Line #16 Recap/StrangerThingsS2E7ChapterSevenTheLostSister


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3	In Chicago, Eleven locates Kali, who is the girl from Terry's memories. Kali can create illusions, and she leads a gang of outcasts who exact revenge on those who have hurt them. She teaches Eleven to channel her anger towards stronger powers.
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5	Eleven uses her powers to find Ray, the lab technician who performed shock therapy on Terry, and the gang breaks into his apartment. Ray claims Brenner is still alive, and he offers to lead Kali and Eleven to Brenner. They disbelieve him, and Kali tries to coax Eleven into killing Ray. When Eleven learns he has two daughters, she stops and prevents Kali from killing him.
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7	Back at their hideout, Kali conjures a disturbing vision of Brenner and demands that Eleven avenge their mother. Eleven visualizes Mike and Hopper and realizes they are in trouble. While Kali and her gang escape the police, Eleven returns to Hawkins.
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10	!!This episode provides examples of:
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12	* AmbiguousSituation: Ray says that Brenner is still alive. At the moment it's unclear whether he's telling the truth or just lying to save his own skin.
13	* AssholeVictim: Ray Carrol was close to becoming this until Eleven found out [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes he has daughters]].
14	* BookEnds: The first scene after the opening credits shows Eleven watching her reflection in the window as she rides the bus to Pittsburgh. The episode ends with a similar shot of her sitting on the bus back to Hawkins.
15	* BreatherEpisode: Interrupts the story involving the imminent monster infestation of Hawkins in order to explain what Eleven has been up to around the same time.
16	* ChekhovsArmy: While this episode provides some CharacterDevelopment for Eleven, most of its plot (such as the introduction of Kali's crew and their mission, and TheReveal that Dr. Brenner may not be dead after all) has little to do with the events of this season, serving as a setup for future seasons.
17	* ContinuityNod: Eleven calls the jerk who bumps into her on the street a "Mouth-breather."
18	* CountryMouse: Kali's gang teases Eleven on her arrival and tells her to go back to her farm because of her unfashionable OverallsAndGingham outfit.
19	* CrashingDreams: Twice this happened to Eleven;
20	** First while having a dream where she hears part of Hopper's radioed apology to her, but then somebody touches her shoulder from behind. She wakes to see that it was Kali's touch that filtered into the dream.
21	** Later on, this happened again when she enters her dark dimension to meet Hopper and Mike. Suddenly she hears a pounding. Cut to the police breaking into the warehouse.
22	* ADayInTheLimelight: For Eleven, and for Kali to a lesser extent.
23	* DoorHandleScare: The camera zoom in on Ray's front door as Eleven disengages the door latch from the outside.
24	* EmotionalPowers: Kali teaches Eleven how to use her emotions, anger in this case, to strengthen her powers on-demand in a TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential session during some downtime. In a subtler example, Kali's powers seem to be influenced by her level of confidence, as when Eleven abandons the gang, the illusion she's set up to block the police breaks down.
25	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eleven realizes this when she sees a picture of Ray Carrol's two daughters, making her unwilling to kill him.
26	* EvilMakeover: Kali's gang give Eleven a makeover to look like them, complete with ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow.[[note]]Making it a little meta, they style her hair the same way Millie Bobby Brown wore hers around the first half of 2017.[[/note]]
27	* ExactEavesdropping: Eleven conveniently overhears Becky on the phone to learn that Hopper previously visited Terry while pretending that she was dead.
28	* FailedASpotCheck: Kali introduces Mick as the gang's "eyes and ears". Whenever they're at the hideout, she perches next to a window as a lookout. Of course, the one time she ''isn't'' paying attention (when she gets into a short argument with Dottie about not joining the poker game) is when she misses the SWAT team moving toward the building right under her vantage point.
29	* FatalFamilyPhoto: Inverted. Eleven decides to spare Ray Carrol's life because she sees a picture of him with his daughters.
30	* AFriendInNeed: Eleven decides to go back to her friends when she realizes they're in danger.
31	* IHaveAFamily: He doesn't say it, but Eleven sees a photo of Ray with his daughters.
