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Hello everyone, and welcome to the most

complete breakdown of Stranger Things the first shadow stageplay.

For anyone that's been living under a rock,

the first shadow is currently running in New

York and London and is a Stranger Things prequel that tells the story of Vecna.

Not only does it show us how he got his powers as a child, and the first time humans

ever interacted with the upside down, but it also tells us how 11 got her powers.

In one of the more surprising things is, it humanizes Henry Creel.

He is very much the protagonist of this story

that they want you to root for, which is

interesting because he's the main villain of the actual show.

It intertwines very often with the live action

show, and we see what happens leading up

to the Creel murders and learn the real reason why he killed his family.

We see Joyce, Hopper, and Bob Newby as they are

seniors in high school and take an investigative

approach to all these mystery murders happening around Hawkins.

All three of them interact a lot with Henry,

all around Hawkins, and it's just a really

interesting story considering they're choosing

not to film it and put it on Netflix for all the fans to watch before season 5.

So this video is for all the fans that don't have the money to fly across the world

and pay for hotels and food and tickets to watch the show in person.

Of course, if you have the opportunity, I would

highly recommend watching the play on London.

Shockingly enough, the two plays are completely different.

They only started on Broadway earlier this year, whereas they've been putting shows on

in London since the end of 2023, and since

there was so much time in between, they changed a lot for the Broadway version.

While they did add important things to Vekna's

lore, tying it into season 5 better, they

also decided to shorten it, cutting so many lines from every

single scene, and some entire scenes are just completely cut.

Watching the Broadway version, unfortunately,

feels like the spark notes version of the actual original play.

They make huge plot changes, and some of the

characters have completely different attitudes in the American version.

So what I've done in this video is taking the best version of both.

I've included all of the important plot changes

from Broadway, and break down everything

from the current West End version in London.

I personally flew out and watched the seventh

early screening, a couple rows behind the

director, Stephen Doldery, and London before

their grand opening, so there's also exclusive

things that I saw in person that they cut from both versions.

So share this video with all of your Stranger Things friends.

I want to see you in all the rest of the

Stranger Things community in the comments this one last time before season 5.

This will be as condensed as I could possibly

make it, while hitting all of the important points and including some wholesome

interactions I thought you might appreciate.

But if you have any questions, please put them

in the comments and me or someone else who

has seen the play can try to clarify things.

Now the first scene of the play starts in 1943, 16 years before the rest of the play.

We learned about a project rainbow, which was a

secret military mission that used electromagnetic

energy to render an entire ship invisible.

This mission was a success, because for a

moment, the ship was transported to Dimension X.

A demogorgon appears and kills everybody on the

ship except for the captain who is Brenner's father.

The ship returned to the real world, and going to Dimension X changed the captain.

It changed his blood type.

He told Brenner what really happened before

he died, and then Brenner dedicates his entire

life to project rainbow and joins the team continuing research in Nevada.

They eventually uncover a Russian spy in the

project who escapes, taking with him, a container

full of mind flare particles that they extracted from Brenner's father.

Apparently, when he was in Dimension X, the

mind flare infected him, and he brought it back to the real world.

A couple days later, the Russian spy was found dead near a cave system.

Apparently, Henry Creole was near that cave system at the same time.

He found the container in the mind flare

particles when inside of him, changing him and

his blood type, leaving him with no memory of what happened.

Now we jump forward to October 1st, 1959.

Bob Nubie has a local radio show that he does,

Joyce's dating Lonnie and is running a secret

school play in hopes of getting a theater scholarship to leave Hawkins.

Hopper is established to have an awful relationship with his

father, and we see the Creole's moving into their new house.

We go into the Nubie household and are

introduced to Bob's father, Robert, who is the principal of the high school.

We also learn that he has a sister, a new character, Patty.

Their father obviously does not like her.

He marks her tardy for school because she

hasn't left home yet and gives her detention for reading a comic book.

Patty is not normal.

Henry is using his radio to listen to Patty's

prayer before school, and Henry says, "A

men."

And Patty hears it over the radio.

We also learn that Bob is trying to impress Joyce with his

radio show, along with kind of everything else he does.

At Hawkins High, it's picture day.

They use this to introduce Henry to all of

the high schoolers that turn into the adults we see on the show.

Mike's parents, Ted and Karen, Lucas's parents,

Sue and Charles, Dustin's parents, Walt

and Claudia, even Eddie's father, Alan Munson.

Walt introduces Henry to everybody and then

asks Henry about himself, saying that he heard

he broke a kid's arm at his last school in Nevada.

Henry gets upset in the lights flicker.

Walt keeps pressing him, and then the photographer's flash bulb explodes.

Patty walks in and defends Henry from Walt bullying him.

Walt bullies Patty for not knowing where she's

from and says they found her in a dumpster, making fun of the fact she was adopted.

Patty helps Henry open his locker and says

her mom is the famous singer, Ella Fitzgerald.

This is the artist that sings the dream song

from the Creole flashback scenes in season four.

Patty and Henry bond over reading the same

comic and have a wholesome moment before going off to class.

We cut to Joyce at play tryouts, announcing that instead of doing Oklahoma like always,

they will be secretly doing Dark of the Moon

in hopes of getting that theater scholarship to a college art program.

Joyce describes this play as being about a witch boy who falls in love with the human

woman and sacrifices his powers in a bargain

with the devil so he can be with her only to doom them both.

