1 00:00:17,288 --> 00:00:18,205 Max. 2 00:00:20,791 --> 00:00:23,377 Max. Max, can you hear me? Max. 3 00:00:23,461 --> 00:00:26,547 Come on. Open your eyes. Yes! Yes, Max! 4 00:00:27,048 --> 00:00:28,132 Can you hear me? 5 00:00:28,215 --> 00:00:30,217 Max! 6 00:00:31,010 --> 00:00:32,636 Yes! Stay with me. Stay with me. 7 00:00:33,304 --> 00:00:34,263 All the way, Max. 8 00:00:36,098 --> 00:00:37,475 Yes! That's it! That's it! 9 00:00:43,189 --> 00:00:44,982 Hello, Lucas. 10 00:00:45,066 --> 00:00:50,196 Yes. Max. Come on, Max. It's me. I'm right here. I'm right here, Max. 11 00:00:54,075 --> 00:00:58,788 Are you… Are you… Are you okay? Do you… Do you hurt anywhere? 12 00:01:00,122 --> 00:01:04,210 I can't feel… much. 13 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:07,880 Do you… Do you feel this? Do you feel my hand? 14 00:01:08,923 --> 00:01:09,840 A little. 15 00:01:10,341 --> 00:01:12,551 Can… Can you… Can you see? 16 00:01:13,344 --> 00:01:18,599 The lights are really… are really bright. 17 00:01:19,642 --> 00:01:20,601 Hey. 18 00:01:21,102 --> 00:01:24,897 You haven't used your eyes, okay, or your muscles for a long time. 19 00:01:25,940 --> 00:01:27,775 Okay, your body's just weak, 20 00:01:27,858 --> 00:01:30,861 but it just needs to readjust and learn again. 21 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:34,657 You are going to be okay. 22 00:01:35,282 --> 00:01:36,325 You're gonna be okay. 23 00:01:39,370 --> 00:01:41,038 I knew you were there. 24 00:01:42,498 --> 00:01:44,416 I always knew you were still there. 25 00:01:46,377 --> 00:01:47,962 I saw you. 26 00:01:49,130 --> 00:01:50,673 Waiting for me, 27 00:01:50,756 --> 00:01:54,260 playing my… my song. 28 00:01:55,886 --> 00:01:57,096 You bored of it yet? 29 00:02:00,724 --> 00:02:01,934 Are you? 30 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:08,732 It turns out 31 00:02:10,317 --> 00:02:11,902 that the whole time, 32 00:02:14,071 --> 00:02:15,823 I didn't even need it. 33 00:02:17,741 --> 00:02:19,827 I just needed you. 34 00:02:22,663 --> 00:02:23,956 Just you. 35 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:28,544 I don't wanna swim forever 36 00:02:30,087 --> 00:02:36,969 When it's cold I'd like to die 37 00:02:40,014 --> 00:02:43,184 I don't wanna… 38 00:02:43,267 --> 00:02:45,477 -Oh my God. -Max. 39 00:02:47,980 --> 00:02:51,025 You're here. You're really here. 40 00:02:51,108 --> 00:02:52,610 I'm here. 41 00:02:53,402 --> 00:02:54,528 Hey, welcome home, kid. 42 00:02:56,822 --> 00:02:58,073 Took your sweet time, didn't you? 43 00:02:58,157 --> 00:03:00,409 Screw you, Wheeler. 44 00:03:06,290 --> 00:03:07,374 Where am I? 45 00:03:07,458 --> 00:03:08,709 Oh. 46 00:03:08,792 --> 00:03:11,587 Yeah, that would be confusing. Um… 47 00:03:11,670 --> 00:03:13,797 You were being hunted by the Demo-dogs, 48 00:03:13,881 --> 00:03:16,383 and we were all seconds away from becoming lunch 49 00:03:16,467 --> 00:03:18,385 when Mrs. Wheeler came and… 50 00:03:19,637 --> 00:03:21,305 did the laundry. 51 00:03:21,388 --> 00:03:23,682 Holy shit! Mom! 52 00:03:25,267 --> 00:03:26,310 Vecna. 53 00:03:28,270 --> 00:03:29,563 He'll be angry. 54 00:03:30,606 --> 00:03:32,107 He'll try and find me. 55 00:03:33,484 --> 00:03:35,361 He'll know we escaped. 56 00:03:37,279 --> 00:03:38,239 Where's Holly? 57 00:03:41,033 --> 00:03:41,867 Where is she? 58 00:05:59,463 --> 00:06:00,798 Jonathan. 59 00:06:02,216 --> 00:06:03,425 Jonathan. 60 00:06:03,509 --> 00:06:04,551 Jonathan. 61 00:06:05,511 --> 00:06:06,804 Jonathan, stop. 62 00:06:08,514 --> 00:06:10,557 What? 63 00:06:10,641 --> 00:06:13,435 If we hurt ourselves, we're really screwed. 64 00:06:14,686 --> 00:06:16,230 Yeah, I guess you're right. 65 00:06:19,149 --> 00:06:20,526 Oh, God. 66 00:06:23,195 --> 00:06:25,823 Okay, so now what? 67 00:06:26,407 --> 00:06:27,908 Anything else you wanna confess? 68 00:06:36,750 --> 00:06:37,960 Stay back. 69 00:06:47,052 --> 00:06:48,429 Sorry we're late. 70 00:06:53,267 --> 00:06:54,226 You okay? 71 00:06:54,309 --> 00:06:57,229 Yeah. Yeah, we're okay. 72 00:07:02,734 --> 00:07:03,944 Thanks. 73 00:07:05,696 --> 00:07:07,906 Was that weird? I'm sorry. That was weird. 74 00:07:07,990 --> 00:07:10,451 I didn't… We just… We both thought… 75 00:07:10,534 --> 00:07:12,703 -We were goners. Yeah, we did too. -Yes. 76 00:07:12,786 --> 00:07:14,413 Turns out that shield generator of yours… 77 00:07:14,496 --> 00:07:16,790 Isn't really a shield generator. Yeah, we know. 78 00:07:16,874 --> 00:07:20,043 Well, you'd think that would have been good information to share. 79 00:07:20,127 --> 00:07:21,753 Well, we tried. 80 00:07:21,837 --> 00:07:22,921 Antenna snapped. 81 00:07:23,005 --> 00:07:24,173 His fault. 82 00:07:24,256 --> 00:07:26,925 Okay, so then what the hell did I shoot? 83 00:07:27,009 --> 00:07:28,469 Exotic matter. 84 00:07:28,552 --> 00:07:30,888 And we're supposed to know what that is? 85 00:07:30,971 --> 00:07:33,724 It's all in here. Look. Check this out. 86 00:07:34,892 --> 00:07:37,227 Dr. Brenner's notebook from '83. 87 00:07:37,311 --> 00:07:39,062 This thing is a gold mine. 88 00:07:39,146 --> 00:07:43,400 All his research into the gate, how he created it, what it really is. 89 00:07:43,484 --> 00:07:45,235 I'm still deciphering it, but… 90 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:47,196 Yeah, this shit will fry your brain. 91 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:50,407 Cliff notes, Holly isn't on the other side of the wall. 92 00:07:53,243 --> 00:07:54,661 Then where is she? 93 00:07:55,496 --> 00:07:57,623 I don't know… exactly. 94 00:07:57,706 --> 00:08:00,083 But wherever she is, it's not the Upside Down. 95 00:08:21,647 --> 00:08:25,067 When he took me, he opened the fourth, final gate, 96 00:08:25,150 --> 00:08:26,360 splitting Hawkins in two. 97 00:09:05,274 --> 00:09:06,650 You can do this. 98 00:09:33,844 --> 00:09:35,721 -What was that? -What was what? 99 00:09:36,972 --> 00:09:38,307 Holly. 100 00:11:07,396 --> 00:11:09,106 Voyager Beta. 101 00:11:09,189 --> 00:11:10,107 Any signal yet? 102 00:11:11,441 --> 00:11:14,111 Negative, Voyager Alpha. Voyager Gamma? 103 00:11:14,695 --> 00:11:17,030 A big, fat zero over here. 104 00:11:17,114 --> 00:11:19,658 Your balloon experiment is a dud, Snookums. 105 00:11:19,741 --> 00:11:22,577 Let's just put the antenna on the van and drive. 106 00:11:22,661 --> 00:11:25,038 As I've said, Voyager Gamma, given the uneven terrain 107 00:11:25,122 --> 00:11:26,748 and forested nature of Hawkins, 108 00:11:26,832 --> 00:11:29,126 a vehicle is simply not the most expedient way 109 00:11:29,209 --> 00:11:30,585 to pinpoint a telemetry tag. 110 00:11:30,669 --> 00:11:33,380 "Expedient"? We've been building your goddamn balloon experiment 111 00:11:33,463 --> 00:11:34,297 for six hours! 112 00:11:34,381 --> 00:11:37,050 Yes, but once we trilaterate the three signals, 113 00:11:37,134 --> 00:11:39,720 I'll be able to pinpoint Dustin's precise location. 114 00:11:39,803 --> 00:11:42,514 You can't trilaterate shit if we can't get a signal, 115 00:11:42,597 --> 00:11:45,517 so let's just cut our losses now 116 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,603 before your star student winds up dead in a ditch. 117 00:11:49,771 --> 00:11:51,273 "Cut our losses…" 118 00:11:59,239 --> 00:12:01,116 Fortune favors the bold. 119 00:12:04,453 --> 00:12:06,329 I've secured a location on Dustin. 120 00:12:06,913 --> 00:12:08,290 Loose your balloons, Voyagers. 121 00:12:08,373 --> 00:12:10,041 -Come again? -Wait, hold on. What? 122 00:12:10,125 --> 00:12:14,087 We need more height. Loose your balloons. 