Stranger Things (2016) s03e05 Episode Script
Chapter Five: The Flayed
[SCREAMING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[SCREAMING.]
Shit! Shit! We're going down! We're going down! Yeah, no shit, Harrington! - Why don't these buttons work?! - [STEVE SCREAMS.]
[ERICA.]
Press the button! What do you think I'm doing?! Come on, press something! Just press the button! - [SCREAMS.]
- [ERICA.]
Push it! - [CRASHING.]
- [ALL GRUNTING.]
- [STEVE.]
Oh! - [ROBIN WINCES.]
[STEVE.]
My groin.
It fell on my groin.
Dustin! [STRAINS.]
- [ROBIN SIGHS.]
- Get this off of me! [STEVE.]
I can't move.
[GRUNTS.]
Is everyone okay? Yeah, I'm great, now that I know that Russians can't design elevators! I think we've clearly established that those buttons don't work.
They're buttons.
They have to do something.
Yeah, if we had a keycard.
- A what? - It's an electronic lock.
Same as the loading dock door.
If we don't have a keycard, - it won't operate, meaning - We're stuck in here.
Yeah.
Just so you nerds are aware, I'm supposed to be spending the night at Tina's, and Tina always covers for me.
But if I'm not home for Uncle Jack's party tomorrow and my mom finds out you three are responsible, she's gonna hunt you down, one by one, and slit your throat.
I don't care about Tina! Or Uncle Jack's party! Your mom's not gonna be able to find us if we're dead in a Russian elevator! [DUSTIN.]
Hey.
What if we climbed out? [DUSTIN'S GRUNTS ECHO.]
[STEVE EXHALES SHARPLY.]
What were you saying about climbing? [STEVE'S VOICE ECHOES.]
Looks like somebody's home.
[DOOR HINGE CREAKING.]
[LOW FREQUENCY PULSING.]
Did you hear that? [PULSING CONTINUES.]
[HOPPER PANTING.]
[FLOORBOARDS CREAKING.]
[PULSING CONTINUES.]
[HOPPER GASPS.]
[HOPPER EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Where's that coming from? [PULSING INTENSIFIES.]
[WHISPERS.]
It's below us.
[HOPPER GRUNTS.]
[PULSING CONTINUES LOUDLY.]
[BOTH BREATHING RAPIDLY.]
[SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DISTANT CLANKING.]
[FAINT MALE VOICE.]
[DISTANT RATCHETING NOISE.]
[MEN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN.]
Hey, dipshits! [METALLIC TOOL CLATTERS.]
Hawkins PD.
Hands in the air.
Don't make me say it again! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
English.
[HOPPER.]
You speak English? [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
I can't understand you! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
I can't understand you.
- [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
- No understand! - [THUDDING FOOTSTEPS.]
- Hopper! [THUDDING CONTINUES.]
[MUFFLED GROANING.]
[MUFFLED YELLING.]
[MUFFLED YELLING.]
[MUFFLED YELLING.]
[HOPPER.]
Don't move! Drop the gun.
Drop it! You understand what I'm saying, big guy? Drop the weapon.
[IN RUSSIAN ACCENT.]
Or what? You going to shoot? Good.
[HOPPER.]
So you do understand what I'm saying, huh? And, yeah, you don't put that thing away, I'm gonna blow some daylight into that thick skull of yours.
No.
You won't do that.
Why's that? Because you are policeman.
Policemen have rules.
Oh, yeah? [GUN CLICKS.]
Wanna test that theory? I'm gonna count to three.
One, two, three! [HOPPER GRUNTS.]
[YELLING.]
[FIGHTING GRUNTS.]
[BULLETS RICOCHETING.]
[JOYCE SCREAMS, GRUNTS.]
[HOPPER YELLS.]
[FIGHTING GRUNTS.]
[GROANS, COUGHS.]
[GRIGORI WAILS IN PAIN.]
[BOTH PANTING.]
[JOYCE.]
Hopper! - Oh, shit.
- [GRIGORI GRUNTS.]
[HOPPER.]
Go! [GUNFIRE.]
[GRUNTS.]
[HOPPER.]
Move, Joyce! - [JOYCE.]
Oh, God.
- [HOPPER.]
Come on, Smirnoff.
You're coming with us! - [HOPPER.]
Go, go, go! - [COCKS ASSAULT RIFLE.]
[JOYCE SCREAMS.]
[YELLS.]
[HOPPER.]
Let's go! Let's go! Move it, Smirnoff! Move it! Run! [GRUNTING.]
Joyce! Drive! [KEYS CLATTER.]
- Come on, Joyce! Quit screwin' around! - Are you kidding me? [STRAINING.]
- Shit! - [HOPPER.]
Go! Joyce, drive.
- I'm trying! - Joyce, please, drive! Drive! [YELLING.]
[HOPPER.]
Get us outta here! [ENGINE ROARS.]
[JOYCE SCREAMS.]
[SCREAMS.]
[BOTH SCREAM.]
[HOPPER.]
Oh, God! [JOYCE.]
Hang on! [GRUNTING.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
[PANTING.]
Still think it was our government? [PANTING.]
[DRAMATIC SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
God, shut up! [RINGING CONTINUES.]
[GROANS.]
- Hello? - Jonathan.
Do you realize what time it is? Listen to me, okay? It's 6:00 a.
m.
and, uh, I had a late night with Fagin and the gang, so - I'm at the hospital with Driscoll.
- What? She's been sedated for a few hours and the doctors are still running tests.
Nancy, please tell me you're joking.
It's not a joke.
And, yes, I know I'm insane and irrational and out of touch, but can you save your lecture, because I really don't give a shit right now.
I just I need you to put me on the phone with your brother.
- What? - Jonathan Please.
Uh He's not even here.
Where is he? Is he safe? Why wouldn't he be safe? Nancy? Why wouldn't he be safe? [STEAM HISSING.]
[HOPPER.]
Son of a bitch.
Son of a bitch! [HOPPER COUGHS.]
Okay, a magnet? Magnets? - Do you know "magnet"? Magnet? - [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Magnit.
Yes, magnit.
Okay, so, uh, magnit on my my fridge, my icebox, and then they they fell.
They demagnetized, stopped working.
Uh, do you understand? Da.
Okay, so is that because of the machines that you're working on? - Machina.
- Machina, machina, yes.
[IMITATES REVVING ENGINE.]
Da, da, machina.
- Machina, machina! - Yes, machina Vroom, vroom.
Oh, not not the car.
The machines at Hess Farm where - where we kidnapped you - Joyce, please! You're givin' me a headache, both of you! Hold on, please.
One minute.
[JOYCE.]
Hey.
I am making progress.
- Progress.
- Yeah.
What have you learned, huh? You learned that Smirnoff over there - [JOYCE.]
Alexei.
- Smirnoff is Russian and works for Starcourt, two things we already knew.
Thought we knew.
But now we know-know, because I've confirmed them.
You're welcome.
Yeah? Why don't you confirm whether this baby'll start, huh? - [HOPPER.]
Keep it in park, please.
- Yeah, duh! You do do something useful.
- You do something useful.
- [SIGHS.]
- [JOYCE SCOFFS.]
- [GROANS.]
[ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
[SIGHS.]
It's not working.
Try it again.
[ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
Shit.
[ENGINE SPUTTERS.]
- [ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
- Hey.
Hey.
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Stop, stop! Shut up, Smirnoff! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN RAPIDLY.]
Aw, come on! D'you hear me? I said shut your damn [HIGH-PITCHED SQUEALING.]
Shit! Oh, Jesus.
[JOYCE GASPS.]
[HOPPER.]
Whoa! [GASPS.]
Stop.
[JOYCE.]
I thought this friend of yours lived in Illinois.
He's not really a friend.