She says it's a story about the destructive

power of fear and asks the question can love defeat fear.

This is basically representative of the first

shadow story and the entirety of Stranger Things to some extent.

The themes of love saving you and being much

stronger than fear is constant throughout the entire show.

Patty ends up trying out for the lead female

role, no one wants to read with her and as

Walt starts bullying her again, Henry Creole comes in reading the other lines.

They finish the scene together, ending with an

awkward moment, but displaying obvious chemistry.

In Joyce casts both of them as the leads.

Later that night, we see the Creole House, Victor and Virginia notice Henry hanging

around Patty and talk about if he should actually be doing that.

They think it's too soon since the incident

in Nevada where he left a boy in a wheelchair.

In Broadway, they changed it to Henry blinded the boy instead of breaking his arm.

Henry was listening to their conversation

through his radio and he slips into the void.

They show this in the play by having these

giant red lasers drop down and rise up around the stage.

We hear a clock ticking in the background

and we see a white wisp zooming around Henry right before we hear a demogorgon grow.

On Broadway, they change it to him seeing Patty

and then opening his eyes and she disappears

and this is how he learns how the void works

as if this is his first time understanding

it.

The Henry listening to Walter, the kid that

bullied him at school earlier, while is looking

for Claudia's cat, which is Dustin's mother,

poor girl has lost so many cats over the

years, they find it in the liquor store that

Walt's family owns and notice that the cat is scared.

The lights flicker, then they leave the cat to go watch a scary movie.

Henry, in the void, walks over to the cat to say hi.

He picks it up, saying, "Good kitty, don't be scared," but

his voice becomes distorted and it sounds like Vecna's now.

The lights go crazy and the sound of static

gets louder and louder until Henry lifts the

cat into the air with his powers, breaks his bones, and pops out his eyes.

Then we see Henry slip out of the void.

He notices blood coming from his nose and he

thinks it was just a nightmare and then his

mother walks in and tells him, "Come on, they're leaving for church.

" It's almost 10 a.m.

As if after Henry made the kill, he passed

out and his mom woke him up nine hours later.

We see the Creole family show up to church and introduce themselves to Mr. Newby.

Claudia rushes in frantic, handing out flyers,

offering a hundred dollar reward for anyone

that can figure out what killed her cat last night.

This, of course, catches the eye of Hopper,

who has been meeting some cash to fix up his car.

Henry sees Claudia and is struggling with

himself, trying to figure out if his nightmare was real.

And he ends up bumping into Patty.

Her dad makes her listen to confessions, so she offers to listen to Henry's.

He tells her that he hears voices coming

out of his radio and that he has nightmares.

Ones that he might be able to make come true.

Patty asks if he can just make the nightmares happy dreams since they're his dreams.

And he has Patty close her eyes and tells her

to sing and tells her to imagine what she would want her dream to be.

He covers her eyes and is able to literally show her her own dream.

This turns into a musical number because Patty wanted to sing in dance.

On Broadway, they jump forward in the script

and she tells them that she wants to find

her mom and Henry shows her her mother singing at her show in Vegas.

The entire dream sequence ends with a song and when they come out of it, Patty tells

Henry, she'll do the school play if he does it with her and they both agree.

Patty leaves and Virginia comes around the

corner, furious at Henry for talking to another child without adult supervision.

She calls the rest of the family to come immediately and they leave the church.

Then we skip forward one week to Bob announcing

on his radio show that another pet was

found dead bringing the total to five dead animals in nine days.

People are starting to wonder what's going on.

Hopper walks into Bob's room and hasn't grabbed

his camera and follow him into the night.

Hopper goes and digs up Claudia's cat's

dead mangled body and has Bob take a picture of it.

It's here that they discover its eyes are gone and realize

it wasn't a link doing the killings like some people thought.

A person did this.

They also realized that all the pets that were killed belong to students who are in

the school play, which means it has to be a theatre kid who's doing this.

In the next day at Play rehearsals Hopper strolls in and starts questioning the cast.

Eventually he gets to Henry and starts asking

him questions that make him nervous and all the lights start flickering.

Hopper tells him he's a creepy guy and Henry

runs off to the bathroom obviously upset.

There he tries to calm himself down and the

lights flicker again and he sees a nightmare.

The mirrors crack in a smoky reflection appears of himself.

Patty walks in looking for him and since they

were doing trust exercises at rehearsal and

telling each other secrets she brings up Henry's secret.

The cat, the one that he killed and the lights start flickering.

She says that she knows about all the pets he's

been killing and she says there will be more.

That he's going to continue to hurt things and that he will kill.

That he's going to kill her.

Henry responds saying that he would never hurt her.

And Patty says we're going to kill a lot of things.

As if this is the mind flare speaking to him through this nightmare of Patty.

She starts pulling out her hair and the mind flare tells Henry we can have her.

She can be with us.

Henry and Patty literally start wrestling

back and forth until the lights go out in the nightmare stops.

Now, in Broadway, they made it much more intense.

After they fight and the lights go out, they

come back on to reveal Patty dead on the floor.

In a second later, she snaps her head to Henry and says feels good doesn't it?

In Henry with killing her, Henry tries to stop it by offering it more animals.

It says that they want the same thing.

And then says don't you want to know what Patty's like on the inside?

Let me in and I can show you.

