Natalia Dyer credited as playing...
Nancy Wheeler
- Nancy Wheeler: [Nancy at home, is upset and is talking to her mother Karen in the kitchen about investigating a story and getting fired from her job with The Hawkins Post] Maybe Jonathan's right? To be honest, I wasn't thinking about him. I wasn't thinking about anyone, really. I just... I wanted to be right. I wanted to be right so badly.
- Karen Wheeler: And were you?
- Nancy Wheeler: I thought so. But maybe I just... don't want to admit that I'm wrong, because if I'm wrong, then...
- Karen Wheeler: [Karen interjects] You're what everyone thinks you are.
- Nancy Wheeler: Just a kid who has no idea what she's doing.
- [They both nod in understanding]
- Karen Wheeler: It's not easy out there, Nance.
- Nancy Wheeler: I know.
- [Looking down and shaking her head in sad acceptance, for a moment]
- Karen Wheeler: People are always saying you can't. That you shouldn't. That you're not... smart enough, not good enough. This world, it... It beats you up again and again until eventually, I... Most people, they just... they just stop trying.
- [Karen lifts herself up onto the kitchen top beside Nancy, and continues]
- Karen Wheeler: But you're not like that. You're a fighter. You always have been. I honestly don't know where you get it from.
- Nancy Wheeler: Dad.
- [They both look at each other and laugh]
- Karen Wheeler: I think you were swapped in the hospital, to tell you the truth.
- Nancy Wheeler: No.
- [Shaking her head]
- Nancy Wheeler: I get it from you, Mom. I get it from you.
- Karen Wheeler: Well, wherever you get it from, I'm proud of you.
- Nancy Wheeler: Proud of me for getting fired?
- Karen Wheeler: That you stood up for yourself. That you stood up to those... shitheads.
- Nancy Wheeler: Mom!
- Karen Wheeler: Yes, those shitheads. And if you believe in this story. Look at me, Nancy. ... Finish it. Then go sell it to the Indianapolis Star or whatever and... I mean can you imagine their faces when they read a story about their own town in a big paper like that?
- Nancy Wheeler: That would be... pretty amazing.
- Karen Wheeler: So, why not? Why not?
- Nancy Wheeler: Finnish it.