He's more like an acquaintance.
Oh? Okay, well Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Keep up, keep up, keep up.
- Easy.
- [INSECTS BUZZING.]
Okay, so this acquaintance - lives in Illinois? Correct? - [HOPPER.]
Yeah, yeah.
[JOYCE.]
So we're walking to Illinois? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna walk to Illinois.
You know, I figure we'll get there by, like, Friday evening.
I hope that works for your schedule.
Jesus Christ, Joyce.
- We're not walking to Illinois, okay? - Well, then what are we doing? I don't know, okay? I will I will figure something out.
Isn't there someone in Indiana who speaks Russian that You know what? I'm all ears, Joyce.
I'm all ears.
I'm all ears! [JOYCE.]
I mean, fine.
Just saying.
Gah! Ugh! Gah! [SIGHS.]
[HOPPER.]
Damn it.
I found him.
[MAX.]
Where is he? Woods.
- [TV STATIC HISSING.]
- Woods? He's with Will's mom.
My My mom? What are they doing? Ill annoy.
They're going to Ill-annoy.
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- [KAREN.]
Mike! Breakfast! Not now, Mom! Illinois? Illinois, like the state? The state of Illinois? [STAMMERS.]
Ill-annoy.
[TAP STOPS.]
[MAX.]
Does it still hurt? Only when I talk.
Well, it's a good thing you're not Mike, then.
"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
" And you'd be in constant pain.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
[MIKE.]
Something's not right.
I can't get Hopper off my back all summer, now all of a sudden, he's hiking with Will's mom to Illinois? And Dustin's MIA, too? I mean, this can't be a coincidence.
What does it matter? The bottom line is, they're not here.
- It's up to us.
- Up to us to do what exactly? Find Billy and stop him.
Okay, yeah, that's a really nice sentiment, but even if El could find him again, and that's a pretty big if, then what? We burn the shit out of him and make sure he doesn't escape this time.
- Okay, then what? - Then we win.
No, see, that's the problem.
We don't.
We don't win.
We got the Mind Flayer out of Will before and he just came right back.
We don't just have to stop Billy, we have to stop the Mind Flayer.
- How in the hell do we do that? - I don't know.
Maybe El does.
What are they still doing in there? I don't know.
Girls just like hanging out in bathrooms.
Why? - I mean, I don't know.
- They're conspiring against me.
That's what you're concerned about now? It's not my main concern.
- It's just a sub-concern.
- I thought it was already over.
It's not over, okay? We're just taking a break.
She said she dumped your ass.
- That doesn't sound like a break.
- [MAX.]
It wasn't! You guys do realize we can still hear everything you're saying, right? [LAUGHS.]
[WHISPERS.]
Conspiring.
- I told you, they're conspiring.
- [KNOCK AT DOOR.]
Not now, Mom! [NANCY.]
Mike, open the door.
[DUSTIN.]
Code red, I repeat, code red.
Does anyone copy? This is a code red, I repeat, a code red.
This is a code red, I repeat, a code red.
Does anyone copy? We are innocent children and we are trapped under Starcourt Mall.
The Red Army has infiltrated Hawkins, and if we are found, they will torture and kill us.
[STEVE.]
Hey.
[GRUNTS.]
Gotta take it easy on that thing.
Gonna drain the battery.
- The mall just opened.
- So? So someone could be in range.
What do you think, Petey the Mall Cop is gonna rappel down here and save the day? All right, why are you such a cranky pants after getting to spend the night with Robin? Shh! Jesus Christ.
Will you just give up on your creepy dream already? I heard you guys talking all night.
We were trying to figure out a way to open up the door while you children were sleeping.
After eight hours, we're still exactly nowhere, which is, you know, probably just a little bit of the reason why I'm feeling just - a tad cranky.
- [UNZIPPING SOUND.]
What are you doing? What does it look like I'm doing? I'm taking a leak.
Look away.
Look away! [STEVE'S VOICE ECHOES.]
[SCOFFS.]
Can you redirect your stream, please? [ROBIN'S VOICE ECHOES.]
Ugh.
Hey, hey! Be careful, careful, careful! We don't even know what that is.
Exactly.
It could be useful.
Useful how? We can survive down here a long time without food, but if the human body doesn't get water, it will die.
I hate to break it to you, but this is not water.
No, but it's a liquid, and if it comes down to me drinking that shit or dying of thirst, I drink.
[SCOFFS.]
[DISTANT ELECTRONIC WHIRRING.]
We've got company.
[SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[BEEPING.]
[ELEVATOR DOOR THUDS.]
[INDISTINCT FEMALE VOICE ON PA.]
[SNIFFING.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
You smell that? [IN RUSSIAN.]
What? Piss.
[SNIFFING.]
[ELEVATOR DOOR WHIRRING.]
[STEVE GRUNTS.]
Let's go.
- Go.
Go, go, go, go, go.
- [ERICA.]
I'm going! - Henderson.
Go, go.
- [VIAL BUCKLES.]
[ROBIN.]
Come on, Steve, let's go! [SIZZLING.]
- Jesus Christ.
- [ERICA.]
Ooh! You still wanna drink that? Holy mother of God.
Well hope you guys are in good shape.
Looking at you, roast beef.
Let's go, come on.
Why me? It was the same thing, the exact same thing that happened to Will last year.
And look at this.
Look at the body temperatures.
He likes it cold.
Okay, so this crazy old woman who was eating fertilizer - Mrs.
Driscoll.
- Right, yeah, Mrs.
Driscoll.
- What time was this attack? - Last night.
Right, but what time last night? - Around 9:00.
- You waited all night to call? I was waiting for the doctors to run some tests.
You weren't there? Well, I'm here now, aren't I? Hallelujah! Ooh.
Um, so, wha what time was your sauna test? [IN UNISON.]
Around 9:00.
Well, that proves it.
That proves my theory.
She's flayed, just like Billy.
- Flayed? - The Mind Flayer.
He flays people.
Takes over their mind.
Once they do that, they basically become him.
- If there are two flayed - We have to assume there are more.
Heather.
Billy was doing something to her.
[HEATHER WHIMPERS ECHO.]
She was scared.
She was screaming.
- [SCREAMS.]
- Bad screams.
- What's a good scream? - Max said - Doesn't matter.
- I'm sorry, I'm lost.
Who is Heather? - She's a lifeguard at the pool.
- Heather Holloway? [BOTH.]
Tom.
[CAR DOORS SHUT.]
Seriously? Welcome to my world.
[MIKE SCOFFS.]
Seat belts.
[INTENSE SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[INSECTS BUZZING.]
- Oh, my God.
Can you not walk so close? - What? Can you not walk so close to me? You stink.
[HOPPER LAUGHS.]
I get it, I get it.
You're upset, right? 'Cause I, uh I blew up the car? Yeah, with me in it.
Well, I just want to remind you of something, Joyce.
- I am not a mechanic.
- Yeah, clearly.
That's why you should've listened to Alexei.
Oh, right, yeah.
Your new boyfriend, right? Yes.
Every man I talk to from now on has to be my boyfriend.
Yeah, he reminds me a bit of a Russian Scott Clarke.
Oh, here we go.
Maybe you should go on a date.
I don't know, I'm thinking, like, Enzo's? - Whoa.
- What? He's running.
[ALEXEI WHIMPERS, GRUNTS.]
You son of a bitch! - [ALEXEI MUTTERS IN RUSSIAN.]
- [HOPPER.]
Hey! Smirnoff! Get back here! - [ALEXEI CHUCKLES.]
- Hey! C'mere! [GRUNTING.]
[HOPPER.]
Hey, c'mere! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
[ALL PANTING.]
- [BELL CHIMES.]
- [LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DOOR BELL JINGLES.]
