Stranger Things (2016) s05e08 Episode Script

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[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[DISTANT GROWLING]
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
I swear to God, I didn't touch shit!
So the gate just opened up
all on its own, like magic?
It must've been some
kind of malfunction.
Let me get this straight.
There was a malfunction at the
exact moment that truck showed up?
You expect me to believe that, soldier?
I swear. I don't know what happened.
What if it was a malfunction?
Only one not caused by us.
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[MURRAY] All right, lab
rats, let's scurry up.
An entire dimension's about to
come crashing down on our heads.
[MIKE] Hey.
Is everything okay?
[SIGHS] Listen,
I know this plan is totally mad, and
a million things have to go right,
and a million things could
and probably will go wrong.
But we can do this. I know it.
One last fight, and this
whole nightmare, it'll be over.
It'll finally be over.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Well, hello there.
MAC, this is Wolfpack. Do you copy
- What do you think you're doing?
- Alerting the Doc.
That bitch has a God complex.
All she'll do is slow us down.
No.
We're bagging this freak ourselves.
[ALL GASPING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[PARTICLES PUMPING]
[PULSING]
[PULSING INCREASES]
[RUMBLING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SYNTH THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
- Do you think they're all right?
- The truck is faster than a Humvee.
Let's be conservative,
say five miles faster.
They had a six minute,
20 second head start,
giving them an additional
lead of about half a mile.
So they're fine for now,
but the real shit hasn't started yet.
Erica, language, please.
This isn't Intro to Science.
This situation demands cussing.
[SIGHS]
- So, how's it feel?
- What?
Helping to save the world and all that.
It feels pretty swell.
Pretty goddamn swell.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
[SOLDIER 1] Go! Go! Go!
[SOLDIER 2] Breach! Move, move, move!
[SOLDIERS CHATTERING ON WALKIE-TALKIES]
Hey, Robin, yeah.
Can you please tell me
that that was you guys
and not more of those,
like, mutant Cujos?
It's us, and it's too early to be
stressed, Vic. Save it for later.
Yeah, no, copy that, yeah. No.
Bottling Bottling emotions.
[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]
[LUCAS] No sign of
an evil moving planet.
Well, that's good. 'Cause
this is gonna take some time.
All right, we should split up.
Use both ladders.
Don't rush. Pace yourselves.
There are platforms along
the way, so use them to rest.
All right.
Let's do this.
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You okay?
[DR. BRENNER] Don't be frightened.
These are all friends.
They're just here to watch.
Don't focus on them.
[ELEVEN] Yes, Papa.
[SCREECHING]
[MACHINERY POWERING UP]
And let there be light.
All right, nice work, Bald Eagle.
Now get up to the roof.
Careful with that C-4.
I don't wanna blow the
Upside Down with us in it.
Oh, I was planning on carelessness.
But you're right, Jim.
Caution here would be wise.
All right.
Now remember,
two slow knocks means
- The Abyss started to move.
- That's right.
And you and your sister get in position,
but you wait. You do not attack.
The second I get confirmation that
planet's close enough to the tower,
then I'm gonna give
you three fast knocks.
Then we strike. We kill Henry.
And we, uh, pray to God Dustin's
right, and that planet stops moving.
What could possibly go wrong, right?
If something does go wrong,
I need you to promise
me you won't pull me out.
Not until I'm sure he's dead.
Okay, well,
then I'm gonna need a
promise from you too.
If by some miracle this plan works,
we're getting the hell out of here.
Doc Kay and her plans, that's
a problem for another day.
Deal?
Let's end this, kid.
[EXHALING DEEPLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- You want some?
- Yeah.
Hey, um
What you said earlier at the Squawk
I'm sorry.
I mean, not sorry about what
you said. That came out wrong.
Or not came out wrong. Jesus Christ.
[CHUCKLES] It's okay.
No, it's it's not.
I should have been there
for you, and I wasn't.
And I guess I was just so
self-absorbed that I couldn't see it.
I just I feel like an
idiot, and I [SIGHS]
I'm sorry.
You don't have to be sorry. And
you are not an idiot. You're not.
It's just
I didn't even understand it
myself for the longest time.
I just I think it needed
to happen the way it happened.
I needed to find my own way.
But what matters is
that you're still here,
and you still think we can be friends.
Friends? No, thanks.
Best friends.
All right, come on.
We've got a planet to catch.
[VICKIE] What the hell
is taking them so long?
I don't know. Maybe
it has something to do
with the fact that
it's a 500-foot tower.
If something's wrong,
they'll contact us.
Yeah, no, yeah. I mean,
unless they're already dead.
Okay, uh, stress gives me
the munchies, so I, um
Do you want anything?
No.
Okay.
Actually, can I get a
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
Vickie?
Vickie!
[VOICE ECHOING] Holy shit.
Mm. I swear to God, nothing
cures anxiety quite like a bowl
[ELECTRICITY HUMMING]
[KALI] Trippy, isn't it?
Hi.
[GRUNTING]
[DUSTIN] Thanks, man.
Okay.
It's pretty damn spectacular.
It's almost too bad we
have to blow it all up.
[DISTANT RUMBLING]
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Mother of God.
Jim, do you, uh, copy?
Yeah, yeah, copy.
[MURRAY] Well, I got
some good news, bad news.
Uh, good news is our theory was correct.
A giant planet is
descending upon our heads.
The bad news is our theory was correct.
A giant planet is
descending upon our heads.
- How long do we have?
- Not long.
Supergirl better be close in there.
Come on, El.
So this is Vecna,
right now in the Abyss?
You don't have to whisper, but yes.
[MAX] Okay, so why don't
we just kill him right here?
I mean, he seems pretty damn vulnerable.
We can't hurt him here.
We have to enter his mind.
- Isn't this his mind?
- No.
- It's my mind.
- What?
Hold on.
Are you okay?
["SH-BOOM" BY THE CHORDS PLAYING]
[MAX] Oh, great.
- I've really missed this.
- [LOUD BANGING]
Hop.
The Abyss is moving.
- How close are we to Henry's house?
- Not close.
- How not close?
- I'm not sure.
You said you know his mind
backwards and forwards.
Yeah, I do, but there are a
shit ton of memories in here.
We're like Dorothy in Oz, except
there's no Yellow Brick Road.
Everything connects, but there
are long ways and short ways.
- Well, we need a short way.
- Yeah, no shit.
Now can you just stop
talking while I try and think?
- Joyce, this that stupid play of yours?
- Better see you there, Harrington.
Yeah, on a Friday night? You wish.
Come on, I have an idea.
- Is that Joyce?
- Yep.
