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For this ep I’m skipping the whole 11 thing 11 explained what’s she sees and thinks she needs to find kali she try’s to and can’t find her with the photo. As she lays in bed she finds her. She goes to Becky and hears she’s calling someone else she’s takes off - after the skip el goes to visit hopper and sees the gang is in trouble she’s interrupted by police. 11 decides not to go with her sister because she knows her friends are in trouble. Terrible
We start off with will being rushed to the lab hospital and clames it hurts everywhere We go to the new duo Dustin and Steve they go to where dart is located in the basement.Steve goes down to find only darts skin and I huge hole dart dig out of. We see people break into Joyce’s house and takes pictures. Joyce snaps at the doctors in the room and ask why does nobody know what’s wrong with her boy. We go to Murray sending off recording and clips of the audios Nancy captures in the lab. Murray brakes down Nancy and jothean saying they are in love when they are in denial. He brings up there past trama and trust issues. We see them both leave there room and awkwardly walk away. They both come back to each others and make love. We see Eric’s playing with Lucas toy when she mocks Dustin about a code red. We see Dustin exoplanets everything with Lucas. We see hopper suiting up in a hazmat when’s he shows how big and out of control the gate is. Also shows him the tunnels Bob brings up getting through this and moving away. Will wakes up and doesn’t recognize bob Murray cooks the gang up some breakfast and delivers the funny line how was the pullout the sofa Lucas shows up to maxes house to take her to Dustin for proof. Billy ask who were you talking to she says talkative Mormons. Will doesn’t remover owns he struggles with Mike but doesn’t remember hopper. He ask what happened last night and says the soldiers hurt him and it upset him. He’s shows a picture of the mild flayer and said this is him? He nods yes. They do a exsprnt with the vine to see if he’s connected. He is. We will Dustin and Steve making a long trap on the railroads as they talk about the key to girls. Steve says act like you don’t care and wait till you feel it. Steve says ur too young to fall in love and follows up with the shampoo he uses and hair spray. He uses a women’s brand. We see hopper trying to talk to el but he doesn’t know she’s gone. We see hopper get really emotional talking about how he’s sorry and doesn’t want to hurt or lose her. We get shown pictures of wills brain and can see how infected he is. The men in the room say we having bigger problems and want to burn not worrying about killing will. Joyce freaks out and tries to walk rush the doctor. We see will have a Nasty vision and sees the shadow monster planing an attack. We see Steve and Dustin end up at the iconic junk yard to bring in dart. Lucas shows up with mad and Lucas’s tell Dustin he told everything to max. We seen Nancy and johtan show up at his house and see wills drawings. Johnathan finds a Polaroid photo in his room and says he doesn’t use Polaroid and knows someone has been in his house? Will shows a part of the tunnels that the shadow monster doesn’t want to see. We see everyone gearing up - setting up for their own missions. We see soldiers enter the tunnels being guided. We see the Dustin gang bunker down in a bus and prepaid for the night. Night comes as we see Lucas on the room with binoculars. Dustin goes off on max and says she should have went home. She goes to the room with Lucas and brakes down everything about her life and exsplanes Billy is always angry and takes it out on her. She clams she knows she can be mean like him and says she never wants to be like him as she apologizes to Lucas. Lucas says she’s nothing like her brother and they laugh and clam they like talking to each other as they’re disrupted by dart. Dart doesn’t take the bait as Steve goes outside to lure him in and tells Dustin to get ready. Dart walks up to Steve as we see another demo dog behind him we see all the demo dogs chase Steve to the bus as they try to brake in dust tries to call for back up as the demos climb the roof and are about to enter when they just run away. We see the soldiers continue on with there tunnel mission they find the x on the map and find bones skulls and human remains everywhere. Fog floods the tunnels as we hear something coming. Will apologizes and says they upsetting him max relises it’s a trap and tries to warn them. It’s to late the men are ripped to shreds. Will tells his mother you should go now as we see the demos climbing up the giant hole.
