All language subtitles for Stranger Things 5.01

I think what's unique
about this season

is that it starts a little bit in chaos.

-Sound at speed.
-Marker A.

The stakes feel
so high from the get-go.

Everything just feels bigger.

The apocalypse sort of is looming

and we're fighting
against this ticking clock.

Vecna, his plan is
more dangerous than ever.

They're not experiencing normal life,
nothing in Hawkins is normal.

Not only are they active

and not only do they
have a drive immediately,

this search for Vecna,

their everyday
normal lives are anything but.

When we were talking
about what scene

did we want to open the season,

very early on the idea was,
"Well, it's gotta be Will."

Because we knew Will was gonna be

really the heart of the season.

It was gonna come full circle

because he was the kid
that was taken in season one.

-And roll, please.
-Rolling!

-Speed.
-And action!

At the end of season four,
people would ask me,

"What do you hope
for season five?"

And I said,
"I feel like Henry and Will

have a lot of unfinished business."

And when we
come back to this season,

we see why.

At long last,

we can begin.

Vecna's been with Will all this time.

We didn't know Vecna
in season one.

We didn't know really what was
going on, why he was there.

So we get to see young Will

in season one

being confronted
for the first time with Vecna.

We are going to do such
beautiful things together, William.

-All right, cut.
-Cutting.

That seemed really good.

Stranger Things 5
is a callback to earlier seasons

in that it is firmly Hawkins-based.

You could say
that this season is about

fighting for the soul
and the survival of Hawkins itself.

At the Wheeler house,
the Byers have moved in,

so we've got a lot of house guests,

which brings us back to sort of
the notion and the elements

of season one,

which was coming back
to the heart of the story

of the OGs
and what we all started with.

It was so beautiful
to be with everybody

and I think everyone just felt
extremely close to each other,

as you would after
ten years of working together.

I'm so sorry I can't help clean up,
I'm running late.

It's okay, Joyce, really. I understand.

Good morning, Hawkins.
This is WSQK The Squawk.

It's an exciting day for me,

your friend, entertainer,
and DJ, Robin Buckley,

nice to meet you,
AKA Rockin' Robin.

The great thing about Robin
is that she's always got a job.

You are 0 for…

Every season has placed her
in a new environment.

She has this absolutely nifty name
of Rockin' Robin,

and she is kind of MCing
the local radio station.

She was sort of looking
for a way out of Hawkins,

now she's looking
for a way to save it,

which is a big trajectory shift.

The Squawk this season was...

I think I'm safe in saying
that it was our favorite set.

I feel like everyone was like,
"Oh yeah, this is Stranger Things."

We based this on an actual radio
station that the Duffers liked a lot

that was in North Carolina
where they're from.

You can see this photo here

is a photo of the real radio station

they kinda had in their minds
when they were writing this.

And so we just put
our call letters on it.

So this goes down to the basement
of The Squawk radio station.

You went down this far

and then they would cut
to the basement on stage as well,

and it would pick them up
coming from down the stairs,

so it was split into two pieces.

So Nancy and Jonathan
are back in the same space

but there's some
distance between them.

I think there's some things
that need to be said

that haven't been said.

Emotionally, he's dealing with

where he is
with his relationship with Nancy.

Is there a problem?

There's always been the rivalry
with Jonathan and Steve,

and, you know, it's very
present at the start of the season.

I think this might be
a better job for Jonathan Byers.

The transmitter in the radio tower
goes down

and, you know, Steve sees
an opportunity to match up to him.

I got this, dude. Don't sweat it.

Son of a…

And yeah, they just
got this great scene

where they're both trying
to climb the tower,

which was super fun to film.

It's actually really hard, you know.

I think me and Joe were also kind of
trying to push each other like

how fast can we do this?

Ready and action!

It was a really fun day,

especially just like
the physical part of it is really fun.

I think there's a lot of comedy
sort of baked into it.

It was cut up into
three or four different pieces.

There was the base,
which was out on location.

And then we built a couple
different pieces here on stage.

-I fixed it!
-I fixed it!

I haven't had scenes with Joe
since like the first season,

so to go back and get to
work with Joe is such a treat.

I'm flying, Jack!

Jack, I'm flying!

Eleven pretty much
in the beginning of the season,

it's always lighthearted.

Season one, introduce her.

Season two she's watching soaps
in Hopper's cabin.

Season three,
she's making out with Mike.

Hey!

Hey!

This season is
we're going right into it,

and Eleven is just kind of
right into training mode

to become a warrior.

I feel like she knows she needs to
fight for her friends and her family.

Emotionally, she doesn't
know who she is.

Will she ever become who she is?

Should she, like, morally?

Does she really deserve it?