32	* JustFollowingOrders: Ray Carrol, who used to watch over Kali and Eleven at Hawkings lab begs for mercy and claims that the reason he hurt helped Brenner electroshock Terry was because he was just following orders. He doesn't try to make this claim for hitting Kali with a cattle prod.
33	* LipstickAndLoadMontage: Eleven undergoes one of these with Kali's group before her first mission with the group. She receives a very Goth look with the help of her new friends.
34	* MalevolentMaskedMen: The gang wears scary masks when invading Ray Carroll's home.
35	* MeaningfulName: In Indian theology, Kali is a destroyer of evil and protector of the innocent.
36	* MuggingTheMonster: A double case when the Outsiders rob a case station by tricking the clerk in the bathroom. This doesn't go as planned when he comes out with a gun. But he had no idea one of the thieves had powers...
37	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When we meet Ray Carroll in the present we find him to be a sad-looking man, who when confronted by his past immediately becomes apologetic. He also appears to be reluctant to set the dial according to Brenner's instructions in Terry's memory of her attack on the lab. Ray claims to have been JustFollowingOrders, though it's unclear whether he genuinely regrets his actions or was just trying to save his own ass.
38	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Lightly subverted; when the gang robs a convenience store, one of the only things Dottie steals is a box of tampons.
39	* OhCrap: When the gang found out Ray has daughters and they called the police.
40	* OnceMoreWithClarity: The exact nature and backstory of the gang shown in the ColdOpen of the first episode is finally explained here.
41	* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The Duffers brothers have mentioned this episode as "[[http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/the-duffer-brothers-recap-stranger-things-2-the-lost-sister.html sort of like a pilot]]", although they have no intentions to do a spinoff.
42	* ThePowerOfHate: Kali instructs Eleven to think of a memory that made her mad, and it allows her to pull a train car towards them.
43	* PsychicStrangle: Eleven performs one on Ray almost strangling him to death.
44	* TheQuincyPunk: Most notably, Kali and Axel (right down to the ridiculous Mohawk).
45	* RevengeBeforeReason: Defied, when Eleven realizes that the friends she made in Hawkins are still in danger, she decides saving them is more important than getting revenge, even if Brenner is still alive.
46	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kali and her gang are hunting down and killing everyone responsible for wrecking their lives, whether Hawkins employees (for Kali) or otherwise (everyone else).
47	* TheRunaway: While technically Eleven has been gone for two episodes, this trope is underscored by the use of ''Music/BonJovi'''s "Runaway."
48	* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: When Ray doesn't recognize Kali and El, Kali makes them appear the age they were when Ray fried Terry's brain.
49	* ShirleyTemplate: Axel compares Eleven to Shirley Temple although the likeness stops at the curly hair.
50	* ShoutOut: Kali's gang would fit flawlessly into [[Comicbook/TheInvisibles Grant Morrison's Invisibles]]. Any chance of the similarities being coincidental is wiped out by several prominent tags in their squat - O'Bedlam, King Mob, Barbelith - that directly reference the comic.
51	* ATeamFiring: Aside from the Outsiders' van, nothing gets hit in the shootout with the police.
52	* TeamPowerWalk: Kali and her gang (plus Eleven) pull one as they march out to their van to kill one of Hawkins Lab's former workers.
53	* TrashcanBonfire: When Eleven meets Kali's gang, they are sitting around one of those. This scene is foreshadowed early on when Eleven encounters Kail by such a fireplace in her dark dimension.
54	* WelcomeToTheBigCity: Downplayed example. When [[CountryMouse Eleven]] arrives in Chicago, she is overwhelmed by her first sight of a big city. Until the next scene where she encounters some [[WrongSideOfTheTracks lowlives]] in a back alley who make her visually uncomfortable.
55	* WhamLine: During his interrogation, Ray claims that Brenner survived [[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E8ChapterEightTheUpsideDown the Demogorgon's attack way back in "The Upside Down". Assuming the guy isn't lying through his teeth in an attempt to save his own skin.]]
56	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Axel is afraid of spiders. Kali knows this and uses it to keep him in check.

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