We can peel her open together.

This is way more psychotic and playing into the sociopath vibes way more.

The West End had nothing this demented, but

after the nightmare ends, the real Patty walks into the bathroom.

Henry tries to talk to her but is interrupted

by Joyce calling them back to rehearsals to finish the final kiss scene.

In this scene in the play, Patty's character is supposed to die.

And Patty reading her lines says I'm scared of

dying, kiss me, which is a little foreshadowing to be honest.

Henry erupts still emotional from the nightmare

and tells her that if she stays with him, she will die.

You can hear his voice slowly distorting and

going in and out of sounding like Vekna's.

Patty tells him that for the first time in her

life, she's finally felt connected to someone

and that she's not going to go anywhere.

And Henry is really struggling and borderline

crying at this point, telling her that he's not normal.

And she says that's okay, why does that have to be wrong?

What if this curse you have is a blessing,

it's not a mistake but a miracle and she tells them that she's not scared.

Henry and Patty slowly come together and she tells him to kiss her.

They lean in and have a slow, wholesome,

romantic kiss and all of the lights explode.

All the while, Joyce thought they were improvising

the scene the entire time and is so ecstatic

with their insane chemistry that she says everyone needs to go celebrate at Melvald's diner.

In the diner, Henry and Patty are hanging out and Patty wonders if this is what it's

like to be normal, hanging out and having fun just like everybody else.

Henry responds by telling her how all these

people are actually feeling, nervous, depressed,

bored, scared and Patty asks him how he knows what they're feeling.

He tells her that he can hear them in his head all the time.

He tells her what she's thinking about her mother

and she asks if he thinks he could find her.

They agree to try to find Patty's mother and

Henry's attic one night and even if it doesn't

work it'll just be a date, which is kind of cute.

Patty tells Henry that he's a miracle and then

they lean in and share another kiss together.

John Melvald sees it and kicks them out for PDA.

Then we see Joyce and Bob talking together and

Hopper runs over and interrupts telling Bob

that Alan Monson's dog was killed last night along with Ted Wheeler's hedgehog.

For the first time, two kills in one night.

They fill Joyce in on how they've been tracking

the animal killer and then Bob realizes that the killings happen at the same time

that his radio show has been picking up large

amounts of static as if they're related.

Joyce considers going to the cops but decides

on joining Bob and Hopper to avoid having her play shut down in case they're related.

Then she asks Bob if he can make a homey

device to find the source of the interference and he agrees.

Later that night, Bob announces over the radio another two pets have been found dead

and we cut to the Creolatic followed by Vekna's clock chime.

Henry walks in and Virginia is waiting for him.

She's mad again and tells him not to see Patty anymore and slaps him in the face.

They eventually change the play to have

Henry tell her that she can't tell us what to do anymore and she asks who is us.

She threatens to call the police if he doesn't stop.

Henry laughs maniacally and presses her,

asking why she never called the police on her

father when he would lock her in a closet and all the spiders would come out.

This fills us in on where her spider trauma comes from.

He makes her sea spiders coming out of everywhere in the attic, coming for her.

On Broadway, Virginia tells Henry to stay away

from her and he says that he's already inside.

Can you feel it?

The fear?

Your fear? It changes us.

It feels so and then he trails off.

Henry tells her she's not going to call the

police now either because the fear has already taken root and she's too afraid.

Virginia tries to run out of the attic and

Henry uses his powers to slam the attic door.

He seems to become taken over by an entity and these tan colored vines come out of the

wall and grab him from behind as if this is

the mind flare, taking over or possessing him.

He yells at her and she runs away saying that she can't help him anymore.

She tells Victor and Alice to get their things that they're leaving.

A second later, Alice wanders in and says where's Henry?

Henry, normal now, responds and says he's right here.

And Alice replies saying that he's not Henry, you're not him.

And then Henry tells her to run and she scurries out of the attic.

Now we jump forward to the following night

and we see Bob, Joyce and Hopper together in

the woods with the homing device Bob built to track the interference.

Hopper puts the pack on his back and they

wander off into the night searching for static.

Now since the Creole family left, Henry has patty over.

They go inside and Henry tells her that no matter

what happens, try not to let it know you're afraid.

We hear Vekna's clock chimes and they head up to the attic.

Now we pause this and go to the town meeting.

Hopper's father, the police chief, puts the

town under curfew until they find out what's been doing all of these killings.

Victor stumbles in drunk and asks to speak with Mr.

Newby telling him Virginia and Alice

left this morning and that they're not coming back.

Victor tells Newby he thinks the killings

might be him with all the nightmares he's been having of the war flashbacks.

He tells Mr. Newby that Henry's a good kid and that he's been

doing well since he's been hanging out with his daughter.

Mr. Newby has no idea about this and is furious.

Victor says that they're hanging out at the house

now and they both leave and head to the Creole house.

In the attic, Henry blindfolds himself and asks Patty to hold his hand.

We see Hopper, Joyce, and Bob in the woods

as they start to pick up some static and try

to locate the direction it's coming from.

Henry's nose starts to bleed and Patty gets

concerned, but she hears a female voice singing

over the radio and recognizes the song as

one her mother used to sing to her as a kid.

Henry quickly senses someone else's presence

as both of their fathers enter the house.

They walk in and the lights start to flicker

and static comes over the radio, then they hear Patty scream from the attic and her

father immediately runs up to see what's wrong.

