Dustin's first appearance as he plays Dungeons & Dragons with his friends.
When their campaign is forced to come to an end, Dustin finds some leftover pizza.
Dustin trying to offer Mike's older sister,
Nancy some pizza before she closes her bedroom door on him.
Dustin,
Lucas, and
Will leaving
Mike's house after their campaign came to an abrupt conclusion.
Dustin, Lucas and Will riding their bikes home.
Dustin and Will briefly racing each other home on their bikes.
Dustin exhausted after Will wins the race.
The next day, Dustin, Lucas, and Mike arrive at school where they're surprised to see Will is not there.
The boys confronted by their school bullies, Troy Walsh and James Dante.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas being bullied by Troy.
"I told you a million times! My teeth are coming in! It's called cleidocranial dysplasia."
Dustin, Mike and Lucas being made fun of by Troy and James.
At the bullies' request, Dustin flexes his arms, which disgusts Troy and James.
Dustin being cheered up by Mike who compares his cleidocranial dysplasia to Mr. Fantastic's powers.
At the end of class, Dustin, Mike, and Lucas meet up with their teacher, Mr. Scott Clarke.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas amazed with the new Heathkit Ham Shack radio for their AV Club.
Dustin chuckling when Lucas gets reprimanded for his foul language.
"Do you eat kangaroos for breakfast?"
The boys surprised to see their principal arrive with Police Chief
Jim Hopper who requests to speak with them.
When Chief Hopper reveals Will has gone missing, the boys start rambling nonstop until Hopper quiets them.
Dustin and Lucas beginning to argue over Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit when referencing Mirkwood from.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas offering to help look for Will.
The boys ordered by Hopper to not go searching for Will.
Dustin and Lucas continuing to argue about Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
(Hopper: "Do I make myself clear?") "Yes, sir."
Dustin and his friends arriving at Mirkwood.
Dustin seeing its beginning to rain.
Dustin with his friends, trying to find Will.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas finding and meeting
Eleven.
After taking Eleven to Mike's house, Dustin, Mike, and Lucas begin questioning her.
"Not deaf."-Dustin after clapping near Eleven.
As Mike gets some clothes for Eleven, Dustin and Lucas see how easily startled she is by the sound of thunder.
Dustin as Mike gives Eleven a pair of clean clothes.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas watching Eleven admire her new clothes.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas seeing Eleven about to take off her shirt right in front of them.
Dustin and Lucas disgusted as Mike stops Eleven from changing right in front of them.
Dustin watching Eleven leaving to change in the basement's bathroom after Mike directs her to it.
"She tried to get naked."-Dustin baffled about Eleven nearly undressing in front of him.
"You got a lot of family there?"-Dustin teasing Lucas.
Dustin and Lucas deciding to tell Mike's mom about Eleven.
Dustin hearing Mike point out if they inform his mom about them finding Eleven, they would all get in trouble with their parents for disobeying orders.
Dustin making a disrobing gesture.
Dustin and Lucas looking at each other after Mike plans to have Eleven show up at his front door tomorrow and ask his mom for help.
Dustin and Lucas watching Mike provide a place to sleep for Eleven.
"You really think she's psycho?"
At school, Dustin notices Mike is not in his seat.
"Hey, what if she slept naked?"
Dustin starting class after Lucas tells him that Mike's plan will go forward.
After school, Dustin and Lucas ride their bikes to Mike's house.
After arriving at the Wheeler house, Dustin and Lucas are surprised to discover that Mike did not tell his mom about Eleven.
"What do you mean she knows about Will?"
Dustin and Lucas going to be shown the photograph of the science fair they participated in as Eleven "El" had recognized Will from it.
Dustin remarking it was weird that they found El on Mirkwood where Will had disappeared.
Dustin and Lucas listening to Mike theorize that Eleven may know what happened to Will.
Dustin and Mike watching Lucas demand to know where Will is.
When Mike says telling anyone about El would put them in danger, Dustin asks what he means by danger.
Dustin shocked when Mike does a gun hand sign as a way to show what kind of danger he means.
Dustin and Mike watching Lucas storm towards the door with the intent to tell Mrs. Wheeler about El.
When the door slams shut and locks itself, Dustin and his friends are shocked to discover El has telekinetic powers.
Later, Dustin eats dinner with Mike's family.
When Mrs. Wheeler suggests to Nancy to take the boys to her school assembly, Dustin and Mike immediately refuse.
Dustin preventing Mrs. Wheeler from noticing Eleven by banging on the table.
Dustin, Lucas, and Mike watching El use their game board.
(El: "Will.") "Superpowers."
Dustin, Lucas, and Mike having watched El flipped their game board upside down before placing the miniature wizard figure on it to reference the figure as Will.
Dustin shocked and confused when El places a Demogorgon figurine next to the wizard figure, referencing Will is hiding from it.
(Mike: "How about this one?") "Too big for the sling."
The boys looking for rocks to use for Lucas's "Wrist Rocket".
"You think El was born with powers like the X-Men? Or she acquired them like Green Lantern?"
Dustin hearing Mike defend El from Lucas, saying the X-Men were considered to be weirdos too.
Dustin as Mike and Lucas talk.
Dustin watching Lucas tease Mike for having romantic feelings for El.
Dustin amused as Lucas teases Mike.
Dustin and Mike being confronted by their bullies.
"That's not funny! It's serious! He's in danger!"
Dustin and Lucas being told by Mike to ignore the bullies after they cruelly state Will is dead.
After Troy purposely trips Mike, Dustin sees how upset his friends are.
"Hey! How about this one?"-Dustin showing his friends a rock.
Dustin giving Mike a comforting smile.
After school, the boys find El at their meeting spot.
Dustin and his friends getting ready to start their search for Will.
Dustin getting on his bike as Mike helps El get on his own bike.
The Party having gotten on their bikes to start their search for Will.
Dustin and Lucas watching Mike and El talk and bond.
Dustin and his friends continuing to walk through the woods.
Dustin and his friends biking through the woods.
Dustin and his friends arriving at Sattler's Quarry.
Dustin and his friends hiding behind a fire truck.
Dustin and his friends seeing Will's "body" being pulled out of the quarry.
A sad Dustin watching a heartbroken Mike starting to leave, thinking Will is dead.
Dustin, El, and Lucas having watched a sad Mike leave the quarry.
Dustin and Lucas looking through old clothes.
Dustin looking through a box as Lucas finds the pair of overalls.
Dustin holding a pair of fairy wings.
Dustin and Lucas continuing to look through clothes to find something for El to wear.
Dustin and Lucas finding a pink dress and a wig.
Dustin holding and fixing up the wig.
The boys waiting for El to finish changing into a new outfit.
The boys amazed with El's new look.
Dustin and Lucas hearing Mike compliment El's appearance.
Dustin and Lucas watching Mike and El going to check out the latter's appearance in a mirror.
The boys riding their bikes to school.
The kids riding their bikes through the town of Hawkins.
The Party getting closer to reaching the middle school.
Dustin and his friends sitting in the audience during the assembly.
Dustin and El sitting together.
Dustin and his friends noticing Troy and James laugh during the assembly.
After the assembly, Dustin watches Mike call the bullies out for their disrespect towards Will.
Dustin hearing Troy mock Will's "death", showing no sympathy at all.
Dustin and his friends hearing Troy and James mock them over Will's "death".
Dustin shocked when Mike angrily pushes Troy.
Dustin surprised and confused when Troy suddenly gets frozen when he attempts to attack Mike.
Dustin laughing when Troy suddenly wets his pants, humiliating himself.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas setting up the Heathkit Ham Shack radio so El can contact Will.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas watching El using the Ham Shack radio.
Dustin and Mike surprised after the lights suddenly go out.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas surprised to hear Will's voice transmitted through the radio, making Dustin and Lucas realize Will is truly alive.
Dustin and Mike hearing Will cry out to his mom, saying he's in a place "like home, but dark, empty, and cold."
Dustin and his friends witness the radio getting destroyed after El transmits Will's signal.
Dustin using a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
Dustin helping Mike and Lucas carry an exhausted Eleven before they escape from their school.
Upon returning to the Wheeler house, Dustin, Mike, and Lucas recall everything Will said where he was "like home, but dark, empty, and cold."
"And cold. Wait, did he say cold?"
Dustin and Lucas hearing Mike recall El flipping the D&D game board upside down when showing where Will was.
Dustin listening to Mike theorize Will was actually at his house, but they couldn't see him.
Dustin watching Mike reference the back of the D&D board as the location of where Will is.
"Like the Vale of Shadows."
Dustin reading an article about the Vale of Shadows, a dimension from Dungeons & Dragons.
Dustin and Mike learning the Vale of Shadows is a dark alternate dimension inhabited by monsters and decay.
Dustin as Mike asks El if she knows how to get into the Upside Down to which she says no.
After the funeral, Dustin and his friends approach Mr. Clarke.
Dustin and his friends talking to Mr. Clarke about alternate dimensions.
"We were thinking more like an evil dimension like the Vale of Shadows. You know the Vale of Shadows?"
Dustin watching and listening to Mr. Clarke do a drawing demonstration of an acrobat walking on a tightrope with a flea next to him.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas upon hearing Mr. Clarke say a flea would be able to go upside down a tightrope, referencing the alternate dimension.
When Mr. Clarke says the only way to get to an alternate dimension is through a gate, Dustin hears what can reveal a gate's existence.
The boys in deep thought after Mr. Clarke explains about traveling to alternate dimensions and how to find gates to them.
The next day, Dustin rides his bike to Mike's house.
Dustin hearing Mike realize El prevented them from finding the gate as she wanted to protect them from its dangers.
Dustin telling Mike that it's nobody's fault as he, Lucas, and El went out of line with each other yesterday.
"All three of you were being a bunch of little a-holes! I was the only reasonable one."
"But the bottom is you pushed first and you know the rule. You draw first blood."
"This isn't a discussion. This is the rule of law! Obey or be banished from the Party. You want to be banished?"
Dustin putting on his jacket.
Dustin proposing to recruit Lucas and find El.
Dustin and Mike arriving at Lucas's house.
Dustin and Mike having told Lucas about El's actions and how she's missing.
Dustin and Mike pleased to hear Lucas agreeing to make amends with them before they hear he wants them to forget about El.
Dustin not happy with Mike and Lucas refusing to make amends with each other.
"Do you even remember what happened on the Bloodstone Paths?"
Dustin trying to remind his friends what happened the last time they split up during a D&D campaign.
Dustin reminding how during a game of D&D, they split up, only for their enemy to defeat them very quickly.
Dustin insisting to his friends they need to stay together in order to find El and Will.
"Accident or not, it was awesome. (Lucas: "Awesome?") Yeah, she threw you into the air with her mind."
Dustin hearing Mike point out that they'll be killed if they find the gate without El.
Dustin upset and disappointed when Lucas stubbornly refuses to help look for El.
Dustin and Mike watching Lucas storm off to find the gate on his own.
Dustin and Mike riding their bikes together.
Dustin being asked by Mike what he's talking about when he states Lucas is jealous.
"Sometimes your total obliviousness just blows my mind."
Dustin recounting to Mike how they met in fourth grade.
Dustin talking about Lucas, telling Mike that he's his best friend no matter what.
Dustin remarking to Mike how he's been paying attention to El since they met her.
Dustin talking about how both sides of Mike and Lucas's argument had valid points.
"Can't have more than one best friend."
Dustin deeply touched when Mike tells him he considers him his best friend too no matter what.
Dustin and Mike coming to a stop where they see a commotion at the Bradley's Big Buy store.
Dustin and Mike realizing El was at the store.
Dustin and Mike riding off to continue looking for El.
Later, Dustin and Mike wander through the woods.
Dustin and Mike searching for El in the woods.
Dustin and Mike hearing a noise.
Dustin and Mike confronted by Troy and James.
Upon seeing their bullies armed with a switchblade, Dustin and Mike realize Troy and James intend to harm them.
Dustin and Mike fleeing to escape their bullies' wrath.
After running upstairs, Dustin and Mike look out a window where they see a repairman sitting in his van, watching the house.
Dustin and Mike fearing the repairman could be one of the "bad men".
Dustin watching Mike run off to ask his mom about the repairman.
Dustin staying at the window to keep watch.
Dustin seeing more electric repair vans arrive in the neighborhood.
Dustin panicking when he sees the vans parking near the Wheeler house.
Dustin having closed the curtain to avoid being spotted.
"We need to leave right now."
