The Best Stranger Things, Season 1, Episode 7 Quotes

Ted: Honey, we have to trust them. Okay? This is our government. They're on our side.

[Stammers] Well, is he home?
- Maybe you could ask him?
- Mom!
- I'm sorry, can you just hold on please?
- Michael, I'm on the phone.
- I've told you a million times...
- Did you schedule any repairs?
- What?
- Is there anyone supposed to come and do repairs on the house?

Nancy: What did she even eat?
Mike: What?
Nancy: Eleven.
Mike: Oh. Candy... leftovers... eggos... she really likes eggos.
Nancy: I knew you were acting weird I just, I thought it was because of Will.
Mike: I knew you were acting weird too. I thought it was because of Steve.
Nancy: Hey. No more secrets, okay? From now on we tell each other everything.
Mike: Okay. Do you like Jonathan now?
Nancy: What? No... no, it's not like that... Do you like Eleven?
Mike: What? No. Ew. Gross.

Dustin: Shit!
Mike: Go, go, go, go.
[Panting] Lando.
- You think they saw us?
- Both of you, shut up.

- Why would the chief set us up?
- Nancy, maybe, but the chief?
- Lando calrissian.
- Would you shut up about lando?
- I don't feel good about this.
- I don't feel good about this!
[Shouting] When do you feel good about anything?

- Colder!
- Warmer!
- Right there!

- I was wrong.
- I'm sorry.
- Friends...
- Friends don't lie.
- I'm sorry, too.
Mike: Me, too.

- Do you still have that kiddie pool we bobbed for apples in?
- I think so. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Good. Then we just need salt.
- Lots of it.
- How much is "lots"?
- 1,500 pounds.
- Well, where are we gonna get that much salt?

- Worked for me before, didn't it?
- Well, did it?
- Come on, trust me.
[Announcer on radio] I'd like to hear your thoughts on the war.
- I think we 're dealing with a whole different environment here.
[Announcer 2] I'll tell you what, we always planned on the Russians massing the fire and we...

[Man 1] Hey!
[Breathing heavily] All right, let's go.
- Let's go!

- That thing is still in there.
- And we can't just sit here and let it get them, too.
- We can't.
[Sighs] You still wanna try it out?
- I wanna finish what we started.
- I want to kill it.

- From now on we tell each other everything.
- Okay. Do you like Jonathan now?
- What? No.
- No, it's... it's not...
- It's not like that.
- Do you like eleven?
- What? No. Ew. Gross.

Dustin: It's been way too long. You know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe this is all a trap and the bad men are coming to get us right now!
Lucas: It's not a trap! Why would the chief set us up? Nancy, maybe, but the chief?
Dustin: Lando Calrissian.
Lucas: Would you shut up about Lando!

- I mean, lately... [sighs]
- Look, is there any place that your...
- Your parents don't know about that he might go?
[Stuttering] I don't know.
- I might.
- What?
- I don't know where he is, but I think I know how to ask him.

- Here, let me get the door for you, buddy.
- That's right.
- Run away, Stevie boy!
- Run away!
- Just like you always do.
- That Nancy's turning you into a little pussy!
- That's right, harrington, run away!
- Run away! [Scoffs]

- Barb?
- Barbara?

- It's okay. It's okay.
[Echoing] It's okay.
- It's okay, you're safe.
- You're okay, honey.
Eleven: Castle byers.
- Castle byers.

[Grunts] Ah.
Nancy: Stand back.
- Whoa.

- What?
- Why are you going through my car?
- Is that really the question you should be asking right now?
- I wanna see you in my office.
- You won't believe me.
[Softly] Why don't you give me a try?
- Mike? Mike?

Mike: [as Mrs. Wheeler is talking on the phone] Mom! *Mom*!
Karen: [Into the phone] I'm sorry, can you just hold on please?
[to Mike]
Karen: Michael, I'm on the phone. I've told you a million times...
Mike: Did you schedule any repairs?
Karen: What?
Mike: Is there anyone supposed to come and do repairs on the house?
Karen: I don't understand, is there something wrong in the house-?
Mike: No Mom, nothing's wrong with the house...
Dustin: Mike!
Mike: One second...
Dustin: *Mike!*
[panting]
Dustin: We need to leave. Right. Now.
Karen: Michael!
Mike: If anyone asks where I am, I've left the country!
[runs off after Dustin]

- Are you there?
- Do you copy? Over.
- Anybody got any other ideas?
Mike: Yeah, I copy.
- It's Mike.
- I'm here.
- We're here.

- Do you hear me?
- The bad men are coming!
- "Mad hen."
- Does that mean anything to you?
- Like a code name or something?
Lucas: The bad men are coming!
- "Bad men."
- Bad men!
[Gasps] Stay here.

