The demobats are summoned by Eddie's solo, but just as Dustin returns to their own dimension, the Hellfire metalhead stays behind to fight them off. He fights Lucas and breaks Max’s walkman in the process, meaning there’s no more Kate Bush to take her out of it. Unfortunately, Jason (who thinks Hellfire is a satanic cult) shows up at the Creel house while Max is in a trance. In Hawkins, Dustin, Lucas, Max and Erica (her absence this season is a crime) head to the gate at Eddie’s trailer to help the older Hawkins kids pass through from the Upside Down – but Nancy becomes trapped in Vecna’s trance. In Russia, Joyce and Murray save Hopper from becoming demogorgon dinner. It's not long before Nancy, Robin and a reluctant Eddie follow to help fight them off, though. A tentacle snatches Steve and drags him through the portal, where he’s besieged by a swarm of demobats.

Thankfully, Murray ‘The Bald Eagle’ Bauman uses his karate expertise and together with Joyce, is able to take control of the plane and land (or rather crash) it in Russia.įollowing a compass to Lovers Lake, the Hawkins gang find another gate to the Upside Down lurking beneath the water. On the other side of the world, Yuri double-crosses Enzo and is on his way to turn 'the Americans' over to the Russians for money. Her powers are (partially) restored (yay). Her memories transport her back to her time as a test subject in the lab where she meets a kind orderly and experiences flashbacks of the massacre. In Hawkins (there’s a lot of back and forth), the kids break into the counsellor's office and discover that both Vecna’s victims had been experiencing the same symptoms before their deaths – and it appears that poor Max is to be number three on the chopping block. He believes El is the key to stopping Vecna and informs her there's a way to help get her powers back. Dr Sam Owens, however, stops the transportation van and tells her what's been going on back in Hawkins. In the meantime, El has hit the school bully in the face with a roller skate (deserved) and is en route to a juvenile detention facility. Convinced Hopper is still alive (by this point we’ve seen him imprisoned in Russia) she convinces Murray to go with her to Alaska to meet a man named Yuri.

Meanwhile, Nancy and her deputy editor, Fred, visit Eddie's uncle to question him about the murder and he informs them Chrissy's missing eyes are a remnant of crimes perpetrated decades ago by a man called Victor Creel.Īlas, Fred wanders off, plagued by the same sinister visions Chrissy had prior to her death and he becomes the next victim of Vecna (a new D&D the name the kids have assigned to season four’s big bad).īack in California, Joyce gets her detective hat back on when she receives a creepy Russian doll (with nipples) in the mail containing a cryptic message from someone named Enzo. These kids just can’t seem to catch a break, can they? They eventually track him down in an old boathouse and determine Chrissy's death is indeed connected to the Upside Down.

With Eddie now prime suspect in the murder, Dustin and Max grow suspicious and enlist Steve and Robin (who are now working in the local video store) to help look for him and find out what really went down. After her gruesome (and frankly nightmarish) death – while she's trying to buy drugs from Eddie – a terrified Eddie flees his trailer. This time around there’s a new Upside Down entity to torment Hawkins and cheerleader Chrissy is his first victim. The premiere episode concludes as it starts: with someone getting brutally slaughtered, of course. Meanwhile, Max is having a hard time coping with Billy’s death. Back in Hawkins, Lucas is hanging out with the cool kids, Nancy is the editor of the school newspaper, and Dustin and Mike have joined the school's D&D society, The Hellfire Club, which is led by genial metalhead Eddie 'The Freak' Munson.

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