
Vecna encounters Will in the Upside Down.
Breakfast at the Wheeler's house.
Everyone leaving the Wheeler's house.
Robin hosts a radio broadcast discussing Hawkins' quarantine and military presence while Steve assists in the booth.
Vickie drives down a country road, smiling while listening to Robin's broadcast on the radio when the signal malfunctions.
Dustin walks into school with a Hellfire Club t-shirt.
The group gathers supplies and prepares for a "crawl" mission into the Upside Down while listening to Robin.
Holly the Heroic
Lucas puts a cassette in a cassette player near Max's bed side at the hospital, playing the song.
The song plays again over the end credits.
Ted and Karen Wheeler are rushed to the hospital.
Lucas sits at Max's hospital bedside, holding her hand and emotionally pleading for her to wake up.
Hopper talks to Eleven about Sarah.
Nancy and Mike walk into the hospital elevator.
End credits.
While Will is in his room.
Will talks back to Joyce.
Henry comforts Holly over pancakes, claiming her parents are healing but warning her to never enter the woods.
Alone at home, Holly dances to music, then retrieves a spyglass and Boy Scout uniform from a chest.
Murray asks Jonathan why he hasn't made a move on Nancy.
Jonathan finds ring in tape case.
Erica watches the Turnbow family eat her drugged pie as Derek insults Tina and their father acts intoxicated.
Steve drives frantically through backyards while Dustin tracks a fast-moving signal with Nancy and Jonathan in the backseat.
End credits.
Max takes Holly to "her home"
Max observes a memory of 1959 Hawkins High, watching a younger Joyce and Harrington interact in the hallway.
Max traverses the Rainbow Room memory and finds Holly Wheeler hiding inside a cave within Vecna's mindscape.
Max talks to Holly in the cave
Max discovers a portal to her hospital room where Lucas holds her hand, but she fails to escape.
Robin and Will talk in the tunnel
Dr. Kay discovers Hopper as he's being strangled
Derek wakes up into a bright simulation after his traumatic capture in the void. Henry’s voice gaslights the vessels, framing this artificial yard as a refuge to ensure they remain docile and controlled.
A child hacks at piano keys while the group remains pacified within the domestic simulation.
Following the group's "prison break" realization, Lucas Sinclair initiates the audio-tether strategy. He presses play on the stereo, broadcasting "Running Up That Hill" to reach Max’s consciousness within the mindscape.
Lucas Sinclair guards the stereo in the basement as Demo-dogs prowl, refusing to silence the music.
Holly Wheeler sprints across the crimson mindscape, closing the distance to Max Mayfield.
Lucas desperately pleads for Max to wake as "Running Up That Hill" echoes. Within the sterile clinical world, Max gasps, her eyes snapping open as she resurfaces from the dark, fragmented mindscape into conscious reality.
Lucas grips Max's hand. Robin and Vickie stand at the side of the table, their faces etched with relief as Max confirms she's back, before Eleven and Mike finally join the reunion.
Mike meticulously connects a copper wire to a chrome bike bell, testing the makeshift bomb trigger. Robin and Mike debate the "save-the-world" soundtrack while Dustin assesses their equipment, synthesizing the mechanical components for their upcoming infiltration of the Abyss.