- No, mom, nothing's wrong in the house.
Dustin: Mike!
- One second.
[Yells] Mike!
- We need to leave...
[Panting] Right now.
- Michael!
- If anyone asks where I am,
- I've left the country.
- What?

Mike: What's he saying?
Dustin: I don't know, he's way out of range.
Mike: Lucas, if you can hear us, slow down. We can't understand you.
Lucas: Yes! I copy! Do you? They know about Eleven! Get out of there! They know about Eleven! The bad men are coming! All of them! Do you hear me? The bad men are coming!
Dustin: "Mad Hen"... Does that mean anything to you, like a code name or something?
Lucas: [over the radio] The bad men are coming!
Mike: Bad men... bad men!
[to El]
Mike: Stay here!
Mike: [Dustin and Mike run upstairs to the window where a Hawkins repair truck sits] What's that guy doing?
Dustin: You don't think...?

- I'm sorry.
- What?
[Stuttering] What's wrong?
- What happened?
[Crying] I can't find them.

- And watch over the kids.
- No, mom.
- I can help.
- Please, I need you to stay, Jonathan.
- Joyce!
- Please.
- Please, be careful.
[Hopper] Joyce, come on!
- Please. I'm gonna find him.
- I'm gonna find him.

Joyce: Is there any way that you could...
- That you could reach will?
- That you could talk to him in this...
- The upside down.
[Whispering] Down. Yeah.
Nancy: And my friend Barbara?
- Can you find her, too?

Steve: Need a hand?
- Did you have something to do with this?
- I just...
- I wanna help.
- All yours.

Mr. Clarke: Hello?
Dustin: Mr Clarke, it's Dustin.
Mr. Clarke: Dustin? Is everything okay?
Dustin: Ye-yeah, I just, I, I have a... science question.
Mr. Clarke: It's ten o'clock on Saturday. Why don't we pick this up on...
Dustin: Do you know anything about sensory deprivation tanks? Specifically how to build one?
Mr. Clarke: Sensory deprivation...? Wh-what is this for?
Dustin: Fun.
Mr. Clarke: Okay. Well. Why don't we talk about it Monday, after school. Okay?...
Dustin: You always say we should never stop being curious, to always open any curiosity door we find.
Mr. Clarke: Dustin...
Dustin: Why are you keeping this curiosity door locked?

- I am gonna be there with you the whole time.
- And if it ever gets too scary...
[Stutters] In that place, you just let me know, okay?
- Yes.
- Ready?
- Ready.

- Oh, my god, is she Russian?
- You can't treat us like this.
- I need you to stay calm.
- You come into my house, and you tell me that my son is hiding some girl, and that he's in danger, but you can't tell us why?
- And you, what, you expect me to remain, what, calm?

- Out of the way!
Mike: Lucas!
- Where are they?
[Stammers] I don't know.
- I think we lost them.
- Go, go, go, go, go!
Mike: Go, go, go, go, go!
- Faster, faster!
- Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!

- That man gives me the creeps.
- Nancy.
- You don't think she's involved in this, too, do you?
- Nancy with Mike?
[Chuckles] No.
- -No -[Sighs]

- Yeah, just a minute, please!
[Under breath] Jiminy Christmas.
- Hold your horses.
- Mr. Wheeler?
- Yes?

Dustin: [after El flips the van to help them escape] Did- did you see what she did to that van?
Mike: [sarcastic] No, Dustin, we missed it.
Dustin: I mean that was... that was...
Lucas: Awesome. That was awesome.
[goes to El]
Lucas: Everything I said about you being a traitor and stuff... I was wrong. I'm sorry.
Eleven: Friends... friends don't lie. I'm sorry too.
Mike: Me too.
[Holds out his hand. He and Lucas shake]

Mike: [Washing dirt off El's face] That's better.
[El looks at herself in the mirror. She touches her head where her wig used to be]
Mike: [Reassuring] You don't need it.
Eleven: Still pretty?
Mike: Yeah! Pretty. Really pretty... El?
Eleven: Yes?
Mike: Um, I'm happy you're home.
Eleven: Me too.
[They move closer as Dustin bursts in]
Dustin: Guys! It's Lucas! I think he's in trouble.
[running for the walkie talkie]
Dustin: Do you remember how he said he was looking for the gate?
Mike: Yeah?
Dustin: What if he found it?

[Muttering weakly] Hurry.
[On radio] Hurry.
- Okay. Listen, you tell him to...
[Stutters] To stay where he is.
- We're coming. We're coming, okay?
- We're coming, honey.
- Just... just hold on a little longer.
- Will. Will.

Lucas: No, this way.
- Okay, um...
- How does this even work?
- Try that side.
[Grunts] Son of a bitch!
- Pull it back. Pull it back.
- I am!
Lucas: One, two, three.
- Shit!