing yet. 258 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:40,006 You coming, snookums? 259 00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:41,490 We're going in there? 260 00:20:42,650 --> 00:20:44,200 We're going in there. 261 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,410 Steve! 262 00:20:47,910 --> 00:20:49,256 Dustin! 263 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:50,596 Steve! 264 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,176 Nancy! Holly! 265 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,580 Jonathan! 266 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:01,736 Is this shit safe to breathe? 267 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:02,840 Unclear. 268 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,760 Okay. 269 00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:07,866 Mike, any luck down there? 270 00:21:07,890 --> 00:21:10,180 Mike? Mike! 271 00:21:11,220 --> 00:21:12,430 Found him. 272 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,270 Jesus, it's good to see you guys. 273 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:26,450 Nancy? 274 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,120 Where is she? 275 00:21:29,570 --> 00:21:30,870 Where's Holly? 276 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:38,290 - What was that? - What was what? 277 00:21:39,630 --> 00:21:40,920 Holly. 278 00:21:50,970 --> 00:21:53,826 Nancy! Nancy! 279 00:21:53,850 --> 00:21:55,616 - Holly! Holly! - Nancy, help me! 280 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,246 - Nancy, help me! Help me down, please! - Holly! 281 00:21:58,270 --> 00:21:59,996 Nancy! Nancy, please! 282 00:22:00,020 --> 00:22:00,956 Holly! 283 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:02,650 Nancy! 284 00:22:08,860 --> 00:22:13,830 It was like something had a hold of her, but you couldn't see anything. 285 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,250 It was him. 286 00:22:19,290 --> 00:22:21,170 Vecna. It had to be. 287 00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:23,936 Mike? 288 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,986 Is Holly okay, Mike? Mike, do you copy? 289 00:22:27,010 --> 00:22:29,470 I repeat, is Holly okay? 290 00:23:16,890 --> 00:23:18,890 Don't worry, Holly. 291 00:23:19,850 --> 00:23:22,690 It will all be over soon. 292 00:23:24,610 --> 00:23:28,530 It will all be over. 293 00:23:33,410 --> 00:23:36,540 It was some sort of demon, a demon from that other world. 294 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,950 He can control monsters, 295 00:23:40,290 --> 00:23:43,130 move humvees, stop fire. 296 00:23:45,750 --> 00:23:47,170 Bullets didn't touch him. 297 00:23:47,750 --> 00:23:49,316 Hell, nothing could. 298 00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:50,880 It wasn't a fight. 299 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,640 It was a damn massacre. 300 00:23:59,810 --> 00:24:01,746 First we get mutant dogs at the hospital. 301 00:24:01,770 --> 00:24:03,326 Now a goddamn demon in the Mac? 302 00:24:03,350 --> 00:24:05,626 You wanna tell me what else is about to pop out of that hellhole, 303 00:24:05,650 --> 00:24:07,086 or should we leave it a surprise? 304 00:24:07,110 --> 00:24:10,006 I don't know if you've noticed, but suddenly we're light on men. 305 00:24:10,030 --> 00:24:11,756 Reinforcements are on the way. 306 00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:14,926 Any additional requests, talk to your unit commander. 307 00:24:14,950 --> 00:24:17,636 How am I to know what to request when I don't know what I'm fighting? 308 00:24:17,660 --> 00:24:21,686 You're not fighting anything. This is not a war. It is a search. 309 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,476 Something gets in your way, kill it. 310 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:26,606 But otherwise, keep your focus on finding the girl. 311 00:24:26,630 --> 00:24:29,186 Yeah, find the girl. Christ, is that all you can say? 312 00:24:29,210 --> 00:24:32,170 I mean, you got a pull string under that jacket of yours or what? 313 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,526 Everything that has happened here is because of that girl. 314 00:24:36,550 --> 00:24:39,236 And if you had just done your job and found her, 315 00:24:39,260 --> 00:24:42,786 then I wouldn't have to repeat myself, and we'd have those monsters in Moscow 316 00:24:42,810 --> 00:24:45,996 where they'd be killing Soviets instead of Americans. 317 00:24:46,020 --> 00:24:48,296 The dead men, the children, 318 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,900 their blood is on your hands, lieutenant, not mine. 319 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:55,910 And unless you want to join them, I would watch that goddamn tongue. 320 00:25:00,910 --> 00:25:03,580 Lt. Akers, this is bravo one. Do you copy? 321 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:07,306 Yeah, what is it? 322 00:25:07,330 --> 00:25:09,420 We've got a rift breach at the old lab. 323 00:25:10,210 --> 00:25:11,300 On my way. 324 00:25:19,220 --> 00:25:20,220 You okay? 325 00:25:20,930 --> 00:25:21,930 Max. 326 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:33,046 So I leave you alone for a second, and you turn into a sorcerer? 327 00:25:33,070 --> 00:25:37,136 It was a little more than a second, and I'm not really a sorcerer. 328 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,120 Sure seemed like it to me. 329 00:25:40,620 --> 00:25:42,910 Hey, you up for a tour? 330 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,306 Jimmy "fast hands" skipped town before quarantine, 331 00:25:48,330 --> 00:25:50,186 so we just sort of moved in here. 332 00:25:50,210 --> 00:25:52,726 The basement is hidden behind this bookshelf over there. 333 00:25:52,750 --> 00:25:54,646 Not quite the bat cave, but it's pretty sweet. 