The body
The body is the fourth episode of a TV show. Jim Hopper tells Joyce Byers that Will Byers tumbled down the hill and died on impact, but Joyce believes that since she already talks to Will using the lights, he must be alive. Joyce decides to defend herself by grabbing an ax and sleeping with it. Hopper tells Joyce that his daughter also died and that Joyce should toughen up or else he would be mad. Mike Wheeler is in his room, crying over Will’s death, but Eleven comforts him by grabbing a supercom and playing Will’s favorite song on it, Mike thinks that since Will sings this song, he is still alive. Eleven starts to bleed. Mike decides to stay home today, and he calls his two friends and tells them that Will was alive and that they should come. Joyce decides to see Will’s body for herself, and Jonathan Byers and Hopper decide to have a conversation about Joyce’s mental health, believing that she was going crazy, Jonathan tells Hopper to help him. Joyce notices that Will’s scar on his right arm was redder than usual, and she thinks that the body is fake. Jonathan asks Joyce to plan the funeral, but Joyce fears the body. She storms off and leaves Jonathan to plan for it himself. Nancy Wheeler asks Steve Harrington if he saw Barb Holland, but Steve gets annoyed at Nancy. Since Nancy was afraid that the party would be revealed, she runs away. Eleven turns on another clip of Will on the supercom, and Lucas Sinclair is the only one who doesn’t believe that it is Will, since he says that this was pre-recorded. Eleven decides to use the school’s intercom, since she believes that it would be the best to use, compared to the other ones. Eleven uses Nancy’s makeup kit and takes hours prepping herself. Mike thinks that she looks pretty good. Nancy and Karen Wheeler are forced to tell the police what happened to Barb, but Nancy is scared because she knows that Barb was brutally murdered, she confesses that she had fun with Steve but reveals nothing more. Karen is proud of Nancy’s honesty. Martin Brenner sends Tim Shepard into the upside down to try to save Will, but Shepard gets attacked by Vecna and does not return. Brenner smiles and is happy now. Troy Walsh attacks Mike, but starts to pee himself, Mike and the kids run away. David O'Bannon claims he knew about Will first, and Hopper beats up O’Bannon, but notices the illuminati in the distance, so he runs away. Joyce hears Will scream for help inside of her walls, so Joyce rips her wallpaper and sees the outside of her house. She is confused. Jonathan asks Nancy to help him reveal pictures of the Demogorgon and to help him find out what it is. Nancy asks Jonathan why he was taking pictures of her having fun with Steve, and Jonathan says that it looked so cute. Hopper brutally tears apart Will’s body, and discovers that there was a red liquid inside of it, so it must have been fake. Lonnie Byers visits Joyce, and Hopper breaks into Hawkins lab.
