NO ONE'S POV:
(Nancy & Y/N watch Dr. Brenner finish tattooing Number 001.)
Dr. Brenner: All done. Not so bad, was it? See? There's nothing to be afraid of. Is there, Nancy?
(He looks at them.)
Dr. Brenner: [distorted] Why don't you take a seat? (Y/N), you can watch.
(They run out of the room into a flickering hallway full of bodies. Cut back to the others trying to snap Nancy & Y/N out of it.)
Steve: Nancy, just stay with me. Stay with me, okay?
(He looks up at Erica.)
Steve: Whatever you guys are doing, hurry up!
(She runs back to the others who are searching through Eddie's tapes.)
Erica: Steve says you need to hurry!
Dustin: Yeah? No shit.
Max: We're trying. We can't find anything.
Robin: Just hang on, (Y/N). Just hang on! Seriously, what is all this shit?
Eddie: What are you even looking for?
Robin: Madonna, Blondie, Bowie, Beatles? Music! We need music!
Robin: (Y/N) loves Huey Lewis & The News. Please tell me you at least have that?
Eddie: Do I look like someone who listens to Huey Lewis & The News?!
(The duo run up to some doors. Y/N starts pulling the boards off with ease & Nancy helps the best she can.)
(Y/N): [strained growling]
Nancy: Son of a...God!
Vecna: Nancy.
(They turn around to see Vecna walking towards them.)
Vecna: What are you doing? It's not time for either of you to leave.
(Nancy continues to pull the boards off the door as Y/N slowly moves in front of her.)
Vecna: Now that you've seen where I've been...
Nancy: [exclaims]
Vecna: I would like very much to show you where I am going.
(Y/N): If you want her, then you're gonna have to go through me.
Vecna: That...can be done.
(Y/N walks towards Vecna, his fingers becoming claws in the process. Before he can get close enough to Vecna, using his psychic powers, he pushes Y/N back...)
(Y/N): What the--[yells]
(Into the room Nancy's in.)
*THUD*
(Vines come out of the wall & tightly wrap Y/N to it.)
(Y/N): [grunts] Damn it!
Nancy: (Y/N).
(They look at Dr. Brenner.)
Dr. Brenner: [distorted] Take a seat, Nancy.
(The lights go out.)
Nancy: [panting]
(Y/N): Wheeler?!
(The lights come back on revealing Nancy's been wrapped in a chair. She looks in front of her to see Vecna. He turns his head to the right to see Y/N glaring at him. He makes his way to Nancy.)
Vecna: [breathing heavily]
(He's now standing over Nancy.)
Vecna: I...want you to tell Eleven. I want you to tell her everything you see.
(Y/N): Nancy!
(He releases Nancy.)
Nancy: [gasps]
(She falls back but Steve catches her.)
Steve: Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nancy: [panting]
Steve: It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
Nancy: [gasps]
Steve: It's okay. I'm here. [pants] I'm right here. She's back! How's (Y/N)?
(The camera pans over Y/N to the front of face showing that his eyes are still faded white.)
Robin: [panicked] Vecna still has him!
Dustin: Shit, shit, shit!
Eddie: What if we just tried Iron Maiden?!
(Erica runs over to tell Steve.)
Erica: He's still under!
Nancy: (Y/N)...was there with me.
Steve: What?
(He helps up & lets her climb the rope first as we cut to Vecna turning around to face Y/N.)
(Y/N): *trying to break free*
Vecna: You don't belong here, little wolf.
(He walks up to Y/N.)
Vecna: You have helped Eleven long enough. As you saw, I was not fond of my childhood. But, what I am about to do to you, brings back memories.
(Y/N): [strained growling]
Vecna: Once Hawkins is broken, the next place we are going is...your home.
(Y/N): Why?
Vecna: You ask why? For years now, you have been a thorn in our side. So, we are going to eliminate those thorns before they can even think about piercing us. But...you are not really upset about that, are you?
(Y/N): [strained] What?
Vecna: Don't worry. I'll tell Robin how you felt about her.
(Y/N): *tries breaking free* Bastard!
(Vecna raises his hand over Y/N's face. He watches as Vecna's fingers go over his eyes. Y/N cries a single tear. Back in Eddie's trailer, Y/N's starts floating in the air like Max did.)
Steve: (Y/N)?!
Eddie: No, no, no, no, no!
Erica: Oh shit!
Lucas: (Y/N)!
Max: Wake up!
Dustin: (Y/N)!
Nancy: O'Connell!