334 00:25:54,670 --> 00:25:57,196 We kept the station going as cover. Robin's our dj. 335 00:25:57,220 --> 00:25:59,906 - Rockin' Robin. - Rockin' Robin, my bad. 336 00:25:59,930 --> 00:26:01,446 And Steve's her sound man. 337 00:26:01,470 --> 00:26:02,470 Check this out. 338 00:26:15,690 --> 00:26:16,700 Hey... 339 00:26:17,530 --> 00:26:19,006 We're gonna get Holly back. 340 00:26:19,030 --> 00:26:21,450 She's all alone in there, Lucas. 341 00:26:22,030 --> 00:26:25,096 Alone with that monster. 342 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:28,016 And I was so sure that she could make it out. 343 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,580 And I was so stupid. 344 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,000 You had to try. 345 00:26:32,590 --> 00:26:34,130 I should have stayed there. 346 00:26:36,670 --> 00:26:38,300 And I should have kept her safe. 347 00:26:39,340 --> 00:26:40,970 Then we'd all be screwed. 348 00:26:41,470 --> 00:26:44,406 You've been in vecna's mind. You can help us beat him. 349 00:26:44,430 --> 00:26:46,850 No. I can't. 350 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,876 I don't even know where vecna's keeping Holly. 351 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:54,480 Well, it's a good thing I do. 352 00:26:56,030 --> 00:26:58,490 I know where she is, but the real challenge is getting there. 353 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:01,450 I gotta show you guys something. 354 00:27:02,990 --> 00:27:03,966 Okay. 355 00:27:03,990 --> 00:27:09,096 So, this is Hawkins, and this is the upside down. 356 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:12,516 We've always assumed the upside down was another dimension opened by brenner, 357 00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:15,590 but it turns out it's actually a bridge. 358 00:27:16,170 --> 00:27:18,356 More specifically, an interdimensional bridge 359 00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:19,986 that rips through space-time. 360 00:27:20,010 --> 00:27:23,736 It is wildly unstable, but held together by exotic matter, 361 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,116 which we found dead center right above the lab. 362 00:27:27,140 --> 00:27:28,496 In theoretical physics, 363 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,916 - they call this type of bridge a... - Wormhole. 364 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,996 And this wormhole connects Hawkins to here, 365 00:27:34,020 --> 00:27:37,586 another world that I've coined the abyss. 366 00:27:37,610 --> 00:27:40,466 - Any particular reason? - A realm of pure chaos and evil. 367 00:27:40,490 --> 00:27:42,336 I'm sorry? 368 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:43,926 - Jesus Christ. - Wow. 369 00:27:43,950 --> 00:27:47,886 I believe this abyss is the true home of the demogorgons, 370 00:27:47,910 --> 00:27:49,596 the vines, the mind flayer, 371 00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:52,016 all the nasty shit we found in the upside down. 372 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,106 It's where all those years ago you banished Henry. 373 00:27:54,130 --> 00:27:55,316 He was lost for years, 374 00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,146 and would've stayed lost if it wasn't for brenner. 375 00:27:57,170 --> 00:27:59,066 He had me find Henry. 376 00:27:59,090 --> 00:28:02,606 And when you made remote contact with the abyss, the bridge formed. 377 00:28:02,630 --> 00:28:05,156 Ever since, Henry and his army of monsters have been using it 378 00:28:05,180 --> 00:28:07,486 to cross right back into Hawkins. 379 00:28:07,510 --> 00:28:09,826 We kicked vecna's ass last year, 380 00:28:09,850 --> 00:28:13,116 but he just fled across this bridge back to the abyss to lick his wounds. 381 00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:14,076 What a pussy. 382 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:17,706 So all this time, vecna's been hiding in the sky? 383 00:28:17,730 --> 00:28:19,956 Explains why every crawl led to a dead end. 384 00:28:19,980 --> 00:28:23,006 - And why I can't find him in the bath. - And why Holly fell from the sky. 385 00:28:23,030 --> 00:28:25,006 Yeah, but why is he taking kids up there? 386 00:28:25,030 --> 00:28:26,596 For the same reason he took me. 387 00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:30,636 The minds of children are weaker, right? More easily molded and controlled. 388 00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:34,306 So he channeled his thoughts and powers through me to amplify his abilities, 389 00:28:34,330 --> 00:28:35,936 and he's gonna do the same with those kids. 390 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,630 Amplify his abilities? 391 00:28:38,170 --> 00:28:39,226 To do what? 392 00:28:39,250 --> 00:28:40,340 Move worlds. 393 00:28:42,510 --> 00:28:45,776 Holly, she said Henry told the kids 394 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,560 that they would help him draw the worlds together. 395 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,076 I didn't understand what that meant at the time, but... 396 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:56,036 He wants to move the abyss, crash it into Hawkins. 397 00:28:56,060 --> 00:28:57,060 No, not crash. 398 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:58,626 Merge. 399 00:28:58,650 --> 00:29:02,376 Henry wasn't licking his wounds in the abyss. He was making rifts, 400 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,466 weakening the abyss, just like he weakened Hawkins. 401 00:29:05,490 --> 00:29:07,256 So when the abyss and Hawkins collide... 402 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:08,256 They become one. 403 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,716 He's remaking the world. 404 00:29:09,740 --> 00:29:12,886 How long do we think this takes? To move worlds? 405 00:29:12,910 --> 00:29:15,726 Are we talking like... Or is this gonna take some time? 406 00:29:15,750 --> 00:29:18,356 We better hope we have some time. Because if this is all correct, 407 00:29:18,380 --> 00:29:21,146 we have to get 2,000 feet in the air, find our way into the abyss, 408 00:29:21,170 --> 00:29:24,396 free Holly and the kids, and kill vecna all before our worlds merge. 