1 00:00:17,267 --> 00:00:18,184 Max. 2 00:00:20,770 --> 00:00:23,356 Max. Max, can you hear me? Max. 3 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,526 Come on. Open your eyes. Yes! Yes, Max! 4 00:00:27,027 --> 00:00:28,111 Can you hear me? 5 00:00:28,194 --> 00:00:30,196 Max! 6 00:00:30,989 --> 00:00:32,615 Yes! Stay with me. Stay with me. 7 00:00:33,283 --> 00:00:34,242 All the way, Max. 8 00:00:36,077 --> 00:00:37,454 Yes! That's it! That's it! 9 00:00:43,168 --> 00:00:44,961 Hello, Lucas. 10 00:00:45,045 --> 00:00:50,175 Yes. Max. Come on, Max. It's me. I'm right here. I'm right here, Max. 11 00:00:54,054 --> 00:00:58,767 Are you… Are you… Are you okay? Do you… Do you hurt anywhere? 12 00:01:00,101 --> 00:01:04,189 I can't feel… much. 13 00:01:04,939 --> 00:01:07,859 Do you… Do you feel this? Do you feel my hand? 14 00:01:08,902 --> 00:01:09,819 A little. 15 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:12,530 Can… Can you… Can you see? 16 00:01:13,323 --> 00:01:18,578 The lights are really… are really bright. 17 00:01:19,621 --> 00:01:20,580 Hey. 18 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:24,876 You haven't used your eyes, okay, or your muscles for a long time. 19 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:27,754 Okay, your body's just weak, 20 00:01:27,837 --> 00:01:30,840 but it just needs to readjust and learn again. 21 00:01:32,509 --> 00:01:34,636 You are going to be okay. 22 00:01:35,261 --> 00:01:36,304 You're gonna be okay. 23 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:41,017 I knew you were there. 24 00:01:42,477 --> 00:01:44,395 I always knew you were still there. 25 00:01:46,356 --> 00:01:47,941 I saw you. 26 00:01:49,109 --> 00:01:50,652 Waiting for me, 27 00:01:50,735 --> 00:01:54,239 playing my… my song. 28 00:01:55,865 --> 00:01:57,075 You bored of it yet? 29 00:02:00,703 --> 00:02:01,913 Are you? 30 00:02:07,418 --> 00:02:08,711 It turns out 31 00:02:10,296 --> 00:02:11,881 that the whole time, 32 00:02:14,050 --> 00:02:15,802 I didn't even need it. 33 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,806 I just needed you. 34 00:02:22,642 --> 00:02:23,935 Just you. 35 00:02:24,018 --> 00:02:28,523 I don't wanna swim forever 36 00:02:30,066 --> 00:02:36,948 When it's cold I'd like to die 37 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:43,163 I don't wanna… 38 00:02:43,246 --> 00:02:45,456 -Oh my God. -Max. 39 00:02:47,959 --> 00:02:51,004 You're here. You're really here. 40 00:02:51,087 --> 00:02:52,589 I'm here. 41 00:02:53,381 --> 00:02:54,507 Hey, welcome home, kid. 42 00:02:56,801 --> 00:02:58,052 Took your sweet time, didn't you? 43 00:02:58,136 --> 00:03:00,388 Screw you, Wheeler. 44 00:03:06,269 --> 00:03:07,353 Where am I? 45 00:03:07,437 --> 00:03:08,688 Oh. 46 00:03:08,771 --> 00:03:11,566 Yeah, that would be confusing. Um… 47 00:03:11,649 --> 00:03:13,776 You were being hunted by the Demo-dogs, 48 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:16,362 and we were all seconds away from becoming lunch 49 00:03:16,446 --> 00:03:18,364 when Mrs. Wheeler came and… 50 00:03:19,616 --> 00:03:21,284 did the laundry. 51 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:23,661 Holy shit! Mom! 52 00:03:25,246 --> 00:03:26,289 Vecna. 53 00:03:28,249 --> 00:03:29,542 He'll be angry. 54 00:03:30,585 --> 00:03:32,086 He'll try and find me. 55 00:03:33,463 --> 00:03:35,340 He'll know we escaped. 56 00:03:37,258 --> 00:03:38,218 Where's Holly? 57 00:03:41,012 --> 00:03:41,846 Where is she? 58 00:05:59,442 --> 00:06:00,777 Jonathan. 59 00:06:02,195 --> 00:06:03,404 Jonathan. 60 00:06:03,488 --> 00:06:04,530 Jonathan. 61 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:06,783 Jonathan, stop. 62 00:06:08,493 --> 00:06:10,536 What? 63 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:13,414 If we hurt ourselves, we're really screwed. 64 00:06:14,665 --> 00:06:16,209 Yeah, I guess you're right. 65 00:06:19,128 --> 00:06:20,505 Oh, God. 66 00:06:23,174 --> 00:06:25,802 Okay, so now what? 67 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:27,887 Anything else you wanna confess? 68 00:06:36,729 --> 00:06:37,939 Stay back. 69 00:06:47,031 --> 00:06:48,408 Sorry we're late. 70 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:54,205 You okay? 71 00:06:54,288 --> 00:06:57,208 Yeah. Yeah, we're okay. 72 00:07:02,713 --> 00:07:03,923 Thanks. 73 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:07,885 Was that weird? I'm sorry. That was weird. 74 00:07:07,969 --> 00:07:10,430 I didn't… We just… We both thought… 75 00:07:10,513 --> 00:07:12,682 -We were goners. Yeah, we did too. -Yes. 76 00:07:12,765 --> 00:07:14,392 Turns out that shield generator of yours… 77 00:07:14,475 --> 00:07:16,769 Isn't really a shield generator. Yeah, we know. 78 00:07:16,853 --> 00:07:20,022 Well, you'd think that would have been good information to share. 79 00:07:20,106 --> 00:07:21,732 Well, we tried. 80 00:07:21,816 --> 00:07:22,900 Antenna snapped. 81 00:07:22,984 --> 00:07:24,152 His fault. 82 00:07:24,235 --> 00:07:26,904 Okay, so then what the hell did I shoot? 83 00:07:26,988 --> 00:07:28,448 Exotic matter. 84 00:07:28,531 --> 00:07:30,867 And we're supposed to know what that is? 85 00:07:30,950 --> 00:07:33,703 It's all in here. Look. Check this out. 86 00:07:34,871 --> 00:07:37,206 Dr. Brenner's notebook from '83. 87 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:39,041 This thing is a gold mine. 88 00:07:39,125 --> 00:07:43,379 All his research into the gate, how he created it, what it really is. 89 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:45,214 I'm still deciphering it, but… 90 00:07:45,298 --> 00:07:47,175 Yeah, this shit will fry your brain. 91 00:07:47,258 --> 00:07:50,386 Cliff notes, Holly isn't on the other side of the wall. 92 00:07:53,222 --> 00:07:54,640 Then where is she? 93 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:57,602 I don't know… exactly. 94 00:07:57,685 --> 00:08:00,062 But wherever she is, it's not the Upside Down. 95 00:08:21,626 --> 00:08:25,046 When he took me, he opened the fourth, final gate, 96 00:08:25,129 --> 00:08:26,339 splitting Hawkins in two. 97 00:09:05,253 --> 00:09:06,629 You can do this. 98 00:09:33,823 --> 00:09:35,700 -What was that? -What was what? 99 00:09:36,951 --> 00:09:38,286 Holly. 100 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:09,085 Voyager Beta. 101 00:11:09,168 --> 00:11:10,086 Any signal yet? 102 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:14,090 Negative, Voyager Alpha. Voyager Gamma? 103 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:17,009 A big, fat zero over here. 104 00:11:17,093 --> 00:11:19,637 Your balloon experiment is a dud, Snookums. 105 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,556 Let's just put the antenna on the van and drive. 106 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,017 As I've said, Voyager Gamma, given the uneven terrain 107 00:11:25,101 --> 00:11:26,727 and forested nature of Hawkins, 108 00:11:26,811 --> 00:11:29,105 a vehicle is simply not the most expedient way 109 00:11:29,188 --> 00:11:30,564 to pinpoint a telemetry tag. 110 00:11:30,648 --> 00:11:33,359 "Expedient"? We've been building your goddamn balloon experiment 111 00:11:33,442 --> 00:11:34,276 for six hours! 112 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,029 Yes, but once we trilaterate the three signals, 113 00:11:37,113 --> 00:11:39,699 I'll be able to pinpoint Dustin's precise location. 114 00:11:39,782 --> 00:11:42,493 You can't trilaterate shit if we can't get a signal, 115 00:11:42,576 --> 00:11:45,496 so let's just cut our losses now 116 00:11:45,579 --> 00:11:48,582 before your star student winds up dead in a ditch. 117 00:11:49,750 --> 00:11:51,252 "Cut our losses…" 118 00:11:59,218 --> 00:12:01,095 Fortune favors the bold. 119 00:12:04,432 --> 00:12:06,308 I've secured a location on Dustin. 120 00:12:06,892 --> 00:12:08,269 Loose your balloons, Voyagers. 121 00:12:08,352 --> 00:12:10,020 -Come again? -Wait, hold on. What? 122 00:12:10,104 --> 00:12:14,066 We need more height. Loose your balloons. 123 00:12:18,195 --> 00:12:19,572 Negative 80! 124 00:12:20,197 --> 00:12:21,866 Negative 44. 125 00:12:21,949 --> 00:12:25,161 I take it back, Snookums, you mad, mad genius! 126 00:12:25,244 --> 00:12:28,164 Thank you, Voyager. Calculations incoming. Hold tight. 127 00:12:41,969 --> 00:12:46,348 You are going to be my spy 128 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:50,019 one last time. 129 00:12:55,483 --> 00:12:56,317 Will. 130 00:12:58,194 --> 00:13:00,112 Hopper just radioed. 