Nancy and Jonathan find reports of missing fertilizer and strange behavior among rats across town, and they 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 to distract themselves from Mike and Lucas while shopping at Starcourt Eleven breaks up with Mike after he lies to her to avoid seeing her after Hopper threatens him. Driscoll, an elderly woman concerned about rabid rats eating her fertilizer, and they overlook 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. On his way to a sexual encounter with Karen, 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. 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, and he instead intercepts 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. See also: List of Stranger Things episodes No. And it soon takes control of Max Mayfield’s brother Billy, leaving Eleven and her friends no choice but to battle him, the other possessed victims, and destroy the Mind Flayer in its new and terrifying form, once and for all. Will begins having premonitions regarding the Upside Down, despite Eleven having closed the portal, they realize The Mind Flayer is still alive. And she gets the help of Hopper to investigate the reason behind her magnet losing its magnetism. Joyce considers moving out of Hawkins with her children. Hopper disapproves of Eleven and Mike's relationship and is feeling separated with Eleven. In the summer of 1985 in Hawkins, the newly opened Starcourt Mall has become the center of attention in the town, causing other stores to close their business due to its popularity.

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