123 00:12:18,216 --> 00:12:19,593 Negative 80! 124 00:12:20,218 --> 00:12:21,887 Negative 44. 125 00:12:21,970 --> 00:12:25,182 I take it back, Snookums, you mad, mad genius! 126 00:12:25,265 --> 00:12:28,185 Thank you, Voyager. Calculations incoming. Hold tight. 127 00:12:41,990 --> 00:12:46,369 You are going to be my spy 128 00:12:46,453 --> 00:12:50,040 one last time. 129 00:12:55,504 --> 00:12:56,338 Will. 130 00:12:58,215 --> 00:13:00,133 Hopper just radioed. 131 00:13:00,217 --> 00:13:02,427 Max is safe. She got out. 132 00:13:04,346 --> 00:13:07,098 Hey, this is good news. 133 00:13:08,016 --> 00:13:10,894 None of this would have happened if it weren't for you. 134 00:13:10,977 --> 00:13:12,145 Everything's gonna be okay. 135 00:13:12,813 --> 00:13:15,023 But for how long, Mom? 136 00:13:15,106 --> 00:13:17,901 If Lucas is right, today is the day, 137 00:13:17,984 --> 00:13:19,778 the day Vecna's gonna act. 138 00:13:19,861 --> 00:13:22,739 I thought I had him. But the truth… 139 00:13:23,990 --> 00:13:26,827 The truth is I never stood a chance. 140 00:13:28,036 --> 00:13:31,748 And he knew it. He's always known it. 141 00:13:31,832 --> 00:13:35,460 That's why, out of everyone in Hawkins, he chose me. 142 00:13:36,503 --> 00:13:43,093 Because he knew I was weak, and he knew he could control me. 143 00:13:43,176 --> 00:13:44,719 That is not true. 144 00:13:44,803 --> 00:13:46,972 It is, Mom. It is. 145 00:13:47,055 --> 00:13:48,765 I was his vessel. 146 00:13:49,766 --> 00:13:53,770 A vessel to channel his powers, to spy, 147 00:13:54,354 --> 00:13:56,606 and… and to build. 148 00:13:57,899 --> 00:14:00,235 "To… To build"? 149 00:14:00,318 --> 00:14:01,945 The tunnels. 150 00:14:02,988 --> 00:14:05,031 They didn't spread from the gate on their own. 151 00:14:05,615 --> 00:14:10,954 Every night, I jacked into the hive and took control of the vines, 152 00:14:11,037 --> 00:14:16,209 using them to tunnel, infecting our world with the Upside Down. 153 00:14:17,085 --> 00:14:19,379 So many died because of me. 154 00:14:20,505 --> 00:14:22,716 And if I could do all of that, 155 00:14:23,550 --> 00:14:27,053 what could he do with 12 more like me? 156 00:14:27,637 --> 00:14:29,180 You listen to me. 157 00:14:29,264 --> 00:14:32,183 None of what happened is your fault. 158 00:14:32,267 --> 00:14:33,101 Do you hear me? 159 00:14:33,685 --> 00:14:36,021 And as for his big plan, 160 00:14:36,104 --> 00:14:39,107 he's not gonna have 12 vessels, or whatever the hell he calls them, 161 00:14:39,190 --> 00:14:42,360 because he just lost Holly, and she'll know where the others are. 162 00:14:42,444 --> 00:14:46,489 Sweetheart, this is not over, not by a long shot. 163 00:14:47,657 --> 00:14:48,700 You're wrong. 164 00:14:49,492 --> 00:14:51,369 You're wrong, Mom. 165 00:14:51,453 --> 00:14:52,996 It's my fault. 166 00:14:53,079 --> 00:14:54,414 No. 167 00:14:54,497 --> 00:14:55,874 No, baby. 168 00:15:04,758 --> 00:15:06,301 Go! Go! 169 00:15:17,938 --> 00:15:20,190 I couldn't see where Holly was gonna wake up. 170 00:15:20,273 --> 00:15:22,901 But I figured 171 00:15:23,944 --> 00:15:26,029 wherever Vecna was keeping her, 172 00:15:26,863 --> 00:15:28,823 it had to be in the Upside Down. 173 00:15:30,241 --> 00:15:31,242 So… 174 00:15:32,243 --> 00:15:35,622 I told her to just go home. 175 00:15:35,705 --> 00:15:37,666 Home? Home as in our home? 176 00:15:37,749 --> 00:15:40,335 Meaning we have to get back into the Upside Down. 177 00:15:40,418 --> 00:15:42,963 -Where is the nearest rift to you? -Off Cornwallis, I think. 178 00:15:43,046 --> 00:15:44,547 About a mile and a half, give or take. 179 00:15:44,631 --> 00:15:46,007 Lucas, do you copy? 180 00:15:46,091 --> 00:15:46,967 -Oh, Robin. -Yeah. 181 00:15:47,050 --> 00:15:47,884 Lucas! 182 00:15:50,303 --> 00:15:52,180 Erica, I really can't talk right now. 183 00:15:52,263 --> 00:15:54,057 Okay, so Vecna took out those soldiers, 184 00:15:54,140 --> 00:15:56,101 so it should be a lot easier to get into the MAC. 185 00:15:56,184 --> 00:15:57,936 No. They're gonna have reinforcements by now. 186 00:15:58,019 --> 00:15:59,562 I can break through a plate. 187 00:15:59,646 --> 00:16:04,234 Are you saying that Holly is trapped under a steel plate? 188 00:16:04,317 --> 00:16:06,444 Without context, that might sound troubling, 189 00:16:06,528 --> 00:16:10,281 but she's not pancaked under a giant hunk of steel or anything. She's… 190 00:16:10,365 --> 00:16:11,533 How do I talk about this? 191 00:16:11,616 --> 00:16:15,078 -Well, there's this world under ours… -Under the plates. 192 00:16:15,161 --> 00:16:16,246 The Upside Down. 193 00:16:16,329 --> 00:16:18,915 Yeah, and it's just like Hawkins, only way suckier. 194 00:16:18,999 --> 00:16:22,377 Guys, guys, guys. Okay, you really won't believe this, 195 00:16:22,460 --> 00:16:26,047 but Erica and Mr. Clarke came through. They found Dustin and the others. 196 00:16:27,215 --> 00:16:30,802 All right. Well, they're gonna be able to find Holly a lot easier than we are. 197 00:16:33,430 --> 00:16:35,974 We better hurry. We got company. 198 00:16:47,944 --> 00:16:50,572 Hey, hey. Are you okay? 199 00:16:51,156 --> 00:16:52,449 I'm fine, Michael. I'm fine. 200 00:16:52,532 --> 00:16:54,909 No, with all due respect, Mrs. Wheeler, you're not. 201 00:16:54,993 --> 00:16:58,538 You could get an infection, hemorrhage, God forbid, stop breathing. 202 00:16:58,621 --> 00:17:02,876 If you think I'm gonna stay in bed when my daughter needs me, 203 00:17:02,959 --> 00:17:06,046 you're out of your goddamn mind. Let's go. 204 00:17:06,129 --> 00:17:08,673 Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom. She's right. 205 00:17:08,757 --> 00:17:10,300 It's okay. Keep going. 206 00:17:10,884 --> 00:17:13,011 Hey, you saved us. 207 00:17:13,094 --> 00:17:14,554 You saved us. 208 00:17:14,637 --> 00:17:17,265 And by some miracle, you're still here, okay? 209 00:17:17,348 --> 00:17:20,435 But now, you need to trust me that we can handle this the rest of the way. 210 00:17:20,518 --> 00:17:23,563 There might be more of those things out there. 211 00:17:23,646 --> 00:17:25,356 They're called Demogorgons. I know. 212 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,819 There's so much that I need to tell you about this Upside Down and El, 213 00:17:29,903 --> 00:17:31,654 but right now, all you need to know is 214 00:17:31,738 --> 00:17:34,908 that this group saved Will when no one else could. 215 00:17:34,991 --> 00:17:36,201 We did that. 216 00:17:36,284 --> 00:17:38,411 And we're about to do the same thing with Holly. 217 00:17:38,495 --> 00:17:42,457 We're gonna bring her back to you, Mom. I promise. Okay? 218 00:17:43,958 --> 00:17:44,876 Yeah? 219 00:17:56,221 --> 00:17:58,515 Mr. Clarke, thanks for the assist. 220 00:17:58,598 --> 00:17:59,682 Don't thank me yet. 221 00:17:59,766 --> 00:18:02,310 We successfully trilaterated Dustin's position here, 222 00:18:02,393 --> 00:18:03,770 to precisely where I stand now. 223 00:18:03,853 --> 00:18:06,064 But by the time we arrived, he was MIA. 224 00:18:06,147 --> 00:18:08,483 Well, he wouldn't be precisely here. He'd be under. 225 00:18:09,484 --> 00:18:10,777 Sorry? 226 00:18:11,528 --> 00:18:12,779 You didn't tell him? 227 00:18:13,321 --> 00:18:14,781 -I… -Told me what? 228 00:18:14,864 --> 00:18:16,533 Holy shit. 229 00:18:17,575 --> 00:18:18,868 Holy shit. 230 00:18:19,619 --> 00:18:21,454 Hey, over here! Over here! 231 00:18:23,164 --> 00:18:24,624 I got him! I got him! 232 00:18:24,707 --> 00:18:26,501 I got Dustin! 233 00:18:32,257 --> 00:18:33,967 -I don't hear anything. -Patience. 