Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episodes 1-3 of Stranger Things Season 5 .

Following a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, Stranger Things is at long last back for its fifth and final season . And just two episodes in, a surprise throwback to the show's very first installment seems to be positioning a hitherto minor character for a pivotal closing storyline.

In the wake of the second episode of Season 5 opening with a demogorgon busting into Hawkins from the Upside Down to kidnap Holly Wheeler (played by Nell Fisher, who took over the role from twin sisters Anniston and Tinsley Price) after brutally maiming both Karen (Kara Buono) and Ted Wheeler (Joe Chrest), the younger sister of Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Nancy (Natalia Dyer) was revealed to be the key to the events

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