But Victor starts rambling and goes into a nightmare from the war.

Up in the attic, Patty asks Henry where her mother is and if he can see her, Henry is

in the void and finds her mother on stage singing.

But something goes wrong.

Patty's mother in the void addresses Henry directly and all the lights go red.

This very quickly turns into a nightmare, Henry tries to stop it, but he can't.

He tries to warn Patty to run as her mother reaches out and grabs onto Henry.

Meanwhile, Bob, Joyce, and Hopper are walking

through the woods as the machine seems to

overload or malfunction from all the static it's picking up.

They look up and realize they're at the source, the Creole house.

They hear a distorted version of Henry's nightmare coming

through Bob's machine and they decide to go into the house.

We go back to the attic and Patty screams

out in pain as Henry's accidentally crushing her hand.

Her father runs in and Henry yells at him to get Patty out of here to save her.

Mr. Newby walks over and tries to force Henry

to let go of her hand and in doing so swaps places with his daughter.

Henry yells out in a distorted voice that he can't have her.

She's ours, which is basically the mind flare talking through him.

Henry reaches out with his powers and freezes

Patty on one side of the attic and throws her father to the other side.

Henry levitates up into the air and all the light bulbs explode.

Hopper Joyce and Bob let themselves into the

house and stumble onto Victor Creole still in his nightmare from the war.

He mumbles that he killed something and Joyce assumes he's

talking about the animal killings in that they're too late.

He's already killed again.

They hear Patty yell from the attic and Bob recognizes her scream and runs upstairs.

Henry is now fully suspended in the air with

vines, connecting to him, but he's still in the real world.

Patty pleads with Henry to stop and tries to bring him out of this nightmare.

Her father is now trapped up in the air against the wall restrained by vines.

Henry flicks his hand and we hear Mr.

Newby's bones snap as he screams out in pain.

Patty tells Henry to make it a happy dream as

he throws her father off screen up into the ceiling.

For a moment, Henry goes to a happy place,

describing the night after they got kicked out of Melvald's diner.

It was starting to snow.

We see Patty sitting on a bench and he walks

over to her and puts his jacket around her to keep her warm.

He tells her that she's perfect, beautiful.

And then Henry wins his out in pain, obviously

struggling to fight off the mind flare.

Patty reminds him it's his dream and that anything is possible.

She says, "I love you.

" Henry responds, "Me too.

" And she responds, "No, you have to say it.

" And Henry says, "I love you too, Patty.

" We hear a loud noise interrupt them and Henry

falls to the ground as the vines go back into the ceiling.

Now, in the Broadway play, they change it, so Patty is the one wandering through all

of Henry's memories, seeing him get bullied by everyone.

And she stumbles onto the memory of the incident from his last school in Nevada.

She watches a boy come up to Henry, telling

him that he saw him murder his dog and pushes Henry to the ground.

Henry in defense throws out his hand, blinding

the boy, and then screaming in fear as if he didn't mean to do that.

He didn't mean to use his powers.

I much prefer the West Ends version of them

telling each other that they love one another

before collapsing, but this was the only

time it's ever mentioned what the incident in

Nevada was that made them leave, so that's why this is included.

Hopper Joyce and Bob run in to find Mr. Newby's lifeless body laying on the ground.

It seems like Henry or the Mind Flair actually sent him through the floor.

They're about to give him CPR when he wakes up screaming, "The boy, you've got to save

the boy," referring to saving Henry from the Mind Flair.

Now, back in the attic, Henry is on his knees,

trying to gather himself as Patty hysterical quickly runs out the door.

We see red lightning strike and then the scene ends.

They follow this with a montage that explains

that the principle Mr. Newby suffered from

a terrible fall in quotation marks and that he was blinded.

We see a doctor's report say that his eye trauma was not consistent with the reported

slip and fall, and a police report shows there's conflicting witness statements.

And then it shows us classified documents

from Project Rainbow, saying that a possible

subject has been found and an investigative unit will be deployed.

Here was possible exposure to exotic material

referring to Mind Flair particles and there is a possible contagion risk.

The newspapers then show mystery contractors

recommissioning a vacant power plant referring to them building Hawkins lab.

And then in the theater, hazmat suits with

electromagnetic field detectors wander through the crowd and walk onto the stage.

We see Virginia Creel sitting on Henry's

bedside and she tells him about a specialist

doctor that she's brought out from Nevada to help him get better.

A hazmat suit steps forward and removes his

head covering revealing himself to be doctor Brenner.

He says that he's here to help.

The lights flicker and the scene ends,

concluding the first half of the play as we hear the Stranger Things intro music.

Now after intermission, we open in Hawkins lab to

Brenner asking Henry questions about everything.

And he mentions Virginia told him that Henry went missing on his eighth birthday for

12 hours near a military base in Lincoln, Nevada with no memory of what happened.

Brenner goes on and starts to taunt Henry,

telling him that he's weak and he's not special,

intentionally trying to get a rise out of him.

Eventually he gets it and Henry reaches out in anger and uses his powers to explode

the rat in a cage that was in the room with them.

Brenner got what he wanted.

Then we cut to Hopper and Joyce catching up after the incident as they've been looking

into what actually happened and they just

find out that everyone is covering it up with no leads.

Disheartened by everything, Hopper randomly

asked Joyce if she wants to get out of there.

