They make an odd couple, don’t they?
Well, it’s like they say,
someone for everyone.
I have been waiting here over an hour, Hopper.
And I apologize again.
I’m going out of my mind.
Look.
A boy his age, he’s probably just playing hookie, okay?
No, not my Will.
He’s not like that.
He wouldn’t do that.
Well, you never know. I mean, my mom thought I was on the debate team
when really I was just screwing Chrissy Carpenter in the back of my dad’s Oldsmobile.
Look, he’s not like you Hopper.
He’s not like me.
He’s not like most.
He has a couple of friends, but you know, kids, they’re mean.
They make fun of him. They call him names. They laugh at him, his clothes.
His clothes?
What’s wrong with his clothes?
I don’t know. Does that matter?
Maybe.
Nothing’s gonna go back to the way that it was.
Not really.
But it’ll get better.
In time.
Here.
Thank you.
Jesus! Hopper…
Brings me back to old times.
What?
Sharing my cigarettes between...
Fifth and sixth period.
Yeah, under the steps.
Mr. Cooper caught us that time, remember?
He was like, “Hey, assholes.”
We ran. We just ran.
God, I want this to be over.
I know.
Oh, God!
Come on, kid.
– Will! – Come on, kid!
Will, listen to me.
It’s me, it’s your mom and I love you so much.
I love you so much.
I love you more than anything in the world.
Please...
Blood pressure keeps dropping.
Her pulse ox is falling.
I love you so much. I love you more than anything in the world.
Please, please come back to me. Just...
Come on kid!
Please, please wake up.
Please, please.
Breathe, Will, come on!
Flatlining!
Come back to me, breathe.
I need you to wake up now.
I need you to breathe.
Please breathe!
Please!
That’s it.
Oh, my God, that’s it, that’s it.
That’s it, baby. Breathe.
Breathe. All right.
What do you say?
I’m pretty sure that Mr. Cooper retired in the ’70s, so...
we might be okay.
How are you holding up?
You know.
Yeah.
That feeling never goes away.
It is true what they say, you know.
Every day it does get a little easier.
Moving forward...
No looking. You know this. Come on.
...so we can build an environment...
uhh...
where we...
all feel comfortable and trusted and open...
“Share our feelings...”
...to sharing our feelings–
This isn’t gonna work.
Um, it’s not gonna work. It’s not gonna work.
Yes, it will! I promise.
Oh, come on.
Maybe I’ll just kill Mike. I’m the chief of police, I could cover it up.
You got this. I promise.
You wanna have dinner tonight?
You can give me some more pointers.
Oh, I... Um... Um, I...
I have plans.
Okay, sure.
Oh, a customer.
Hey, Carol!
Oh, hi, Joyce!
I think it worked! Yes!
No, stop. It’s all you.
I’m a puppet, you’re the master.
So you remembered everything?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I had to improvise a little bit, you know?
It turns out, getting to Mike, that was the key.
And you didn’t yell at him?
I’ll tell you everything over dinner.
I was thinking, you know, Enzo’s, tonight, 7:00.
Hey, before you say no,
I’d– I’d like to make one thing crystal clear.
This is not a date.
Wait, a date?
You never said anything about a date.
I know, I didn’t say anything about a date.
I just wanted to clear it up in case there was any confusion on your part.
There’s not.
Great.
It’s just two friends getting together for a nice dinner.
I mean, we’ve earned it, haven’t we?
I can’t be out late.
You’ll be home by 9:00.
8:00.
8:30, I’ll pick you up.
I’ll meet you there.
7:00. Enzo’s. Meeting there.
Deal.
You slipped on this, remember?
Yeah.
Yeah, it fell in the night. It lost its magnetism.
Oh, did it?
And the same exact thing happened at my house the day before.
Wow.
And I thought, “Okay, that’s weird.” Right?
Why are all these magnets suddenly losing their magnetism?
Uh-huh?
So, I went and saw Scott.
Scott. Who’s Scott?
Scott Clarke.
Your child’s science teacher?
He’s pretty brilliant, actually.
And I asked him, “How is this happening?”
And he built this magnetic field using an AC transformer and plugging it into a solenoid.
And– And with that solenoid, which basically–
Slow down, slow down. I just want to get this exactly right, okay?
You stand me up...
No phone call, no apology, because you had to go to Scott Clarke’s house.
Yeah.
You’ve outdone yourself, Joyce.
You really have. No, you’ve outdone yourself.
If you can’t handle this, then just turn around and drop me off first.
What are you gonna do? You gonna walk back to Hawkins?
I will do anything if it gets me away from you!
Children! Children! Children!
This interminable bickering was amusing at first, but it’s getting very stale
and we’ve still got a long drive ahead of us.
So, why don’t you two cut the horseshit and get to the part
where you admit your sexual feelings for one another?
Whoa!
You are way off base, buddy!
Oh, spare me, spare me, spare me!
Yes, yes, he’s a brute. I know. Probably reminds you of a bad relationship,
and gosh, you’d really like a nice man to settle down with,
but, admit it, you’re real curious to know what he’s like in the sack.
And you. Ha!
Well, you’re just a big man baby who’d rather act tough than show his true feelings,
because the last time you opened your heart, you got hurt.
Owie.
And now, rather than admit these feelings, you’re dancing around one other
with this mind-numbing and frankly boorish mating ritual.
So, please, for my sake,
either quit your bickering, or pull over,
tear off those clothes,
and get it over with already!
You know that I’m keeping a close eye on things, right?
Yeah.
Because it’s important to me.
It is important to me that you feel safe.
That you and your family feel safe.
I want you to feel like this can still be your home.
What?
You didn’t think I’d find out about that?
Gary called me.
He said he’s fixing up your house to put on the market.
The kids know yet?
After Sarah...
I had to get away.
I had to get the hell out of that place, you know?
Outrun those, uh...
those memories, I guess.
I mean, why do you think I ended up back in this shithole?
But you have something that I never had.
You have people that know what you’ve been through.
You have people that care about you.
Right here.
In Hawkins.
You’re still moving outta here. I mean, that is the plan, right?
Eh, we’ll see how it goes.
“How it goes”? How what goes?
You know, if– if we actually do make it out of here, we– we deserve to celebrate, right?
Yeah.
I mean…
Yes.
Absolutely.
I hear Enzo’s is pretty good.
What do you say, Friday, eight o’clock?
Uh, El likes to watch Miami Vice on Fridays.
It– It starts at 10:00, so I– I can’t be out late on a Friday.
Okay, well, how about 7:00, then?
7:00?
Enzo’s, Friday, I meet you there?
No, you pick me up.
Picking you up, 7:00 p.m. Friday.
Yeah, it’s a date.
Just for clarification, just because I… I mean, just… If…
When you say “date,” just so that we’re crystal clear about things, so there’s no confusion–
Yeah, Hop?
Yeah?
Stop talking or I’m gonna change my mind.
Yeah, okay. Yeah.
Okay.