Stranger Things

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If Hop could see his daughter now.

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Alas, she does not ask anything about it before heading out to the airport.

El wont leave her room the next day (not even for waffles!

She thinks shes a monster.

Mikes attempts to tell her that shes incredible, that shes a superhero, fail.

She saw the way he looked at her at the rink.

He was scared of her.

Has a valediction ever been so heart-wrenching?

Maybe she thought that without her powers, that feeling would go away, too.

But adolescence and that flashback she keeps having to a very monstrous deed is much more complicated than that.

Without Joyce around, shes on her own, and her questioning goes about as well as youd expect.

The van taking El to a juvenile detention center gets stopped by three unmarked cars.

Theres just something about the way Paul Reiser says hey, kiddo that makes me trust him immediately.

At a roadside diner, Owens tells Eleven that Hawkins and her friends are in trouble.

She hears him but has one small concern: Her powers are gone.

Owens has that covered.

Of course, theres a catch: She has to leave with him now.

She cant go back to Mike and Will.

She cant head out to Hawkins to help them first.

Its now or never.

No pressure or anything, you poor child who has been through enough trauma for a lifetime!!

She cant help herself but ask him the question shes been mulling over: What if hes wrong?

What if she isnt one of the good guys?

Eleven and Owens are gone before the waitress can bring them their waffles and club sandwich.

Dont you love it when characters start to come together?

And who should they find there answering the cops questions?

Its time to compare notes with Nancy.

Theyre looking for a way to connect Chrissy and Fred.

Why did Vecna choose them?

Nancy, meanwhile, wants to follow this Victor Creel lead.

Both teams make some game-changing discoveries.

Well, it checks out except for that whole happened in 1959 thing.Thatdetail creates more questions than answers.

Max is putting this all together just as she hears that sinister voice call her name.

She knows it and we know it: Max is next on Vecnas list.

More Strange Things!

Good at so many things, but cover stories?

Unless Joan and Brian Brittanica are real people, and theydohail from Alaska and I dont know it.

But Joyce and Murray do land in Alaska, so it looks like Hops big rescue is in motion.

Be on alert, though it looks like theres another guard suspicious of what the American is up to.

Not stressful at all!!

Well, Lucas has quickly learned that hanging with the popular kids isnt all its cracked up to be.

Lucas is a good boy!

Were Steve and Nancy endgame all along?

Seems like things have been kicked up a notch, doesnt it?

That is an interesting development!!

Murray is just always out here sensing the tension, isnt he?

Im sorry, but it warms my little heart to hear the Byers boys call themselves Els brothers.

Im a softie, get used to it.