Dustin, Mike, and El running out of the house to flee from the bad men.
Dustin freaking out as he rides his bike to flee from the "bad men" who turn out to be undercover government agents.
Dustin, Mike, and El riding their bikes.
Dustin talking to Lucas through his headset.
Dustin, El, and Mike fleeing as they're being pursued.
Upon being told by Lucas to meet him at intersections Elm & Cherry, Dustin repeats this information to Mike.
Dustin, El, and Mike biking through the neighborhood.
Dustin having some vans in pursuit behind him.
Dustin and his friends going to bike through people's backyards to escape their pursuers.
Dustin warning two girls to get out of the way.
Dustin zooming past some girls.
The Party reuniting at the streets Elm and Cherry in the neighborhood.
Dustin going to ride his bike again when the vans show up.
Dustin pursued by the vans.
Dustin screaming when he sees another van driving towards him and his friends.
Dustin and his friends escaping after El uses her powers to flip the van over.
Still hiding from the helicopter, the kids suddenly hear a transmission from Mike's walkie talkie.
The kids hearing Nancy's voice through the walkie.
"Okay, this is really weird."
Dustin hearing Mike point out that Nancy could've been captured by the agents and is trying to convince them to give away their location.
"Like Lando Calrissian. Don't answer it."
The kids surprised and confused to hear Chief Hopper on the other end of the transmission, revealing he knows about El and that they're in danger.
Dustin, El, and Lucas watching Mike respond to Hopper's transmission, giving away their location so the chief can come rescue them.
Later, Dustin watches Mike use a drawing of a flea and an acrobat to explain the Upside Down to Joyce, Hopper, Nancy, and Jonathan.
The kids explaining the Upside Down to Joyce, Jonathan, Nancy, and Hopper.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas explaining the gate to Joyce, Hopper, Nancy, and Jonathan.
"Okay, so the gate has a really strong electromagnetic field and that can change the direction of a compass needle."
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas hearing El answer Hopper's questions on where the gate is located within the lab.
The boys surprised that Hopper knows where the gate is after El answers yes to every one of his questions.
Dustin and Lucas hearing Mike realize Hopper has seen the gate.
Everyone watching El using her powers to try and find Will and Barbara Holland.
Everyone having noticed the light flicker as El uses her powers.
Everyone sad & disappointed when El is unable to find Will or Barbara.
Dustin calling Mr. Clarke.
"Do you know anything about sensory deprivation tanks? Specifically how to build one?"
(Mr. Clarke: "What is this for?") "Fun."
"You always say we should never stop being curious. To always open any curiosity door we find. Why are you keeping this curiosity door locked?"
Dustin writing down what Mr. Clarke's telling him over the phone on how to build a sensory deprivation tank.
Dustin promising Mr. Clarke that he and his friends will be careful before saying goodbye to him and hanging up the phone.
"Do you still have that kiddie pool? The one we'd bob apples in?"
(Joyce: "Yeah.") "Good. And we'll just need salt. Lots of it."
(Hopper: "How much is lots?") "Fifteen hundred pounds."
Dustin and Lucas in the school gym.
Dustin and Lucas going to untie an inflatable kiddie pool.
Dustin and Lucas unraveling the inflatable pool.
Dustin and Lucas going to open up the pool.
Dustin and Lucas working together to open up the pool and get ready to be filled with water.
Dustin and Lucas opening the inflatable pool.
"How does this even work?"
Dustin being told by Lucas to go to the other side of the pool.
Dustin and Lucas struggling to keep the edges of the pool to stay up.
(Lucas: "Pull it!"") "I am!"
Dustin and Lucas trying to open up the pool.
Dustin and Lucas having a hard time keeping the pool open.
Later, Dustin stands by the pool as it is being filled with water.
Dustin as Lucas tells Nancy the pool's temperature is perfect.
Dustin holding a carton of eggs to test to see if the salt in the water will make them float.
Dustin, Mike, and Lucas disappointed when an egg sinks into the pool.
After more bags of salt are dumped into the pool, Dustin, Mike, and Lucas are satisfied to see another egg floating on the water.
Dustin and Lucas having seen the school gym's lights go out.
Dustin and Lucas hearing El having found Will's location in the Upside Down.
Dustin and Lucas seeing El emerge out of the water after she finds Will.
The kids sitting on the bleachers.
The kids sitting quietly as Joyce and Jonathan tell Hopper where Castle Byers is located.
The kids sitting as Joyce and Jonathan follow Hopper to rescue Will from the Upside Down.
In the school cafeteria, Dustin and Lucas find lots of chocolate pudding in a refrigerator.
Dustin and Lucas happily taking cans of chocolate pudding.
"Mike! I found the chocolate pudding!"
Dustin, El, and Lucas helping themselves to cans of chocolate pudding.
Dustin, El, and Lucas being alerted by Mike that the government agents have arrived at the school.
Dustin, El, and Mike running through the school.
The kids being spotted by some agents.
The kids turning around to run the other way to escape from the agents.
The kids being cornered by the agents who begin to hold them at gunpoint.
The kids watching the agents surrounding them fall to the floor dead after being killed by El.
The boys seeing El faint from exhaustion after using her powers.
Dustin and Lucas rushing to El's aid.
Dustin and Lucas checking on El.
A month later, Dustin plays Dungeons & Dragons.
Dustin playing a D&D campaign with his friends.
Dustin hearing Mike announce the opponent is a thessalhydra, much to his dismay.
(Lucas: "Fireball him!") "Fireball the son of a bitch!"
Dustin hearing a hit is blown after Will rolls a fourteen.
Dustin hearing Will managing to strike a direct hit to the thessalhydra.
Dustin, Will, and Lucas cheering after they won.
Dustin and his friends resuming their campaign.
"Wait. That's not it, is it?"-Dustin after hearing Mike bring the campaign to a conclusion.
Dustin not amused when Lucas makes a joke about him farting.
Dustin saying goodbye to Will as he leaves with Jonathan to go home.
Dustin and Lucas play fighting.
On October 29, 1984, Dustin checks under a cushion for some money.
"Can I please check under your cushions?"-Dustin asking his mom.
After his mom gets up from her chair, Dustin finds some change.
Dustin contacting Lucas with his supercom.
Dustin surprised to hear that Lucas earned so much money for mowing one of their neighbors' lawn.
(Mike: "I don't know.") "What do you mean you don't know?"
The next day, Dustin and his friends attend Mr. Clarke's class.
Later, Dustin and Lucas keep a lookout, waiting for Max to show up at the arcade.
Dustin checking his watch.
"She will not be able to resist these pearls."
Dustin and Lucas seeing a car arrive at the arcade.
(Lucas: "They're arguing! They're arguing!") "I see that. I don't know why you need those."
Upon seeing Max play Dig Dug, Dustin and Lucas discover she really is "MADMAX", becoming lovestruck with her.
A photo of Dustin as a Ghostbuster.
Dustin posing as his mom takes pictures of him in his Halloween costume.
Dustin and Lucas approaching Max.
Dustin and Lucas introducing themselves to Max.
Dustin and Lucas stuttering when Max accuses them of stalking her.
Dustin and Lucas explaining they were keeping an eye on Max because they didn't want her to get bullied.
"There are a lot of bullies here."
"But I do have this handy dandy trap here."
Dustin and Lucas showing the ghost trap to impress Max.
"Anyway, we were talking last night..."
"You probably don't have any friends take you trick-or-treating. So we were thinking it would be okay if you went trick-or-treating with us."
Dustin explaining to Max the Party is a democracy.
(Max: "I didn't realize it was such an honor to go trick-or-treating with you.") "Yeah, and we even get the full-size candy bars."
Dustin and Lucas thinking Max has accepted their invitation.
Dustin and Lucas hearing Max say it's presumptuous of them to think she would accept their invitation.
Dustin telling Max where they're meeting later tonight to start trick-or-treating as she leaves.
"Presumptuous. That's a good thing, right?"
Dustin and Lucas walking through the hallway.
After school, Dustin, Lucas, and Mike ride their bikes home.
Dustin noticing that a car is suddenly speeding up behind them.
The boys trying to ride their bikes as fast as they to get away from the car.
Dustin and Mike having crashed their bikes on the side of the road when the car suddenly turns away from them.
Dustin and Lucas realizing that Max was in the car that nearly killed them.
Dustin celebrating Halloween with Lucas and Max.
Dustin watching Mike and Will leave after Will has an "episode."
Returning home from trick-or-treating, Dustin hears a strange noise.
Dustin turning around as he hears the noise coming from his trash can.
Dustin holding his proton blaster as he goes to investigate the noise.
Dustin looking in his trash can and finds a strange creature inside.
Dustin entering his home, taking the strange creature with him.
Dustin being met with by his mom who asks him if he enjoyed trick-or-treating.
When the creature screeches inside his ghost trap, Dustin claims to his mom he made the trap give the illusion of a real ghost trapped inside.
Dustin saying good night to his mom.
"Sorry, Yurtle."-Dustin taking his pet turtle out his cage so he can put the strange creature inside.
"What are you?"-Dustin looking at the creature in fascination.
After feeding the creature a Three Musketeers candy bar, Dustin names the creature D'Artagnan.
Dustin at the Hawkins Public Library the next day.
Dustin taking the books to research D'Artagnan "Dart".
Dustin bursting into Mr. Clarke's classroom, arriving late at school.
Dustin apologizing to Mr. Clarke for being late.
Dustin going to sit down as the class continues.
"We have to meet. All of us. At lunch. AV Club."
(Mike: "Why?") "I have something that you won't believe."
Dustin having told his friends to meet at AV Club during lunch.
Dustin turning to around to where Max is seated.
Dustin whispering to Max.
(Mr. Clarke: "Dustin!") "Yes, my lord?"
Dustin getting out his textbook to follow along with Mr. Clarke's lecture.
Dustin whispering to Max again, inviting her to meet at AV Club during lunch.
Dustin giving a thumbs up after Max accepts his invitation.
Dustin, Lucas, Mike, and Max continuing their class.
Dustin zipping up his backpack when he sees his homemade ghost trap sticking out.
Dustin, Mike, Will, Max, and Lucas looking into the trap.
Dustin showing Dart to his friends.
(Mike: "What is he?") "My thoughts exactly."
Dustin discussing his research of Dart's pollywog species.
"I've just discovered a new species."
Dustin not wanting to show Dart to Mr. Clarke, thinking he'll steal his discovery.
Dustin, Lucas, and Mike walking together.
Dustin and his friends deciding to show Dart to Mr. Clarke.
Dustin talking to Mr. Clarke.
Dustin about to show Dart to Mr. Clarke.
Dustin shocked when Mike and Will stop him from showing Dart.
The boys in the AV Club room.
Dustin and Lucas listening to how Will saw a creature that looked like Dart last year.
Dustin upon realizing Dart is from the Upside Down.
However, despite this discovery, Dustin refuses to believe that Dart could be dangerous.
The boys scared when Dart starts screeching inhumanly while inside the ghost trap.
Dustin reluctantly going to open the ghost trap.
Upon releasing Dart, Dustin and Lucas are shocked to see Dart having a growth spurt.
Dustin and Lucas grossed out when Dart sprouts hind legs.
After Dart escapes, Dustin begs his friends not to hurt Dart.
Dustin contacting Will thru his headset as he searches for Dart.
Dustin finding Dart in the school bathroom.
Dustin hiding Dart in his hat.
Dustin lying to his friends on Dart's whereabouts.
While searching for Will, Dustin runs into Joyce.
Dustin, Joyce and Max seeing Lucas rush in, saying Will is in trouble.
Dustin, Max, and Joyce finding Will and Mike out on the P.E. field.
After Will wakes up from a trance, Dustin and his friends watch Will leave with his mom.
The next morning, Dustin opens Dart's cage to feed him some chocolate.
Dustin promising Dart he'll be back from school.
Dustin arriving at school.
Dustin looking for his friends.
Dustin running to the back of a building.
Dustin finding Max and Mike.
Dustin, Max, and Mike seeing Lucas having thrown trash bags out of dumpster.
Dustin seeing Lucas come of the dumpster.
Dustin dumbfounded when Lucas notes how he just showed up while he and the others looked for Dart.
Dustin asking where Will is.
Dustin catching a stick after hearing Will'll be at school soon.
Dustin helping his friends search through trash bags, despite knowing Dart is not in any of them.
Later, Dustin and Lucas hearing Mike say they need to talk right now.