We pick up with Joyce trying to figure out the map. Will expanses what he feels and Mike suggests he’s like a spy knowing the next move. We see hopper single handily exploring the tunnels when’s he’s stunned by pours shooting toxins at him. He get knocked out as we see the hole above close We see Nancy an Jonathan book into a hotel. And talk about there past and how Steve and will got in the way. Will wakes up in terror and tells him mom he thinks hopper is going to die. Hopper wakes up and relises he lost. We see Dustin’s mom is looking for the cat Dustin fakes a phone call and sends him mom off. We see Dustin gearing up and acavenging for gear he makes a trap with bologna that leads to his basement. Dustin’s plan almost didn’t work so he rush’s out and pushed dart down and closes him off. We see 11 got a ride to see her mother. She’s rejected but forced her way in. Nancy and Jonathan arrive at this hanger looking spot and ask for entry. We see that it’s Murray! And he shows his history and timeline. Nancy tells him how much stuff he has wrong. Max goes to the arcade where she sees her favorite game is down. The owner says they have a machine in the back. He opens tbe door and inside is Lucas waiting. He wants to explains everything that happens in the past year. We go back to the Byers house and will draws where hopper is. They still dont know how to read the vines. When bob shows up. Joyce shooes off Bob but realize he can be useful. He takes a look at the drawing. Bob is concerns that Joyce and will don’t look good he’s asking what is this. He sees a heart shape drawing and knows in Lovers Lake. He figures out it’s a map of Hawkins. We go to hopper in the tunnels and he lights the vines on fire knowing is weakness. Dustin is claiming a code red and nobody is answers but Erica. We see 11 being told her mother is stuck in a dream and has a new home. El sees the lights turning on and off and relises it’s her mother is communicating through the lights she changes it to a blank broad cast to talk to el. We see the Byers house trying to brake down the tunnels to find hopper. Dustin goes to find his friends and is told they are not home. When he’s leaving we see Steve pull up with flowers for Nancy. Dustin takes them and tells him she’s not home. He ask Steve if he still has the legendary bat. He does and the legends duo is make. We see hoper cave crawling as he’s attacked by vines and pin him to the ground as we hear him scream in pain. We go back to Lucas finishing up everything with max she says she likes it and doesn’t believe it. Lucas snaps because she calls it stupid and thinks he’s lying. She walks out and talks loudly about 11 and Lucas covers her  mouth and demands her to stop talking. Billy shows up and sees Lucas in the doorway. We see Nancy showing the tapes to Murray. Murray walks away and makes alcohol. He drinks  vodka and plays music and nerve sepesent to calm and down and he can think. He claims he needs the people to believe him and clams nobody would believe him he claimes if someone with power calls bs everyone will call bs. He takes a sip and waters down his drink and relises and needs to water it down. They all catch on and agree they need to water down the story and make a plan. We see the science testing the dirt and see that the dirt reacts to fire. All the testing also reacts to only 1 being exposed to fire. El goes to see her mother in the dream world. We see what really happened to her mother. Terry loses her child and goes to get her back with a gun when she’s captured and has her Brian fried. We go to the car where we see Joyce and the groups find hopper. We see Joyce start stabbing the vines. She ask Bob for help to get down as she enters the tunnels looking for hop. Joyce finds the cigarette buds and we go back up to Mike and will to being surrounded by vans from the lab. We go back down to see hopper being strangled by the vines they cut him loose when they turn around to a man with a flamethrower. They start the burn and will brakes down screaming in shock and pain.
