Will tells Mike the shadow monster is inside him
Will explains his link to the shadow monster and his now-memories; Mike reframes it as a chance to spy on the thing and stop it.
S2E5 · Chapter Five: Dig Dug
24 moments · 34 min of essential viewing in a 58-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Nancy and Jonathan share a motel room
A double room, deja vu and lingering tension: Nancy asks Jonathan why he disappeared after last year, and Steve comes up.
Will wakes up: he saw Hopper and thinks he will die
Will wakes Joyce in the night with a vision of Hopper in danger.
Lucas asks his dad how to un-anger Mom
Sinclair family breakfast: Lucas's dad lays out the only two steps for getting back in Mom's good books.
Dustin fakes a phone call about the missing cat
Mrs. Henderson searches for Mews while Dustin stages a bogus call from a neighbor who spotted her miles away.
Dustin discovers Dart has grown and escaped
Breakfast time for Dart turns into panic when Dustin finds the cellar door open and a much bigger creature inside.
Eleven arrives at 515 Larrabee to see Mama
Eleven is dropped at the house from her vision, gets shooed off the porch as a door-to-door kid, and says who she came for.
Eleven meets her mother, lost in a loop of words
Terry Ives sits before the TV repeating the same words; Eleven kneels and tells her she is Jane and she is here now.
Nancy and Jonathan meet Murray Bauman
The conspiracy theorist shows off his wall of Barbara leads; Nancy tells him his timeline is wrong and who the girl really was.
Lucas asks Max to accept the risk
In the arcade back room Lucas offers Max the whole truth about last year, if she accepts it could get her killed.
Bob the Brain shows up with brain teasers
Bob drops by to help a sick Will, Joyce turns him away at the door, then changes her mind and calls him back.
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.
Dustin's code red meets Erica
Dustin spams the radio with a code red; Lucas's little sister answers with a code of her own.
Becky explains what happened to Eleven's mother
Aunt Becky tells Eleven her mother is stuck in a long dream and always believed her daughter would come home one day.
The lights flicker: Mama knows Eleven is here
Becky blames old wiring, but Eleven follows the flickering lamps to her mother and realizes she wants to talk.
Dustin storms the Wheeler house looking for Mike
Dustin grills Ted and Karen about the busy phone line and their missing kids, and gets nowhere.
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.
Max calls Lucas's story derivative; Lucas swears friends don't lie
Max treats the whole tale as a prank until Lucas, dead serious, tells her the party's first rule and asks her to just trust him.
Murray on why nobody will believe the tape
Thinking with vodka and loud music, Murray tells Nancy the public likes the curtain and will nod along the moment authority calls it bullshit.
Murray's plan: water the story down
Diluting his vodka gives Murray the idea to make the truth tolerable, a lab leak scary but familiar enough to take Barb's killers down.
Eleven enters Mama's dream and sees the night she was taken
Sitting in the circle with the TV static, Eleven reaches her mother and relives the birth and the man who took the baby.
Terry storms the lab for Jane and is shocked into the loop
In the memory Terry forces her way into Hawkins Lab, finds her child in the rainbow room and is dragged away; the words of her loop fall into place.
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.
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.
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