
Will shoots demogorgon
Vecna encounters Will in the Upside Down.
Opening Credits.
Holly sees and waves at a figment of her imagination
Holly wakes up everyone. [7:29] plays briefly as everyone puts there dishes away and then leaves. [8:13] Everyone listens to Rockin’ Robin’s radio station as they leave.
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.
Steve and Jonathan climb radio tower
The group gathers supplies and prepares for a "crawl" mission into the Upside Down while listening to Robin.
Nancy and Mike go over the plan for the crawl with the groups
Holly talks to imaginary friend at recess
Dr. Kay tells the sargeant she needs El as the camera zooms out of Upside Down military base
Mike talks to holly after school
Lucas puts a cassette in a cassette player near Max's bedside at the hospital, playing the song.
Robin tells Vickie she got an 8 PM at Enzo's
Hopper and Eleven discover the wall
Andy and his goons meet Dustin at Eddie's grave
Mike and eleven talk about living happily ever after after they defeat Vecna
Group prepares for the crawl
The song plays again over the end credits.
Ted and Karen Wheeler are rushed to the hospital.
Lucas talking to Nancy and Mike
Sullivan orders Akers to pull up surveillance within a 2 mile radius of the wheeler home
Lucas sits at Max's hospital bedside, holding her hand and emotionally pleading for her to wake up.
Mike peaks into child's room
Steve and Dustin argue in the van
Hopper talks to Eleven about Sarah.
Nancy and Mike walk into the hospital elevator.
Will and Robin go to the school, while Mike and Nancy talk to their mom in the hospital to figure out about Mr. What’s It.
Will and Robin see the kids get off the school bus, while Mrs. Wheeler writes down the name “Henry”.
End credits.
Will talks back to Joyce.
Shot of classroom before Derek sees Mr. What's It
Henry comforts Holly over pancakes, claiming her parents are healing but warning her to never enter the woods.
El struggles with kryptonite and Lt. Akers and his men notice
Will tells the group that Derek is Vecna's next target.
Alone at home, Holly dances to music, then retrieves a spyglass and Boy Scout uniform from a chest.
Colonel Sullivan and a military convoy arrive at the wall
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.
Turnbow trap montage
Will and Joyce talk outside barn
The lights flicker
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
Mike calls Will a sorcerer.
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
Vecna uses his mind to lift Will up off the ground and bring him closer in the Mac-Z
Will’s flashbacks
Will uses his powers
End Credits.
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.
Holly leaves the house as the rest of the kids watch TV.
In Holly’s memory she watches “A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” with a friend, while Vecna watches them from the window.
Dustin and Steve argue
Shot of fried demogorgon transitioning to Joyce by unconscious Will’s side
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.
Holly has an idea frustrating max
Nancy tries to use chair leg to break out of room
Hopper and Joyce talk
Lucas Sinclair guards the stereo in the basement as Demo-dogs prowl, refusing to silence the music.
Karen emerges out of the curtain of black smoke
Max talks to Holly, trying to give her confidence to find her portal. (Rob Simonsen “Lullaby Mix”) version.
Holly Wheeler sprints across the crimson mindscape, closing the distance to Max Mayfield. (Rob Simonsen "Orchestral Mix") version.
Ending credits
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.
Dustin explains his discovery about exotic matter to Nancy and Jonathan
Holly runs through dimension X from Vecna
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.
Will explains his relationship with Vecna to Joyce
Will Beyers comes out to his friends
Hopper lowers El into the tank.
Max and Eleven navigate the memories within Henry’s mind.
The group goes into Dimension X.
Jonathan and Steve conversation.
The group walks towards the spores while Max, Holly and the kids run through the woods.
Hopper’s heartfelt speech to El.
Joyce tells the group to go, the military breaks into Hawkins lab, and the children run from Henry.
El’s heartfelt speech to Hopper.
Will makes a very vital discovery about Henry.
Henry tells Will that the Mind Flayer needs him.
Holly regains consciousness as she realizes that Nancy has saved her in the Mind Flayer. The rest of the kids are freed
Murray signals the start of the final countdown to destroy the Upside Down.
Final conversation between Mike and Eleven before she seemingly disappears to end the cycle of violence.
Robin returns to the WSQK radio booth after the "Hawkins curse" has lifted, reflecting on how much her friends have changed.
Robin introduces the track as a "new favorite" for the graduating class of '89; it plays as the characters prepare for the ceremony.
During Dustin's valedictorian speech to disrupt the ceremony and "screw conformity."
Steve, Robin, Nancy, and Jonathan are hanging out reflecting on their futures outside of Hawkins.
Plays in a restaurant as Hopper proposes to Joyce.
End Credits