Joyce remembers Will and Poltergeist
Castle Byers password, a surprise movie night and a witch voice: Joyce's memory of Will, cut against her calling for him in an empty house.
Joyce Byers & Will Byers
A mother talking to her lost boy through fairy lights, then nursing him back. 34 scenes together, in story order.
34 moments · 48 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Jonathan gives Will the mixtape over The Clash
A memory of the brothers over Should I Stay or Should I Go, Joyce fighting Lonnie on the phone, as Jonathan tells Will not to like things on command.
- 03
Will calls Joyce on the new phone
Joyce begs the breathing voice to say where he is, hears her son say Mom, and then the line and the phone burn out again.
- 04
Will's voice: Joyce through the wall, the boys through the radio
Will calls for his mom from a place like home but dark and cold; Joyce tears into the wallpaper while the boys hear him on the Heathkit, until it blows.
- 05
Joyce remembers Will the Wise and the green fireballs
A memory at the graveside: young Will explains why a wise wizard still needs fireballs, and Joyce promises new crayons because they look like cabbages.
- 06
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.
- 07
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.
- 08
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.
- 09
Will wakes up to his mom, his brother and a mix tape
In the hospital Will asks where he is, worries about Jonathan's bandaged hand, and gets a new tape with songs his brother thinks he'll like.
- 10
Christmas dinner at the Byers house
Jonathan documents the turkey, Will guesses the green present is an Atari, slips off to wash his hands, and comes back saying he's fine.
- 11
Joyce tells Will to stop apologizing
Driving Will to his appointment, Joyce reminds him there's nothing to be nervous about and that she'll be in the room the whole time.
- 12
Ghostbusters costume photo shoot
Parents snap pictures of the boys in proton packs before school; Will and Jonathan pose for Joyce while a little sister calls her brother a nerd.
- 13
Will heads out with Bob's camcorder
Joyce gives Will a camera lesson and a promise to come home if anything feels wrong; Jonathan lets him trick-or-treat alone with a 9:00 curfew.
- 14
Joyce and Dustin find Will frozen on the field
Cold open: Dustin leads Joyce to Will, locked in another episode on the school field, as she pleads with him to wake up.
- 15
No more secrets: Joyce shows Will the shape from the tape
Joyce matches the shape on the Halloween video to Will's drawing, says she thinks the episodes are real, and asks him to stop hiding things.
- 16
Will admits the thing got him; Joyce's promise
Will describes the shadow as a feeling he still carries everywhere, and Joyce swears nothing bad will ever happen to him again.
- 17
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.
- 18
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.
- 19
Will wakes up: he saw Hopper and thinks he will die
Will wakes Joyce in the night with a vision of Hopper in danger.
- 20
Bob realizes Will's drawings are a map of Hawkins
Asked to find the X with no questions, Bob spots Lovers' Lake and the rivers and works out the vines are a map of the town.
- 21
Will's now-memories lead to Hopper's truck and the tunnels
Will shouts turn right from a vision, they find Hopper's truck by a hole full of vines, and Joyce makes Bob dig her down into Will's map.
- 22
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.
- 23
Bob Newby, superhero, and a son who does not recognize him
Bob tells Joyce about the papers he signed and jokes about Maine, then Will wakes up and does not know who he is.
- 24
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.
- 25
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.
- 26
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.
- 27
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.
- 28
Joyce's rainbow ship: the crayon memory
Joyce reminds Will of his eighth birthday, the box of 120 colours and the spaceship drawing she hung at work and showed to everyone.
- 29
Mike's first day of kindergarten speech
Mike tells Will about the swings, the question he asked and the yes that was the best thing he ever did. Joyce begs Will to answer, and he does with two words.
- 30
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.
- 31
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.
- 32
Jonathan begs Joyce to stop as the heaters torture Will
With Will strapped to the bed and the room blazing, Jonathan screams that they're killing him while Joyce refuses to back off.
- 33
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.
- 34
Getting ready for the Snow Ball
Joyce films Will's dance moves, Karen photographs a mortified Mike, Lucas's sister ambushes him with a kiss, and Dustin hunts for his hairspray.