(intense music) (Vecna yells)
- I just need to push him away,
find a happy memory and hide there.
(gentle music)
Hide in the light.
- You got a memory in mind?
(gentle music continues)
- Yeah.
It was the time when I was happiest.
(gentle music continues)
- Was I there?
(gentle music continues)
- It's presumptuous of you, but yeah.
Yeah, you might've been there.
(record scratches)
- Um, hi Max, I'm Dustin and this is,
- Lucas.
- Yeah I know, the stalkers.
I didn't realize it was such an honor
to go trick or treating with you.
- Yeah I mean, we know where
to get the full size candy bars.
We figured you'd want in.
- That's presumptuous of you.
- You don't believe me.
- Lucas, come on, seriously,
how gullible do you think I am?
- Why would I make this up?
- I don't know to impress me or something,
or you're just like insane.
I don't even know why I'm telling you this.
It's just...
I know I can be a jerk like him sometimes.
And I do not want to be like him, ever.
(gentle music continues)
I guess I'm angry too and...
I'm sorry.
From here on out you leave me and my friends alone,
do you understand?
- Screw you.
(bat thuds)
- Say, you understand!
Say it!
(gentle music continues)
(record scratches)
- Is that a new zit?
- What is wrong with you?
- I was just asking. (screams)
She's a genius and she's hotter than Phoebe Cates?
No girl is that perfect.
- Is that so?
- I mean, you're perfect.
(stutters) I mean like perfect in your own way,
in your special, your own special way.
- Relax, I'm just teasing.
I'm obviously perfect.
You're going to stop calling him.
You're going to ignore his calls.
As far as you're concerned, he doesn't exist.
- Doesn't exist?
- He treated you like garbage.
You're gonna treat him like garbage.
Give him a taste of his own medicine.
- Give him the medicine.
- Mm-hmm, and if he doesn't fix this,
if he doesn't explain himself, dump his ass.
(scene whooshes)
(gentle intense music)
When Billy is alone with a girl
they make like really crazy noises.
- They scream?
- Yeah, but like happy screams.
- Happy screams, what is happy screams?
- It's like, (sighs) I'm just gonna lend you my mom's Cosmo.
Does it still hurt?
- Only when I talk.
- Well it's a good thing you're not Mike then.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You'd be in constant pain.
Who do you think should decide El's limits, Mike or Eleven?
- The way that you framed that is such bullshit.
- It's not bullshit Mike, this is your whole problem,
and it's also precisely the reason why she dumped your ass.
(scene whooshes) What, whoa, hey, what are you doing?
- Cleaning the wound.
- No, first we need to stop the bleeding,
then clean, then disinfect, then bandage.
I skateboard, trust me.
(scene whooshes)
♪ Rhymes that keep their secrets ♪
♪ Will unfold behind the clouds ♪
- Wait did we get that verse right,
it's, unfold behind the clouds?
- Yeah, but you're butchering it
so could you please stop?
(scene whooshes)
(gentle intense music)
- Well, she's working two jobs,
so it's not easy.
- Must not be easy for you either with your stepdad gone.
- It's kind of better, honestly.
- Better how?
- He was an asshole.
So there's less assholery.
If I play do I get one of those cool T-shirts?
- (laughs) Yes!
- Really?
- Everyone gets a T-shirt, we make 'em ourselves.
And if you,
You're being sarcastic.
(scene whooshes) (intense music)
- Looks like I'm gonna die tomorrow.
No, I don't need you to reassure me right now
and tell me that it's all gonna work out
because people have been telling me that my entire life
and it's almost never true.
(intense music continues)
It's never true.
I mean, of course this asshole curses me.
I should have seen that one coming.
(scene whooshes)
Dear Billy, I don't know if you can even hear this.
Two years ago I would've said that's ridiculous.
Basically, ever since you left,
everything's been a total disaster.
(gentle music)
And the worst part is I can't tell anyone why you're gone.
I can't tell them that you saved El's life,
that you saved my life.
(gentle music continues)
I play that moment back in my head all the time.
(scene whooshes) (intense music)
(Vecna yells)
(intense music continues)
(rock thuds) (Max yells)
♪ If I only could ♪
♪ I'd make a deal with God ♪
♪ And I'd get him to swap our places ♪
♪ Be running up that road ♪
♪ Be running up that hill ♪
♪ No problems ♪
♪ Say, if I only could ♪
♪ I'd make a deal with God ♪
♪ I'd get him to swap our places ♪
♪ Be running up that road ♪
(intense music continues)
(Max exhales) - We though we lost you.
(Max exhales)
- I'm, no I'm still here, I'm still here.
- Oh shit.
- I survived before.
(gentle intense music)
I can survive again.
I just, I need to keep him busy long enough
so that you guys can get into that attic,
and then you can chop his head off,
stab him in the heart,
blow him up with some explosive Dustin cooks up.
I honestly, I really don't care how we put this asshole
in his grave, just,
(gentle intense music continues)
whatever it is, whatever you do,
try not to miss.
(gentle intense music fades)