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Oh my god! Oh my god! What are you guys doing?

Just give us a second, Charlie. We're trying to make sense of all of this.

You guys think whatever did this could be from the Upside Down?

No way, Will.

That truck could've just tipped down the hill on its own.

Tipped on its own? As if.

I'm just not sure this is that logical.

Yeah, I mean, what about the driver?

Truckers don't just abandon their rigs.

This place is haunted, I told you.

We gotta get out of here before that thing comes back.

Wait, Charlie!

Charlie! Hold on.

Wait!

Charlie, come back here!

Stop, man! Where are you going?

That thing out there wants us dead.

What thing? What wants us dead?

It was just a truck.

Look, last night, my uncle and I were in these woods and got separated.

Uncle Ernie?

Come on! Get away!

Then…

I'm telling you! It was a ghost.

A ghost? That's dumb. Ghosts aren't real.

You think I'm making this up, Wheeler?

I'm telling you… something's coming for us.

We're probably already dead! Dead!

Gold mine! We're gonna make bank today.

Nothing says happy Valentine's Day like a piece of dying vegetation.

You're speaking my language, Baxter.

Yeah. I thought I might be.

They are beautiful.

I guess they're kind of pretty.

Mike did good when he grabbed you one.

You know, I've never seen flowers bloom in winter like this.

As my mom would tell you,

the world of botany is filled with all kinds of weird...

Ow!

Ah, these things have thorns? Should've brought my gloves.

You will not need them.

-What? -Whoo! Yeah!

I don't know, Mike.

Maybe we were a little too hard on Charlie last night.

I've never seen anyone that spooked.

Wrong, Lucas, it's all wrong.

Fine. I had never seen anyone that spooked who wasn't being chased by a Demogorgon.

That's not what I meant.

Your eyeline is wrong, and that light is too bright,

blowing it all out.

You gotta turn down the gain, Mike.

This is just a video test for our project, not Citizen Kane.

Okay, guys, listen up. I got a plan.

Your plan better be the script for our project

you were supposed to write last night.

Oh, right. I'm almost done with that.

Man, I'm not going to summer school because of you, Dustin.

Why you gotta be such a buzzkill? I'll start the script tonight.

I mean finish it tonight.

But I think today we should location scout.

Does "location scout" mean secretly doing our H.I.C. investigation at the same time?

What? That's a great idea, Will. Very efficient. Glad you thought of it.

We'll head out into the woods after school today

to where Samuel Hawkins laid the first foundations of our great town.

What? Don't you three care about our history project?

Man, that was so rad.

If I could do what she does, I'd get in so much trouble.

Seriously, her self-restraint is intense.

Yes!

Whoa! It's freezing.

It's perfect.

This'll definitely keep the flowers fresh until we sell them.

Dude, I gotta say, this was one killer idea. Phew.

I didn't know what I was gonna do… without my amp.

You're saving my butt here.

Hey, it's my pleasure. Amps aren't cheap.

Let's just move some of this mystery meat so Lunch Lady Phyllis doesn't...

Hey, what the heck do you girls think you're doing?

Oh! Uh…

Hi, Miss Lunch Lady Phyllis.

We were totally gonna ask permission to put these flowers...

Not gonna happen, cactus head. Not on school grounds.

Oh, come on.

It's for Valentine's Day.

Yeah, who doesn't love Valentine's Day?

Vermin.

Vermin don't love Valentine's Day.

Oh, but they love sneaking into school grounds on unauthorized plants.

Miss Phyllis, I swear, these flowers are squeaky clean.

You wanna be the one to explain a cockroach outbreak

to the state health inspector?

-But… -Get them out of here!

Valentine's. Pfft.

The kitchen was the only cool, dry place in this whole dump,

and now these Valentine's flowers are just gonna die.

This is the absolute worst.

Selling those flowers was really gonna help out.

If I can't figure out a way to bring in some cash…

Listen, this isn't the end of the road for your amp or whatever, okay?

We'll come up with something else.

Hey you, new girl.