234 00:18:35,343 --> 00:18:37,846 Is anyone there? Repeat, this is Dustin. 235 00:18:37,929 --> 00:18:40,265 Dustin, it's Mike. Holly's escaped from Vecna, 236 00:18:40,348 --> 00:18:42,392 and she's on her way to my house in the Upside Down. 237 00:18:42,475 --> 00:18:46,020 I need you to get there as fast as you can and rendezvous with Holly. Do you copy? 238 00:18:46,104 --> 00:18:49,482 Holly's not at the house. We found her. We found Holly. Repeat, we-- 239 00:18:49,566 --> 00:18:50,984 Dustin, I'm losing you. 240 00:18:51,693 --> 00:18:52,610 Dustin? 241 00:18:54,821 --> 00:18:58,408 Am I going crazy, or did he just say that he found Holly? 242 00:19:00,368 --> 00:19:03,079 All right, let's hug this wall up here. 243 00:19:03,163 --> 00:19:04,581 Why would she be at the lab? 244 00:19:04,664 --> 00:19:07,292 Wherever she escaped from, the lab must've been en route to my house. 245 00:19:07,375 --> 00:19:09,752 She just happened to run into Dustin? What are the odds? 246 00:19:09,836 --> 00:19:10,670 Low as shit, 247 00:19:10,753 --> 00:19:12,797 but I say it's about damn time we had some luck. 248 00:19:12,881 --> 00:19:13,715 Amen to that. 249 00:19:13,798 --> 00:19:17,343 I'm sorry. I still don't follow. Dustin is under those plates? 250 00:19:17,427 --> 00:19:18,678 -Yes. -But not pancaked. 251 00:19:19,262 --> 00:19:20,638 Hang on. Hang on. 252 00:19:33,067 --> 00:19:35,486 Yeah, we got cameras all over that rift. 253 00:19:36,446 --> 00:19:38,781 I have an old spectrum analyzer back at the club. 254 00:19:38,865 --> 00:19:41,951 If I can just locate their RF signal, I should be able to jam the transmission. 255 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:43,244 That's cool. 256 00:19:43,953 --> 00:19:45,580 I think you're overthinking it. 257 00:19:46,414 --> 00:19:49,125 You're telling me Alford wouldn't have doubled that score? 258 00:19:49,209 --> 00:19:50,877 Four from six from the field. 259 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,047 Reggie's gonna be something special, you mark my words. 260 00:19:54,130 --> 00:19:55,381 Walsh can do no… 261 00:19:59,552 --> 00:20:01,137 You ain't seen nothing yet. 262 00:20:38,091 --> 00:20:39,968 You coming, Snookums? 263 00:20:40,051 --> 00:20:41,511 We're going in there? 264 00:20:42,679 --> 00:20:44,222 We're going in there. 265 00:20:46,224 --> 00:20:47,433 Steve! 266 00:20:47,934 --> 00:20:49,227 Dustin! 267 00:20:49,310 --> 00:20:50,561 Steve! 268 00:20:50,645 --> 00:20:52,146 Nancy! Holly! 269 00:20:52,230 --> 00:20:53,606 Jonathan! 270 00:20:59,904 --> 00:21:01,698 Is this shit safe to breathe? 271 00:21:01,781 --> 00:21:02,865 Unclear. 272 00:21:03,783 --> 00:21:04,742 Okay. 273 00:21:05,451 --> 00:21:07,829 Mike, any luck down there? 274 00:21:07,912 --> 00:21:10,206 Mike? Mike! 275 00:21:11,249 --> 00:21:12,458 Found him. 276 00:21:13,626 --> 00:21:15,295 Jesus, it's good to see you guys. 277 00:21:25,471 --> 00:21:26,431 Nancy? 278 00:21:28,141 --> 00:21:29,058 Where is she? 279 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,893 Where's Holly? 280 00:21:36,524 --> 00:21:38,318 -What was that? -What was what? 281 00:21:39,652 --> 00:21:40,945 Holly. 282 00:21:50,997 --> 00:21:53,791 Nancy! Nancy! 283 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:55,585 -Holly! Holly! -Nancy, help me! 284 00:21:55,668 --> 00:21:58,212 -Nancy, help me! Help me down, please! -Holly! 285 00:21:58,296 --> 00:21:59,964 Nancy! Nancy, please! 286 00:22:00,048 --> 00:22:00,923 Holly! 287 00:22:01,007 --> 00:22:02,675 Nancy! 288 00:22:08,890 --> 00:22:13,853 It was like something had a hold of her, but you couldn't see anything. 289 00:22:16,105 --> 00:22:17,273 It was him. 290 00:22:19,317 --> 00:22:21,194 Vecna. It had to be. 291 00:22:23,071 --> 00:22:23,905 Mike? 292 00:22:23,988 --> 00:22:26,949 Is Holly okay, Mike? Mike, do you copy? 293 00:22:27,033 --> 00:22:29,494 I repeat, is Holly okay? 294 00:23:16,916 --> 00:23:18,918 Don't worry, Holly. 295 00:23:19,877 --> 00:23:22,713 It will all be over soon. 296 00:23:24,632 --> 00:23:28,553 It will all be over. 297 00:23:33,433 --> 00:23:36,561 It was some sort of demon, a demon from that other world. 298 00:23:37,228 --> 00:23:38,980 He can control monsters, 299 00:23:40,314 --> 00:23:41,607 move Humvees, 300 00:23:41,691 --> 00:23:43,151 stop fire. 301 00:23:45,778 --> 00:23:47,196 Bullets didn't touch him. 302 00:23:47,780 --> 00:23:49,282 Hell, nothing could. 303 00:23:49,365 --> 00:23:50,908 It wasn't a fight. 304 00:23:52,910 --> 00:23:54,662 It was a damn massacre. 305 00:23:59,834 --> 00:24:01,711 First we get mutant dogs at the hospital. 306 00:24:01,794 --> 00:24:03,296 Now a goddamn demon in the MAC? 307 00:24:03,379 --> 00:24:05,590 You wanna tell me what else is about to pop out of that hellhole, 308 00:24:05,673 --> 00:24:07,049 or should we leave it a surprise? 309 00:24:07,133 --> 00:24:09,969 I don't know if you've noticed, but suddenly we're light on men. 310 00:24:10,052 --> 00:24:11,721 Reinforcements are on the way. 311 00:24:11,804 --> 00:24:14,891 Any additional requests, talk to your unit commander. 312 00:24:14,974 --> 00:24:17,602 How am I to know what to request when I don't know what I'm fighting? 313 00:24:17,685 --> 00:24:21,647 You're not fighting anything. This is not a war. It is a search. 314 00:24:21,731 --> 00:24:23,441 Something gets in your way, kill it. 315 00:24:23,524 --> 00:24:26,569 But otherwise, keep your focus on finding the girl. 316 00:24:26,652 --> 00:24:29,155 Yeah, find the girl. Christ, is that all you can say? 317 00:24:29,238 --> 00:24:32,200 I mean, you got a pull string under that jacket of yours or what? 318 00:24:33,784 --> 00:24:36,496 Everything that has happened here is because of that girl. 319 00:24:36,579 --> 00:24:39,207 And if you had just done your job and found her, 320 00:24:39,290 --> 00:24:42,752 then I wouldn't have to repeat myself, and we'd have those monsters in Moscow 321 00:24:42,835 --> 00:24:45,963 where they'd be killing Soviets instead of Americans. 322 00:24:46,047 --> 00:24:48,257 The dead men, the children, 323 00:24:48,341 --> 00:24:50,927 their blood is on your hands, Lieutenant, not mine. 324 00:24:51,511 --> 00:24:55,932 And unless you want to join them, I would watch that goddamn tongue. 325 00:25:00,937 --> 00:25:03,606 Lt. Akers, this is Bravo One. Do you copy? 326 00:25:06,150 --> 00:25:07,276 Yeah, what is it? 327 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,445 We've got a rift breach at the old lab. 328 00:25:10,238 --> 00:25:11,322 On my way. 329 00:25:19,247 --> 00:25:20,248 You okay? 330 00:25:20,957 --> 00:25:21,958 Max. 331 00:25:27,547 --> 00:25:33,010 So I leave you alone for a second, and you turn into a sorcerer? 332 00:25:33,094 --> 00:25:37,098 It was a little more than a second, and I'm not really a sorcerer. 333 00:25:37,181 --> 00:25:39,141 Mm, sure seemed like it to me. 334 00:25:40,643 --> 00:25:42,937 Hey, you up for a tour? 335 00:25:46,023 --> 00:25:48,276 Jimmy "Fast Hands" skipped town before quarantine, 336 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,152 so we just sort of moved in here. 337 00:25:50,236 --> 00:25:52,697 The basement is hidden behind this bookshelf over there. 338 00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:54,615 Not quite the Batcave, but it's pretty sweet. 339 00:25:54,699 --> 00:25:57,159 We kept the station going as cover. Robin's our DJ. 340 00:25:57,243 --> 00:25:59,870 -Rockin' Robin. -Rockin' Robin, my bad. 341 00:25:59,954 --> 00:26:01,414 And Steve's her sound man. 342 00:26:01,497 --> 00:26:02,415 Check this out. 343 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:16,721 Hey… 344 00:26:17,555 --> 00:26:18,973 We're gonna get Holly back. 345 00:26:19,056 --> 00:26:21,475 She's all alone in there, Lucas. 