On the Fourth of July, Larry Kline gives an excited speech at the Hawkins Fun Fair while Ted, Karen and Holly Wheeler go up on the ferris wheel to watch the fireworks. As the fireworks begin, Holly notices something moving in the trees out towards the woods. Eleven explains to her friends what the Mind Flayer told her and they hear a distant roar. Nancy realizes the Mind Flayer remembers the cabin as Will's neck flares up, and the group hurries outside to see it thundering towards them from a distance.
Dustin and Erica drive a drugged Steve and Robin through the Russian base as the latter two, still high on the truth serum, argue over the naming of the Indy 500. They take the elevator back up which Steve and Robin find deeply engaging and Steve realizes the Russians took his car keys, leaving them with no easy way out of Starcourt Mall. As they emerge from the elevator, the armed guards spot and chase them, causing them to flee into the mall.
Nancy and Y/n arm themselves with shotguns and Jonathan with an ax, and the kids barricade the cabin before they group up inside and wait for the Mind Flayer to arrive. The cabin shakes and goes still for a moment before a tendril bursts through a window, targeting Eleven until Y/n shoots it repeatedly.
It disarms and attacks her until Nancy shoots it with the shotgun, stunning it long enough for Eleven to tear it apart. Two more tendrils follow it, and Eleven struggles to hold them both at bay. She tears them apart as well and the Mind Flayer itself destroys the roof, a tendril coming straight from its mouth wrapping around Eleven's ankle. Mike grabs her, followed by the rest of her friends as they try to keep her with them. Nancy and Y/n shoot it while Lucas severs the tendril with the ax. The piece of tendril left embeds itself in her leg and Mike rips it out, and it scuttles out the window to rejoin the body. Eleven tears it's head in half and the group flees in Nancy's car.
Dustin hides the group in a densely packed premiere of Back to the Future and orders Erica to keep watch over the still drugged teens before going to find a ride out of the mall.
On their way back in to Indiana, Alexei explains to Murray that the Key can only be turned off by two keys in a safe, the code being a famous number known as Planck's constant, which Murray relays to Hopper and Joyce. Annoyed with their arguing over whether or not the kids are safe, Murray tells them to cut the constant shouting and admit their sexual attraction to each other. Murray again psychoanalyzes the two easily and tells them to either quit arguing or finally have sex. When Alexei asks what he said, he tells him "I told them they should have sex," leaving Alexei shocked that they had not already as they arrive back in Hawkins.
The kids break into Bradley's Big Buy to find medical supplies for Eleven's leg wound. Y/n takes over cleaning it and instructs everyone to split up and get her supplies. Nancy correctly guesses to Jonathan that the Mind Flayer's physical form is made of the dissolved bodies of the Flayed, and Lucas finds fireworks that he hopes to use against the Mind Flayer. Mike apologizes to Eleven for his possessive behavior, happy that she and Max are friends. He tries to explain the term "love makes you crazy" while leaving the "love" out, but is interrupted by Dustin calling him on his Supercom.
Dustin tries to communicate his need for transportation, but the batteries on his radio die.
As he asks Erica for some, he notices Steve and Robin have run off. Outside the theater, Robin tries to explain the logistics of Marty McFly being the same age as his mother to Steve, and they become distracted by the lights on the mall ceiling, their intense pattern causing the two to run to the restroom and vomit.
Hopper and Joyce look for the kids at the fair and walk past Kline, who hurries to call the Russians.
Mike, Lucas and Max argue over Lucas' love of New Coke while Eleven locates Dustin using the void. As the group leaves to go get him, the blood removed from Eleven's leg begins to move.
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