Rio asks Tokyo out
A flashback bus ride: Rio sits down, says hello twice, and asks Tokyo to go out with him. She says yes without thinking.
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Eleven's flashback: the cat test, the guards, and 'incredible'
Eleven refuses to hurt a cat, is dragged toward solitary, and shows Papa what she can do; back in the present she escapes to meet Mike.
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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.
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Eleven remembers Papa and the bath
A flashback on the tracks: Brenner tells a younger Eleven they are going farther than ever before, and she quietly agrees to the bath.
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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.
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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.
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Eleven reaches for Will on the Heathkit as Papa's word test plays
At the ham radio, Eleven closes her eyes; in flashback Brenner has her listen to a stranger and repeat his words. The classroom lights start to flicker.
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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.
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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.
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The closet promise and the memory of Papa
Mike hides El in his closet as his mom comes home and explains what a promise is; the dark brings back a cell and a man she calls Papa.
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Papa tells Eleven not to turn away this time
Flashback: Brenner coaches a frightened Eleven in front of observers to reach for the thing that is calling her.
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What really happened to the surrendering boy
Katekar says the inquiry is rigged; Sartaj relives the real encounter, then admits his ten-year haul is one pickpocket.
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Emergency-era Bombay and the Hindu Hotel
Gaitonde's first job in 1977: a pure-veg hotel where caste sells better than food, and where he learns religion is a business.
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Young Parulkar books Gaitonde and tells him to leave Kailashpada
Beaten by Momin's men, Gaitonde lands at the station where Inspector Parulkar sniffs the garbage on him and lectures him on being brave.
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The inquiry: Sartaj lies about Junaid Sheikh
Questioned about the Bengali Bura raid, Sartaj recounts the shipment tip, then flashes back to a boy begging for his life as he swears the boy was armed.
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The truth about the cricket bat: Dilbagh Singh fed Gaitonde in prison
Sartaj's mother reveals his father's secret posting under Parulkar, the extra rotis he carried to a dying prisoner, and why a gangster later sent a boy a bat.
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Eleven asks Hopper if she has a mother
Hopper reads Eleven a bedtime book about an orphan; she asks about her own mother, then remembers wandering alone, asking the way to the school.
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