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.
S1E4 · Chapter Four: The Body
20 moments · 26 min of essential viewing in a 50-minute episode.
Moments, in order
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.
Mike tells Eleven what she did sucks, then Will sings through the walkie
Mike says friends don't lie and Lucas was right about her; then Eleven turns on the walkie and Will's favorite Clash song comes through the static.
Mike spams Lucas on the walkie until he answers
Mike chants Lucas's name over the radio until he picks up, then declares the funeral can wait: this is about Will, get over here stat.
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.
Nancy walks out on Steve over Barb and the beers
Steve is more worried about his dad finding out about the party than about Barb; he asks Nancy not to mention the beers and she leaves him standing there.
Jonathan and Joyce fight in the parking lot about the funeral
Jonathan says the rest of them are burying Will while she talks to the lights; Joyce vows she will not stop until she brings him home.
Mike insists Will is alive and Eleven is channeling him
Lucas says it was a baby monitor; Mike argues Eleven is channeling Will like Professor X, and the boys plan to get her to Mr. Clarke's Heathkit radio.
Eleven's makeover: pretty, good
The boys put Eleven in a blonde wig and a pink dress to pass her off at school; Mike fumbles out that she looks pretty good, and she repeats it to the mirror.
The police pull Nancy out of class to ask about Barb
Nancy admits she told Barb to go home and that something may have taken her; the cops suggest Barb ran off jealous and ask about her clothes.
Eleven becomes Eleanor, Mike's cousin from Sweden
Caught sneaking to the Heathkit, the boys improvise a cover story for Mr. Clarke: Eleven is cousin Eleanor from Sweden, where it is cold. Subzero.
Shepard is sent through the gate and something finds him
A lab man in a hazmat suit is lowered into the wall; over the comm he reports something else in there, screams to be pulled out, and the line goes dead.
Mike confronts Troy at the assembly and Eleven makes him wet himself
Mike calls out Troy for laughing at Will's memorial; Troy mocks Will as a fairy, then freezes mid-threat and pees his pants in front of the whole gym.
Nancy describes the faceless man and Jonathan already knows
At the funeral home, Nancy tells Jonathan the cops think Barb ran away and that she saw a weird man in the woods; he finishes her sentence: no face.
Hopper buys the trooper a drink and toasts Sarah
Playing a proud dad celebrating a spelling bee win, Hopper spells out odontalgia and raises a glass to his daughter Sarah.
Hopper catches the trooper lying about the quarry
Hopper points out the quarry is Sattler-owned, not state-run, follows O'Bannon outside and beats out who told him to guard the body.
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.
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.
The darkroom: Jonathan's photo shows what took Barb
Jonathan admits he would rather observe people than talk to them; the enlarged print reveals the thing behind Barb, and Nancy connects it to Will.
Hopper bluffs his way into the morgue and knocks out the guard
Hopper tells Patty he forgot his hat, tries an O'Bannon excuse on the state trooper guarding the body, and drops him when it fails.
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