Joyce begs Hopper to find her son
Hopper says kids his age play hooky and quotes 99 out of 100; Joyce demands to know about the one. Nothing bad happens in Hawkins, he insists.
Jim Hopper & Joyce Byers
The chief and the mother who refuses to be told she is crazy. 46 scenes together, in story order.
46 moments · 1h 06m · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Hopper searches the Byers shed and calls a search party
Will's bike is found but not Will. Hopper checks the house, then the shed, and comes out rattled enough to summon every volunteer in town.
- 03
Joyce tells Hopper the call was Will
Hopper calls the melted phone a prank; Joyce refuses to be managed and hits back with a question about his own daughter.
- 04
Joyce swears the body in the quarry is not Will
Hopper lays out the drowning theory; Joyce insists she spoke to Will through the lights and describes a faceless, long-armed thing in her wall.
- 05
Hopper tells Joyce about seeing Sarah after she died
Hopper opens up about hearing his dead daughter and packing the grief away, then urges Joyce to go to the morgue and see for herself.
- 06
Joyce checks the body for Will's birthmark and refuses to sign
Joyce asks to see the birthmark on the arm; outside, Hopper and Jonathan talk about how tough she is, then she storms out saying that is not her son.
- 07
Hopper tells Joyce she was right about Will's body
After sweeping the house for bugs, Hopper admits he went to the morgue the night before: the body was a fake, and Joyce has been right the whole time.
- 08
Hopper realises the lab child may not be Will
Joyce retells the lab child's room; Hopper connects the drawing and Benny's diner to Terry Ives and fears he has been chasing another kid.
- 09
Hopper and Joyce meet Terry Ives
Terry's sister lets them in, but Joyce's plea about Will and Jane meets a woman who cannot answer anything at all.
- 10
MK Ultra: Terry, the LSD and the isolation tanks
Terry's sister explains the CIA study that paid her sister to take psychedelics and float in sensory-deprivation tanks while pregnant.
- 11
Jane, born with abilities
The sister insists Terry miscarried, yet Terry has spent twelve years believing a gifted daughter was stolen by the government.
- 12
What Hopper would give for a chance
Driving away from Terry's house, Joyce despairs of finding Will; Hopper reminds her the girl surfaced five nights ago, so they still have a chance.
- 13
Joyce tells Jonathan he is not alone
At the station Joyce lays into Jonathan for hunting the monster himself and reminds him he has a family.
- 14
The acrobat and the flea: Eleven tries to find Will
Nancy hugs Mike and notices her dress; the boys explain the Upside Down with a flea and a tightrope; Eleven reaches and comes up empty.
- 15
Eleven finds Barb in the Upside Down
In the void Eleven calls Barb's name and finds her; she surfaces screaming one word while Joyce holds her, then names Castle Byers.
- 16
Eleven reaches Will: Mom is coming
Eleven finds Will in his fort and relays Joyce's message to hold on; she comes out of the water shaking and is told she did good.
- 17
Joyce insists on going for Will: He's my son, Hop
Hopper wants Joyce to stay back; she refuses outright and tells Jonathan to watch the kids before they head for the lab.
- 18
Hopper and Joyce walk up to the lab fence
Hopper's plan is to let himself get caught; guards swarm them at the gate as The Clash plays out the episode.
- 19
Hopper trades Eleven's location for a way into the gate
Hopper names his price for giving up the girl, then explains the deal to a stunned Joyce as they are handed suits for the atmosphere inside.
- 20
Hopper's breathing and the memory of a princess
Inside the Upside Down, Hopper talks Joyce through a panic attack and is pulled back into a bedtime story he once told his own daughter.
- 21
Will is found; Mike promises Eleven the Snow Ball
Joyce and Hopper pull Will out of the thing holding him in the Upside Down while Mike carries a fading Eleven and promises her Eggos and a dance.
- 22
Joyce and Hopper bring Will back
Will isn't breathing. Hopper counts compressions, Joyce begs her son to come back, and Hopper's memory of a hospital monitor cuts through it all.
- 23
Owens warns of the Anniversary Effect; Hopper tells Joyce to call him first
The doctor predicts more episodes and asks for trust; outside, Joyce bristles and Hopper backs the science but insists she call him if it worsens.
