- Mike Wheeler: El, are you okay? El!
- Eleven: [crying] Mike... I'm sorry.
- Mike Wheeler: Sorry? What are you sorry for?
- Eleven: The gate... I opened it... I'm the monster.
- Mike Wheeler: No... no, El, you're not the monster. You saved me. Do you understand? You saved me.
- [pulls her into a hug. Dustin joins in]
- Jonathan Byers: [Upon finding Nancy awake] Couldn't sleep?
- Nancy Wheeler: No. Every time I close my eyes, I keep seeing that thing. Wherever I was... that place... I think it lives there. It was feeding there. Feeding on that deer. That means that if Will and Barbara...
- Jonathan Byers: Hey. My mom said she talked to Will. If he's alive, Barbra might be too.
- Nancy Wheeler: But that means she's trapped in that place! We have to find it again.
- Jonathan Byers: You want to go back out there?
- Nancy Wheeler: Maybe we don't have to. When I saw it, it was feeding on that dear, meaning it's a predator, right?
- Jonathan Byers: Right.
- Nancy Wheeler: And it seems to hunt at night like a lion or coyote. But it doesn't hunt in packs like them... it's always alone like a bear. And remember at Steve's when Barb cut herself? And then last night... the deer?
- Jonathan Byers: It was bleeding too.
- Nancy Wheeler: [reading from a book] Sharks can detect blood one part per million. That's one drop of blood in a million and they can smell it from a quarter mile away.
- Jonathan Byers: So you're saying it can detect blood?
- Nancy Wheeler: It's just a theory.
- Jonathan Byers: We could test it. But if it works...
- Nancy Wheeler: At least we'll know it's coming.
- Mike Wheeler: [referring to Lucas] He's not my best friend.
- Dustin Henderson: Yeah, right.
- Mike Wheeler: I mean, he is but so are you. And so is Will.
- Dustin Henderson: Can't have more than one best friend.
- Mike Wheeler: Says who?
- Dustin Henderson: Says logic.
- Mike Wheeler: Well, I call bull on your logic 'cause you're my best friend too.
- Dustin Henderson: [visibly touched] Okay.
- Jonathan Byers: I can go if you want. I just figured...
- Nancy Wheeler: No, I- I don't want to be alone... do you?
- Jonathan Byers: No... no.
- Nancy Wheeler: [uncomfortable sleeping alone] Can you just come up here?
- Jonathan Byers: [climbing in next to Nancy] Do you want the lights off or-?
- Nancy Wheeler: On.
- Jonathan Byers: Yeah. You know, it can't get us in here.
- Nancy Wheeler: We don't know that.
- Dustin Henderson: She's our friend and she's crazy! You come back here and she'll kill you, you hear me, she'll *kill* you!
- Mike Wheeler: I just... I can't believe she didn't come back.
- Dustin Henderson: She's gotta be close.
- Mike Wheeler: She said it wasn't safe. She just messed up the compasses because she wanted to protect us. She didn't betray us!
- Dustin Henderson: Mike, calm down.
- Mike Wheeler: I shouldn't have yelled at her, I never should have done that.
- Dustin Henderson: Mike, this isn't your fault.
- Mike Wheeler: Yeah, it's Lucas's.
- Dustin Henderson: It wasn't his fault either.
- Mike Wheeler: It wasn't his fault?
- Dustin Henderson: No!
- Mike Wheeler: So your saying he wasn't way out of line?
- Dustin Henderson: Totally! But so were you!
- Mike Wheeler: What?
- Dustin Henderson: And so was Eleven!
- Mike Wheeler: Oh, give me a break!
- Dustin Henderson: No, Mike, you give me a break! All three of you were being a bunch of little assholes! I was the only reasonable one! But the bottom line is... You pushed first. And you know the rule. You draw first blood...
- Mike Wheeler: No! No way! I'm not shaking his hand!
- Dustin Henderson: You're shaking his hand!
- Mike Wheeler: No I'm not!
- Dustin Henderson: This isn't a discussion. This is the rule of law. Obey or be banished from the party. Do you wanna be banished?
- Mike Wheeler: ...No
- Dustin Henderson: Good
- Mike Wheeler: Where are we going?
- Dustin Henderson: Where do you think? We're going to get Lucas. And then, we're gonna find Eleven.