Overview
- Hawkins remains under federal quarantine as authorities intensify Upside Down operations and deploy countermeasures tied to psychic abilities.
- A mysterious ‘imaginary friend’ linked to the antagonist lures a child into danger, culminating in a violent home attack that leaves a parent hospitalized.
- Within the villain’s psychic realm, two trapped minds connect and begin mounting an internal resistance.
- A returning subject from the long-closed lab program is shown to be imprisoned and weaponized by the military for an anti-psychic initiative.
- Volume 1 ends with a turning-point development that puts a core character at the center of the conflict, with Volume 2 arriving December 25 and the finale on December 31.