131 00:13:00,196 --> 00:13:02,406 Max is safe. She got out. 132 00:13:04,325 --> 00:13:07,077 Hey, this is good news. 133 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:10,873 None of this would have happened if it weren't for you. 134 00:13:10,956 --> 00:13:12,124 Everything's gonna be okay. 135 00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:15,002 But for how long, Mom? 136 00:13:15,085 --> 00:13:17,880 If Lucas is right, today is the day, 137 00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:19,757 the day Vecna's gonna act. 138 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,718 I thought I had him. But the truth… 139 00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:26,806 The truth is I never stood a chance. 140 00:13:28,015 --> 00:13:31,727 And he knew it. He's always known it. 141 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:35,439 That's why, out of everyone in Hawkins, he chose me. 142 00:13:36,482 --> 00:13:43,072 Because he knew I was weak, and he knew he could control me. 143 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:44,698 That is not true. 144 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:46,951 It is, Mom. It is. 145 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:48,744 I was his vessel. 146 00:13:49,745 --> 00:13:53,749 A vessel to channel his powers, to spy, 147 00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:56,585 and… and to build. 148 00:13:57,878 --> 00:14:00,214 "To… To build"? 149 00:14:00,297 --> 00:14:01,924 The tunnels. 150 00:14:02,967 --> 00:14:05,010 They didn't spread from the gate on their own. 151 00:14:05,594 --> 00:14:10,933 Every night, I jacked into the hive and took control of the vines, 152 00:14:11,016 --> 00:14:16,188 using them to tunnel, infecting our world with the Upside Down. 153 00:14:17,064 --> 00:14:19,358 So many died because of me. 154 00:14:20,484 --> 00:14:22,695 And if I could do all of that, 155 00:14:23,529 --> 00:14:27,032 what could he do with 12 more like me? 156 00:14:27,616 --> 00:14:29,159 You listen to me. 157 00:14:29,243 --> 00:14:32,162 None of what happened is your fault. 158 00:14:32,246 --> 00:14:33,080 Do you hear me? 159 00:14:33,664 --> 00:14:36,000 And as for his big plan, 160 00:14:36,083 --> 00:14:39,086 he's not gonna have 12 vessels, or whatever the hell he calls them, 161 00:14:39,169 --> 00:14:42,339 because he just lost Holly, and she'll know where the others are. 162 00:14:42,423 --> 00:14:46,468 Sweetheart, this is not over, not by a long shot. 163 00:14:47,636 --> 00:14:48,679 You're wrong. 164 00:14:49,471 --> 00:14:51,348 You're wrong, Mom. 165 00:14:51,432 --> 00:14:52,975 It's my fault. 166 00:14:53,058 --> 00:14:54,393 No. 167 00:14:54,476 --> 00:14:55,853 No, baby. 168 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:06,280 Go! Go! 169 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:20,169 I couldn't see where Holly was gonna wake up. 170 00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:22,880 But I figured 171 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:26,008 wherever Vecna was keeping her, 172 00:15:26,842 --> 00:15:28,802 it had to be in the Upside Down. 173 00:15:30,220 --> 00:15:31,221 So… 174 00:15:32,222 --> 00:15:35,601 I told her to just go home. 175 00:15:35,684 --> 00:15:37,645 Home? Home as in our home? 176 00:15:37,728 --> 00:15:40,314 Meaning we have to get back into the Upside Down. 177 00:15:40,397 --> 00:15:42,942 -Where is the nearest rift to you? -Off Cornwallis, I think. 178 00:15:43,025 --> 00:15:44,526 About a mile and a half, give or take. 179 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:45,986 Lucas, do you copy? 180 00:15:46,070 --> 00:15:46,946 -Oh, Robin. -Yeah. 181 00:15:47,029 --> 00:15:47,863 Lucas! 182 00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:52,159 Erica, I really can't talk right now. 183 00:15:52,242 --> 00:15:54,036 Okay, so Vecna took out those soldiers, 184 00:15:54,119 --> 00:15:56,080 so it should be a lot easier to get into the MAC. 185 00:15:56,163 --> 00:15:57,915 No. They're gonna have reinforcements by now. 186 00:15:57,998 --> 00:15:59,541 I can break through a plate. 187 00:15:59,625 --> 00:16:04,213 Are you saying that Holly is trapped under a steel plate? 188 00:16:04,296 --> 00:16:06,423 Without context, that might sound troubling, 189 00:16:06,507 --> 00:16:10,260 but she's not pancaked under a giant hunk of steel or anything. She's… 190 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:11,512 How do I talk about this? 191 00:16:11,595 --> 00:16:15,057 -Well, there's this world under ours… -Under the plates. 192 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:16,225 The Upside Down. 193 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:18,894 Yeah, and it's just like Hawkins, only way suckier. 194 00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:22,356 Guys, guys, guys. Okay, you really won't believe this, 195 00:16:22,439 --> 00:16:26,026 but Erica and Mr. Clarke came through. They found Dustin and the others. 196 00:16:27,194 --> 00:16:30,781 All right. Well, they're gonna be able to find Holly a lot easier than we are. 197 00:16:33,409 --> 00:16:35,953 We better hurry. We got company. 198 00:16:47,923 --> 00:16:50,551 Hey, hey. Are you okay? 199 00:16:51,135 --> 00:16:52,428 I'm fine, Michael. I'm fine. 200 00:16:52,511 --> 00:16:54,888 No, with all due respect, Mrs. Wheeler, you're not. 201 00:16:54,972 --> 00:16:58,517 You could get an infection, hemorrhage, God forbid, stop breathing. 202 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,855 If you think I'm gonna stay in bed when my daughter needs me, 203 00:17:02,938 --> 00:17:06,025 you're out of your goddamn mind. Let's go. 204 00:17:06,108 --> 00:17:08,652 Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom. She's right. 205 00:17:08,736 --> 00:17:10,279 It's okay. Keep going. 206 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:12,990 Hey, you saved us. 207 00:17:13,073 --> 00:17:14,533 You saved us. 208 00:17:14,616 --> 00:17:17,244 And by some miracle, you're still here, okay? 209 00:17:17,327 --> 00:17:20,414 But now, you need to trust me that we can handle this the rest of the way. 210 00:17:20,497 --> 00:17:23,542 There might be more of those things out there. 211 00:17:23,625 --> 00:17:25,335 They're called Demogorgons. I know. 212 00:17:25,419 --> 00:17:29,798 There's so much that I need to tell you about this Upside Down and El, 213 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:31,633 but right now, all you need to know is 214 00:17:31,717 --> 00:17:34,887 that this group saved Will when no one else could. 215 00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:36,180 We did that. 216 00:17:36,263 --> 00:17:38,390 And we're about to do the same thing with Holly. 217 00:17:38,474 --> 00:17:42,436 We're gonna bring her back to you, Mom. I promise. Okay? 218 00:17:43,937 --> 00:17:44,855 Yeah? 219 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,494 Mr. Clarke, thanks for the assist. 220 00:17:58,577 --> 00:17:59,661 Don't thank me yet. 221 00:17:59,745 --> 00:18:02,289 We successfully trilaterated Dustin's position here, 222 00:18:02,372 --> 00:18:03,749 to precisely where I stand now. 223 00:18:03,832 --> 00:18:06,043 But by the time we arrived, he was MIA. 224 00:18:06,126 --> 00:18:08,462 Well, he wouldn't be precisely here. He'd be under. 225 00:18:09,463 --> 00:18:10,756 Sorry? 226 00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:12,758 You didn't tell him? 227 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:14,760 -I… -Told me what? 228 00:18:14,843 --> 00:18:16,512 Holy shit. 229 00:18:17,554 --> 00:18:18,847 Holy shit. 230 00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,433 Hey, over here! Over here! 231 00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:24,603 I got him! I got him! 232 00:18:24,686 --> 00:18:26,480 I got Dustin! 233 00:18:32,236 --> 00:18:33,946 -I don't hear anything. -Patience. 234 00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:37,825 Is anyone there? Repeat, this is Dustin. 235 00:18:37,908 --> 00:18:40,244 Dustin, it's Mike. Holly's escaped from Vecna, 236 00:18:40,327 --> 00:18:42,371 and she's on her way to my house in the Upside Down. 237 00:18:42,454 --> 00:18:45,999 I need you to get there as fast as you can and rendezvous with Holly. Do you copy? 238 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:49,461 Holly's not at the house. We found her. We found Holly. Repeat, we-- 239 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:50,963 Dustin, I'm losing you. 240 00:18:51,672 --> 00:18:52,589 Dustin? 