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One year after the events with the Upside Down and the Demogorgon, Will meets with a government doctor. The boys discover that there's a new player in town, and Jim pays a visit to El.

The boys go trick-or-treating on Halloween, and Will has another vision. Meanwhile, El relieves the days following her escape from the Upside Down, and Dustin finds something in the garbage can.

Dustin takes in a stray and calls it D'Artagnan. However, his plans to show it to Mr. Clarke don't go as intended. Meanwhile, Max tries to convince Mike to let her join the group, El sneaks out to pay her friends a visit, and Will decides to take a stand and face his fears.

After his encounter with the shadow creature, Will's condition worsens. Meanwhile, Jim and El fight after Jim discovers that El disobeyed the rules, and Owens brings Nancy and Jonathan to Hawkins Labs for a chat.

Jim is trapped in the Upside Down, and Joyce enlists Bob to help find him. Meanwhile, Nancy and Jonathan go to Murray, and El learns about the circumstances surrounding her birth.

Owens and his team try to find a way to end the shadow creature's influence on Will. Meanwhile, Dustin and Lucas find unlikely allies in their quest to find Dart.

El travels to Chicago to find her sister Eight, aka Kali, who has teamed up with other outcasts to kill the men who tormented her at Hawkins Labs.

When the demo-dogs overrun Hawkins Labs, one of the group saves the others at the cost of their own life. When the others get back to the Byers house, they realize what they're facing and try to get answers from a captive Will.

The group splits up to close the gate, evict the Mind Flayer from Will, and drive the demo-dogs away from Hawkins Lab.

Things change over the summer: Jonathan, Nancy, Steve, and Billy get jobs; Dustin goes to science camp; El and Mike become an item; Lucas and Max almost become an item. Meanwhile, mysterious power outages plague Hawkins and rats start exploding.

While El and Max go shopping, Nancy and Wheeler follow up on the exploding rats. Billy takes a coworker on a field trip, and Joyce blows off dinner with Jim to meet with Mr. Clarke.

El goes astrally projecting and discovers that Billy has done something with Heather. While the girls try to find the missing lifeguard, Will tries to get Mike and Lucas interested in D&D. Dustin and Steve spy on the mall shops, and Robin tries to decipher the Russian message.

Mike, Lucas, and Will recruit El and Max to help them learn who the Mind Flayer's host is. Robin, Steve, and Dustin recruit someone to sneak into Lynx, and Nancy and Jonathan are fired.

The Scoop Group explore the tunnels beneath Starcourt, while Nancy and Jonathan recruit Mike and the others to help them discover what happen to the Holloways and find the Mind Flayer's base of operations.

Dr. Alexei reveals what the Russians have been building, and Eleven sees where Billy has been. Dustin and Erica stage a daring rescue.

El and the others defend themselves as the Flayer tracks them down. The Scoop Group escape the Russian base and hide in a movie theater, but the Russians close in on them.

The Flayer comes to the mall to get El, and Dustin contacts Suzie to provide Jim and Joyce with needed information. El reminds Billy of his past, and Jim and Joyce have an argument about not arguing.