He tells her that he fixed up his car and

they can just get in and drive, go to Mexico.

Joyce asks him why he didn't leave sooner if his

car was fixed and he tells her that he stayed

in hopes of finding this killer to prove to his dad that he's not a screw up.

Joyce tells him that she's been waiting her

whole life to hear someone ask her to run away

from this place and she seriously considers it.

They exchange a little bit of soft banter,

thinking about running away together and they

get closer and they start to go in for our kiss.

But unfortunately, we're interrupted by the receptionist.

Joyce snaps back to reality and tells Hopper

this is bigger than both of them and they can't let Victor get away with this.

They storm into the police station to talk with Hopper's dad and Joyce shows him all

of her theories and supporting psychological

studies suggesting Victor is behind the killings.

Hopper's dad just yells at them and belittles

them, telling them they need evidence and a confession.

The police talk to Patty and she says her father

just fell through the floor, nothing more.

Hopper and his dad break out into an actual fistfight after some

name calling and they wrestle through the office destroying it.

Hopper and Joyce eventually leave determined to get a confession from Victor.

The next scene takes place in the hospital and

we see a nurse telling Patty that her father

is coming out of the ICU but he still hasn't woken up.

Patty is visibly shaken up and tells Bob that she's scared.

What if he comes back for me?

The lights flicker and when Bob asks who, Patty says I

can't tell you, he's listening and the lights flicker more.

Hopper and Joyce walk in looking for Bob, Patty goes into her father's room to sit

by a side as Hopper tells Bob of their plan

to take down Victor Creole and Bob joins them in hopes of protecting Patty.

He suggests kidnapping Victor Creole during

the play and Hopper can pretend to be his dad

and they'll record him giving a confession.

Bob goes into the room to try to convince Patty to do the play again and Patty thinks

he's just trying to get her to do it to impress

Joyce and she gets mad at him and they get into a fight.

The commotion wakes up their father who starts screaming.

Bob goes and runs for help and their dad

realizes Patty is there and he tells her he's sorry.

He's sorry for being so horrible to her.

Her entire life and how he thought adopting her would save his marriage but his wife

still left and because of that he punished Patty for her entire life.

He says that this shadow thing could smell his secret

rotting inside of him and that it attacked him.

At first it went inside of him.

He could feel it pulling hunting.

And now he can't stop seeing the shadow monster.

The lights flicker and Patty yells out, "Henry

no!" and her father says it wasn't the boy.

The boy stopped it.

It was killing me and if the boy hadn't fought it it would have won.

Patty processes what he just said that Henry

didn't do this as her father removes the bandages over his face and reveals his eyes

are gone, leaving behind bloody eye sockets.

He asks Patty for paper and shubs his fingers into his

eyes and scribbles in blood a picture of the mind flare.

This looks just like Will's drawings of it.

Alarms go off and nurses run in and he yells, "It wants more.

It wants everything.

You have to stop it.

" The boy can save all of us but he needs your help.

You have to find him before it's too late, before he lets it in.

It's coming to punish us.

I see it.

The streets burn.

It's everywhere.

Your dead.

Your mother's dead.

We're all dead.

I can't serve it.

Find the boy.

Save him.

He ends with Patty seeing the picture of the

mind flare he drew and then we change scenes.

In a room at Hawkins Lab, Brenner is taking a syringe full of Henry's blood and tells

him they're building a map of his brain and his body.

They've also learned already he has a completely

unique blood type, one that's never been seen before.

Brenner tells Henry the feeling the rush he feels

when he kills an animal is not psychological.

It's physical.

When Henry kills, he's actually absorbing the energy

from his victim and it directly makes him stronger.

Brenner tells Henry about his father how he worked

on Project Rainbow and that he was teleported to another dimension.

That changed him.

When he returned, his blood type was the same as Henry's, unique and different.

Brenner was only allowed to see his father

once before he died and he told him the truth

about what really happened to their ship.

That's when Brenner dedicated his entire life

to Project Rainbow and he joined the research team out in Nevada.

Brenner tells Henry that they had access to

special materials from beyond our world that were extracted from inside his father.

This is referring to the Mindflare particles that he infects his host with.

In ten months ago, a doctor working on the

project with him was revealed to be a Russian spy.

This doctor stole these special materials and tried to run away.

He didn't get very far and his remains were found two days later near a cave system.

When they found the box he took, it was empty.

There was no trace of the Mindflare particles,

but they did find another clue at the scene.

A hazmat suit walks in towards Henry holding a box and in it

is one of his toys from the comic books him in Patti Reed.

He lost it one day and never saw it again until now.

This means that Henry, as a child, was plain

near these caves and discovered the box.

He opened it most likely just being curious

and the Mindflare particles went inside of him and Brenner tells him it changed him.

Henry went missing that day for 12 hours.

They put a brain monitoring device on his

head and Brenner starts pressuring him, asking him what he found in the box.

This stresses Henry out to the point where he's

convulsing and starts foaming at the mouth.

It was enough to unlock this repressed memory

he has, just like Brenner does to L in season 4.

Through the monitoring device, images appear

on the wall of TVs behind him of what he saw

that day, and we can clearly see that Henry was transported to dimension X and we see

images of a demogorgon attack before all the screens explode in Henry collapses.

Brenner tells him that now he has something extra, just like his father had.