241 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,387 Am I going crazy, or did he just say that he found Holly? 242 00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:03,058 All right, let's hug this wall up here. 243 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:04,560 Why would she be at the lab? 244 00:19:04,643 --> 00:19:07,271 Wherever she escaped from, the lab must've been en route to my house. 245 00:19:07,354 --> 00:19:09,731 She just happened to run into Dustin? What are the odds? 246 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:10,649 Low as shit, 247 00:19:10,732 --> 00:19:12,776 but I say it's about damn time we had some luck. 248 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:13,694 Amen to that. 249 00:19:13,777 --> 00:19:17,322 I'm sorry. I still don't follow. Dustin is under those plates? 250 00:19:17,406 --> 00:19:18,657 -Yes. -But not pancaked. 251 00:19:19,241 --> 00:19:20,617 Hang on. Hang on. 252 00:19:33,046 --> 00:19:35,465 Yeah, we got cameras all over that rift. 253 00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:38,760 I have an old spectrum analyzer back at the club. 254 00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:41,930 If I can just locate their RF signal, I should be able to jam the transmission. 255 00:19:42,014 --> 00:19:43,223 That's cool. 256 00:19:43,932 --> 00:19:45,559 I think you're overthinking it. 257 00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:49,104 You're telling me Alford wouldn't have doubled that score? 258 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:50,856 Four from six from the field. 259 00:19:50,939 --> 00:19:54,026 Reggie's gonna be something special, you mark my words. 260 00:19:54,109 --> 00:19:55,360 Walsh can do no… 261 00:19:59,531 --> 00:20:01,116 You ain't seen nothing yet. 262 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:39,947 You coming, Snookums? 263 00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:41,490 We're going in there? 264 00:20:42,658 --> 00:20:44,201 We're going in there. 265 00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:47,412 Steve! 266 00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:49,206 Dustin! 267 00:20:49,289 --> 00:20:50,540 Steve! 268 00:20:50,624 --> 00:20:52,125 Nancy! Holly! 269 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:53,585 Jonathan! 270 00:20:59,883 --> 00:21:01,677 Is this shit safe to breathe? 271 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:02,844 Unclear. 272 00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:04,721 Okay. 273 00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:07,808 Mike, any luck down there? 274 00:21:07,891 --> 00:21:10,185 Mike? Mike! 275 00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:12,437 Found him. 276 00:21:13,605 --> 00:21:15,274 Jesus, it's good to see you guys. 277 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:26,410 Nancy? 278 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,037 Where is she? 279 00:21:29,579 --> 00:21:30,872 Where's Holly? 280 00:21:36,503 --> 00:21:38,297 -What was that? -What was what? 281 00:21:39,631 --> 00:21:40,924 Holly. 282 00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:53,770 Nancy! Nancy! 283 00:21:53,854 --> 00:21:55,564 -Holly! Holly! -Nancy, help me! 284 00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:58,191 -Nancy, help me! Help me down, please! -Holly! 285 00:21:58,275 --> 00:21:59,943 Nancy! Nancy, please! 286 00:22:00,027 --> 00:22:00,902 Holly! 287 00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:02,654 Nancy! 288 00:22:08,869 --> 00:22:13,832 It was like something had a hold of her, but you couldn't see anything. 289 00:22:16,084 --> 00:22:17,252 It was him. 290 00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:21,173 Vecna. It had to be. 291 00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:23,884 Mike? 292 00:22:23,967 --> 00:22:26,928 Is Holly okay, Mike? Mike, do you copy? 293 00:22:27,012 --> 00:22:29,473 I repeat, is Holly okay? 294 00:23:16,895 --> 00:23:18,897 Don't worry, Holly. 295 00:23:19,856 --> 00:23:22,692 It will all be over soon. 296 00:23:24,611 --> 00:23:28,532 It will all be over. 297 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:36,540 It was some sort of demon, a demon from that other world. 298 00:23:37,207 --> 00:23:38,959 He can control monsters, 299 00:23:40,293 --> 00:23:41,586 move Humvees, 300 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:43,130 stop fire. 301 00:23:45,757 --> 00:23:47,175 Bullets didn't touch him. 302 00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:49,261 Hell, nothing could. 303 00:23:49,344 --> 00:23:50,887 It wasn't a fight. 304 00:23:52,889 --> 00:23:54,641 It was a damn massacre. 305 00:23:59,813 --> 00:24:01,690 First we get mutant dogs at the hospital. 306 00:24:01,773 --> 00:24:03,275 Now a goddamn demon in the MAC? 307 00:24:03,358 --> 00:24:05,569 You wanna tell me what else is about to pop out of that hellhole, 308 00:24:05,652 --> 00:24:07,028 or should we leave it a surprise? 309 00:24:07,112 --> 00:24:09,948 I don't know if you've noticed, but suddenly we're light on men. 310 00:24:10,031 --> 00:24:11,700 Reinforcements are on the way. 311 00:24:11,783 --> 00:24:14,870 Any additional requests, talk to your unit commander. 312 00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:17,581 How am I to know what to request when I don't know what I'm fighting? 313 00:24:17,664 --> 00:24:21,626 You're not fighting anything. This is not a war. It is a search. 314 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,420 Something gets in your way, kill it. 315 00:24:23,503 --> 00:24:26,548 But otherwise, keep your focus on finding the girl. 316 00:24:26,631 --> 00:24:29,134 Yeah, find the girl. Christ, is that all you can say? 317 00:24:29,217 --> 00:24:32,179 I mean, you got a pull string under that jacket of yours or what? 318 00:24:33,763 --> 00:24:36,475 Everything that has happened here is because of that girl. 319 00:24:36,558 --> 00:24:39,186 And if you had just done your job and found her, 320 00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:42,731 then I wouldn't have to repeat myself, and we'd have those monsters in Moscow 321 00:24:42,814 --> 00:24:45,942 where they'd be killing Soviets instead of Americans. 322 00:24:46,026 --> 00:24:48,236 The dead men, the children, 323 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,906 their blood is on your hands, Lieutenant, not mine. 324 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:55,911 And unless you want to join them, I would watch that goddamn tongue. 325 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,585 Lt. Akers, this is Bravo One. Do you copy? 326 00:25:06,129 --> 00:25:07,255 Yeah, what is it? 327 00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:09,424 We've got a rift breach at the old lab. 328 00:25:10,217 --> 00:25:11,301 On my way. 329 00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:20,227 You okay? 330 00:25:20,936 --> 00:25:21,937 Max. 331 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:32,989 So I leave you alone for a second, and you turn into a sorcerer? 332 00:25:33,073 --> 00:25:37,077 It was a little more than a second, and I'm not really a sorcerer. 333 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,120 Mm, sure seemed like it to me. 334 00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:42,916 Hey, you up for a tour? 335 00:25:46,002 --> 00:25:48,255 Jimmy "Fast Hands" skipped town before quarantine, 336 00:25:48,338 --> 00:25:50,131 so we just sort of moved in here. 337 00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:52,676 The basement is hidden behind this bookshelf over there. 338 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:54,594 Not quite the Batcave, but it's pretty sweet. 339 00:25:54,678 --> 00:25:57,138 We kept the station going as cover. Robin's our DJ. 340 00:25:57,222 --> 00:25:59,849 -Rockin' Robin. -Rockin' Robin, my bad. 341 00:25:59,933 --> 00:26:01,393 And Steve's her sound man. 342 00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:02,394 Check this out. 343 00:26:15,699 --> 00:26:16,700 Hey… 344 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:18,952 We're gonna get Holly back. 345 00:26:19,035 --> 00:26:21,454 She's all alone in there, Lucas. 346 00:26:22,038 --> 00:26:25,041 Alone with that monster. 347 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:27,961 And I was so sure that she could make it out. 348 00:26:28,044 --> 00:26:29,588 And I was so stupid. 