Hey you, sorta new girl.

You guys wanna sign my petition for the DARE program?

Not in the mood.

Listen, I overheard you guys need a place to store some flowers, right?

Right.

Student body president gets access to a lot of off-limits stuff.

Storage shed's pretty cool and dry this time of year.

Sweet. Thanks.

Uh-uh, not so fast.

Ten percent of your sales, these keys are yours. Deal?

Welcome to my good side, Rosario.

You got yourself a deal.

Pre-order forms.

Whoa, how'd you make so many of these?

Teacher's lounge photocopier.

Sneaky. I like it.

Hey, whoa. You sure you wanna be the one selling?

How many people are gonna wanna buy from the Valentine's Day Grinch?

You don't have to be Cupid to play Cupid. Trust me.

Hey, random kid.

You know what tomorrow is? It's do-or-die day.

February 14th, the one socially mandated shot

you've got each year to prove to the world

that you're not a discarded, unlovable wad of chewed up gum.

Nikki, what's all this?

Hey. My amp's busted,

so we're selling flowers to scrape some cash together.

You want in on this?

And get caught in between the Lucas-Max war? No, thank you.

You are a smart man, Zombie Boy.

You see this? It's a miracle flower.

Sending one of these bad boys to someone

would immediately turn them into a special someone.

What do you say?

Mmm. Yeah, I don't know.

Did I mention they glow in the dark?

Huh.

Yeah, cool.

Excellent choice.

Your Valentine's Day is going to be awesome.

Now, how about you?

Dude, you got a chance now.

So if you pre-order three flowers now, we'll throw in an extra one for free.

And trust me, nothing says love like a full bouquet.

I'll take one.

Hey, I'll take two.

How's the movie coming?

It's turned into another H.I.C. investigation.

Dustin won't drop it, will he?

This one might actually be something.

Whoa, okay. We gotta catch up.

Gotta go meet up with the guys. Later.

Slight hiccup. We pre-sold more flowers than we picked.

Okay, so we just go grab El and go back for more?

Uh, can't today. Detention.

What? Why?

I didn't exactly get away with using the teacher's lounge copier.

Yeah, Mr. Bahari walked in.

You're so punk, Max.

I'm just saying, for someone who hates Valentine's Day,

she looked pretty comfortable selling it.

Would you give it a rest?

We've got more important things to focus on.

Dustin's right. Our history project's due in just a few days.

We still have to find a location, finish the script,

and if we don't nail the performances, we can kiss our passing grades goodbye.

Acting, Lucas! Your craft.

Ha ha!

Let's see how much you're laughing

when my performance is raking in the awards.

Whatever you'll be raking in, I don't think it's awards.

And here's your 10%, as promised.

Hm.

Pleasure doing business with you, Mayfield.

Come on, Lucas, let's go.

Hey, Will, how'd you do on that pop quiz?

-Probably failed. -Yeah, me too.

Did you guys catch A-Team last week?

It was awesome, right?

Murdock's my favorite.

Huh. No surprise there.

Har, har.

Miss Phyllis? What is it? What's wrong?

You, you and your friend did this. You brought those things into my kitchen.

What things?

Ah!

Miss Phyllis!

Look out!

Ew!

What are these things?

An infestation, that's what they are.

Ah! Ah!

Nasty thing! Get out of here.

I told you there'd be vermin. Those dang flowers were riddled with them.

The flowers. Oh no.

I catch you in here again,

you'll be scrubbing dishes till graduation.

Greetings. It is I, Samuel Hawkins,

founder of your town.

I did many historic things, including, uh, founding the town,

and building log cabins, and churning butter, maybe.

Um, I'm pretty sure Samuel Hawkins didn't have a British accent,

you know, 'cause he was born in Indiana.

A British accent says oldie-timey. It feels right, like Amadeus.

No one cares about accuracy if it feels right.

Oh yeah, no one except our history teacher.

You know, Samuel Hawkins did more than build cabins.

He revitalized the town

after that Bloodaxe Bill guy caused the silver mine explosion of 1892.