[GRUNTS.]
[MAN.]
You all gonna pay for those? [BURPS.]
[REGISTER BEEPING.]
So, what are you, some kinda bounty hunter? I'm a cop.
I'm undercover.
[HEAVY METAL PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
Oh, hey, Karen, it's Joyce.
Yeah, I I'm just checking on Will.
At the movies? Just keep your mouth shut, all right? [SLURPING LOUDLY.]
All right, all right, hop in.
Come on, get in.
- Hey! - Hey! You "hey"! You "hey"! This is a police emergency, all right? I need to commandeer your vehicle.
What? As long as there's a a [HOPPER.]
What is your name, sir? - Todd.
- Todd? - Yeah.
- Todd.
- Todd.
- Todd listen to me.
That man in there, I know he doesn't look it, but he is one of the most dangerous men in the world.
He's, uh - murdered many children.
- What? Yeah, he's a true psychopath.
I tracked him over two state lines.
[JOYCE.]
Hey, what's going on? Ah, Detective Byers.
Uh this is Todd.
He's agreed to lend us his vehicle to transport our dangerous criminal.
Oh, yes, he very dangerous, uh, forger er.
Yeah.
Uh, child murderer.
- Child murderer? - We should really get going.
Hey, how do I get my car back? - You just call the station.
- What station? - [HEAVY METAL RESUMES.]
- Ooh, I like the sound of that, Todd! Hey, what station? You're doing the right thing! [TIRES SQUEALING.]
Hey, what the Hey! Dude! [DUSTIN.]
I mean, you have to admit, as a feat of engineering alone, this is impressive.
What are you talking about? It's a total fire hazard.
There's no stairs, there's no exit, there's just an elevator that drops you halfway to hell.
They're Commies.
You don't pay people, they cut corners.
To be fair to our Russian comrades, I don't think this tunnel was designed for walking.
Think about it, they developed the perfect system for transporting that cargo.
It all comes into the mall like any old delivery.
And then they load it up onto those trucks and nobody's the wiser.
[STEVE.]
You think they built this whole mall so they could transport that green poison? I very seriously doubt it's something as boring as poison.
It's gotta be much more valuable, like promethium or something.
What the hell is promethium? It's what Victor Stone's dad used to make Cyborg's bionic and cybernetic components.
You're all so nerdy, it makes me physically ill.
No, no, no.
No, don't lump me in with them.
I'm not a nerd, all right? [ROBIN.]
Why so sensitive, Harrington? Afraid of losing cool points to a ten-year-old child? No, I'm just saying I don't know jack shit about Prometheus.
[DUSTIN.]
Promethium.
Prometheus is a Greek mythological figure, but whatever.
All I'm saying is, it's probably being used to make something.
Or power something.
- Like a nuclear weapon? - Totally.
Walking towards a nuclear weapon.
That's great.
- That'd be great.
- But if they're building something, why here? I mean, Hawkins.
Seriously.
Of all places.
At the very best, we're a toilet stop on your way to Disneyland, but maybe that's it.
Maybe it's our very - You think the Russians know? - About - They could.
- So it's connected? - Maybe.
- How? I don't know, but it's [BOTH.]
Possible.
I'm sorry, is there something you'd like to share with the class? - [STATIC HISSING.]
- [MAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN ON RADIO.]
[BOTH.]
Walkie.
[MAN CONTINUES IN RUSSIAN.]
[MAN CONTINUES IN RUSSIAN.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
"A trip to China sounds nice.
" If you tread lightly.
" It's the code.
- Wherever that broadcast is coming from - It's close.
And if there's one thing we know about that signal It can reach the surface.
Let's go.
[DOORBELL CHIMES.]
[DOORBELL CHIMES.]
[LOW FREQUENCY VIBRATION.]
Tom? Heather? Jesus, it's freezing.
[SNIFFS.]
Do you guys smell that? [ALL SNIFFING.]
Oh.
Oh, God.
More chemicals.
You think they're guzzling this shit? Yeah, either that or they just went on a hell of a cleaning spree.
But last year, Will didn't eat chemicals.
- Did you? - No.
This is something new.
Mr.
Clarke, fifth grade.
Posit.
What happens when you mix chemicals together? [LUCAS AND WILL.]
You create a new substance.
- What if they're making something? - [MAX.]
In themselves? I mean, come on, if you drink this crap, it'll kill you.
Yeah, if you're human.
[DISTANT, FAINT PULSING.]
[NANCY.]
Blood.
Yesterday, Tom had a bandage on his forehead.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING.]
He was attacked.
Call 91 [GRUNTS.]
[THUNDERCLAP.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[DOOR HINGE CREAKS.]
They must have tied them.
They must have taken them somewhere.
[THUNDERCLAP.]
Mrs.
Driscoll.
She kept saying "I have to go back.
" [SHRIEKS.]
What if the flaying, it's taking place somewhere else? There must be a place where all this started, right? A source.
Somewhere he didn't want me to see.
[FAINT SHRIEKING NOISE.]
If we can find the source, then maybe we can stop him.
Or at least stop it from spreading or doing whatever the hell he's doing with those chemicals.
How do we find it? Mrs.
Driscoll.
If she wants to go back so badly, why don't we let her? [TODD.]
this guy comes up to me, I'm just pumping gas over here, and he Hey, whoa! Don't cross me right now! - [BELL JINGLES.]
- [LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING.]
[CASH REGISTER BEEPING.]
Busy day? You could say that.
Some psycho stole that dude's car.
What else? - What? - What else did he say? This psycho? No offense, but I already went over all this with the cops.
I'm not a cop.
Yeah, no shit, Khrushchev.
[GRUNTS.]
Oh, shit! [WHIMPERS.]
[GRIGORI.]
Don't look at them.
At me.
Tell me about this psycho.
[PANTING.]
Come on, let's go.
Move it.
[DOORS SLAM.]
I thought you said this guy was a journalist.
Yeah, he, uh he was.
Was? [BUZZER SOUNDS.]
[MURRAY.]
Look at the camera.
The camera, above you to the right.
Identify yourselves.
Jim Hopper, Joyce Byers, Smirnoff.
- Alexei.
- Alexei.
[MURRAY.]
Surname.
I don't know.
Family name! Yeah, I know.
I told I don't know, okay? Open the damn door! [JOYCE.]
Hopper.
It's all right.
Don't worry.
He's a little bit eccentric, but he's completely harmless.
- [SHOTGUN COCKS.]
- [JOYCE GASPS.]
Name.
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Get that out of my face, you bald American pig.
[IN RUSSIAN.]
I may be bald, but you're the one in handcuffs, Soviet scum.
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYING.]
Wait.
[DEVICE BEEPS AND WHINES.]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
[DEVICE WHIRS.]
[DEVICE BEEPS.]
[LOUD BEEPING.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Watch it.
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Silence, scum.
- How long is this gonna take, because I - No.
- No.
- No.
- No, you do not get to question me.
- [DEVICE BEEPS.]
You have dragged an enemy of the state into my home as carelessly as a child drags in shit on his shoe.
I will search him until I am satisfied.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Jim.
C'mere.
[JOYCE.]
Just c'mere.
I need to talk to you.
[HOPPER.]
Yeah, what? - What? - This is not gonna work.
- What do you mean? - He's not eccentric, he's certifiable.
[LOUD BEEPING.]
- Glass houses, Joyce.
- What? - You know, pot calling the kettle black.
- Oh, come on.
- Excuse me! - What? Do me a favor and move your lovers' quarrel elsewhere.
- Oh, oh, this? - No, no, no.
Not a lovers' quarrel, pal.
Spare me! What is your problem? Please, stop talking! No! We have had a very long day.