346 00:26:22,059 --> 00:26:25,062 Alone with that monster. 347 00:26:25,146 --> 00:26:27,982 And I was so sure that she could make it out. 348 00:26:28,065 --> 00:26:29,609 And I was so stupid. 349 00:26:30,109 --> 00:26:32,028 You had to try. 350 00:26:32,612 --> 00:26:34,155 I should have stayed there. 351 00:26:36,699 --> 00:26:38,326 And I should have kept her safe. 352 00:26:39,368 --> 00:26:40,995 Then we'd all be screwed. 353 00:26:41,495 --> 00:26:44,373 You've been in Vecna's mind. You can help us beat him. 354 00:26:44,457 --> 00:26:46,876 No. I can't. 355 00:26:50,588 --> 00:26:52,840 I don't even know where Vecna's keeping Holly. 356 00:26:52,923 --> 00:26:54,508 Well, it's a good thing I do. 357 00:26:56,052 --> 00:26:58,512 I know where she is, but the real challenge is getting there. 358 00:26:59,722 --> 00:27:01,474 I gotta show you guys something. 359 00:27:03,017 --> 00:27:03,934 Okay. 360 00:27:04,018 --> 00:27:09,065 So, this is Hawkins, and this is the Upside Down. 361 00:27:09,148 --> 00:27:12,485 We've always assumed the Upside Down was another dimension opened by Brenner, 362 00:27:12,568 --> 00:27:15,613 but it turns out it's actually a bridge. 363 00:27:16,197 --> 00:27:18,324 More specifically, an interdimensional bridge 364 00:27:18,407 --> 00:27:19,950 that rips through space-time. 365 00:27:20,034 --> 00:27:23,704 It is wildly unstable, but held together by exotic matter, 366 00:27:23,788 --> 00:27:27,083 which we found dead center right above the lab. 367 00:27:27,166 --> 00:27:28,459 In theoretical physics, 368 00:27:28,542 --> 00:27:30,878 -they call this type of bridge a… -Wormhole. 369 00:27:30,961 --> 00:27:33,964 And this wormhole connects Hawkins to here, 370 00:27:34,048 --> 00:27:37,551 another world that I've coined the Abyss. 371 00:27:37,635 --> 00:27:40,429 -Any particular reason? -A realm of pure chaos and evil. 372 00:27:40,513 --> 00:27:42,306 -I'm sorry? -D&D. 373 00:27:42,390 --> 00:27:43,891 -Jesus Christ. -Wow. 374 00:27:43,974 --> 00:27:47,853 I believe this Abyss is the true home of the Demogorgons, 375 00:27:47,937 --> 00:27:49,563 the vines, the Mind Flayer, 376 00:27:49,647 --> 00:27:51,982 all the nasty shit we found in the Upside Down. 377 00:27:52,066 --> 00:27:54,068 It's where all those years ago you banished Henry. 378 00:27:54,151 --> 00:27:55,277 He was lost for years, 379 00:27:55,361 --> 00:27:57,113 and would've stayed lost if it wasn't for Brenner. 380 00:27:57,196 --> 00:27:59,031 He had me find Henry. 381 00:27:59,115 --> 00:28:02,576 And when you made remote contact with the Abyss, the bridge formed. 382 00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:05,121 Ever since, Henry and his army of monsters have been using it 383 00:28:05,204 --> 00:28:07,456 to cross right back into Hawkins. 384 00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:09,792 We kicked Vecna's ass last year, 385 00:28:09,875 --> 00:28:13,087 but he just fled across this bridge back to the Abyss to lick his wounds. 386 00:28:13,170 --> 00:28:14,046 What a pussy. 387 00:28:14,130 --> 00:28:17,675 So all this time, Vecna's been hiding in the sky? 388 00:28:17,758 --> 00:28:19,927 Explains why every crawl led to a dead end. 389 00:28:20,010 --> 00:28:22,972 -And why I can't find him in the bath. -And why Holly fell from the sky. 390 00:28:23,055 --> 00:28:24,974 Yeah, but why is he taking kids up there? 391 00:28:25,057 --> 00:28:26,559 For the same reason he took me. 392 00:28:26,642 --> 00:28:30,604 The minds of children are weaker, right? More easily molded and controlled. 393 00:28:30,688 --> 00:28:34,275 So he channeled his thoughts and powers through me to amplify his abilities, 394 00:28:34,358 --> 00:28:35,901 and he's gonna do the same with those kids. 395 00:28:35,985 --> 00:28:37,653 Amplify his abilities? 396 00:28:38,195 --> 00:28:39,196 To do what? 397 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,364 Move worlds. 398 00:28:42,533 --> 00:28:45,745 Holly, she said Henry told the kids 399 00:28:45,828 --> 00:28:49,582 that they would help him draw the worlds together. 400 00:28:50,708 --> 00:28:53,043 I didn't understand what that meant at the time, but… 401 00:28:53,127 --> 00:28:56,005 He wants to move the Abyss, crash it into Hawkins. 402 00:28:56,088 --> 00:28:56,964 No, not crash. 403 00:28:57,548 --> 00:28:58,591 Merge. 404 00:28:58,674 --> 00:29:02,344 Henry wasn't licking his wounds in the Abyss. He was making rifts, 405 00:29:02,428 --> 00:29:05,431 weakening the Abyss, just like he weakened Hawkins. 406 00:29:05,514 --> 00:29:07,224 So when the Abyss and Hawkins collide… 407 00:29:07,308 --> 00:29:08,225 They become one. 408 00:29:08,309 --> 00:29:09,685 He's remaking the world. 409 00:29:09,769 --> 00:29:12,855 How long do we think this takes? To move worlds? 410 00:29:12,938 --> 00:29:15,691 Are we talking like… Or is this gonna take some time? 411 00:29:15,775 --> 00:29:18,319 We better hope we have some time. Because if this is all correct, 412 00:29:18,402 --> 00:29:21,113 we have to get 2,000 feet in the air, find our way into the Abyss, 413 00:29:21,197 --> 00:29:24,366 free Holly and the kids, and kill Vecna all before our worlds merge. 414 00:29:24,450 --> 00:29:25,910 And if my theory's right, 415 00:29:26,619 --> 00:29:28,120 he's gonna move worlds tonight. 416 00:29:28,204 --> 00:29:30,039 Have I mentioned how much I hate your theory? 417 00:29:30,122 --> 00:29:31,165 -Me too. -Me three. 418 00:29:31,248 --> 00:29:33,834 I hate all of this. 419 00:29:33,918 --> 00:29:37,338 But at least now we know what we're up against 420 00:29:37,963 --> 00:29:39,215 and what we need to do. 421 00:29:40,591 --> 00:29:42,051 We just need a plan. 422 00:30:03,739 --> 00:30:04,824 I'm sorry. 423 00:30:05,491 --> 00:30:07,660 I don't mean to pry. It's just… 424 00:30:07,743 --> 00:30:09,328 everyone's so worried. 425 00:30:10,412 --> 00:30:12,039 Is she gonna be okay? 426 00:30:18,045 --> 00:30:19,505 But you've told her, right, 427 00:30:19,588 --> 00:30:22,383 that this Max was just a monster in disguise? 428 00:30:22,466 --> 00:30:25,094 That it was tricking her, lying. 429 00:30:25,177 --> 00:30:26,345 Of course. 430 00:30:27,054 --> 00:30:29,557 I've tried everything, but she won't listen. 431 00:30:31,141 --> 00:30:33,727 We need her tonight, or we will fail. 432 00:30:33,811 --> 00:30:36,397 What did this Max tell her? 433 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,775 Such awful, awful things. 434 00:30:40,276 --> 00:30:42,111 She told her I kidnapped you. 435 00:30:42,194 --> 00:30:43,863 -What? -You rescued us. 436 00:30:43,946 --> 00:30:44,947 I know. 437 00:30:46,323 --> 00:30:48,033 That's not even the worst of it. 438 00:30:49,118 --> 00:30:52,997 She told her I don't wanna save the world. I wanna end it. 439 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,333 -How could she believe that? -'Cause she's stupid as shit, that's how. 440 00:30:56,417 --> 00:30:58,294 No, she's not stupid, Thomas. 441 00:30:59,336 --> 00:31:02,965 This monster is incredibly powerful, and she works for the Black Thing. 442 00:31:03,048 --> 00:31:04,758 She has corrupted Holly's mind 443 00:31:04,842 --> 00:31:07,720 and dragged her out of the light and taken her into the dark. 444 00:31:07,803 --> 00:31:11,181 Maybe we should just give up and go home then. 445 00:31:11,265 --> 00:31:13,267 -Go home? -To be with our parents. 