While Will & Celeste are still trapped in the insane world, everything is even crazier in the real world.

Meanwhile, the gang who're now discussing Will & Celeste being alive. This is the first time they are given a name for the alternative dimension – the Upside Down.

El had previously demonstrated this by flipping the Dungeons and Dragons board upside down to demonstrate where Will & Celeste were and what was chasing them.

Dustin's explanation of the Vale of Shadows as a place of decay and death is given Hopper seeing as he ventures into a forbidden part of the lab where the creature has appeared from. Hopper encounters the lab that has been embraced and taken in by the Upside Down dimension,

the lighting is dark, giving off a greenish tint. He comes across the strange tree that many scientists see in the lab. When he hears something skitter across, he turns around and is incapacitated by.... by scientists in hazmat suits.

Then meanwhile at Joyce's house. Lonny, Joyce's ex, re-enters her life and tells her she needs help. He's decided to come in and take charge and starts ordering Jonathan around.

He is quick to dismiss Joyce as crazy. However, given the state he finds her in, it's not too hard to dismiss her. He proclaims that everything will be alright now that he's back but, given their history, don't think that will be the case.

The day of Will & Celeste's funeral everyone is getting ready. Joyce has the strongest, most apparent reaction, appearing as if she is in a state of shock. Considering she just "lost" her son.

Karen and Ted aren't doing the best to be truthfully honest. All throughout the funeral, Joyce is just staring off as if she's mentally shut down.

As Lonny talks to people and receives condolences, she is left to the side with people purposely walking around her as if to avoid her.

She is taken into a memory of her spending time with Will while she's doing the dishes. He's drawing a picture of his character 'Will the Wise'.

She wonders why a wise man would need to shoot fireballs and he explains that sometimes the bad guys are smarter, thus needing weapons to defend themselves.

Meanwhile, Hopper wakes up suddenly to find himself back in his home surrounded by drugs and alcohol.

After checking himself out in the mirror, he starts checking around his house for anything indicating a government presence in his home. He tears apart his house, at one point literally ripping fabric, and finds a bug in one of his ceiling lights.

His concerns are justified since it appears that this government facility has the whole town bugged.

Meanwhile Dr. Brenner is in the lab trying to listen to the conversation Will had with his mother and the one that was overheard by the gang when Eleven made the connection with Will in the Upside Down. This is how he discovers where Eleven is located.

Jonathan and Nancy meet up together after the funeral to discuss the creature. And learn some information about how far the creature's reach is.

Jonathan has mapped out the sightings of where the creature has been found. They realize that it has only really traveled within a mile's radius, indicating that it has a limited scope of travel between the Upside Down and the real world.

They are given even more insight into how the creature can possibly cross dimensions when Dustin, Lucas, and Mike ask Mr. Clarke their science teacher questions about how one would travel through dimensions.

Mr. Clarke, bless his heart, gives a rather earnest explanation using an analogy (the acrobat and the flea) to show how it's possible to find loop holes around the rules that govern each dimension.

With this information, the gang start devising plans to go rescue Will & Celeste.

While the boys are plotting, Lonnie is repairing Joyce's home from her anxiety ridden destruction.

While he's repairing it, his true motivation for why he's there starts coming out. Given the sue-happy society that we live in, it was pretty obvious what he was going for when he started talking about making the quarry owners pay for their sons "death".

Thank goodness Joyce picks up on his ridiculous act quickly and promptly kicks him out despite his hemming and hawing.

(Good for you, Joyce.)

Hopper comes and visits her, carrying a sign that blatantly states, "Don't Say Anything". After promptly checking the house for bugs, he confirms what Joyce already knew. Will & Celeste are out there and they are alive.

Back with the boys, Dustin has figured out that something is going wibbly wobbly with their compasses.

They determine that the compasses can direct them to where the gate to the Upside Down is and, despite how anxious Eleven is, they all venture out.

It doesn't take long for them to figure out that something is not right, especially after Dustin points out the setting sun.

Eleven has been manipulating the magnetic distortion around the compasses this entire time, claiming that it is not safe for them to find the gate.

Lucas realizes this and starts going off on her. Mike and Lucas start duking it out until Eleven, overwhelmed with fear and emotion, uses her powers to knock Lucas back and knock him unconscious.

This high emotional state and the mentioning of this whole thing being her fault triggers a flashback. In her memory she is submerged in a water tank in order to locate a Russian man for Dr. Brenner.

While in there she hears a growling, which may be linked to the monster that's wrecking havoc. Then she starts running away, begging for help. After the flashback, she has vanished from the boys.

Meanwhile, Jonathan and Nancy are hunting down the monster. After a brief argument, they run across a dying deer that has been hit by a car. Just as they are about to shoot it and put it out of its misery, it's dragged back by the monster.

They freak out and try to follow where they think the monster has gone. At first, it seems hopeless until Nancy finds a gooey tree trunk. She proceeds to climb in and walk into the Upside Down.

It doesn't take her long to find the monster nomming on the deer and, she alerts it to her presence by snapping a tree branch.

It all ends with Jonathan hearing her screams and not being able to find her while we are given a shot of the tree trunk slowly closing up.

Will & Celeste are begging....praying to be in the arms of their loved ones, but all Will can think about is getting the girl he loves out of harms reach.

(I'm sorry there wasn't any dialogue.)
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The End of Chapter 5