S2E4 · Chapter Four: Will the Wise

Complete story — includes the ending

Joyce and the kids awaken an unconscious Will. Joyce takes Will home, but finds him acting strangely, scribbling furiously on pieces of paper and demanding that the house be kept cold. Upon returning to the cabin, Eleven is grounded by Hopper for sneaking out. Th next day, Joyce calls Hopper and together they discover that Will's scribbles line up. Hopper recognizes that the drawings represent vines, and he leaves. Meanwhile, Eleven finds Hopper's research of her biological mother, Terry Ives, and tries to contact Terry with her powers. Nancy and Jonathan are captured by Owen's agents when they try to contact Barb's mother and are taken to Hawkins Lab, where Owens shows them the gate to the Upside Down. He admits Barb died in the Upside Down and says that he wants to prevent foreign governments from learning of it. They are released, and it is revealed that Nancy was secretly recording Owens. An infatuated Lucas tries to get closer to Max, but her violent older stepbrother Billy Hargrove intervenes. A horrified Dustin finds that Dart has broken out of its cage, devoured his pet cat, and is an infant Demogorgon, also known as a Demodog. Hopper digs into one of the pumpkin fields and finds a tunnel resembling the Upside Down.