446 00:31:13,350 --> 00:31:14,476 We would all die. 447 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:15,644 What's wrong with you? 448 00:31:15,728 --> 00:31:16,979 Shut your trap, dipshit. 449 00:31:17,062 --> 00:31:19,189 Please let's not turn on each other. 450 00:31:19,273 --> 00:31:21,025 I know we're all upset. 451 00:31:21,108 --> 00:31:22,693 But perhaps Derek is right. 452 00:31:23,777 --> 00:31:27,489 Perhaps I have failed, and the Black Thing has won. 453 00:31:28,365 --> 00:31:29,992 No, we can't let it win. 454 00:31:30,576 --> 00:31:32,411 Okay? We won't. 455 00:31:33,537 --> 00:31:35,331 You don't know Holly like we do. 456 00:31:35,414 --> 00:31:37,750 I've been her best friend since kindergarten. 457 00:31:37,833 --> 00:31:39,168 Debbie's her second-best friend. 458 00:31:39,251 --> 00:31:41,462 -And she crushes hard on Josh. -No, she doesn't. 459 00:31:41,545 --> 00:31:42,713 -She does. -Totally. 460 00:31:42,796 --> 00:31:46,842 My point is, maybe if we all try and talk to her, we can fix her. 461 00:31:47,509 --> 00:31:49,970 We can bring her back to the light. 462 00:31:50,638 --> 00:31:52,932 Mary's right. We can do it. 463 00:31:53,015 --> 00:31:54,016 Back to the light. 464 00:31:54,099 --> 00:31:55,434 Back to the light. 465 00:31:55,517 --> 00:32:01,231 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 466 00:32:01,315 --> 00:32:07,696 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 467 00:32:07,780 --> 00:32:12,117 Back to the light. Back to the light. Back to the light. 468 00:32:14,828 --> 00:32:18,123 As for the security cameras, trench plate… 469 00:32:18,624 --> 00:32:20,292 Not a bolt cutter. 470 00:32:20,376 --> 00:32:22,252 Yeah, you could safely say that, sir. 471 00:32:28,717 --> 00:32:30,302 She's getting reckless. 472 00:32:31,220 --> 00:32:32,388 Sloppy. 473 00:32:33,013 --> 00:32:34,473 Could be one of those damn monsters. 474 00:32:34,556 --> 00:32:37,101 A monster who breaks padlocks and cameras? 475 00:32:37,184 --> 00:32:38,686 I don't think so. 476 00:32:41,689 --> 00:32:42,690 It's her. 477 00:32:44,817 --> 00:32:47,277 Rally the rest of the team. Tell them to lock and load. 478 00:32:47,361 --> 00:32:48,487 We're going in. 479 00:32:52,741 --> 00:32:57,663 At the base, in the Upside Down, there's a chopper ready for the taking. 480 00:32:59,540 --> 00:33:03,752 We fly up to the Abyss, kill the freak, rescue the kids, 481 00:33:04,712 --> 00:33:05,838 fly back down. 482 00:33:05,921 --> 00:33:07,673 Who do you expect to fly this thing? 483 00:33:07,756 --> 00:33:10,050 -It's a helicopter. They've got pilots. -Right. 484 00:33:10,134 --> 00:33:12,302 -We force one to fly. -Another kidnapping plot. Love it. 485 00:33:12,386 --> 00:33:14,555 How is this pilot gonna fly a chopper into the rift? 486 00:33:14,638 --> 00:33:17,057 What do you mean? We just fly through it. 487 00:33:17,141 --> 00:33:18,183 -What? -Idiot. 488 00:33:18,267 --> 00:33:19,435 Just fly through it? 489 00:33:19,518 --> 00:33:23,105 These rotors are like 40 feet wide. It's too big. It's not gonna fit. 490 00:33:23,188 --> 00:33:25,524 Steve hears that all the time and goes in anyway. Don't you? 491 00:33:25,607 --> 00:33:28,027 -What the hell is wrong with you? -It's funny. 492 00:33:28,110 --> 00:33:29,153 Everybody shut up. 493 00:33:29,236 --> 00:33:33,574 Look, if somebody else has some magic bean that I don't know about, I'm all ears. 494 00:33:33,657 --> 00:33:36,910 If not, it's a risk that we gotta take. We fly, or we die. 495 00:33:36,994 --> 00:33:38,871 -Fly or die. -Well, then I guess we die. 496 00:33:38,954 --> 00:33:41,790 We're not gonna die if we commit to a plan. 497 00:33:41,874 --> 00:33:43,834 Can we weigh out a few more options before… 498 00:33:43,917 --> 00:33:45,878 Yes. We die, I guess. 499 00:33:45,961 --> 00:33:49,006 -You said we have to get up 2,000 feet… -Don't take that shit, Jim. 500 00:33:49,089 --> 00:33:50,883 -You're not listening to each other. -You guys! 501 00:33:50,966 --> 00:33:52,092 How are you gonna do it? 502 00:33:53,093 --> 00:33:54,094 "Magic bean…" 503 00:33:54,178 --> 00:33:55,971 Can we get back on track? 504 00:33:56,055 --> 00:34:00,100 Let's not even try anything? 505 00:34:00,184 --> 00:34:01,852 We don't need a magic bean to climb. 506 00:34:01,935 --> 00:34:03,270 -…an airplane! -I'm not-- 507 00:34:03,353 --> 00:34:04,730 We don't need a magic bean! 508 00:34:06,607 --> 00:34:10,194 Sorry. Just… We don't… We don't need it. 509 00:34:10,903 --> 00:34:12,112 A magic bean. 510 00:34:12,196 --> 00:34:14,490 We got a beanstalk right here. 511 00:34:22,372 --> 00:34:26,502 Okay, this flashlight is the Squawk radio tower, and this Slinky… 512 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,129 is the bridge. 513 00:34:29,630 --> 00:34:31,840 We'll never reach the Abyss from the tower, right? 514 00:34:31,924 --> 00:34:35,052 But Max said Vecna is drawing our worlds together. 515 00:34:35,135 --> 00:34:37,221 So, we let him. 516 00:34:37,846 --> 00:34:39,890 And we wait and wait 517 00:34:39,973 --> 00:34:43,560 as he draws it closer and closer. When it's close enough, 518 00:34:43,644 --> 00:34:45,729 and the tower is poking through one of the rifts, 519 00:34:45,813 --> 00:34:47,397 bam! El makes her move, 520 00:34:47,481 --> 00:34:50,067 she does her meditation thingy, enters Vecna's sick mind 521 00:34:50,150 --> 00:34:51,026 and ambushes him. 522 00:34:51,110 --> 00:34:52,236 In your face, dickhead. 523 00:34:52,319 --> 00:34:55,072 And then, stopping the spell, halting the worlds from moving. 524 00:34:56,031 --> 00:34:59,034 Wham, voilà! We've got a beanstalk. It's perfect. 525 00:34:59,618 --> 00:35:02,037 All we gotta do is climb up it into the Abyss. 526 00:35:02,121 --> 00:35:04,998 -I like it. -It's not totally insane. 527 00:35:05,082 --> 00:35:07,084 -Thank you. -But there's a problem, a big one. 528 00:35:07,167 --> 00:35:10,838 I can't reach inside Vecna's mind. He's too far away. 529 00:35:10,921 --> 00:35:14,550 Can't you just try? I don't know, load up on some of your junk food or something? 530 00:35:14,633 --> 00:35:16,218 Or better… 531 00:35:16,802 --> 00:35:17,845 We get you close. 532 00:35:18,470 --> 00:35:22,391 The Upside Down lab is under his lair, and it's still frozen in time, 533 00:35:22,474 --> 00:35:25,352 which means everything should be there from Brenner's experiments, including… 534 00:35:25,435 --> 00:35:26,687 The bath. 535 00:35:26,770 --> 00:35:30,315 If you do make it into his mind, I can walk you through it, 536 00:35:30,399 --> 00:35:31,817 guide you. 537 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,610 I know his sick mind inside and out. 538 00:35:33,694 --> 00:35:35,112 I should be there too. 539 00:35:35,195 --> 00:35:38,991 This plan hinges on stopping Henry, and right now, Jane is fighting him alone. 540 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:41,702 It doesn't need to be that way. 541 00:35:41,785 --> 00:35:44,163 I can follow her into his mind. 542 00:35:46,415 --> 00:35:48,959 We can end our brother, together. 543 00:35:49,042 --> 00:35:50,627 Okay, yeah, I dig it. 544 00:35:50,711 --> 00:35:53,672 Sisters kill their brother. We rescue the kiddos, come home heroes. 545 00:35:54,256 --> 00:35:57,634 And if Lucas is right, we don't have a lot of time, so we have to move fast. 546 00:35:57,718 --> 00:35:58,719 One final thing. 547 00:35:58,802 --> 00:35:59,887 Cherry on top. 548 00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:04,892 On the way out, we drop a bomb near the exotic matter. 549 00:36:05,934 --> 00:36:08,812 Set a timer, escape the Upside Down. 550 00:36:10,731 --> 00:36:12,774 The bridge collapses, and with it, 551 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:18,322 the Abyss, the Demos, the Mind Flayer, all of it, gone. 552 00:36:18,822 --> 00:36:20,991 Game. Set. Match. 