what episode do they find will
In Stranger Things , the group finally finds and physically rescues Will Byers in Season 1, Episode 8, titled “Chapter Eight: The Upside Down.”
Quick answer
- They actually locate where Will is and see him in the Upside Down in the Season 1 finale, Episode 8.
- Joyce and Hopper reach him there and pull him out while he is in critical condition, with a tendril down his throat.
A bit more detail
- Will first vanishes in Episode 1, “The Vanishing of Will Byers,” when the Demogorgon takes him to the Upside Down.
- Through most of the season, everyone thinks he is missing or dead; a fake body is even “found” in Episode 4, “The Body.”
- Only in Episode 8 do Joyce and Hopper cross fully into the Upside Down, discover Will alive but unconscious, and bring him back to the real world.
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