Episode 1: The Vanishing of Will Byers

  • Will disappears after hiding in family shed
  • Joyce discovers Will missing the next morning
  • Hopper begins investigation into Will’s disappearance
  • Eleven escapes Hawkins Lab and reaches Benny’s diner
  • Search party forms to look for Will in woods

Episode 2: The Weirdo on Maple Street

  • Mike and friends shelter Eleven
  • Joyce receives a phone call she believes is from Will
  • Eleven hints Will is alive but hiding from danger
  • Barb is attacked near Steve’s pool
  • Joyce experiences supernatural events at home

Episode 3: Holly, Jolly

  • Barb is attacked and dragged back into pool in Upside Down
  • Joyce communicates with Will through the Christmas lights
  • Steve tears Jonathan’s photos and destroys his camera
  • Nancy realizes Barb is missing
  • A body believed to be Will is discovered at the quarry

Episode 4: The Body

  • Joyce insists the body isn’t Will’s and has heard him
  • Mike hears Will singing through the radio
  • Will communicates with Joyce from Upside Down
  • Hopper discovers state troopers staged the body recovery
  • Nancy and Jonathan develop photos which show the Demogorgon

Episode 5: The Flea and the Acrobat

  • Hopper infiltrates the lab searching for answers
  • Kids posit Will is trapped in the “Upside Down”
  • Dustin discovers compasses point toward the dimensional gate
  • Eleven misleads the trio; Mike and Lucas fight; Eleven disappears
  • Nancy and Jonathan encounter the Demogorgon in the woods

Episode 6: The Monster

  • Jonathan rescues Nancy from the Upside Down
  • Nancy and Jonathan plan to hunt the monster
  • Steve sees Nancy and Jonathan in her bedroom
  • Hopper and Joyce investigate Terry Ives’ claims
  • Steve’s friends humiliate Nancy publicly with graffiti
  • Jonathan and Steve fight and Jonathan is arrested by police
  • Eleven saves Mike from bullies

Episode 7: The Bathtub

  • The trio escapes agents in a bike chase with Eleven’s help
  • Eleven attempts psychic search for Will and Barb
  • Eleven confirms Barbara is dead and locates Will at Castle Byers
  • Hopper and Joyce go to the lab to save Will
  • Nancy and Jonathan gear up to kill the Demogorgon

Episode 8: The Upside Down

  • Nancy, Jonathan, Steve trap and injure the Demogorgon
  • Demogorgon attacks at the school
  • Eleven destroys the Demogorgon
  • Hopper and Joyce rescue Will
  • Will coughs up an Upside Down slug

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