553 00:36:27,956 --> 00:36:29,333 Holly! Holly! 554 00:36:29,416 --> 00:36:32,711 Hey. It's okay. You're safe. 555 00:36:33,212 --> 00:36:35,672 You're safe now. You're with us. Okay? 556 00:36:38,717 --> 00:36:40,219 Welcome back, Holly. 557 00:36:40,302 --> 00:36:41,720 Welcome. 558 00:36:42,721 --> 00:36:44,139 Where is he? 559 00:36:44,223 --> 00:36:45,557 Mr. Whatsit? 560 00:36:46,475 --> 00:36:47,309 Downstairs. 561 00:36:47,392 --> 00:36:48,518 He's worried about you. 562 00:36:48,602 --> 00:36:49,645 So worried. 563 00:36:49,728 --> 00:36:52,606 No, no, no, no, no. Mary, you need to listen. 564 00:36:52,689 --> 00:36:55,817 Mr. Whatsit, he's not who he says he is. He didn't really save us. 565 00:36:55,901 --> 00:36:57,319 -He-- -He's kidnapped us? 566 00:36:57,819 --> 00:37:01,114 He's trying to destroy the world? Holly, Mr. Whatsit has told us everything. 567 00:37:01,198 --> 00:37:04,076 Those are lies. Evil, nasty lies! 568 00:37:04,159 --> 00:37:07,079 -No, they're not! They're not-- -That other girl you met, Max. 569 00:37:07,579 --> 00:37:08,622 She's not a human. 570 00:37:08,705 --> 00:37:09,665 She's a monster. 571 00:37:09,748 --> 00:37:10,874 She twisted your mind. 572 00:37:10,958 --> 00:37:12,668 That's not true. 573 00:37:13,377 --> 00:37:14,503 Max is a friend, 574 00:37:14,586 --> 00:37:16,046 and she's… she's helping us. 575 00:37:16,129 --> 00:37:19,716 She's helping us get back home, back to our families. 576 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:21,426 We're all trapped. 577 00:37:21,510 --> 00:37:23,553 Trapped in Mr. Whatsit's mind. 578 00:37:23,637 --> 00:37:26,306 Everything you see, none of it is real! 579 00:37:26,807 --> 00:37:28,350 Come on, you have to believe me. 580 00:37:29,059 --> 00:37:29,935 Please. 581 00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:34,982 You have to believe me. You have to believe me. 582 00:37:35,065 --> 00:37:36,149 You gotta believe me. 583 00:37:38,860 --> 00:37:40,153 Derek. 584 00:37:41,989 --> 00:37:43,115 Derek, tell them. 585 00:37:44,866 --> 00:37:46,743 Tell them. Tell them! 586 00:37:54,501 --> 00:37:56,003 They're right, Holly. 587 00:37:56,086 --> 00:37:57,629 Max lied to us. 588 00:38:06,555 --> 00:38:09,391 I don't… understand. 589 00:38:10,267 --> 00:38:12,144 Everything she showed me just… 590 00:38:13,812 --> 00:38:16,023 seemed so real. 591 00:38:18,608 --> 00:38:20,694 I knew not to go into the woods. 592 00:38:20,777 --> 00:38:24,614 But I… I went there anyway, and… 593 00:38:25,657 --> 00:38:27,659 And I just… I just feel so… 594 00:38:31,121 --> 00:38:32,289 so stupid. 595 00:38:32,789 --> 00:38:35,876 -You're not stupid, Holly. -None of this is your fault. 596 00:38:35,959 --> 00:38:36,918 Holly. 597 00:38:37,919 --> 00:38:41,965 You know, the important thing is that you're here. You're here just in ti-- 598 00:38:42,758 --> 00:38:44,259 Holly, stop it! 599 00:38:49,139 --> 00:38:50,807 Bitch! Get her! 600 00:38:52,934 --> 00:38:54,186 Get her! 601 00:39:44,111 --> 00:39:49,533 Well, I was hoping for a slightly more delicate landing, but… 602 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,993 I suppose that'll do. 603 00:39:54,287 --> 00:39:55,455 You're welcome. 604 00:39:59,126 --> 00:40:01,711 Of all the people she had to go with, it had to be her. 605 00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:04,756 El trusts her. Maybe we should too. 606 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,260 No, she's up to something. I'm sure of it. I just… 607 00:40:09,261 --> 00:40:11,138 El's not gonna listen to me. 608 00:40:11,221 --> 00:40:13,598 What happened to the two of you down there? 609 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,227 She thinks I don't believe in her. 610 00:40:18,270 --> 00:40:20,605 -Which isn't true. -No, of course not. 611 00:40:20,689 --> 00:40:22,357 Well, have you told her that? 612 00:40:23,108 --> 00:40:24,860 She thinks she's invincible, 613 00:40:24,943 --> 00:40:26,903 and that's not the case. 614 00:40:27,487 --> 00:40:29,489 Yeah, that's not what I asked. 615 00:40:29,573 --> 00:40:32,826 I can work on repairing things between us when I get on the other side of this, 616 00:40:32,909 --> 00:40:36,329 but right now, I need to make sure she gets out of this alive. 617 00:40:36,413 --> 00:40:40,333 That Kali makes one false move, I swear to God, I'm gonna kill her. 618 00:40:40,834 --> 00:40:42,627 I'm gonna kill her. I will not hesitate. 619 00:40:42,711 --> 00:40:45,213 Anything happens to El in that tank, I am pulling her out. 620 00:40:46,673 --> 00:40:48,216 I can't lose her, Joyce. 621 00:40:51,511 --> 00:40:52,804 I can't. 622 00:40:58,351 --> 00:40:59,978 One last crawl. 623 00:41:01,938 --> 00:41:03,315 One last crawl. 624 00:41:17,412 --> 00:41:20,040 It gives me a headache trying to understand all this. 625 00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:26,755 But I think I got a C- in physics, so I'll trust the nerds. 626 00:41:28,131 --> 00:41:31,009 Do you think it'll work? The plan? 627 00:41:31,092 --> 00:41:33,345 I mean, it has to, right? 628 00:41:34,846 --> 00:41:36,848 I just wish I wasn't stuck here. 629 00:41:37,474 --> 00:41:38,767 I feel useless. 630 00:41:38,850 --> 00:41:42,103 El and Kali are gonna need you in the mind. I'm the one who's useless. 631 00:41:42,187 --> 00:41:44,314 You can still go there, to the Abyss. 632 00:41:44,397 --> 00:41:46,107 It's too risky. 633 00:41:46,191 --> 00:41:49,528 I'd be at the heart of the hive mind, and I don't know what would happen. 634 00:41:49,611 --> 00:41:53,240 Last time I got too close, he used me to spy, and it almost got you killed, Max. 635 00:41:53,323 --> 00:41:55,534 You also saved my life, remember? 636 00:41:55,617 --> 00:41:59,371 Plus, I've been almost killed plenty of times at the hands of this asshole, 637 00:41:59,454 --> 00:42:01,498 so I'm kind of used to it at this point. 638 00:42:01,581 --> 00:42:05,961 How did you survive in there, this whole time in Henry's mind? 639 00:42:06,044 --> 00:42:07,629 Honestly, luck. 640 00:42:09,172 --> 00:42:10,715 I found this cave. 641 00:42:11,216 --> 00:42:13,635 It was this old memory of his, 642 00:42:13,718 --> 00:42:16,179 and he was terrified of it. 643 00:42:17,305 --> 00:42:18,306 He wouldn't go in. 644 00:42:19,099 --> 00:42:20,934 Scared the living shit out of him. 645 00:42:21,017 --> 00:42:23,853 Underneath all those scars, he's still human. 646 00:42:23,937 --> 00:42:28,775 A psychopath with a serious god complex, but… 647 00:42:29,985 --> 00:42:31,319 human. 648 00:42:31,403 --> 00:42:35,240 I guess we're all scared of something, right? 649 00:42:45,625 --> 00:42:47,836 Okay, Wheeler, how's it going with your contraption? 650 00:42:47,919 --> 00:42:52,924 Okay, so just imagine that this bike bell is the bomb's remote trigger, okay? 651 00:42:53,008 --> 00:42:56,177 So when this wire touches this warrior here, kaboom. 652 00:42:56,261 --> 00:42:57,345 Genius. 653 00:42:57,846 --> 00:43:00,849 One thing is, I don't know if we can blow up the Upside Down 654 00:43:00,932 --> 00:43:02,851 to the dulcet tones of the Butthole Surfers. 655 00:43:02,934 --> 00:43:05,020 I built the bomb. I should be able to pick the record. 656 00:43:05,103 --> 00:43:06,313 You can pick the record. 657 00:43:06,396 --> 00:43:09,024 You just have to follow one simple rule, which is pick a good record. 658 00:43:09,107 --> 00:43:10,066 This is a great record! 659 00:43:10,150 --> 00:43:13,111 As far as save-the-world soundtracks goes, this one's lacking. 