And through that door,
Hop's sneaking a joint.
And that way, Mr. Wheeler
is feeling up Mrs. Wheeler.
I wish we had time to sightsee,
but we've got a play to catch.
[LOUD CHEWING]
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
[SOLDIER ON WALKIE-TALKIE]
Three, two, one, go!
Yeah, we're gonna sweep around the back.
West room's clear.
South side!
[ON WALKIE-TALKIE] We are
at location. Negative on
No, no, no, guys. It's not lining up.
[STEVE] What do you mean?
Look. The tower needle, it's
not lining up with the rift.
[STEVE] Shit.
- If the Abyss hits the needle
- This tower's going down.
That's great. That's just great.
Hey, Chief, we're gonna
need El to stop this planet.
- On the sooner side, please.
- How soon?
Thirty seconds?
[RHYTHMIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ACTORS CHANT HAUNTINGLY]
[TIMER BEEPING]
What are we doing?
- Waiting.
- For what?
[LOUD BANGING]
Three. We need to strike.
Chief, talk to me.
What's going on in there?
I don't know. I can't talk
to her. I gave her the signal.
Well, nothing's happening over here,
and we're about to be squashed by
a moving planet. So give it again!
- We have to go.
- This is the only way. Just trust me.
[RHYTHMIC MUSIC GROWS CHAOTIC]
[DUSTIN] Shit!
[ALL SCREAMING]
Look out! Look out! Look out!
Now!
[ALL GASPING]
[ROBIN] Steve!
Steve!
[GRUNTING, STRAINING]
Just hold on! I got you. Just hold on!
We're alive! We're alive!
Shit, I thought you were toast.
[DUSTIN LAUGHING]
The Abyss stopped! El got him!
I repeat, El got the bastard!
Yes! Wow! Come on!
You came back. You came back for me.
And I'm not leaving
your side, ever again.
Not until we're out of here. All of us.
It's her! It's the monster!
- Get up!
- No, I'm not the monster.
And I can prove it.
All clear!
Hold this.
- Hey!
- Easy!
- You ready?
- Ready?
Yeah.
[STEVE] Okay, easy.
Easy. I got you, man.
All right, here goes nothing.
[DARK MUSIC PLAYING]
Holy shit.
Does this officially
make us space travelers?
Interdimensional space travelers.
Suck it, Armstrong.
It's over.
Where are they?
With Max.
Safe.
Where are they?
I told you.
With Max.
Far away from here.
You can't believe it, can you?
That they would ever
see through your lies.
Why can't he see us?
Because Mr. Whatsit isn't the
only one with magic powers.
That's why you take children.
Because you think they have weak minds.
But they're smarter than you think.
And you?
Are you smart?
You let yourself get caught.
And in here
I will find all the answers I need.
Holy shit.
It's him. He's the Black Thing.
Everything Holly told you is true.
He is trying to destroy our world.
But he can't do it, not without you.
We have to escape. Right now.
Stronger, aren't we?
So am I.
Holly!
[KALI] I can follow her into his mind.
We can end our brother, together.
[HOLLY] Come on!
[GRUNTING]
Now!
Hello, brother.
[KNIFE CLANGS]
[LUCAS] Don't know about you guys,
but I was expecting more like
- Deadly vines?
- Or monsters?
I assume the hive mind works
here too. So if Henry died,
- so did all his nasty, little minions.
- "If"?
We don't know what's
going on in the mind.
I know El broke the spell
and stopped the Abyss,
but she could still be fighting him.
Hey. She's been training for this.
And she's not alone.
She's got Kali and Max.
And I'm sure Henry's dead.
And if he's not, he will be.
Yeah.
Great job keeping the morale up.
Hey, man.
Hey.
Thought I was a goner back there.
Owe you one.
Yeah.
Look, just because I don't like you,
doesn't mean I want you dead.
And I've got a feeling
we're gonna need you up here.
I don't blame you, by the way.
For not liking me.
You know, I can be a
real prick sometimes.
Yeah.
I mean, same.
Look, Steve,
when I was away in California,
you were there for
Nancy when I couldn't be.
And I thought that, you know, that
was why things were off with us.
But the truth is
our problems had nothing to do with you.
It just took me a long
time to figure that out.
And
to let her go.
If we hadn't been so busy fighting,
I probably could've saved you
a little bit of time, because
I've known for a while now me and
Nance were never really in the cards.
You know, she's independent.
She's gotta get out there, and
- I don't know. I want
- Six little nuggets?
She told you that?
You think it would've been
better if I'd said four?
Maybe just not calling them nuggets.
Right.
Listen, bottom line,
end of the day, I
I'd rather have her as a
friend than nothing at all.
You know, she's she's just really
- Special.
- Yeah.
I guess we can agree on one thing.
Yeah, I guess so.
- I still don't like you, though.
- I wouldn't want it any other way.
[ROBIN] Hey, lovebirds!
You're gonna wanna check this out.
Jesus Christ.
[DARK MUSIC PLAYING]
That's it.
That's what I saw in my vision.
The kids are in there.
Then what are we waiting for?
[PANTING]
Derek? No! Derek, you
have to keep going.
- I can't.
- Derek, what are you doing? Come on!
Just leave me! Save
yourselves, you dumbasses!
No, don't be an idiot!
- I'm not being an idiot!
- Yes, you are! No, you can't
[BRANCHES SNAPPING]
- Is everyone okay?
- Yeah, we're okay.
- Did you find him? Tell me you found him.
- He just vanished.
He went back to the real world.
He can come back. Will come back.
How far to the cave?
It's not far. Come on.
Derek, we gotta go. Right now.
Go! Run!
Dustin! Lucas! What's going
on? Come on, talk to me!
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- [LOUD CLANG]
- [STEAM HISSING]
[BEEPING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
You knew this would happen.
Just like you know
what will happen to her.
[KALI] Don't you see, Jane?
It's a cycle. It's a
terrible, vicious cycle.
But we can stop it. Tonight.
How?
After we kill our brother,
after the children are rescued,
we don't leave with the
others. We stay on the bridge.
When the Upside Down vanishes
so will we.
It is the only way, Jane.
The only way.
[VECNA] She's going to do it,
Jim. She's going to end her life.
[HOPPER SHOUTING] Show yourself!
Show yourself, you lying bastard!
[VECNA] I am many things,
but I am not a liar.
I have seen into her mind,
and now I have seen into yours.
What rage it holds!
One daughter dead because
of you, and soon another.
[SHOUTING] Show yourself!
[VECNA] You are as you fear.
You are the curse.
[YELLING]
No!
[LOUD POUNDING]
Why's he signaling?
