The Mind Flayer

Stranger Things 2×8

Jim Hopper: How do I do that?
Bob Newby: You can't. Not unless you know BASIC.
Jim Hopper: I don't know what that means.
Bob Newby: It's a computer programming language.
Jim Hopper: Teach it to me.
Bob Newby: Shall I teach you French while I'm at it, Jim? How about a little German? How about you, Doc? You speak BASIC?

Jim Hopper: All right, you know how to use one of these?
Bob Newby: No.
Jim Hopper: Safety on. Safety off. Point. Squeeze.
Bob Newby: Point and squeeze. Okay. Easy-peasy.

Dustin Henderson: We can't stop those Demo-dogs on our own.
Max Mayfield: Demo-dogs?
Dustin Henderson: Demogorgon dogs. Demo-dogs. It's like a compound. It's like a play on words...

Mike Wheeler: Yeah. Like what Mr. Clarke taught us. The hive mind.
Steve Harrington: Hive mind?
Dustin Henderson: 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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Dustin Henderson: The mind flayer.
Jim Hopper: What the hell is that?
Dustin Henderson: It's a monster from an unknown dimension. It's so ancient that it doesn't even know its true home. Okay, it enslaves races of other dimensions by taking over their brains using its highly-developed psionic powers.
Jim Hopper: Oh, my God, none of this is real. This is a kids' game.
Dustin Henderson: No, it's a manual. And it's not for kids. And unless you know something that we don't, this is the best metaphor...
Lucas Sinclair: Analogy.
Dustin Henderson: Analogy? That's what you're worried about?! Fine! An analogy for understanding whatever the hell this is.

Nancy Wheeler: What does it want?
Dustin Henderson: To conquer us, basically. It believes it's the master race.
Steve Harrington: Like the... Germans?
Dustin Henderson: Uh, the Nazis?
Steve Harrington: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Nazis.
Dustin Henderson: Uh... If the Nazis were from another dimension, totally. Uh, it views other races, like us, as inferior to itself. It wants to spread, take over other dimensions.
Lucas Sinclair: We are talking about the destruction of our world as we know it.

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: Great. So how do you kill this thing? Shoot it with Fireballs or something?
Dustin Henderson: No. No, no Fire... No Fireballs. Uh, you summon an undead army, uh, because... because zombies, you know, they don't have brains, and the mind flayer, it... it... It likes brains. It's just a game. It's a game.

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