Stranger Things Spinoff Will Answer What's Inside the Briefcase and Other 'Loose Threads' From the Season 5 Finale, Duffer Brothers Promise

If you’re each caught up connected Stranger Things, you’ll beryllium alert of a crippled thread near dangling successful the Season 5 finale that has to bash with a briefcase. It turns retired this volition beryllium addressed successful a live-action Stranger Things spinoff — though there’s nary connection when.

Warning! Spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5 Episode 8, The Rightside Up, follow:

In the Season 5 finale, we spot Henry Creel / Vecna yet look his top fear: the traumatic representation of the time helium was infected by the Mind Flayer and gained his powers. In this country acceptable wrong Henry’s mind, we yet find retired what was wrong the briefcase that kid Henry opens aft bludgeoning its erstwhile owner, an unnamed scientist, to death. Inside is simply a mysterious rock, which glows with an chartless vigor earlier fusing with Henry. This, we understand, is however Henry became 1 with the Mind Flayer, and sets successful question each the events of Stranger Things that followed.

The Stranger Things spinoff volition explicate the mysterious stone Henry finds wrong the briefcase. Image credit: Netflix.

But what was this stone exactly, and however did it travel to beryllium successful our satellite successful the archetypal place? An nonfiction connected Netflix confirms the stone contains Mind Flayer particles, which past person Henry. “Come find me,” the Mind Flayer beckons. And the dying idiosyncratic warns: “It volition devour you.”

In a consequent interrogation with Variety, Stranger Things co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer teased that the planned spinoff volition explicate each — and reply different crippled threads near dangling.

“The spinoff is going to delve into that and explicate that, and you’re going to recognize it,” Matt Duffer said of the briefcase rock. “But it’s a wholly antithetic mythology. So it’s not a heavy exploration of the Mind Flayer oregon thing similar that. It’s precise caller and precise new, but yes, it volition reply immoderate of the escaped threads that are remaining.”

The briefcase country is explained successful vague presumption by Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the canon play that acts arsenic a prequel to the events of the Netflix show. We've tally done the crippled of the play already, but successful summary, it confirms that Henry and the idiosyncratic are transported to what was past known arsenic Dimension X. When Henry returns, helium is overmuch changed, and Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) yet uses him arsenic portion of his experiments successful Hawkins National Laboratory.

But adjacent earlier then, the play tells america of a 1943 United States experimentation to crook submarines invisible during World War 2. As portion of this, they question to Dimension X. Perhaps that's wherever the mysterious stone primitively came from, and however it ended up successful our satellite successful the archetypal place.

Either way, we volition get an reply to the briefcase stone successful the spinoff show, though we’re precise airy connected the details. The Duffer brothers are moving connected it arsenic we speak, and described it arsenic a “clean slate.”

“Completely caller characters, caller town, caller world, caller mythology,” Matt Duffer said, adding: “No communal characters.”

If the spinoff is going to explicate the briefcase rock, it seems apt it volition successful portion beryllium acceptable successful the 1950s. But different than that, it’s anyone’s guess. Netflix really has 2 announced Stranger Things spinoffs successful development, the archetypal of which is Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, a caller animated bid owed retired astatine immoderate constituent this year. This is acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness betwixt Seasons 2 and 3, and follows the archetypal characters arsenic they “fight caller monsters and unravel a paranormal enigma terrorizing their town.” The 2nd spinoff, which the Duffer brothers are referring to above, is an unnamed live-action series.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Stranger Things, including the Duffer brothers explaining the ambiguity of Eleven’s ending.

Image credit: Netflix.

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