History Recap / StrangerThingsS2E6ChapterSixTheSpy

-->'''Jonathan:''' ''*SpitTake*'' What?
-->'''Nancy:''' ''*[[{{Adorkable}} shy smile]]*''

* CoitusEnsues: Nancy literally drags Jonathan into the guest room as they're kissing.

* ProperlyParanoid: Steve ''kept the bat.''

* ItCanThink: Unlike the Demogorgons, which seem to be (albeit highly intelligent) animals, the Mind Flayer is capable of deception, and uses Will to lure the scientists that hurt it into its trap.

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* AbsenteeActor: This episode marks the first (and so far only) time that Millie Bobby Brown doesn't appear in as much as one scene, though she is still listed in the opening credits.

* BatterUp: Steve once again demonstrates his dangerous efficiency with the spiked baseball bat.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Murray offers to let Nancy and Jonathan share his guest room, and laughs when they insist that they're not a couple. As happens with surprising frequency, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he's right]].

* WhamShot: Steve is approaching Dart, bat in hand...when a second beast appears behind him. There were zero hints that there were more than one prior to this. And then Lucas sees a third one. And a fourth one.

* CharacterTitle: Another one in reference to Will, who Mike dubbed a spy due to his mental connection to the Mind Flayer.

* JustFriends: Murray offers to let Nancy and Jonathan share his guest room, and laughs when they insist that they're this. As happens with surprising frequency, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he's right]].

* CoitusInterruptus: How Jonathan and Nancy's liason is heavily implied to have ended, given that presumably neither of them were carrying condoms. Lampshaded the next morning with a GettingCrapPastTheRadar DoubleEntendre from Bauman.

Will is rushed to the hospital, burning up from the inside. Steve and Dustin take the bat [[CallBack from season one]] to try and deal with Dart, but discover that he's grown again and tunneled his way free of the basement. At the hospital, Joyce argues with the doctors, who can't tell her exactly what's wrong with Will, while Jonathan, Nancy and Murray make copies of the recording of Dr. Owen. As it's getting late, Murray says they can spend the night, and after some back-and-forth Nancy and Jonathan kiss and go to bed together.

Hopper is still sick from his time in the Upside-Down, but Dr. Owen arrives with a hazmat suit, saying there's something Hopper should see. They take an elevator down and we see that the gate Eleven created [[FromBadToWorse is now the size of a skyscraper]], leading down to a huge network of tunnels that Dr. Owen says is continuing to spread. When Hopper asks why the scientists haven't burned it back, Dr. Owen says there's a "complication".

While Will sleeps, Joyce brings Bob up to speed. He takes it pretty well in stride, saying [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall he thought stuff like this only happened in science fiction]], and brings up moving to Maine again. Before Joyce, who is obviously still torn, can respond, Will wakes and calls out to her. Bob calls for a doctor, and when he returns, Will asks who he is, completely unable to remember him.

Murray very smugly makes Jonathan and Nancy breakfast, sends them on their way with a bottle of vodka, tells them not to contact him again, and slams the door in their faces.

Steve and Dustin have a heart-to-heart while laying bait for Dart, unwittingly crossing over the line of corruption marked by Hopper and his men. Hopper apologizes to Eleven over the radio, unaware that she's still with her aunt and mother. In the office above, the doctors discuss how Will's brain is being altered by the Mind Flayer at an alarming rate. They insist that they can't keep putting off burning back the expanding corruption, even if it kills Will, but Dr. Owens refuses. While Joyce demands to know what's going on upstairs, Will tells Mike he thinks he knows how to stop the monster.

Steve and Dustin continue laying their meat-crumb trail to the abandoned yard where Hopper and the kids once hid from the helicopters, where they're caught up by Lucas and Max. Jonathan and Nancy arrive at the Byers house to find it empty and [[RoomFullOfCrazy covered in drawings]]. While investigating, Jonathan finds a Polaroid case and realizes that someone else has been there.

Using the polaroids the agents took, Will searches his map and finds a place the Mind Flayer doesn't want him to see, saying he doesn't know what's there but that it must be important. While Dustin and co prepare for Dart's arrival, soldiers descend into the tunnels, following Will's instructions.

Night falls and Lucas and Max talk on the roof of the bus, which they've converted into a makeshift fort, but are interrupted by Dart's arrival. The young Demogorgon seems reluctant to take the bait, though, so Steve takes the bat and goes out to meet him. However, Dart's got company: three other adolescent Demogorgons have Steve surrounded. They chase him inside the bus and batter their way in, but at the last minute something seems to distract them, and they vanish into the night.

In the Upside-Down, the soldiers reach the junction Will mentioned. Hopper recognizes it as the place he was entombed just as an [[OminousFog Ominous]] FogOfDoom rolls in. Will tearfully apologizes, saying that the Mind Flayer made him send the soldiers into a trap and repeating that they shouldn't have upset him. Demogorgons descend on the group of soldiers, while the scientists watch helplessly from the control room. On the radar, dozens of red dots leave the junction and swarm down a single tunnel. Will tells Joyce to run, right as the first hand emerges from the scientists' shaft.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Finally averted; after multiple episodes of it being unclear whether Dr Owen really is a better man than his predecessors or simply has a better facade, in his private meeting with his colleagues he proves that he really does care about Will and is not willing to blithely accept him being harmed.
* BigDamnKiss: Nancy and Jonathan.

* DoubleEntendre: The morning after Jonathan said he would sleep on the pull-out bed in the couch, Bauman [[DidYouJustHaveSex can tell he moved into the bedroom with Nancy]] and decides to screw with him.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The [[MeaningfulName Mind Flayer]] destroyed some of Will's memories when its tentacles were burned under the pumpkin field.
* PlayingHardToGet: Steve advises Dustin that the way to attract girls is to act like you don't care.
* ProperlyParanoid: ''Steve kept the bat.''

* UnmanlySecret: Steve explains to Dustin how he styles his hair, which includes using some women's hairspray, and threatens him never to tell anyone.

* WhamShot: Steve is approaching Dart, bat in hand...when a second beast appears behind him. There were zero hints that there were more than one prior to this.

* DoubleEntendre: The morning after Jonathan said he would sleep on the pull-out bed in the couch, Bauman can pretty clearly tell tell he moved into the bedroom with Nancy.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "So, Jonathan, how was the pull-out?"
** His spit-take to the statement also effectively [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre lampshades it]].

* WhamShot: Jonathan is approaching Dart, bat in hand...when a second beast appears behind him. There were zero hints that there were more than one prior to this.

* WhamLine: "I'm sorry. He made me do it."

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The [[MeaningfulName Mind Flayer]] destroyed some of Will's memories when its tentacles were burned under the pumpkin field.

Night falls and Lucas and Max talk on the roof of the bus, which they've converted into a makeshift fort, but are interrupted by Dart's arrival. The young Demogorgon seems reluctant to take the bait, though, so Steve takes the bat and goes out to meet him. However, Dart's got company: three other adolescent Demogorgons have Steve surrounded. They chase him inside the bus and batter their way in, but at the last minute something seems to distract them, and they vanish into the night. In the Upside-Down, the soldiers reach the junction Will mentioned. Hopper recognizes it as the place he was entombed just as an [[OminousFog Ominous]] FogOfDoom rolls in. Will tearfully apologizes, saying that the Mind Flayer made him send the soldiers into a trap and repeating that they shouldn't have upset him. Demogorgons descend on the group of soldiers, while the scientists watch helplessly from the control room. On the radar, dozens of red dots leave the junction and swarm down a single tunnel. Will tells Joyce to run, right as the first hand emerges from the scientists' shaft.