Dustin pleading with Mike to include Max in their meeting until he explains what they need to talk about is non-negotiable.
Dustin, Lucas, and Max watching Mike head inside the school building.
Dustin and Lucas apologizing to Max as they reluctantly follow Mike's lead and exclude her from their meeting.
Dustin and Lucas listening to Mike reveal on Halloween night, Will encountered a living shadow monster.
"Well, if you're in another plane, you can't interact with the material plane, so theoretically, no, the shadow can't hurt him."
Dustin listening to Mike discuss whatever is going with Will isn't like D&D.
"Dart? What's he got to do with this?"
Dustin realizing Mike is right when he points out Will heard him in the Upside Down and that using him would help them figure out what's wrong with Will.
Dustin returning home from school.
Dart going to uncover Dart's habitat tank in order to speak to him.
When he removes the blanket, Dustin finds the tank is shattered and destroyed.
Dustin finding a piece of molten skin.
Dustin startled when he hears a monstrous screech.
Going to investigate, Dustin finds blood stains all over the carpet and his sofa chair.
Dustin horrified to see Dart eating his pet cat, Mews.
Dustin discovering Dart is an adolescent Demogorgon.
The next day, Dustin talks on the phone while his mom worries about Mews.
Dustin lying to his mom so she won't know of Mews's fate.
Dustin comforting his distressed mom.
After getting his mom to leave, Dustin now realizes he has to deal with Dart.
Dustin opening a cellar so he can use it to trap Dart.
Dustin getting food out of the refrigerator so he can lure Dart into his trap.
Dustin putting on a hockey mask.
Dustin wearing hockey gear to protect himself.
Dustin about to open his bedroom door, freeing Dart.
Once he opens the door, Dustin starts running.
Dustin running out of his house as Dart eats the trail of food.
Peeking through the shed, Dustin watches Dart eat the food trail.
When Dart senses his presence, Dustin braces himself before he confront Dart.
Dustin bursts out of the shed and fights Dart.
After throwing Dart into the cellar, Dustin closes the doors to trap him inside.
"I'm sorry. You ate my cat."-Dustin after trapping Dart.
Later, Dustin buries his dead cat as he tries to get in touch with his friends.
Dustin getting cleaning supplies as he still tries to get in touch with his friends.
Dustin cleaning his bedroom carpet where Mews was devoured by Dart.
Dustin hearing Lucas's little sister,
Erica answer his calls.
When Erica rudely refuses to tell him where Lucas is, Dustin hears her turn off her brother's supercom.
Upon arriving at the Wheeler house, Dustin is disappointed to hear that Mike and Nancy are not home.
Dustin meeting up with
Steve Harrington when he too arrives at the Wheeler house.
Dustin telling Steve that Nancy isn't home and that he needs his help.
"I'll explain it on the way."
While driving back to his house, Dustin had told Steve about Dart.
(Steve: "Wait a sec, how big?") "First it was like that..."
(Steve: "How do you know it's not just a lizard?") "Because his face opened up and he ate my cat!"
Upon arriving back at his house, Dustin watches Steve get his spiked baseball bat.
(Steve: "I don't hear shit.") "He's in there."
Dustin and Steve hearing silence when knocking on the cellar door.
Dustin being told by Steve he will not be happy if he's pranking him.
Dustin and Steve having unlocked and opened the cellar.
"He must be further down. I'll stay here in case...he tries to escape."
"Steve? Steve, what's going on down there?"
Dustin being told by Steve to get down into the cellar.
Dustin being shown a piece of molted skin.
Finding a hole in the wall, Dustin and Steve realize that Dart has escaped.
The next day, Dustin is contacted by Lucas.
Dustin calling Lucas through his headset, telling him about Dart.
Dustin telling Lucas to meet him and Steve at the junkyard.
Dustin and Steve going to walk into the woods.
Dustin and Steve walking on the railroad tracks.
"Well, not everyone can have your perfect hair, all right?"
Dustin and Steve forming a friendship as they talk about girls.
"Oh, like in the electromagnetic field..."
Dustin being given relationship advice from Steve.
"So that's when you kiss her?"
Dustin and Steve discuss different types of girls.
When Steve states Nancy is different from other girls, Dustin remarks she must be special.
Dustin talking about Max, calling her special.
Dustin being asked by Steve if he's falling in love with Max.
Dustin assuring Steve he's not in love with Max.
Dustin and Steve continuing to drop meat chops to lure Dart.
Dustin looking down after Steve advises him to not fall in love as he's too young and will only get his heart broken.
Dustin hearing Steve reveal he uses Faberge Organics on his hair.
Dustin hearing Steve reveal how he does and styles his hair.
Dustin promising to keep Steve's secret of how he does his hair.
Dustin and Steve continuing to walk through the forest.
Dustin and Steve arriving at the junkyard.
Dustin seeing Lucas arrive with Max.
Dustin and Lucas getting into an argument as the latter had told Max of the events from last year.
When Lucas asks if he heard from anyone else, Dustin says no.
Dustin and Lucas agreeing something is wrong if they haven't heard from the rest of their friends.
Dustin and Lucas watching Max with Lucas revealing she didn't believe his story.
Dustin looking at Lucas when he asks if they're good.
Dustin getting startled by Steve.
Dustin and Lucas going to start preparing to confront Dart.
Dustin, Steve, Lucas, and Max rolling steel gallon cans.
Dustin entering the bus after he and his friends finish setting up a trap for Dart.
When Dart arrives at the junkyard, Dustin and Steve see he's not taking the bait.
Dustin seeing Steve leave to go outside of the bus.
(Max: "What's he doing?") "Expanding the menu."
"Steve! Abort!"-Dustin upon seeing more Demodogs surround Steve.
Dustin and Lucas yelling at Steve to retreat.
Dustin, Steve, Lucas, and Max trapped inside the bus.
Dustin trying to call for help on his walkie.
Dustin and his friends surprised when the Demodogs suddenly stop attacking them.
Dustin thinking Steve scared off the Demodogs until Steve says the creatures are going somewhere.
"He's molted three times already."
Dustin, Steve, Max, and Lucas walking through the forest as they search for Dart.
Dustin hearing Steve unintentionally mention Dart eating his pet cat.
(Lucas: "Dart ate a cat?") "No. What? No."
Dustin as Max asks Steve what he's talking about.
"Steve!"-Dustin getting unknowingly exposed by Steve for hiding Dart from his friends.
Dustin confessing to Lucas that he kept Dart and hid him from him and their friends.
Dustin being berated by Lucas for keeping Dart and putting themselves in danger.
Dustin berating Lucas for telling Max about the Upside Down and its monsters.
Dustin and Lucas continuing to argue about Dart and Max.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas looking at Steve when he interrupts them.
Dustin and his friends following the sound of the roar.
Dustin and his friends stopping at a hill where they get a view of Hawkins National Lab, making them realize that's where the Demodogs are heading.
Dustin and Steve emerging out of the forest.
Dustin, Steve, and Lucas surprised to see Nancy and Jonathan at the fence guarding the lab.
Dustin as Steve asks Nancy and Jonathan what they're doing at the lab.
Dustin, Steve, Lucas, and Max meeting up with Nancy and Jonathan.
Dustin asking Nancy and Jonathan if Mike and Will are not in the lab.
Dustin, Lucas, Max, Steve, Nancy, and Jonathan hearing roars from the lab.
Dustin, Jonathan, Steve, Lucas, and Max discussing what to do until Nancy notices the lab's power is back on.
Dustin, Jonathan, and Lucas running to open the lab's front gate.
The kids and teens seeing the lab's front gate is not opening, despite the facility's lights being on.
The kids and teens confused on why the power's still not working.
Dustin pressing the button to try opening the gate.
Everyone waiting for the lab's front gate to open.
Dustin and Jonathan getting frustrated with their efforts to get into the lab.
The gang seeing the lab's front gate suddenly opening up.
"I did it!"-Dustin thinking he opened the front gate.
Dustin and his friends waiting for the others outside the lab's gate and fence.
Dustin and his friends waiting patiently.
Dustin and his friends seeing two cars approaching them.
Dustin and his friends quickly moving out of the way when they see the cars driving fast.
Dustin and his friends standing beside the fence as one car stops right to them.
Dustin and his friends going to get in Hopper's car.
Dustin and Lucas watching Steve get in Hopper's car.
Dustin and Lucas going to get in the car to escape the lab.
Dustin getting in Hopper's car just as he and his friends escape the lab.
"They didn't believe you, did they?"-Dustin after Hopper calls the military for help.
Dustin as Mike points out they can't just do nothing while the demodogs are loose.
Dustin and Lucas reminiscing the deceased
Bob Newby.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas listening to Mike reveal Bob was the founder of their AV club.
"Well, what do you want to do, Mike. The Chief's right on this. We can't stop those Demodogs on our own."
(Max: "Demodogs?") "Demogorgon dogs."
Dustin listening to Mike as he shows Will's drawing of the shadow monster.
Dustin and Steve listening to Mike explain how every living thing in or connected to the Upside Down can feel each other's pain.
(Steve: "Hive mind?") "A collective consciousness. It's a super organism."
When Mike reveals the shadow monster is the one controlling everything within the Upside Down, Dustin realizes it is just like the Mind Flayer from Dungeons & Dragons.
"The Mind Flayer."-Dustin opening a D&D manual.
(Hopper: "The hell is that?") "It's a monster from an unknown dimension. It's so ancient that it doesn't even know its true home."
"Unless there's something you don't know, this is the best metaphor."
Dustin being asked by Nancy what the Mind Flayer wants.
"To conquer us basically. It believes it's the master race."
(Steve: "Oh, like the Germans.") "The Nazis?"
"It uses other races like us as inferior to itself."
Dustin and Steve listening to Mike back up by explaining the Mind Flayer takes over dimensions when spreading its influence over other races.
Dustin as Nancy looks at the D&D manual.
(Mike: "We'd kill everything it controls.") "We'd win."
When Hopper asks how they would kill the Mind Flayer, Dustin is unsure how as the manual is only a guidebook for a fantasy game.
"We know that it's only a matter of time before those tunnels reach this town."
Dustin hearing Joyce agree with him and his friends.
Dustin and Lucas ravaging through trash in order to get ready to interrogate Will.
Dustin apologizing to Lucas for keeping and hiding Dart from him and the others.
Dustin telling Lucas he saw him and Max holding hands in the bus, knowing that they are in love with each other.
Dustin sadly leaving after picking up some pieces of trash.
Dustin, Lucas, and Mike working together in the Byers' shed.
Dustin and his friends preparing the shed for Will's interrogation.
Dustin and Steve working together.
Dustin looking out a window after finishing setting up the shed.
Dustin rubbing his head and neck, anxiously waiting while the others interrogate Will.
Dustin, Nancy, and Steve worried when the house's lights begin to flicker.
Dustin and his friends watching Hopper write on a piece of paper.
Dustin and his friends watching Hopper write a message in morse code due to discovering Will to be using it to communicate.
Dustin hearing Will is able to slightly fight through his possession to communicate with everyone.
Dustin, Lucas, and Max figuring out the first letter of Will's morse coded message which is a C.
Dustin listening to morse code transmissions Hopper sends him via walkie.
Dustin, Lucas, and Max hearing the next letter in Will's morse coded message.
Dustin, Steve, Lucas, Nancy, and Max reading Will's translated message which says "Close Gate."
Dustin and Max panicking when the Byers' phone starts to ring.
Dustin trying to stop the phone from ringing by hanging it up.
When the phone starts ringing again, Dustin watches Nancy pull the phone out of the wall, disconnecting it.
Dustin having watched Nancy throw the phone to the ground.
Dustin, Lucas, Steve, Max, and Nancy hearing roars, realizing the demodogs are coming as they know their location.
Dustin behind Nancy and Steve as they ready their weapons.
Dustin, Nancy, Jonathan, and Joyce preparing themselves for the demodogs' attack.
Dustin, Jonathan, Joyce, and Nancy hearing noises outside the house.
Dustin and Steve waiting for the demodogs to show up.
Dustin and Max nervous as they hear the demodogs outside the house.
Dustin and the others seeing a demodog on the floor after it had thrown through a window.
Dustin, Jonathan, Lucas, and Max looking at the demodog.
Dustin, Jonathan and Lucas seeing the demodog is dead.
Everyone hearing the floorboard creak outside.
Everyone nervous as they raise their weapons when they see the front door unlocking by itself.
Dustin and Max anxious as the front door opens.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas surprised to see El alive and well.
