In the sixth episode of the first season of “Stranger Things”, Jonathan saves Nancy from a monster in the woods and they both go to Nancy’s house. She asks him to stay because she is afraid of being alone. Steve sees them through the bedroom window. The next morning, Nancy and Jonathan decide to kill the monster, so they buy a trap and bullets at a hunting store. On the way back, Steve attacks them because his friends wrote an insulting message on the cinema marquee. After the fight with Steve, Jonathan is arrested by the police.

Hopper finds a spying device in his home and then goes to Joyce to tell her he believes her stories. Together they go to Terry Ives’ to learn about her missing daughter. They find Terry in a catatonic state. Her sister tells Hopper that Terry was part of a CIA project on mind manipulation and that her daughter was taken by Dr. Brenner just after birth.

Eleven is wandering alone in the woods and remembers how she accidentally opened the portal to the “Upside Down” while performing her task, which allowed the monster to enter the real world. Mike and Dustin are looking for Eleven when they come across bullying Troy and his friend. Troy threatens Dustin with a knife, demanding that Mike jump from a great height into a lake at the bottom of a quarry, where Will’s body was found. Mike jumps, but he stops midair and returns to safety, saved by Eleven. Lucas watches the lab and sees several armed vans leaving the area and heading to Mike’s house.