Joyce tells Brenner to go to hell
Brenner asks Joyce to help him find the thing that took her son. Joyce answers with everything he did to her boy, then two words.
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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.
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.
Bob suggests leaving Hawkins together
Joyce admits she cannot function when Will is away; Bob floats moving to Maine and a RadioShack job, and she says this is not a normal family.
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.
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.
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.
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.