- That's not a signal.
- Then what is it?
Oh, God.
Holly!
Get to the cave!
[GASPING]
I got you. Hang on.
Hang on!
Hold on. Hold on.
What did you do?
Hi there.
Hey, Doc.
Kids left out their homework.
- Max!
- What happened?
[DEREK] She just poofed
away like a goddamn ghost!
[MARY] Was it the Black Thing?
Did the Black Thing take them?
Listen up!
We keep to the plan. Get to the cave.
The Black Thing can't hurt us there.
So follow me, keep
quiet, and stay close.
- Let's go! Come on.
- [MARY] Come on, guys.
[HOLLY] Let's go! Hurry!
The kids are all alone in there.
You have to get us back to them.
I can't, not without the
bath. He locked us out.
We have to get to the Abyss, join
the others. We can kill him there.
There is no time. The worlds will
collide long before we reach him.
Not if Holly and the
kids make it to the cave.
If Dustin is right, without the
kids, Henry can't do anything.
That's a lot of ifs.
What do you wanna do?
We can't give up, not now.
Isn't that exactly what
you're doing? Giving up.
I know the truth.
Henry showed me your plan.
Henry lied to you.
He tricked you.
He used you, and you fell for it.
Then look me in the eye and tell me.
Tell me.
Tell me you don't plan on
killing yourself tonight.
We don't have time for
this. We have to go.
I won't detonate it.
- I won't.
- What?
I will not detonate the C-4,
not until I know that you are safe
with the others back in Hawkins.
If we kill Henry and don't destroy
the Upside Down, nothing matters.
Which is why I will destroy it
once I know that you're safe.
Why are you doing this?
Because Henry's gotten to
him, and he's lost his mind.
- Kali, wait.
- No. This is bigger than him, Jane.
- Bigger than any of us.
- Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Shoot me.
If I'm alive, then so is Henry.
I have to end the cycle.
You will. You will. But not like this.
Not with more violence.
Not with more pain.
There's already been so much pain.
From the moment you were born.
Your mother was taken from you.
Your childhood was taken from you.
You've been attacked,
manipulated, abused
by terrible people.
Life has been so unfair to you,
so cruel.
But you never let it break you.
And I need you to fight, kid.
I just need you to fight one last time.
Fight for the happy days
on the other side of this.
Fight for
for a world beyond Hawkins.
Fight for that day that
you have a kid of your own,
and you give her the
life that you never had.
For the day you get so angry
because she invites some boy over,
and she won't keep the
door open three inches.
I know.
I know you don't believe
you can have any of this.
But I promise you
we will find a way to make it real.
You will find a way to make it real.
Because you have to.
Because you deserve it.
[MURRAY] Jim!
Jim! Are you there, Jim?
I don't want to add to the
stress, but we've got company.
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[HOLLY] Come on! Come on!
We're almost there! Keep going!
Through this gap right here!
Right here! Come on! One by one!
Go! Go! Go!
Debbie, wait!
Have you seen Derek?
- Derek!
- Wait! Holly!
- Derek!
- Holly!
Come on! Come on! We got this!
We gotta go! Come on! Hurry up!
Keep running! Come on, Derek! Come on!
Get inside. He's coming! Go!
Come on!
[HOLLY SCREAMS]
Holly!
[HOLLY] Go!
- Suck my fat one!
- Come on!
Holly!
- Are you okay?
- We're okay. We're okay.
Was it him? Was it Henry?
Yes, but he can't get us. Okay?
Not in here. We're safe now.
- Okay.
- We're safe.
- Why are you staring at me?
- I'm not!
We're just getting really close, okay?
And we don't know what's in there,
so I think you should be
sharing some of that firepower.
You have firepower.
Three Molotovs? Come on!
Unless you're okay living
with the guilt of my death,
I'm gonna need one
of those goddamn guns!
Holy shit!
Thanks!
Those are flares.
What?
Flares. She gave you a flare gun, dude.
- [PANTING]
- [MIKE] What?
[ECHOING] Flare gun?
Nancy! Nancy, what the hell
is this? Are you serious?
You think this is a joke?
What the hell am I gonna
do with a flare gun?
[UNSETTLING MUFFLED NOISES]
[MIKE] Hey! Will!
- Will!
- [JOYCE] Will!
Hey! What is it? What's wrong?
It's Henry.
He's alive.
[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS PAINFULLY]
[MAN] Resist it.
How did you find me?
They sent you.
Resist it.
[GRUNTING, SCREAMING]
- [SCREAMING]
- Will!
What was that?
Holly?
Stay here.
What's going on? What do you see?
It's Henry. He's made it into the cave.
He's coming! Go! Go! Up here!
Everyone! Come on! Go, go, go, go, go!
Hurry! Come on, quickly! Go! Go!
He's found them. He's
found Holly and the kids.
Okay, what about El?
Do you see El? Or Kali? Or Max?
They're alone. They're all alone.
- [HOLLY] Go! Go! Hurry!
- [MARY] Come on, guys!
Could you stop him? With your powers?
I can try. Just keep going.
Go! Go!
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
[SOLDIER 1] Move! Move! Move!
[SOLDIERS CHATTERING]
Come on! Come on!
- [PULSING]
- [BOTH SCREAM]
Oh, God.
[HOLLY] Hurry! Let's go!
Quickly! Come on! It's
right up here, this hole!
Joshua, down there! Be careful,
okay? Keep moving! Thomas, you next!
[INTENSE MUSIC BUILDS]
[SOLDIERS CHATTERING]
[MURRAY] Jim, do you copy?
Jim, do you copy?
Goddammit!
Kali.
- [YELPS]
- Well, well. Look what we got here.
Your friends just left you here, huh?
Well, that's not very nice, now is it?
Hmm.
Get her out of here.
[HOPPER] Hey. Hey.
I got you. I got you.
And I got you.
All right, listen. Anything
you see in here is not real.
It can't hurt you. Just
keep your eyes on me, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Come on, let's go.
Keep going. Stay close.
Eyes on me, okay? Eyes on me.
Just keep moving.
[MAN WHEEZING]
Holy shitballs!
[HOLLY] Eyes on me, Derek!
Through here. You get to the
other side, and you wait for me.
Debbie, you first.
[MARY] Thomas, your turn.
- Come on, guys. Let's hurry up!
- [BOY] Let's go!
- [MARY] Come on! Come on! We got this.
- [BOY] Hurry up, Glenn.
[MARY] Go!
[KALI GROANING]
Tell me where the other freak is,
or this one dies right here, right now.
I don't know what you're
talking about. It's just us.
You think I'm playing a
game here? Where is she?
