- [band stops] - Now, doesn't that just lift your spirits?
to provide you with the very best entertainment that money can buy!
[fair worker] Keep your arms inside.
- Because it's fun. - Yeah, Dad, 'cause it's fun!
Who here wants to see some fireworks?
Come on, now, you can do better than that.
Who here wants to see some fireworks?
Because I slipped Jimmy a five.
Come on, these are the best seats in the house.
The best seats in the house.
- [fireworks popping] - Oh!
[ominous synth music playing]
[rustling in trees]
[rustling continues]
The fireworks. Look at the fireworks!
[fireworks popping and crackling distantly]
- Is he talking about the flayed? - He must be.
So, he's building an army, just like we thought.
And the Mind Flayer now knows that she's the only thing that can stop him.
[ominous synth music playing]
It's just the fireworks.
He knows we're here.
[trees rustling]
[slurring] Jesus, slow down!
- No, dingus, it's 500! - It's 300!
- [Erica] Dustin, watch out! - [Dustin] Shit!
Come on. We gotta go, now.
- Come on! Get out! - Let's go!
- [Steve] We're coming! - Here goes nothin'.
- Are you gonna die on us? - Boop.
It's just a matter of how...
They're gonna be looking for us up there,
The Russians, they took the keys.
Steve, can you taste the air?
- Stop! - Shit! Come on! Come on!
- [kids clamoring] - [in Russian] Stop right there!
Hey, get away from the windows.
[leaves rustling]
[glasses clinking]
[Max] Come on! Lucas!
[shotgun fires]
- [shotgun fires] - [creature screeches]
[monstrous chittering]
- [Nancy] Go, go, go! - [Jonathan] Come on, come on, go!
- [Nancy] Go! - [Jonathan] Hurry up! Come on!
- [Jonathan] Go! - [Nancy] Go, come on!
- [Lucas] Come on! - [Nancy repeating] Come on!
[Lucas] Come on! Come on!
- Just trust me. - [Robin laughs]
[Dustin] Come on.
You see, Einstein has just become
- the world's first time traveler! - Sorry. Sorry.
- [Doc] I sent him... into the future! - [Dustin sighs]
Only because it was a setup.
- What? - He was just a patsy.
[Erica and Dustin] Shh!
To find us a ride.
[Alexei speaking Russian]
[speaking Russian]
- Sorry, "keys." Two keys. - [Alexei speaking Russian]
- [speaking Russian] - And to open the vault,
- It's a very famous number. - All right, so we get the keys,
an impenetrable fortress?
- Who are coming. - Well, we don't know that anymore
because you yelled at them like it was a parent-teacher conference,
because now we're... Wait, wait, what are we do... Oh!
You know what, if you can't handle this, then just turn around
and drop me off first.
This interminable bickering was amusing at first,
but it's getting very stale and we've still got a long drive ahead of us.
but, admit it, you're real curious to know what he's like in the sack.
Well, you're just a big manbaby
because the last time you opened your heart, you got hurt.
[in Russian] What was that?
[in Russian] I told them they should have sex.
[Alexei speaking Russian]
[tires squealing]
No, first, we need to stop the bleeding,
I skateboard. Trust me.
Keep the pressure on it, nice and firm, okay?
Like, Tom and Bruce, they merged to become one, right?
And... And... And maybe Heather and Janet, too, and God knows who else.
What else do you use a bowl for?
You wanna kill that thing with fireworks?
It's just, being broken up,
It's just, I was jealous at first, and... and angry.
And now I realize how unfair that is.
I just, like, I've never felt like this, you know, with anyone before...
- "Girlfriends"? - No, no, no, no, not... not girlfriends.
that I just...
- [Dustin speaking via radio, garbled] - [static popping]
[Dustin, distorted via radio] I repeat... this is a code red!
- [score from Back to the Future plays] - Dustin?
- [Mike] Dustin! - Mike!
and I'm sorry, it's not because I'm mad. I mean, I actually was mad,
but it's also because I was trapped underground
in a secret Russian base.
Dustin, you're going way too fast. I can't understand you.
I know that sounds insane, but the Russians have infiltrated Hawkins!
The goddamn Russians!
And now... they're using... to open the gate.
Dustin, you're... you're breaking up.
And now they're after us and we don't have a way out of here,
so I need you to come and get us. Can Nancy drive?