We have been shot at, nearly blown up, walked God knows how many miles in a hundred degree heat, stole a car, all while being chased by this gigantic psychopath, all so we could bring him to you.
Because somehow, you're the closest person who speaks Russian, which I can't believe.
But that doesn't matter because, unfortunately, we're here.
So, if you don't mind, put that thing away, stop behaving like a jackass, and ask him what he's doing that's making my magnets fall off my damn fridge! Please.
[DEVICE WHINES.]
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY.]
[INDISTINCT MALE VOICE ON PA.]
Okay, clear.
Clear, come on, let's go.
[ROBIN.]
Okay, that was close.
- [DUSTIN.]
Too close.
- Relax.
All right? Relax.
Nobody saw [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING.]
[FEMALE VOICE SPEAKING RUSSIAN ON PA.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[STEVE.]
Shit.
Jesus! - Red Dawn.
- I saw it.
- First floor, northwest.
- Saw what? The comms room.
You saw the comms room? Correct.
- Are you sure? - Positive.
The door was open for a second, and I saw a bunch of lights and machines and shit in there.
That could be a hundred different things.
I'll take those odds.
[SIGHS.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[STEVE WHISPERS.]
All right.
We're gonna move fast, we're gonna stay low.
- Okay? - Okay.
[WOMAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
[MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Shh! Move it.
[DOOR PANEL BEEPS.]
Let's go.
Sh, sh.
Come on.
[FEMALE VOICE SPEAKING RUSSIAN ON RADIO.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Tread lightly! Tread lightly! [IN RUSSIAN.]
Who are you? Silver cat Silver cat.
I don't understand.
- China? - [MAN SCOFFS.]
[YELLS.]
- [MAN GRUNTS.]
- [STEVE GROANS.]
[STEVE GRUNTS.]
- [MAN YELLS.]
- [STEVE GRUNTS.]
[MAN GROANS.]
[PANTING.]
[DUSTIN.]
Dude! You did it! You won a fight! [STEVE.]
Jeez [LAUGHS SOFTLY.]
[STEVE CHUCKLES.]
- What are you doing? - Getting us our ticket out of here.
You want to walk all the way back? Well, we can hang out for a little bit, relax, have a picnic maybe.
Have a picnic? We came here for the radio.
[DUSTIN.]
This plan is way better.
If I knew Steve could knock out a Russian, that would've been our plan in the first place.
[LOW FREQUENCY PULSING.]
[MEN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
- but I guess you're - Guys.
There's something up there.
[STEVE.]
Let's go.
[MEN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Holy shit.
[LOW FREQUENCY PULSING CONTINUES.]
[BREATHING MASKS HISSING.]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
[LOUD THRUMMING.]
[CRACKING NOISE.]
[LOUD SHRIEKING SOUND.]
[WOMAN.]
No, that is not mean.
That is honest.
She won't find out.
See, you're the only one who gon' tell Whoa, whoa, whoa! Excuse me! Where do you think you're going? Oh, um I was just going to visit my grandma again.
And And this this is my family.
- Extended.
- I don't care who they are.
You know the rules.
Two visitors at a time.
- Yeah, but - Two! Girl, this child has lost her mind.
She brought a whole zoo in here.
[ELEVATOR DINGS.]
[LIGHT MUZAK PLAYING.]
You know, those things that I said yesterday, I I didn't mean them.
- I know.
- I don't think you're like those assholes.
At all.
I never have.
I - I was just - Angry? Which I still don't get.
I mean, I was just completely, utterly, mortifyingly wrong.
Don't let that go to your head.
I won't.
I just look forward to you never doubting me again.
[ELEVATOR DINGS.]
[VENDING MACHINE WHIRRING.]
Oh, come on, you piece of shit! [LOW FREQUENCY VIBRATION.]
Thanks.
Dude, I think that was it.
That was what? The olive branch.
The what? Oh, my God.
You're hopeless.
Okay, [WHISPERS.]
I'll distract Max, get you an opening.
And then talk to her.
All right? [CANDY WRAPPERS CRINKLING.]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN.]
Where is she? I don't know.
- Are you sure this is the right room? - Yeah.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES.]
[TOM.]
She's gone home.
We were hoping you might come back.
Whose blood is that? Tom, whatever you've done, it's not you.
He's making you do this.
[JONATHAN GRUNTS.]
Go! [NANCY GASPS.]
Owie.
Go, go, go! [BOTH PANTING.]
- [STAIRWELL DOOR SHUTS.]
- Run! Yeah! [LAUGHS.]
- [MAX.]
Got it, two in a row.
- [LUCAS.]
That was good, that was good.
[MAX AND LUCAS CHEERING.]
[LUCAS SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
- [MAX.]
Best three in a row now.
- Hey.
Hi.
Does your species like M&M's? [GENTLE SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
I like the new look, by the way.
It's cool.
Thanks.
[BOTH PANTING.]
[JONATHAN.]
Run! [JONATHAN.]
This way, this way! [BOTH PANTING.]
Nancy! - [INTERCOM BUZZER SOUNDS.]
- Hello? Hello?! Here.
[BOTH PANTING.]
It's ringing.
I don't care how good her pie is.
No, I don't want her in my damn house.
Come on, pick up! Nancy? [NANCY GASPS.]
- Hi there.
- [GLASS SHATTERING.]
[RINGING TONE.]
[NANCY GASPS.]
I'm here for you, Nancy Drew.
[NANCY WHIMPERS.]
[JONATHAN GRUNTS, GROANS.]
- No! [GRUNTS.]
- [GLASS SHATTERS.]
[JONATHAN CHOKING.]
[JONATHAN GRUNTS, GROANS.]
[BRUCE SNARLS.]
Jonathan! [NANCY YELPS.]
[PANTING.]
- [BREATHING RAPIDLY.]
- [GASPS.]
- [NANCY YELLS.]
- [BRUCE GROANS.]
[BRUCE GROANS.]
[GRUNTS.]
- You bitch.
- [JONATHAN.]
Nancy! - [JONATHAN.]
Run! - [NANCY WHIMPERS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
Help! Help! Help! Is anyone here?! Nancy.
[BRUCE.]
Nancy! [NANCY WHIMPERS.]
[STRAINING GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTS, COUGHS.]
[STRAINING GRUNTS.]
[ECHOING.]
Where are you going? [PANTING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
[TOM INHALES SHARPLY.]
[TOM YELLS.]
[GRUNTS.]
Yoo-hoo.
Nancy Drew, where are you? [JONATHAN GROANS.]
[GRUNTS, GASPS.]
[TOM GRUNTS.]
[TOM GRUNTS.]
Nancy.
[GRUNTING.]
[TOM PANTING MENACINGLY.]
[JONATHAN WHIMPERS.]
[BRUCE.]
Marco Marco [NANCY.]
Polo! Huh? [GRUNTS.]
[MOANING.]
[GROANING.]
- [NANCY YELLS.]
- [TOM GROANS.]
[GROANING.]
[TOM GRUNTS.]
Go to hell! [CHOKING.]
[TOM CHOKING.]
[PANTING.]
[PANTING.]
[ELECTRICAL DRONING.]
[GASPS.]
[RECEPTIONIST SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING.]
[GROANING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[BRUCE CONTINUES GRUNTING.]
[CHITTERING SOUND.]
[GROANING.]
[SQUELCHING SOUND.]
[BABBLING.]
[SQUELCHING SOUND.]
[BRUCE GRUNTS FAINTLY.]
[PANTING.]
[SQUELCHING SOUND.]
[PANTING.]
[PANTING.]
[CHITTERING AND SQUELCHING.]
[CHITTERING SOUND CONTINUES.]
[EMERGENCY LIGHTS CLICKING.]
[LOW GROWLING.]
[SHRIEKING.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[MONKEY SCREECHING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[SCREAMING.]