[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
Okay. Oh, what are you doing,
Murray? This is not a good plan.
This is crazy.
Okay. Here goes absolutely nothing.
[AKERS] One last chance.
Where is she?
Go to hell.
Okay, then.
[YELLING]
[GRUNTING]
[ALL GROANING]
Kali.
No, no, no!
Kali. Kali.
- Get bandages please.
- Keep pressure on the wound.
Kali, look at me. Look at me.
Hang in there, okay? I'm
here. It's gonna be okay.
I'm not going to make it.
No, don't say that. You will.
You will. You will make it, okay?
Don't cry, Jane.
My story
was always going to end here.
No.
No, no.
Holly.
Holly?
[HOLLY YELLS]
- [HENRY GRUNTS]
- [HOLLY GROANS]
[MAN] How did you find me?
[YOUNG HENRY] Please.
Please, mister. Don't shoot.
[MAN] Who are you?
Henry. Henry Creel. I live near here.
- [GASPING]
- Who sent you?
[YOUNG HENRY] Nobody sent me. I
was in the caves. I heard a scream.
They sent you. They sent you!
You're just confused. You
need a doctor. [GRUNTS]
- [HENRY GRUNTS]
- [WILL GRUNTS]
What's happening?
He's in a memory now.
And he's scared.
He's so scared.
[MAN GRUNTING]
Oh my God. Thank God. Thank
God. Thank God. Thank God.
I thought you two were goners
for a minute there. [CHUCKLES]
Oh, what?
No hug from the big man, huh?
How about a "thank you for
destroying the Huey, Murray."
"That was very brave and and "
What's wrong?
Wait.
Kali. Where's Where's Kali?
Oh God.
El, I'm
I'm so sorry.
I can jump.
I can jump those boulders to the Abyss.
I'll be right there, right
at the tree. Shortcut.
Henry's still up there.
- If you fall
- I won't.
If you make it
I kill him.
Oh, yeah?
And then what?
When I was a kid, and you
found me in the woods
I was scared.
Really scared.
I didn't understand the world.
I didn't understand people.
You took me in.
Raised me.
Protected me.
Mm.
You became my dad.
But I'm not a kid anymore.
And I'm not Sara.
[SNIFFLES]
She didn't have a choice to make.
But I do.
And I need you
to trust me to make the right choice.
I need you to believe in me.
[CRYING]
[HISSING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
Find me.
Find me.
[SCREAMING]
- [GASPING FOR AIR]
- Ah!
You must resist it.
It will consume you.
It will consume all.
[GASPING, PANTING]
It wasn't you.
It was never you.
[SADLY] Leave me alone.
That's why the Mind Flayer
didn't want you in the cave.
It didn't want you to remember.
I said leave me alone.
You were just a kid, a kid like me.
And it used you.
It used you to bring it here.
You're just like me, Henry.
A vessel.
But you can resist it. Help us fight it.
Don't let it win, Henry,
please. Don't let it win.
No.
It showed me the truth.
- It showed me that this world is broken.
- [BABY CRYING]
That man is broken.
Don't listen to it, Henry. It
is controlling you right now.
[LOW GROWLING]
[PULSING]
It has never controlled me.
And I never controlled it.
[RUMBLING]
[CREAKING]
Don't you see, William?
I could have resisted it.
But I chose
to join it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS]
Oh my God.
It needs me.
And I need it.
We
[LOUD GROWLING]
are
one.
[ROARING]
Run!
[MIKE] Run! Run! Run!
[STEVE] Dustin!
[SCREAMING]
- [LUCAS] Come on! Come on!
- [STEVE] Let's go!
[LUCAS] Come on!
Shit!
[ROARING]
[SCREECHING]
Come on, go! Go, go, go!
[MIKE] Run! Run! Run!
[EPIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELEVEN GRUNTING]
- She's hurting it.
- How?
She's fighting Vecna.
Hive mind.
[GROWLING]
[FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING]
So
you truly do want to die.
- We have to help her.
- How?
Okay. The hive mind works in both ways.
If we hurt the Mind
Flayer, we hurt Vecna.
What, hurt Godzilla over there?
The only way to damage anything
of that scale, we spread out.
Flank it on all sides. Just
chip away at its hit points.
"Hit points"? What
are you talking about?
There.
One of us draws it to that canyon.
The rest take positions on those cliffs.
Ambush it from above.
[ROBIN] There's just one question.
Which one of us is bait?
I am.
- [MIND FLAYER WAILING]
- [GUNFIRE]
Go!
Go!
[STEVE] Come on.
[SCREECHING]
No!
No, no!
There's nothing we can
do! Come on, please!
[GROANING]
[YELLING]
[EXCITING MUSIC PLAYING]
- [JONATHAN SCREAMING]
- Boom!
[SCREAMING]
[VECNA STRAINING]
[STEVE] Look out! Look out!
[SQUEAKING]
- This is for Eddie, you son of a bitch!
- For Eddie!
[MOANING]
[STRAINING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm not afraid anymore.
We're not
afraid
of you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS]
[BOTH SCREAMING]
[AGONIZED SCREECHING]
Yeah!
[DUSTIN] We gotta go!
Run! Shit, shit, shit!
[PULSING SLOWS]
[GROANING]
[NANCY] El!
Is everyone okay?
Holly.
Holly? Can you hear me?
Holly?
Holly? Holly, come on. Come on.
[GAGGING]
Nancy?
Yeah. Yeah, it's me. I'm here.
Yeah, it's me. I'm here. I'm here.
[MIKE] Holly?
Hey!
Hey.
Okay, get it all out. You got
this. You're gonna be okay.
Where Where am I?
You're safe. You're safe, bud,
okay? We're here to get you home.
Yeah. Whoa!
I got you, bud. I got you.
I got you, bud. It's okay.
[COUGHING, RETCHING]
[COUGHING CONTINUES]
[COUGHING CONTINUES]
Please, please. Come back to me!
[SCREAMING] No!
You fucked with the wrong family.
[GROWLING]
Mom, you're killing him!
[LUCAS] Help!
[SCREAMING]
[NANCY] Why don't you
go ahead and go home?
[EDDIE] I didn't run away this time.
[DUSTIN] Eddie!
[EDDIE] I love you, man.
[ELEVEN] Goodbye, Mike.
El! El, where are you?
[VECNA] He did not make me into this.
You did.
[JOYCE] Will, wake up!
Go away!
I just want this to be over.
[SCREAMS]
[RELIEVED SIGH]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [DUSTIN] Chief, you copy? Chief?
- Yeah, yeah, I copy. What's going on?
Well, the noseless bastard's toast.
