Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat
- Episode aired Jul 15, 2016
- TV-14
- 52m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
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Hopper breaks into the lab to find the truth about Will's death. The boys try to locate the "gate" that will take them to Will.Hopper breaks into the lab to find the truth about Will's death. The boys try to locate the "gate" that will take them to Will.Hopper breaks into the lab to find the truth about Will's death. The boys try to locate the "gate" that will take them to Will.
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John Reynolds
- Officer Callahan
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Let's Try the Other Side
Numerous things take place here. The Sheriff invades the facility where the experimenting is going on, but finds himself back at his trailer. He now knows that Will's body was a fake. It is a dummy, filled with cotton. Of course, the coroner was one of "their" guys. The boys explain the dark vale that is the parallel universe. They take El and start to look for a magnetic center. Will's father shows up for the funeral and we realize that he is after insurance money for the death of his son. After the funeral, Nancy and Jonathan go off on their own, looking for the faceless man. They make some startling discoveries. The boys get in a fight and El uses her power to separate them, but one of them is hurt. During all this, El is having flashbacks of how she was being used.
The Upside Down
Hopper breaks into the Hawkins laboratory and finds the gate; however he is attacked and wakes up home. He searches his home and finds a bug hidden in a light. Jonathan teams up with Nancy to investigate Barb´s disappearance and blows up his photo. They find the monster and decide to search the creature. Lonnie comes to Joyce´s home apparently for Will´s funeral but she finds he wants to sue the quarry to make money and she expels him. Mike, Dustin and Lucas ask Mr. Clake how to cross dimensions and decide to seek out the gate and Will following their compasses. However El interferes with the compasses. When they discover, El flees. Nancy finds a gate and crosses alone.
"Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat" shows three groups investigating the same event: the boys, Hopper and Jonathan and Nancy. Joyce learns that she is not crazy about Will. El is scared with the possibility of returning to the lab. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat"
"Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat" shows three groups investigating the same event: the boys, Hopper and Jonathan and Nancy. Joyce learns that she is not crazy about Will. El is scared with the possibility of returning to the lab. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat"
Theoretically Awesome
This episode is really necessary to watch if you wants to understand what is going on in this series.
It is just Extraordinarily Strange and interesting.
Interesting.. I wonder how it's gonna end.
And again, entertaining episode, interesting story. everything are great! but Loser's logic is kinda weird.
Five down, three to go.
Having found the corpse of Will Byers to be a fake, cop Jim Hopper (David Harbour) decides to break into Hawkins Institute, where he discovers an inter-dimensional portal in their lab. Will's nerdy pals also resume their search for their missing friend after hearing his voice over the radio.
Netflix's supernatural series continues to entertain, with a little more exposition about the other-worldly realm into which Will has been cast, a few laughs at the expense of the 'mouth-breather' who has been bullying Mike and his pals, and some effective chills as Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) enter the woods in search of answers. With only three more episodes left, it'll be interesting to see how satisfyingly all of the plot threads are wrapped up. I hope they do it justice
Netflix's supernatural series continues to entertain, with a little more exposition about the other-worldly realm into which Will has been cast, a few laughs at the expense of the 'mouth-breather' who has been bullying Mike and his pals, and some effective chills as Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) enter the woods in search of answers. With only three more episodes left, it'll be interesting to see how satisfyingly all of the plot threads are wrapped up. I hope they do it justice
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the boys and El (Millie Bobby Brown) are walking to try and find the gate, they walk along railroad tracks in pairs, in a scene very reminiscent of scenes from Stand by Me (1986). "Stand By Me" was based on "The Body" by Stephen King. King is a major influence on this series.
- GoofsThe agents attached the Hawkins lab had previously shown themselves to be utterly ruthless in eliminating all evidence of and witnesses to their run-amok experiments. But when Hopper beats info out of a conspiring state police officer, discovers Will's body is a fake, breaks into the lab, and even finds the gate to the Upside Down, they're content to just drug him and drop him off back at his house.
- Quotes
Lucas Sinclair: [while following the compasses along the train tracks] How much further?
Dustin Henderson: I don't know. These only tell direction, not distance. You really need to learn more about compasses!
Lucas Sinclair: I'm just saying: how do we know when we get to the gate?
Dustin Henderson: Uh, I think a portal to another dimension is gonna be pretty obvious!
- ConnectionsReferences Bambi (1942)
- SoundtracksGreen Desert
Written by Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke
Performed by Tangerine Dream
Courtesy of Jive Records
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- Rockdale County Junkyard, Highway 138, Conyers, Georgia(Boys With Eleven, at the Junkyard looking for The Gate)
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