We start off with everyone running to will in the field having a terrible episode. Joyce presses will to describe what you say but he shuts it down till Joyce shows her own drawing. We see 11 come home and they ague were they both say hateful things hopper takes away the tv el attacks hopper by throwing a book and table at him before screaming and breaking windows. Nancy and Jothan go to speak to barbs parents Joyce takes wills temp and see that he’s actually colder We see Dustin build he’s bond with dart We see the kids continue looking for dart Will goes for a bath but the water is 2 hot Will clams he likes it cold. Hopper tells el to clean up the house. Nancy and Jothan and paranoid at the park thinks there being watched they decided to leave. There car doesn’t work when they are surrounded. Hopper ask will questions about what he feels and knows. He explains these memories like growing and spreading. Hopper gives a look and thinks about the pumpkins. Joyce suggests not useing words and draws. Will starts drawing like a mad man. Mike tells the gang what will told him and what he sees. We go to 11 and see her trying to fix the tv but she can’t she starts to clean the house when she finds a secret door under the floor she finds boxes one with the name Hawkins lab. Nancy and Jothan are in Hawkins lab when Sam tells them let’s go for a walk. He talks about the mistake that have been made when Nancy says they killed barb. Sam said all the men are gone who killed barb but shows them what really killed her. They show them the gate and he explains that can’t solve the mistake. He claims the Russian would use it against them. We go back to will drawing like crazy we don’t understand what they are Joyce sees that his drawing connect they put the drawing together but they don’t understand what it is. Joyce mentions how it’s like roots and it’s killing hopper relises he’s drawing vines. Max tells at max for not letting her in. He explained why they can’t tell her about max but she ask about 11. Billy sees Lucas talking to max and upsetting her. Billy explained why you should stay away from Lucas. Hopper arrived at the pumpkin patch to start digging. We go back to el looking through papers about Hawkins lab when she discovers a lady name terry ives and a girl named Jane. She sees a picture of her and papa and tries to find them with a radio. She finds terry and terry sees her in the dream world were she says Jain el realizing that’s her mother. We go to Mike looking for will at the Byers house. Joyce shoes him away but he says it’s the shadow monsters. We go to Nancy and Jonathan leaving the lab when Nancy pulls out a recorder of what Sam was saying. Johnan ask do you still want to do this and we see them leave town. We go to Dustin getting home and we see his mom looking for there cat. Dustin goes to darts cage and see that he escaped. He here a roawr from behind his chair and sees dart eating his cat. We go back to hopper digging he hits a sludge kind of thing and goes down we he sees tunnels on both sides.
We see Dustin showing of dart then hide him when he realized it could be evil 11 leaves the house and it spotted, and Will keeps having terrible episodes and his later swallowed 
We start off with 11 leaving the upside down from season 1 We see her go to mikes house where it is raided by the government. 11 wants to go trick or treating We see will in his ghost buster costume but his mom finds a drawing of the mind flayer. We see all the kids as ghost busters. We see Erica for the first time. We see a guy go into the upside down to do some repairs We see Nancy’s paranoia when she thinks she sees barb. She admits how guilty she feels. Lucas and Dustin ask max if she would like to go trick or treating with them. 11 hears a squirrel and has a flashback to when she would hunt for the to survive. She gets caught and knockes out the guy and takes his jacket. A truck full of dead pumpkins show up at the police station. Hopper is told anther pumpkin patch is ruined and blames another farmer. He is later told everyone’s crops are dead. We cut to max where we meet her brother Billy where we learn why they are here. Billy blames max and makes her say it out loud. Hopper goes to investigate all the rune fields he finds a tree that has the same texture as the gate from the upside down? He ask for it to track and Marko the distance. Bob shows Jonathan how to use a video recorder Jothan lets will trick or treating alone. We cut to the party where Billy is taken over in popularity We also see Nancy getting drunk Bob suggests moving out of Hawkins with Joyce We cut to the kids trick or treating and they are scared by max wearing a Michele myres mask. We go to jim when he remembers his plan with 11 that he failed to commit it. He then bribes a kid to get candy. We see another flash back where 11 finds the box of food hoooer stashed away for her. We see will filming trick or treating where Mike is not happy with max joining he’s then jump scared by kids calling him names where he falls into the upside down where he sees the mind flayer rise. He snaps out of it while max stands by and ask what’s wrong. Nancy keeps on drinking when Steve spills punch on her trying to stop her from drinking. Nancy said he’s bullshit and is pretending nothing is wrong and claims they killed barb she says there not really in love. Will explains what he feels and see. Mike says 11 would understand what will feels like. 11 goes to see Mike in the dream land where she is broken by the fact she can’t see him We end the episode with Dustin hearing something in his trash again this time it’s strong Dustin goes to capture it.