We're back in the Upside
Down, and we have the kids.
How is everybody? Is everybody okay?
Yeah, the party took a hell
of a beating, but we're okay.
What about El?
The whole party.
So what do we say you
hit the music, old man?
Destroy the Upside
Down once and for all.
Let's ditch this hellscape.
Yeah, copy that.
[BEEPING]
[MURRAY] All right.
The countdown begins.
["WHEN DOVES CRY" BY PRINCE
AND THE REVOLUTION PLAYING]
Hey, stop! You're gonna
get it all over me!
[LUCAS] Hey, hey, I'm nasty too.
It does stink.
How can you just leave me standing ♪
Alone in a world that's so cold? ♪
The world is so cold ♪
Maybe I'm just too demanding ♪
Maybe I'm just like my father ♪
Too bold ♪
Maybe you're just like my mother ♪
She's never satisfied ♪
Why do we scream at each other? ♪
[WIND BLOWING]
What are you doing? You're gonna
let more of that crap in here.
It's either that or pass out.
Because you smell like
I actually don't know what
you smell like, but it's bad.
[HORN HONKING]
[HORN HONKING]
[LAUGHING MISCHIEVOUSLY]
[BOTH] Assholes.
Eh?
That's good.
There she is, home sweet home.
So, Jimbo, I just gotta
ask. How does it feel?
- Feels like I need a nap and a smoke.
- [CHUCKLES]
- I thought you quit.
- Yeah.
That's why it's gonna taste so good.
[TIRES POPPING]
Watch out!
[MIKE] Everyone okay?
Everyone put your hands up!
I said, hands up!
- Move!
- Hey! Get off me!
Get down! Get down! Get your hands up!
- I said hands up!
- [MURRAY] Oh, wow!
Okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
[HOLLY YELLING]
No! No! That's my sister! Let go of me!
- Yeah, yeah!
- Okay, okay!
[PULSING]
Let's go! Move!
- [STEVE] Dustin!
- [MARY] Holly, what's happening?
[SOLDIER] Everybody up! Everybody up!
El? Do you see El?
Sergeant! Where's the girl?
She was right here one second ago.
She must have escaped.
[RELIEVED SIGH]
Oh God.
- [DUSTIN] Mike
- Get off me! Get off me!
You
You have to get out of
there! You have to get out!
None of this will ever
end, not if I'm still here.
No, no. We'll figure something
out. We'll fight back. We always do.
I need you to talk to the others.
- No. No.
- I need you to thank them for me.
For being so kind to me.
And teaching me what
it means to be a friend.
No! Please don't do this.
Mike, I need you to help
them understand my choice.
But I don't. I don't understand.
I know.
But you will.
One day, you will.
You understand me.
Better than anyone.
You always have.
From the day we met
["PURPLE RAIN" BY PRINCE
AND THE REVOLUTION PLAYING]
you've seen me.
Well, my name's Mike. Short for Michael.
Maybe we can call you
El. Short for Eleven.
The real me.
I never meant to
cause you any sorrow ♪
I never meant to cause you any pain ♪
I only wanted one time
to see you laughing ♪
I love you.
I love you for exactly who you are.
I only wanted to see you
laughing in the purple rain ♪
Please don't leave me, El.
[WHISPERS] Please don't do this.
I will always be with you.
I love you.
Purple rain, purple rain ♪
Goodbye, Mike.
Purple rain ♪
El! El! El! El! El!
- El!
- Mike!
- Hey, don't touch her!
- Mike!
[MIKE] Get off me! Get off me!
El! El! El!
El!
El, no!
Eleven!
El!
El! El!
No!
[SERENE MUSIC PLAYING]
El!
El! El!
[EXHALES SLOWLY]
[LOUD METALLIC SCREECHING]
[LOUD WHOOSHING]
[SILENCE FALLS]
[DISTANT EXHALE]
[SOMBER PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[RHYTHMIC BEATING]
- Check it out?
- Yeah.
["LANDSLIDE" BY FLEETWOOD MAC PLAYING]
[ROBIN] Hi there, strangers.
It's been a while.
I wonder I mean
Do you guys even remember me?
Okay, maybe I'm being too
modest. I mean, let's be honest,
who could forget this soothing voice
with a trace of a Debra Winger rasp?
That's right. It's me, Robin
Buckley, aka Rockin' Robin.
Jimmy "Fast Hands" was kind enough
to let me back into the booth
for a guest stint,
but you're gonna have to cut me some
slack because I am feeling rusty.
I mean, what do I even
talk about? You know?
My go-to subjects are as out of date
as, well, as my friend's bowl cut.
I mean, there's no soldiers,
no fences,
no Big Brother cameras,
and the only Big Mac I can find is
a Smush Double Patty at Mickey D's.
People are happy and smiling
and going to the movies.
But hey, who doesn't wanna
see Indy's new adventure?
- [BELCHING EFFECT]
- Shit. Uh
[WHIP CRACK EFFECT]
There we go.
Sorry about that. My
partner in crime ditched me.
But, well, as far as excuses go,
he had a pretty good one.
Let's go, boys! Baseball
ready! Baseball ready!
- [ROBIN] Now
- No mental mistakes!
I am almost too
superstitious to say this,
and I'm knocking on some wood here,
but I think the Hawkins
curse has finally lifted.
All right, Thomas. Let's
go. Here we go, man!
- But at the same time
- Let's go.
this isn't even the
Hawkins that I remember.
It feels so different.
But maybe it's not the town.
Maybe it's me that's changed.
We probably all have.
At least, that's certainly
true of my friends.
[CHUCKLES] Who, by the
way, are graduating today.
That's right, Hawkins High class
of '89 is walking the podium today.
I hope you all come out and
support them. I know I will.
Because if anyone deserves
a standing O, they do.
So to get their party
started, a new favorite.
["HERE COMES YOUR
MAN" BY PIXIES PLAYING]
You break any more
bones, you're on your own.
Because I am done with hospitals.
Maybe I should be on my own.
I mean
what is going on here?
What? We're graduating today.
In two hours. I think you're
getting ahead of yourself.
Hmm.
Okay, now you're definitely
getting ahead of yourself.
I'm sorry. You're just looking,
uh, super sexy right now.
And you're looking super dorky.
Here comes your man ♪
Here comes your man ♪
Ugh, gag me with a spoon.
Here comes your man ♪
You gonna take the picture?
- Already? Please?
- [SOBBING]
Ma, it's okay.
- I'm only a day's drive away.
- I know.
I'm gonna come home
every chance that I get.
Okay.
I'm gonna call you so much that
you're gonna wanna change numbers.
