Dustin returns home after trick-or-treating and finds a strange creature in his trash can.įlashbacks reveal that Hopper found Eleven in the woods and agreed to take care of her in his grandfather's old hunting cabin if she agreed not to leave the cabin. Eleven tries to contact Mike using her powers but is unsuccessful. During the night, Will has another episode and tells Mike about his visions, leading Mike to admit that he is trying to contact Eleven. The boys go trick-or-treating and are later joined by Max. Steve leaves and tells Jonathan to take Nancy home. Instead, they attend a Halloween party, where Nancy gets drunk and berates Steve for his lack of empathy for Barb's parents. Nancy wants to tell Barb's parents the truth about her death, but Steve says it is a bad idea, as the agents might come after them if they told anyone the truth. More pumpkin fields rot across town and Hopper discovers an organic substance – similar to the substance in the lab – in the fields. Eleven asks Hopper if she can go trick-or-treating, but Hopper insists that she needs to remain hidden until he can reach an agreement with Owens allowing her to live a normal life, frustrating the homebound Eleven. Hopper goes home to a cabin in the woods where he secretly lives with Eleven.įlashbacks reveal that Eleven escaped from the Upside Down but was forced to hide from agents. Nancy and Steve have dinner with Barb's parents, who still believe their daughter to be missing and who have hired Murray to find her. The gate in the lab's basement has been growing, worrying Owens. Owens theorizes that Will's episodes are PTSD brought on by the anniversary of his disappearance. Sam Owens, who has been giving Will routine medical exams ever since his return. Joyce and Hopper take Will to see the lab's new director Dr. Mike and Nancy deal with their respective losses of Eleven and Barb, and Will has been experiencing episodes of apparent hallucinations of the Upside Down and an enormous, tentacled shadow monster. Joyce is dating her old high school classmate Bob Newby, Hopper investigates a field of pumpkins mysteriously rotting, and conspiracy theorist Murray Bauman investigates people who sighted Eleven, believing her to be a Russian spy. A new girl at school, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, captures the boys' attention. In Hawkins, the town prepares for Halloween. On October 28, 1984, a girl with the psychic power to make people see things and with a tattoo reading "008" on her arm is part of a criminal gang that manages to rob a bank and get away in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.