Shit! Shit! We're going down! We're going down! Yeah, no shit, Harrington! - Why don't these buttons work?! - [STEVE SCREAMS.]
[ERICA.]
Press the button! What do you think I'm doing?! Come on, press something! Just press the button! - [SCREAMS.]
- [ERICA.]
Push it! - [CRASHING.]
- [ALL GRUNTING.]
- [STEVE.]
Oh! - [ROBIN WINCES.]
[STEVE.]
My groin.
It fell on my groin.
Dustin! [STRAINS.]
- [ROBIN SIGHS.]
- Get this off of me! [STEVE.]
I can't move.
[GRUNTS.]
Is everyone okay? Yeah, I'm great, now that I know that Russians can't design elevators! I think we've clearly established that those buttons don't work.
They're buttons.
They have to do something.
Yeah, if we had a keycard.
- A what? - It's an electronic lock.
Same as the loading dock door.
If we don't have a keycard, - it won't operate, meaning - We're stuck in here.
Yeah.
Just so you nerds are aware, I'm supposed to be spending the night at Tina's, and Tina always covers for me.
But if I'm not home for Uncle Jack's party tomorrow and my mom finds out you three are responsible, she's gonna hunt you down, one by one, and slit your throat.
I don't care about Tina! Or Uncle Jack's party! Your mom's not gonna be able to find us if we're dead in a Russian elevator! [DUSTIN.]
Hey.
What if we climbed out? [DUSTIN'S GRUNTS ECHO.]
[STEVE EXHALES SHARPLY.]
What were you saying about climbing? [STEVE'S VOICE ECHOES.]
Looks like somebody's home.
[DOOR HINGE CREAKING.]
[LOW FREQUENCY PULSING.]
Did you hear that? [PULSING CONTINUES.]
[HOPPER PANTING.]
[FLOORBOARDS CREAKING.]
[PULSING CONTINUES.]
[HOPPER GASPS.]
[HOPPER EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Where's that coming from? [PULSING INTENSIFIES.]
[WHISPERS.]
It's below us.
[HOPPER GRUNTS.]
[PULSING CONTINUES LOUDLY.]
[BOTH BREATHING RAPIDLY.]
[SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DISTANT CLANKING.]
[FAINT MALE VOICE.]
[DISTANT RATCHETING NOISE.]
[MEN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN.]
Hey, dipshits! [METALLIC TOOL CLATTERS.]
Hawkins PD.
Hands in the air.
Don't make me say it again! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
English.
[HOPPER.]
You speak English? [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
I can't understand you! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
I can't understand you.
- [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
- No understand! - [THUDDING FOOTSTEPS.]
- Hopper! [THUDDING CONTINUES.]
[MUFFLED GROANING.]
[MUFFLED YELLING.]
[MUFFLED YELLING.]
[MUFFLED YELLING.]
[HOPPER.]
Don't move! Drop the gun.
Drop it! You understand what I'm saying, big guy? Drop the weapon.
[IN RUSSIAN ACCENT.]
Or what? You going to shoot? Good.
[HOPPER.]
So you do understand what I'm saying, huh? And, yeah, you don't put that thing away, I'm gonna blow some daylight into that thick skull of yours.
No.
You won't do that.
Why's that? Because you are policeman.
Policemen have rules.
Oh, yeah? [GUN CLICKS.]
Wanna test that theory? I'm gonna count to three.
One, two, three! [HOPPER GRUNTS.]
[YELLING.]
[FIGHTING GRUNTS.]
[BULLETS RICOCHETING.]
[JOYCE SCREAMS, GRUNTS.]
[HOPPER YELLS.]
[FIGHTING GRUNTS.]
[GROANS, COUGHS.]
[GRIGORI WAILS IN PAIN.]
[BOTH PANTING.]
[JOYCE.]
Hopper! - Oh, shit.
- [GRIGORI GRUNTS.]
[HOPPER.]
Go! [GUNFIRE.]
[GRUNTS.]
[HOPPER.]
Move, Joyce! - [JOYCE.]
Oh, God.
- [HOPPER.]
Come on, Smirnoff.
You're coming with us! - [HOPPER.]
Go, go, go! - [COCKS ASSAULT RIFLE.]
[JOYCE SCREAMS.]
[YELLS.]
[HOPPER.]
Let's go! Let's go! Move it, Smirnoff! Move it! Run! [GRUNTING.]
Joyce! Drive! [KEYS CLATTER.]
- Come on, Joyce! Quit screwin' around! - Are you kidding me? [STRAINING.]
- Shit! - [HOPPER.]
Go! Joyce, drive.
- I'm trying! - Joyce, please, drive! Drive! [YELLING.]
[HOPPER.]
Get us outta here! [ENGINE ROARS.]
[JOYCE SCREAMS.]
[SCREAMS.]
[BOTH SCREAM.]
[HOPPER.]
Oh, God! [JOYCE.]
Hang on! [GRUNTING.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
[PANTING.]
Still think it was our government? [PANTING.]
[DRAMATIC SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
God, shut up! [RINGING CONTINUES.]
[GROANS.]
- Hello? - Jonathan.
Do you realize what time it is? Listen to me, okay? It's 6:00 a.
m.
and, uh, I had a late night with Fagin and the gang, so - I'm at the hospital with Driscoll.
- What? She's been sedated for a few hours and the doctors are still running tests.
Nancy, please tell me you're joking.
It's not a joke.
And, yes, I know I'm insane and irrational and out of touch, but can you save your lecture, because I really don't give a shit right now.
I just I need you to put me on the phone with your brother.
- What? - Jonathan Please.
Uh He's not even here.
Where is he? Is he safe? Why wouldn't he be safe? Nancy? Why wouldn't he be safe? [STEAM HISSING.]
[HOPPER.]
Son of a bitch.
Son of a bitch! [HOPPER COUGHS.]
Okay, a magnet? Magnets? - Do you know "magnet"? Magnet? - [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Magnit.
Yes, magnit.
Okay, so, uh, magnit on my my fridge, my icebox, and then they they fell.
They demagnetized, stopped working.
Uh, do you understand? Da.
Okay, so is that because of the machines that you're working on? - Machina.
- Machina, machina, yes.
[IMITATES REVVING ENGINE.]
Da, da, machina.
- Machina, machina! - Yes, machina Vroom, vroom.
Oh, not not the car.
The machines at Hess Farm where - where we kidnapped you - Joyce, please! You're givin' me a headache, both of you! Hold on, please.
One minute.
[JOYCE.]
Hey.
I am making progress.
- Progress.
- Yeah.
What have you learned, huh? You learned that Smirnoff over there - [JOYCE.]
Alexei.
- Smirnoff is Russian and works for Starcourt, two things we already knew.
Thought we knew.
But now we know-know, because I've confirmed them.
You're welcome.
Yeah? Why don't you confirm whether this baby'll start, huh? - [HOPPER.]
Keep it in park, please.
- Yeah, duh! You do do something useful.
- You do something useful.
- [SIGHS.]
- [JOYCE SCOFFS.]
- [GROANS.]
[ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
[SIGHS.]
It's not working.
Try it again.
[ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
Shit.
[ENGINE SPUTTERS.]
- [ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
- Hey.
Hey.
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Stop, stop! Shut up, Smirnoff! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN RAPIDLY.]
Aw, come on! D'you hear me? I said shut your damn [HIGH-PITCHED SQUEALING.]
Shit! Oh, Jesus.
[JOYCE GASPS.]
[HOPPER.]
Whoa! [GASPS.]
Stop.
[JOYCE.]
I thought this friend of yours lived in Illinois.
He's not really a friend.
He's more like an acquaintance.
Oh? Okay, well Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Keep up, keep up, keep up.
- Easy.