- Okay.
- Okay?
[CHUCKLES] Okay.
- I love you.
- I love you.
Do you wanna take more pictures?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Ooh, so handsome. My valedictorian.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Superman!
- [JONATHAN] All right, rolling.
- Happy graduation.
[HOPPER] Happy graduation.
- That's nice.
- Class of '89.
Yeah.
Shit. Hold on. No, no.
- Oh God. No.
- [JOYCE] Let him hang it back up.
- Leave the bedsheet.
- No, no, no.
There's too much light.
It needs diffusion.
- It's not The Godfather.
- I know it's not.
- Let him hang it up.
- You get one more take.
[PHONE RINGING]
[HOPPER] It's been all
day 'cause of the artist
- Hello?
- Joyce. This is Karen. Have you seen Mike?
- No, I haven't seen him.
- [HOPPER SIGHS]
We haven't seen him since last night.
It's Karen. She can't find Mike.
Here comes your man ♪
El! El!
El!
[HOPPER] Hey, kid.
Thought I might find you here.
Your mom's freaking out.
Can't say I blame her. I mean
I don't know if you remember,
but we do have a history
of kids going missing in this town.
She won't understand.
She'll never understand why I can't
do it, why I can't walk the stage.
It'd be like a lie.
Like I'm okay with moving on.
And I'm not.
I'm not okay with it.
I had this plan.
That me and El, we were
gonna go someplace far away,
and and no one would find us.
And I said this thing about going
somewhere with three waterfalls.
I mean, I I don't even
know if she believed me.
Who would? Three waterfalls? I
mean, that's so stupid, childish.
It was a fantasy plan. I
should've had a real one.
I just didn't
I didn't think that she would just
Hey, hey. This
It's not your It's not your fault.
What happened is not your fault.
El made her choice.
Now it's time for you to make yours.
And the way I see it, you
got two roads ahead of you.
You got one road
where you keep blaming
yourself for what happened.
You keep going over it in your head,
what you could've done differently.
You push people away, and you suffer,
because that's what
you think you deserve.
[MIKE SIGHS]
And then there's another road
where you find a way
to accept what happened.
Find a way to accept her choice.
Doesn't mean you gotta like it.
Doesn't mean you gotta understand it.
And never think about it.
You just accept it.
And you live the best
goddamn life you can.
I've been down that first road before.
And I don't recommend it.
And as for El
I think you know what she
would have wanted for you.
["POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
MARCH NO. 1" PLAYING]
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- I don't know. Me?
- Yeah.
- Never been.
- Me neither. But I think she'd like it.
Good afternoon, everyone,
and welcome to the graduation
ceremony for the class of '89.
Mom! Mom!
Mike.
I'm sorry, Mom. I panicked.
You don't have to explain.
God, look at you.
You're all grown up.
I'm so proud of you.
I'm so, so proud.
I love you, Mom.
I love you, baby.
And now it's my great
pleasure to introduce someone
who has truly excelled
during their time here.
Ladies and gentlemen,
give a warm welcome
for your valedictorian,
Dustin Henderson.
Yeah, buddy!
Dustin!
That's my friend!
Whoo!
[CLEARS THROAT]
I just wanted a normal childhood.
But that childhood was stolen from me.
It was stolen from us.
And this past year, if
you wanna know the truth,
I've been pretty pissed off about it.
Language.
But then I thought back
to the past six years,
and I realized that, even
though there was a lot of bad,
there was so much good too.
There's this game I like to play.
- It's called Dungeons & Dragons.
- [CHEERING]
- Yup!
- Jesus Christ.
And in this game, there are
two types of chaos classes,
chaotic good and chaotic bad.
Now, bad chaos brings
anarchy, destruction, war.
But good chaos can bring innovation,
change.
And this school,
frankly, it needed to change.
Because we were so divided into
the jocks, the nerds, freaks.
And in the chaos,
all those walls broke down,
and I made new friends.
I made friends who were never
even supposed to be my friends.
This wasn't just me. I saw
this happen with so many others.
When you get to know people
who are different from you,
you begin to learn more about yourself.
You change.
You grow.
I'm a better person now.
I'm a better person because of them,
because of my friends.
So, I'm not pissed off anymore.
But I am worried.
Worried,
because now that the chaos is over,
Principal Higgins and
every square like him
is gonna do their damnedest to
put everything back in order.
And I don't want order,
which is why it's hypocritical
that I'm wearing this thing.
I mean, we look ridiculous. What is
this? We look like Roman senators.
I mean, it's not who I am. I
don't think it's who any of us are.
- So, honestly, just screw it.
- ["THE TROOPER" BY IRON MAIDEN PLAYING]
- [HIGGINS] Henderson.
- Yes!
- Screw the school.
- Henderson! Henderson!
- Screw the system.
- That's enough!
Screw conformity.
- Screw everyone and everything
- Yes!
trying to hold you
back and tear us apart,
because this, this is our year!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Yeah!
Whoo!
Whoo-hoo!
The bugle sounds, the charge begins ♪
But on this battlefield, no one wins ♪
The smell of acrid
smoke and horses' breath ♪
As I plunge on into certain death ♪
Whoo-hoo!
[HIGGINS] Settle down!
Back in your seats now!
- Summer school for all of you!
- [DISTORTING]
And detention!
[PULSING]
- Dustin!
- Dustin!
Dustin!
You're a madman. You're
an absolute madman.
- Higgins totally shit his pants.
- What's he gonna do, expel me?
- You're crazy.
- [GIRL] Hey.
Hey, Stacey.
I just wanted to say what you
did up there was pretty badass.
Oh. Thanks. I was kind of just
going for a bit of a Belushi thing.
But if he was in like a Hughes film.
But I don't know. Does that make sense?
Yeah.
- That's okay if you
- No, totally.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Okay. Cool.
- Why'd I say that?
- Dude
Hey, so I'm having a
party later tonight.
You guys should come.
- [LAUGHS] Wait.
- Did that just happen?
Should we go?
Is that rhetorical?
No. Screw that.
I got a better idea.
Way better.
[JONATHAN] I'm just saying, I think
you guys would really dig New York.
- [ROBIN] Yeah.
- [STEVE] How much is rent?
- [ROBIN] Thinking about moving?
- [JONATHAN] You wanna come live with me?
[STEVE] You're serious? Come on.
I mean, look at this
place. The sunset, the view.
Whoo!
You guys are seriously telling
me you don't miss any of this?
[ALL] Mm.
[ALL] No.
The forest, the quarry,
Family Video, the Hawk?
[ALL] No.
No, I couldn't come back here
if you paid me a million bucks.