Robin: (Y/N), we...I need you to wake up!
Eddie: Just like Chrissy...
Robin: That's not helping!
Steve: You're a fighter, fight this!
(Robin runs up to him & hugs him tight. Cut back to Y/N.)
(Y/N): Not like this!
(Cut back to Eddie's trailer.)
Robin: I'm not letting go until--
(Suddenly, Y/N forcefully goes up to Eddie's ceiling causing Robin to break her grip on him & fall on her butt.)
*THUD*
(They all see Y/N hit Eddie's ceiling.)
Nancy: Oh God.
Steve: (Y/N)!
Robin: [screams] (Y/N)!
(As quick as Y/N hit the ceiling, he just as quickly falls & faceplants to the ground, limbs unbroken to everyone's surprise.)
Dustin: Okay...
Lucas: He's not moving.
Erica: We can all see that.
Eddie: His limbs aren't all broken and twisted. That's good, right?
(Steve & Nancy start walking towards Y/N's body. They're about to walk past Robin until she stops them.)
Robin: Wait.
Nancy: Robin...
Robin: Wait.
Steve: Robin, we need--
Robin: Just...wait! Please. *teary eyed* I'll check him.
(Just as Robin is about to stand up...)
*CLAWS SCREECHING*
(They look at Y/N's hands to see that claws are digging into the floor.)
Robin: (Y/N)...?
(He slowly raises his head up & opens his eyes.)
Dustin: His eyes are still intact.
Steve: Yup, things keep getting better.
(Once Y/N's vision returns to normal, he realizes he's back in Eddie's trailer. He backs himself up all the way to the opposite end of the trailer.)
(Y/N): [breathing quickly]
Dustin: (Y/N), buddy, you're okay.
Max: Yeah. Just try and slow down your breathing.
Steve: Look at us. Really look at us.
(He does what Steve says.)
(Y/N): *calms down* Steve. Nancy. Eddie. The pups. And...
(He makes eye contact with...)
(Y/N): Robin.
Robin: You're back.
(Y/N): I'm back.
Robin: [crying] You're back!
(The two stand up & run to each other. He catches her in his arms.)
Robin: *cries into his shirt*
(Y/N): *holds back tears*
(Cut to them at Max's house where Nancy's explaining what Vecna did to her.)
Nancy: [hoarsely] He showed me things that haven't happened yet. The most awful things. I saw a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins.
(Robin & Y/N are shown sitting on the floor together, holding hands.)
Nancy: Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this...giant creature with...a gaping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes. And then...he showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they...they were all...[breathes shakily]
Steve: Okay, but...he's just trying to scare you, Nance. Right? I mean...I mean, it's not real.
Nancy: Not yet. But there...But there was something else. He showed me gates. Four gates. Spreading across Hawkins. And these gates, they looked like the one outside of Eddie's trailer, but...they didn't stop growing. And this wasn't the Upside Down Hawkins. This was our Hawkins. Our home.
Max: Four chimes. Vecna's clock. It always chimes four times. Four exactly.
Nancy: I heard them too.
(Y/N): As did I.
Max: He's been telling us his plan this whole time.
Lucas: Four kills. Four gates. End of the world.
Dustin: If that's true...he's only one kill away.
Eddie: Oh Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.
(Y/N): Then why didn't he kill me?
Dustin: That's a good question. Hm.
Steve: Try 'em again. Try 'em again.
(Max tries calling Joyce and the others as Eleven watches. The line is still busy.)
Dustin: Anything?
Max: No. Rang a few times, then went to busy signal.
Steve: Maybe you punched it in wrong. Try again.
Max: I didn't punch it in wrong.
Steve: Well, I don't know.
Dustin: I think she knows how to use a phone.
Steve: I'm just saying, she could've typed it in wrong.
Max: Same shit.
Lucas: How is that possible?
Dustin: I told you, Joyce has this telemarketing job. She's always on the phone. Mike won't stop whining about it.
Max: Yeah, but this phone's been busy for, what, three days now? That's not Joyce. No way. Something's wrong.
Nancy: She's right. It can't be just coincidence. It can't be. Whatever's happening in Lenora is connected to all of this. I'm sure of it. But Vecna can't hurt them. Not if he's dead. We have to go back in there. Back to the Upside Down.
(Y/N stands up.)
(Y/N): I'm on board.
Steve: Whoa, no, no, no. What?
Eddie: Nope.
(Steve stands up.)
Steve: Let's think this through.
Nancy: What is there to think through?
Steve: We barely made it out of there in one piece.
