Stranger Things (TV Series)
Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer (2017)
Gaten Matarazzo: Dustin Henderson
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Dustin Henderson : The Hive Mind. A collective consciousness. It's a super-organism.
Mike Wheeler : And this is the thing that controls everything. It's the brain.
Dustin Henderson : Like the Mind Flayer.
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Nancy Wheeler : Okay, so this... Mind Flamer thing...
Dustin Henderson : Flayer. Mind Flayer.
Nancy Wheeler : ...what does it want?
Dustin Henderson : To conquer us, basically. It believes it's the master race.
Steve Harrington : Like the, like the Germans.
Dustin Henderson : Uh, the Nazis?
Steve Harrington : Yeah, yeah, the Nazis.
Dustin Henderson : Uh, if the Nazis were from another dimension, totally. It views other races, like us, as inferior to itself.
Mike Wheeler : It wants to spread and taker over other dimensions.
Lucas Sinclair : We are talking about the destruction of our world as we know it!
Steve Harrington : [sarcastic] That's great! That's great, that's really great.
Nancy Wheeler : Okay, so if this thing is like a brain that's controlling everything, then if we kill it...
Mike Wheeler : We kill everything it controls.
Dustin Henderson : We win.
Lucas Sinclair : Theoretically.
Jim Hopper : [looking in the D&D manual] Alright great, so how do you kill this thing, do you shoot it with fireballs or something?
Dustin Henderson : No, no, no fireballs. Uh, you summon an undead army because, uh, zombies, you know, they don't have brains, and the Mind Flayer, it likes brains...
[awkward pause]
Dustin Henderson : It's just a game. It's a game.