
Hopper’s investigation leads him back to Joyce’s house on the beach. Plot Points One and Two Combine for Build Up The diner’s owner Benny feeds her and calls child protective services. She arrives at a diner and is caught attempting to steal raw fish. MidpointĪ bloodied young girl in hospital scrubs is running through a forest. Hopper interviews Will’s friends at school and tells them to go directly home after school. Joyce implores Hopper’s help in finding her son. Will’s family and friends grow concerned over his disappearance. Steve comes on to Nancy then invites her out to the beach that night. Mike’s sister Nancy finds a note in her locker from Steve which says to meet her in the bathroom. Police Chief Hopper prepares to go to work, rising from a graveyard of empty beer cans and cigarette butts. She tells her other son Jonathan to make sure Will is awake to go to school on time, but then they both realize that he never came home the night before. Will’s mother Joyce is preparing to go to work at her second job. On the bike ride home, Will is captured by the monster that escaped from Camp Hero. Inciting IncidentĪ group of 12 year old boys: Will, Mike, Lucas and Dustin, are playing Dungeons and Dragons when Mike’s mother Karen says it’s time to wrap things up. Flash forward to 1980 and something paranormal is going on there. In 1942, a mysterious research facility named Camp Hero was built in Montauk, New York. Story Breakdown Script Structure of Stranger Things Exposition
