EPISODE

S2E1 · Chapter One: MADMAX

As the town preps for Halloween, a high-scoring rival shakes things up at the arcade, and a skeptical Hopper inspects a field of rotting pumpkins.

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THIS ENTRY’S STORY

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

On October 28, 1984, a woman with the power to make people see things and with a tattoo reading "008" on her arm is part of a gang that robs a bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and flee the cops using those powers 008 have. In Hawkins, Indiana, the townsfolk prepare for Halloween. Maxine "Max" Mayfield, a new girl at school, captures Dustin and Lucas 's attention. Joyce is dating her old high school classmate Bob Newby. Hopper investigates a field of mysteriously rotting pumpkins and conspiracy theorist Murray Bauman investigates people who saw Eleven, believing her to be a Russian spy. Mike and Nancy deal with losing Eleven and Barb, and Will has been having apparent hallucinations of the Upside Down, with an enormous, tentacled shadow monster. Joyce and Hopper take Will to Hawkins Lab to the new lab's director, Dr. Sam Owens, who has been giving Will routine medical exams since his return. Owens theorizes that Will's episodes are PTSD brought on by the anniversary of his disappearance. The inter-dimensional gate in the lab's basement has been growing, worrying Owens. Nancy and Steve have dinner with Barb's parents, who still believe their daughter to be missing and who have hired Murray Bauman to find her. Hopper goes home to a cabin in the woods where he secretly lives with Eleven.

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