And now they can open a doorway back to that other place, a gate.

This ends the scene, but we need to talk

about the massive change they made to this and Broadway.

Take this with a big grain of salt, in my

head cannon, what we just talked about is what actually happens.

But since they updated the American version, this might be important.

So in New York, they actually bring out

Brenner's father in a wheelchair, still barely alive.

He looks just like Terry Ives, kind of non-functioning.

Brenner tells Henry the Mindflare particles consumed his

father's mind, and uses that to say he wants to help Henry.

But then out of nowhere, Brenner's father speaks

for the first time in years, saying to Henry

that they are friends, as if the Mindflare is still inside his father.

Henry tells Brenner that that isn't his father, meaning it's the Mindflare talking.

It tells him to let us in, and all of the lights flicker.

It tells Henry that in Hawkins he is nothing, but with us you're a god.

He extends his hand and Henry takes it.

All of the lights explode, and they put the brain monitor in

device on his head, and we see the visual of the Mindflare form.

Brenner leaves his father to admire it right

before the wall of TV's explode and break

apart, opening a literal portal to the upside down on the wall behind them.

It seemed like here is when the Mindflare goes inside Henry, from Brenner's father.

We can actually see through the portal

Demobats flying around, and a Demogorgon walks

up to the portal and shoves his arm through,

grabbing Brenner and throwing him to the ground.

A scientist runs over and rips the brain monitor

off Henry's head, and the portal immediately closes.

Brenner's father is dead, and he doesn't seem

to care, saying that he was weak, it doesn't matter.

Brenner tells Henry that he's the key, with him,

they can open a doorway back to that other place.

And whatever comes through, he can help him control.

Now I really don't know why they needed to make such a big change here.

We see the Mindflare tempting Henry to join him and be a god, and we see a portal open,

which is exciting, but it doesn't really

serve a purpose, other than changing the lore,

to now being the first time an actual gate

was opened between the two dimensions instead of when 11 opened it.

But it doesn't make sense why when 11 touched

the Demogorgon and opened the portal in

season 1 that it didn't close, if anything, it started coming into Hawkins more.

Whereas when Henry does it, it closes immediately.

In the play, it's almost just used as excitement

to fuel Brenner's motivation for research even more.

But he already was motivated, so I don't really think this is necessary.

Now moving on, we see Patty in a room talking out

loud, telling Henry that she knows he's watching her.

We see the lights flicker, and she tells

him that now she knows he's scared since her

father told her about the shadow, and she knows that she can help him.

She puts on a blindfold, and we see Henry bring her into the void.

She sees Henry's real body in the lab strapped

down to a table, and Henry in the void

walks in and greets her, saying that she's not safe here.

She tells her they're using him to try to make

contact right now since the last experiment,

the machines hooked up to him display the image that starts to form the mind flare.

Henry begins to tell Patty goodbye, and apologizes for everything.

But Patty says no, that the scientist can't help

him fight the battle inside of him, but she can.

Henry says that he's tired, he's tired of

hating himself, and tired of hating everything, and wonders if he belongs here.

Patty tells him that he's not bad, he's just fighting

something bad, and she knows he's saved her father from it.

Henry, in a distorted voice, says, "Maybe he

shouldn't have," as if he's been taken over by the mind flare.

Henry tells Patty that this thing shows him

fears and secrets, and he tells her that her

father fell in love with a student and had

a baby and declared her mother unfit to hide his secret.

He tells her she actually wasn't adopted.

This is a minor Broadway change, if you

remember earlier when her father wakes up from

his coma, he told her he adopted her to save his marriage and it failed.

Well, in the American version, they actually

change it to saying he fell in love with a high

schooler as the principal, and then kept the

baby and said she was adopted to cover it all up.

I kind of just prefer her being adopted as a last resort to save their marriage and it

failing, and then because of that, her whole life, he resents her.

Patty responds to Henry saying that she knows

what the shadow is, that it doesn't want or care about him.

It's just using him, and will continue to, until there's nothing left.

She says that all of this power is just a

drug to keep him distracted while it keeps him alive.

Meaning that the mind flare is just letting

Henry use its powers to justify being a host.

She says Henry knows this, and that's why he's scared.

He tells her that her father lied to her for

her entire life, and that he hates her, and that she's less than nothing.

This is all the mind flare just beating Patty down, and it works.

She collapses crying.

She tells Henry that she's lonely, and Henry says me too.

She tells him that she doesn't want to be

lonely anymore, and Henry says that she should just run away from him.

But she says where would she go?

She's the girl from nowhere.

She can't give up.

She tells Henry don't fight for yourself, fight for me.

She says that everyone has their monsters, but that doesn't mean they're bad.

And if her mom is still out there, she wants to find her.

Patty asks Henry to come with her, to leave all of this behind.

They'll fight the monsters together and find the good in this world.

In the background, the test has been getting crazier

up until now, and then the mind flare just disappears.

Patty tells Henry to look, it's gone.

We're on our own, and Henry replies, "It is gone.

Don't leave me.

" Patty tells him that there's a train they can catch tomorrow that goes into the city.

They'll tell Joyce that they're going to do

the play, and during the chaos they'll leave before anyone notices.

They'll run away together.

Henry tells her that he's scared, and not to let him go.

She says, "I won't," and then she disappears.