409 00:29:24,420 --> 00:29:25,880 And if my theory's right, 410 00:29:26,590 --> 00:29:28,156 he's gonna move worlds tonight. 411 00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:30,076 Have I mentioned how much I hate your theory? 412 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:31,196 - Me too. - Me three. 413 00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:33,866 I hate all of this. 414 00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:37,310 But at least now we know what we're up against 415 00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:39,190 and what we need to do. 416 00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:42,030 We just need a plan. 417 00:30:03,710 --> 00:30:04,800 I'm sorry. 418 00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:07,696 I don't mean to pry. It's just... 419 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,300 Everyone's so worried. 420 00:30:10,390 --> 00:30:12,010 Is she gonna be okay? 421 00:30:18,020 --> 00:30:19,536 But you've told her, right, 422 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,416 that this Max was just a monster in disguise? 423 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,126 That it was tricking her, lying. 424 00:30:25,150 --> 00:30:26,320 Of course. 425 00:30:27,030 --> 00:30:29,530 I've tried everything, but she won't listen. 426 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,766 We need her tonight, or we will fail. 427 00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:36,426 What did this Max tell her? 428 00:30:36,450 --> 00:30:39,750 Such awful, awful things. 429 00:30:40,250 --> 00:30:42,146 She told her I kidnapped you. 430 00:30:42,170 --> 00:30:43,896 - What? - You rescued us. 431 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:44,920 I know. 432 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,010 That's not even the worst of it. 433 00:30:49,090 --> 00:30:53,026 She told her I don't wanna save the world. I wanna end it. 434 00:30:53,050 --> 00:30:56,366 - How could she believe that? - 'Cause she's stupid as shit, that's how. 435 00:30:56,390 --> 00:30:58,270 No, she's not stupid, Thomas. 436 00:30:59,310 --> 00:31:02,996 This monster is incredibly powerful, and she works for the black thing. 437 00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:04,796 She has corrupted Holly's mind 438 00:31:04,820 --> 00:31:07,756 and dragged her out of the light and taken her into the dark. 439 00:31:07,780 --> 00:31:11,216 Maybe we should just give up and go home then. 440 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,296 - Go home? - To be with our parents. 441 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,506 We would all die. 442 00:31:14,530 --> 00:31:15,676 What's wrong with you? 443 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:17,016 Shut your trap, dipshit. 444 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,226 Please let's not turn on each other. 445 00:31:19,250 --> 00:31:21,056 I know we're all upset. 446 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,670 But perhaps Derek is right. 447 00:31:23,750 --> 00:31:27,460 Perhaps I have failed, and the black thing has won. 448 00:31:28,340 --> 00:31:29,970 No, we can't let it win. 449 00:31:30,550 --> 00:31:32,390 Okay? We won't. 450 00:31:33,510 --> 00:31:35,366 You don't know Holly like we do. 451 00:31:35,390 --> 00:31:37,786 I've been her best friend since kindergarten. 452 00:31:37,810 --> 00:31:39,206 Debbie's her second-best friend. 453 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:41,496 - And she crushes hard on Josh. - No, she doesn't. 454 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:42,746 - She does. - Totally. 455 00:31:42,770 --> 00:31:46,820 My point is, maybe if we all try and talk to her, we can fix her. 456 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,940 We can bring her back to the light. 457 00:31:50,610 --> 00:31:52,966 Mary's right. We can do it. 458 00:31:52,990 --> 00:32:00,990 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 459 00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:12,090 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 460 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,100 As for the security cameras, trench plate... 461 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,326 Not a bolt cutter. 462 00:32:20,350 --> 00:32:22,230 Yeah, you could safely say that, sir. 463 00:32:28,690 --> 00:32:30,280 She's getting reckless. 464 00:32:31,190 --> 00:32:32,360 Sloppy. 465 00:32:32,990 --> 00:32:34,506 Could be one of those damn monsters. 466 00:32:34,530 --> 00:32:37,136 A monster who breaks padlocks and cameras? 467 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,660 I don't think so. 468 00:32:41,660 --> 00:32:42,660 It's her. 469 00:32:44,790 --> 00:32:47,316 Rally the rest of the team. Tell them to lock and load. 470 00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:48,460 We're going in. 471 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,640 At the base, in the upside down, there's a chopper ready for the taking. 472 00:32:59,510 --> 00:33:03,730 We fly up to the abyss, kill the freak, rescue the kids, 473 00:33:04,690 --> 00:33:05,876 fly back down. 474 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,706 Who do you expect to fly this thing? 475 00:33:07,730 --> 00:33:10,086 - It's a helicopter. They've got pilots. - Right. 476 00:33:10,110 --> 00:33:12,336 - We force one to fly. - Another kidnapping plot. Love it. 477 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,586 How is this pilot gonna fly a chopper into the rift? 478 00:33:14,610 --> 00:33:17,096 What do you mean? We just fly through it. 479 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,216 - What? - Idiot. 480 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,466 Just fly through it? 481 00:33:19,490 --> 00:33:23,136 These rotors are like 40 feet wide. It's too big. It's not gonna fit. 482 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,556 Steve hears that all the time and goes in anyway. Don't you? 483 00:33:25,580 --> 00:33:28,056 - What the hell is wrong with you? - It's funny. 