Nancy: Yeah, because we weren't prepared. But this time, we will be. We'll get weapons and protection. We'll go through the gate, we'll find his lair, and we'll kill him.
Steve: Or he'll kill us. The only reason you and (Y/N) survived is because he wanted you to.
(Y/N): You're right. He let me live. And now, I'm going to make sure he regrets that decision.
Steve: Oh my God. He's not scared of us.
(Robin stands up.)
Robin: And for good reason. We were wrong about Vecna. Henry. One. Sorry, what are we calling him now?
Dustin: One.
Erica: Vecna.
Dustin: One.
Nancy: Henry.
(Y/N): Vecna, pretty bird.
Robin: Right. We've learned something new about Vecna/Henry/One. He's a number like Eleven, only a sick, evil, male, child-murdering version of her with really bad skin. But my...my point is, he's super powerful. He could turn us inside out with a snap of his fingers. It's not a fair fight.
Dustin: 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.
Erica: Weaknesses?
Dustin: 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.
Dustin: Exactly. When he attacks his next victim, I'll bet you he's back in that attic, physical body defenseless.
Steve: Defenseless? Yeah? What about the army of bats?
Dustin: Right, true. We'll have to find a way past them. Distract them somehow.
Eddie: And, uh, how do we do that, exactly?
Dustin: No idea. But once they're gone, he doesn't stand a chance. It'll be like slaying sleeping Dracula in his coffin.
Robin: That all sounds good in theory, but there is no pattern to Vecna's killings. Not one I can decipher. We don't know when he's going to attack next. We don't even know who he's going to attack next.
Max: Yeah, we do. I know why he didn't kill you, (Y/N). You're not the one he wants. I can still feel him. I'm still marked. Cursed. I ditch Kate Bush, I draw his focus back to me.
Lucas: Max. You can't. He'll kill you.
Max: I've survived before. I can survive again. I just need to keep him busy enough so that you guys can get into that attic. Then you can chop his head off. Stab him in the heart. Have (Y/N) rip him in half. Blow him up with some explosive Dustin cooks up. I honestly don't care how you put this asshole in his grave. Just...whatever it is...whatever you do...try not to miss.
(Cut to them looking at an ad for...)
Eddie: Check this out. The War Zone. I've been there once. It's huge. They got everything you need for, uh...well, killing things, basically.
Robin: Do you think fake Rambo has enough guns there? Is that a grenade? I mean, how is any of this legal?
Eddie: Well, lucky for us it is, so...
(Y/N): You Americans sure do love your guns.
Eddie: We sure do. This...This place is just far enough outside of Hawkins. As long as we steer clear of the main roads, we oughta be able to avoid cops and, uh, angry hicks.
Erica: If we're trying to avoid angry hicks, maybe we shouldn't go to some store called the War Zone.
Nancy: Normally, I'd agree, but we need the weapons. So I think it's worth the risk.
Lucas: Me too.
Dustin: But is it worth the time? It'll take all day to bike there and back.
Eddie: Who said anything about bikes?
Steve: You got some sort of car we don't know about?
Eddie: It's not exactly a car, Steve. And it's not exactly mine, but, uh...it'll do. Hey, Red, uh, you got a ski mask or a bandanna, something like that?
(Max does have a mask for him.)
(Eddie leads them to a neighbor's RV. They all sneak into it through a window. Eddie's now hot wiring it.)
Steve: Where'd you learn how to do this?
Eddie: Well, when the other dads were teaching their kids how to fish or play ball, my old man was teaching me how to hot-wire. Now, I swore to myself I wouldn't wind up like he did, but now I'm wanted for murder, and soon, grand theft auto. So, uh, I'm really living up to that Munson name.
Robin: Eddie, I'm not sure I love the idea of you driving.
(Y/N): Unless you're going to be driving while wearing that mask?
Eddie: Oh, I'm starting this sucker. Harrington's got her. Don't ya, big boy?
(He's about to start the RV, alerting the owners.)
Steve: Shit! Go. It's just a car. Everybody, hang on to something!
Lucas: Oh my God! Let's go! Let's go!
(Y/N): Punch it!
Dustin: Drive, Steve! Drive!
Robin: Go, go, go!
(Steve starts driving the RV.)
Dustin: Shit, they looked pissed.
Robin: It's not everyday you lose your house and car in one fell swoop.
Steve: Hold on! Hold on!
(He successfully drives away. Cut to Steve driving with Nancy in the passenger seat.)
Nancy: How's the handle?
