


Robin decodes the Russian communication, pointing to a shipment arriving at Starcourt that night she, Steve, and Dustin spot armed Russian soldiers making the delivery. Will fights with Lucas and Mike while they are upset over Eleven and Max. Driscoll herself eating fertilizer in her home. Nancy and Jonathan find reports of missing fertilizer and strange behavior among rats across town and discover Mrs. She and Max discover that Billy has gone missing. "Chapter Three: The Case of the Missing Lifeguard"Įleven uses her powers to spy on Mike and later Billy, who senses her presence. Dustin reunites with Steve, who works at the mall's ice cream parlor with Robin, a former classmate the three translate the Russian radio message and determine that it must be a code. Joyce investigates a strange loss of magnetism among objects at her home and workplace, accidentally standing Hopper up for a date. Max and Eleven bond while shopping at Starcourt to distract themselves from Mike and Lucas Eleven breaks up with Mike after lying to her to avoid seeing her after Hopper threatens him. Driscoll, an elderly woman concerned about rabid rats eating her fertilizer, and overlooks one of the rats exploding. Nancy and Jonathan, working as interns at the Hawkins Post, investigate the home of Mrs. Tormented by further visions and voices, Billy is guided by the creature into kidnapping his fellow lifeguard Heather Holloway and bringing her to the creature. Wheeler, Billy is run off the road by an unseen creature and dragged inside the mill.īilly escapes the mill after the creature induces a vision of the Upside Down, where he meets a doppelgänger. On his way to a sexual encounter with Mrs. Rats congregate in a mill and explode into an organic mass. Will privately senses that the Mind Flayer may still be alive. Dustin returns from summer camp and sets up a radio tower to contact his new girlfriend, Suzie, where his friends ditch him but instead intercept a Russian transmission. Mike and Eleven have begun a romantic relationship, much to Hopper's chagrin he later threatens Mike into agreeing not to see her. One year later in Hawkins, the popularity of the new Starcourt Mall has forced many local businesses to close, angering townspeople. In June 1984, Soviet scientists attempt to force open a new gate to the Upside Down. The friends work together to help Max's brother Billy while Hopper and Joyce have their own adventure. Despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, they fear that they are all still in danger from it. However, strange power fluctuations trigger Will's awareness of something otherworldly, and Eleven and Max sense something is off about the town's residents. Joyce notices something strange going on with her magnets and decides to investigate. Hawkins chief of police Jim Hopper disapproves of Eleven and Mike's budding relationship, while Joyce considers moving out of Hawkins for a better life for her children and herself, leaving the state of the children's friendships and her own relationship with Hopper in the air. In the summer of 1985 in Hawkins, the newly opened Starcourt Mall has become the focal point of the town, driving other stores out of business.