660 00:43:13,194 --> 00:43:14,237 What would you pick? 661 00:43:14,321 --> 00:43:16,698 The Replacements. I can't not think of better records. 662 00:43:16,781 --> 00:43:18,908 Okay, enough, Lester Bangs, okay? 663 00:43:20,744 --> 00:43:22,329 Hey. Hey! 664 00:43:22,412 --> 00:43:24,205 Have you handled one of these before? 665 00:43:24,289 --> 00:43:30,420 Not exactly, but, you know, BB guns, air rifles… …Duck Hunt. 666 00:43:31,004 --> 00:43:32,047 Duck Hunt. 667 00:43:32,130 --> 00:43:33,423 He is remarkably good at it. 668 00:43:35,842 --> 00:43:37,177 But I have a better idea. 669 00:43:37,844 --> 00:43:38,845 Come on. 670 00:43:48,188 --> 00:43:50,315 These babies are deadlier than they look. 671 00:43:53,276 --> 00:43:54,611 You sure? 672 00:43:54,694 --> 00:43:55,862 Mm. 673 00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:00,200 -Hey, Dustin? -Yeah? 674 00:44:00,283 --> 00:44:03,536 Hey, about, uh, some of the stuff that I said earlier. I just-- 675 00:44:03,620 --> 00:44:05,914 -It's fine. It's okay. -No, just… 676 00:44:06,748 --> 00:44:08,124 It's not okay. 677 00:44:11,044 --> 00:44:12,045 Eddie… 678 00:44:13,797 --> 00:44:15,173 He saved your life. 679 00:44:16,925 --> 00:44:18,176 Our lives. 680 00:44:19,177 --> 00:44:22,931 And I know what he meant to you. I can't even imagine how hard it's been. 681 00:44:23,473 --> 00:44:24,808 But instead of… 682 00:44:26,685 --> 00:44:28,728 just being there for you, I just… 683 00:44:31,189 --> 00:44:34,067 Well, I got angry about it. I guess… 684 00:44:36,695 --> 00:44:38,321 I got angry because 685 00:44:40,115 --> 00:44:41,491 things were different. 686 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:45,078 Because… 687 00:44:47,163 --> 00:44:48,498 I really missed you. 688 00:44:52,794 --> 00:44:54,337 I missed my best friend. 689 00:44:57,882 --> 00:44:59,759 Yeah, I missed my best friend too. 690 00:45:13,231 --> 00:45:16,484 For the record, a Rubik's Cube isn't even a good measure of intelligence. 691 00:45:18,611 --> 00:45:21,656 And your beanstalk plan, seriously, only a genius could've come up with that. 692 00:45:21,740 --> 00:45:22,782 Yeah, well… 693 00:45:23,825 --> 00:45:25,076 I learned from the best. 694 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,578 That's true. 695 00:45:26,661 --> 00:45:28,496 Silver lining. 696 00:45:28,580 --> 00:45:30,540 If it fails, we both go down. 697 00:45:31,458 --> 00:45:33,168 You die, I die. 698 00:45:36,921 --> 00:45:37,922 You die, I die. 699 00:45:56,065 --> 00:46:02,739 Gate opening in five, four, three, two… 700 00:46:05,617 --> 00:46:06,868 Open sesame. 701 00:46:08,953 --> 00:46:09,871 Gotcha! 702 00:46:11,247 --> 00:46:14,918 We've secured the gate signal. Repeat. Gate signal is secure. 703 00:46:15,001 --> 00:46:17,921 Tell Snookums his timing is mwah! 704 00:46:18,004 --> 00:46:20,048 Because Santa's sleigh… 705 00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:23,968 …is almost ready. 706 00:46:25,595 --> 00:46:27,305 Piece of shit! 707 00:46:28,765 --> 00:46:31,100 Oh God! Oh God! 708 00:46:31,643 --> 00:46:34,395 Why?! Why?! Why do you gotta do this right now? 709 00:46:34,479 --> 00:46:36,022 What? You don't like me? Huh? 710 00:46:36,105 --> 00:46:38,233 It's not me! I'm not the one! I'm not the one who… 711 00:46:38,316 --> 00:46:39,484 Hi, sister. 712 00:46:40,652 --> 00:46:41,736 Hi. 713 00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:44,072 Have you ever done this before? 714 00:46:44,155 --> 00:46:45,740 Shared your mind like this? 715 00:46:48,201 --> 00:46:49,118 Have you? 716 00:46:50,119 --> 00:46:52,038 With my other psychic friends all the time. 717 00:46:53,665 --> 00:46:54,999 I'm glad I'm here. 718 00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:56,376 Me too. 719 00:46:56,459 --> 00:46:58,044 Even after yesterday? 720 00:47:00,421 --> 00:47:01,798 Have you thought about it? 721 00:47:02,298 --> 00:47:03,716 What it all means? 722 00:47:04,926 --> 00:47:10,640 I was thinking when we blow up the bridge, we'll blow up Dr. Kay's lab. 723 00:47:11,516 --> 00:47:12,976 We'll end her experiment. 724 00:47:13,059 --> 00:47:14,477 Kay will simply make a new lab. 725 00:47:14,561 --> 00:47:15,645 So we kill her. 726 00:47:15,728 --> 00:47:18,523 She replaced Papa. Another will replace her. 727 00:47:18,606 --> 00:47:20,733 We can go away somewhere. We can hide from them. 728 00:47:20,817 --> 00:47:23,111 Oh, like somewhere with at least one waterfall? 729 00:47:24,779 --> 00:47:26,614 It's a fantasy, Jane. 730 00:47:26,698 --> 00:47:29,450 If you flee with Mike, maybe you're safe for a while. 731 00:47:29,534 --> 00:47:31,619 But when they find you, and they will, 732 00:47:31,703 --> 00:47:35,331 they will kill Mike, just as they killed my friends. 733 00:47:35,415 --> 00:47:37,667 Then they will take you, and with your blood, 734 00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:41,004 they will create more children, children who will suffer as we have. 735 00:47:41,087 --> 00:47:45,717 And with these children, they will open up more gates, more worlds. 736 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,010 Don't you see, Jane? 737 00:47:47,886 --> 00:47:49,178 It's a cycle. 738 00:47:49,762 --> 00:47:53,016 A terrible, vicious cycle. 739 00:47:54,017 --> 00:47:55,393 But we can stop it. 740 00:47:57,061 --> 00:47:58,062 Tonight. 741 00:48:06,571 --> 00:48:07,822 How? 742 00:48:08,406 --> 00:48:10,283 After we kill our brother, 743 00:48:10,366 --> 00:48:12,201 after the children are rescued, 744 00:48:12,285 --> 00:48:14,245 we don't leave with the others. 745 00:48:14,746 --> 00:48:15,872 We stay on the bridge. 746 00:48:15,955 --> 00:48:18,249 When the Upside Down vanishes… 747 00:48:21,544 --> 00:48:22,879 so will we. 748 00:48:24,923 --> 00:48:26,966 It is the only way, Jane. 749 00:48:27,634 --> 00:48:29,677 The only way. 750 00:48:33,848 --> 00:48:36,059 You ladies done meditating? 751 00:48:36,142 --> 00:48:39,228 'Cause Santa's sleigh is ready to fly! 752 00:49:05,922 --> 00:49:06,965 Mom? 753 00:49:08,841 --> 00:49:09,926 Um… 754 00:49:12,095 --> 00:49:17,141 Earlier today when you asked me what happened in Vecna's mind, 755 00:49:17,225 --> 00:49:19,477 I didn't tell you everything. 756 00:49:22,689 --> 00:49:24,732 When Vecna attacks, 757 00:49:24,816 --> 00:49:29,696 he weakens you by turning your own mind against you, 758 00:49:29,779 --> 00:49:33,533 by bringing out everything inside you that hurts. 759 00:49:34,325 --> 00:49:39,622 So I fought back by focusing on happy memories, 760 00:49:39,706 --> 00:49:42,709 memories from when I was a kid, 761 00:49:42,792 --> 00:49:44,585 and when I wasn't scared, 762 00:49:45,503 --> 00:49:47,255 and when I felt most happy. 763 00:49:48,423 --> 00:49:50,967 That's how I took control in the MAC-Z 764 00:49:51,050 --> 00:49:53,052 and how I killed those Demos. 765 00:49:53,636 --> 00:49:55,722 And I thought the same would work on Vecna too. 766 00:49:55,805 --> 00:49:57,473 But he found a way past. 767 00:50:00,268 --> 00:50:01,978 And he showed me things, Mom. 768 00:50:04,814 --> 00:50:07,567 He showed me the most awful things. 769 00:50:07,650 --> 00:50:09,027 No, listen. 770 00:50:09,110 --> 00:50:13,281 Whatever he showed you, it's not real. He plays tricks. He lies. 771 00:50:13,364 --> 00:50:15,450 No, he doesn't. 772 00:50:16,701 --> 00:50:18,161 What he showed me… 773 00:50:20,038 --> 00:50:21,789 it didn't come from him. 774 00:50:23,207 --> 00:50:24,542 It came from me. 775 00:50:26,335 --> 00:50:28,504 He sees everything, Mom. 776 00:50:29,130 --> 00:50:31,799 He sees my thoughts. 