349 00:26:30,088 --> 00:26:32,007 You had to try. 350 00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:34,134 I should have stayed there. 351 00:26:36,678 --> 00:26:38,305 And I should have kept her safe. 352 00:26:39,347 --> 00:26:40,974 Then we'd all be screwed. 353 00:26:41,474 --> 00:26:44,352 You've been in Vecna's mind. You can help us beat him. 354 00:26:44,436 --> 00:26:46,855 No. I can't. 355 00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:52,819 I don't even know where Vecna's keeping Holly. 356 00:26:52,902 --> 00:26:54,487 Well, it's a good thing I do. 357 00:26:56,031 --> 00:26:58,491 I know where she is, but the real challenge is getting there. 358 00:26:59,701 --> 00:27:01,453 I gotta show you guys something. 359 00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:03,913 Okay. 360 00:27:03,997 --> 00:27:09,044 So, this is Hawkins, and this is the Upside Down. 361 00:27:09,127 --> 00:27:12,464 We've always assumed the Upside Down was another dimension opened by Brenner, 362 00:27:12,547 --> 00:27:15,592 but it turns out it's actually a bridge. 363 00:27:16,176 --> 00:27:18,303 More specifically, an interdimensional bridge 364 00:27:18,386 --> 00:27:19,929 that rips through space-time. 365 00:27:20,013 --> 00:27:23,683 It is wildly unstable, but held together by exotic matter, 366 00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:27,062 which we found dead center right above the lab. 367 00:27:27,145 --> 00:27:28,438 In theoretical physics, 368 00:27:28,521 --> 00:27:30,857 -they call this type of bridge a… -Wormhole. 369 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,943 And this wormhole connects Hawkins to here, 370 00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:37,530 another world that I've coined the Abyss. 371 00:27:37,614 --> 00:27:40,408 -Any particular reason? -A realm of pure chaos and evil. 372 00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:42,285 -I'm sorry? -DandD. 373 00:27:42,369 --> 00:27:43,870 -Jesus Christ. -Wow. 374 00:27:43,953 --> 00:27:47,832 I believe this Abyss is the true home of the Demogorgons, 375 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:49,542 the vines, the Mind Flayer, 376 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:51,961 all the nasty shit we found in the Upside Down. 377 00:27:52,045 --> 00:27:54,047 It's where all those years ago you banished Henry. 378 00:27:54,130 --> 00:27:55,256 He was lost for years, 379 00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,092 and would've stayed lost if it wasn't for Brenner. 380 00:27:57,175 --> 00:27:59,010 He had me find Henry. 381 00:27:59,094 --> 00:28:02,555 And when you made remote contact with the Abyss, the bridge formed. 382 00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:05,100 Ever since, Henry and his army of monsters have been using it 383 00:28:05,183 --> 00:28:07,435 to cross right back into Hawkins. 384 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:09,771 We kicked Vecna's ass last year, 385 00:28:09,854 --> 00:28:13,066 but he just fled across this bridge back to the Abyss to lick his wounds. 386 00:28:13,149 --> 00:28:14,025 What a pussy. 387 00:28:14,109 --> 00:28:17,654 So all this time, Vecna's been hiding in the sky? 388 00:28:17,737 --> 00:28:19,906 Explains why every crawl led to a dead end. 389 00:28:19,989 --> 00:28:22,951 -And why I can't find him in the bath. -And why Holly fell from the sky. 390 00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:24,953 Yeah, but why is he taking kids up there? 391 00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:26,538 For the same reason he took me. 392 00:28:26,621 --> 00:28:30,583 The minds of children are weaker, right? More easily molded and controlled. 393 00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:34,254 So he channeled his thoughts and powers through me to amplify his abilities, 394 00:28:34,337 --> 00:28:35,880 and he's gonna do the same with those kids. 395 00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:37,632 Amplify his abilities? 396 00:28:38,174 --> 00:28:39,175 To do what? 397 00:28:39,259 --> 00:28:40,343 Move worlds. 398 00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:45,724 Holly, she said Henry told the kids 399 00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:49,561 that they would help him draw the worlds together. 400 00:28:50,687 --> 00:28:53,022 I didn't understand what that meant at the time, but… 401 00:28:53,106 --> 00:28:55,984 He wants to move the Abyss, crash it into Hawkins. 402 00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:56,943 No, not crash. 403 00:28:57,527 --> 00:28:58,570 Merge. 404 00:28:58,653 --> 00:29:02,323 Henry wasn't licking his wounds in the Abyss. He was making rifts, 405 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:05,410 weakening the Abyss, just like he weakened Hawkins. 406 00:29:05,493 --> 00:29:07,203 So when the Abyss and Hawkins collide… 407 00:29:07,287 --> 00:29:08,204 They become one. 408 00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:09,664 He's remaking the world. 409 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:12,834 How long do we think this takes? To move worlds? 410 00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:15,670 Are we talking like… Or is this gonna take some time? 411 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:18,298 We better hope we have some time. Because if this is all correct, 412 00:29:18,381 --> 00:29:21,092 we have to get 2,000 feet in the air, find our way into the Abyss, 413 00:29:21,176 --> 00:29:24,345 free Holly and the kids, and kill Vecna all before our worlds merge. 414 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:25,889 And if my theory's right, 415 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,099 he's gonna move worlds tonight. 416 00:29:28,183 --> 00:29:30,018 Have I mentioned how much I hate your theory? 417 00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:31,144 -Me too. -Me three. 418 00:29:31,227 --> 00:29:33,813 I hate all of this. 419 00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:37,317 But at least now we know what we're up against 420 00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:39,194 and what we need to do. 421 00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:42,030 We just need a plan. 422 00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:04,803 I'm sorry. 423 00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:07,639 I don't mean to pry. It's just… 424 00:30:07,722 --> 00:30:09,307 everyone's so worried. 425 00:30:10,391 --> 00:30:12,018 Is she gonna be okay? 426 00:30:18,024 --> 00:30:19,484 But you've told her, right, 427 00:30:19,567 --> 00:30:22,362 that this Max was just a monster in disguise? 428 00:30:22,445 --> 00:30:25,073 That it was tricking her, lying. 429 00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:26,324 Of course. 430 00:30:27,033 --> 00:30:29,536 I've tried everything, but she won't listen. 431 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,706 We need her tonight, or we will fail. 432 00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:36,376 What did this Max tell her? 433 00:30:36,459 --> 00:30:39,754 Such awful, awful things. 434 00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:42,090 She told her I kidnapped you. 435 00:30:42,173 --> 00:30:43,842 -What? -You rescued us. 436 00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:44,926 I know. 437 00:30:46,302 --> 00:30:48,012 That's not even the worst of it. 438 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:52,976 She told her I don't wanna save the world. I wanna end it. 439 00:30:53,059 --> 00:30:56,312 -How could she believe that? -'Cause she's stupid as shit, that's how. 440 00:30:56,396 --> 00:30:58,273 No, she's not stupid, Thomas. 441 00:30:59,315 --> 00:31:02,944 This monster is incredibly powerful, and she works for the Black Thing. 442 00:31:03,027 --> 00:31:04,737 She has corrupted Holly's mind 443 00:31:04,821 --> 00:31:07,699 and dragged her out of the light and taken her into the dark. 444 00:31:07,782 --> 00:31:11,160 Maybe we should just give up and go home then. 445 00:31:11,244 --> 00:31:13,246 -Go home? -To be with our parents. 446 00:31:13,329 --> 00:31:14,455 We would all die. 447 00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:15,623 What's wrong with you? 448 00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:16,958 Shut your trap, dipshit. 449 00:31:17,041 --> 00:31:19,168 Please let's not turn on each other. 450 00:31:19,252 --> 00:31:21,004 I know we're all upset. 