

He realized he could not only cause physical harm, but also reach into the memories and minds of others. “All the teachers and the doctors said I was ‘broken’”) and oppressed by the world – and finding inspiration in the black widow spider, of all things – he started exploring his own powers. He was the young son of Victor Creel, and as a kid, he knew he had some kind of psionic powers – powers that scared his parents.įeeling like an outcast (“Something was wrong with me,” Peter says. You see, that whole Creel House murder mystery has ties directly to Peter.

This builds to a confrontation between Peter and Eleven in the playroom, in which Peter – who’s now taken on a different demeanor – calmly explains his backstory. He is also, he reveals, the very first of Dr. Peter Ballard (Jamie Campbell Bower), the orderly who’s been so kind to Eleven, tricks her into removing his tracking device (which also apparently served as something of a powers-inhibitor), and he’s the one who murders everyone at the lab. Meanwhile, as Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is still in the tank remembering her own traumatic event, we flashback to her time at Hawkins Lab during the bloody incident that has been teased all season. This here is the cliffhanger on which we leave this particular group… The Massacre at Hawkins Lab Vecna taunts Nancy, telling her she was close to the truth, and asking how “old, blind, dumb Victor” was when they visited the institutionalized Victor Creel. In the Upside Down, after crawling out of the pool, Nancy finds herself at the same discombobulated version of Creel House that Max happened upon earlier in the season. ‘Stranger Things’ Season 1 Recap: The Origin Story We cut back to Steve to see that Nancy hasn’t actually grabbed onto the rope, and her eyes are rolling back into her head just like all of Vecna’s other victims. Yes indeed, Nancy finds herself at the site of her own trauma (you know, the stuff Vecna feeds on), as dearly departed Barb (or at least her corpse) makes an appearance, taunting Nancy. But as Nancy makes her way up the rope, she comes out the other side and is suddenly transported to… her backyard swimming pool. One by one they exit, until only Nancy and Steve remain in the Upside Down. Once at the trailer park where Chrissy (Grace Van Dien) was killed, they discover there is indeed a gate, and the gang makes their way back to the real Hawkins. But you’ll notice as the Upside Down folks are biking their way through the alternate Hawkins, they notice those creepy bat creatures corralling around Creel House – foreshadowing things to come.

They’ve discovered that every place Vecna killed someone, he opened a gate to the Upside Down.
