"Tensions run high as the boys prepare for their movie, from figuring out which characters survive, to finding the perfect shade of red for their fake blood, and Will trying to make a comedic spin on the project. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." --

After tracking down Subject Eight, Marcy and Ricky learn of her unwilling role in keeping Subject Nine pacified, as well as secrets to their own painful histories that brought them to Hawkins.

Marcy and Ricky rush to the facility where Nine is being kept, but when they arrive, they find it engulfed in flames; they head into the forest to find Nine and have a fiery encounter.