Episode 1: MADMAX

  • Kali helps criminals escape
  • Will experiences an Upside Down vision at the arcade
  • Max arrives as new student from California
  • Murray suspects Eleven is a Russian experiment and confronts Hopper
  • Hopper investigates mysteriously rotting pumpkin fields
  • Owens explains Will’s visions as trauma
  • Mike continues radio attempts to reach missing Eleven
  • Eleven revealed alive, living secretly in Hopper’s cabin

Episode 2: Trick or Treat, Freak

  • Eleven wants to trick-or-treat but Hopper forbids it
  • Will continues experiencing traumatic visions of the Upside Down
  • Nancy feels guilty about Barb and fights with Steve
  • Max joins the boys for trick-or-treating
  • Will sees a massive shadow monster in a vision
  • Dustin finds a mysterious creature in his trash can
  • Eleven secretly watches Mike while hiding at the cabin

Episode 3: The Pollyanna

  • Dustin names the creature D’Artagnan and keeps it
  • Will keeps experiencing visions of the Upside Down
  • Dustin reveals Dart to the boys at school
  • Dart escapes into the school
  • Will confronts the shadow monster
  • Nancy and Jonathan plan to expose what happened to Barb
  • Eleven sees Mike with Max and trips Max
  • Hopper discovers pumpkin field rot is tied to the lab

Episode 4: Will the Wise

  • Will collapses after another terrifying vision on the field
  • Will describes a dark entity that “likes it cold” and fears heat
  • Will draws massive vine-like maps of the monster’s spread
  • Eleven meets her mother
  • Dustin finds Dart has grown and eaten his cat
  • Hopper discovers spreading vines underground connected to the Upside Down

Episode 5: Dig Dug

  • Will senses Hopper trapped in the Upside Down tunnels
  • Joyce, Bob, and Will use drawings to locate Hopper
  • Lucas tells Max the truth about last year’s events
  • Nancy and Jonathan take Barb’s story to Murray
  • Joyce and Bob rescue Hopper before soldiers burn the tunnels
  • Will screams in pain and convulses

Episode 6: The Spy

  • Will is hospitalized
  • Dustin recruits Steve and Lucas to hunt Dart
  • Will reveals the monster has a hive mind
  • Kids battle baby Demogorgons at junkyard; creatures suddenly leave
  • Will leads soldiers into a trap and Demodogs slaughter them

Episode 7: The Lost Sister

  • Eleven sees visions of another girl in her mother’s memories
  • Eleven finds Kali and joins her group
  • Kali teaches Eleven to use anger for power
  • Kali trains Eleven to use anger to increase power
  • Ray Carroll reveals Brenner is alive
  • Eleven leaves Kali to return home and help

Episode 8: The Mind Flayer

  • Demodogs breach the lab and attack government personnel
  • Joyce sedates Will to stop spying
  • Dustin confirms Dart has grown and is now dangerous
  • Billy forced by abusive father to find missing Max
  • Bob is killed by Demodogs while escaping
  • Group regroups at Hopper’s cabin to plan next move
  • Dustin identifies the enemy as a hive mind “Mind Flayer”
  • Will communicates “CLOSE GATE” via Morse code
  • Eleven returns and kills the demodogs

Episode 9: The Gate

  • Hopper explains hiding Eleven to protect everyone from danger
  • Group realizes closing the gate could also kill Will
  • Plan formed to force Mind Flayer out of Will
  • Billy attacks Steve before Max drugs and threatens him
  • Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy overheat Will to force the Mind Flayer out of Will
  • Kids burn tunnels to distract demodogs from Eleven
  • Eleven closes the gate, destroying the monster’s army
  • Hopper legally becomes Eleven’s father

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