Better for her? Okay, that doesn't seem likely given she used almost all of the alcohol for firebombs and people don't really enjoy that? But hey, to each their own, and her methods were apparently effective.

"Yeah. My friend Billy, he got killed by the 'Mindflayer' thing. He told me. I helped kill one of them for him," he says with a shrug, like it means nothing. "I should probably check in on his stubborn ass after this. You save a guy from a demomonster whatever and of course he still got hurt."

Tommy sounds frustrated, concerned, worried. Like he genuinely cares about Billy. Which of course Tommy does.

"Oh cool, you know a telekinetic. We know a lot of those back home. Pretty common thing. Me, I go fast. Outrun sound fast. And make things explode of course."

Help save this place so people can get back to Hawkins. Tommy tries not to wince. He knows a number of those Hawkins people don't get to go home.