- [while looking for music to save Nancy from Vecna]
- Erica Sinclair: Steve says you need to hurry!
- Dustin Henderson: Yeah, no shit!
- Max Mayfield: We're trying, we can't find anything!
- Robin Buckley: [frantically searching through a pile of cassette tapes] Seriously, what is all this shit?
- Eddie Munson: I mean, what are you even looking for?
- Robin Buckley: Madonna, Blondie, Bowie, Beatles? Music! We need music!
- Eddie Munson: [grabs an Iron Maiden tape out of her hand] *this* is music!
- Will Byers: See how you're leading us here? You're guiding the whole party, inspiring us. That- that's what you do. And see your coat of arms here? It's a heart. And I know it's sort of on the nose, but- but that's what holds this whole party together. Heart. Because, I mean, without heart, we'd all fall apart. Even El. Especially El. These past few months, she's been so lost without you. It's just, she's so different from other people, and... when you're... when you're different, sometimes... you feel like a mistake. But you make her feel like she's not a mistake at all. Like she's better for being different. And that gives her the courage to fight on. If she was mean to you or she seemed like she was pushing you away, it's just because she's scared of losing you, just like you're scared of losing her. An- and if she was going to lose you, I- I think she'd rather just get it over with quick. Like- like ripping off a Band-Aid. So yeah. El needs you, Mike. And she always will.
- Mike Wheeler: Yeah?
- Will Byers: Yeah.
- Will Byers: [Will cries silently]
- Jim Hopper: Guess you got my message, huh?
- Joyce Byers: Oh, no, I just have always wanted to visit the Soviet Union. With Murray.
- Jim Hopper: You two getting along?
- Joyce Byers: He's the Starsky to my Hutch.
- Eddie Munson: Never change, Dustin Henderson. Promise me?
- Dustin Henderson: I wasn't planning on it.
- Eddie Munson: Good. Good. Good.
- Erica Sinclair: If we're trying to avoid angry hicks, maybe we shouldn't go to some store called the War Zone.
- Dr. Martin Brenner: Imagine, if you will, the barrier between our worlds is a... concrete dam. Henry is putting cracks in this dam. Cracks in dams create pressure. Left unchecked, the pressure will build. And build. And eventually, it will reach a breaking point. And the dam will burst. And when that happens, Hawkins will fall.
- Dr. Sam Owens: [sarcastically] Well, that went very well, I thought. You eased her into it, nice and gentle, just like we talked about. Not ominous at all.
- Robin Buckley: We've learned something new about Vecna/Henry/One. He's a number like Eleven, only a sick, evil, male, child-murdering version of her with really bad skin.
- Eddie Munson: Well, when the other dads were teaching their kids how to fish or play ball, my old man was teaching me how to hot-wire.
- Dustin Henderson: [as the group steals an RV from its owners] Shit, they look pissed.
- Robin Buckley: It's not every day you lose your house and car in one fell swoop.
- Dmitri Antonov: [about the KGB] Say the wrong thing and they will be on us like flies on shit. Welcome to the Soviet Union.