Um, Steve? Where's your Russian friend?
[yelling in Russian]
- Go, go, go, go, go! - [Dustin] Shit.
[office chair squeaks]
[yelling in Russian]
[Dustin] Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!
[gasps for air] Holy shit!
- [grunting] - [guards yelling in Russian]
- Come on! Go, go, go, go, go! - [Robin] Come on!
- [Robin] Come on, quick! - [Steve] Hold the door!
[yelling in Russian]
- [Steve] Help me, come on! - [Erica] Here! Come on, let's go!
[yelling in Russian]
- Come on! - Go! Just get out of here!
Go, come on, now!
No! Just go get some help, okay?
I won't forget you!
[yelling in Russian]
[Jonathan] Come on!
[intense synth music playing]
Stairs.
- Jesus! - What the f...
[eerie synth music playing]
[theme music playing]
Hey! Excuse me.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Where do you want it, sir?
[ominous synth music playing]
- Backup. - Some comrades.
- [door whines shut] - [carnival music playing]
[playful orchestral music playing]
so he can stop selling us that crap.
[in Russian] Those generators you were working on, what are you powering?
[in Russian] This tastes like shit strawberry.
because it all tastes the same, okay?
[Murray, in Russian] It's all the same.
[in Russian] Tell that stupid man it is not the same in the slightest,
Oh, yeah? You tell him... he can forget it.
[in Russian] He says forget it. No cherry.
[in Russian] No cherry, no deal.
- [Hopper growls] - Come on! Come on!
I'm just giving him an opportunity
Yeah, who's been jerking us around for a full day!
my entire life.
He stuck with us.
It's because...
Not of us,
He's scared of that seven-foot-tall Russian freak
who could've killed him just as easily as us.
Smirnoff knows
that if he runs back to his comrades without a scratch on him,
are the best chance he's got.
I give him 30 seconds before he comes knocking on that door,
You know, testing us. He's just calling my bluff.
♪ 'Cause I work so hard To make it every day ♪
♪ Just how some things never change ♪
♪ Ooh, I'm just burning Doin' the neutron dance ♪
♪ I'm just burning Doin' the neutron dance ♪
♪ All I've got to do is just believe... ♪
[muttering in Russian]
♪ And I'm just burning... ♪
- ♪ I'm just burning ♪ - ♪ In my feet ♪
[Dustin] So, when we set fire to the hub,
the Russians appear to be trying to reopen it,
which just destroys everything we risked our lives for.
- Yeah. - My brother, Lucas Charles Sinclair?
Yeah, with that attitude, they are. Jee-zus!
I'm just being realistic.
which should take us approximately twelve-and-a-half days.
Did you just do all of that in your head?
Come again?
Just because I don't agree with Communism as an ideology...
The evil centaur team and Tirek
and then Megan and the other ponies have to use Moochick's magic
All the pink in the world can't disguise the irrefutable fact
Because I'm...
[gasps for air]
You think I just wear this?! Think I'm a spy in a sailor's uniform?
I told you before. [gasps for air]
My delivery didn't come,
nobody knows about us, nobody saw us.
You could just let us go, all right?
I don't know if you have Russian ice cream or if that's considered gelato.
I don't know what's what, but whatever you guys want, seriously.
USS Butterscotch, I mean, you gotta try it.
[laughs nervously]
"USS... Butterscotch." [laughs]
Oh, come on. No, no! No, seriously...
[soldiers speaking Russian]
[in Russian] Put them in the chairs.
[soldier speaks Russian]
we have the very best.
[speaks Russian]
Let us outta here!
Bastards! Let us out! Let us out!
[ominous synth music playing]
I was just... following up to see if anything else had gone missing,
There's a pattern, okay? A consistency to their behavior.
and... and, what, they just stop, out of the blue?
I mean, did the Mind Flayer just suddenly stop infecting people?
Okay, can you guys settle an argument for us?
Yeah, because she is conspiring against me.
Mike, the flayed are out there doing God knows what.
[Nancy] She knows her abilities better than any of us.
El has saved the world twice, and Mike still doesn't trust her.
You wanna talk about trust, really? After you made Eleven spy on us?
- No. - Your girlfriend used El's powers
- to spy on us. - No, no, no, I did not make her.
