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Stranger Things Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Chapter One: MADMAX
Fri, Oct 27, 201748 mins
Near Halloween, Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will find that Dustin's score in an Arcade game has been beaten by someone with the nickname MadMax. They believe the newcomer in school Maxine is the player. Hopper investigates what has happened to pumpkins that have been poisoned and the owner blames his neighbor. Will has visions from the Upside Down and he goes with Joyce and Hopper to a clinic for medical examination.
Episode 2
Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak
Fri, Oct 27, 201756 mins
Eleven recalls how she escaped from the Upside Down and met Hopper. She asks him if she can dress like a ghost to go trick-or-treating but Hopper tells her that it would be too dangerous. He promises to bring back candy for her and watch a scary movie with Eleven. Hopper heads to investigate the mystery of the rotten pumpkins. Nancy wants to tell to Barb's parents that she is dead, but Steve warns that it would be a problem for her with the government. Dustin and Lucas invite Max to go treat-or-treating with them, Mike and Will who are dressed as the Ghostbusters. Nancy gets drunk at a Halloween party and tells Steve that she does not love him, and Jonathan drives her home. Will has another vision of a monster in the Upside Down. Eleven visits Mike via the Void but fails to contact with him. Dustin finds something strange in his trash bin.
Episode 3
Chapter Three: The Pollywog
Fri, Oct 27, 201751 mins
Dustin finds a slug in his garbage and believes it is a pollywog. He calls the creature Dart and becomes obsessed with it. Bob tells Will that he had nightmares in the past and only resolved his fears the day he faced his fear and asked to go away. When Will sees Dustin's creature, he recalls the slug he had spat out in the bathroom. Nancy convinces Jonathan to tell the truth about Barb's fate to her parents. Will has another episode and decides to face the shadow monster in the Upside Down.
Episode 4
Chapter Four: Will the Wise
Fri, Oct 27, 201746 mins
Joyce and the kids awaken an unconscious Will. Joyce takes Will home, but finds him acting strangely, scribbling furiously on pieces of paper and demanding that the house be kept cold. Eleven returns to the cabin and argues with Hopper over her sneaking out, destroying the cabin's windows in a fit of rage. Joyce calls Hopper and together they discover that Will's scribbles line up. Hopper recognizes that the drawings represent vines, and he leaves. Nancy and Jonathan are captured by Owen's agents when they try to contact Barb's mother and are taken to Hawkins Lab, where Owens shows them the gate to the Upside Down. He admits Barb died in the Upside Down, and says that he wants to prevent foreign governments from learning of it. They are released, and it is revealed that Nancy was secretly recording Owens. An infatuated Lucas tries to get closer to Max, but her violent older stepbrother Billy Hargrove intervenes. While cleaning up her mess the following morning, Eleven finds Hopper's research of her biological mother, Terry Ives, and tries to contact Terry with her powers. A horrified Dustin finds that Dart has broken out of its cage, devoured his pet cat, and is an infant Demogorgon, also known as a Demodog. Hopper digs into one of the pumpkin fields and finds a tunnel resembling the Upside Down.
Episode 5
Chapter Five: Dig Dug
Fri, Oct 27, 201758 mins
Hopper becomes trapped in the tunnels and passes out. Mike sleeps over at the Byers' house to help Will recover. Will has a vision of Hopper, leading Joyce to recruit Bob's help to determine its meaning. Bob identifies Will's drawings as a map of Hawkins and the pumpkin field as the place Hopper was going. Nancy and Jonathan take the tape of Owens' admission to Murray, who realizes the public will not believe the truth and suggests watering it down to make it more palatable. Lucas reveals the truth of Will's disappearance to Max. Dustin traps Dart in his basement and enlists Steve's help to recapture it. Eleven tracks down Terry and Becky Ives. Terry and Eleven are able to communicate using their psychic powers, and Terry reveals to Eleven that she tried to rescue her at the lab and was subjected to a brain-damaging dose of shock therapy by Dr. Brenner. Eleven learns that there was another girl trained like her. Joyce, Bob, Will, and Mike rescue Hopper, and scientists from the lab soon arrive and set the tunnels on fire. As this happens, Will collapses and begins convulsing and screaming in agony.
