Luckily for him, the Byers family is hard at work trying to figure out where he went.
He has his friends around to help.
He solves the puzzle: When connected like this, the drawings form a map of Hawkins.
Credit: Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix
So it’s just a matter of matching this map to real-world Hawkins to figure out where Hopper is.
The next day, they finally make contact with Murray.
Eleven isn’t a Soviet agent, she’s an escapee from Hawkins Lab.
Murray’s fix for the story is the same as his fix for vodka: Water it down.
Now that sounds like a plan.
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Jonathan and Nancy aren’t the only ones having romantic issues.
Lucas asks if he does that even when she’s wrong.
Obviously, Max doesn’t believe him one bit, though she can tell how passionate he is.
Unfortunately, that’s just when her evil racist brother shows up to drive her home.
With Lucas so preoccupied, Dustin is having trouble contacting any friends to help him restrain Dart.
Desperate for more help, he goes to Mike’s house, but only his parents are home.
This gives way to a hilarious scene from one of my favoriteStranger Thingsside characters, Mike’s dad Ted.
But the biggest stuff in this episode, of course, involves Eleven.
are all references to her journey to get her daughter back.
Now her daughter’s here, but is she aware of it?
Meanwhile, the Byers finally make a breakthrough, and reach the spot where Hopper went into the Upside-Down.
And so ends the most explosive episode ofStranger Things 2so far.
Best quotes:
“Our children don’t live here anymore.
You didn’t know that?”
“It’s crazy, but I really liked it.
I mean, I had a few issues.
I just felt it was a little derivative in parts.
I just wish it had a little more originality, that’s all.”
Max’s savage commentary on the plot of season 1.
“Sorry, you ate my cat.”
Dustin after shutting his pet-turned-monster in the basement.
NEXT:“Chapter Six: The Spy”