451 00:31:21,087 --> 00:31:22,672 But perhaps Derek is right. 452 00:31:23,756 --> 00:31:27,468 Perhaps I have failed, and the Black Thing has won. 453 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:29,971 No, we can't let it win. 454 00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:32,390 Okay? We won't. 455 00:31:33,516 --> 00:31:35,310 You don't know Holly like we do. 456 00:31:35,393 --> 00:31:37,729 I've been her best friend since kindergarten. 457 00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:39,147 Debbie's her second-best friend. 458 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:41,441 -And she crushes hard on Josh. -No, she doesn't. 459 00:31:41,524 --> 00:31:42,692 -She does. -Totally. 460 00:31:42,775 --> 00:31:46,821 My point is, maybe if we all try and talk to her, we can fix her. 461 00:31:47,488 --> 00:31:49,949 We can bring her back to the light. 462 00:31:50,617 --> 00:31:52,911 Mary's right. We can do it. 463 00:31:52,994 --> 00:31:53,995 Back to the light. 464 00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:55,413 Back to the light. 465 00:31:55,496 --> 00:32:01,210 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 466 00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:07,675 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 467 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:12,096 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 468 00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:18,102 As for the security cameras, trench plate… 469 00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:20,271 Not a bolt cutter. 470 00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:22,231 Yeah, you could safely say that, sir. 471 00:32:28,696 --> 00:32:30,281 She's getting reckless. 472 00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:32,367 Sloppy. 473 00:32:32,992 --> 00:32:34,452 Could be one of those damn monsters. 474 00:32:34,535 --> 00:32:37,080 A monster who breaks padlocks and cameras? 475 00:32:37,163 --> 00:32:38,665 I don't think so. 476 00:32:41,668 --> 00:32:42,669 It's her. 477 00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:47,256 Rally the rest of the team. Tell them to lock and load. 478 00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:48,466 We're going in. 479 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,642 At the base, in the Upside Down, there's a chopper ready for the taking. 480 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:03,731 We fly up to the Abyss, kill the freak, rescue the kids, 481 00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:05,817 fly back down. 482 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,652 Who do you expect to fly this thing? 483 00:33:07,735 --> 00:33:10,029 -It's a helicopter. They've got pilots. -Right. 484 00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:12,281 -We force one to fly. -Another kidnapping plot. Love it. 485 00:33:12,365 --> 00:33:14,534 How is this pilot gonna fly a chopper into the rift? 486 00:33:14,617 --> 00:33:17,036 What do you mean? We just fly through it. 487 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,162 -What? -Idiot. 488 00:33:18,246 --> 00:33:19,414 Just fly through it? 489 00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:23,084 These rotors are like 40 feet wide. It's too big. It's not gonna fit. 490 00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:25,503 Steve hears that all the time and goes in anyway. Don't you? 491 00:33:25,586 --> 00:33:28,006 -What the hell is wrong with you? -It's funny. 492 00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:29,132 Everybody shut up. 493 00:33:29,215 --> 00:33:33,553 Look, if somebody else has some magic bean that I don't know about, I'm all ears. 494 00:33:33,636 --> 00:33:36,889 If not, it's a risk that we gotta take. We fly, or we die. 495 00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:38,850 -Fly or die. -Well, then I guess we die. 496 00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:41,769 We're not gonna die if we commit to a plan. 497 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:43,813 Can we weigh out a few more options before… 498 00:33:43,896 --> 00:33:45,857 Yes. We die, I guess. 499 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:48,985 -You said we have to get up 2,000 feet… -Don't take that shit, Jim. 500 00:33:49,068 --> 00:33:50,862 -You're not listening to each other. -You guys! 501 00:33:50,945 --> 00:33:52,071 How are you gonna do it? 502 00:33:53,072 --> 00:33:54,073 "Magic bean…" 503 00:33:54,157 --> 00:33:55,950 Can we get back on track? 504 00:33:56,034 --> 00:34:00,079 Let's not even try anything? 505 00:34:00,163 --> 00:34:01,831 We don't need a magic bean to climb. 506 00:34:01,914 --> 00:34:03,249 -…an airplane! -I'm not-- 507 00:34:03,332 --> 00:34:04,709 We don't need a magic bean! 508 00:34:06,586 --> 00:34:10,173 Sorry. Just… We don't… We don't need it. 509 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:12,091 A magic bean. 510 00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:14,469 We got a beanstalk right here. 511 00:34:22,351 --> 00:34:26,481 Okay, this flashlight is the Squawk radio tower, and this Slinky… 512 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:29,108 is the bridge. 513 00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:31,819 We'll never reach the Abyss from the tower, right? 514 00:34:31,903 --> 00:34:35,031 But Max said Vecna is drawing our worlds together. 515 00:34:35,114 --> 00:34:37,200 So, we let him. 516 00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:39,869 And we wait and wait 517 00:34:39,952 --> 00:34:43,539 as he draws it closer and closer. When it's close enough, 518 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:45,708 and the tower is poking through one of the rifts, 519 00:34:45,792 --> 00:34:47,376 bam! El makes her move, 520 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:50,046 she does her meditation thingy, enters Vecna's sick mind 521 00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:51,005 and ambushes him. 522 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:52,215 In your face, dickhead. 523 00:34:52,298 --> 00:34:55,051 And then, stopping the spell, halting the worlds from moving. 524 00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:59,013 Wham, voilà! We've got a beanstalk. It's perfect. 525 00:34:59,597 --> 00:35:02,016 All we gotta do is climb up it into the Abyss. 526 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:04,977 -I like it. -It's not totally insane. 527 00:35:05,061 --> 00:35:07,063 -Thank you. -But there's a problem, a big one. 528 00:35:07,146 --> 00:35:10,817 I can't reach inside Vecna's mind. He's too far away. 529 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,529 Can't you just try? I don't know, load up on some of your junk food or something? 530 00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:16,197 Or better… 531 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:17,824 We get you close. 532 00:35:18,449 --> 00:35:22,370 The Upside Down lab is under his lair, and it's still frozen in time, 533 00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:25,331 which means everything should be there from Brenner's experiments, including… 534 00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:26,666 The bath. 535 00:35:26,749 --> 00:35:30,294 If you do make it into his mind, I can walk you through it, 536 00:35:30,378 --> 00:35:31,796 guide you. 537 00:35:31,879 --> 00:35:33,589 I know his sick mind inside and out. 538 00:35:33,673 --> 00:35:35,091 I should be there too. 539 00:35:35,174 --> 00:35:38,970 This plan hinges on stopping Henry, and right now, Jane is fighting him alone. 540 00:35:40,179 --> 00:35:41,681 It doesn't need to be that way. 541 00:35:41,764 --> 00:35:44,142 I can follow her into his mind. 542 00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:48,938 We can end our brother, together. 543 00:35:49,021 --> 00:35:50,606 Okay, yeah, I dig it. 544 00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:53,651 Sisters kill their brother. We rescue the kiddos, come home heroes. 545 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:57,613 And if Lucas is right, we don't have a lot of time, so we have to move fast. 546 00:35:57,697 --> 00:35:58,698 One final thing. 547 00:35:58,781 --> 00:35:59,866 Cherry on top. 548 00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:04,871 On the way out, we drop a bomb near the exotic matter. 