484 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,186 Everybody shut up. 485 00:33:29,210 --> 00:33:33,606 Look, if somebody else has some magic bean that I don't know about, I'm all ears. 486 00:33:33,630 --> 00:33:36,946 If not, it's a risk that we gotta take. We fly, or we die. 487 00:33:36,970 --> 00:33:38,906 - Fly or die. - Well, then I guess we die. 488 00:33:38,930 --> 00:33:41,826 We're not gonna die if we commit to a plan. 489 00:33:41,850 --> 00:33:43,866 Can we weigh out a few more options before... 490 00:33:43,890 --> 00:33:45,916 Yes. We die, I guess. 491 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,036 - You said we have to get up 2,000 feet... - Don't take that shit, Jim. 492 00:33:49,060 --> 00:33:50,916 - You're not listening to each other. - You guys! 493 00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:52,070 How are you gonna do it? 494 00:33:53,070 --> 00:33:54,126 "Magic bean..." 495 00:33:54,150 --> 00:33:56,006 Can we get back on track? 496 00:33:56,030 --> 00:34:00,136 Let's not even try anything? 497 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,886 We don't need a magic bean to climb. 498 00:34:01,910 --> 00:34:03,306 - An airplane! - I'm not... 499 00:34:03,330 --> 00:34:04,700 we don't need a magic bean! 500 00:34:06,580 --> 00:34:10,170 Sorry. Just... we don't... we don't need it. 501 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,146 A magic bean. 502 00:34:12,170 --> 00:34:14,460 We got a beanstalk right here. 503 00:34:22,350 --> 00:34:26,480 Okay, this flashlight is the squawk radio tower, and this slinky... 504 00:34:27,890 --> 00:34:29,100 Is the bridge. 505 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,876 We'll never reach the abyss from the tower, right? 506 00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:35,086 But Max said vecna is drawing our worlds together. 507 00:34:35,110 --> 00:34:37,200 So, we let him. 508 00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:39,926 And we wait and wait 509 00:34:39,950 --> 00:34:43,596 as he draws it closer and closer. When it's close enough, 510 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:45,766 and the tower is poking through one of the rifts, 511 00:34:45,790 --> 00:34:47,436 bam! El makes her move, 512 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:50,096 she does her meditation thingy, enters vecna's sick mind 513 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,056 and ambushes him. 514 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,266 In your face, dickhead. 515 00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:55,050 And then, stopping the spell, halting the worlds from moving. 516 00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:59,010 Wham, voilà! We've got a beanstalk. It's perfect. 517 00:34:59,590 --> 00:35:02,076 All we gotta do is climb up it into the abyss. 518 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:05,036 - I like it. - It's not totally insane. 519 00:35:05,060 --> 00:35:07,116 - Thank you. - But there's a problem, a big one. 520 00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:10,876 I can't reach inside vecna's mind. He's too far away. 521 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,586 Can't you just try? I don't know, load up on some of your junk food or something? 522 00:35:14,610 --> 00:35:16,190 Or better... 523 00:35:16,780 --> 00:35:17,820 We get you close. 524 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,426 The upside down lab is under his lair, and it's still frozen in time, 525 00:35:22,450 --> 00:35:25,386 which means everything should be there from brenner's experiments, including... 526 00:35:25,410 --> 00:35:26,716 The bath. 527 00:35:26,740 --> 00:35:30,346 If you do make it into his mind, I can walk you through it, 528 00:35:30,370 --> 00:35:31,846 guide you. 529 00:35:31,870 --> 00:35:33,646 I know his sick mind inside and out. 530 00:35:33,670 --> 00:35:35,146 I should be there too. 531 00:35:35,170 --> 00:35:38,970 This plan hinges on stopping Henry, and right now, Jane is fighting him alone. 532 00:35:40,170 --> 00:35:41,736 It doesn't need to be that way. 533 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,140 I can follow her into his mind. 534 00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:48,996 We can end our brother, together. 535 00:35:49,020 --> 00:35:50,666 Okay, yeah, I dig it. 536 00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:53,650 Sisters kill their brother. We rescue the kiddos, come home heroes. 537 00:35:54,230 --> 00:35:57,666 And if Lucas is right, we don't have a lot of time, so we have to move fast. 538 00:35:57,690 --> 00:35:58,756 One final thing. 539 00:35:58,780 --> 00:35:59,916 Cherry on top. 540 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:04,870 On the way out, we drop a bomb near the exotic matter. 541 00:36:05,910 --> 00:36:08,790 Set a timer, escape the upside down. 542 00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:12,750 The bridge collapses, and with it, 543 00:36:13,370 --> 00:36:18,300 the abyss, the demos, the mind flayer, all of it, gone. 544 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,970 Game. Set. Match. 545 00:36:27,930 --> 00:36:29,366 Holly! Holly! 546 00:36:29,390 --> 00:36:32,690 Hey. It's okay. You're safe. 547 00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:35,650 You're safe now. You're with us. Okay? 548 00:36:38,690 --> 00:36:40,256 Welcome back, Holly. 549 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,690 Welcome. 550 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,176 Where is he? 551 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,530 Mr. Whatsit? 552 00:36:46,450 --> 00:36:47,346 Downstairs. 553 00:36:47,370 --> 00:36:48,556 He's worried about you. 554 00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:49,676 So worried. 555 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,636 No, no, no, no, no. Mary, you need to listen. 