“So, Jonathan... How was the pull-out?”
Last episode has taken its toll; both Will and Hopper are rushed straight to hospital, or rather to medical treatment in the lab. Shades of grey there may of course be, but functionally and very conveniently the scientists are goodies this time round.
Meanwhile Dustin and the increasingly likeable Steve, while hunting for Dart (Dustin has found no one else to be available!), have found the little darling to have escaped and, implicitly, to have grown rather larger, having shed its skin. It escaped through a hole it made into one of those tunnels. Oops. Naughty Dustin.
Meanwhile the scientists from the lab are fully brought up to speed, effectively joining our gang of Scoobies as a resource of redshirts. And, on a totally unscientific note, our conspiracy theory friend is very perceptive about Nancy and Jonathan (“We like Steve. But we don’t love Steve.” His influence at last leafs to the end of that simmering sexual tension, which is easily as useful as helping them to get justice for Barb.
Lucas, after being so thoroughly disbelieved last time, convinced Max to come with him and see some proof, sneaking past her dodgy and racist “brother”. This is all part of getting everyone back together again as the two of them soon run into Justin and Steve. Meanwhile, the Shadow Monster seems to be taking over Will more and more as he is forgetting things and appearing like someone who has dementia, something hard to watch in one so young. Even worse is that burning the monsters, the only thing that seems to kill them, hurts Will and may eventually kill him. Quite the dilemma. Hopper theorises that the thing is an intelligent virus with a hive mind.
We hear some interesting backstory from Max- her mum left her dad and she is now forced to love to Indiana with her mum, stepdad and dodgy stepbrother rather than with her dad with whom she wants to be. She seems to connect with Lucas, rather than with poor Dustin who originally fancied her. It’s clear, I think, that poor Dustin is going to end up as the gooseberry.
We end up with Max, Lucas, Steve and Dustin trapped and surrounded by Demo-dogs (copyright Dustin) in a bus. Meanwhile, in cliffhanger number two, the controller Will sets up a trap, and monsters begin to emerge through the portal...
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