Dustin recruits Steve and his nail bat
Steve rehearses an apology with flowers on the Wheeler porch when Dustin hijacks him for a bigger problem than his love life.
Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
The babysitter and the kid with the pet demodog: the show's best friendship. 20 scenes together, in story order.
20 moments · 29 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Dustin recruits Steve to hunt Dart in the cellar
Dustin explains why his pet is not a lizard, then Steve climbs into the storm cellar with his bat and finds what Dart left behind.
- 03
Steve's guide to girls: lions, ninjas and electricity
Walking the tracks, Steve coaches Dustin on acting like you do not care and reading the storm before you move, then warns him not to fall in love.
- 04
Steve reveals the secret of his hair
Dustin finally asks. Steve names the shampoo, the conditioner and the exact number of puffs, on pain of death if anyone finds out.
- 05
Junkyard reunion: Dustin and Lucas fight over Max
Steve approves the bus as a fort, Max arrives with Lucas, and the two boys bicker about who told her until Steve yells at them to help.
- 06
Steve walks out as bait for Dart
Dart will not take the meat, so Steve steps out of the bus with the bat and offers himself as dinner while the kids watch from the windows.
- 07
Demodogs swarm the bus
Dart is not alone. Steve sprints back as the pack attacks the bus, Dustin screams into the radio, then the creatures suddenly leave.
- 08
Dart ate Mews: the party learns the truth in the car
Steve lets slip that Dustin's pet ate the cat. Lucas and Dustin trade rule-of-law accusations until Steve notices the demo-dogs are all heading to the lab.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
Dustin and Steve stuff Dart's dead cousin into the fridge
Dustin insists a Demo-dog corpse is a scientific discovery that belongs in the Byers refrigerator; Steve makes him promise to explain it to Mrs. Byers.
- 13
On the bench: the kids plot the tunnels, Steve says no
Mike and Dustin work out how to lure the Demo-dogs away by burning the tunnel hub; Steve shuts it down and demands a yes from every one of them.
- 14
Steve vs Billy brawl, and Max ends it with a syringe and a bat
Billy goes after Lucas, Steve lands the first punch, and the fight turns ugly until Max sedates her stepbrother and makes him swear to leave them alone.
- 15
Steve wakes up with Max at the wheel of Billy's car
A battered Steve comes round in the back seat to find a thirteen-year-old driving them to the tunnels, with the boys shouting directions.
- 16
Dustin's party-rules speech gets Steve into the hole
At the pumpkin-field hole, Dustin invokes the duty of a party member to help another, and Steve caves and takes the lead into the tunnels.
- 17
Dustin gets a face full of spores, then the party finds the hub
A vine sprays Dustin in the mouth and he panics while the others laugh; moments later they reach the hub and start dousing it with gasoline.
- 18
Dustin says goodbye to Dart with a bar of nougat
Cornered in the tunnel, Dustin recognises Dart, apologises for the storm cellar, and feeds him his favourite candy so the party can pass.
- 19
The Demo-dogs come running and the party scrambles for the rope
Eleven channels her rage at the gate as the horde turns back; the boys sprint through the tunnels and Steve hauls them up the rope one by one.
- 20
Steve's pep talk: pretend you don't care, slay 'em like a lion
Steve drops Dustin at the Snow Ball and coaches him one last time on hair, attitude and the lion, then gently bans the roar.