Steve: Not half bad. Considering that this is a...house.
Nancy: [chuckles]
Steve: Yeah, it's...it's silly, but I...I've actually...I always had this dream that I'd have this really...really big family. I'm talking, like, uh, a full brood of Harringtons. And a dog?
Nancy: You mean (Y/N)?
Steve: [chuckles] No. Though, I like to think he and I are still close by then. Maybe him and Robin would have some pups of their own. I'm thinking I would have like, five, six kids.
Nancy: Six?
Steve: Yeah. Six little nuggets. Three girls, three boys. [laughs] And...and every summer, I figured all of us Harringtons, we would pack into something like this and...just see the country. You know, the Rockies, Grand Canyon, maybe Yellowtone. End up in some beachside town in California. Spend a week parked in the sand. Learn how to surf or something.
Nancy: That sounds nice.
Steve: Yeah?
Nancy: [tenderly] Yeah. Well, uh, except for the six-kid part. That sounds like a total nightmare.
Steve: If only I had some practice.
Nancy: All right. Fair. That's fair.
(Pan down to Y/N sitting across from Robin with her eyes closed. He watches Lucas get up & walk towards Max.)
(Y/N): [happily chuckles]
(He looks back at Robin.)
Robin: [yawns] You've been watching me sleep, haven't you?
(Y/N): No...
Erica: He has.
(Y/N): Turn around and shut up.
(She does what he says.)
(Y/N): Unbelievable. So...
Robin: So?
(Y/N): Do you remember, back in Eddie's trailer, I was about to tell you something before...
Robin: Before you almost got brutally murdered? Yes, I remember.
(She opens her eyes.)
Robin: What were you going to tell me?
(Y/N): Well, we've been dating for almost a year now...
Robin: Eight months. Go on.
(Y/N): You don't have to necessarily say it back, but, our day would not only be dangerous, but also pretty awkward if you don't say it back...you see the dilemma?
Robin: I do. Let's try this, you tell me what you're going to tell me back at Eddie's trailer and we'll see what happens after. Sound good?
(Y/N): Yeah, sounds good.
Robin: Great. Lay it on--
(Y/N): I love you.
Robin: You love me?
(She looks behind her.)
Robin: You're not talking about Steve, are you?
(Y/N): [chuckles] No. I'm talking about you, Robin Buckley.
Robin: Just making sure.
(Y/N): Your response?
(She holds his hands with her's.)
Robin: I love you, too. Feel free to smell me.
(Y/N): No need.
Robin: Ooh, really?
(Y/N): Really.
(They lean over the table, closing the small distance between them, & kiss. Cut to Erica, Y/N, Robin, Steve, Nancy, & Max entering the War Zone where it looks like the half the town is in.)
Robin: So much for avoiding angry hicks.
Nancy: Let's be...fast.
Robin: Yep.
Erica: Definitely.
(Cut to Robin putting gasoline into a shopping cart as Steve & Y/N walk up behind her.)
Robin: How many of these do you think we need?
(Y/N): The entire shelf.
Steve: Calm down, you arsonist. Five or six.
(Robin stares at Vickie who's looking at mace. Y/N & Steve notice her staring.)
Steve: What are you gonna do, Robin? Just stand here and gawk at her?
(Y/N): She's doing a great job at it right now.
Robin: Shut up, both of you.
(As she takes a step forward, Vickie's boyfriend sneaks up behind her & starts kissing her. Y/N walks beside her & places an arm over her shoulders.)
Robin: *waves awkwardly*
(She turns around with Y/N turning with her.)
(Y/N): You okay?
Robin: Yeah, yeah. I'm fine.
(She kisses his cheek.)
Robin: I don't know what I'd do without you. Let's get back to...getting supplies.
(Y/N): Yes, ma'am.
(Cut to Nancy cocking a shotgun.)
Nancy: How much is this?
Clerk: $120.99, but I'll throw in 20 rounds of buckshot for ya.
(Jason gets the clerk's attention.)
Jason: Hey, can I see this pretty .357, please?
Clerk: Sure thing.
(He notices her.)
Jason: Nancy Wheeler. Wouldn't expect to find you here.
Nancy: Yeah, well, it's just...scary times. I'm sorry about Chrissy.
Jason: Want my advice? Shotguns are not good for much of anything past killing small birds. I mean, they got power, sure, but not much range. And that's just gonna force you into close-range combat, then someone can just grab that barrel like this...
(He grabs the barrel of the shotgun.)
Jason: And redirect it.