Dustin, Jonathan, and Joyce learning Hopper had been hiding and protecting El for almost a year.
Dustin and Lucas reuniting with El.
Dustin and Lucas telling El how much they've missed her.
(El: "You have teeth.") "Oh."
Dustin purring to show off his new teeth.
Dustin, El, and Lucas seeing Max approaching them to introduce herself to El.
Dustin seeing El ignore Max.
(Hopper: "The place is crawling with those dogs.") "Demodogs."
Dustin describing he's calling adolescent Demogorgons "Demodogs" before Hopper asks him how is that important which he apologizes for.
Dustin and his friends going over their plan which is to help El close the gate.
Dustin, Steve, Jonathan, and Nancy hearing Mike point out Will could be killed if the gate is closed due to being possessed by the Mind Flayer.
Dustin hearing Joyce reveal that the Mind Flayer likes cold temperatures.
After realizing the Mind Flayer needs to be burned out of Will, Dustin and Mike propose Will to be exorcised at a different place far away from his house.
(Mike: "That lab is swarming with hundreds of those dogs!") "Demodogs!"
Dustin watching Steve trying to Mike their current predicament.
Dustin remembering how the Demodogs being called away from the junkyard.
Dustin hearing Steve being pessimistic on the idea of distracting the Demodogs to give El and Hopper a clear path to the gate.
"That's one point of view."
Dustin hearing Steve remark he was stating a fact.
Dustin being shown by Mike where Hopper dug his way into the tunnels.
"The Mind Flayer will call of his army."
Dustin, Steve, Lucas, and Max hearing and realizing Mike's plan to burn the tunnels to distract the Demodogs.
Dustin, Mike, Max, and Lucas hearing Steve object to their plan.
Dustin, Mike, Max, and Lucas silent after Steve orders them to not carry out their plan to burn the tunnels.
"Sh*t! Did he see us?"-Dustin after being spotted by Billy.
The kids being confronted by Billy when he enters the house.
Dustin, Max, and Mike seeing Billy attack Lucas.
Dustin, Max, and Mike watching Billy threaten Lucas.
Dustin, Max, and Mike witnessing Steve punch Billy, saving Lucas.
Dustin and Mike embracing Lucas after Steve saves him from Billy.
Dustin and Mike seeing Steve beginning to fight Billy.
The boys watching Billy beat up Steve.
Dustin watching Billy beat up Steve.
Dustin worried for Steve as Max walks up to her stepbrother.
Dustin and Mike shocked to see Max sedating her stepbrother.
The boys watching Max confront her stepbrother after sedating him.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas staring at a sedated Billy who's lying on the floor.
The boys watching Max standing up to Billy, ordering him to leave her and her friends alone from now on.
Dustin and Mike watching Max threaten Billy with Steve's spiked bat.
The boys watching Billy pass out after he gives in to Max's threats and demands.
The boys watching Max going to take her stepbrother's car keys.
The boys still shocked over what happened between Max and Billy.
The boys glancing at each other as they realize Max wants to proceed in burning the Upside Down's tunnels.
Dustin and his friends arriving at the hub.
Dustin and his friends going to start the burning of the tunnels.
Dustin watching Steve throw a lighter box at some vines.
Dustin and his friends seeing the vines being set ablaze.
Dustin and his friends seeing the fire getting bigger, prompting to make a run for it.
Dustin and Lucas running through the tunnels.
A month later, Dustin gets ready for his school's Snow Ball dance, looking for his hairspray.
Dustin finding the bag with his hairspray in it.
Dustin running to his room to finish getting ready for the Snow Ball.
Dustin going to do his hair before he leaves for the Snow Ball.
Dustin looking nervous as he arrives at his school's Snow Ball dance.
Dustin having carpooled by Steve to the Snow Ball.
Dustin going to look into Steve's mirror to check his appearance.
Dustin growing confident due to Steve's encouragement.
Dustin being wished good luck by Steve.
Dustin having entered the school.
Dustin greeting Mr. Clarke.
Dustin arriving at the Snow Ball.
Dustin going to look for his friends.
On June 29, 1985, Dustin returns to Hawkins after spending almost the entire month at summer camp.
Dustin and his mom driving home.
Dustin trying to contact his friends.
Dustin upset that he does not hear from any friends.
Dustin after returning home.
Dustin happy to see his pet turtle.
Dustin hearing a noise in close range.
Dustin seeing his toys having been activated.
Dustin seeing his toys moving on their own.
Dustin not knowing what is going on with his toys.
Dustin watching his toys move on their own.
Dustin seeing one of his toys fire foam darts at him.
Dustin watching his toys head towards the door.
A surprised Dustin watching his toys leave his room.
Dustin going to follow his toys as they move through his house.
Dustin holding a can of hairspray, ready to defend himself.
"It's just a dream, it's just a dream."
Dustin following his toys as he's unknowingly watched by Max.
Dustin seeing his toys suddenly stop moving.
Dustin holding his R2-D2 toy, trying to figure out why it stopped moving on its own.
Dustin checking his toys as his friends sneak up as his friends sneak up behind him.
A confused Dustin not noticing his friends approaching him.
Dustin getting surprised by his friends.
A frightened Dustin using his hairspray, accidentally spraying Lucas in the face.
Dustin reaching the top of Weathertop.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas starting to build Cerebro.
Dustin, Max, Lucas, and Will building Cerebro.
Dustin, Max, Lucas, and Will lifting Cerebro upwards after they finish building it.
"Pretty impressive, right?"
Dustin trying to use the newly built Cerebro to contact his girlfriend, Suzie Bingham.
Hours later, Dustin still tries to contact Suzie.
Dustin assuring his friends that he will get in touch with Suzie.
Dustin insisting Suzie exists when Lucas believes she is imaginary.
Dustin being accused of lying over having a girlfriend.
Dustin watching Max and Lucas leave Weathertop.
Dustin hearing Will say he's leaving too as it's getting late.
Dustin uninterested when Will invites him to play Dungeons & Dragons sometime.
Dustin watching Will leave.
Dustin upset over his friends' seemingly abandoning him, feeling alone.
Dustin answering his radio, thinking Suzie has finally contacted him.
Dustin surprised to hear instead of contacting Suzie, he intercepted a Russian broadcast on his Cerebro.
The next day, Dustin arrives at Scoops Ahoy where he meets
Robin Buckley.
Dustin happy to see Steve.
"You got the job!"-Dustin proud to see Steve working at Scoops Ahoy.
Dustin and Steve doing a secret handshake.
Dustin playfully pretending to stab Steve.
Dustin and Steve finishing their secret handshake.
Dustin laughing and smiling.
"Brilliant too. And she doesn't care that my real pearls are still coming in too. She says kissing is better without teeth."-Dustin telling Steve about Suzie.
Dustin and Steve sitting and talking.
Dustin taking a liking to Robin, finding her cool.
(Steve: "Where are the other knuckleheads?") "They ditched me yesterday."
"They're going to regret it though."
Dustin about to tell Steve what happened last night.
Dustin checking his surroundings.
Dustin whispering very low.
Dustin whispering again when Steve doesn't hear him.
(Steve: "Would you speak louder?") "I intercepted a secret Russian communication!"
Dustin after having told Steve about the Russian communication he intercepted.
(Steve: "Wait. What does this mean?") "It means, Steve, we can be heroes. True American heroes."
Dustin and Steve discuss what they could earn if they investigated a Russian communication.
(Steve: "So what's the catch?") "No catch. Just need your help."
Dustin unzipping his backpack.
Dustin holding a Russian-English dictionary as he wants to translate the transmission he intercepted.
Dustin playing a recording of the Russian transmission.
When Robin barges in on them, Dustin says he and Steve are working on something important.
Dustin bewildered when Robin reveals she knows he and Steve are investigating the Russians.
Dustin and Steve dumbfounded when Robin correctly guesses why they are having trouble translating the Russian language.
Dustin amazed when Robin speaks in pig Latin.
Dustin and Steve listening to Robin explain how she's fluent in four languages and skilled in band.
Dustin looking at Steve who decides to trust Robin.
Dustin playing the recording for Robin to translate the Russian message.
Dustin stopping the recording so Robin can figure one Russian word.
"The chair-looking thing."-Dustin pointing to a Russian letter for Robin.
Later that night, Dustin, Steve, and Robin leave Scoops Ahoy after they translate the Russian message.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin discussing the message, theorizing it to be a secret espionage code.
(Robin: "And why would anyone talk like that unless the message was somehow sensitive?") "Exactly."
(Robin: "So, I guess that confirms your suspicions.") "Evil Russians."
Dustin asking Robin how they would crack the code.
"A pattern. Right, like maybe "silver cat" is a meeting place?"
(Robin: "Or a person.") "Or a weapon."
Dustin and Robin seeing Steve stopping at a carousel horse.
Dustin and Robin watching Steve activate the carousel horse.
Dustin confused as Steve lets the carousel horse play music.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve listening to the carousel's music.
Dustin surprised when he recognizes the song.
Dustin taking off his backpack to get out his recorder.
Dustin plays back his recorder where the song from carousel horse is being played.
(Robin: "I don't understand.") "It's the exact same song from the recording."
Dustin and Steve hearing Robin theorize that Russia could also have carousel horses until Steve says otherwise.
Dustin shocked when Steve reveals the coded transmission actually came from Hawkins within the mall itself.
The next day, Dustin and Steve spy on the mall's customers to recognize any of them as a Russian.
Dustin giving Steve his own description of what a Russian looks like.
(Steve: "Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.") "What?"
"If you're not gonna focus, just gimme the binoculars."
"Dude, you are the worst spy in history, you know that?"
"I don't get why you're looking at girls. You already have the perfect girl right in front of you."
Dustin trying to convince Steve to hook up with Robin.
Dustin listening to Steve complain about Robin as he finds her weird due to her hobbies and personality.
"Instead of dating somebody you think's gonna make you cooler, why not date somebody you actually enjoy being around?"
Dustin glancing at Steve who admits his jealousy and annoyance that he managed to get a girlfriend by following his advice.
Dustin and Steve continuing to look for any Russians after their conversation.
Dustin continuing to spy on the mall's customers to see if any of them are Russians.
"Target acquired."-Dustin spotting a man carrying a duffel bag.
Dustin giving a description of the man to Steve.
(both) "Evil Russian."-Dustin and Steve thinking they found a Russian.
Dustin running up the escalator.
Dustin and Steve following their target.
When the man stops walking, Dustin and Steve quickly pretend to do something so their target won't know they're following him.
Dustin and Steve waiting for their target to keep moving.
Dustin hanging up the phone to continue following the mysterious man.
Dustin and Steve spying on their target from behind a map of the mall.
Dustin seeing the man enter a Jazzercise building.
Dustin and Steve seeing and realizing their target is not a Russian, but an American jazzercise teacher.
Dustin and Steve disgusted to see the teacher reveal his workout clothes, showing his biceps.
Dustin repulsed to watch the teacher lead a female jazzercise class.
Dustin and Steve returning to Scoops Ahoy.
Dustin and Steve after Robin runs past them.
Dustin and Steve finding Robin at the center of the mall.
Dustin and Steve surprised to hear Robin reveal that she cracked the Russians' secret code.
Later that night, Dustin, Steve, and Robin spy on Lynx Corporation making a delivery to the mall in the rain.
Dustin using binoculars where he spots some delivery men bringing in boxes for Imperial Panda and Kaufman Shoes.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin spying on some Russian delivery men bringing in boxes for Imperial Panda and Kaufman Shoes.
(Robin: "Wait, what's in there?") "It's just more boxes."
Dustin, Steve, and Robin seeing the Russians putting the delivery boxes in a secret room.
Dustin wrestling the binoculars with Steve, causing them to make a noise.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin hiding after they nearly blow their cover.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve escaping before they could be spotted by the Russian guards and delivery men.
The next morning, returning to the roof of the mall, Dustin spies on the Russian deliverymen and guards.
"That keycard opens the door, but unfortunately the Russian with this keycard also has a massive gun. Whatever's in those boxes, whatever's in that room, they really don't want anybody finding it."
"Did you not hear the part about the massive gun?"
(Steve: "Yes, Dustin, I did. And that's why I would be sneaking.") "Well, please, tell me this, and be honest."
"Have you ever actually won a fight?"
(Steve: "Okay, it was that one time...") "Twice. Jonathan. Year prior?"
(Steve: "Listen, that doesn't count.") "Why would it not count? Because it looked like he beat the sh*t out of you."