Episode 6
Chapter Six: The Spy
Fri, Oct 27, 201751 mins
Will is sent to the hospital in the Hawkins Laboratory but the doctors can not find a reason for his pain. Murray makes many copies of the tape to send to the newspapers. Meanwhile Dustin and Steve find that Dart has escaped from the basement digging a hole out. Bob joins Joyce in the hospital while Dr. Sam Owens shows Hopper the size of the Gate. Will awakes with no memories and Dr. Owens finds that he and other hosts are connected to a hive through a virus. He discusses with the other scientists how Will's brain has been affected by the shadow monster. Steve, Dustin, Lucas and Max use pieces of meat as bait expecting to catch Dart in the junkyard. But the creature comes with other Demogorgons and trap the kids in the bus. Out of the blue, they return to the tunnels to attack the soldiers that had been sent there based on Will's information.
Episode 7
Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister
Fri, Oct 27, 201745 mins
Eleven travels to Chicago, Illinois, and finds the other girl from Terry's memories, named Kali. Realizing they have similar tattoos and were both experimented on by Brenner, Eleven and Kali consider themselves sisters. Kali can project images into people's minds and leads a street gang to seek revenge on Brenner. Eleven tells them that Brenner is dead, so the gang decide to kill the man who tortured Terry instead. Kali helps Eleven hone her abilities by demonstrating that channeling her anger is the key to strengthening her powers. After Eleven uses her powers to find the gang's target, named Ray, the gang travel to Ray's apartment to kill him. Eleven begins to choke Ray with her powers, leading him to reveal that Brenner is still alive. Eleven refuses to kill Ray after seeing a photo of his two young daughters, who are discovered at that same moment to be contacting the police. Eleven stops Kali from killing Ray. The gang flees to the hideout, and Kali insists Eleven either stay and avenge her mother or return to Hawkins. Eleven has a vision of Mike and Hopper's plight at the lab and decides to return while Kali and her gang escape from the police.
Episode 8
Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer
Fri, Oct 27, 201747 mins
The Demogorgons invade the laboratory killing everybody inside and Joyce sedates Will that is connected and giving information to them. There is a blackout locking the laboratory and Hopper and Bob head to get the power and systems back to let Joyce, Will, Mike and Dr. Owens leave the security room. Meanwhile Dustin, Steve, Lucas and Max meet Nancy and Jonathan at the laboratory front gate. Soon Joyce, Will, Mike and Hopper join them and they head to Joyce's house. But the Demogorgons are hunting them down.
Episode 9
Chapter Nine: The Gate
Fri, Oct 27, 201762 mins
Mike is angry at Hopper for hiding Eleven from him. The group and Eleven come up with a plan to close the gate without killing Will. Hopper and Eleven go to the lab while Joyce, Jonathan, Nancy, and an unconscious Will go to Hopper's cabin to burn the Mind Flayer out from him. Meanwhile, Steve, Mike, Max, Dustin, and Lucas, stay behind to stay safe. Billy arrives to find Max and has a fight with Steve; after Steve was knocked out by Billy, Max sedates Billy and makes him promise to leave them alone. In a cabin, Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy turn up the heat and successfully drive the Mind Flayer out of Will. While not part of the plan, Steve, Mike, Max, Dustin, and Lucas enter the tunnels and burn the core and attract the demodogs; as they flee, they encounter Dart, who lets them through after Dustin gave it nougat chocolate. Hopper finds Owens injured in the lab. Eleven tries to close the portal and the remaining demodogs try to stop her; Hopper neutralizes them. Eleven manages to close the gate. A month later, Owens facilitates Hopper's adoption of Eleven as Jane Hopper. At the winter formal "Snow Ball", Max and Lucas dance and kiss, as do Mike and Eleven, and Nancy dances with a heartbroken Dustin. In the Upside Down, the Mind Flayer watches the group at Hawkins Middle School.