Ep starts with the kali dialog. We see the gang go to the arcade where they find Dustin’s high school has been beat by someone named “Madmax” Will falls into an episode seeing all of Hawkins in the upside down. We see Murray for the first time and he believe Russian little girl running around. We cut to Nancy working in a letter to college when a car pulls up. Inside is Billy and max. Will opens his locker to see he’s being bulled and called zombie boy We then go to Clark’s class where we meet max. We go to the store Joyce works at when we see and man walk in the man is bob. Hopper gets a called about a pumpkin patch that’s died and rotted away and the man is blaming another man of sabotage. Nancy gets an invite to a Halloween party. The kids stalk Max when she throws a paper in the trash. The note reads stop spying on my creeps. Will is picked up from school where we see the whole school staring at him showing how weird people are about him. We then see him get taken to the lab with hopper. We see many test done on him and connected to a mind monitor. A man walks in with the name Sam Owen’s. Will describe what he sees what he feels in the episodes he falls in to. He explains he feels an evil force that wants to kill everyone. Sam says it’s only gonna get worse before it gets better. Because of the anniversary of what happen to him a year before. Sam also tell Joyce all the men from last year are gone and asked for trust. We see Sam watch science burn the gate. Lucas and Dustin camp the arcade and watch max arrive to confirm it’s max. Steve and Nancy go to barb’s parents house where they discover the parents are selling there house to pay Murray to find out what happened to barb. Nancy feels guilty because she knows what actually happens to barb. We go to Mike having to throw out toys for a yard sale. He’s still broken over 11 and tried to contact her on a walky with a stamp. Dustin finds him on the channel again and tells him about max when she shuts off is walky. Dustin arrives home where he hears something in the trash can. Will is drawing zombie boy when Jothan ask why and who called you that. He buys in and calls will a freak but in a good way to be different. We cut to a man at the lab when everything goes haywire. No follow up We go to will where he has anther episode where we see a dark and red storm with an octopus figure hiding in the distance. We go to hopper as he arrives to a cabin walking over a trip wire and doing a special knock when all the locks open with no one on the other side. We takes off his stuff turns off the tv when he sees dinner not being eaten. We hear a girls voice we she walks on screen. We see 11 alive for the first time.
Joyce and Hopper are interrogated, but Hopper tells the people he knows everything and proves it and talks his way out of the interrogation . Nancy and Jonathan rig up Joyce’s house to bait and kill the demo Jothan crafts the iconic bat with nails Hopper tells brener he needs his word to reveal the location of 11. Hopper and Joyce suit up in hazmats and go in the upside down. Brener and his gang go to find the kids at the school. Hoppers flash back show his daughter battling cancer where she eventually dies. Jon and Nancy cut their hands to begin the bait. Steve later shows up and interrupts there plan Nancy even pulls a gun on him demanding him to leave. The lights flicker as the demo shows up mid argument. Then later disappears. Joyce finds castle buyers destroy. Hop sees a stuffed animal his daughter had on her last days. As steve is leaving the demo comes back and knocks Jothan to the ground Nancy shoots and run out ammo. Before attacking Nancy Steve hits it with his bat and gets it in the trap before lighting it on fire. They put it out and find nothing. but remains. Joice and holler and tell someone injured the demo and the Nancy gang sees they can follow and talk there the lights. Dustin finds putting. 11 and Mike have there first kiss when Brenerd gang show up. The kids get cornered when 11 kills them all by smashing their eyes. All the blood attracts the demo. As the demo enters the school we see Brener get attached and can issue is dead as the kids grab 11 and run. Joyce finds will with a slug in his mouth. Hopper removed it and starts to revive him. The kids carry 11 to a classroom. The demo finds the kids and Lucas shoots it with his wrist rocket landing a shot that sents it flying. The kids turn around and see 11 actually threw the monster before walking up and saying goodbye as she kills it sending herself to the upside down. Joyce and hopper keep trying to revive will but doesn’t looks good when he suddenly wakes up When it’s cold I’ll like to die first plays Will finely wakes up. The police show up so does mikes parents. We skip to will waking up in hospital back in stable condition and recover with his friends. They tell him everything about 11 and the bully peeing. We see Nancy leave the room destroyed cause she knows barb is gone. Hopper leaves aswell before getting in an all back vehicle filling his end of the promise. We see a month time skip when it is nowChristmas time and everything is back to normal. Kids are playing dnd and will wins this time. After Jothan picks him and but before leaving Steve and Nancy decide to give Jothan a gift. A new camera. We now go to hopper as he’s at a work party where we see him packing up some food calming he’s hungry as we see him stashing the food in a box in the woods as long with eggos in his jacket. We see the Byers celebration for Christmas we see will guessing his gifts and Joyce’s food. Will dismiss him self to wash his hands but he throws up a slug into the drain before having an episode where he’s in the upside down again. He snaps out of it and goes to eat as the camera pans away Ggs. 