Dustin and Steve watching Robin suddenly leave, taking Scoops Ahoy employees' tip money with her.
Dustin and Steve watching Robin leave, hearing her say she's going to find a safer way to enter the secret room.
"Not bad."-Dustin when Robin returns with blueprints of the mall.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin looking at the mall's blueprints.
Dustin hearing Robin say there wouldn't be another door to the secret room.
Dustin and Steve being shown another set of blueprints by Robin.
"Air ducts."-Dustin realizing he and his friends can get into the secret room through the mall's air ducts.
Dustin and Steve watching Robin draw a route to the secret room on the mall's air ventilation system blueprints.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin looking at an air vent.
Dustin handing Steve a flashlight after he opens the vent.
"I'll fit. Trust me. No collarbones, remember?"
Dustin peeking into the vent before he tries to crawl in.
"Steve! Shut up and push me!"
Dustin unable to fit through the vent as he's too big.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin asking Erica to crawl into the air vent.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin listening to Erica ask what's in this for.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin bribing Erica with ice cream treats.
Dustin watching Robin show Erica the Starcourt blueprints while explaining to her the plan of her climbing through the vent and opening the door to the secret room.
"Do this for America, Erica."
Dustin and Robin listening to Erica say she believes in American capitalism.
Dustin glancing at Robin who accepts a bribe from Erica to give her a lifetime supply of Scoops Ahoy ice cream.
Later that night, Dustin, Steve, and Robin stand lookout while Erica crawls into the mall's air ventilation system.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin hearing Erica inform them via walkie that she arrived at the secret room.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin seeing Erica opening the door to the secret room.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin going to enter the secret room.
Once inside the room, Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica go to open one of the boxes.
Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica finding a metal container inside the box.
Dustin, Robin, Erica, and Steve finding four canisters inside the metal container.
Dustin, Robin, and Erica hearing Steve tell them to stay back.
"If you die, I die."-Dustin refusing to leave Steve's side.
Dustin watching Steve slowly pull out of one of the canisters.
Dustin and Steve finding a strange green material inside the canister.
Dustin, Steve, Erica, and Robin suddenly hearing a noise.
"Was that just me, or did the room move?"
Dustin and Steve starting to get scared as they worry what's going to happen next.
Dustin, Steve, Erica, and Robin deciding to leave before anything happens.
Dustin approaching the button panel to open the door so he and his companions can leave the room.
"Which one do I press, Erica?"
(Erica: "Just press the damn button, nerd.") "Which one? I'm pressing the button!"
Dustin being told by Erica to press the button that says "open door".
"I'm pressing "open door"!"
Dustin insisting to Steve he's trying to get the door open.
Dustin and Steve hearing another noise echo in the room.
Dustin and Steve nervous before the room reveals itself to be an elevator.
Dustin and Erica trying to stop the elevator.
Dustin screaming as he tries to stop the elevator.
After the elevator stops, Dustin lifts a box off of Steve.
Dustin getting blamed by Erica for getting trapped, along with Steve and Robin.
Dustin noticing a hatch on the ceiling of the elevator.
Dustin and Steve on the roof of the elevator, realizing they can't climb to the surface.
Dustin trying to contact his friends for help.
(Steve: "Hey! You gotta take it easy on that thing. You're gonna drain the battery.") "The mall just opened."
Dustin being told by Steve that they still don't have a way to get out of the elevator.
"What are you doing?"-Dustin seeing Steve unzip his shorts.
Dustin turning away as Steve takes a leak.
Dustin hearing Robin asking Steve to go to the bathroom somewhere else as she can see his urine.
Dustin and Steve warned by Robin that someone is approaching the elevator.
Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica hiding as some Russians enter the elevator.
After escaping the elevator, Dustin and his friends see the green substance in the canister is radioactive material after it is crushed by the elevator.
Dustin seeing that he and the others are in an underground base.
Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica seeing they are in an underground base.
Dustin, Robin, and Erica going to follow Steve into the base.
Dustin and Robin walking through the base.
Dustin, Robin, Erica, and Steve discuss as they walk through the Russians' base.
"It's gotta be much more valuable, like promethium or something."
Dustin listening to Robin explain to Steve what promethium is.
Dustin and Robin theorizing what the green radioactive substance is being used for.
Dustin, Robin, Erica, and Steve discussing what the Russians could be using the green radioactive material for.
Dustin hearing Robin wonder why Russians are in Hawkins.
Dustin and Steve coming to a realization.
Dustin and Steve quietly discussing if the Russians know about the Upside Down.
Dustin and Steve wonder if the Russians and the Upside Down are connected.
Dustin and Steve looking at the girls when they ask if there's anything they would like to share with them.
Dustin and Steve suddenly hearing a transmission coming from the latter's walkie.
Dustin, Steve, Erica, and Robin intercepting the Russians' communication.
"Wherever that broadcast is coming from-"
(Robin: "And if there's one thing we know about the signal...") "It can reach the surface."
Dustin and Steve surprised to see the Russians opening a new gate with the Key machine.
Dustin, Erica, Robin, and Steve walking down the stairs as the girls are surprised to hear the boys already know about the gate.
"Like, end of the human race as we know it kind of bad."
Before they could explain how they know about the gate, Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica notice the technician Steve had knocked out is gone.
Dustin, Steve, Erica, and Robin suddenly hear an alarm go off.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin going to start running when they realize the Soviet army has discovered their presence in the base.
Dustin and Robin entering the base's control room.
Dustin surprised when he's spotted by some Russian scientists.
Dustin going to run in another direction to escape from the control room.
Dustin being cut off by the Key's energy beam once he runs out of the control room.
Dustin panicking as he and his companions are pursued by Russian soldiers.
Dustin, Steve, and Erica running into another room as the soldiers and several guards pursue them.
Dustin, Erica, and Robin entering the room before Steve closes the door.
Dustin seeing the soldiers trying to open the door from the outside of the room.
Dustin and Erica finding an entrance to a ventilation tunnel.
Dustin telling Steve and Robin to come into the tunnel with him and Erica.
(Steve: "Go! Just get out of here!") "No! Come on!"
Dustin going to enter the ventilation tunnel as Steve and Robin barricade the door to prevent the soldiers from entering the room.
Dustin staring at Steve and Robin, realizing they won't be able to come with him and Erica as they're buying time to help them escape.
Dustin promising Steve and Robin he won't forget them before he escapes into the ventilation tunnel.
The next day, while inside the air ventilation tunnel, Dustin tells Erica about the supernatural events in 1983 and 1984.
(Erica: "And by "we" that includes Lucas?") "Yes, of course."
(Erica: "So all that sh*t you told me, Lucas was there?") "Yeah."
(Erica: "I don't believe you.") "Wait. So, you believe everything about El and the gate, and the demodogs, and the Mind Flayer, but you question your brother's involvement?"
(Erica: "That's correct.") "Makes total sense."
(Erica: "Need help with that?") "No."
Dustin looking at Erica who pessimistically points out if they don't turn off the fans, they'll never be able to rescue Steve and Robin.
Dustin hearing Erica calculate the time they have been crawling through the ventilation tunnels.
Dustin dumbfounded when Erica estimates how long it would take for them to get back to the elevator and escape.
"Did you just do all of that in your head?"
Dustin realizing Erica is a secret nerd.
(Erica: "Okay, you better take that back, nerd.") "Can't put the truth back in the box."
Dustin pointing out Erica is a nerd because she is good at math, knows a lot on politics, and likes My Little Pony.
(Erica: "And how do you know so much about My Little Pony?") "Because I'm a nerd."
Dustin and Erica emerging out of the air vent.
Dustin and Erica finding themselves in a room filled with more canisters filled with the toxic substance.
Dustin noticing a small delivery car.
Seeing no keys in the ignition lock, Dustin thinks there might be another pair of car keys somewhere in the room.
As he searches for the key, Dustin spots a metal cabinet in the wall.
"Found 'em."-Dustin finding the car keys.
"Erica?"-Dustin seeing Erica is not around.
"What the hell is that?!"-Dustin seeing Erica holding a taser stick.
When Erica proposes they can use the taser stick to rescue Steve and Robin, Dustin points out they have no clue where the older teens are within the base.
Dustin asking Erica to trust him on rescuing Steve and Robin and escaping the base.
Dustin driving the delivery car through the base.
Dustin bursting into an interrogation room where Steve and Robin are being held.
Dustin killing Russian expert in torture, Dr. Zharkov with the taser stick.
Dustin and Erica watching Dr. Zharkov fall to the floor after being electrocuted to death.
Dustin after killing Dr. Zharkov.
Dustin going to remove Steve and Robin's binds.
"Get ready to run!"-Dustin untying Steve.
Dustin and Erica driving in the loading car after they managed to rescue Robin and Steve.
Dustin and Erica after crashing the loading car near the elevator.
Dustin and Erica noticing Robin and Steve groaning in pain.
Dustin and Erica opening the loading car so Steve and Robin can get out before they can escape.
In the elevator, Dustin and Erica are perplexed at Steve and Robin acting high.
Dustin trying to examine Steve so he can figure out what's wrong with him.
"His pupils are super dilated."-Dustin after checking Steve's eyes, realizing he is drugged.
Dustin trying to talk to the high Steve in an attempt to snap him out of the drugs' effects.
Dustin speechless when a high Robin decently describes how death works to him.
"They're going to be looking for us up there so I need you to tell me where you parked your car?"
Hearing a high Steve and Robin admit they're hungry, Dustin promises they can eat all they want if Steve tells him where he'd parked his car.
Dustin shocked when Steve says the Russians had stolen his car keys while being held captive by them.
Dustin worried as he and his friends don't have a way to get away from the base and the mall.
Dustin, Erica, Robin, and Steve exiting out of the elevator when they've reached the surface.
Dustin and Erica seeing the Russian guards approaching them as they have waited for them.
Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica retreating into the mall when they are spotted and chased by the Russian guards.
Dustin, Erica, Steve, & Robin running through the back of the mall.
Dustin checking to see if the cost is clear.
Dustin, Erica, and Robin sneaking into the movie theater.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve entering the movie theater during a showing of Back to the Future.
Dustin and Erica getting Steve and Robin to sit at two empty seats.
"Whatever you do, don't go anywhere."
"It's official. I'm never having kids."
Dustin telling Erica they're laying low.
Dustin remarking Lee Harvey Oswald getting killed in a theater was a setup.
Dustin & Erica being shushed by a woman.
When Erica says they need to escape, Dustin tells her to watch Steve and Robin.
Dustin being asked by Erica where he's going.
Dustin telling Erica he's gonna try getting help.
Dustin in the movie theater's projection booth where he tries to call his friends for help.
Dustin excited and relieved to hear Mike's voice on the other end of the walkie.
Dustin apologizing and explaining to Mike why he was being MIA for the past few days.
Dustin informing Mike that the Russians have infiltrated Hawkins.
"They're after us and we don't have a way out."
Dustin realizing his walkie talkie is not working properly when he hears Mike's voice breaking up.
Dustin checking the batteries on his walkie, seeing that they're dying.
"Mike!"-Dustin yelling for Mike before his walkie talkie dies.
"Do you have any batteries? Double A?"-Dustin upon returning to Erica.
(Erica: "Why would I have batteries?") "I always carry batteries."
(Erica: "Then what's the problem?") "I need eight."
"Guess we'll have to go to plan B."
Before he can explain to Erica what plan B is, Dustin notices Steve and Robin are not sitting in their seats.
"Where are they?"-Dustin panicking upon seeing Steve and Robin are gone.
Dustin and Erica finding Steve and Robin in a restroom.
Later, Dustin, Erica, Robin, and Steve peek out through the bathroom door seeing people are leaving the mall.
"Now we just have to get on the bus with these peeps and home sweet home here we come."
Dustin hearing Steve reveal the Russians know about him as he told them his name while he was captured and drugged.
Dustin upset with Steve for revealing his identity to the Russians.
"So you resist! You tough it! You need to tough it out like a man!"
Dustin hearing Steve argue that it wasn't easy to resist the drugs' effects.
Dustin and Erica being held back by Robin.
Dustin, Erica, Steve, and Robin seeing the Russian guards blocking their exit.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve running when the guards spot them.
Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica going to slide down an escalator as they flee from the Russians.
Dustin sliding in between the escalators.
Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica hiding from the Russian guards.
Dustin and Robin suddenly hearing a car alarm going off.
Dustin, Robin, Erica, and Steve coming out of hiding.
