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This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5, episode 4. If you’re looking for our recap of the episode, you can find it here .

Stranger Things dropped quite the twist on fans when it debuted the first batch of the final season over the holidays. Over five seasons of the Netflix series, Will Byers ( Noah Schnapp ) sensed Vecna’s ( Jamie Campbell Bower ) presence and seized when monsters appeared in Hawkins. In episode 4, the teen finally found the strength to tap into the Upside Down and unleash his dormant psychic powers.

Will’s awakening occurs in episode 4 , as our heroes fight multiple demogorgons in the Military Access Control Zone (a.k.a. the MAC-Z). Vecna arrives and tells Will that originally chose him because he was the weakest child among

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