Stranger Things React

"The Monster"

Trapped in the Upside Down with the Demogorgon, Nancy Wheeler barely escapes by following Jonathan Byers' voice to a nearby gate and being pulled through it by him, the two watching in horror as the gate seals itself up.

"Oh thank god." Karen mutters.

"Mom, I'm right here."

Concerned about Nancy's strange behavior from earlier, Steve Harrington takes Tommy Hagan and Carol Perkins with him to check on her, which they mock him for. He sees Jonathan holding Nancy in her bedroom.

"Well that's awkward... and easy to assume its something different."

Jim Hopper recounts to Joyce Byers seeing a child's room in Hawkins National Laboratory. Joyce realizes it was not Will's room when comparing his more detailed drawings to the childlike one Hopper saw on the wall. Hopper recalls accounts of a child being seen with Benny Hammond the night he died, and theorizes that it could be Terry Ives' abducted daughter, Jane. A traumatized Nancy asks Jonathan to sleep in her bed with her, not wanting to be alone. Jonathan tries to comfort her by remarking the monster cannot get them in her house, but Nancy responds that "we don't know that."

"Well, seems you were lucky because Will was still caught." Someone mutters.

But El shakes her head stubbornly as the group notice. Steve's eye's widen and El whispers to them.

"The Demogorgon can go into places if the gate is there but they can't open doors.."

"Wait so how did it get Will?" Robin asks.

El just stays silent as Max catches on.

"Oh MY GO-"

"Let's continue!"

Mike Wheeler tears apart Eleven's blanket fort in anger.

Mike goes a bit red at this.

The next morning, Nancy tells Jonathan they need to save Will and Barb Holland from the Demogorgon. They conclude that it is a predator drawn to blood, and that they can lure it to an advantageous spot and kill it.

"Right so I was going to say 'That's smart' but then you said that and I changed my mind. Why would you want to lure this bloody thing!"

As Karen Wheeler informs Nancy that breakfast is ready, Jonathan realizes he and Nancy are holding hands before they leave out her window. Connie Frazier visits Scott Clarke under the guise of recruiting children for the "Indiana A.V. Club", getting Mike's, Dustin Henderson's, and Lucas Sinclair's names.

"It's that b*tch again!" Claire mutters.

"Oh god they have our children's names!" Karen cries.

Dustin visits Mike in his basement, who is angry at himself for shouting at Eleven and blames Lucas for their predicament. Dustin states that they both broke their group's code and need to reconcile. Lucas will only accept Mike's apology if Eleven is banished from the group, which Mike does not concede to. Lucas decides to find Will on his own. He gears up and leaves as the repairman watches him.

"I thought you all knew better than to go off on your own! If you wont tell an adult at least stick together!" Charles tell them.

Eleven wanders into a nearby supermarket and has a flashback to Martin Brenner placing her into the "bathtub" to find the Demogorgon.

"At this point, what else could he do that isn't terrible."

She steals several boxes of Eggos from the store and uses her powers to stop the manager from pursuing her.

"Does she realise that is stealing? And that doing it is illegal?"

Steve sneakily raises an eyebrow at eleven who shakes her head.

Joyce and Hopper track down Ives and are shown by her sister Becky that she is catatonic.

"Mama..." El murmurs.

She explains that Ives was part of the MKUltra project when she was pregnant with Jane, but Ives miscarried her.

Eleven looks a bit miffed at the idea people believed she was dead.

When Ives was lucid, she insisted that Jane had been born and had "abilities."

Becky looks upset as Terry, who was now lucid since the reaction begun spoke up. "I knew in my heart she was alive."

While buying hunting supplies, Nancy and Jonathan notice the local theatre has been defaced with graffiti insulting her, and find Steve, Tommy, Carol and Nicole spraying more nearby.

Nancy looks upset at remembering this.

"I'm sorry Nance.."

"s'ok."

Steve dismisses her when she confronts him and provokes Jonathan into a fight in which he beats Steve severely. Jonathan is arrested when he accidentally injures an arriving Phil Callahan.

"Well at least something I taught you stuck." Lonnie muttered. The mothers of the group glared at him.

Unable to get into the lab because of its fenced off perimeter, Lucas climbs a tree and stakes it out with binoculars. Mike and Dustin comes across Troy Walsh and James Dante in the woods while looking for Eleven, who chase them to Sattler Quarry and corner them at the edge of a cliff. Troy orders Mike to jump off it or else he will cut out Dustin's teeth. Mike jumps, but is caught in midair by Eleven's powers, who had heard them looking for her and followed their voices.

"Mike you jumped off a cliff!"

"Troy! I know Me and your father did NOT raise you to be such a hateful nasty boy!"

Both boys look embarrassed.

"Thank goodness that poor girl managed to help Mike in time!" Troy's mother mentioned.

She lifts Mike back to safety and breaks Troy's arm with her mind, forcing the bullies to flee.

"See I didn't Lie!"

Phil and Calvin look embarrassed too.

She has a flashback to encountering the Demogorgon in the void, their combined powers accidentally opening the lab's gate and freeing it into the lab.

"Is it just me or does that look like the earthquake rifts..?"

"See, she is a monster! I Bet it wasn't Eddie that killed those kids and caused an earthquake, it was her!" Jason yells.

Some people don't look convinced while others agreed with him. The group all make sounds of protest before the video continues.

Eleven tearfully admits that she opened the gate, but Mike and Dustin insist that she is their friend and the three embrace.

"I'm glad OUR children know that mistakes don't define us." Karen says spitefully at the others in the room.

As they return home, the repairman calls in their location and Lucas watches soldiers leave the lab.

"Oh shit..."