- [INSECTS BUZZING.]
Okay, so this acquaintance - lives in Illinois? Correct? - [HOPPER.]
Yeah, yeah.
[JOYCE.]
So we're walking to Illinois? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna walk to Illinois.
You know, I figure we'll get there by, like, Friday evening.
I hope that works for your schedule.
Jesus Christ, Joyce.
- We're not walking to Illinois, okay? - Well, then what are we doing? I don't know, okay? I will I will figure something out.
Isn't there someone in Indiana who speaks Russian that You know what? I'm all ears, Joyce.
I'm all ears.
I'm all ears! [JOYCE.]
I mean, fine.
Just saying.
Gah! Ugh! Gah! [SIGHS.]
[HOPPER.]
Damn it.
I found him.
[MAX.]
Where is he? Woods.
- [TV STATIC HISSING.]
- Woods? He's with Will's mom.
My My mom? What are they doing? Ill annoy.
They're going to Ill-annoy.
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- [KAREN.]
Mike! Breakfast! Not now, Mom! Illinois? Illinois, like the state? The state of Illinois? [STAMMERS.]
Ill-annoy.
[TAP STOPS.]
[MAX.]
Does it still hurt? Only when I talk.
Well, it's a good thing you're not Mike, then.
"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
" And you'd be in constant pain.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
[MIKE.]
Something's not right.
I can't get Hopper off my back all summer, now all of a sudden, he's hiking with Will's mom to Illinois? And Dustin's MIA, too? I mean, this can't be a coincidence.
What does it matter? The bottom line is, they're not here.
- It's up to us.
- Up to us to do what exactly? Find Billy and stop him.
Okay, yeah, that's a really nice sentiment, but even if El could find him again, and that's a pretty big if, then what? We burn the shit out of him and make sure he doesn't escape this time.
- Okay, then what? - Then we win.
No, see, that's the problem.
We don't.
We don't win.
We got the Mind Flayer out of Will before and he just came right back.
We don't just have to stop Billy, we have to stop the Mind Flayer.
- How in the hell do we do that? - I don't know.
Maybe El does.
What are they still doing in there? I don't know.
Girls just like hanging out in bathrooms.
Why? - I mean, I don't know.
- They're conspiring against me.
That's what you're concerned about now? It's not my main concern.
- It's just a sub-concern.
- I thought it was already over.
It's not over, okay? We're just taking a break.
She said she dumped your ass.
- That doesn't sound like a break.
- [MAX.]
It wasn't! You guys do realize we can still hear everything you're saying, right? [LAUGHS.]
[WHISPERS.]
Conspiring.
- I told you, they're conspiring.
- [KNOCK AT DOOR.]
Not now, Mom! [NANCY.]
Mike, open the door.
[DUSTIN.]
Code red, I repeat, code red.
Does anyone copy? This is a code red, I repeat, a code red.
This is a code red, I repeat, a code red.
Does anyone copy? We are innocent children and we are trapped under Starcourt Mall.
The Red Army has infiltrated Hawkins, and if we are found, they will torture and kill us.
[STEVE.]
Hey.
[GRUNTS.]
Gotta take it easy on that thing.
Gonna drain the battery.
- The mall just opened.
- So? So someone could be in range.
What do you think, Petey the Mall Cop is gonna rappel down here and save the day? All right, why are you such a cranky pants after getting to spend the night with Robin? Shh! Jesus Christ.
Will you just give up on your creepy dream already? I heard you guys talking all night.
We were trying to figure out a way to open up the door while you children were sleeping.
After eight hours, we're still exactly nowhere, which is, you know, probably just a little bit of the reason why I'm feeling just - a tad cranky.
- [UNZIPPING SOUND.]
What are you doing? What does it look like I'm doing? I'm taking a leak.
Look away.
Look away! [STEVE'S VOICE ECHOES.]
[SCOFFS.]
Can you redirect your stream, please? [ROBIN'S VOICE ECHOES.]
Ugh.
Hey, hey! Be careful, careful, careful! We don't even know what that is.
Exactly.
It could be useful.
Useful how? We can survive down here a long time without food, but if the human body doesn't get water, it will die.
I hate to break it to you, but this is not water.
No, but it's a liquid, and if it comes down to me drinking that shit or dying of thirst, I drink.
[SCOFFS.]
[DISTANT ELECTRONIC WHIRRING.]
We've got company.
[SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[BEEPING.]
[ELEVATOR DOOR THUDS.]
[INDISTINCT FEMALE VOICE ON PA.]
[SNIFFING.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
You smell that? [IN RUSSIAN.]
What? Piss.
[SNIFFING.]
[ELEVATOR DOOR WHIRRING.]
[STEVE GRUNTS.]
Let's go.
- Go.
Go, go, go, go, go.
- [ERICA.]
I'm going! - Henderson.
Go, go.
- [VIAL BUCKLES.]
[ROBIN.]
Come on, Steve, let's go! [SIZZLING.]
- Jesus Christ.
- [ERICA.]
Ooh! You still wanna drink that? Holy mother of God.
Well hope you guys are in good shape.
Looking at you, roast beef.
Let's go, come on.
Why me? It was the same thing, the exact same thing that happened to Will last year.
And look at this.
Look at the body temperatures.
He likes it cold.
Okay, so this crazy old woman who was eating fertilizer - Mrs.
Driscoll.
- Right, yeah, Mrs.
Driscoll.
- What time was this attack? - Last night.
Right, but what time last night? - Around 9:00.
- You waited all night to call? I was waiting for the doctors to run some tests.
You weren't there? Well, I'm here now, aren't I? Hallelujah! Ooh.
Um, so, wha what time was your sauna test? [IN UNISON.]
Around 9:00.
Well, that proves it.
That proves my theory.
She's flayed, just like Billy.
- Flayed? - The Mind Flayer.
He flays people.
Takes over their mind.
Once they do that, they basically become him.
- If there are two flayed - We have to assume there are more.
Heather.
Billy was doing something to her.
[HEATHER WHIMPERS ECHO.]
She was scared.
She was screaming.
- [SCREAMS.]
- Bad screams.
- What's a good scream? - Max said - Doesn't matter.
- I'm sorry, I'm lost.
Who is Heather? - She's a lifeguard at the pool.
- Heather Holloway? [BOTH.]
Tom.
[CAR DOORS SHUT.]
Seriously? Welcome to my world.
[MIKE SCOFFS.]
Seat belts.
[INTENSE SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
[INSECTS BUZZING.]
- Oh, my God.
Can you not walk so close? - What? Can you not walk so close to me? You stink.
[HOPPER LAUGHS.]
I get it, I get it.
You're upset, right? 'Cause I, uh I blew up the car? Yeah, with me in it.
Well, I just want to remind you of something, Joyce.
- I am not a mechanic.
- Yeah, clearly.
That's why you should've listened to Alexei.
Oh, right, yeah.
Your new boyfriend, right? Yes.
Every man I talk to from now on has to be my boyfriend.
Yeah, he reminds me a bit of a Russian Scott Clarke.
Oh, here we go.
Maybe you should go on a date.
I don't know, I'm thinking, like, Enzo's? - Whoa.
- What? He's running.
[ALEXEI WHIMPERS, GRUNTS.]
You son of a bitch! - [ALEXEI MUTTERS IN RUSSIAN.]
- [HOPPER.]
Hey! Smirnoff! Get back here! - [ALEXEI CHUCKLES.]
- Hey! C'mere! [GRUNTING.]
[HOPPER.]
Hey, c'mere! [SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
[ALL PANTING.]
- [BELL CHIMES.]
- [LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DOOR BELL JINGLES.]
[GRUNTS.]
[MAN.]
You all gonna pay for those? [BURPS.]
[REGISTER BEEPING.]
