Billy arrives at the house looking for Max and the two older boys fight, but Max puts her brother in his place. Steve lays down the law with the other young teens while everything else goes on. Hopper and El patch things up after a tumultuous season and set out to close the gate once and for all (ha). Back at the Mind Flayer’s home base, Billy explains that he has been compromised, but the scene itself reveals that he is one of many, many Flayed. Joyce and Hopper follow a lead about the Russians to the corrupt Mayor Kline (Cary Elwes), while Steve, Robin, Dustin, and Erica (an iconic team) follow a lead about the Russians into the bowels of Starcourt Mall. Billy attacks them in a visceral fight sequence that leaves Eleven sobbing on the floor with her signature nosebleed. Their investigation leads to Billy (who recently offered a whole family to the monster), who they attempt to trap in the sauna, taking advantage of the Mind Flayer’s dislike of heat. The boys send out a Code Red so that Will can tell everyone his suspicions about the Mind Flayer. In a flashback, Eleven confronts the Demogorgon, causing destruction at the lab and opening the gate.Įleven calling an adult grocery store employee “mouth breather” and eating waffles in the woods add clever levity throughout the episode, and the sequence by the water remains one of the most memorable and stunning displays of her power (along with Dustin’s “She’s our friend and she’s crazy!”).ġ2. While Lucas stakes out the lab, Mike and Dustin hunt for Eleven in the woods, finding her only when she saves Mike and takes down their bullies. Nancy and Jonathan prepare to fight the Demogorgon, but he beats up Steve and then strikes a police officer, leading to an arrest. Joyce and Hopper are investigating the mysterious child who was at Hawkins Lab, their search leading them to Eleven’s biological mother Terry. “The Monster” (Season 1, Episode 6) Millie Bobby Brown in Season 1 of “Stranger Things” Curtis Baker/Netflix
Vecna is subdued, but not gone, and the finale teases that the show’s biggest battles lie ahead. The episode packs in its emotional beats, from sweetness between Max and Lucas to Steve’s heart-to-heart with Nancy, Eddie’s sacrifice, and the final reunion of everyone in Hawkins. The plan to defeat Vecna unfolds in four phases, with Eleven hundreds of miles from Hawkins and Joyce and Hopper still stuck in Russia.
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