549 00:36:05,913 --> 00:36:08,791 Set a timer, escape the Upside Down. 550 00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:12,753 The bridge collapses, and with it, 551 00:36:13,379 --> 00:36:18,301 the Abyss, the Demos, the Mind Flayer, all of it, gone. 552 00:36:18,801 --> 00:36:20,970 Game. Set. Match. 553 00:36:27,935 --> 00:36:29,312 Holly! Holly! 554 00:36:29,395 --> 00:36:32,690 Hey. It's okay. You're safe. 555 00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:35,651 You're safe now. You're with us. Okay? 556 00:36:38,696 --> 00:36:40,198 Welcome back, Holly. 557 00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:41,699 Welcome. 558 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,118 Where is he? 559 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:45,536 Mr. Whatsit? 560 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:47,288 Downstairs. 561 00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:48,497 He's worried about you. 562 00:36:48,581 --> 00:36:49,624 So worried. 563 00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:52,585 No, no, no, no, no. Mary, you need to listen. 564 00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:55,796 Mr. Whatsit, he's not who he says he is. He didn't really save us. 565 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,298 -He-- -He's kidnapped us? 566 00:36:57,798 --> 00:37:01,093 He's trying to destroy the world? Holly, Mr. Whatsit has told us everything. 567 00:37:01,177 --> 00:37:04,055 Those are lies. Evil, nasty lies! 568 00:37:04,138 --> 00:37:07,058 -No, they're not! They're not-- -That other girl you met, Max. 569 00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:08,601 She's not a human. 570 00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:09,644 She's a monster. 571 00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:10,853 She twisted your mind. 572 00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:12,647 That's not true. 573 00:37:13,356 --> 00:37:14,482 Max is a friend, 574 00:37:14,565 --> 00:37:16,025 and she's… she's helping us. 575 00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:19,695 She's helping us get back home, back to our families. 576 00:37:20,279 --> 00:37:21,405 We're all trapped. 577 00:37:21,489 --> 00:37:23,532 Trapped in Mr. Whatsit's mind. 578 00:37:23,616 --> 00:37:26,285 Everything you see, none of it is real! 579 00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,329 Come on, you have to believe me. 580 00:37:29,038 --> 00:37:29,914 Please. 581 00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:34,961 You have to believe me. You have to believe me. 582 00:37:35,044 --> 00:37:36,128 You gotta believe me. 583 00:37:38,839 --> 00:37:40,132 Derek. 584 00:37:41,968 --> 00:37:43,094 Derek, tell them. 585 00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:46,722 Tell them. Tell them! 586 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,982 They're right, Holly. 587 00:37:56,065 --> 00:37:57,608 Max lied to us. 588 00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:09,370 I don't… understand. 589 00:38:10,246 --> 00:38:12,123 Everything she showed me just… 590 00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:16,002 seemed so real. 591 00:38:18,587 --> 00:38:20,673 I knew not to go into the woods. 592 00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:24,593 But I… I went there anyway, and… 593 00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:27,638 And I just… I just feel so… 594 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,268 so stupid. 595 00:38:32,768 --> 00:38:35,855 -You're not stupid, Holly. -None of this is your fault. 596 00:38:35,938 --> 00:38:36,897 Holly. 597 00:38:37,898 --> 00:38:41,944 You know, the important thing is that you're here. You're here just in ti-- 598 00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:44,238 Holly, stop it! 599 00:38:49,118 --> 00:38:50,786 Bitch! Get her! 600 00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:54,165 Get her! 601 00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:49,512 Well, I was hoping for a slightly more delicate landing, but… 602 00:39:50,179 --> 00:39:51,972 I suppose that'll do. 603 00:39:54,266 --> 00:39:55,434 You're welcome. 604 00:39:59,105 --> 00:40:01,690 Of all the people she had to go with, it had to be her. 605 00:40:01,774 --> 00:40:04,735 El trusts her. Maybe we should too. 606 00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:08,239 No, she's up to something. I'm sure of it. I just… 607 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,117 El's not gonna listen to me. 608 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,577 What happened to the two of you down there? 609 00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:17,206 She thinks I don't believe in her. 610 00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,584 -Which isn't true. -No, of course not. 611 00:40:20,668 --> 00:40:22,336 Well, have you told her that? 612 00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:24,839 She thinks she's invincible, 613 00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:26,882 and that's not the case. 614 00:40:27,466 --> 00:40:29,468 Yeah, that's not what I asked. 615 00:40:29,552 --> 00:40:32,805 I can work on repairing things between us when I get on the other side of this, 616 00:40:32,888 --> 00:40:36,308 but right now, I need to make sure she gets out of this alive. 617 00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:40,312 That Kali makes one false move, I swear to God, I'm gonna kill her. 618 00:40:40,813 --> 00:40:42,606 I'm gonna kill her. I will not hesitate. 619 00:40:42,690 --> 00:40:45,192 Anything happens to El in that tank, I am pulling her out. 620 00:40:46,652 --> 00:40:48,195 I can't lose her, Joyce. 621 00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:52,783 I can't. 622 00:40:58,330 --> 00:40:59,957 One last crawl. 623 00:41:01,917 --> 00:41:03,294 One last crawl. 624 00:41:17,391 --> 00:41:20,019 It gives me a headache trying to understand all this. 625 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:26,734 But I think I got a C- in physics, so I'll trust the nerds. 626 00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:30,988 Do you think it'll work? The plan? 627 00:41:31,071 --> 00:41:33,324 I mean, it has to, right? 628 00:41:34,825 --> 00:41:36,827 I just wish I wasn't stuck here. 629 00:41:37,453 --> 00:41:38,746 I feel useless. 630 00:41:38,829 --> 00:41:42,082 El and Kali are gonna need you in the mind. I'm the one who's useless. 631 00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,293 You can still go there, to the Abyss. 632 00:41:44,376 --> 00:41:46,086 It's too risky. 633 00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:49,507 I'd be at the heart of the hive mind, and I don't know what would happen. 634 00:41:49,590 --> 00:41:53,219 Last time I got too close, he used me to spy, and it almost got you killed, Max. 635 00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:55,513 You also saved my life, remember? 636 00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:59,350 Plus, I've been almost killed plenty of times at the hands of this asshole, 637 00:41:59,433 --> 00:42:01,477 so I'm kind of used to it at this point. 638 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,940 How did you survive in there, this whole time in Henry's mind? 639 00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:07,608 Honestly, luck. 640 00:42:09,151 --> 00:42:10,694 I found this cave. 641 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:13,614 It was this old memory of his, 642 00:42:13,697 --> 00:42:16,158 and he was terrified of it. 643 00:42:17,284 --> 00:42:18,285 He wouldn't go in. 644 00:42:19,078 --> 00:42:20,913 Scared the living shit out of him. 645 00:42:20,996 --> 00:42:23,832 Underneath all those scars, he's still human. 646 00:42:23,916 --> 00:42:28,754 A psychopath with a serious god complex, but… 647 00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,298 human. 648 00:42:31,382 --> 00:42:35,219 I guess we're all scared of something, right? 649 00:42:45,604 --> 00:42:47,815 Okay, Wheeler, how's it going with your contraption? 650 00:42:47,898 --> 00:42:52,903 Okay, so just imagine that this bike bell is the bomb's remote trigger, okay? 651 00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:56,156 So when this wire touches this warrior here, kaboom. 652 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:57,324 Genius. 653 00:42:57,825 --> 00:43:00,828 One thing is, I don't know if we can blow up the Upside Down 654 00:43:00,911 --> 00:43:02,830 to the dulcet tones of the Butthole Surfers. 