![]() ![]() ![]() The point of his flashbacks concerning his daughter at this point seem to be a catalyst that spurs him to try to save Will when he couldn't save his own daughter. We never get an official diagnosis of what killed her, but from ensuing flashbacks, I'm assuming it's child leukemia or some other form of cancer. The pattern of the words he uses bring us finally to his flashback of the deceased daughter mentioned so many times up until this point: in the initial memory, he's playing with her outside with the woman who used to be his wife, and she starts to have trouble breathing. On the other side, in the Upside Down, Joyce is scared and Hop is trying to calm her by telling her to breathe slowly. They reluctantly cut their hands open together to attract it with blood. They have the gun still, and Jonathan pounds nails jaggedly into the baseball bat Nancy got from her parents' garage. El is the one who deduces they went to find the "demogorgon." Nancy and Jonathan are back at the Byers' and are setting up a booby trap to catch it. Brenner is clearly convinced Hop and Joyce are not going to find the boy, if they even make it back out of the rift alive.Īt the school, Mike, Dustin, Lucas and an exhausted El notice Nancy and Jonathan have taken off. If the air is toxic, what might it have done to him? As they go through the rift, Brenner and his cronies take off to the school where Hop clearly told them she is hiding. They give them hazmat suits because "the atmosphere is toxic." Joyce balks at this - "my son's in there." And he's been there for like a week. I think there's something to the deal Hop made with Brenner that we don't actually get to see, though - and whatever it is, it's going to factor into Season 2. This must have worked, though we don't actually see Brenner agreeing on it - the next scene is Hop being led to where Joyce is and both of them being led to the rift while Hop explains to her how he got the lab coats to let them go. Hop says he'll only tell him if he leaves them all alone after everything is over. This gets him an audience with Brenner alone - Brenner offers him some cigarettes, I guess as a peace offering after the tasing - and asks him where "the girl" is. He proposes a deal: they let him and Joyce go to try to find Will, and they never tell anyone about any of this from now on. I know you do experiments on little kids whose parents' brains you turned to mush." He knows they faked Will's death, he knows they killed Benny, and lied about what they were doing with El. ![]() "Did I stutter?" he cheekily responds (ugh, Hop, do me). Hop is faring worse, unfortunately, in another room where he's being repeatedly tased by the Creepy Lady and some other lab coats. Joyce can see right through him, though - she reminds him that he and whoever it is he's working for faked Will's death. He tells her they don't really know what the monster is, but that it has the basic animal instinct of hunting, and that they've lost six people to it. Joyce is confined to a dark room alone, handcuffed, and Brenner comes in, trying to pull the "help me help you" thing he pulled on Mrs. ![]() Hop and Joyce have been captured by the lab coats/government cronies/whatever you want to call the creepy guys working for Hawkins Lab. Season 2 was greenlit (with episode titles!) as of last month (August 2016), however, so this episode is just a bookend to the wider narrative. It certainly ends neatly enough that if they hadn't chosen to continue the story, its ambiguity would not be a disservice per se. Episode Eight, The Upside Down, is the final episode of the first season, and in some ways it could have been the end of the series - they took their time officially announcing Season 2 and many of us felt unsure if the narrative demanded more. ![]()
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