

While Argyle makes a pizza, the others dump all the salt they can find into a freezer compartment. Part of this includes busting into a pizza parlour, where Argyle and Jonathan use their stoner skills to convince the worker there to let them use the kitchen. She decides to piggyback off Vecna’s mind control to break into Max’s mind and do the same, essentially psychically fighting Vecna and playing him at his own game. The Makeshift TankĮleven and the gang are delayed too, finding themselves struggling to get a flight back Hawkins in time. Unfortunately Justin and the basketball bullies catch wind of how here’s movement in the “murder house” and prepare to strike. Now, this works in tandem with Steve, Nancy, Eddie and Dustin as they try creep through the woods toward the house. The editing here is *chefs kiss* as the camera pans around Vecna’s house, skipping seamlessly between the different characters in our world (Erica, Max and Lucas) as they use their lamps to try and find the demon. They each take it in turns to travel through, ready to enact this four phase plan. Nancy, Steve, Robin, Eddie and Dustin are going in using the same gate they came out of – the one in Eddie’s camper van. Meanwhile, Nancy leads her troops as they prepare to strike against Vecna. Hopper and Joyce easily make it back into the lab but in doing so, overhear gunfire and guttural screams in the distance. The trouble is, the soldiers are all indisposed with fighting and aren’t at their posts. They intend to bust back in and take it out.

However, Hopper realizes they may be able to fight them from Russia after all. Those particles in the prison last episode? Well, Hopper decides they can fight part of the hive mind, and go back in with a flamethrower at hand. They’re running out of time and the fight seems hopeless. Although Hopper manages to communicate back home, he learns that the lab is a mess, the doctor is “indisposed” and El has head back to Hawkins to fight. So naturally, the pair start kissing… until the phone rings. The pair soon change the subject, talking about their upcoming date and what could come next. When Hopper takes his top off, Joyce notices all the scars over his body and is shocked.

Inside, Hopper gets some clothes for them both to get changed into. He takes out a crucial component and intentionally stalls for time. Chapter Nine: The Piggyback The Russian JobĮpisode 9 of Stranger Things Season 4 starts the slimy Yuri up in Russia messing about with his helicopter.