Henry says that he's going to find her, and then Brenner wakes him up, telling him that

they weren't able to make a connection, but now he knows how to fix it.

He unveils a man, with a bag over his head in the other room, and explains it's an

inmate that has the death penalty and will get the electric chair next week.

Brenner tells Henry that the only limit to his powers is access

to more fuel, and to test this theory they need more energy.

Brenner wants Henry to kill a person, to become powerful enough to open a portal.

Henry refuses, and tells Brenner he's done with the program, and that he's leaving.

Brenner becomes really upset and starts

digging, discovering that there's a girl in his

life and starts taunting Henry again, telling him he'll never live a normal life.

He tells him he can't outrun the darkness, he is the shadow, and that eventually he'll

come crawling back to him because he wants to kill.

The mind games work on Henry, and the light start to flicker.

Blood starts to run from the inmate's eyes from inside the bag.

Henry is really struggling, as Brenner continues to belittle him.

Henry breaks, and throws out his hand, lifting

Brenner up into the air, and sends him through

this ceiling as all of the lights go red.

The inmate has been killed, and has fallen to

the ground, guards rush in, and Henry kills

them immediately, and then runs away escaping.

Now, it's the night of the play, and we see

Patty getting into costume, waiting for Henry,

but he doesn't show up, and the play starts.

Joyce Hopper and Bob get Ted to bring the

person who is in Victor's seat in the crowd, back into the changing rooms.

Hopper throws a bag over his head, and

handcuffs him to the chair, interrogating him,

attending to be his father, but he realizes Ted

grabbed Lonnie instead of Victor, and he runs out of the changing room.

Now, we hear Vecna's clock time, and we see the

red lasers indicating Henry is going into the void.

He listens to Alice, asking their mother why Henry's come home.

And originally, Virginia says that he's home

to have his last supper, as if he's going away forever.

She tells Alice that she wants to have a nice family dinner,

and then they'll all go see the school play together.

And then we see Virginia talking to Brenner, and she's trembling, she's scared.

Brenner tells her Henry escaped about an hour

ago and asks Virginia about the girl he's going to see.

She hesitates and then makes Brenner promise

that when they catch Henry, they'll lock him up and throw away the key.

That's insane.

When she tells him Patty's name, Henry in the void listening becomes furious.

The scene transforms and goes into the dinner scene that we see from the show.

We see Henry interact with this white wisp, this

smoke in the void, and then start to struggle.

Red clouds appear, and originally, in the

background, the mind flare forms in the shadows.

But on Broadway, they created a practical

30-foot mind flare that appears above him, which is so cool.

We hear the dream song come over the radio, and then we hear screams from Alice.

And we hear Virginia's bones crack.

A flash of red lightning reveals her in the air crumpled.

The white smoke comes down and goes inside of the

Henry, and then the red lasers take us out of the void.

Back at the play, we see Bob tell Joyce Hopper's

gone, and that their plan must have worked.

He must have taken Victor to the cops.

But the final scene of the play is starting, and the power goes out.

Joyce has to go down to the electrical room to fix the power,

and Henry appears from the shadows, asking where Patty is.

Joyce tells him he doesn't need to worry

anymore, and that she knows everything, talking about his father being the killer.

But of course, Henry thinks she's figured out he's the killer.

The light start to flicker, and Henry gets

ready to kill Joyce right before she says that

his father will be brought to justice, and Henry stops confused.

He goes on this rant about how he used to just hear voices, but now he sees them.

And now he can see everything.

We hear Vekna's clockshimes and the scene ends.

And then we see Hopper and his father have arrived at the Creelhouse to the murders.

Hopper's clearly upset, and yells at his dad for not listening to him.

They tried to tell him about Victor, and then he runs out.

We see Henry watching from the void as an officer takes away Victor and handcuffs.

A man in a black suit walks in and tells

Brenner who is now on the scene that they lost Henry.

He was unconscious on a gurney, and the next second he was gone.

Brenner rushes off calling all units to the school, knowing Henry's going after Patty.

And Henry comes out of the void and goes back

to talking to Joyce, telling her that she

needs to learn to do whatever it takes to protect what you love.

The lights flicker, and he asks about Patty.

She tells them that she's on the catwalk above

the stage getting ready for the final scene, and Henry rushes off.

We see Patty up on the catwalk in an outfit of white

wings, with Sue clipping her into wires to be lowered down.

Sue leaves and Henry rushes up to her, and

immediately tries to get her unhooked, telling

her she needs to leave immediately, trying

to send her off to the train station without

him, and tells her the address that her mother works at.

He says that he needs to make sure that they don't follow them.

But Brenner appears with the worst timing ever,

and starts talking to Patty trying to turn her against Henry.

Brenner tells her that he's a weapon that belongs to the United States government.

Patty defends Henry, saying that she's seen

him fight the shadow in win, and Brenner says

that he's a killer, and that Henry doesn't need her.

The lights explode, and Henry is very obviously

struggling a lot, and Patty tries to get

through to him, telling him not to listen to Brenner.

But then Brenner tells her that he killed his family.

She refuses to believe it at first, but then Henry says it's true.

He tells her that spending time with her made him want to get better, but he can't.

She shoves him away from her, and he falls

to his knees, and we hear a demogorgon grow.

Brenner says it's here, that the connection is about to start.

We see red clouds on the stage form into the mind flare.