777 00:50:32,508 --> 00:50:34,260 He sees my memories. 778 00:50:35,011 --> 00:50:39,724 And he sees my secrets. 779 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:45,813 But Max, she told me he's also afraid, which proves I can beat him. 780 00:50:46,522 --> 00:50:49,275 But for me to do that, 781 00:50:50,777 --> 00:50:51,986 you need to know… 782 00:50:56,741 --> 00:50:59,118 I think you need to know the truth. 783 00:51:02,371 --> 00:51:03,706 Oh. Uh… 784 00:51:03,790 --> 00:51:05,792 Sorry. We just heard from Hop. 785 00:51:05,875 --> 00:51:08,628 He's 15 minutes out. So we should probably leave in five. 786 00:51:09,712 --> 00:51:11,089 Is everything okay? 787 00:51:11,172 --> 00:51:12,673 Yeah, we'll be out in a minute. 788 00:51:14,634 --> 00:51:15,635 Wait. 789 00:51:17,053 --> 00:51:18,805 I think you need to hear this too. 790 00:51:20,056 --> 00:51:21,349 Everyone does. 791 00:51:29,524 --> 00:51:30,441 I… 792 00:51:31,609 --> 00:51:35,947 I… I haven't told any of you this 793 00:51:36,739 --> 00:51:37,740 because… 794 00:51:39,408 --> 00:51:44,705 Because I… I don't… I don't want you to see me differently. 795 00:51:44,789 --> 00:51:46,582 But the truth is… 796 00:51:47,542 --> 00:51:51,337 The… The truth is I am. 797 00:51:51,420 --> 00:51:52,630 I am different. 798 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:54,715 I just… 799 00:51:55,466 --> 00:51:59,262 I just pretended like I wasn't because… because I didn't want to be. 800 00:51:59,846 --> 00:52:04,308 I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and… 801 00:52:05,393 --> 00:52:06,686 And I am like you. 802 00:52:07,228 --> 00:52:10,022 I'm like you in… in almost every way. 803 00:52:10,106 --> 00:52:12,358 We… We like playing D&D late into the night. 804 00:52:12,441 --> 00:52:14,902 And we like that old-person smell in Mike's basement. 805 00:52:14,986 --> 00:52:19,198 And we… we like biking to Melvald's for malted milkshakes. 806 00:52:19,282 --> 00:52:22,034 And we like getting lost in the woods, 807 00:52:22,118 --> 00:52:25,079 and getting lost in Family Video and arguing about what to rent 808 00:52:25,163 --> 00:52:27,874 and settling on Holy Grail for the millionth time. 809 00:52:27,957 --> 00:52:31,544 And… And we like Milk Duds in our popcorn with extra butter. 810 00:52:31,627 --> 00:52:34,881 And we like drinking Coke with Pop Rocks. 811 00:52:34,964 --> 00:52:37,842 And we like bike races and trading comics 812 00:52:37,925 --> 00:52:41,721 and NASA and Steve Martin and Lucky Charms and… 813 00:52:41,804 --> 00:52:43,306 Literally all the same things. 814 00:52:43,389 --> 00:52:47,602 I just… I just… I… I just… 815 00:52:47,685 --> 00:52:48,728 I… 816 00:52:50,688 --> 00:52:51,731 I… 817 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:53,482 I… 818 00:52:53,566 --> 00:52:55,401 I don't like girls. 819 00:53:08,623 --> 00:53:09,624 I mean… 820 00:53:10,499 --> 00:53:15,087 I mean I do. Just… Just not like you guys do. 821 00:53:15,671 --> 00:53:19,759 And I, uh, I had this… this crush on someone, 822 00:53:19,842 --> 00:53:22,929 even though I know… I know they're not like me. 823 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,558 But… But then I realized he's just my Tammy. 824 00:53:27,642 --> 00:53:30,478 And by Tammy, I mean it was never about him. 825 00:53:30,561 --> 00:53:32,104 It was… It was about me. 826 00:53:32,188 --> 00:53:35,233 And I thought I was finally okay with myself, 827 00:53:35,316 --> 00:53:37,610 but… but then today… 828 00:53:37,693 --> 00:53:40,821 Today Vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, 829 00:53:40,905 --> 00:53:43,783 if I told you guys the truth. 830 00:53:44,367 --> 00:53:47,495 He showed me a future, and in this future, 831 00:53:47,578 --> 00:53:51,082 some of you are just… are just worried for me. 832 00:53:51,165 --> 00:53:53,292 Worried that things will be harder for me. 833 00:53:53,376 --> 00:53:56,587 And it just makes me feel like something's wrong with me. 834 00:53:56,671 --> 00:53:58,214 So I… So I push you away. 835 00:53:58,297 --> 00:54:01,509 And for the rest of us, we just drift apart more 836 00:54:01,592 --> 00:54:05,304 and more and more and more and more until I'm alone. 837 00:54:05,388 --> 00:54:08,975 And I know none of that has happened, and Vecna can't see into the future. 838 00:54:09,058 --> 00:54:11,852 But he can see into our minds, and he knows things. 839 00:54:11,936 --> 00:54:16,524 And it just felt so real. It felt so real. 840 00:54:16,607 --> 00:54:17,733 Will. 841 00:54:17,817 --> 00:54:19,652 You gotta listen to me. 842 00:54:19,735 --> 00:54:22,113 That will never ever happen. 843 00:54:22,196 --> 00:54:24,240 You'll never lose me. 844 00:54:24,991 --> 00:54:25,866 Ever. 845 00:54:25,950 --> 00:54:28,619 Okay. Okay. 846 00:54:29,287 --> 00:54:30,871 And you'll never lose me. 847 00:54:37,336 --> 00:54:38,254 Or me. 848 00:54:39,380 --> 00:54:40,256 Or me. 849 00:54:41,257 --> 00:54:42,216 Or me. 850 00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:43,175 Or me. 851 00:54:43,843 --> 00:54:44,885 Or me. 852 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,571 Guess you didn't need truth serum, huh? 853 00:55:05,156 --> 00:55:08,326 Sorry. This sucks, but you're gonna have to hug me. 854 00:55:08,409 --> 00:55:10,661 Oh, Max. 855 00:55:14,373 --> 00:55:17,543 Just imagine I'm hugging you really tight, okay? 856 00:55:17,626 --> 00:55:18,711 Okay. 857 00:55:27,428 --> 00:55:28,596 El. 858 00:55:29,221 --> 00:55:31,557 I know you're strong enough to defeat Vecna. 859 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,226 But he can retreat to the physical world, 860 00:55:34,310 --> 00:55:37,313 and we need to be ready to fight him there too. 861 00:55:37,938 --> 00:55:41,942 We have bullets and fire, but none of that helped those soldiers. 862 00:55:44,528 --> 00:55:45,529 I need to be there. 863 00:55:48,115 --> 00:55:49,325 And I'm ready. 864 00:55:49,408 --> 00:55:52,745 I'm ready to show him I'm not afraid anymore. 865 00:56:09,053 --> 00:56:13,099 That's a confirmation. Anderson's on that patrol. 866 00:56:14,100 --> 00:56:18,354 Solid copy, Bravo One. Maintain overwatch. Over. 867 00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:27,613 Hey, McConnell. 868 00:56:27,696 --> 00:56:29,990 We got a delivery tonight I don't know about? 869 00:56:30,074 --> 00:56:31,534 That's a negative, private. 870 00:56:31,617 --> 00:56:33,619 The hell are you doing, buddy? 871 00:56:36,747 --> 00:56:38,707 Showtime, Snookums! 872 00:56:39,291 --> 00:56:40,334 Mellon. 873 00:56:45,089 --> 00:56:46,257 Oh, shit! 874 00:56:48,259 --> 00:56:49,260 Pardon me! 875 00:56:50,678 --> 00:56:51,846 First gate cleared. 876 00:56:51,929 --> 00:56:55,141 Two hostiles, towers, ten and eleven o'clock. 877 00:57:15,369 --> 00:57:17,163 Now comes the fun part. 878 00:57:47,067 --> 00:57:49,320 -Come on! Come on! -Come on! Come on! 879 00:57:50,488 --> 00:57:51,864 Go! Go! Drive! 880 00:58:07,213 --> 00:58:08,756 Whoo-hey! 881 00:58:09,673 --> 00:58:10,508 Yeah! 882 00:58:12,968 --> 00:58:14,720 Jesus Christ. 883 00:58:15,304 --> 00:58:17,765 Everybody all right? Everybody okay? 884 00:58:17,848 --> 00:58:19,975 -Yeah. -You all right? Everybody all right? 885 00:58:20,935 --> 00:58:22,895 Hey, nice shooting back there. 886 00:58:23,562 --> 00:58:24,396 You too. 887 00:58:26,732 --> 00:58:29,485 I kind of thought that that was supposed to be the easy part. 888 00:58:30,361 --> 00:58:31,403 It was. 889 00:58:32,071 --> 00:58:33,030 You ready? 890 00:58:35,157 --> 00:58:36,033 Ready. 891 00:59:51,108 --> 00:59:52,109 It's time.