Gory Discretion Shot: Benny's shooting happens just off-screen.Free-Range Children: Lucas, Dustin, and Will all bike home alone at night.This proves to be quite an appropriate choice, given where her plot line goes. In the flashback at Fort Byers, Joyce reveals that she has bought tickets to a screening of Poltergeist for her and Will.In a sense, the scene where Will is taken is foreshadowed twice immediately before it happens, first by the DOE scientist being taken, then by the events of the D&D game.Feet-First Introduction: The first we see of Eleven is her bare feet walking across the forest floor.Then Will turns around and freezes like a Deer in the Headlights. Enemy Rising Behind: The Demogorgon rises behind Will in the barn.When he gets inside the elevator, we hear a sound from above him, and then an unseen being pulls him up. Dramatic Chase Opening: The prologue, in which a scientist is desperately running through the empty hallways, trying to escape from something.Boom, Headshot!: This is the fate of Benny, the diner owner, delivered by Connie.Adult Fear: Will's disappearance not only applies to his own family, but also makes Mike's family paranoid about the safety of the children.As they explore the woods, they stumble upon Eleven. Meanwhile, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas decide to undertake a search for Will of their own.

That evening, Joyce believes she hears Will's voice on a distorted phone call, but her phone short circuits. Armed men search the diner for Eleven, but she escapes. A woman posing as a social worker arrives and murders Benny. From a tattoo on her arm, he learns that her name is Eleven. The owner, Benny, takes pity on her and feeds her before calling social services. Her attempts to meet up with Steve in secret is hindered by Will's disappearance, as her and Mike's mother, Karen, refuses to let her go outside unsupervised as long as Will is still missing.Д®lsewhere, a buzz-cut young girl wearing a hospital gown steals food from a local diner. Meanwhile, Mike's older sister Nancy is in an increasingly serious relationship with local high school heartthrob, Steve Harrington, despite the misgivings of her best friend, Barbara Holland, who thinks Steve is only trying to get into Nancy's pants.

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