Our favorite psychokinetic, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), might be confronting her childhood tormenter and “Papa,” Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine), in the fourth season of Stranger Things, based on a brief one-minute teaser that was just released. We knew it was coming, since an initial teaser appeared yesterday, featuring a simple piano score and a wall of TV screens, cutting between static and brief images. The YouTube description simply read, “Due to technical difficulties, Hawkins National Laboratory will be closed until further notice. We will be back in service tomorrow at 9:00AM ET.”
(Some spoilers for prior seasons below.)
Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer (collectively the Duffer Brothers) already hinted that S4 would open up the storytelling to include plot lines outside of Hawkins, with the Russians and their captive Demogorgon playing a major role. A mid-credits scene following the S3 finale showed two Russian guards approach a prison door. “Not the American,” one guard says. Instead, the guards drag off a Russian prisoner and lock him in a room with a captive Demogorgon, which proceeds to devour the screaming prisoner.