556 00:36:52,660 --> 00:36:55,856 Mr. Whatsit, he's not who he says he is. He didn't really save us. 557 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,290 - He... - he's kidnapped us? 558 00:36:57,790 --> 00:37:01,146 He's trying to destroy the world? Holly, Mr. Whatsit has told us everything. 559 00:37:01,170 --> 00:37:04,106 Those are lies. Evil, nasty lies! 560 00:37:04,130 --> 00:37:07,050 - No, they're not! They're not... - that other girl you met, Max. 561 00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:08,656 She's not a human. 562 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:09,696 She's a monster. 563 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:10,906 She twisted your mind. 564 00:37:10,930 --> 00:37:12,640 That's not true. 565 00:37:13,350 --> 00:37:16,076 Max is a friend, and she's... she's helping us. 566 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:19,690 She's helping us get back home, back to our families. 567 00:37:20,270 --> 00:37:21,456 We're all trapped. 568 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,586 Trapped in Mr. Whatsit's mind. 569 00:37:23,610 --> 00:37:26,280 Everything you see, none of it is real! 570 00:37:26,780 --> 00:37:28,320 Come on, you have to believe me. 571 00:37:29,030 --> 00:37:30,030 Please. 572 00:37:30,490 --> 00:37:35,016 You have to believe me. You have to believe me. 573 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:36,120 You gotta believe me. 574 00:37:38,830 --> 00:37:40,130 Derek. 575 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,090 Derek, tell them. 576 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,720 Tell them. Tell them! 577 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,036 They're right, Holly. 578 00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:57,600 Max lied to us. 579 00:38:06,530 --> 00:38:09,370 I don't... understand. 580 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,120 Everything she showed me just... 581 00:38:13,790 --> 00:38:16,000 Seemed so real. 582 00:38:18,580 --> 00:38:20,726 I knew not to go into the woods. 583 00:38:20,750 --> 00:38:24,590 But I... I went there anyway, and... 584 00:38:25,630 --> 00:38:27,630 And I just... I just feel so... 585 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,260 So stupid. 586 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,906 - You're not stupid, Holly. - None of this is your fault. 587 00:38:35,930 --> 00:38:36,930 Holly. 588 00:38:37,890 --> 00:38:41,940 You know, the important thing is that you're here. You're here just in ti... 589 00:38:42,730 --> 00:38:44,230 Holly, stop it! 590 00:38:49,110 --> 00:38:50,780 Bitch! Get her! 591 00:38:52,910 --> 00:38:54,160 Get her! 592 00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:49,510 Well, I was hoping for a slightly more delicate landing, but... 593 00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:51,970 I suppose that'll do. 594 00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:55,430 You're welcome. 595 00:39:59,100 --> 00:40:01,746 Of all the people she had to go with, it had to be her. 596 00:40:01,770 --> 00:40:04,786 El trusts her. Maybe we should too. 597 00:40:04,810 --> 00:40:08,230 No, she's up to something. I'm sure of it. I just... 598 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,176 El's not gonna listen to me. 599 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,570 What happened to the two of you down there? 600 00:40:15,570 --> 00:40:17,200 She thinks I don't believe in her. 601 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,636 - Which isn't true. - No, of course not. 602 00:40:20,660 --> 00:40:22,330 Well, have you told her that? 603 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,880 She thinks she's invincible, and that's not the case. 604 00:40:27,460 --> 00:40:29,526 Yeah, that's not what I asked. 605 00:40:29,550 --> 00:40:32,856 I can work on repairing things between us when I get on the other side of this, 606 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,366 but right now, I need to make sure she gets out of this alive. 607 00:40:36,390 --> 00:40:40,310 That Kali makes one false move, I swear to god, I'm gonna kill her. 608 00:40:40,810 --> 00:40:42,666 I'm gonna kill her. I will not hesitate. 609 00:40:42,690 --> 00:40:45,190 Anything happens to El in that tank, I am pulling her out. 610 00:40:46,650 --> 00:40:48,190 I can't lose her, Joyce. 611 00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:52,780 I can't. 612 00:40:58,330 --> 00:40:59,950 One last crawl. 613 00:41:01,910 --> 00:41:03,290 One last crawl. 614 00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:20,010 It gives me a headache trying to understand all this. 615 00:41:21,470 --> 00:41:26,730 But I think I got a c-in physics, so I'll trust the nerds. 616 00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:31,046 Do you think it'll work? The plan? 617 00:41:31,070 --> 00:41:33,320 I mean, it has to, right? 618 00:41:34,820 --> 00:41:36,820 I just wish I wasn't stuck here. 619 00:41:37,450 --> 00:41:38,796 I feel useless. 620 00:41:38,820 --> 00:41:42,136 El and Kali are gonna need you in the mind. I'm the one who's useless. 621 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,346 You can still go there, to the abyss. 622 00:41:44,370 --> 00:41:46,146 It's too risky. 623 00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:49,566 I'd be at the heart of the hive mind, and I don't know what would happen. 624 00:41:49,590 --> 00:41:53,276 Last time I got too close, he used me to spy, and it almost got you killed, Max. 625 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:55,566 You also saved my life, remember? 626 00:41:55,590 --> 00:41:59,406 Plus, I've been almost killed plenty of times at the hands of this asshole, 627 00:41:59,430 --> 00:42:01,536 so I'm kind of used to it at this point. 