Dustin, Robin, Erica, and Steve surprised to a displayed car destroyed and the guards lying dead.
Dustin, Robin, Erica, and Steve seeing their friends have saved them from the Russians.
Dustin happy to see his friends have to come to his rescue.
Dustin, Erica, and Steve walking over to their friends.
(laughs) "You flung that thing like a hot wheel."
Dustin sharing a hug with Mike and El.
Dustin watching Erica pin the blame on Steve and Robin for putting her in danger when Lucas is surprised to see her.
(Robin: "I don't understand what happened to that car.") "El has superpowers."
Dustin explaining to his friends how Robin cracked the Russians' coded message.
"Didn't you hear our code red?"-Dustin seeing his friends confused and have no idea about the Russians.
Dustin being told by Mike that he couldn't understand or hear his entire transmission.
(Steve: "How many times do I have to tell you with the low battery?!") "Well, everything worked out. Didn't it, Steve?"
Dustin being berated by Erica for not sending a clear transmission as they nearly died at the hands of the Russian guards.
Before everyone can catch up with each other, Dustin, Mike, Lucas, and Erica witness El fall to the ground.
Dustin, Mike, Will, and Jonathan running to El's aid.
Dustin horrified to see a large, red, blistering wound on El's leg.
Dustin growing concerned as El begins to scream in pain.
Dustin horrified to discover a creature inside El's leg.
Dustin and Steve helping Mike and El get into a more comfortable position.
Dustin looking up at Robin who tries to compare El's wound to an injury a member of her soccer team received one time.
Dustin seeing Jonathan putting on gloves as he's going to remove the creature inside El's leg.
Dustin worried as he sees Jonathan holding a knife.
Dustin and Mike horrified and disgusted when Jonathan begins to dig into El's skin after cutting her wound open.
Dustin uncomfortably watching El going to get the creature out of her leg herself after Jonathan fails to do so.
Dustin and the others witnessing El's powers break down the glass.
Dustin, Mike, Steve, and Robin witnessing El telekinetically throw the creature away after getting it out of her leg.
Dustin and his friends surprised to see Hopper, Joyce, and
Murray Bauman arrive at the mall.
Dustin, El, and Mike surprised to see the adults.
Later, Dustin and his friends catch up on what they've been doing and what encountered in the past few days, learning of the Mind Flayer's return.
Dustin, Erica, Lucas, Will, Steve, Max, and Jonathan seeing Murray show up with some papers.
Dustin and his friends coming up with a plan to sneak into the Russians' underground base in order to close the gate.
Dustin watching Erica tell Hopper, Joyce, and Murray the base is bigger than they thought.
Dustin watching Erica get sassy with Murray.
Dustin watching Erica get offended with Murray.
"You're all going to die, but you don't have to. Excuse me, sorry. May I?"
Dustin using a map of the Russians' base.
Dustin informing the adults that they can use the base's ventilation system to get to the machine opening the gate safely.
"It's a bit of a maze down there, but between me and Erica, we can show you the way."
(Hopper: "You can show us the way?") "Don't worry. You can do all the fighting and the dangerous hero shit and we'll just be your...navigators."
(Erica: "Well, that settles it. He's gonna die. They're gonna die.") "Most likely."
(Lucas: "You guys survived.") "Barely. We could've used you guys down there."
Dustin surprised to hear his friends admit they truly missed having him around.
Dustin, Lucas, Mike, and Will reconciling with each other.
The boys annoyed when Erica ruins their tender moment.
Dustin smiling at Erica before Hopper approaches him, telling him he can guide him through the base by radio.
Dustin and Erica telling Hopper that they won't be able to reach him by walkie as they won't get his signal when he's done in the base.
Dustin talking to Hopper, telling him that only his Cerebro radio tower will able to reach him while he's down in the base.
"But we need a head start. And a car."
Dustin and Robin exiting the mall.
Dustin, Erica, and Robin getting into the car Hopper lended to them.
Dustin, Steve, and Erica in the car, leaving to get to Cerebro.
Dustin, Erica, and Robin using Cerebro.
Dustin contacting his girlfriend, Suzie.
Dustin stammering as he asks Suzie to change frequencies so his friends can hear the number to Planck's constant.
Dustin asking Suzie for the equation for Planck's constant.
Dustin promising Suzie he will make for not being in touch with her for over a week.
When Suzie tells him to make with her now, Dustin refuses.
Before Suzie can cut off the transmission, Dustin stops her and submits to her request.
Dustin reluctantly about to start singing while knowing all of his friends will be listening.
Dustin smiling and singing NeverEnding Story.
Dustin and Suzie singing NeverEnding Story.
Dustin finishing the song where Suzie gives the equation for Planck's constant.
After Suzie gives the equation to Planck's constant, Dustin reaffirms his love for his girlfriend.
Dustin's communication with Suzie being turned off by an annoyed Erica.
Upon hearing from Steve that they're running out of time, Dustin warns the adults to close the gate quickly.
Three months later, Dustin is teased by Lucas and Max who sing "Neverending Story" due to hearing him sing it when he contacted Suzie.
Dustin asking Lucas and Max to stop teasing him.
(Max: "Yeah, come on, Dusty-bun. Why don't you join us?") "You guys are so funny, you should be on Carson."
(Max: "Can't we just hear your rendition?") "No."
(Max: "Please just one verse.") "No! No way! It's reserved for Suzie's ears and Suzie's ears alone."
Dustin flipping the bird when Lucas and Max continue to tease him by singing the "Neverending Story" song.
Dustin and Lucas giving Erica a donation box.
On March 21, 1986, Dustin contacts his girlfriend, Suzie through Cerebro.
"We're running out of time, here."
Dustin twirling his pencil as he waits while Suzie hacks into the Hawkins High School database.
"Do you see it?"-Dustin asking Suzie if she found his report card.
"It's just that Suzie's, like, a certified genius."-Dustin at his high school's basketball pep rally.
Dustin hearing Mike remind him how El saved the world twice.
"Yet, you still have a C in Spanish."
Dustin, Mike, and Max clapping when the Hawkins High basketball team arrives at the pep rally.
Dustin, Mike, and Max hearing Jason Carver mention Hopper as he gives a speech to the audience, making them mourn his apparent death.
Dustin and Mike irritated with Jason's speech as he uses Hopper's sacrifice and the deaths of countless people to motivate the audience, not knowing what they truly died for last year.
Dustin and Mike surprised to hear their school's basketball championship game is tonight.
Dustin and Mike hearing Max explain how the basketball team's been having a tournament this year.
Dustin and Mike surprised as they did not expect the championship game to be tonight.
The boys talking about the championship game and their Hellfire Club campaign which are both tonight.
Dustin hearing Mike trying to convince Lucas to talk to his coach to postpone the basketball game.
Dustin, Lucas, and Mike arguing about attending the championship game or their Hellfire Club campaign.
Dustin arguing that their club's campaign is their final one before spring break.
Dustin hearing Mike remind Lucas he's been the basketball team's benchwarmer since they started high school.
Dustin, Lucas, and Mike walking in the school hallway.
Dustin and Mike annoyed that Lucas wants to be popular.
(Lucas: "So you wanna be stuck with the nerds and freaks for three more years?") "We are nerds and freaks."
Dustin and Mike listening to Lucas explain he's tired of being bullied and treated like an outcast.
Dustin and Mike agreeing with Lucas on wanting to be accepted by their peers.
Dustin and Mike hearing Lucas plead with them to come to the championship game and support him.
Despite understanding Lucas's feelings, Dustin and Mike refuse to go to the game as they do not want to change who they are by becoming popular.
Dustin and Mike disappointed on how their friendship with Lucas is now strained due to his desire to become popular.
The next day, Dustin and his mom watch the news, learning a high school student has been found dead this morning.
After his doorbell rings, Dustin is surprised to see Max outside his front porch.
Dustin being told by Max that the murder victim was Chrissy Cunningham, a cheerleader from their high school.
Dustin confused on Chrissy being with Eddie on the night she was murdered.
Dustin refusing to believe Eddie is the culprit in Chrissy's murder, finding him innocent.
Dustin explaining to Max how Eddie took him and Mike in when they started high school.
"So you're saying Eddie is like Ted Bundy?"-Dustin when Max brings up Ted Bundy.
Dustin sitting on his bed when Max clarifies they can't presume whether Eddie is guilty or not.
"Why haven't you told the cops this?"
Dustin being confided by Max.
Dustin hearing from Max how scared Eddie was when she saw him flee from his trailer last night.
Dustin listening to Max theorizing and stuttering why Eddie could have been scared when Chrissy was killed.
"Something else killed her."-Dustin finishing Max's sentence.
Unsure if the monsters from the Upside Down could be back, Dustin proposes he and Max should seek out Eddie as he's the one who knows what happened to Chrissy.
Dustin and Max leaving to start their search for Eddie.
Before leaving, Dustin promises his worried mother that he and Max will be extra careful while in town.
Dustin and Max arriving at Family Video.
"How many phones do you have?"-Dustin asking Steve and Robin how many phones does Family Video have.
Hearing Steve and Robin say they have three phones, Dustin hears Max say they can use three phones to find Eddie.
Dustin having slid across the counter, knocking over piles of tapes.
(Steve: "What are you doing, man?") "Setting up base of operations here."
(Steve: "Your new best friend you think is cooler because he plays your nerdy game?") "Yes. I never said that."
(Robin: "Seriously, you guys, maybe on a Monday you can play around, but it's Saturday. It's our busiest day.") "I totally empathize, Robin, but this cannot wait until Monday."
(Robin: "What calling Eddie's friends is an emergency?") "Correct."
"Can you just fill them in while I do this?"-Dustin asking Max to tell Steve and Robin about Eddie and Chrissy.
Later, Dustin calls Eddie's friends to try finding where he is.
Dustin and Robin hearing Max has a lead.
Dustin and Robin hearing Eddie is acquainted with a drug dealer named Reefer Rick.
Dustin and Robin listening to Max explain no one knows Reefer Rick's last name or where he lives.
Dustin, Max, and Robin looking at Steve when he suggests that the police might know something about Reefer Rick.
"Really, Steve? That's your suggestion?"
"You think Eddie's guilty, don't you?"
Dustin annoyed as Max tells Steve they are trying to not to rule out Eddie's guilt or innocence.
"And maybe we would have a little more luck if you spent less time trying to find a girlfriend and more time trying to find Eddie!"
Dustin, Max, and Robin not buying Steve's claims that he's helping the store's customers both male and female.
Dustin and Max watching Robin work at the computer.
Dustin, Max, Robin, and Steve seeing Family Video customers with the name Rick have store accounts.
Dustin and Max agreeing it wouldn't be likely for a drug dealer to have a family.
Dustin, Max, Robin, and Steve checking through the Family Video accounts with the name Rick.
Dustin, Max, Robin, and Steve agreeing that Reefer Rick's last name can't be Joiner due to his choice of movie rentals.
Dustin, Max, and Robin chuckling as they agree Reefer Rick can't be Rick Kimbrough due to renting The Blue Lagoon and Splash.
Dustin, Max, Robin, and Steve finding their candidate when they check a Rick Lipton's account.
Dustin, Max, Robin, and Steve realizing Reefer Rick's last name is Lipton due to having an overdue rent on several Cheech & Chong movies.
Dustin, Max, and Robin checking Rick Lipton's address on his account.
Dustin, Max, Robin, and Steve realizing Reefer Rick lives by Lovers' Lake when they check his address, meaning Eddie could be there.
Dustin and Steve arriving at the Lipton house later that night.
Dustin peeking through the front door's window to see if anybody's inside the house.
Dustin knocking on the front door.
Upon finding a boathouse near the Lipton house, Dustin, Max, Steve, and Robin decide to search it.
Dustin and Steve searching the boathouse.
"What are you doing?"-Dustin watching Steve poke at some tarp covered boats with an oar.
(Steve: "He might be in here.") "So take the tarp off."
Dustin watching Steve poke at the tarp to see if Eddie is hiding underneath it.
"Don't worry. Steve will get him with his oar."
Dustin nodding in agreement when Steve snarks at him.
When Steve is ambushed and attacked by Eddie, Dustin begs him to stop.
"It's me. It's Dustin. This is Steve. He's not gonna hurt you, right, Steve?"
"Steve, why don't you drop the oar?"
Dustin and Max watching Steve drop his oar as Eddie holds a broken bottle to his throat.
"He's cool! He's cool!"-Dustin seeing Eddie not releasing his grip on Steve.
