With a lit cigarette in his mouth and a newly bought lighter in his pocket, Matthew Wheeler was walking down the street and headed back to his house with Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song loudly playing on his walkman.

After looking around at the other houses around himself, Matthew went to take the cigarette out of his mouth, only to stop when a white van with blue letters on the side of it had suddenly come to a halt in front of him and a couple of people had gotten out of the van.

One of the people being a tall man with white hair that was wearing a suit.

After looking away from the man with white hair, Matthew looked over at the van and saw the words 'Hawkins Power and Light' written on the side of it.

It wasn't until he looked back at the man that he could see that the man was now standing in front of him and motioning for him to take off his headphones.

With a roll of his eyes, took his headphones off of his head and asked the man, "What the fuck do you want?"

In turn, the man said to him, "My, my. That is some very colorful language to come out of your mouth, young man."

When Matthew only blankly stared at him, the man took a manila folder out of his coat and held it out in front of himself.

After watching Matthew glance down at the folder that he was holding and then look back up at the man, the man told him, "I just need you to take a look at the photographs in this folder and tell me if you've seen any of these people recently."

With yet another roll of his eyes, Matthew took the folder out of the man's hands and opened it to see a picture of his own brother sitting inside of it.

While forcing himself not to show any sort of reaction upon seeing a picture of his own brother, Matthew looked through the rest of the pictures to see that they were Mike's friends Dustin Henderson, Lucas Sinclair and El.

After staring down at El's picture for a couple of seconds, Matthew glanced up at the man, who was simply staring down at him and waiting for him to say something.

When Matthew didn't say anything to him, the man asked with a shake of his head, "Did you happen to see any of them recently?"

Instead of immediately responding to the man's question, Matthew took the cigarette out of his mouth and blew the smoke coming out of his mouth right into the man's face.

After blinking to himself, the man tilted his head when Matthew asked him, "What the fuck does it matter if I've seen any of 'em? I mean, you came out of a fucking power and light van for fuck's sake. Why would some mechanic or whatever the hell you are care about kids, anyway? As far as I can tell, kids are nothing but a pain in the ass. So, I'm just wondering why an old man like you— one that looks like he's already got at least one foot in the grave— is wondering if anyone's seen a group of kids."

It was then that the woman standing beside the man said to him, "Mr. Wheeler, it is of great importance that we find these children because your brother and his two friends are in danger, and we need to find them and protect them from this girl."

With a chuckle, Matthew said to her, "Oh, that's sweet. You know who I am."

With a sigh, the woman said to him, "Mr. Wheeler—"

With a wave of his hand that was holding onto the cigarette, Matthew said, "Yes, Ms. Prissy Pants?"

After seeing the woman narrow her eyes at him, Matthew only raised his eyebrows at her before he brought the cigarette back up to his mouth.

And while he looked between the man and woman, the man said to him, "It's a simple yes or no, Mr. Wheeler. Have you seen your brother or his friends today?"

While Matthew narrowed his eyes at the man and tilted his head once he heard the tone of voice in which the man was using to talk to him, the man simply blinked at him.

After blowing yet another puff of smoke into the man's face, Matthew said, "No, I haven't. But here's an idea for you two. How about instead of worrying about a group of middle-schoolers and whatever the fuck they're doing today, you go do something? Like, I don't know, taking care of the fucking electric or something. You know, since you are driving around in a fucking power and light van."

After a moment of silently just staring down at the fifteen-year-old member of the Wheeler family, the man simply nodded his head before he turned his back on Matthew and went to walk back into the van with the woman close behind him.

As soon as the two of them had gotten back into the van, the man and woman turned their heads to see Matthew staring right at them with both of his middle fingers raised at them.

It wasn't until the van had quickly started to drive away from him and left him standing on the side of the road by himself that Matthew let out a sigh and tossed his lit cigarette onto the asphalt and put it out with his shoe before he said to himself, "Goddammit, Mike. What the fuck did you do now?"

Then, instead of heading straight home, he put his headphones back up onto his head and started to run to the home of the Byers' family with Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day playing loudly from his walkman.

As soon as she got out of the home for the Byers family, Nancy said, "Mike." While she quickly made her way over towards her youngest brother, she said, "Oh, my God. Mike!"

After quickly pulling her brother into a hug, Nancy told him, "I was so worried about you."

In turn, Mike said to her, "Yeah, uh... me, too." Then she looked past Mike and over towards El with a tilt of her head before she asked, "Is that my dress?"

Just when El went to look over at Dustin, she suddenly stopped when she heard repetitive gasping from right behind her, which got her to turn around to see Matthew slightly bent over with his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath.

It was then that Mike and Nancy said, "Matt?" When Matthew only waved a hand at them, they asked him, "What the hell are you doing here?"

After a couple more seconds of him trying to catch his breath, he replied, "I've got a better question for you guys. You got any idea why a white-haired man in a suit was looking for you guys?"

Not long after he said that, Lucas asked him, "This white-haired man, did he come out of a white van? One that had 'Hawkins Power and Light' written on the side of it?"

