Sorcerer
Sorcerer is the fourth episode of season five. At the McCorkle farm, Joyce Byers attempts to stab Derek Turnbow and comments about how annoying Derek is, to the point of calling him names, such as Dip ship Derek. Will then suddenly has a seizure and starts screaming about how he saw Vecna bringing over a Demogorgon. Suddenly, a Demogorgon comes. Steve Harrington suddenly drives over with Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler, and Dustin Henderson, crashing into the Demogorgon at 100 mph. They then follow the Demogorgon into the mines, as Will starts sleeping from the seizure. Mike Wheeler observes the military kidnapping Debbie Miller and the rest of Miss Harris’s class. Dustin and Steve start arguing, causing Steve to push Dustin into a big wall, this causes Dustin to get really mad at Steve, Sahib notices how unpure Dustin’s heart is. Will paints a bunch of pillars that he saw inside of a big temple, and Joyce believes that this may be a prison. Suddenly, Mike returns and tells them about the government rounding up the children. Doctor Kay talks to the military about needing more children to have fun with and tells them to round up 6- to 7-year-olds. She orders some of the children to be publicly hung, because she believes that Eleven will want to protect them and show herself, when Jack Sullivan will gun her down. Luis Ramirez talks to Kay about Robert Akers’s disappearance and how this would be endangering children, but Kay denies this. Mr. Sandman tells Holly Wheeler that he was a double agent and secretly worked against Vecna and that he was pretending to be Mr. Whatsit. He tells Holly that he wants her to follow him into a cave to learn about Vecna’s past so that they can take down Vecna together. Dr. Kay is getting excited as many buses with tiny minors start to arrive. Robin Buckley tells the kids that she likes big sticks and how she wants to carve a hole in the shape of a stick to show everyone, and Derek is told to capture kids that he thinks Mr. Whatsit might touch. Eleven and Hopper decide to infiltrate the camp to try and find the cure. Holly learns that when Max Mayfield was no longer breathing, her house collapsed from explosives, which also caused an earthquake to start. Holly learns about The Massacre at Hawkins Lab, but also about how this was a weird place, and how sometimes music would start playing and how he tried to escape once when the music started but couldn’t reach the end. Murray Bauman prepares a free candy van for the captured kids to be tossed into, and Derek enters the kid care home. Eleven enters camp and slowly solves the clock puzzle and unlocks the elevator into lab; she then lets Jim Hopper in with her, and the two enter the elevator together. Derek starts grabbing kids, showing no mercy and tossing all of them into the free candy van, Murray starts to giggle and fart as the van fills up with over 100 kids. Steve, Dustin, Jonathan, and Nancy start to pray to Sahib in the local church. Unfortunately, sahib dismisses Dustin’s prayers and fries him with a bolt of lightning. Holly doesn’t trust Mr. Sandman and goes back to the house. In the lab, Hopper sees Akers rig explosives and starts to fight him, the explosives explode, and Eleven is forced to find her own way out. Robin and Will start to dig a big stick (The size of Hopper’s stick) while Derek tosses even more kids into the van while giggling, but the guards realize that there are only 10 kids left and attack Derek. As Hopper and Kay fight, Eleven passes Hopper a pipe and a water gun as the sentinels start chasing her, causing Kay to lose this battle. Eleven and Hopper try to escape, but the lab caves-in, they find Kali Prasad inside of the lab, who reveals that she was infected. Running out of choices, El makes a deal with the insolence. The Demogorgons are looking for Derek, but they find him in a free candy van driving away, so they steal the van and drive it to Mr. Whatsit. Vecna attacks the kids, and grabs Will. Will grabs Vecna and rips off his head, causing Vecna to be beheaded. Will reveals that he was bleeding as the gang watches in awe. Vecna is mad at Will for beheading him.
