This is Hawkins' future if Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) wins.
He’s dangerously close to winning, too, what with four being the magic number.
Three are open now, and the fourth will manifest upon Max’s death.
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That makes her great bait.
“It’ll be like slaying sleeping Dracula in his coffin,” Dustin says.
Bullets hurt Vecna, right?
Brenner (Matthew Modine) tells her it’s as bad as they fear.
“Your friends are in terrible danger,” he warns.
Owens (Paul Reiser) wants to take her to Hawkins.
He sics one of his men on Owens, then drugs Eleven and collars her with an explosive equipment.
Brenner is able to get Eleven out, but a sniper-filled helicopter waits outside.
Owens pleads for Eleven’s life, but Sullivan orders the sniper to shoot anyway.
Brenner takes the bullets and Eleven flexes her amplified powers by bringing the bird down in a fiery crash.
Brenner dies, but not before releasing the neck explosive and attempting to make peace.
Steve says he wants babies and a future.
Eddie tells Dustin to “never change.”
Robin seems skeptical of their survival, as she should be.
This will probably go badly.
Basically, they know the creatures of the Upside Down are connected via a hive mind.
Well, that means they have to break backintothe prison.
He develops a plan to draw them all into the arena, where they’ll be clustered and vulnerable.
In California, Eleven and company try and fail to secure flights to Hawkins.
With no luck, they devise a new plan.
To do that, she needs a tank like the one in the subterranean lab.
Unfortunately, all they have is a Surfer Boy Pizza freezer.
Things aren’t going great at theCreel House.
(Jason proves he’s a natural with his new gun.
Is there anything this guy can’t do?)
“Now, I pray something terrible will happen to me.
So, that’s why I’m here.
I just want you to take me away, make me disappear.”
Vecna fails to materialize.
Not in the way she expected, at least.
But it’s not Lucas, it’s Vecna; he’s got her.
“It’s going to be you that breaks the world,” he intones.
She’s the final gate.
Now would be a good time for Nancy, Steve, and Robin to strike.
Unfortunately, things aren’t going so great in the Upside Down, either.
In Vecna’s dream, Max sees visions of Billy in the sauna from season 3.
Eleven notices this psychic refuge as she enters Max’s head and saves her from Vecna.
He believes Max is swept up in some satanic ritual and demands Lucas wake her.
Lucas won’t and the pair begin pounding on each other, destroying Max’s Walkman in the process.
Eleven’s win over Vecna is short-lived.
That might’ve been more interesting?)
When Eleven opened the gate in the Hawkins lab in season 1, it was Vecna who rushed in.
(That is me.
It is my dreams that are shattered.)
According to Vecna, her friends have already lost.
And then there’s Max, who is being lifted in the air and prepped for slaughter.
In California, a convulsing Eleven is pulled from the Surfer Boy freezer by Mike and company.
Will reminds Mike that he’s “the heart,” and Mike tells Eleven he loves her.
This gives her the strength to pull free from Vecna’s grip.
In the Creel House, Lucas watches in terror as Max’s bones snap.
Max crumples to the floor, alive but bent like a pretzel.
The bats terrorizing Eddie drop dead, but Eddie’s wounds are too severe.
Dustin sits with him as his new friend coughs up blood.
“I didn’t run away this time,” Eddie says, relishing his one small winbefore dying.
Hopper stares down one last demogorgon, retrieving an errant sword and chopping its head off.
It appears they’ve won.
In Max’s mind, Eleven tries to resurrect her friend.
Two days later, Eleven arrives in Hawkins with the California crew.
Residents are leaving en masse.
The media is calling the event a 7.4-magnitude earthquake.
They say 22 people died, which seems kind of small, to be honest.
There’s rumors that a “doorway to hell” has been opened.
Steve, Robin, and Dustin volunteer at a shelter for those unhoused by the event.
Robin finds out her band crush is having boyfriend problems and they flirt.
Dustin talks to Eddie’s uncle, who continues to proclaim his nephew’s innocence.
Dustin tells him a half-truth, saying that Eddie died in the quake but that he died a hero.
Regardless, Eddie is still being blamed for the murders.
They’re going to fix it up for Eleven.
He says they have to kill him because he won’t stop until he’s consumed everything.
Hopper and Joyce arrive and everyone reunites.
Didn’t think it’d be that simple, but, hey, here we are.
Max is alive, wrapped in casts in the hospital.
Lucas says her heart stopped for more than a minute and she might not wake up.
Eleven tries to enter her mind and it’s empty.
So where’s Vecna?
Let’s not forget what Brenner said: Vecna doesn’t just kill, he consumes.
If she wakes up, will she be the same Max?
Or will she be a vessel for Vecna?
Ash rains down from the sky.
Smoke and fire in the distance.
The Upside Down is breaching our world.