Henry struggles to tell Patty the stardest casino is

where she can find her mom, and then screams out in pain.

Brenner tells him not to fight it, and Patty

interrupts him, telling him to listen to her voice.

Stay right here.

Brenner tells him she's the only thing holding him back, to take her.

Do it.

Patty is crying at this point, pleading with Henry, trying to get him to fight back.

We hear orchestral music rise up in the lights

flash, and we see Henry form the connection with the mind flare.

It seems like Henry then reaches out with his powers and pushes Patty away.

In slow motion, the catwalk breaks, and we

see Patty fall backwards off the rafter down onto the stage below.

All the lights go out except for one spotlight

on Patty's now lifeless body, and Bob slowly

walks over to her crying in the scene ends.

Next we see a montage of newspaper saying that Patty is in critical condition, we see

the newspapers covering the creole murders, and

then one saying that the principal's daughter goes missing, that Patty ran away.

And then we see local research study seeks

pregnant volunteers, which is Brenner looking

for mothers for MK ultra testing, which includes 11's mother Terry Ives.

And then we see a final newspaper from December 1960 saying Hawkins moves on.

A full year has passed since everyone's

graduated high school, and we hear Bob's voice

come over the radio wishing everyone a merry

Christmas, and now we see Hopper in a police

uniform walking to Melvalds to pick up some food to go.

He looks up with a warm smile on his face as he listens to Bob on the radio.

Joyce walks over who is now working two jobs, one here and one it ends those.

He's still dating Lonnie, and her and Hopper

reconnect as if they haven't seen each other since they graduated.

And when Hopper gets up to leave, Joyce

shyly tells him that she gets off at midnight

if he wants to stick around and get a drink together.

And it seems like he really wants to, but he tells her

that tomorrow morning he ships off to basic training.

He's going to try to make something of himself.

And Joyce tells him that he is something he always has been, and she says that at least

they'll always have Mexico, which is really sweet.

But for stops, and it seems like they're about to go in for a kiss.

But Joyce pulls back and they tell each other merry Christmas and Hopper walks out.

Over the radio, we hear Bob dedicate one last

song to a special someone wherever she is.

And then he plays a song for Patty, one that her mother sings.

And this transitions to the stage of a theater,

and we see Patty using a cane to slowly make her way to the back after a show.

Some showgirls are walking out, and one of them stops and tells her she isn't supposed

to be back here, but she does a double take

and slowly realizes that this is her daughter.

The two run to each other and embrace in a

very long awaited hug, and we see the lights flicker.

Patty looks up and says, "Henry, her mother

takes her hand and they walk off stage together.

" Now, we see some projected footage, specifically

a blueprint of Hawkins lab that shows

Henry's picture at the top and reveals 10 other test subjects

below him, each with their own line that connects to Henry.

We open in the lab where Brenner has Henry

strapped down to a chair with a gag in his mouth.

Brenner tells Henry that they've had 10 test

subjects successfully survive the blood transfusion

so far, and all of them are special, meaning

they manage to transfer Henry's powers to each of these children through his blood.

Brenner tells him the Department of Defense

wants him to dispose of Henry and to get rid

of him, but instead he would like him to

help him raise the children, to help him get

them to their full potential, referring to them as his brothers and sisters.

They've unstopped him at this point and taken the gag off and Henry agrees.

He gets up and we see a small girl playing with a toy on the ground in front of him.

It's 11.

He kneels down and introduces himself and tells her that he's here to help.

He takes her hand and walks away and then

out of nowhere for a split second, a massive

light flashes showing the 30-foot shadow of Vekna

holding young 11's hand in the play just ends.

This is such a roller coaster of a show and

confirms so many huge theories, answering massive

plot questions tied directly into the show.

From why Brenner started MK Ultra to the first

time humans ever interacted with the upside

down to where Henry got his powers from and completely spends the

narrative showing his human side as we watch him fall in love.

We also get to see his internal struggles for

the first time as he tries to fight the mind flare.

This was the first time that we really get

to see the mind flare is truly the one behind all of this and it's just using Henry.

I wouldn't be surprised if we end up seeing Patty make an appearance in season five.

It would be so crazy to see the kids try to contact what's left of Henry Creel inside

Vekna and try to save him from the mind flare.

It would be insane to see Henry turn good at

the last second and sacrifice himself protecting

the kids from the mind flare just like Billy did in season three.

I also really like that just like Will, Henry

also was able to act somewhat normal with

the mind flare inside of him until it needed

him to use him and then we heard his voice turn into Vekna's.

Because Will talks about this in season three

when Billy is the host, that the mind flare

is dormant inside of you until it needs to use you and then you're activated.

It's so cool to see the mind flare speaking through the nightmares and the people he infects.

This play is truly amazing.

If you're ever in London and it's still running

it's 100% worth it please go watch it in person.

I think I teared up multiple times watching it.

The one in New York is better than nothing but

trust me when I say it's completely different.

It feels so rushed with them cutting out.

There are so many amazing parts from the original

show and changing some of the main characters to be insufferable and annoying.

The effects are awesome but the ones in the West End are really good too.

I hope you enjoyed this very thorough breakdown

of every important story element as well

as some of the more wholesome emotional beats.

Please send this to all your Stranger Things

friends so they can join in on our conversation

and tell me in the comments what you thought of all these massive reveals.

Thank you so much for watching this video.

I will see you in the next one.