<Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> On November 6, 1983, in a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, a scientist is attacked by an unseen creature . While bicycling home from a Dungeons & Dragons session with his friends, 12 - year - old Will Byers encounters the creature and vanishes . The next day, a buzz - cut young girl wearing a hospital gown steals food from a local diner . The owner, Benny, takes pity on her and feeds her before calling social services . From a tattoo on her arm, he learns that her name is Eleven . A woman posing as a social worker arrives and murders Benny . Armed men search the diner for Eleven, but she escapes . Will's mother Joyce believes she hears Will's voice on a distorted phone call, but her phone short circuits . Will's friends Mike, Dustin, and Lucas search for Will in the woods and find Eleven . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street" </Td> <Td> The Duffer Brothers </Td> <Td> The Duffer Brothers </Td> <Td> July 15, 2016 (2016 - 07 - 15) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> The boys bring Eleven to Mike's house, where she sleeps in the basement . The next day, Mike nicknames her "El". She says that "bad people" are looking for her and refuses to meet Mike's parents . Scientists from the laboratory find a substance oozing from the walls of Joyce's home . At Mike's home, Eleven recognizes and points out Will in a photo . Dustin and Lucas want to inform Mike's parents about Eleven, but she uses psychokinesis to stop them . While searching for Will, Mr. Clarke, the boys' science teacher, discovers a scrap of a hospital gown outside the laboratory grounds . Nancy goes with her friend Barb to a party at her boyfriend Steve's house . Will's brother Jonathan investigates the woods where Will went missing . Hearing screaming, he runs to help but finds only Steve, Nancy, and their friends roughhousing around Steve's swimming pool . He secretly photographs them . Barb, left alone by the poolside, vanishes . Joyce receives another call from Will, hears music from his room, and sees something coming through the wall . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly" </Td> <Td> Shawn Levy </Td> <Td> Jessica Mecklenburg </Td> <Td> July 15, 2016 (2016 - 07 - 15) </Td> </Tr>

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