You have to take it easy on yourself.

You think Henry is going easy?

And then, legitimately,

she is always fighting Vecna
and the Upside Down.

Ready and action!

This is like
our Eleven obstacle course.

I'm in a full body harness,

and I'm going on
a balancing beam right now,

starting from the ground,
going up to the car,

having to stop myself
at the end of the car

because the directors want it fast,
but I can't also fall off the car,

so it's a very exciting
happy medium I'm trying to get.

That felt good!

Vecna has gone missing.

They don't know if he's dead or alive
but they're searching for him.

They're actively infiltrating
the Upside Down

and methodically moving through it.

Lucas, we'll take
our usual observation post.

This is the whole plot
that we've been planning for months

to defeat Vecna
so that we can end everything.

I wanna see
Vecna's heart on a platter.

Just wish I could do it myself.

-For Eddie.
-For Eddie.

On three, "Kill Vecna."

-One, two, three...
-Kill Vecna!

-Great. Cut!
-Tarzan!

-Wait up!
-Come on! We've gotta go!

We wanted to recapture
some of the spirit of season one.

And our way into that,
we felt, was to elevate Holly,

Mike's sister, into a major character.

Hi.

Oh, yeah, Ms. Harris…

She's been an important character

who's kind of touched the surface

of this weird, supernatural world.

She saw the Demogorgon
through the wall in season one.

In season three, she noticed
that the trees were moving.

The trees are moving.

And so she has been part of it,
but not really in the middle,

and that's what happens
in season five.

She's kind of thrown
right into the thick of things.

Holly's had sort of a rough day,

and Mike basically tells her
that she should start playing D&D.

Know who I turn to
when I get scared?

Mike The Brave.

That's the way that Mike got through
school, was being able to fantasize.

And also having the experience
of doing these crazy adventures,

and deep down knowing that you're
a part of this real-life campaign.

The confidence from that is,
I'm sure,

the way Mike got through school.

So he's sort of passing
that on to Holly.

She'll keep you safe. I promise.

Are you just going to stand there,
Sergeant Ramirez,

or did you
have something to report?

We weren't quite sure who Kay was.

We knew we wanted her
very different from Brenner.

Brenner, for all his flaws,

was someone
who's interested in science

and understanding and exploring.

But we wanted someone who wasn't
interested in that aspect of it

and was interested in
the military capabilities

of someone, what Eleven could do.

Don't worry. Doesn't bite.

It does, on occasion, strangle.

We don't really know
what her real itinerary,

or if there is
a hidden itinerary there.

I need the girl.

Very much her mission
is to find Eleven

because Eleven has special powers

and she knows
that Eleven holds the key.

The idea always was to find
an actor who is iconic,

an actor who is someone
we grew up with

and a legend in our eyes.

And Linda Hamilton
falls into that category.

It was overwhelming.

When they called I was like,
"No. I'm a fan of that show."

"I can't be in that show."

So it was a stunning turn of events.

And I was thrilled.
Absolutely thrilled.

Gets me every time!
Every time he takes a breath.

This is Cobb,
playing Jake the Snake.

As you can see, he's a snake.

What's been like
a great pleasure and honor,

the most fun thing in the world

has been able to have a lot of my
material center around comic relief

and lightening up the situations
and having fun.

It was a bit jarring initially

of taking a back seat
in that department

and kind of having to explore
a rougher side of him.

-Of course, Eddie's like…
-Eddie!

Stings pretty hard,

but I think there's
an accumulation of trauma,

accumulation of loss
over the course of the last few years

that's all starting to build up
in each of them,

and kinda bubble to the surface
for the first time

where his defense mechanisms
kinda seem to crumble a little bit.

I think the scene in the cemetery
at the end of the first episode

is kinda a key pivotal moment.

Because it comes out of nowhere
and also he brings it on himself.

We always worked
in harnesses and stuff,

but I've never had
prior rehearsals and stunt training.

B on the mark.

They shot
the whole fight on handheld

and learned our choreography,
learned it with us.

We learned the day before,
we choreographed the whole thing.

And I got to see a bit
of a rough cut after we shot it.

Oh, that punch looked so sick!

That punch looked so sick!

It's one of those like, "Pinch me."

"This is kinda sick.
My job is really cool."

-My man!
-Looked really sick.

So good, dude.

Right off the bat in episode one,
Will falls into a trance,

has that Demovision,
and now you see

he is connected to Vecna

in a way
that we haven't seen before.

Will! Come back!

Will, come on!

Will! Wake up!

What did you see?

The Demogorgon.
It's coming for them.

For who? Who's them?

You never know
what's going to happen, honestly.

Anybody can get it.

Anybody can get it. It's real.