Stranger Things Season 4 Plot Holes
5 "Stranger Things" Season 4 Plot Holes That Are Turning Our Heads Upside Down
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In order to save her friends (and the world) from the monsters of the Upside Down, Dr. Owens (Paul Reiser) tells El that her powers could be restored if she agrees to participate in more experiments in another underground lab in an undisclosed location in the Nevada desert. In this lab, Dr. Brenner, aka Papa (Matthew Modine), is revealed to be alive. He convinces El that the only way to bring back her powers is to relive the memories she lost from the Hawkins lab when she was young.
As El is witnessing her memories through old surveillance-camera footage and pre-virtual-reality probing technology, she has visions of what really happened in the Hawkins lab all those years ago. But time would've moved differently when El was under the experiments, and we only ever see what the scientists choose to play back from the camera footage they have. At one point, Brenner tells Owens to fast-forward to the last day, aka the massacre at Hawkins Lab, so it's not clear how much time El spent living and training with the other numbers before their unfortunate end.