The Crawl
The Crawl is the first episode of season five. Back in 1983, Will Byers was inside his hideout inside of the mines, and he was singing his favorite song. All of a sudden, a Demogorgon rips into his secret hideout and eats his shotgun. Shocked, Will starts hopping from tree to tree. However, he trips. Vecna finds Will and forces Will to paint a picture with him, saying that they will paint something beautiful together. In 1987, Holly Wheeler sees Henry Whatsit but brushes him off as an illusion. The Byers family is staying with the Wheelers, and Ted Wheeler complains, but Karen Wheeler says that she will kick Ted out if Ted complains too much. Will, Holly and Mike Wheeler are being driven to school by Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers, and they are listening to a rooster squawking, which is because of Robin Buckley’s new farm that she is running in the city with Steve Harrington. Dustin Henderson gets attacked by Andy for supporting Eddie Munson, but Erica Sinclair threatens Andy and kicks his balls. Inside the woods, Eleven is practicing Breakout with Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers in hopes that eventually she can get Ombra. Murray Bauman takes some materials to Robin’s farm to get ready to crawl inside of the mines and maybe find some diamonds. Robin realizes that this must mean it’s time for the group to meet back up, and she forces Jonathan and Steve to go to the top of the farm’s billboard and change the letters to “GETTING CRAWL TRAP SOON.” Jonathan and Steve argue because Jonathan has a crush on Robin. While heading home from school, Mike and Will realize that this means and tell Jonathan and Nancy. They all go to the lab underneath the camp, where they go over the plan. They talk about how Hopper will be inside of the mines while everybody else is supervising him from behind. They are told not to get the attention of any police or military. The whole group talks about how this whole thing is a waste of time, and how this is their four hundredth crawl and how instead they should just roll a D20. Everyone decides to meet at the farm again at 6:07. Holly is playing on the playground with Delightful Derek Turnbow when all of a sudden Mary comes and bullies her. Miss Harris tells the class to go back inside, and she sees Holly talking to a man who isn’t inside of the school. Doctor Kay, Martin Brenner’s girlfriend, is running a base inside of the mines for government members. A military member reports to her that they have not found Eleven yet, and she says that Jack Sullivan should search harder. Joyce tells Hopper that Eleven might not want to go to the mines ever again, but Hopper says that she beat her old record in Breakout and that maybe soon she can go to the mines after she gets Ombra. Andy opens his locker to find Jake stealing from his locker. Andy is enraged and drags Jake away. Mike encourages Holly to stop ignoring her imaginary friend and to instead use her imagination, but Holly does not listen. Will watches Robin in disgust. Dustin goes to Eddie, where he finds Jake’s body ripped in half. Dustin is suddenly surrounded by Andy and his group, who attack him and rip him too. Everyone questions where Dustin is, and Mike predicts that Dustin may be in a land with two waterfalls, but they decide to begin business and search for Dustin later. Hopper departs and the group follow closely behind Hopper. Holly hears Karen and Ted arguing about Holly being followed by a creep, and Holly gets so worried about this that she cries in bed. Nancy sees a note on a wall that says “they is coming for Holly,” so she takes Eleven with her as Hopper engages in a gun fight with the military. However, Hopper gets distracted and runs off after shooting every military member inside of the base in the mines, leaving the rest of the group confused at where Hopper is. Meanwhile inside the Wheeler house, Karen takes a bottle of vodka into her room as Ted plays golf and accidentally crashes a hole into Holly’s window, causing her to be annoyed. a hole then forms into Holly’s room, and Holly witnesses a Demogorgon crawling out.