(Erica realizes some of the basketball players are here as well.)
Jason: Whoa, you look nervous.
Nancy: Like I said, scary times.
Jason: Now, your brother, he, uh...is he here with you, by chance?
Nancy: Mike?
Jason: Mike.
Nancy: No.
Jason: I only ask because he's...he's in Hellfire, isn't he?
Nancy: I don't know what you're talking about.
Jason: What about his friends? They here with you?
Nancy: Would you let go? [forcefully] Let go.
(Y/N): You heard the lady.
(Jason looks to his left to see Y/N standing in front of them.)
Jason: She here with you?
(Y/N): Something like that.
(He lets go of the barrel. Nancy walks towards Y/N & the two start walking towards the exit.)
Nancy: Thanks for the save once again, O'Connell.
(Y/N): Always, Wheeler.
Jason: (Y/N), a word?
(He stops walking.)
(Y/N): I'll see you outside.
(Nancy nods her head & continues to walk.)
(Y/N): [sighs]
(He turns around to face Jason.)
(Y/N): What's up?
Jason: I'm told you're the best hunter and tracker in all of Hawkins.
(Y/N): Everyone's entitled to their opinion.
Jason: I'm inclined to agree with them. I could really use your help.
(Y/N): With?
Jason: A hunt.
(Y/N): Hmm, I don't think it's deer season.
Jason: No, no...not deer. Eddie Munson. The freak. You've heard of him.
(Y/N): That guy on the news. Yes, I've heard of him.
Jason: So you'll help?
(Y/N): I'm gonna have to decline. I'll keep my eye out though.
Jason: But why? Don't tell me you're scared.
(Y/N): No. It's just that, man's the most dangerous game there is.
(Cut to them entering the RV.)
Lucas: What happened?
Steve: We gotta go.
Erica: Your old friends are here.
Lucas: Shit!
Dustin: Let's go! Let's go!
Steve: I'm going! I'm going! Sit down!
(Cut to them preparing. Nancy's sawing off the barrel of her shotgun, Dustin & Eddie are hammering nails into trash can lids, & the Sinclairs are tying knives to the ends of sticks, making spears. Pan over to Steve, Y/N, & Robin making molotov cocktails.)
Steve: It just doesn't make sense.
(Y/N): Not one bit.
Robin: What doesn't make sense?
Steve: That was Dan Shelter. He graduated, like, two years ago.
Robin: So?
(Y/N): So he's in college.
Steve: Which means he was visiting on break spring. Fast Times was returned, like, I don't know, a week ago?
(Y/N): Sounds about right.
Steve: Right? Unless she's got some horndog brother we don't know about. Which is possible.
(Y/N): Or she has a sister.
Steve: Or she's really into Judge Reinhold. Nah.
Robin: Steve. (Y/N).
Steve: What?
(Y/N): Yeah?
Robin: I don't care. And I don't understand why you two either with everything that's going on. Honestly, this feels like the perfect time for that little pull of the rug because...in the face of the world ending, the stakes of expanding my social circle feel spectacularly low.
Steve: Yeah. I mean, I get you there, but...we still have hope.
(Y/N): Damn straight.
Robin: Not everything has a happy ending. Including (Y/N) and I.
(Y/N): That's where you're wrong.
Robin: Oh?
(Y/N): As long as I'm with you, no matter what type of ending it is, it's a happy one for me.
Robin: Look at that. You proving me wrong, it really is the end of the world.
(Y/N): [chuckles] Yup.
(She notices Steve looking at Nancy.)
Robin: In your case, I'm not talking about doomed romance. I just...I have this terrible, gnawing feeling that...it might not work out for us this time.
Steve: You think we shouldn't be doing this?
Robin: I think we're mad fools, the lot of us, but...
(She looks at the rest of the group.)
Robin: [sighs] But if we don't stop him, who will? We have to try, right?
Steve: Yeah.
(She looks at Y/N.)
(Y/N): Indeed.
Steve: To killing Vecna.
Robin: Slash Henry.
(Y/N): Slash One.
(They clink three molotov cocktails together.)
(Y/N): Just want to say, if this is the end of the three of us, I love you both very much.
(Robin kisses him.)
(Y/N): I'm not expecting you to kiss me, Steve.
Steve: I'm not going to. But I love you too, man.
(Y/N extends his hand for a handshake but Steve hugs him instead. He hugs his best friend back. Cut to them putting the plan into motion.)
(Imagine Y/N scraping his claws against one of the RV's cabinets.)