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Home alone with Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), the lights flickered amidst another nighttime thunderstorm. The other cliffhanger resolve involves a mysterious phone call that Joyce (Winona Ryder) received at the end of episode one.
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The Duffer Brothers scatter these smaller intimate story beats to remind us of childhood innocence (and awkwardness), and just how young and naïve and funny kids can be. Like their occasional use of PG-13 salty language, this otherwise throwaway story beat is another tease reminiscent of the kind of adult-ish yet kiddy humor ’80s movies didn’t shy away from. Mike brings her some fresh clothes (androgynously bland sweats), and as a riff on her ambiguous alienated personality, when she goes to pull off her soaking hospital gown, all three boys freak out and scream, turning around or averting their eyes in unison. The trio (now minus Will) bickers over what to do with this strange mute girl. Cut to the group back in Mike’s basement, their de facto secret headquarters.
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The Weirdo on Maple Street immediately addresses the episode one cliffhanger, in which Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) find the runaway girl (Millie Bobby Brown) alone, wet, and scared in the woods.