(Eddie: "What are you doing here?") "We're looking for you."
"Eddie, these are my friends. You know Robin, from band."
"This is my friend, Max. The one who never wants to play D&D."
"Eddie, we're on your side. I swear on my mother. Right, guys?"
Dustin, Robin, and Max swearing to Eddie that they're on his side and want to help him.
Dustin, Max, and Robin relieved when Eddie lets Steve go and decides to trust them.
Dustin seeing how traumatized Eddie is.
"Eddie, we just want to talk."
Dustin, Robin, Max, and Steve wanting Eddie to tell them how Chrissy was murdered.
Dustin, Max, Steve, and Robin listening to Eddie explain Chrissy was killed by being levitated in the air where her bones were snapped and her eyes gouged out.
(Eddie: "You all think I'm crazy right?") "No. We don't think you're crazy at all."
"Look, what I'm about to tell you right now might be a little difficult to take?"
"You know how people say Hawkins is cursed? They're not way off."
Dustin explaining the Upside Down and its existence to Eddie.
Dustin explaining to Eddie that he and his friends needed to find him because they believed Chrissy's death to be linked to the Upside Down.
Dustin asking Eddie if he saw the Mind Flayer's particles during Chrissy's murder, only for the latter to say no.
(Eddie: "It was like she was under a trance or something.") "Or under a spell."
(Eddie: "A curse.") "Vecna's curse."
(Steve: "Who's Vecna?") "An undead creature of great power."-Dustin realizing there's a new monster in the Upside Down, similar to the D&D character Vecna.
At the Forest Hills Trailer Park, Dustin, Steve, Max, and Robin tell Nancy about Vecna.
"Now whether or not he's doing the bidding of the Mind Flayer or just loves killing teens we don't know."
Dustin, Steve, Robin, Nancy, and Max look around their surroundings as they note Vecna's first two victims were at or close to the trailer park.
When Nancy revealed how Fred was acting upset before he died, Dustin recounted Max saying Chrissy was also upset before she died.
Dustin correcting Robin when she mispronounces Vecna's name.
Dustin and Steve leaving the trailer park to go see the school counselor, Ms. Kelley.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve noticing Nancy walking away from them.
"Something you maybe want to share with the rest of us?"
Dustin hearing Steve refuse to have Nancy go alone.
Dustin as Steve refuses to let Max drive his car after learning Robin doesn't have a driver's license.
Dustin making a face, proposing he can drive only for Steve to say no.
Dustin seeing Robin having grabbed a walkie talkie from him before she gives Steve's car keys back to him.
Dustin and Steve watching Robin and Nancy leave together.
Dustin, Steve, and Max going to leave the trailer park together.
Dustin and Steve getting in the car.
Dustin and Steve about to drive off to meet with Ms. Kelley.
Dustin and Steve seeing Max leaving Ms. Kelley's house.
Dustin and Steve hearing Max tell them to start the car once she gets in.
Dustin surprised to hear a transmission from Lucas, asking him where he's been.
When Lucas asks if he's looking for Eddie, Dustin tells him that he and the others already managed to find him.
Dustin telling Lucas where he and the others found Eddie.
(Lucas: (through the radio) "You guys know he killed Chrissy, right?") "That's bullish*t! Eddie tried to save Chrissy!"
Dustin and Steve hearing Max chew Lucas out for being far behind on not realizing or noticing the true circumstances of Chrissy's murder.
Dustin and Steve hearing Max tell Lucas to meet them at school, promising to explain everything to him.
Dustin, Max, and Steve hearing Lucas he fears something bad will happen.
Dustin, Max, and Steve hearing the walkie suddenly get disconnected.
Dustin, Max, and Steve confused with Lucas's transmission getting cut off.
Dustin and his friends being shown by Max where she had a hallucination of a ticking grandfather clock.
A flashback of Dustin and Steve witnessing Max suddenly waking up from a vision while they looked over Fred and Chrissy's files.
"It was like she was in a trance or something. Exactly what Eddie said happened to Chrissy."
Dustin, Nancy, Robin, and Steve look at Max when there is something far worse than her trance.
Inside Ms. Kelley's office, Dustin learns from Max how Fred and Chrissy suffered from headaches, sleep deprivation, nightmares, and hallucinations before they died.
Dustin worried and scared when Max reveals she's suffering from the same symptoms, meaning she's targeted by Vecna.
Suddenly, Dustin and his friends suddenly hear a noise coming from outside Ms. Kelley's office.
Dustin, Robin, Nancy, and Max watching Steve leave the office to go investigate.
Dustin and Nancy exiting out of the office to investigate the noise with Steve.
Dustin hearing footsteps approaching.
Screaming, Dustin shines his flashlight revealing the figure to be Lucas.
After Lucas informs his teammate, Jason Carver is hunting for Eddie, Dustin tells him they have bigger problems to worry about right now.
"Well, what's confusing to you?"
"So far, everyone Vecna has cursed has died, except for this old Victor Creel dude Nancy found.
"He's the only known survivor. If anyone knows how to beat this curse, it's him."
(Steve: "How can Vecna have existed back in the '50s? It doesn't make sense.") "As far as we know Eleven didn't create the Upside Down. She opened a gate to it."
"The Upside Down has probably been around for thousands of years. Millions. I wouldn't be surprised if it predated the dinosaurs."
Dustin hearing Lucas argue if a gate didn't exist in the 1950s where the Creel family murders took place, how did Vecna manage to have access to their world.
Dustin rolling his eyes as Lucas and Steve point out and question how and why Vecna is able to get into their world now.
Dustin and Lucas listening to Steve question why Vecna would kill the Creel family, then disappear for thirty years, and return to start killing teenagers.
Dustin sighing in annoyance as he realizes both Lucas and Steve bring up good points.
Dustin, Lucas, and Steve unable to figure out how the Creel family murders are connected to Vecna and the Upside Down.
A concerned Dustin, Lucas, and Steve watching Max write something on a desk.
The group discussing their next move to find a way to save Max and learn more about Vecna.
"Nice GPA."-Dustin commenting Nancy on her fake academic information.
Dustin giving an academic file to Steve as Nancy and Robin discuss their plan to infiltrate Pennhurst Asylum to question Victor Creel while posing as academic scholars.
Later, Dustin, Steve, and Lucas pretend to do stuff in order to not annoy Max as they watch her.
Dustin, Steve, and Lucas still pretending to be occupied when Max approaches them.
Dustin, Steve, and Lucas apologizing when Max tells them that they can look at her now.
Dustin and Steve having been given envelopes from Max.
The boys confused over Max having given them envelopes.
Dustin and Steve hearing Max not wanting them to open their envelopes right now.
"I'm sorry. What is this?"
Dustin, Steve, and Lucas listening to Max explain why they're given envelopes.
Dustin, Steve, and Lucas realizing Max gave them goodbye letters which she wrote in case she died.
Dustin and Steve feeling sorry for Max when she rants how receiving consolation never improved her life after she rejects Lucas's attempt to reassure her.
Dustin, Steve, and Lucas hearing Max ask if the walkie-talkie will reach Pennhurst Asylum if they go to East Hawkins.
Dustin and Lucas having answered yes to Max's question.
Dustin and Lucas looking at Steve as he realizes Max wants to go into town.
Dustin and Lucas hearing Steve immediately reject Max's request to go into town.
Dustin and Lucas following Max and Steve.
Dustin and Lucas walking behind Max and Steve.
Dustin, Lucas, Max, and Steve leaving for East Hawkins.
Dustin, Lucas, and Steve getting in the car.
Dustin and Steve arriving at Max's house.
Dustin, Lucas, and Steve hearing Max promise she'll be back in twenty seconds.
Dustin being asked by Steve if his walkie has batteries in it.
"I'm not even answering that question."
Dustin, Lucas, and Steve seeing Max return from her house.
Dustin and Steve in the car, being silent.
(Max: "Turn here.") "Here?"
Dustin and Lucas in the car, arriving at the local cemetery.
Dustin waiting as Steve gets out of his car.
Dustin not saying anything when Steve loses his patience.
Dustin and Lucas watching Steve walk up to Max as she sits by Billy's grave.
Dustin watching Steve starting to try getting Max's attention.
Dustin and Lucas seeing Steve desperately trying to wake up Max.
Dustin and Lucas realizing something's wrong.
Dustin and Lucas running over to Max and Steve to see what's wrong.
Dustin waking up the next morning.
Dustin about to realize Max is gone when Nancy asks where she is.
"I swear, I just dozed for…an hour."
Dustin and Nancy finding Max in the kitchen.
Dustin and Nancy relieved to see Max safe and sound.
Dustin as Nancy assures her mother that everything is okay.
Dustin and Nancy calming down after finding Max safe and sound from Vecna.
Dustin glancing at Mrs. Wheeler after her husband snarks in annoyance how he and his friends stay at their friends.
Dustin being allowed to have some pancakes.
Dustin smiling at Mr. Wheeler as he takes some pancakes.
Sitting at the breakfast table, Dustin guesses that Max infiltrated Vecna's mind when he cursed her yesterday.
"Is it that big of a leap to suggest you somehow wound up in his?"
"Like Freddy Krueger's boiler room."
Dustin describing Freddy Krueger to Mike and Nancy's little sister, Holly.
Dustin being chastised by Nancy for scaring her sister.
Dustin apologizing to Holly, reassuring her that Freddy Krueger is not real.
"Just...think about it."-Dustin turning his attention back to Max and Nancy.
"What if you somehow unlocked a backdoor to Vecna's world?"
"Like, maybe the answer we're looking for is somewhere in this incredibly vague drawing."
Dustin looking at one of the drawings Max drew of Vecna's mental landscape that she saw when she was cursed.
Dustin holding and eating a pancake as Max makes a comment on her drawing skills.
Dustin watching Nancy fold, outline, and put the drawings together, which make up the foundations of Victor Creel's house.
Dustin asking Nancy where she's going, which she answers she's going to wake and inform the rest of their friends on their discovery.
"Sorry, Mr. Wheeler. Fuel for the road."-Dustin grabbing some bacon.
Arriving at the abandoned Creel House, Dustin theorizes to his friends how the residence may hold a clue to Vecna's location.
After entering the house, Dustin turns on his flashlight.
Dustin hearing Max ask if everyone if she's seeing what she's seeing.
Dustin and his friends finding a grandfather clock which Max confirms is the same one she saw in her visions.
Dustin, Robin, Max, and Nancy looking at the clock.
Dustin and his friends splitting up in groups of two.
Dustin and Steve partnering up.
Dustin having entered a room.
Dustin being asked by Steve what kind of clues they should be looking for.
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
Dustin having entered another room to search for any clues.
Later, Dustin and the others watching a chandelier's lights flicker on their own.
Dustin listening to Nancy explain to Robin when Will was trapped in the Upside Down, his presence within the dimension caused the lights to come to life on their own.
Everyone watching the chandelier's lights go out after realizing Vecna is in the Upside Down version of the Creel house.
Dustin and the others realizing Vecna has left the room when the lights go out.
Dustin searching a room for Vecna's presence.
Dustin hearing Robin cry out that she found Vecna.
Dustin and the others following Vecna's presence by using Steve's flashlight.
"Hold up, guys. What if he's leading us into a trap?"-Dustin watching his friends enter an attic.
Upon entering the attic, Dustin and Lucas see a lightbulb flicker.
Dustin seeing his flashlight turn on by itself.
Everyone holding their flashlights together where they find Vecna's presence in the attic.
Dustin and his friends watching the lights fluctuating.
Dustin and Max confused as they see their lights fluctuating.
The gang having found Vecna's presence in the attic as they watch their flashlights fluctuate.
Dustin checking his compass as Steve tells him they're going the wrong way.
Dustin hearing Steve explain Skull Rock is a popular hang out that he visited before.
Dustin hearing Steve talk about how he made Skull Rock a popular hang out spot.
Dustin going to follow Steve when he decides to take his own route to Skull Rock.
Dustin confused with his compass acting weird upon arriving at Skull Rock.
Dustin and Steve turning around, seeing Eddie reveal himself.
Dustin relieved to see Eddie safe and sound.
Dustin and Eddie sharing an embrace as they are reunited.
Dustin pacing around as he keeps checking his compass while the others realize that their time in the Creel House was also the same hour when Vecna killed Patrick McKinney.
Dustin suddenly stops pacing.
"Boom! Bada...bada...boom!"
"I was right! Skull Rock was north!"