Mm. You'd need a lot less than
a million, I'll tell you that.
Prices are still way down.
There's actually this rad
place over in Forest Hills.
I can't quite afford
it yet, but I'm close.
And that is on a coach's salary.
- Don't forget sex ed teacher.
- That's true.
They have you teaching sex ed?
- It's part of the gig.
- [ALL CHUCKLE]
If I had a question about an STD,
you'd be the first person I'd come to.
Thank you?
[STEVE] No, I love it.
I love teaching these kids, you know?
I get to teach them
about the miracle of life,
and how to not start it accidentally.
And this time, I'm in
control of the grades.
And why do I feel like
you go pretty easy there?
I have a strict A policy.
- Uh-huh.
- B, if you're a real knucklehead.
That's about as low as I go.
Hell, can you come and teach at NYU?
I mean, what, I'm gonna grade your movie
about capitalism,
cannibalism, or whatever?
No, it's anti-capitalist. The Consumer.
It's a metaphor. The more she
eats, the hungrier she gets.
- [NANCY] Right.
- [STEVE] Okay.
- Well, I mean, it's a working
- Obviously.
- That's the working title.
- It's good.
[JONATHAN] Mm-hmm.
Now, Smith. Smith,
I I would consider.
Oh, really?
Is it the lectures on
Steinem that draw you
or the high concentration of women?
- Can't it be both?
- [ALL CHUCKLE]
[ROBIN] What about you, Nance?
How are the babes at Emerson?
Oh, um
I wouldn't know.
I dropped out.
No way. What?
Ho, ho, ho! I knew it.
You became a Navy SEAL.
[NANCY] Oh no, not quite. I
I took a job at the Herald.
Which It sounds fancier like
that. It's a trainee position.
But I don't know. I
was just sick of school
and thought I'd maybe get out
there and try the real world.
[ROBIN] Nancy Wheeler.
Still full of surprises.
You know,
there actually is something
that I miss about this place.
I miss this.
Just
us.
Hanging out.
I miss you guys.
I really like my new friends.
But it's
It's not the same.
I don't think it ever will be.
[CRIES SOFTLY]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay, Jesus.
[ALL LAUGHING]
You're killing me, man.
Let's do something about it.
I don't know. We could
meet up.
Once a month, here.
Yeah, or or maybe
somewhere just more neutral.
- Like
- Okay.
What's a city between Hawkins,
and Massachusetts, New York?
Louisville.
- Uh, Philly.
- Philly.
I have an uncle who lives in Philly.
He's weird, but he's got a big house.
- Does it have a basement?
- Yeah.
- And a boiler room?
- A boiler room?
Yeah.
Oh my God, it's perfect.
You know, for the hideout.
You know, where she traps all the
men and then burns their bodies.
- The Consumer.
- The Consumer.
- What do you think I'm talking about?
- I thought you were trying to kill us.
Oh no.
Okay, okay. Yeah, so we'll meet
at Robin's weird uncle's house,
and we'll drink and reminisce
and make Jonathan's
anti-capitalist cannibal movie.
Starting next month.
Yeah, I'm in.
I'm in.
["SWEET JANE" BY COWBOY JUNKIES PLAYING]
To nothing ever keeping us apart.
Including overbearing
significant others.
School.
Mortgages.
And kids.
- Cheers.
- [ALL] Cheers.
Yeah, Steve. Kids?
I don't know, guys. I think
Kristen might be the one.
[ALL LAUGHING]
So, didn't you say the
same thing about Dawn?
- No.
- And Margaret.
And Julie.
I did not say that about Julie.
She was drama from the start.
Drama?
Like, is she a good actor?
Yeah, you do not wanna
I mean, I'm looking.
- No, no, no. Not there.
- [ROBIN] Yeah, have her come along.
[ALL CONTINUE CHATTERING HAPPILY]
[RELAXING MUSIC PLAYING]
Chief. Mrs. Byers. Always a pleasure.
Are we ready to order?
[HOPPER] Uh, yeah.
Yeah. We're gonna have a
bottle of the Cabernet Sauv
- Sauvignon.
- Yeah. Cabernet Sauvignon.
And we'll have some caviar to start.
And we will have two
of the filet specials,
however the chef would
like to prepare them.
- Very good, sir.
- Okay.
- Hop!
- What?
It's a big day. It's a
once-in-a-lifetime day.
You raised two beautiful
boys into incredible men.
They had a lot more to
overcome than just puberty.
You should be happy.
You should be proud.
I am, but
It's just
It's gonna be quiet in that cabin.
It's just us and the crickets.
Ugh, the crickets. Yeah.
I don't like the sound
of those crickets anymore.
Thank you.
I wish, uh
I wish it was the sound
of something different.
Maybe, um, squawk of seagulls
or, uh, waves gently
lapping on the beach.
[CHUCKLES] Well, that sounds nice.
Could be real.
I'm just saying there's nothing
tying us down here anymore.
But you seem to think our bank
account is bigger than it is.
Could be.
I got a call from my
buddy in the New York days.
Montauk's looking for
a new chief of police.
Town's up and coming. It'd be 20% more.
I know that's not big enough
for a mansion or anything,
but it's significant.
Kids would be closer. Just a
little quick trip into the city.
You and me?
We could start again.
Fresh.
Together.
Are you kidding?
We don't have to figure
out anything tonight.
We don't have to decide
anything, but, um
That's not true.
What ?
There's one thing I would
like to decide tonight.
[RENDITION OF "AT LAST"
BY ETTA JAMES PLAYING]
Who's ?
[GASPING]
At last ♪
Joyce Byers.
My love has come along ♪
Will you spend the rest of your life
with a tired, grumpy, stubborn
old man who loves you very much?
- Yes. I will.
- [PATRONS EXCLAIMING]
[ALL APPLAUDING]
Oh, well, at last ♪
The skies above are blue ♪
My heart was wrapped up in clover ♪
The night that I looked at you ♪
At last ♪
Ooh ♪
[MIKE] A hushed quiet
falls over the town.
Frightened villagers watch from
rooftops and alleyways, wondering,
how will this all end?
The sound of boots
echo across the square
as Strahd von Zarovich
strides up to Dustin the Bard.
- Don't do this.
- The vampire lord lunges.
- No!
- Plunging its fangs into his throat.
Onlookers gasp as his body collapses.
His lute clatters
across the cobblestone,
letting out a final mournful note.
Son of a bitch!
A lone hero remains, Will the
Wise, Barovia's last and only hope.
Cast Meteor Swarm. Take out the bastard.
- I can't.
- Why not?
He's in the range of the
suppression stone. No magic.
