Joyce attempts to tell Hopper her theory, but a body of a young boy who looks exactly like Will is pulled out of the local quarry. Hopper calls off the case, but Joyce insists that it's not her son ("My boy! My boy!"). Luckily, Hopper gets suspicious and checks out the body himself. After stabbing Will's corpse with surgical tools in the morgue, stuffing comes pouring out. It's merely a highly realistic fake. Will is still alive, somewhere, and now Hopper is fully committed to finding him.
He sneaks back into the lab and finds the gooey entrance to the Upside Down in the basement. Guards arrive and knock him out, and he wakes up in his trailer, which he promptly tears apart looking for a bug (there is one, of course). Although the cops find Barb's car at a train station, he realizes a giant conspiracy has taken over Hawkins and promises Joyce they'll get to the bottom of it.
