But upon watching security footage from the night Will disappeared, he realizes there's no rain in the footage. He talks his way into the lab and finds very little. The search for Will goes cold: Chief Hopper wonders if Will's disappearance has something to do with the strange secrecy surrounding Hawkins Laboratory. At one point, she's forced back to her cell and ends up killing the men who took her there. She's asked to move things with her mind. Brenner (Matthew Modine) is behind the testing, but also acts as a father figure to Eleven. Different things bring back memories of her life in the lab.ДЄ scientist named Dr. Nancy comes clean on Barb: After trying to buy some time to find Barb on her own, Nancy finally tells her mom that Barb is missing.Д®leven's terrible life: While the boys are at school, Eleven explores Mike's house. Barb is apparently running from the monster. It looks like our reality, but it's darker and emptied of furniture. The Upside Down world: We find out that Barb (along with possibly Will) is stuck in some kind of world based on the one we live in. Soon she finds herself being pulled away by the monster. When the others go upstairs to hook up, Barb stays at the pool. For some reason, he takes pictures of the teens splashing about. Meanwhile, Jonathan is taking photos in the woods when he happens upon Steve's house and realizes that his crush, Nancy, is at the pool with a few friends. A sexually naive girl, Nancy asks her best friend, Barb (Shannon Purser), to come along. He's always trying to have sex with her, and asks her to join him and and another couple for a pool party at his house. The monster claims another victim: Mike's older sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), has started a relationship with one of the cool guys at school, Steven (Joe Keery). The lights go nuts and the walls start to warp. While hiding in a dark closet from Will's mother, a scared Eleven flashes back to being dragged into a dark cell at Hawkins Laboratory.ДЄnother strange call for Joyce: Joyce gets another phone call, which she believes is from Will. After recognizing Will from a picture, Eleven tells the guys he's hiding from a monster. Plus, Eleven says that 'bad people' are after her.ДЄs Eleven becomes more comfortable with the boys, she shows them some of her powers, closing Mike's door with her mind. They can't tell his parents about her because they weren't supposed to be out at night looking for Will.

Despite the static, she swears she can hear Will breathing on the other end.ДЇinn Wolfhard, left, and Millie Bobby Brown.Д®leven knows where Will is: The boys bring Eleven back to Mike's house. Worlds collide: Tired of waiting for the police to do something, Will's friends decide to search for him on their own. In the end, Benny is killed, and somehow Eleven fights off the agents and escapes. But instead of the social workers, armed agents arrive to take Eleven. Her head is shaved, she's wearing a hospital gown, she has limited speech, and she's ravenously hungry.ДЄfter Benny feeds her, he calls for social workers to come and pick her up. She insists that he look outside her family for Will's abductor.ДЄ young girl with strange powers is on the run: Meanwhile, a young girl named Eleven arrives at Benny's Diner. He insists on speaking with Joyce's ex-husband - Will and Jonathan's father - but she is sure Will would never go to him. She decides to report Will missing to the police chief, Jim Hopper, a mess of a man. The next morning, Will's mom, Joyce (Winona Ryder), and older brother, Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), discover that Will isn't home. With a flickering light, poof, Will is gone. Sensing that the monster is still after him, Will runs to a shed behind the house, arms himself with a gun, and holds his ground. When he gets home, he finds that his mother and brother aren't home. While racing, Will separates from the other guys and finds himself close to the laboratory when he senses something is following him. Will, Dustin, and Lucas grab their bikes and leave for home.

In an isolated laboratory in Hawkins, Indiana, some kind of monster has escaped from its holding cell and is killing whoever gets in its way.ДЄ boy goes missing: Young Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) and his friends Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) are playing an intense role-playing game.

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