And why are we even talking about this, seriously?
- I guess girlfriends don't lie, they spy. - We were just joking around.
- Then gross! - Seriously, Mike?
I'm just trying to demonstrate how careless Max is with Eleven's powers.
when they've obviously vanished off the face of the Earth.
So can we please just come up with a new plan
because I love her and I can't lose her again.
Just a family discussion.
[Alexei speaking Russian]
[Murray] It requires much strength, power.
[Alexei speaking Russian]
[Murray] Those houses, like the one you found,
Why build this key here? Why are they not doing this in their own backyard?
What are they trying to do, blow us to smithereens?
[speaking Russian]
There were many of these, uh, keys before in Russia,
[Alexei speaking Russian]
They had to come to where the... where the, uh...
Because you can just go ahead and file your complaint
What is Smirnoff doing?
- He's showing me. - [speaking Russian]
they're using it to penetrate a hole
[speaking Russian]
They're using this energy...
[Alexei speaking Russian]
[speaking Russian]
Jesus Christ.
[speaking Russian]
[in Russian] Can we watch Looney Tunes now?
[big band music playing]
[in Russian] The key, is there a way to turn it off?
[speaking Russian]
Sorry, "exposed." Compromised.
[speaking Russian]
[Alexei speaking Russian]
designed by the greatest Russian minds,
guarded by their greatest warriors.
[speaking Russian]
[Dustin] Oh-ho-ho!
- [Dustin] Aw, come on. - You seriously thought
- they'd just leave keys in there? - There's gotta be a spare.
- [Erica] Hey, Dustin? - Yeah?
How big did you say that Demogorgon was?
Could be useful.
Taking down Commies, saving your friends.
The best thing we can do for them is to get out of here and find help.
Our chance of surviving, and theirs, rises substantially.
Just trust me on this. Please?
Well, the good news is that they're calling you a doctor.
- Yeah. - Jesus!
I'm so sorry. It's just...
I'm gonna die in a secret Russian base
with Steve "The Hair" Harrington.
- It's just too trippy, man. - We're not gonna die.
Just... You gotta let me just think for a second.
That's what us band dweebs called her.
- [sighs] - It was first period,
Even though all of us losers pretend to be above it all,
we still just wanna be popular...
Seriously.
[sighs] It just baffles me.
everything that people say you should care about, it's all just...
that there were evil Russians beneath our feet,
[suspenseful music playing]
He wants us to find him.
It's a trap, I agree. We'll be ambushed.
We'll know that they're coming, and we will kick their flayed butts.
You mean El will kick their butts.
[Eleven] Billy knows it.
It's just, you've only done this before once.
I need you to trust me.
Just... be careful.
[suspenseful synth music playing]
[tires screeching]
[ominous synth music playing]
You must be joking.
[Hopper] Um, tell Owens that the Russkies are opening the gate.
Not about the Russkies, but about the gate.
You compromised me, Jim.
How can you just sit there being calm?
Can't just sit around and wait for a call.
[in Russian] What's going on?
Back to Hawkins. Come on.
[Joyce] Come on.
Oh, no. There's definitely something wrong with us.
How did you find us?
[in Russian] More lies.
Who knows we are here, little bitch?
Uh, well, Dustin knows.
- Yeah, Dustin Henderson, he knows. - Steve!
- [Steve laughs] - Dustin Henderson.
It is your small, curly-haired friend?
Oh, curly-haired. Great hair. Small. Kind of like a 'fro. Yeah.
and Hopper's calling the US cavalry. [laughs]
They're gonna come in here, commando-style, guns a-blazin',
and kick your sorry asses back to Russia.
[soldiers yelling in Russian]
[speaking Russian]
[soldiers yelling in Russian]
[officer grunts a command]
[intense synth music playing]
That's crazy, I was just talking about you.
[ominous synth music playing]
What did I raise, a pussy for a son?
Please come home.
Get up and fight me, pussy! Pussy!
[man] Billy, come over here, I want you to meet someone.
Because now I see you.
[dramatic choral music playing]
let us in.
you are going to have to let us stay.
[firecrackers crackling]
[dramatic orchestral and choral music continues]
Nyet.