The Bite
The Bite is the seventh episode of Season Three. On July 10th, Mayor Larry Kline gives a speech to all of Hawkins, saying that it was the founder’s Birthday today and that the Fun Fair would be open for everyone who wanted to have fun on this amazing day. The Wheelers enter the Ferris wheel, since they want to see the trees, and when the Ferris wheel reaches the top, Karen Wheeler shoots the carney who was operating the wheel so that they can be at the top forever! Holly Wheeler notices fireworks in the sky, and tells Ted Wheeler that it was odd, but Ted thought that it was normal for the fireworks to be during daytime and tells her to keep looking at the trees. Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers know that Grigori is probably close by, as the fair was run by Russians, such as Zharkov. Murray Bauman is having fun with Alexei at the fair, since Murray knew this might be the last time he saw Alexei. All of a sudden, Grigori leaves from the funhouse, and sees Alexei cuddling a cute little toy bear, and Grigori decides to have a duel with Alexei, Grigori has the disadvantage since Alexei was wearing his glasses to take deadly aim, and he doesn’t want his daughter to be an orphan, but as he aims his pistol at the sky, Grigori shoots Alexei in between his ribs. Murray is shocked to see this happening in front of him and tells Hopper to go after Grigori. Kline is so scared that he runs into the funhouse. Murray angrily uses his sweater to cut Alexei’s blood flow, and Alexei dies next to Murray. Hopper and Joyce chase Grigori into the funhouse, but they discover that they need 10 tickets to enter, they earn 5 tickets playing whack-a-mole and earn the other 5 by helping someone find their car keys. They finally enter the funhouse, where they look around the first floor, they see stairs and they reach the next floor repeatedly, until they reach the fifth floor. They see four clown faces, they each ask a different riddle that Joyce and Jim must solve, and when they finally solve all four, they go to the next room, where they see Grigori, Grigori reveals that he was never Russian and that his real name was Aaron, before he can reveal his last name, Kline shoots towards Grigori, missing him and instead killing Zharkov. Grigori enters the room where it happened and decides to activate The Device. Eleven and Max Mayfield tell Will Byers, Dustin Henderson, Mike Wheeler, Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers what she saw inside of Billy Hargrove’s diary, and she warns them that the Mind Flayer is headed towards them since she was with them. They decide to hide inside of Hopper’s Cabin, where they decide to cuddle in a little corner together and hope for the best, Dustin thinks this is a pointless idea and decides to take his chances, he leaves the cabin but then Vecna appears and rips all his limbs off, traumatizing Nancy. The Mind Flayer starts the fight with the gang, where the Mind Flayer picks up Hopper’s Cabin and eats it up, Mike and Eleven jump out of the house before they die, but Eleven gets a scab from landing. They realize the Mind Flayer ate the rest of the gang, but Eleven decides to go to Starcourt Mall, where she can heal her unfortunate scab that makes her so sad, as if she was bullied. She pulls out the scab with her bare hands and rips out some of her vital organs, Mike and Eleven see Max, Will, Jonathan, and Nancy in the distance, and they are shocked. Eleven goes to greet them again and she plays many slap battles.