So, what are you, some kinda bounty hunter? I'm a cop.
I'm undercover.
[HEAVY METAL PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
Oh, hey, Karen, it's Joyce.
Yeah, I I'm just checking on Will.
At the movies? Just keep your mouth shut, all right? [SLURPING LOUDLY.]
All right, all right, hop in.
Come on, get in.
- Hey! - Hey! You "hey"! You "hey"! This is a police emergency, all right? I need to commandeer your vehicle.
What? As long as there's a a [HOPPER.]
What is your name, sir? - Todd.
- Todd? - Yeah.
- Todd.
- Todd.
- Todd listen to me.
That man in there, I know he doesn't look it, but he is one of the most dangerous men in the world.
He's, uh - murdered many children.
- What? Yeah, he's a true psychopath.
I tracked him over two state lines.
[JOYCE.]
Hey, what's going on? Ah, Detective Byers.
Uh this is Todd.
He's agreed to lend us his vehicle to transport our dangerous criminal.
Oh, yes, he very dangerous, uh, forger er.
Yeah.
Uh, child murderer.
- Child murderer? - We should really get going.
Hey, how do I get my car back? - You just call the station.
- What station? - [HEAVY METAL RESUMES.]
- Ooh, I like the sound of that, Todd! Hey, what station? You're doing the right thing! [TIRES SQUEALING.]
Hey, what the Hey! Dude! [DUSTIN.]
I mean, you have to admit, as a feat of engineering alone, this is impressive.
What are you talking about? It's a total fire hazard.
There's no stairs, there's no exit, there's just an elevator that drops you halfway to hell.
They're Commies.
You don't pay people, they cut corners.
To be fair to our Russian comrades, I don't think this tunnel was designed for walking.
Think about it, they developed the perfect system for transporting that cargo.
It all comes into the mall like any old delivery.
And then they load it up onto those trucks and nobody's the wiser.
[STEVE.]
You think they built this whole mall so they could transport that green poison? I very seriously doubt it's something as boring as poison.
It's gotta be much more valuable, like promethium or something.
What the hell is promethium? It's what Victor Stone's dad used to make Cyborg's bionic and cybernetic components.
You're all so nerdy, it makes me physically ill.
No, no, no.
No, don't lump me in with them.
I'm not a nerd, all right? [ROBIN.]
Why so sensitive, Harrington? Afraid of losing cool points to a ten-year-old child? No, I'm just saying I don't know jack shit about Prometheus.
[DUSTIN.]
Promethium.
Prometheus is a Greek mythological figure, but whatever.
All I'm saying is, it's probably being used to make something.
Or power something.
- Like a nuclear weapon? - Totally.
Walking towards a nuclear weapon.
That's great.
- That'd be great.
- But if they're building something, why here? I mean, Hawkins.
Seriously.
Of all places.
At the very best, we're a toilet stop on your way to Disneyland, but maybe that's it.
Maybe it's our very - You think the Russians know? - About - They could.
- So it's connected? - Maybe.
- How? I don't know, but it's [BOTH.]
Possible.
I'm sorry, is there something you'd like to share with the class? - [STATIC HISSING.]
- [MAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN ON RADIO.]
[BOTH.]
Walkie.
[MAN CONTINUES IN RUSSIAN.]
[MAN CONTINUES IN RUSSIAN.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
"A trip to China sounds nice.
" If you tread lightly.
" It's the code.
- Wherever that broadcast is coming from - It's close.
And if there's one thing we know about that signal It can reach the surface.
Let's go.
[DOORBELL CHIMES.]
[DOORBELL CHIMES.]
[LOW FREQUENCY VIBRATION.]
Tom? Heather? Jesus, it's freezing.
[SNIFFS.]
Do you guys smell that? [ALL SNIFFING.]
Oh.
Oh, God.
More chemicals.
You think they're guzzling this shit? Yeah, either that or they just went on a hell of a cleaning spree.
But last year, Will didn't eat chemicals.
- Did you? - No.
This is something new.
Mr.
Clarke, fifth grade.
Posit.
What happens when you mix chemicals together? [LUCAS AND WILL.]
You create a new substance.
- What if they're making something? - [MAX.]
In themselves? I mean, come on, if you drink this crap, it'll kill you.
Yeah, if you're human.
[DISTANT, FAINT PULSING.]
[NANCY.]
Blood.
Yesterday, Tom had a bandage on his forehead.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING.]
He was attacked.
Call 91 [GRUNTS.]
[THUNDERCLAP.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[DOOR HINGE CREAKS.]
They must have tied them.
They must have taken them somewhere.
[THUNDERCLAP.]
Mrs.
Driscoll.
She kept saying "I have to go back.
" [SHRIEKS.]
What if the flaying, it's taking place somewhere else? There must be a place where all this started, right? A source.
Somewhere he didn't want me to see.
[FAINT SHRIEKING NOISE.]
If we can find the source, then maybe we can stop him.
Or at least stop it from spreading or doing whatever the hell he's doing with those chemicals.
How do we find it? Mrs.
Driscoll.
If she wants to go back so badly, why don't we let her? [TODD.]
this guy comes up to me, I'm just pumping gas over here, and he Hey, whoa! Don't cross me right now! - [BELL JINGLES.]
- [LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING.]
[CASH REGISTER BEEPING.]
Busy day? You could say that.
Some psycho stole that dude's car.
What else? - What? - What else did he say? This psycho? No offense, but I already went over all this with the cops.
I'm not a cop.
Yeah, no shit, Khrushchev.
[GRUNTS.]
Oh, shit! [WHIMPERS.]
[GRIGORI.]
Don't look at them.
At me.
Tell me about this psycho.
[PANTING.]
Come on, let's go.
Move it.
[DOORS SLAM.]
I thought you said this guy was a journalist.
Yeah, he, uh he was.
Was? [BUZZER SOUNDS.]
[MURRAY.]
Look at the camera.
The camera, above you to the right.
Identify yourselves.
Jim Hopper, Joyce Byers, Smirnoff.
- Alexei.
- Alexei.
[MURRAY.]
Surname.
I don't know.
Family name! Yeah, I know.
I told I don't know, okay? Open the damn door! [JOYCE.]
Hopper.
It's all right.
Don't worry.
He's a little bit eccentric, but he's completely harmless.
- [SHOTGUN COCKS.]
- [JOYCE GASPS.]
Name.
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Get that out of my face, you bald American pig.
[IN RUSSIAN.]
I may be bald, but you're the one in handcuffs, Soviet scum.
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYING.]
Wait.
[DEVICE BEEPS AND WHINES.]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
[DEVICE WHIRS.]
[DEVICE BEEPS.]
[LOUD BEEPING.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Watch it.
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Silence, scum.
- How long is this gonna take, because I - No.
- No.
- No.
- No, you do not get to question me.
- [DEVICE BEEPS.]
You have dragged an enemy of the state into my home as carelessly as a child drags in shit on his shoe.
I will search him until I am satisfied.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Jim.
C'mere.
[JOYCE.]
Just c'mere.
I need to talk to you.
[HOPPER.]
Yeah, what? - What? - This is not gonna work.
- What do you mean? - He's not eccentric, he's certifiable.
[LOUD BEEPING.]
- Glass houses, Joyce.
- What? - You know, pot calling the kettle black.
- Oh, come on.
- Excuse me! - What? Do me a favor and move your lovers' quarrel elsewhere.
- Oh, oh, this? - No, no, no.
Not a lovers' quarrel, pal.
Spare me! What is your problem? Please, stop talking! No! We have had a very long day.
We have been shot at, nearly blown up, walked God knows how many miles in a hundred degree heat, stole a car, all while being chased by this gigantic psychopath, all so we could bring him to you.
