[GFX: Previously on Stranger Things]

Mike Wheeler: Eleven!

[tense music playing]

[mysterious synthwave music playing]

Dustin Henderson: We gonna do this? Let's engage.

[all clamoring] 

Will Byers: Hey, guys, do you see the--

[menacing music playing]

[menacing music stops]

Mike Wheeler: Will! Are you okay?

Will Byers: I saw something. It was like this huge shadow. Just, please don't tell the others, okay? They won't understand. 

Mike Wheeler: Eleven would. El, are you there? It's Mike. It's day 352. If you're out there, say something.

Will Byers: She would?

Mike Wheeler: She always did.

[school bell dings]

[mysterious music continues] 

Scott Clarke: Ah! This must be our new student. Please welcome, all the way from sunny California, Maxine!

Max Mayfield: It's Max. 

Murray Bauman: I now believe there was and may well still be a Russian spy presence in Hawkins.

Jim Hopper: [incredulously] Russian spy? 

Murray Bauman: I've got multiple reports of a Russian child in Hawkins. 

Jim Hopper: What are you talking about, "a child"?

Murray Bauman: A girl who may have psionic abilities. 

Jim Hopper: Now, what did we talk about? Dinner first, then dessert.

[intriguing music playing]

Bob Newby: Hey, there.

Joyce Byers: Hey. 

Bob Newby: Do you happen to have these in any other colors? 

Joyce Byers: I'll just check in back.

[car drives by]

Billy Hargrove: So, what, you like it here now?

Max Mayfield: No.

Dustin Henderson: Hey, guys?

[engine revs]

Mike Wheeler: Go, go, go!

Max Mayfield: Stop that!

Murray Bauman: What's going on here?

Jonathan Byers: We're just friends.

Nancy Wheeler: Friends.

[laughing]

Dustin Henderson: Three Musketeers! It is top three for me. Seriously, I can just eat, like, a whole bowl of nougat--

Max Mayfield: Ahh!

[Lucas shrieking] 

Max Mayfield: Holy shit! You should have seen the look on your faces! You sound like a little girl. 

Mike Wheeler: On Halloween night, Will saw a sort of shadow.

Jim Hopper: Nothing's gonna go back to the way that it was. 

Joyce Byers: What is wrong with my boy?

Jim Hopper: You go out there, it's a risk. 

Eleven: Nothing ever happens! 

Jim Hopper: Nothing happens and you stay safe!

Will Byers: It's like he's reaching into Hawkins. I feel connected to him. 

Mike Wheeler: You're like a spy now. That's how we can stop him.

[tense music playing]

Joyce Byers: Will! Wake up!

[evocative synthwave music playing]

Jim Hopper: Oh, my God. 

Dr. Sam Owens: The affected hosts seem to be communicating.

Jim Hopper: It's not like it was before. It's grown. 

Dustin Henderson: You still have that bat?

[intriguing music playing]

[creature growling]

Dustin Henderson: [yelling] Abort! Abort! 

Lucas Sinclair: There's an army now. It's Judgement Day.

Steve Harrington: I promised I'd keep you shitheads safe and that's exactly what I plan on doing. Does everybody understand that? 

Mike Wheeler: If anyone knows how to destroy this thing, it's Will. 

Joyce Byers: Just let us know you're in there.

Jim Hopper: He's talking to us.

[intriguing synthwave music playing]

[guns cocking] 

Eleven: I can do it.

[intriguing music continues]

Will Byers: Ahh!

[music stops]

Joyce Byers: Bob!

[roars] 

Joyce Byers: Ahh!

[intriguing synthwave music building]

Eleven: Ahh!

[music stops]

[tranquil music playing]

[expectant music playing]

[mysterious music playing]