Lucas warns the gang bad men are coming The kids lead the bad men in a chase where 11 flips and van and they escape. Bad men show up and raid mikes house. Brener ask mikes mom for help. Helis are deployed to find the kids where they hide at the iconic junk yard Bully’s mom shows and say they saw 11 and explained how she has powers. Steve brakes off from his friend groups Hopper with Nancy Joyner and johthan go and find wills walky talky to find the kids. Steve cleans the movie theater sign. The bad men arrive at the junk yard finding the kids bike under the bus there hiding in before hopper shows up and takes them all out. 11 tell the gang that she could contact will and barb in a bathtub. The kids call Scott and ask him how to make a sensory deprivation tank. The gang goes to the school to make a tank 11 goes under and finds a dead barb rip She also finds a cold and weak will alive. Hopper and joicy head to the lab to get will. Nancy and Jonathan plan to go help aswell They go back to the police station and get there loot back .
Nancy is in the upside down and sees the demo Steve finds Nancy with johnan Hopper explaining to Joyce what he say and mentions and drawing that said 11 on it Hopper thinks this whole time he’s chasing another kid (11) Nancy and John plan to slide The lady who kills Benny ask Clark for the kids names. The kids try to make up but Lucas doesn’t want to have 11 in there party and goes off alone. 11 goes to a store and steals multiple boxes of eggos. Hopper and Joyce go on a mission to see tary ives (11s mom) the shows plot get brought up Mk ultra. Nancy and Johnathan go shopping for monster hunting supplies. Steve spray paints the iconic “Nancy The Slut Wheeler” Nancy slaps Steve and causes him and Jonathan to fight getting Jonathan arrested. The bully’s find Mike and Dustin look for 11 Lucas is about to find the gate The bully’s tell Mike to jump or they will harm Dustin. Mike jumps but is caught by 11 later braking the bulls arm and causing them to run away. A flashback shows 11 finding a demo in her dream work touching it causing it to open the gate to there world. A man spots the kids return home and well as Lucas knows something is about to happen.
Lonni come back to help Joyce and Jothan but it only there to get money Hopper goes full deep into hawkin lab reaching the gate before getting put to sleep and making it look like a cover up. He raids his own house to find a microphone in side revealing his house is bugged. He has cracked the code that the government is corrupt. The kids go ask Mr Clark how to theoretically travel to the upside down. The state finds Barbs car and hopper knows it’s the government Dustin realizes his compass is not working properly after being told a gate can disrupt the earths magnetic pull.   Joyce finds out Lonny is only back for the money and kicks him out and it locked in to finding will Nancy’s red jacket fit with the iconic bat with no nails. El tried to keep the kids save by throwing off there compass but they see it ass sabotage. Hopper goes to tell Joyce she was right all along. Lucas and Mike fight about 11 sabotage and 11 throws Lucas and knocks him causing Mike to yell at her and run away. Nancy and Jonathan hear and find an injured deer. They decide to put it down but before it gets taken away by a demo. They follow the trail to a tree where Nancy finds the upside down and goes in.
Will confirm dead Joice is in denial 11 shows Mike will is still alive Joicy doesn’t believe the body Nancy sees the demo Pink dress 11 Man goes into the upside down and later gets killed Hopper is finding holes and thinking this could be a government coverup Nancy tapes a picture Johnathan took of her a sees a creature in the woods 11 makes bully piss himself Jothan and Nancy connect and review the monster had no face Hopper presses government guy Joyce sees will again in the upside down Hopper brakes in to the morg and checks Wills body and discover it’s a fake. Hopper goes back to lab