628 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,996 How did you survive in there, this whole time in Henry's mind? 629 00:42:06,020 --> 00:42:07,600 Honestly, luck. 630 00:42:09,150 --> 00:42:10,690 I found this cave. 631 00:42:11,190 --> 00:42:13,666 It was this old memory of his, 632 00:42:13,690 --> 00:42:16,150 and he was terrified of it. 633 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:18,280 He wouldn't go in. 634 00:42:19,070 --> 00:42:20,966 Scared the living shit out of him. 635 00:42:20,990 --> 00:42:23,886 Underneath all those scars, he's still human. 636 00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:28,750 A psychopath with a serious god complex, but... 637 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:31,356 Human. 638 00:42:31,380 --> 00:42:35,210 I guess we're all scared of something, right? 639 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,866 Okay, Wheeler, how's it going with your contraption? 640 00:42:47,890 --> 00:42:52,956 Okay, so just imagine that this bike bell is the bomb's remote trigger, okay? 641 00:42:52,980 --> 00:42:56,216 So when this wire touches this warrior here, kaboom. 642 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:57,320 Genius. 643 00:42:57,820 --> 00:43:00,886 One thing is, I don't know if we can blow up the upside down 644 00:43:00,910 --> 00:43:02,886 to the dulcet tones of the butthole surfers. 645 00:43:02,910 --> 00:43:05,056 I built the bomb. I should be able to pick the record. 646 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,346 You can pick the record. 647 00:43:06,370 --> 00:43:09,056 You just have to follow one simple rule, which is pick a good record. 648 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:10,096 This is a great record! 649 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,146 As far as save-the-world soundtracks goes, this one's lacking. 650 00:43:13,170 --> 00:43:14,276 What would you pick? 651 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,736 The replacements. I can't not think of better records. 652 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,880 Okay, enough, Lester bangs, okay? 653 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:22,366 Hey. Hey! 654 00:43:22,390 --> 00:43:24,236 Have you handled one of these before? 655 00:43:24,260 --> 00:43:30,390 Not exactly, but, you know, bb guns, air rifles... Duck hunt. 656 00:43:30,980 --> 00:43:32,076 Duck hunt. 657 00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:33,400 He is remarkably good at it. 658 00:43:35,820 --> 00:43:37,150 But I have a better idea. 659 00:43:37,820 --> 00:43:38,820 Come on. 660 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,290 These babies are deadlier than they look. 661 00:43:53,250 --> 00:43:54,646 You sure? 662 00:43:59,210 --> 00:44:00,236 - Hey, Dustin? - Yeah? 663 00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:03,566 Hey, about, some of the stuff that I said earlier. I just... 664 00:44:03,590 --> 00:44:05,890 - it's fine. It's okay. - No, just... 665 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,100 It's not okay. 666 00:44:11,020 --> 00:44:12,020 Eddie... 667 00:44:13,770 --> 00:44:15,150 He saved your life. 668 00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:18,150 Our lives. 669 00:44:19,150 --> 00:44:22,910 And I know what he meant to you. I can't even imagine how hard it's been. 670 00:44:23,450 --> 00:44:24,780 But instead of... 671 00:44:26,660 --> 00:44:28,700 Just being there for you, I just... 672 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,040 Well, I got angry about it. I guess... 673 00:44:36,670 --> 00:44:38,300 I got angry because 674 00:44:40,090 --> 00:44:41,470 things were different. 675 00:44:44,130 --> 00:44:45,130 Because... 676 00:44:47,140 --> 00:44:48,470 I really missed you. 677 00:44:52,770 --> 00:44:54,310 I missed my best friend. 678 00:44:57,860 --> 00:44:59,730 Yeah, I missed my best friend too. 679 00:45:13,210 --> 00:45:16,460 For the record, a rubik's cube isn't even a good measure of intelligence. 680 00:45:18,590 --> 00:45:21,686 And your beanstalk plan, seriously, only a genius could've come up with that. 681 00:45:21,710 --> 00:45:22,760 Yeah, well... 682 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,106 I learned from the best. 683 00:45:25,130 --> 00:45:26,616 That's true. 684 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,526 Silver lining. 685 00:45:28,550 --> 00:45:30,510 If it fails, we both go down. 686 00:45:31,430 --> 00:45:33,140 You die, I die. 687 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:37,900 You die, I die. 688 00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:02,710 Gate opening in five, four, three, two... 689 00:46:05,590 --> 00:46:06,840 Open sesame. 690 00:46:08,930 --> 00:46:09,930 Gotcha! 691 00:46:11,220 --> 00:46:14,956 We've secured the gate signal. Repeat. Gate signal is secure. 692 00:46:14,980 --> 00:46:17,956 Tell snookums his timing is mwah! 693 00:46:17,980 --> 00:46:20,020 Because Santa's sleigh... 694 00:46:22,270 --> 00:46:23,940 is almost ready. 695 00:46:25,570 --> 00:46:27,280 Piece of shit! 696 00:46:28,740 --> 00:46:31,070 God! God! 697 00:46:31,620 --> 00:46:34,426 Why?! Why?! Why do you gotta do this right now? 698 00:46:34,450 --> 00:46:36,056 What? You don't like me? 699 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,266 It's not me! I'm not the one! I'm not the one who... 700 00:46:38,290 --> 00:46:39,460 Hi, sister. 701 00:46:40,630 --> 00:46:41,766 Hi. 702 00:46:41,790 --> 00:46:44,106 Have you ever done this before? 703 00:46:44,130 --> 00:46:45,710 Shared your mind like this? 704 00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:49,180 Have you? 705 00:46:50,090 --> 00:46:52,010 With my other psychic friends all the time. 706 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:54,970 I'm glad I'm here. 707 00:46:55,470 --> 00:46:56,406 Me too. 708 00:46:56,430 --> 00:46:58,020 Even after yesterday? 709 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:01,770 Have you thought about it? 710 00:47:02,270 --> 00:47:03,690 What it all means? 711 00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:10,610 I was thinking when we blow up the bridge, we'll blow up Dr. Kay's lab. 712 00:47:11,490 --> 00:47:13,006 We'll end her experiment. 