![]() ![]() However, the Russians' involvement in the story is still a giant question mark, especially what else they plan to do with captured demogorgons besides prison fights. There's not a whole lot to theorize for their storyline in Volume 2, besides wondering how the heck they're going to get out of the Soviet Union and back to Hawkins. Their last scene shows an emotional reunion between Hopper and Joyce. While he's holding off the demogorgon, Murray and Joyce overtake the prison's control room and open a door so Hopper and former guard Enzo can escape. Luckily, Hopper has plenty of monster-bashing experience, and he ignites a spear with some alcohol and a lighter. They finally make it to the prison just in time to catch Hopper and other prisoners being fed to a demogorgon. Joyce and Murray deal with a lot in Volume 1, from coming up with a $40,000 ransom somehow, to meeting a smuggler in Alaska, to being betrayed by said smuggler and taking him down in a moving plane and surviving the subsequent crash. The one faction who hasn't been dealing with some element of Vecna's plan in season 4 is the adults, who've been focused on getting Hopper out of the secret Russian jail. (Image credit: Courtesy of Netflix) Hopper, Joyce, and Murray He's the one who massacred the kids and attendants at the lab out of revenge. It turns out that the orderly is the mysterious Number One, a man named Henry Creel who came under Brenner's care after killing his parents. The orderly, who befriended Eleven because she was the most powerful subject, tricks her into removing a chip in his skin. Throughout the new experiment, El became friends with an orderly who told her some of the secrets Brenner kept from her, including the existence of the experiment's first ever test subject, Number One. The goal of immersing herself in her past as one of "Papa's" subjects is to relearn how to use her powers to take on the season's villain Vecna the loss was due to an injury during the season 3 Battle of Starcourt that was similar to a stroke, which made her brain forget how to access her powers. ![]() Brenner to relive her time in Hawkins lab. She also gets an important solo adventure, as she teams up with/is tricked by scientists Dr. ![]() Brenner.īrenner was assumed to have died in season one but, again, no body, and there was a reference in season two that he is still out there.Season 4 finds Eleven struggling with her self-image, and questioning whether she is a hero or a monster capable of gruesome acts (something teased in the opening flashback of the season). We don’t know what happened to it.īut then how did the Russians know Hawkins was the lock to their key?Ī popular theory online is that the “American” in the Russian cell is not Hopper but actually Dr. Or maybe it has something to do with the frozen demo-dog from season two. Or it could be a that the Russians captured a surviving Demodog around the events of season two - we don’t have confirmation they only came to Hawkins after that Halloween, they could’ve already been operating on the periphery. Just because those other machines turned out wrong, doesn’t mean one of them didn’t do enough to let a Demogorgon through. ![]() the energy force machine) in Russia but it turned out wrong, which is why they had to try it in Hawkins. The Soviets seem to have their very own Demogorgon pet but the question is how they hell did they get it?Įarlier in the season, Alexei explained that there had been many “keys” (ie. There’s a decent chance Hopper isn’t dead. Or maybe he’s in the Upside Down.Įven though Hopper died in a manner that was fitting and closed out his arc, especially with the voiceover of his letter to El, there’s a decent chance we haven’t seen the last of him.īut of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s the “American” in the cell. Maybe he jumped over the edge, or was thrown out of the way, and scooped up by the Russians who hightailed it out of there. We didn’t see him die, unlike those Russian scientists who were standing near him who Stranger Things is at pains to show are destroyed by the blast.Īnd don’t forget that in the first episode when the machine went haywire and blew, the fried bodies of those other scientists killed were still smouldering. When Joyce is standing in the blast room, there’s no blood, viscera or any sign that Hopper was ever there. The first rule in any movie and TV show is that if you don’t see the body, they’re probably not dead. “No, not the American,” his comrade says before they move on to another poor soul. “Kamchatka, Russia” flashes across the screen.Īt a Russian military installation, two guards walk past a row of closed prison cells. ![]()
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