Stranger Things 2 takes place about a year after the first season, and primarily
focuses on the Upside Down stowaway that came to our world through
Will Byers. The party is at the arcade playing
Dragon Slayer, then they find out they don't have the highscore on Dig-Dug
anymore. That spot has been taken by someone named MadMax. The new student from
California, is Max Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink. The boys
realize that Max must be MadMax of Dig-Dug fame, so they scope out the high-scoring
skateborder at lunch. Joyce has a boyfriend named Bob Newby,
played by Sean Astin. Joyce picks up Will from school for
an appointment at Hawkins Lab, where they're joined by the police Chief Jim Hopper.
At the lab, they speak with the new head scientist there, Dr. Sam Owens,
played by Paul Reiser. Will tells Owens that he's been having flashes to the Upside Down,
Where he feels an evil presence watching him and waiting to kill everyone.
Nancy Wheeler and Steve Harringotn
are still dating, but that doesn't stop her from being friends with Jonathan Byers.
Nancy and Steve visit the home of Barb Holland, whose parents
are still obsessing over the disappearance of their daughter. Since Nancy and Steve aren't
allowed to tell them the truth about what happened to Barb, they've decided to put their
house up for sale to hire private investigator Murray Bauman, who's played by Brett Gelman
and who was seen earlier talking to Chief Hopper about Russian spies in Hawkins. Will wakes up
in the middle of the night and experiences another psychic transportation to the Upside Down.
Cheif Hopper finishes a long day of investigating rotten pumpkin patches and parks
his car at a cabin in the woods, and later reveals Eleven,
who is now living with him. After dealing with the demogorgon in the first season,
Eleven was transported to the Upside Down. She found a way out and ends up in the
school again. Mike has been sad ever since Eleven disappeared, reminising about her
and trying to call her on the radio in vain. The party gets to the school, where
Mike and Lucas argue over who gets to be Venkman. Dustin and Lucas finally strike up
the nerve to talk to Max and show off their halloween gadgetry. They invite her to
go Trick or Treating with them that night, but it doesn't look like she's into it.
Max is picked up after school by her step btother Billy. hopper gets to work to find
more rotten pumpkins on the docket. Will's been drawing pictures of the giant shadow he
saw in the episode he had. Jonathan drops will off with his friends to go trick or
treating and he goes to the party Nancy invited him to. The boys are Treak or Treating
when they're confronted by Max. While Lucas and Dustin are walking with Max in the
front of Mike and Will, Mike steps away from Will, who gets teased by treak or treaters
until he falls to the floor and into another episode. Dustin gets home from
trick or treating and finds something in his trashcan. He thinks it might be his kitty
Mews, but when he looks inside he finds something that he puts in his Ghostbusters box
and takes into his room. Its a little tadpool like creature that he puts into his
turtles tank. Dustin names it "D'artagnan", Dart for short. Bob is taking Will to
school and during the ride, he tells Will about Mr.Baldo, a scary clown who haunted
his childhood dreams until his dream self finally stood his ground. The party meets Dart
and they figure out that he doesn't like heat. Will tells his friends that he thinks
Dart came from the Upside Down. Dart escaped because Mike attacked him. During the search
for Dart, Will has another episode, running down the hall from the shadow monster. He
takes Bob's advice and turns around and stands his ground. His yelling doesn't deter
the shadow monster, though, the monster connects with Will by going into his body.
Joyce takes Will home and he says he doesn't know what happened but Joyce gets him to
admit that he saw the monster and it is now inside of him. The next morning, Nancy and
Jonathan go to meet Barbara's mom at the park. When they get there they notice people
potenially spying on them. It ends up that pretty much everyone at the park is a spy.
They're taken to Hawkins Lab where Dr. Owens lectures them about trying to expose them.
Dustin gets home from school and finds that Dart is no longer in his cage - instead, he's
shed some skin and is now a demodog. Hopper climbes down a hole that leads to tunnels.
(he found the hole from Will's drawings). Dustin gears himself up in old hockey pads and
prepares to capture Dart with bologna. Eleven gets a ride from a trucker to the house of
Ives. She tries to talk to her mom but she gets the same words that she gets when she
visited her in The Void. Nancy and Jonathan go to Murray's house for help on the
Lab. Hoppers lost in the tunnels and Will sees him in a dream. When Joyce, Mike, Will,
and Bob go and find Hopper, the G men pull up to the scene and burn the vines. This hurts
Will causing them to bring him to the hospital. Steve the babysitter, and the kids go
to the junkyard from season one to lure Dart but they get greeted with a bunch of demodogs.
The demodogs are now going to the lab. Eleven goes to meet her sister kali.
Kali and her friends give El a makeover and they go find the people that hurt their mom.
El leaves her sister to go save her friends and when she gets there, she closes the gate and
goes to the snowball Mike was talking about in season one.