Stranger Things React

"The Bathtub"

Mike Wheeler and Eleven share an intimate moment in which they almost kiss, before being interrupted by a panicked Dustin Henderson, having received a frantic call from Lucas Sinclair, warning them that the "bad men" are coming.

"oh god!"

Seeing the repairman outside, Mike asks his mother if she scheduled any repairs, which she did not.

"That's why you were acting so odd!? I wish you had told me!" Karen cried.

The kids flee on their bikes as Martin Brenner watches them from the front lawn. Lucas joins them as vans pursues them, another van turning in front of them and blocking them in. Eleven uses her powers to make it flip over them, blocking the other vans from pursuing.

"Holy shit she's so powerful!"

After they escape, Lucas earnestly apologizes to her for his behavior, and Eleven apologizes for misleading the group. Mike and Lucas reconcile over their fight.

"There we go, now we just need everyone else to talk to each other." Someone spoke.

Joyce Byers and Jim Hopper find her son in custody, and find his and Nancy Wheeler's hunting equipment in his trunk. The teens explain to the adults what happened in the woods, leaving Joyce upset that Jonathan risked his and Nancy's lives.

"It's a good thing Hopper was the police chief!" someone said. "Otherwise you'd have been locked up for sure."

Hopper leaves the group briefly to deal with Troy Walsh's mother, shouting at Phil Callahan and Calvin Powell for ridiculing her son's story of how his arm was broken. Hopper believes Troy when he mentions Eleven's powers and asks who she hangs around with when Troy mentions "those losers." Karen finds a strand of hair from Eleven's wig just as Brenner, Connie Frazier, and a group of Hawkins National Laboratory soldiers come to the door and search the place.

"Ugh. I officially hate that man."

"Same."

Brenner finds the Benny's Burgers shirt Eleven wore when the boys found her and claims to Karen and Ted Wheeler that Mike is in danger. Dustin notices a helicopter searching for the kids, and they hide their bikes under an abandoned bus before hiding in it themselves.

"Oh goodness! They are going to get caught!" Someone mumbles.

Steve Harrington nurses his injured face and argues with Tommy Hagan and Carol Perkins. He almost fights Tommy before leaving abruptly and cleans the graffiti he left off the movie theater out of guilt.

"Thank you for getting some sense. Even if it was knocked into you!" Robin snickers.

The teens and adults watch the soldiers take suspect items out of the Wheeler house. Worried about Mike, Nancy wonders how to find him, and Jonathan gets the idea to grab Will Byers' Supercom and contact the kids on it. Mike hears the call from Nancy but initially does not answer, worried that the men from the lab may be tricking them.

"Rude." Nancy muttered to herself.

He picks up when Hopper calls them. Several armed lab men arrive at the bus and find the bikes.

"They're too late!" someone cried.

Before they can get on the bus and find the kids, Hopper arrives and incapacitates them. They all meet at the Byers house, and the boys explain the gate is inside Hawkins Lab, and Hopper recalls seeing it when he broke in. Joyce and Nancy ask Eleven to find Will and Barb Holland, but she is not powerful enough to locate them. Washing herself up in the Byers' bathroom, she notices their bathtub and gets the idea to build a makeshift sensory deprivation tank.

"I swear when we get out I'm going to find that man and make him pay for what he did to that little girl." Someone mutters.

"Count me in!" another replies.

Dustin calls Scott Clarke and learns how to make one, learning he needs a large quantity of salt, and the group drives to Hawkins Middle.

"Why do you never question this!"

As Nancy and Mike grab the hose for the Byers' kiddie pool, Nancy has Mike promise her to stop keeping secrets from each other. When they ask each other, they both deny their respective attractions to Eleven and Jonathan.

"Well, that didn't last long!"

Joyce sets up a makeshift blindfold for Eleven and thanks her profusely for helping them, promising her she will be there if Eleven gets scared.

"Aww" "Cute!"

The group fills the pool with salt from the school's kitchen and Eleven gets in it, entering the void.

"Still can't understand this." Ted mutters.

Clearly, because I don't understand anything you thick twig.

She finds Barb's dead body and Will in a decaying version of Castle Byers. She relays a message from Joyce, and Will tells them to hurry. As Joyce and Hopper leave to enter the lab's gate, Nancy and Jonathan agree to lure the Demogorgon away to keep them safe in the Upside Down.

"Why do our children ALWAYS have to put themselves in danger!" Sue yelled angrily. "Thank god your not involved Erica."

Erica just giggles nervously.

Joyce and Hopper are almost immediately caught in the lab.

As Will sings "Should I Stay or Should I Go" to himself, the Demogorgon rips the fort apart and attacks him.

"Oh my god Will!" Joyce and Johnathan yell in sync.