With a nod of his head, Matthew said to him, "Uh, yeah. Why? Do you know him?" When no one responded, Matthew asked him, "And anyone wanna tell me why that man was looking for El, Mike, Dustin and Lucas?"

Instead of getting a verbal response, the only form of a response he received was El wrapping her arms around him as she said to him, "Matt. Safe."

While wrapping his own arms around her, he said to her, "Yeah. Yeah, I'm safe. Safe and sound." Then he brought his attention off of El and over towards Hopper before he asked, "And, uh, anyone wanna tell me why we're all just standing here with the chief of police?"

With a paper held out in front of himself, Mike said, "Okay, so, in this example, we're the acrobat. Will and Barbara, and that monster, they're this flea. And this is the Upside Down, where Will is hiding. Mr. Clarke said the only way to get there is through a rip of time and space."

Then Dustin said to them, "A gate."

Then Lucas said, "That we tracked to Hawkins Lab."

Then Dustin said, "With our compasses." After seeing the looks that Joyce, Jonathan and Nancy had on their faces, he told them, "Okay, so the gate has a really strong electromagnetic field, and that can change the directions of a compass needle."

Hopper asked him, "Is this gate underground?"

It was then that El said to him, "Yes."

Then Hopper asked them, "Near a large water tank?"

With a nod of her head, El said to him, "Yes."

Not long after she said that, Dustin asked Hopper, "H-How do you know all that?"

Mike told him, "He's seen it."

It was then that Joyce asked them, "Is there any way that you could... that you could reach Will? That you could talk to him in this—"

While looking over at Joyce, El said, "The Upside Down."

In a whisper, Joyce said, "Down. Yeah."

After El had nodded her head, Nancy asked her, "And my friend Barbara? Can you find her, too?"

The only thing Nancy received as an answer was a mere nod of El's head.

After the lights in the room had flickered a couple of times, El opened her eyes and said to them, "I'm sorry."

In turn, Joyce said, "What? W-W-What's wrong? What-What happened?"

It was then that El told her, "I can't find them."

While Jonathan went to turn away from the table, Matthew let out a sigh before he gently put his hand on El's shoulder, to which El responded by putting one of her own hands on top of his.

While standing in front of the table, Mike said, "Whenever she uses her powers, she gets weak."

Then Dustin told them, "The more energy she uses, the more tired she gets."

Then Lucas said to them, "Like, she flipped the van earlier."

With a nod of his head, Dustin said, "It was awesome."

While Matthew tried to process the fact that El had actually flipped an entire van with just her mind alone, Mike told them, "But she's drained."

Then Dustin said to them, "Like a bad battery."

With a wave of her hands, Joyce asked them, "Well... H-H-H-How do we make her better?"

Mike replied, "We don't. We just have to wait and try again."

Nancy asked him, "Well, how long?"

Mike said to her, "I don't know."

It was then that they heard a voice say to them, "The bath."

After they all turned their heads to look over at El, Joyce said, "What?"

El told them, "I can find them. In the bath."

After hanging up on Mr. Clarke, Dustin asked Joyce, "Do you still have that kiddie pool we bobbed for apples in?"

While glancing over at Jonathan, Joyce replied, "Uh, I think so. Yeah."

Dustin said to her, "Good. Then we just need salt. Lots of it."

Hopper asked him, "How much is 'lots'?"

After glancing down at his paper, Dustin told them, "1,500 pounds."

After glancing over at Matthew, who was silently looking between Mike and his friends, Nancy asked Dustin, "Well, where are we gonna get that much salt?"

With his head tilted to the side and his arms crossed over his chest, Matthew watched as El stepped into the kiddie pool before she eventually laid down in it with her arms spread wide on either side of her.

It wasn't long after she had laid down in the pool that the lights in the gymnasium had started to flicker before the lights had eventually gone out in the room and the only source of light they had was the moon shining into one of the windows from the outside of the school.

Several seconds after the lights had gone out, El said, "Barbara?"

After glancing over at his sister, Matthew brought his attention back over towards El, just before the lights in the room had flickered yet again.

It was then that Nancy asked them, "What's going on?"

Mike replied, "I don't know."

Then Nancy looked over at El and asked her, "Is Barb okay? Is she okay?"

In turn, El said, "Gone. Gone. Gone."

While Nancy brought a hand up to her mouth, Joyce said to El, "It's okay. It's okay. It's okay."

And while Joyce continued to tell El that it was okay, El said, "Gone. Gone!"

When El started to gasp to herself, Joyce said to her, "Hey. It's okay. It's okay, we're right here. We're right here, honey. It's okay. I got you. Don't be afraid. I'm right here with you. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay, you're safe. You're okay, honey."

It wasn't long after that that El said, "Castle Byers."

After Matthew had taken a step forward and put a hand on his sister's arm and there was nothing but silence for a couple of seconds, El said, "Will?"

It was then that Joyce let out a gasp before she told El, "You tell him... t-tell him I'm coming. M-Mom is coming."

Not long after Joyce had said that, they could hear Will's voice say through the radio, "Hurry."

With a nod of her head, Joyce said to El, "Okay. Listen, you tell him to... t-to stay where he is. We're coming. We're coming, okay? We're coming, honey."