𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐒 , 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌

ɪᴠ. 𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖡o𝖽𝗒

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The town grieves, specifically the Byers and Wheeler’s households. Chief Hopper tries to comfort Joyce, but senses she’s well into a mental breakdown in her grief.

At the Wheeler's·˚ˎˊ˗

A news briefing on TV announces “David O’Bannon” to be the man who tipped off authorities to the body. Mike’s dad Ted continues to operate in passive neglect mode. He asks Karen , “Should I go down and talk to Michael?” Karen reverts back to trickle-down parent-nomics, “Give him time. He’ll come to us when he’s ready."

Down in the basement Mike reaches full panic, unsure what to do next. Eleven holds up the giant transistor walkie-talkie. Over the speaker, clearer than ever, the voice of Will , soft and still, quietly sings the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go”. Tammy heard that too through her sibilings walkie-talkie and yelled "DUSTIN!!! I HEAR WILL'S VOICE COME NOW!!" "What are you saying, Will is gone?" Dustin replied s mean while, Mike rushes over to respond,yelling "WILL DO YOU COPY,over",but the signal breaks. As he looks over at El, her nosebleed returns signaling her telekinesis use and its mental/physical toll on the body.

The next morning·˚ˎˊ˗

The next morning Mike pulls an “Elliot”  and fakes being sick to stay home from school.

His mother said:“I need to drop off Nance, and I’m going to check in on Barb’s parents. Why don’t you grab a book or something and come with me. We can, stop by the video store on the way back, pick out whatever you want—even R-rated.” "No its okay i will stay home." Mike responded softly.

The Hawkins Police deputes interview Nancy about Barb’s disappearance. Also at the school, a counseling service is held for the students in light of the news of Will’s death.

next day·˚ˎˊ˗

Mike confronts the two jerkwad bullies after the service. Troy and his friend. Tammy asked her quietly to try her telekinise on Troy. Troy moves in to pound Mike, but halts suddenly under El’s telekinetic power. He then pees his pants in front of the many gathered schoolmates. Laughs abound, and the toady friend abandons him for maximum public humiliation. El’s childlike gesture is a total hegemonic.

They try to transform El from a bald-headed orphan psychic to possible school girl who is a little bit clumsy, a little bit graceful. Here’s a boy disconnected from femininity as a worldview, and yet trying his darndest to summon something close to his perception of reality

“Wow … she looks, pretty.”Mike said that, but Tammy was quiet and said: "Yeah shes fine."

But El isn’t the only undercover agent on mission. Chief Hopper appears to go off on a bender at the local bar, but the scene quickly proves to be an off-duty cover to get closer to the man who “found that Byers boy”. Hes willing to follow any lead necessary to protect his town and bring comfort to the families and townspeople of Hawkins. Getting close to the proverbial edge, Hopper slugs the man several times out back in the alley, striking him until he confesses to having been tipped off to the quarry and Will's body. Hopper asks, “Who do you work for, the NSA? Hawkins lab?” The man responds, “You’re gonna get us both killed!” just as a car spying on them peels out across the street. Hopper’s deep cover attempt to produce answers is a nice change of pace, albeit a strong breakaway from the hung over Mayberry malaise in which we first find him.

Flashbacks continue to flesh out El’s tortured relationship with Dr. Brenner. In terms of drawing from Firestarter, the Dr. Brenner flashbacks tease a benevolent father figure more interested in exploring  El’s gift by way of paternal power dynamics. His emotional abuse is manipulative and isolating for El. Extreme isolation also speaks to her stunted speech patterning and blatant distrust of adults.

El helps the boys and Tammy tap into Will’s frequency through the school radio station, only this time they overhear the panicked call Will sends out to Joyce. At the Byers residence, Joyce makes contact through the wall with Will once more, only for the organic vortex to disintegrate before her. She grabs the nearby axe and whacks away at the wall but in a twist ending to previous interactions with the house, Joyce inadvertently chops through to daylight on the other side. No Will, no vortex.

In the dark room, Nancy joins Jonathan to reexamine his film negatives, since she spotted an alien anomaly in the last seen picture of Barb on the diving board. Together they find another clue and move one step closer to The Goonies cool.

Mortuary Alters, Abrahamic Thresholds

Hopper heads back to the morgue, punches out the guard on duty, and breaks in to see Will’s body once more. He’s awash with disappointment when he looks over the corpse, but must reach down deep within his soul to garner enough strength to cut into the corpse with his knife. He must make a decision based upon faith in his intuition or spirit there’s no going back from the moral consequences of this consecrating act. With a deep breath he brings the knife down, piercing the skin, and to his own shock and surprise he reaches in to find cotton

The nex fer hours they decided to try and Will, Dustin on his bike, Lucas on his, Tammy on hers and Mike on Wills bike riding El on the back as they head through downtown Hawkins. The wind whisks through El’s blonde wig. In her incognito disguise, El is experiencing perhaps her first peek at freedom and childhood “normalcy”.

Chief Hopper’s actions shift gears dramatically. In some ways, Hopper transitions from mild-mannered agent of the state to law-bending conspiracy theorist. Hopper’s straight-laced adherence to the small town status quo flips upside down , where instinct replaces rationalism. If Fox Mulder of The X-Files lore represented distrust of governmental agencies against the grain of Y2K progressivism, then Hopper’s growing dissonance with the supposed US Department of Energy posits a complementary doppelganger for Reagan-era Cold War paranoia.

Of course, Hopper offers a quintessential “hero” for contemporary audiences, in a political season topsy-turvy with logical fallacies, abject plagiarism, civil unrest, and accusations of media bias that undermines Middle America. With the Abrahamic leap of faith in Chapter Four, Hopper joins Will and El as a liminal figure, operating on behalf of the law and outside its boundaries. His white privilege is exonerated only because his intuition proves correct. It’s funny to imagine how audiences might side against him if Hopper was shown to be entirely incorrect while acting under the same impulse power. It’s a funny feeling to feel right.

Author K.
JESUS CHIRST I WROTE OVER A THOUSAND WORDS anyways i tried to take some information from the internet from s1 ep4 and boom thats what i made. Plus sorry for not much talking:((

Stuff between Mike and Tammy will start but shh i didint say this to you okay? :)

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