Dustin telling his friends how his compass was working perfectly when they left the Wheelers' and now it is acting crazy.
"When I was leading here, I wasn't wrong. The compass was."
(Steve: "You're using faulty equipment. You're still wrong.") "Expect it isn't faulty."
Dustin asking Lucas if he remembers what can affect a compass, which he answers an electromagnetic field.
Dustin explaining to everyone how electromagnetic fields cause a compass needle to point toward their power, recognizing it as the same detection of a gate's presence.
"All I know is that something is causing this disturbance and the last time we've seen anything like this, it was a gate."
Dustin being stopped from finding the possible gate as Eddie is still labeled a criminal.
Dustin satisfied when Eddie decides to go find the gate to the Upside Down.
Later that night, Dustin follows the direction his compass is pointing to.
"I think we're getting close."
Dustin and his friends arriving at Lovers' Lake.
Dustin, Robin, and Eddie hearing Nancy theorize that Vecna could leave portals whenever he attacks just like the Demogorgon did.
Dustin and his friends finding a boat which they can use to find the gate somewhere in the lake.
Dustin watching Eddie and Robin get into the boat.
Dustin being stopped from entering the boat as Eddie says the boat can hold only up to three people.
Dustin arguing with the older teens, saying he was the one who theorized of a gate being nearby.
Dustin reluctantly giving his compass to Nancy after she and the other older teens win the argument.
Dustin being given his backpack back.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas watching Steve push the boat into the water.
"You said three!"-Dustin upon seeing Steve board the boat.
Dustin miffed as he realizes the older teens tricked him into staying ashore to be away from any danger.
Dustin flipping the bird at the older teens as they row their boat into the lake.
Dustin and Lucas seeing the older teens have stopped their boat at the middle of the lake.
Dustin and Lucas wondering what the older teens are doing.
"Guys, what's going on?"-Dustin contacting the older teens with his walkie.
Dustin and Lucas hearing Robin report she and the others have found the gate's location.
(Lucas: "When Steve get so hairy?") "Right?"
"I keep telling him he needs to tame that jungle, but he claims the ladies dig it."
Dustin and Lucas going back to watching the older teens on the lake.
Dustin perplexed when Max uses Lucas's binoculars to look at Steve's chest hair.
"It's technically a Watergate."
Dustin seeing Max and Lucas are not interested or amused with his nickname for the new gate.
Dustin smiling giddily as he finds the term "Watergate" amusing.
Dustin waiting for Steve to swim back up to the boat.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas seeing the police arriving at Lovers' Lake.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas hiding from the police.
Dustin quickly turning off his walkie so the cops won't hear any transmission the older teens send to him and his friends.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas staying silent as they hide from the cops.
Dustin, Max, and Lucas realizing they need to distract the cops to prevent them from finding Eddie.
Dustin and Lucas seeing Max stand up where she calls out to the cops, prompting them to start running.
Dustin having fallen onto the ground after tripping on a rock.
Dustin getting caught by Chief Powell, leading Lucas and Max to get caught as well.
Dustin, Lucas, and Max having been taken to the Wheeler house where they are questioned by both the police and their parents.
Dustin lying to the police and grownups that they were at Lovers' Lake to go swimming.
Dustin and Max look at each other when they give different answers to Mrs. Wheeler's question on Nancy's whereabouts.
Dustin claiming Nancy was at Lovers' Lake, but left when the police arrived.
When Chief Powell asks if they had contact with Eddie, Dustin, Lucas, and Max lie about their involvement with him.
Dustin looking at Erica when she tries to expose his and his friends' lies to the police and parents.
Dustin, Lucas, and Max silenced when Chief Powell orders everyone in the room to be quiet.
Dustin and Lucas anxious when Max taken to be interrogated by the police first.
Later, Dustin tries to contact the older teens using his walkie.
Dustin telling Lucas he hasn't been able to get in touch with the older teens.
Dustin hearing Lucas wonder if the older teens went through Watergate.
"Through Watergate? Without us? Without a plan? Without weapons? They wouldn't be that stupid."
Dustin and Lucas's conversation being interrupted by Erica who had been eavesdropping on them.
Dustin and Lucas being confronted by Erica.
Dustin hearing Erica demand to know what's going on.
Dustin intrigued when he hears Lucas has something secretive under his bed.
"What did she find under your bed?"
(Lucas: "Nothing!") "Is it gross?"
A surprised Dustin looking at Lucas before the latter confesses everything to Erica.
Dustin reminding Lucas to be quiet as he confesses to his sister.
Dustin as Lucas threatens his sister to keep quiet.
Dustin confused when Erica starts questioning why a gate would be open at Lovers' Lake, thinking the Soviets opened it.
Dustin listening to Erica question how Watergate was created and who opened it.
(Lucas: "Erica, you have no idea what you're talking about.") "No, she doesn't. Yet, she raises an essential question. How did Watergate open up?"
"Only two gates have opened so far as we know. One by El, one by the commies. But it's not the commies or El this time so-"
Dustin realizing how Watergate was opened up right where Patrick McKinney died.
"There's one thing we never understood which is why Vecna's killing people. What's his motive?"
"Killing teens? It always seemed too random, too prosaic. On top of that, how does the Mind Flayer figure into all of this?"
"Maybe this is it! This is answer!"
When Mrs. Wheeler enters the kitchen with a cop, Dustin signals the Sinclair siblings to follow him so he can discuss what he has figured out.
"Okay, just hear me out. How did El open the Mothergate?"
Dustin and Lucas recalling how El opened the Mothergate through psychic contact, realizing it is similar to what Vecna is doing to his victims.
Dustin, Erica, and Lucas realizing Vecna's opening gates to the Upside Down by making psychic connections with his victims.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica going to go to another room when they see a police officer nearby.
"Why would he be opening gates?"
Dustin explaining he theorizes Vecna could be the Mind Flayer's general.
"A five star general with the power to open gates."
(Lucas: "Holy sh*t!") "Holy sh*t!"
"How and why is there a gate in Lover's Lake?"
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica in the kitchen as they don't notice two lights shining brightly.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica discussing everything they know and learned about Vecna as they don't know the lights dimming.
"Are you even listening to me?"-Dustin noticing Erica not paying attention.
(Erica: "You said you followed Vecna through lights, right?") "Yeah, why?"
Dustin and Lucas hearing Erica say she thinks Vecna is in the Upside Down version of the Wheeler house.
Dustin and Lucas having gotten out of their seats to see what Erica's looking at.
Dustin, Erica, and Lucas seeing a chandelier's lights fluctuating.
Dustin noticing the lights blinking in an SOS signal.
"Hey, uh, remember when I said they wouldn't be stupid to go through Watergate?"
(Lucas: "Yeah.") "I overestimated them."
Dustin and Lucas going to take Holly's Lite-Brite.
Dustin and Lucas having entered Nancy's bedroom.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica starting to put on pegs on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica putting on lots of pegs onto the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica completing the Lite-Brite with all of its pegs.
"Okay, you guys seeing this?"
Dustin and Erica amazed when the Lite-Brite glows brightly, giving away the older teens' presence in the Upside Down.
"Okay, we're not moving it, but we're gonna unplug it so stand by."
Dustin telling the older teens to try controlling the Lite-Brite in the Upside Down.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica watching in amazement as lines of light appear on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica smiling when the word "hi" appears on the Lite-Brite.
"That worked!"-Dustin letting the teens know they got their message.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica seeing more letters form on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica seeing the letters "S", "T", and "U" appear on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica spelling out the word "stuck" on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica realizing the older teens are stuck in the Upside Down.
"You can't get back through Watergate?"
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica seeing new letters appear on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica trying to figure out what word is being spelled out on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica being told through the Lite-Brite that Watergate is guarded.
"We think we have a theory that can help with that."
"We think Watergate isn't the only gate. That there's a gate at every murder site."
Dustin, Lucas, and Erica seeing a question mark appear on the Lite-Brite.
Dustin shouting in annoyance over the older teens' cluelessness.
Dustin quietly calling Max over after she is done being questioned by the police.
Dustin, Erica, Lucas, and Max escaping from their parents and the police.
Dustin, Max, Lucas, and Erica biking through the neighborhood.
Dustin, Max, Lucas, and Erica biking to rescue the older teens from the Upside Down.
Dustin, Eddie, Robin, Nancy, Lucas, and Max being unknowingly watched by El as they are unable to get in touch with Joyce.
Dustin hearing Steve and Robin point out they cannot beat Vecna/Henry/One due to him having powers like El.
"So then why fight fair? You're right. He's like Eleven, but that gives us an upper hand. We know Eleven's strengths and weaknesses."
"When El remote travels, she goes into this sort of trance-like state. I bet the same is true of Vecna."
(Lucas: "That would explain what he was doing in that attic!") "Exactly! When he attacks his next victim, I'll bet you he's back in that attic. Physical body defenseless!"
When Steve points out the Creel House in the Upside Down is guarded by Demobats, Dustin realizes they'll also have to distract the creatures.
(Eddie: "And uh, how do we do that exactly?") "No idea. But once they're gone, he doesn't stand a chance! It'll be like slaying sleeping Dracula in his coffin."
Dustin listening to Robin point out they don't know when or who Vecna will attack next.
Dustin, Erica, Eddie, Steve, Nancy, and Robin looking at Max when she offers herself as bait to distract Vecna.
Dustin, Erica, and Eddie listening to Max say she can distract Vecna long enough so they can kill him, which they reluctantly agree to.
Dustin and his friends being told by Eddie they can go to a store called the War Zone to buy weapons.
Dustin and Nancy hearing Erica point out the risks if they go shopping at the War Zone.
"Yeah, but is it worth the time? It'll take all day to bike there and back."
Dustin and the others hearing Eddie say they don't have to use bikes to get to the War Zone.
Dustin and Nancy hearing Eddie say he knows of a vehicle they can use to get to the War Zone.
Dustin and his friends going to follow Eddie through the trailer park.
The gang running through the trailer park.
Dustin, Robin, Steve, and Eddie sneaking behind an RV.
Dustin and Max in the RV.
Dustin seeing the RV's mad owners pursuing him and his friends.
Dustin cringing when the RV hits some trash cans as he and his friends escape the trailer park.
Waiting in the RV, while his friends shop at the War Zone, Dustin looks at his watch, wondering what could be taking them so long.
Dustin, Eddie, and Lucas seeing the others enter the RV in a hurry due to encountering Jason and his basketball team.
Later, in a secluded meadow, Dustin and Eddie hammer nails into trash can lids to make shields.
Dustin watching Eddie test out his new makeshift shield.
Dustin hearing Eddie promise himself that he will not run away from a fight this time.
"Hey! You're really ready for 'bat-tle.'"
Dustin chortling at his own joke.
"You get it? Bat-tle. B-A-T? No?"
Dustin being playfully tackled by Eddie.
Dustin and Eddie playfully fighting each other.
Dustin being held by Eddie.
Dustin promising Eddie that he will never change who he is.
Dustin, Eddie, Lucas, and Erica testing their shields and spears.
Later that night, Dustin, Eddie, Steve, and Robin debrief the plan with Nancy.
(Nancy: "Phase three?") "Me and Eddie draw the bats away."
Dustin, Steve, Nancy, and Robin returning to the Munson trailer to enter the Upside Down.
After Steve enters the Upside Down, Dustin and the others go to take turns to enter the alternate dimension.
Dustin landing on a mattress after entering the Upside Down.
Before splitting up, Dustin and Eddie are told by Steve to just keep the bats occupied and to abort if things go wrong.
Dustin and Eddie telling Steve they'll just let him and the girls do the heroics.
Dustin and Eddie looking at their finished fortress.
Upon entering the trailer, Dustin and Eddie are surprised to find an alternate version of Eddie's guitar in good shape.
(Eddie: "What do you say, Henderson? Are you ready for the most metal concert in the history of the world?") "That a rhetorical question?"
Dustin, Steve, and Robin going to get the donation boxes of the car after they arrive at the high school.
Dustin and Steve getting the donation boxes out of the car.
Dustin, Steve, and Robin walking to Hawkins High School.
Upon entering the school, Dustin, Robin, and Steve see a lot of people are suffering due to the earthquake.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve putting down the boxes at a donation center.
Dustin listening to Robin tell the volunteer worker what are in the donation boxes.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve being complimented for their organization with the donation boxes.
Dustin, Robin, and Steve refusing to accept a tax receipt.