Dustin, you're cutting out.
- Mike? - Dustin, you there?
Dustin...
- Dustin! - Mike!
So, like, I wasn't totally focused in there or anything, but...
because he's in the past.
[gentle synth music playing]
[synth music distorts]
[carnival music playing]
Stay here, go over the plans with Smirnoff.
he certainly knows how to throw a party.
I just, you seem a little more quiet than usual.
- I just... I just wanna find the kids. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Larry] I'll give it my best shot.
Come on, come on, come on!
Pick up, pick up, pick up, you commie bastards!
[ominous synth music playing]
- How do you even drink that? - Because it's delicious.
Dustin's so freaked out about the gate, he decides to go watch a movie?
- Yeah, we just have to shut it again. - Then the monster dies.
But if not, we always have Lucas' fireworks.
I wanna hear you say it again, because you keep doubting me.
- [Max] Ridiculous. - [Lucas] Will?
[eerie synth music playing]
[in Russian accent] Interrogate me.
When the Russian doctor took out the bone saw.
It was just a little bit, though.
First semester, senior year.
I think it's because I found someone who's a little bit better for me.
Ever since Dustin got home, he's been saying,
It's some girl from camp, I guess his girlfriend.
That doesn't matter. The point is, this girl, you know, the one that I like,
Maybe 'cause Tommy H. would've made fun of me or...
It's stupid. I mean, Dustin's right, it's all just a bunch of bullshit anyways.
Because, when I think about it,
I should've been hanging out with this girl the whole time.
First of all, she's hilarious. She's so funny.
You know, she can crack, like, top secret Russian codes and...
Robin, did you just OD in there?
[Robin] The floor's disgusting.
Yeah, well, I already got a bunch of blood and puke on my shirt, so...
This girl.
Really? 'Cause I think he's thinking a lot more clearly than usual.
he doesn't even know this girl.
About me being jealous and, like, obsessed?
It isn't because I had a crush on you.
It's because...
and your stupid hair.
And I didn't understand, because you would get
and just scream into my pillow.
But Tammy Thompson's a girl.
No, I just, uh...
just thinking.
She sounds like a Muppet giving birth.
[intense synth music playing]
[monstrous screeching]
[Alexei, in Russian] And why all this?
If I just turn the keys, it's like turning off a car.
[in Russian] Yes.
Just make sure you are nowhere near it when it does. It is not pretty.
Turns people into dust.
And I become an American citizen and join in the fun, yes?
[carnival music playing]
[in Russian] It doesn't get more American than this, my friend.
- They are rigged, these games? - [in Russian] Yes.
That's just it, my dear Alexei.
They have been designed to present the illusion of fairness!
To get us the closest thing to food I can find.
[Karen]...feel the wind push you back and it's gonna...
Dustin's, then Lucas's,
[ride door whirring]
[rapid carnival music playing]
[Dustin] And...
We just have to get on the bus with the rest of these plebes,
and home sweet home, here we come.
- Uh, Dustin? - What?
Yeah, we might not wanna go to your house.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Steve] Come on, let's go, let's go.
[carnival music playing]
[in Russian] Look!
[ominous music playing]
[in Russian] Traitor.
[in Russian] Keep pressure on it.
[suspenseful synth music playing]
[carnival music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[in Russian] Heading to "Big Top."
Northeast side of the fair.
[barker] You, sir!
[barker] Step on up, sir!
I... I just left for a minute...
- [man grunts] - [carnival music playing]
[intense synth music playing]
[man on radio, in Russian] Vasilev, are you there? Vasilev? Answer!
[male voice continues in Russian]
[carnival music playing]
[suspenseful synth music playing]
[men speaking Russian]
[gasps for air, groans]
[man, in Russian] Comrade!
[man on radio, in Russian] On the lower level...
[in Russian] Keep all entrances locked down.
[in Russian] What the hell?
[intense synth music playing]
[dramatic synth music playing]
[Dustin grunts]
Ask them. It's their fault.
Yeah, which is how we found out about the Russians.
Russians? Wait, what Russians?
- The Russians! - Those were Russians?
- [Steve] It was pretty damn close. - [Lucas] Okay, Russians?
As in, they're working for the Russian government?
- [Eleven panting] - [Dustin] What are you not comprehending?
[Dustin] It has everything to do with the gate...
[all exclaim in disgust]
[intense synth music playing]