713 00:47:13,030 --> 00:47:14,516 Kay will simply make a new lab. 714 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:15,676 So we kill her. 715 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:18,556 She replaced papa. Another will replace her. 716 00:47:18,580 --> 00:47:20,766 We can go away somewhere. We can hide from them. 717 00:47:20,790 --> 00:47:23,090 Like somewhere with at least one waterfall? 718 00:47:24,750 --> 00:47:26,646 It's a fantasy, Jane. 719 00:47:26,670 --> 00:47:29,486 If you flee with Mike, maybe you're safe for a while. 720 00:47:29,510 --> 00:47:31,656 But when they find you, and they will, 721 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,366 they will kill Mike, just as they killed my friends. 722 00:47:35,390 --> 00:47:37,696 Then they will take you, and with your blood, 723 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:41,036 they will create more children, children who will suffer as we have. 724 00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:45,746 And with these children, they will open up more gates, more worlds. 725 00:47:45,770 --> 00:47:46,980 Don't you see, Jane? 726 00:47:47,860 --> 00:47:49,150 It's a cycle. 727 00:47:49,740 --> 00:47:52,990 A terrible, vicious cycle. 728 00:47:53,990 --> 00:47:55,370 But we can stop it. 729 00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:58,040 Tonight. 730 00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:07,800 How? 731 00:48:08,380 --> 00:48:10,316 After we kill our brother, 732 00:48:10,340 --> 00:48:12,236 after the children are rescued, 733 00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:14,220 we don't leave with the others. 734 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:15,906 We stay on the bridge. 735 00:48:15,930 --> 00:48:18,220 When the upside down vanishes... 736 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:22,850 So will we. 737 00:48:24,900 --> 00:48:26,940 It is the only way, Jane. 738 00:48:27,610 --> 00:48:29,650 The only way. 739 00:48:33,820 --> 00:48:36,096 You ladies done meditating? 740 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,200 'Cause Santa's sleigh is ready to fly! 741 00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:06,940 Mom? 742 00:49:12,070 --> 00:49:17,176 Earlier today when you asked me what happened in vecna's mind, 743 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,450 I didn't tell you everything. 744 00:49:22,660 --> 00:49:24,766 When vecna attacks, 745 00:49:24,790 --> 00:49:29,726 he weakens you by turning your own mind against you, 746 00:49:29,750 --> 00:49:33,510 by bringing out everything inside you that hurts. 747 00:49:34,300 --> 00:49:39,656 So I fought back by focusing on happy memories, 748 00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,746 memories from when I was a kid, 749 00:49:42,770 --> 00:49:44,560 and when I wasn't scared, 750 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,230 and when I felt most happy. 751 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,996 That's how I took control in the Mac-z 752 00:49:51,020 --> 00:49:53,030 and how I killed those demos. 753 00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:55,756 And I thought the same would work on vecna too. 754 00:49:55,780 --> 00:49:57,450 But he found a way past. 755 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:01,950 And he showed me things, mom. 756 00:50:04,790 --> 00:50:07,596 He showed me the most awful things. 757 00:50:07,620 --> 00:50:09,056 No, listen. 758 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:13,316 Whatever he showed you, it's not real. He plays tricks. He lies. 759 00:50:13,340 --> 00:50:15,420 No, he doesn't. 760 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,140 What he showed me... 761 00:50:20,010 --> 00:50:21,760 It didn't come from him. 762 00:50:23,180 --> 00:50:24,520 It came from me. 763 00:50:26,310 --> 00:50:28,480 He sees everything, mom. 764 00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:31,770 He sees my thoughts. 765 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,230 He sees my memories. 766 00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:39,700 And he sees my secrets. 767 00:50:40,570 --> 00:50:45,790 But Max, she told me he's also afraid, which proves I can beat him. 768 00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:49,250 But for me to do that, 769 00:50:50,750 --> 00:50:51,960 you need to know... 770 00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:59,090 I think you need to know the truth. 771 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,826 Sorry. We just heard from hop. 772 00:51:05,850 --> 00:51:08,600 He's 15 minutes out. So we should probably leave in five. 773 00:51:09,690 --> 00:51:11,126 Is everything okay? 774 00:51:11,150 --> 00:51:12,650 Yeah, we'll be out in a minute. 775 00:51:14,610 --> 00:51:15,610 Wait. 776 00:51:17,030 --> 00:51:18,780 I think you need to hear this too. 777 00:51:20,030 --> 00:51:21,320 Everyone does. 778 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:30,500 I... 779 00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:35,920 I... I haven't told any of you this 780 00:51:36,710 --> 00:51:37,710 because... 781 00:51:39,380 --> 00:51:44,736 Because I... I don't... I don't want you to see me differently. 782 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,560 But the truth is... 783 00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,366 The... the truth is I am. 784 00:51:51,390 --> 00:51:52,600 I am different. 785 00:51:53,810 --> 00:51:54,810 I just... 786 00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:59,240 I just pretended like I wasn't because... because I didn't want to be. 787 00:51:59,820 --> 00:52:04,280 I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and... 788 00:52:05,370 --> 00:52:06,660 And I am like you. 789 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,056 I'm like you in... in almost every way. 790 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,396 We... we like playing dandd late into the night. 791 00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:14,936 And we like that old-person smell in Mike's basement. 