655 00:43:02,913 --> 00:43:04,999 I built the bomb. I should be able to pick the record. 656 00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:06,292 You can pick the record. 657 00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:09,003 You just have to follow one simple rule, which is pick a good record. 658 00:43:09,086 --> 00:43:10,045 This is a great record! 659 00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:13,090 As far as save-the-world soundtracks goes, this one's lacking. 660 00:43:13,173 --> 00:43:14,216 What would you pick? 661 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,677 The Replacements. I can't not think of better records. 662 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,887 Okay, enough, Lester Bangs, okay? 663 00:43:20,723 --> 00:43:22,308 Hey. Hey! 664 00:43:22,391 --> 00:43:24,184 Have you handled one of these before? 665 00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:30,399 Not exactly, but, you know, BB guns, air rifles… …Duck Hunt. 666 00:43:30,983 --> 00:43:32,026 Duck Hunt. 667 00:43:32,109 --> 00:43:33,402 He is remarkably good at it. 668 00:43:35,821 --> 00:43:37,156 But I have a better idea. 669 00:43:37,823 --> 00:43:38,824 Come on. 670 00:43:48,167 --> 00:43:50,294 These babies are deadlier than they look. 671 00:43:53,255 --> 00:43:54,590 You sure? 672 00:43:54,673 --> 00:43:55,841 Mm. 673 00:43:59,219 --> 00:44:00,179 -Hey, Dustin? -Yeah? 674 00:44:00,262 --> 00:44:03,515 Hey, about, uh, some of the stuff that I said earlier. I just-- 675 00:44:03,599 --> 00:44:05,893 -It's fine. It's okay. -No, just… 676 00:44:06,727 --> 00:44:08,103 It's not okay. 677 00:44:11,023 --> 00:44:12,024 Eddie… 678 00:44:13,776 --> 00:44:15,152 He saved your life. 679 00:44:16,904 --> 00:44:18,155 Our lives. 680 00:44:19,156 --> 00:44:22,910 And I know what he meant to you. I can't even imagine how hard it's been. 681 00:44:23,452 --> 00:44:24,787 But instead of… 682 00:44:26,664 --> 00:44:28,707 just being there for you, I just… 683 00:44:31,168 --> 00:44:34,046 Well, I got angry about it. I guess… 684 00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:38,300 I got angry because 685 00:44:40,094 --> 00:44:41,470 things were different. 686 00:44:44,139 --> 00:44:45,057 Because… 687 00:44:47,142 --> 00:44:48,477 I really missed you. 688 00:44:52,773 --> 00:44:54,316 I missed my best friend. 689 00:44:57,861 --> 00:44:59,738 Yeah, I missed my best friend too. 690 00:45:13,210 --> 00:45:16,463 For the record, a Rubik's Cube isn't even a good measure of intelligence. 691 00:45:18,590 --> 00:45:21,635 And your beanstalk plan, seriously, only a genius could've come up with that. 692 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:22,761 Yeah, well… 693 00:45:23,804 --> 00:45:25,055 I learned from the best. 694 00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:26,557 That's true. 695 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,475 Silver lining. 696 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,519 If it fails, we both go down. 697 00:45:31,437 --> 00:45:33,147 You die, I die. 698 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:37,901 You die, I die. 699 00:45:56,044 --> 00:46:02,718 Gate opening in five, four, three, two… 700 00:46:05,596 --> 00:46:06,847 Open sesame. 701 00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:09,850 Gotcha! 702 00:46:11,226 --> 00:46:14,897 We've secured the gate signal. Repeat. Gate signal is secure. 703 00:46:14,980 --> 00:46:17,900 Tell Snookums his timing is mwah! 704 00:46:17,983 --> 00:46:20,027 Because Santa's sleigh… 705 00:46:22,279 --> 00:46:23,947 …is almost ready. 706 00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:27,284 Piece of shit! 707 00:46:28,744 --> 00:46:31,079 Oh God! Oh God! 708 00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:34,374 Why?! Why?! Why do you gotta do this right now? 709 00:46:34,458 --> 00:46:36,001 What? You don't like me? Huh? 710 00:46:36,084 --> 00:46:38,212 It's not me! I'm not the one! I'm not the one who… 711 00:46:38,295 --> 00:46:39,463 Hi, sister. 712 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:41,715 Hi. 713 00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:44,051 Have you ever done this before? 714 00:46:44,134 --> 00:46:45,719 Shared your mind like this? 715 00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:49,097 Have you? 716 00:46:50,098 --> 00:46:52,017 With my other psychic friends all the time. 717 00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:54,978 I'm glad I'm here. 718 00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:56,355 Me too. 719 00:46:56,438 --> 00:46:58,023 Even after yesterday? 720 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:01,777 Have you thought about it? 721 00:47:02,277 --> 00:47:03,695 What it all means? 722 00:47:04,905 --> 00:47:10,619 I was thinking when we blow up the bridge, we'll blow up Dr. Kay's lab. 723 00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:12,955 We'll end her experiment. 724 00:47:13,038 --> 00:47:14,456 Kay will simply make a new lab. 725 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:15,624 So we kill her. 726 00:47:15,707 --> 00:47:18,502 She replaced Papa. Another will replace her. 727 00:47:18,585 --> 00:47:20,712 We can go away somewhere. We can hide from them. 728 00:47:20,796 --> 00:47:23,090 Oh, like somewhere with at least one waterfall? 729 00:47:24,758 --> 00:47:26,593 It's a fantasy, Jane. 730 00:47:26,677 --> 00:47:29,429 If you flee with Mike, maybe you're safe for a while. 731 00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:31,598 But when they find you, and they will, 732 00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:35,310 they will kill Mike, just as they killed my friends. 733 00:47:35,394 --> 00:47:37,646 Then they will take you, and with your blood, 734 00:47:37,729 --> 00:47:40,983 they will create more children, children who will suffer as we have. 735 00:47:41,066 --> 00:47:45,696 And with these children, they will open up more gates, more worlds. 736 00:47:45,779 --> 00:47:46,989 Don't you see, Jane? 737 00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:49,157 It's a cycle. 738 00:47:49,741 --> 00:47:52,995 A terrible, vicious cycle. 739 00:47:53,996 --> 00:47:55,372 But we can stop it. 740 00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:58,041 Tonight. 741 00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:07,801 How? 742 00:48:08,385 --> 00:48:10,262 After we kill our brother, 743 00:48:10,345 --> 00:48:12,180 after the children are rescued, 744 00:48:12,264 --> 00:48:14,224 we don't leave with the others. 745 00:48:14,725 --> 00:48:15,851 We stay on the bridge. 746 00:48:15,934 --> 00:48:18,228 When the Upside Down vanishes… 747 00:48:21,523 --> 00:48:22,858 so will we. 748 00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:26,945 It is the only way, Jane. 749 00:48:27,613 --> 00:48:29,656 The only way. 750 00:48:33,827 --> 00:48:36,038 You ladies done meditating? 751 00:48:36,121 --> 00:48:39,207 'Cause Santa's sleigh is ready to fly! 752 00:49:05,901 --> 00:49:06,944 Mom? 753 00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:09,905 Um… 754 00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:17,120 Earlier today when you asked me what happened in Vecna's mind, 755 00:49:17,204 --> 00:49:19,456 I didn't tell you everything. 756 00:49:22,668 --> 00:49:24,711 When Vecna attacks, 757 00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:29,675 he weakens you by turning your own mind against you, 758 00:49:29,758 --> 00:49:33,512 by bringing out everything inside you that hurts. 759 00:49:34,304 --> 00:49:39,601 So I fought back by focusing on happy memories, 760 00:49:39,685 --> 00:49:42,688 memories from when I was a kid, 761 00:49:42,771 --> 00:49:44,564 and when I wasn't scared, 762 00:49:45,482 --> 00:49:47,234 and when I felt most happy. 763 00:49:48,402 --> 00:49:50,946 That's how I took control in the MAC-Z 764 00:49:51,029 --> 00:49:53,031 and how I killed those Demos. 765 00:49:53,615 --> 00:49:55,701 And I thought the same would work on Vecna too. 766 00:49:55,784 --> 00:49:57,452 But he found a way past. 767 00:50:00,247 --> 00:50:01,957 And he showed me things, Mom. 768 00:50:04,793 --> 00:50:07,546 He showed me the most awful things. 769 00:50:07,629 --> 00:50:09,006 No, listen. 