How fascinating.

I bet I'd know all about that if I had a script.

You sure this costume's right?

Weren't these wigs for judges or something?

It was the only wig the drama club had. Oh, and don't forget…

Samuel Hawkins' famous signet ring.

That's just a Ring Pop.

At least carve SH into it.

Trust the process, Mike.

There, there!

Look at the damage on the bark!

And there!

Only Charlie Dandridge has such bad taste in hats.

This is exactly where he told us he got slammed into a tree.

Who puts the "investigator" in the H.I.C.?

If Charlie started here and ended up at that hunting blind,

we can trace his path

and see where he saw that paranormal presence.

You mean ghost? Come on, he was lying.

None of these H.I.C. investigations even pan out anymore.

Hey!

Yeah, and ghosts aren't real.

Ooooh!

I'm the spirit of Samuel Hawkins, back from the dead!

Ha ha. So funny, I forgot to laugh.

Don't tell me you've still got that thing about ghosts.

I never had a thing about ghosts.

What thing about ghosts?

His dad once tried to take him and his sister to see E.T.,

but it was sold out, so they saw Poltergeist.

Ruined Mike's life.

Oh yeah! And Nancy got really into it. Ouija boards and stuff.

She was some kind of expert, right?

I don't know. I don't remember.

Come on, guys. I'm pretty sure Mike's over his dumb fears

from a movie he saw in the fifth grade.

Jackpot!

Ho, ho, ho! Breadcrumbs!

Stolen arcade breadcrumbs!

Hey, hey, hey! Don't touch that! It's evidence!

It's free games, Dustin.

Looks like Charlie came through here.

This is actually a good location for our video.

The silver mine's around here somewhere.

Hey, guys, I think we found it.

Isn't it supposed to be boarded up?

Looks like some kids broke in or something.

Why you always gotta blame the kids? Adults vandalize too, you know.

Hold on.

No one broke in.

Someone broke out.

Yeah, okay. That is weird.

We absolutely have to check that out.

Do we, though?

I knew it! You do still have your thing about ghosts.

No! It's just not safe in there.

Do you really wanna go through old mine tunnels

like you're in Temple of Doom?

Of course I do! Just call me Hawkins Indiana… Jones!

At some point, you're gonna have to retire that joke.

But not today, my friend. Not today.

Dustin.

Mike, it doesn't get more historic than this. We're talking A plus, easy.

Isn't this place dangerous?

You know, filled with natural gas or something?

That was 100 years ago.

Whoa, check it out.

There's still some olden-day tools down here.

Get a photo. Might be evidence.

I mean history project research.

We should film this stuff too. Actual Hawkins historic items.

That's what we heard outside.

Um, you all saw that, right?

Come on.

You know, there are lots of other historical places in Hawkins.

The old cabin, Coverdale Creek,

even what's left of that one-room schoolhouse.

Spots that aren't, like, completely and totally...

Mike!

-Mike! -Whoa!

Mike!

I'm telling you, I've seen this kind of a thing a million times.

Give it a few days,

Max and Lucas will be back together like they never split.

But if they still like each other, why would they break up?

Man, people are weird.

They don't say what they mean, and they don't mean what they say.

My advice? Games are garbage.

You want something? You ask for it. You get it. Bing, bam, boom.

Stop! Get out of there!

Max?

Whoa, what the... What the heck is going on?

There were these glowing creature things.

-Where? -At school. They must have come from...

These flowers.

Ah!

What is that?

Mike! Mike!

-Mike! -Mike!

I'm… I'm here.

Got the wind knocked out of me, but I'm okay.

Dammit.

Come on.

Just sit tight. We'll get you out of there.

There.

Help me get this rope off the wall.

Guys! There's something down here with me!

Don't panic!

Remember! Red and black, friend of Jack.

Red and yellow, deadly fellow.

I… I don't think it's a snake.

Ah!

We're coming!

Grab on the rope!

We got you, man. We got you!

Come on.

Mike! What's happening? Are you okay?

Something's down there!