Because somehow, you're the closest person who speaks Russian, which I can't believe.
But that doesn't matter because, unfortunately, we're here.
So, if you don't mind, put that thing away, stop behaving like a jackass, and ask him what he's doing that's making my magnets fall off my damn fridge! Please.
[DEVICE WHINES.]
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY.]
[INDISTINCT MALE VOICE ON PA.]
Okay, clear.
Clear, come on, let's go.
[ROBIN.]
Okay, that was close.
- [DUSTIN.]
Too close.
- Relax.
All right? Relax.
Nobody saw [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING.]
[FEMALE VOICE SPEAKING RUSSIAN ON PA.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[STEVE.]
Shit.
Jesus! - Red Dawn.
- I saw it.
- First floor, northwest.
- Saw what? The comms room.
You saw the comms room? Correct.
- Are you sure? - Positive.
The door was open for a second, and I saw a bunch of lights and machines and shit in there.
That could be a hundred different things.
I'll take those odds.
[SIGHS.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[STEVE WHISPERS.]
All right.
We're gonna move fast, we're gonna stay low.
- Okay? - Okay.
[WOMAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
[MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Shh! Move it.
[DOOR PANEL BEEPS.]
Let's go.
Sh, sh.
Come on.
[FEMALE VOICE SPEAKING RUSSIAN ON RADIO.]
[IN RUSSIAN.]
Tread lightly! Tread lightly! [IN RUSSIAN.]
Who are you? Silver cat Silver cat.
I don't understand.
- China? - [MAN SCOFFS.]
[YELLS.]
- [MAN GRUNTS.]
- [STEVE GROANS.]
[STEVE GRUNTS.]
- [MAN YELLS.]
- [STEVE GRUNTS.]
[MAN GROANS.]
[PANTING.]
[DUSTIN.]
Dude! You did it! You won a fight! [STEVE.]
Jeez [LAUGHS SOFTLY.]
[STEVE CHUCKLES.]
- What are you doing? - Getting us our ticket out of here.
You want to walk all the way back? Well, we can hang out for a little bit, relax, have a picnic maybe.
Have a picnic? We came here for the radio.
[DUSTIN.]
This plan is way better.
If I knew Steve could knock out a Russian, that would've been our plan in the first place.
[LOW FREQUENCY PULSING.]
[MEN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
- but I guess you're - Guys.
There's something up there.
[STEVE.]
Let's go.
[MEN SPEAKING RUSSIAN.]
Holy shit.
[LOW FREQUENCY PULSING CONTINUES.]
[BREATHING MASKS HISSING.]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING.]
[LOUD THRUMMING.]
[CRACKING NOISE.]
[LOUD SHRIEKING SOUND.]
[WOMAN.]
No, that is not mean.
That is honest.
She won't find out.
See, you're the only one who gon' tell Whoa, whoa, whoa! Excuse me! Where do you think you're going? Oh, um I was just going to visit my grandma again.
And And this this is my family.
- Extended.
- I don't care who they are.
You know the rules.
Two visitors at a time.
- Yeah, but - Two! Girl, this child has lost her mind.
She brought a whole zoo in here.
[ELEVATOR DINGS.]
[LIGHT MUZAK PLAYING.]
You know, those things that I said yesterday, I I didn't mean them.
- I know.
- I don't think you're like those assholes.
At all.
I never have.
I - I was just - Angry? Which I still don't get.
I mean, I was just completely, utterly, mortifyingly wrong.
Don't let that go to your head.
I won't.
I just look forward to you never doubting me again.
[ELEVATOR DINGS.]
[VENDING MACHINE WHIRRING.]
Oh, come on, you piece of shit! [LOW FREQUENCY VIBRATION.]
Thanks.
Dude, I think that was it.
That was what? The olive branch.
The what? Oh, my God.
You're hopeless.
Okay, [WHISPERS.]
I'll distract Max, get you an opening.
And then talk to her.
All right? [CANDY WRAPPERS CRINKLING.]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN.]
Where is she? I don't know.
- Are you sure this is the right room? - Yeah.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES.]
[TOM.]
She's gone home.
We were hoping you might come back.
Whose blood is that? Tom, whatever you've done, it's not you.
He's making you do this.
[JONATHAN GRUNTS.]
Go! [NANCY GASPS.]
Owie.
Go, go, go! [BOTH PANTING.]
- [STAIRWELL DOOR SHUTS.]
- Run! Yeah! [LAUGHS.]
- [MAX.]
Got it, two in a row.
- [LUCAS.]
That was good, that was good.
[MAX AND LUCAS CHEERING.]
[LUCAS SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
- [MAX.]
Best three in a row now.
- Hey.
Hi.
Does your species like M&M's? [GENTLE SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING.]
I like the new look, by the way.
It's cool.
Thanks.
[BOTH PANTING.]
[JONATHAN.]
Run! [JONATHAN.]
This way, this way! [BOTH PANTING.]
Nancy! - [INTERCOM BUZZER SOUNDS.]
- Hello? Hello?! Here.
[BOTH PANTING.]
It's ringing.
I don't care how good her pie is.
No, I don't want her in my damn house.
Come on, pick up! Nancy? [NANCY GASPS.]
- Hi there.
- [GLASS SHATTERING.]
[RINGING TONE.]
[NANCY GASPS.]
I'm here for you, Nancy Drew.
[NANCY WHIMPERS.]
[JONATHAN GRUNTS, GROANS.]
- No! [GRUNTS.]
- [GLASS SHATTERS.]
[JONATHAN CHOKING.]
[JONATHAN GRUNTS, GROANS.]
[BRUCE SNARLS.]
Jonathan! [NANCY YELPS.]
[PANTING.]
- [BREATHING RAPIDLY.]
- [GASPS.]
- [NANCY YELLS.]
- [BRUCE GROANS.]
[BRUCE GROANS.]
[GRUNTS.]
- You bitch.
- [JONATHAN.]
Nancy! - [JONATHAN.]
Run! - [NANCY WHIMPERS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
Help! Help! Help! Is anyone here?! Nancy.
[BRUCE.]
Nancy! [NANCY WHIMPERS.]
[STRAINING GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTS, COUGHS.]
[STRAINING GRUNTS.]
[ECHOING.]
Where are you going? [PANTING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
[TOM INHALES SHARPLY.]
[TOM YELLS.]
[GRUNTS.]
Yoo-hoo.
Nancy Drew, where are you? [JONATHAN GROANS.]
[GRUNTS, GASPS.]
[TOM GRUNTS.]
[TOM GRUNTS.]
Nancy.
[GRUNTING.]
[TOM PANTING MENACINGLY.]
[JONATHAN WHIMPERS.]
[BRUCE.]
Marco Marco [NANCY.]
Polo! Huh? [GRUNTS.]
[MOANING.]
[GROANING.]
- [NANCY YELLS.]
- [TOM GROANS.]
[GROANING.]
[TOM GRUNTS.]
Go to hell! [CHOKING.]
[TOM CHOKING.]
[PANTING.]
[PANTING.]
[ELECTRICAL DRONING.]
[GASPS.]
[RECEPTIONIST SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING.]
[GROANING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[BRUCE CONTINUES GRUNTING.]
[CHITTERING SOUND.]
[GROANING.]
[SQUELCHING SOUND.]
[BABBLING.]
[SQUELCHING SOUND.]
[BRUCE GRUNTS FAINTLY.]
[PANTING.]
[SQUELCHING SOUND.]
[PANTING.]
[PANTING.]
[CHITTERING AND SQUELCHING.]
[CHITTERING SOUND CONTINUES.]
[EMERGENCY LIGHTS CLICKING.]
[LOW GROWLING.]
[SHRIEKING.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[MONKEY SCREECHING.]