The Flea and the Acrobat

Stranger Things 1×5

Eleven: Upside down.

Mike Wheeler: But what if he was there? What if we just couldn't see him? What if he was on the other side?

Dustin Henderson: "The Vale of Shadows is a dimension that is a dark reflection or echo of our world. It is a place of decay and death. A plane out of phase. A place of monsters. It is right next to you, and you don't even see it."

Joyce Byers: If he's so wise, why does he need fireballs? Why can't he just, you know, outsmart the bad guys?
Will Byers: Most of the time, yeah, totally. But... sometimes the bad guys are smart, too. You know?
Joyce Byers: Yeah. So he needs the fireballs?
Will Byers: Well, yeah, to burn them to a crisp.

Nancy Wheeler: Are you serious?
Jonathan Byers: What? You want to find this thing and take another photo? Yell at it?

Mr. Clarke: Science is neat. But I'm afraid it's not very forgiving.

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Dustin Henderson: Well, that's not true north.
Mike Wheeler: What do you mean?
Dustin Henderson: I mean exactly what I just said. That's not true north... Are you both seriously this dense? The sun rises in the east, and it sets in the west. Right? Which means that's true north.
Mike Wheeler: So what you're saying is the compasses are broken.
Dustin Henderson: Do you even understand how a compass works? Do you see a battery pack on this?
Mike Wheeler: No.
Dustin Henderson: No, you don't. Because it doesn't need one. The needle's naturally drawn to the Earth's magnetic North Pole.

Lucas Sinclair: How much further?
Dustin Henderson: I don't know. These only tell direction, not distance. You really need to learn more about compasses.

Jonathan Byers: I don't like most people. He's in the vast majority.

Nancy Wheeler: I was thinking, "Jonathan Byers, maybe he's not the pretentious creep everyone says he is." Well, I was just starting to think you were okay.
Jonathan Byers: Oh. I was thinking, "Nancy Wheeler, she's not just another suburban girl who thinks she's rebelling by doing exactly what every other suburban girl does... until that phase passes and they marry some boring one-time jock who now works sales, and they live out a perfectly boring little life at the end of a cul-de-sac. Exactly like their parents, who they thought were so depressing, but now, hey, they get it."

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