The Pollywog
The pollywog is the third episode of season two. Dustin Henderson is afraid of D’Artagnan and uses the ghostbusters vacuum to suck him up. He brings Dart to his room, where he tells dart that he is keeping him prisoner and only feeds him leftover Halloween candy, but Dart does not like the chocolates, especially the three musketeers' chocolate. Eleven is bored and does not like the chocolate waffle that Jim Hopper prepared for her, and she wants to see Mike Wheeler. She is so bored that she tosses a plate at a wall to keep herself entertained, but it shatters. Dustin goes to the library and gets a book about animals who like candy. Bob Newby is driving Will Byers to school and talks to Will like a therapist, saying how his father used to work as a clown and he was wearing a very scary costume, so one day he caused his parents to get divorced, and he never had to deal with his dad again. He tells Will to do something about his fear. At school, Max Mayfield robs Will’s journal inside of his locker and reads about what happened to Will. Scott Clarke told his class about a story about a man named Phineas Gage, who went missing for a week before being found inside of a river, where he suffered from memory loss and was ranting about his mind being flayed. Dustin all of a sudden burst into the classroom and then tells his friends to meet him outside. Max follows them, but then Dustin shows them Dart. Calvin Powell and Phil Callahan track down rotting spots inside of the pumpkin patch, and search for Hopper to tell him, but they can’t find him. Eleven wants to look for Hopper since he is late and hasn’t come home yet. Will recognizes the “pollywog” that Dustin shows them as a being from the Vale of Shadows. Bob talks to Joyce Byers and tells her that Will destroyed his camera, and that he watched the clip and believed that Will destroyed it on purpose, so Joyce should punish Will. Joyce reacts with anger and tries to defend Will. The officers talk to Hawkins Lab about the strange patterns inside of the pumpkin farm, but the lab says that it was likely just Rosario. Eleven thinks that maybe Mike knows where Hopper is, so she decides to head towards the school. D’Artagnan starts to grow bigger and Mike is scared, Mike says that they should kill Dart, but Dustin thinks this would hurt Dart’s feelings, so he frees Dart and lets him roam the school while smiling. Eleven reaches the school and sees Mike running towards Dart and bumping into Max accidentally, while she is skateboarding like a true zoomer, Eleven thinks that Max is trying to assault Mike, so she launches Max’s skateboard away, accidentally cutting Dustin’s head off. Nancy Wheeler decides to call Barb Holland’s parents to tell them that Barb died but she can’t. Will sees the Mind Flayer approaching him, so he decides to shout at it to hurt it’s feelings, but then the Mind Flayer eats up Will, Will can feel parts of the Mind Flayer eating his organs and he feels uncomfortable, Will realizes that the Mind Flayer hurt his feelings and he is sad. Mike finds Will and asks him if he is okay.