792 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,236 And we... we like biking to melvald's for malted milkshakes. 793 00:52:19,260 --> 00:52:22,066 And we like getting lost in the woods, 794 00:52:22,090 --> 00:52:25,116 and getting lost in family video and arguing about what to rent 795 00:52:25,140 --> 00:52:27,906 and settling on holy grail for the millionth time. 796 00:52:27,930 --> 00:52:31,576 And... and we like milk duds in our popcorn with extra butter. 797 00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,916 And we like drinking coke with pop rocks. 798 00:52:34,940 --> 00:52:37,876 And we like bike races and trading comics 799 00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:41,756 and NASA and Steve Martin and lucky charms and... 800 00:52:41,780 --> 00:52:43,336 Literally all the same things. 801 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:48,700 I just... I just... I... I just... I... 802 00:52:50,660 --> 00:52:51,710 I... 803 00:52:52,410 --> 00:52:55,380 I... I don't like girls. 804 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:09,600 I mean... 805 00:53:10,470 --> 00:53:15,060 I mean I do. Just... Just not like you guys do. 806 00:53:15,650 --> 00:53:19,796 And I, I had this... This crush on someone, 807 00:53:19,820 --> 00:53:22,900 even though I know... I know they're not like me. 808 00:53:24,650 --> 00:53:27,596 But... but then I realized he's just my Tammy. 809 00:53:27,620 --> 00:53:30,516 And by Tammy, I mean it was never about him. 810 00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:32,136 It was... it was about me. 811 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,266 And I thought I was finally okay with myself, 812 00:53:35,290 --> 00:53:37,646 but... but then today... 813 00:53:37,670 --> 00:53:40,856 Today vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, 814 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,760 if I told you guys the truth. 815 00:53:44,340 --> 00:53:47,526 He showed me a future, and in this future, 816 00:53:47,550 --> 00:53:51,116 some of you are just... Are just worried for me. 817 00:53:51,140 --> 00:53:53,326 Worried that things will be harder for me. 818 00:53:53,350 --> 00:53:56,626 And it just makes me feel like something's wrong with me. 819 00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:58,246 So I... so I push you away. 820 00:53:58,270 --> 00:54:01,546 And for the rest of us, we just drift apart more 821 00:54:01,570 --> 00:54:05,336 and more and more and more and more until I'm alone. 822 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:09,006 And I know none of that has happened, and vecna can't see into the future. 823 00:54:09,030 --> 00:54:11,886 But he can see into our minds, and he knows things. 824 00:54:11,910 --> 00:54:16,556 And it just felt so real. It felt so real. 825 00:54:16,580 --> 00:54:17,766 Will. 826 00:54:17,790 --> 00:54:19,686 You gotta listen to me. 827 00:54:19,710 --> 00:54:22,146 That will never ever happen. 828 00:54:22,170 --> 00:54:24,210 You'll never lose me. 829 00:54:24,970 --> 00:54:25,896 Ever. 830 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,590 Okay. Okay. 831 00:54:29,260 --> 00:54:30,850 And you'll never lose me. 832 00:54:37,310 --> 00:54:38,310 Or me. 833 00:54:39,350 --> 00:54:40,350 Or me. 834 00:54:41,230 --> 00:54:43,270 Or me. 835 00:54:43,820 --> 00:54:44,860 Or me. 836 00:55:01,330 --> 00:55:03,550 Guess you didn't need truth serum? 837 00:55:05,130 --> 00:55:08,356 Sorry. This sucks, but you're gonna have to hug me. 838 00:55:08,380 --> 00:55:10,640 Max. 839 00:55:14,350 --> 00:55:17,576 Just imagine I'm hugging you really tight, okay? 840 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:18,690 Okay. 841 00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:28,570 El. 842 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,586 I know you're strong enough to defeat vecna. 843 00:55:31,610 --> 00:55:34,256 But he can retreat to the physical world, 844 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,290 and we need to be ready to fight him there too. 845 00:55:37,910 --> 00:55:41,920 We have bullets and fire, but none of that helped those soldiers. 846 00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:45,500 I need to be there. 847 00:55:48,090 --> 00:55:49,356 And I'm ready. 848 00:55:49,380 --> 00:55:52,720 I'm ready to show him I'm not afraid anymore. 849 00:56:09,030 --> 00:56:13,070 That's a confirmation. Anderson's on that patrol. 850 00:56:14,070 --> 00:56:18,330 Solid copy, bravo one. Maintain overwatch. Over. 851 00:56:26,290 --> 00:56:27,646 Hey, McConnell. 852 00:56:27,670 --> 00:56:30,026 We got a delivery tonight I don't know about? 853 00:56:30,050 --> 00:56:31,566 That's a negative, private. 854 00:56:31,590 --> 00:56:33,590 The hell are you doing, buddy? 855 00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:38,680 Showtime, snookums! 856 00:56:39,270 --> 00:56:40,310 Mellon. 857 00:56:45,060 --> 00:56:46,230 Shit! 858 00:56:48,230 --> 00:56:49,230 Pardon me! 859 00:56:50,650 --> 00:56:51,876 First gate cleared. 860 00:56:51,900 --> 00:56:55,120 Two hostiles, towers, ten and eleven o'clock. 861 00:57:15,340 --> 00:57:17,140 Now comes the fun part. 862 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,290 - Come on! Come on! - Come on! Come on! 863 00:57:50,460 --> 00:57:51,840 Go! Go! Drive! 864 00:58:07,190 --> 00:58:08,730 Whoo-hey! 865 00:58:09,650 --> 00:58:10,650 Yeah! 866 00:58:12,940 --> 00:58:14,690 Jesus Christ. 867 00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,796 Everybody all right? Everybody okay? 868 00:58:17,820 --> 00:58:19,950 - Yeah. - You all right? Everybody all right? 869 00:58:20,910 --> 00:58:22,870 Hey, nice shooting back there. 870 00:58:23,540 --> 00:58:24,540 You too. 871 00:58:26,710 --> 00:58:29,460 I kind of thought that that was supposed to be the easy part. 872 00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:31,380 It was. 873 00:58:32,050 --> 00:58:33,050 You ready? 874 00:58:35,130 --> 00:58:36,130 Ready. 875 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:52,080 It's time.