770 00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:13,260 Whatever he showed you, it's not real. He plays tricks. He lies. 771 00:50:13,343 --> 00:50:15,429 No, he doesn't. 772 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,140 What he showed me… 773 00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:21,768 it didn't come from him. 774 00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:24,521 It came from me. 775 00:50:26,314 --> 00:50:28,483 He sees everything, Mom. 776 00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:31,778 He sees my thoughts. 777 00:50:32,487 --> 00:50:34,239 He sees my memories. 778 00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:39,703 And he sees my secrets. 779 00:50:40,579 --> 00:50:45,792 But Max, she told me he's also afraid, which proves I can beat him. 780 00:50:46,501 --> 00:50:49,254 But for me to do that, 781 00:50:50,756 --> 00:50:51,965 you need to know… 782 00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:59,097 I think you need to know the truth. 783 00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:03,685 Oh. Uh… 784 00:51:03,769 --> 00:51:05,771 Sorry. We just heard from Hop. 785 00:51:05,854 --> 00:51:08,607 He's 15 minutes out. So we should probably leave in five. 786 00:51:09,691 --> 00:51:11,068 Is everything okay? 787 00:51:11,151 --> 00:51:12,652 Yeah, we'll be out in a minute. 788 00:51:14,613 --> 00:51:15,614 Wait. 789 00:51:17,032 --> 00:51:18,784 I think you need to hear this too. 790 00:51:20,035 --> 00:51:21,328 Everyone does. 791 00:51:29,503 --> 00:51:30,420 I… 792 00:51:31,588 --> 00:51:35,926 I… I haven't told any of you this 793 00:51:36,718 --> 00:51:37,719 because… 794 00:51:39,387 --> 00:51:44,684 Because I… I don't… I don't want you to see me differently. 795 00:51:44,768 --> 00:51:46,561 But the truth is… 796 00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:51,316 The… The truth is I am. 797 00:51:51,399 --> 00:51:52,609 I am different. 798 00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:54,694 I just… 799 00:51:55,445 --> 00:51:59,241 I just pretended like I wasn't because… because I didn't want to be. 800 00:51:59,825 --> 00:52:04,287 I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and… 801 00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:06,665 And I am like you. 802 00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:10,001 I'm like you in… in almost every way. 803 00:52:10,085 --> 00:52:12,337 We… We like playing DandD late into the night. 804 00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:14,881 And we like that old-person smell in Mike's basement. 805 00:52:14,965 --> 00:52:19,177 And we… we like biking to Melvald's for malted milkshakes. 806 00:52:19,261 --> 00:52:22,013 And we like getting lost in the woods, 807 00:52:22,097 --> 00:52:25,058 and getting lost in Family Video and arguing about what to rent 808 00:52:25,142 --> 00:52:27,853 and settling on Holy Grail for the millionth time. 809 00:52:27,936 --> 00:52:31,523 And… And we like Milk Duds in our popcorn with extra butter. 810 00:52:31,606 --> 00:52:34,860 And we like drinking Coke with Pop Rocks. 811 00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:37,821 And we like bike races and trading comics 812 00:52:37,904 --> 00:52:41,700 and NASA and Steve Martin and Lucky Charms and… 813 00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:43,285 Literally all the same things. 814 00:52:43,368 --> 00:52:47,581 I just… I just… I… I just… 815 00:52:47,664 --> 00:52:48,707 I… 816 00:52:50,667 --> 00:52:51,710 I… 817 00:52:52,419 --> 00:52:53,461 I… 818 00:52:53,545 --> 00:52:55,380 I don't like girls. 819 00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:09,603 I mean… 820 00:53:10,478 --> 00:53:15,066 I mean I do. Just… Just not like you guys do. 821 00:53:15,650 --> 00:53:19,738 And I, uh, I had this… this crush on someone, 822 00:53:19,821 --> 00:53:22,908 even though I know… I know they're not like me. 823 00:53:24,659 --> 00:53:27,537 But… But then I realized he's just my Tammy. 824 00:53:27,621 --> 00:53:30,457 And by Tammy, I mean it was never about him. 825 00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:32,083 It was… It was about me. 826 00:53:32,167 --> 00:53:35,212 And I thought I was finally okay with myself, 827 00:53:35,295 --> 00:53:37,589 but… but then today… 828 00:53:37,672 --> 00:53:40,800 Today Vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, 829 00:53:40,884 --> 00:53:43,762 if I told you guys the truth. 830 00:53:44,346 --> 00:53:47,474 He showed me a future, and in this future, 831 00:53:47,557 --> 00:53:51,061 some of you are just… are just worried for me. 832 00:53:51,144 --> 00:53:53,271 Worried that things will be harder for me. 833 00:53:53,355 --> 00:53:56,566 And it just makes me feel like something's wrong with me. 834 00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:58,193 So I… So I push you away. 835 00:53:58,276 --> 00:54:01,488 And for the rest of us, we just drift apart more 836 00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:05,283 and more and more and more and more until I'm alone. 837 00:54:05,367 --> 00:54:08,954 And I know none of that has happened, and Vecna can't see into the future. 838 00:54:09,037 --> 00:54:11,831 But he can see into our minds, and he knows things. 839 00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:16,503 And it just felt so real. It felt so real. 840 00:54:16,586 --> 00:54:17,712 Will. 841 00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:19,631 You gotta listen to me. 842 00:54:19,714 --> 00:54:22,092 That will never ever happen. 843 00:54:22,175 --> 00:54:24,219 You'll never lose me. 844 00:54:24,970 --> 00:54:25,845 Ever. 845 00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:28,598 Okay. Okay. 846 00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:30,850 And you'll never lose me. 847 00:54:37,315 --> 00:54:38,233 Or me. 848 00:54:39,359 --> 00:54:40,235 Or me. 849 00:54:41,236 --> 00:54:42,195 Or me. 850 00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:43,154 Or me. 851 00:54:43,822 --> 00:54:44,864 Or me. 852 00:55:01,339 --> 00:55:03,550 Guess you didn't need truth serum, huh? 853 00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:08,305 Sorry. This sucks, but you're gonna have to hug me. 854 00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:10,640 Oh, Max. 855 00:55:14,352 --> 00:55:17,522 Just imagine I'm hugging you really tight, okay? 856 00:55:17,605 --> 00:55:18,690 Okay. 857 00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:28,575 El. 858 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,536 I know you're strong enough to defeat Vecna. 859 00:55:31,619 --> 00:55:34,205 But he can retreat to the physical world, 860 00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:37,292 and we need to be ready to fight him there too. 861 00:55:37,917 --> 00:55:41,921 We have bullets and fire, but none of that helped those soldiers. 862 00:55:44,507 --> 00:55:45,508 I need to be there. 863 00:55:48,094 --> 00:55:49,304 And I'm ready. 864 00:55:49,387 --> 00:55:52,724 I'm ready to show him I'm not afraid anymore. 865 00:56:09,032 --> 00:56:13,078 That's a confirmation. Anderson's on that patrol. 866 00:56:14,079 --> 00:56:18,333 Solid copy, Bravo One. Maintain overwatch. Over. 867 00:56:26,299 --> 00:56:27,592 Hey, McConnell. 868 00:56:27,675 --> 00:56:29,969 We got a delivery tonight I don't know about? 869 00:56:30,053 --> 00:56:31,513 That's a negative, private. 870 00:56:31,596 --> 00:56:33,598 The hell are you doing, buddy? 871 00:56:36,726 --> 00:56:38,686 Showtime, Snookums! 872 00:56:39,270 --> 00:56:40,313 Mellon. 873 00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:46,236 Oh, shit! 874 00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:49,239 Pardon me! 875 00:56:50,657 --> 00:56:51,825 First gate cleared. 876 00:56:51,908 --> 00:56:55,120 Two hostiles, towers, ten and eleven o'clock. 877 00:57:15,348 --> 00:57:17,142 Now comes the fun part. 878 00:57:47,046 --> 00:57:49,299 -Come on! Come on! -Come on! Come on! 879 00:57:50,467 --> 00:57:51,843 Go! Go! Drive! 880 00:58:07,192 --> 00:58:08,735 Whoo-hey! 881 00:58:09,652 --> 00:58:10,487 Yeah! 882 00:58:12,947 --> 00:58:14,699 Jesus Christ. 883 00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:17,744 Everybody all right? Everybody okay? 884 00:58:17,827 --> 00:58:19,954 -Yeah. -You all right? Everybody all right? 885 00:58:20,914 --> 00:58:22,874 Hey, nice shooting back there. 886 00:58:23,541 --> 00:58:24,375 You too. 887 00:58:26,711 --> 00:58:29,464 I kind of thought that that was supposed to be the easy part. 888 00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:31,382 It was. 889 00:58:32,050 --> 00:58:33,009 You ready? 890 00:58:35,136 --> 00:58:36,012 Ready. 891 00:59:51,087 --> 00:59:52,088 It's time.