- 24
Joyce and Hopper: nightmares or flashbacks
Joyce shows Hopper Will's drawing; he calls the episodes flashbacks and says it will get better in time, then they share a cigarette like high school.
- 25
Will explains his now-memories to Hopper
Hopper gently questions Will about the shadow; Will says he just knows things now, memories that are not his, growing, spreading, killing.
- 26
Joyce and Hopper connect the drawings into vines
Joyce realizes the black lines in Will's drawings join up; laid across the floor they fork like lightning, and Hopper names them: vines.
- 27
Mike asks Joyce about the shadow monster
Mike turns up at the Byers house to see Will, Joyce fobs him off, and he asks point blank whether this is about the shadow monster.
- 28
Joyce and Bob cut Hopper free of the vines
Following his hat through the tunnels, Joyce finds Hopper being strangled by vines and hacks him loose as the lab team floods in.
- 29
Joyce demands answers from the lab doctors
Joyce tears into the Hawkins Lab staff who told her to be patient, and asks the room whether anyone can say what is wrong with her son.
- 30
Will remembers Mike but not Hopper
The doctor tests Will's memory: he knows his friend in the photo but not the man who carried him out, and says the soldiers upset something.
- 31
A virus with a hive mind
Owens lays out his theory that Will is infected by something whose hosts communicate, and Joyce asks what happens when nothing of her boy is left.
- 32
Will's confession: it was a trap
Will apologizes and says he was made to do it. Mike realizes the soldiers are walking into a trap, and Will says it is already too late.
- 33
Will has to be put to sleep
With the lab overrun, Mike argues Will is a spy for the shadow monster. Joyce asks her screaming son if he knows her before holding him down to sedate him.
- 34
Bob Newby, superhero: Bob volunteers for the breakers
Only Bob knows BASIC, so he insists on going down to the basement alone. Hopper teaches him the gun in four words, and Bob promises to get everyone out.
- 35
Open sesame: Bob gets the doors open
Alone in the dark basement, Bob resets the breakers and reboots the system while Nancy and Jonathan rattle the gate outside. The locks release and he cheers.
- 36
Bob's run for the front door
Told he is almost home free, Bob makes a break for the lobby. Joyce arrives just in time to watch and Hopper has to drag her away.
- 37
The Mind Flayer: the kids explain the hive mind
The party lays out the shadow monster as a hive mind and reaches for a D&D analogy. Hopper calls it a kids' game; Dustin says the manual is not for kids.
- 38
Joyce decides: we have to kill it
No one trusts the military to stop this. Joyce says she wants to kill it, Hopper agrees, and Mike points out the one person connected to the thing is Will.
- 39
Will wakes up tied to a chair
In the shed, Will comes round bound and surrounded by family. Joyce says they only want to talk; he demands to know why he is tied up until his voice gives out.
- 40
Morse code: Will spells out the answer
Will is talking without words. The group feeds him memories while Dustin and Lucas decode the taps letter by letter into a two-word instruction.
- 41
The phone rings: it knows where they are
A ringing phone cuts through the shed. Everyone freezes hoping Will did not hear it, but he did, and the house has to move fast.
- 42
Demo-dogs surround the Byers house
Hopper orders everyone from the windows and Nancy takes the shotgun. The pack circles outside, then one comes crashing through, already dead.
- 43
Eleven meets Max, sees Will, and agrees to close the gate
Dustin shows off his new teeth, Max introduces herself, and Eleven sees how sick Will is before Hopper asks if she can shut the gate she opened.
- 44
Demo-dogs, and why closing the gate could kill Will
Dustin names the Demo-dogs, Eleven insists she can close the gate, Mike realises that would kill Will, and Joyce decides to burn the thing out of him.
- 45
Joyce burns the shadow out of Will, and Jonathan radios: Close it
Joyce screams for the thing to get out of her son; Will finally wakes and says Mom, and Jonathan tells Hopper over the radio to close the gate.
- 46
Hopper and Joyce share a cigarette outside the gym
Waiting on their kids, Hopper and Joyce catch up in the parking lot and he tells her the grief never goes away, but every day gets a little easier.