Then just whack him with your staff.
And inflict six points of
damage. He has 30 HP left.
Okay, so now what?
- [SIGHS] That's it.
- Nothing.
What do you mean, nothing?
- Checkmate.
- We lost.
So after all of that, Strahd
von Douchebag just wins?
- This game is bullshit!
- I agree.
Stupid, goddamn waste of time!
[MIMICS DRACULA] Strahd takes
great pleasure in your anger.
[LAUGHS EVILLY]
Time to join your friends, sorcerer.
Just get it over with and roll. I
don't wanna hear his shit anymore.
All right.
The mage. From the Abbey of St.
Markovia. She said we can summon her.
When at our lowest depth.
The incantation to summon
her. What's the incantation?
- What is the incantation?
- Will! Will!
"Oh, mage! Arise and end our fall
from darkened paths and secrets deep."
"Come forth and help your promise keep."
Nothing happens.
- Come on, man.
- Why?
Then why do we even
have the incantation?
- What?
- [MIKE] Wait.
Wait, wait.
A purple light begins to
shine through the mist.
Growing brighter and brighter.
It's a portal.
And out of this portal steps
the Mage of St. Markovia!
[OVERLAPPING EXCITED SHOUTING]
The mage holds out her hands, and shoom,
a beam of powerful light shoots forward.
Strahd lets out a piercing
[SCREECHES]
as his body shrivels,
burns, and turns to ash.
Bada-boom!
How do you like that?
Whoo!
The misty gloom that shrouds the
village of Barovia evaporates,
and you are met with
cheers from the townsfolk.
In honor of your courage and
bravery, they give you medals,
and you are all awarded
1,000 pieces of gold each.
[ALL EXCLAIMING]
Flush with wealth and honor,
you live out the rest of your
lives in comfort and in happiness.
[ALL] Aaaaah!
The end.
- [LUCAS] Great campaign.
- [WILL] Good campaign, buddy.
Great campaign.
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. That's it?
Comfort and happiness?
Could you be more trite?
I thought you were some kind of
master storyteller or something.
- Oh.
- [DUSTIN SNICKERING]
Well, it is true, the
comfort and happiness part.
But happiness can be
found in many places.
The knight and the zoomer,
they retire from battle, and they
settle down in a small village.
With each passing day,
their love grows stronger.
[WARM, HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
The bard,
craving knowledge,
makes his way to the
Mage's Guild of Enclave,
where he spends his days
in their vast library.
- Though deeply devoted to his studies
- [LAUGHING] Hey, buddy.
he still makes time for
the occasional adventure.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
As for Will the Wise,
he travels far and long to
the bustling city of Vallaki.
It's overwhelming at first.
So very different from the
village where he spent his youth.
But it isn't long before
he finds his place there.
Hey!
And with that, deep happiness
and acceptance.
And the storyteller? What about him?
The storyteller keeps telling stories,
stories inspired by his friends.
One day, he hopes
their tales of grand adventure will
spread far and wide across the land
so all can know of their great bravery.
But there is a story
that he can never tell.
The story of the mage.
Or at least not the real story.
The real story?
When she cast Sunbeam.
Get off me!
Goodbye, Mike.
She expended the last of
her energy, and she vanished.
El!
But has anyone asked themselves
how she cast that spell?
The suppression stone.
She couldn't have used her magic.
- [PULSING]
- [SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
In the excitement, no one even noticed.
But you see, the mage is very clever.
A cleverness only matched by her sister,
who, upon hearing the
pleads of the paladin,
had a change of heart.
[KALI] Don't cry, Jane.
My story
was always going to end here.
But yours doesn't have to.
Together, the sisters devised a plan,
a plan to protect the mage from
the Order of the Black Hand,
who remained hell-bent
on stealing her powers.
So in order to trick them,
she had to make everyone,
including her friends,
believe that she was dead.
And so the sister cast
a spell from far away.
Safe from the power of
the suppression stone.
El! Do you see El?
A spell of invisibility.
[GRUNTING]
[MIKE] Once the mage escaped,
the sister cast one final spell.
The mage you saw die was not real.
She was an illusion.
[GASPING]
Where did she go?
No one knows.
No one will ever know.
But I'd I'd like to imagine
that she's in a beautiful
land, somewhere far away.
[HOPEFUL MUSIC RISES]
She finds a small town to call home.
Safe from the danger of the Black Hand.
And it is here,
at last,
that she finds peace.
That she finally finds happiness.
And this is just a theory, right?
How do we know it's true?
We don't.
Not for sure.
But I choose to believe that it is.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
[DOOR OPENS]
Guys! What's going on?
The lasagna's getting cold!
Yeah, we we just
finished. We'll be right up.
- [DEBBIE] Holly, how do we play this game?
- Jesus, watch out!
Jeez yourself! You said
you'd be done an hour ago!
Look, it's our own little castle.
I'll look in the manual for
like a starter campaign in here.
Why do you get to be Dungeon Master?
Because this was my idea,
and this is my house!
You told me this was
not going to be nerdy!
- This is super nerdy!
- Put him down!
- Did you just fart?
- No.
Something smells. I'm gonna puke.
It's just old pizza.
Old pizza doesn't smell like crusty ass!
Blame it on the girls.
Excuse me, girls don't fart. If
they do, it smells like roses.
Listen to Holly!
- You get these back when you focus!
- I can't see!
Okay! You can be a halfling! A halfling!
You want me to walk around
like this and fall over?
[HOLLY] No, you're
sitting down and focusing!
[DEREK] Give me my glasses back!
[CHATTERING CONTINUES]
["HEROES" BY DAVID BOWIE PLAYING]
I ♪
I wish you could swim ♪
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim ♪
Though nothing ♪
Nothing will keep us together ♪
We can beat them forever and ever ♪
Oh, we can be heroes ♪
Just for one day ♪
I ♪
I will be king ♪
And you ♪
You will be queen ♪
Though nothing ♪
Will drive them away ♪
We can be heroes ♪
Just for one day ♪
We can be us ♪
Just for one day ♪
I ♪
- I can remember ♪
- I remember ♪
Standing ♪
- By the wall ♪
- By the wall ♪
And the guns ♪
- Shot above our heads ♪
- Over our heads ♪
And we kissed ♪
- As though nothing could fall ♪
- Nothing could fall ♪
And the shame ♪
Was on the other side ♪
Oh, we can beat them ♪
Forever and ever ♪
Then we can be heroes ♪
Just for one day ♪
We can be heroes ♪
We can be heroes ♪
We can be heroes ♪
Just for one day ♪
[SYNTH THEME MUSIC PLAYING]