This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season,

The scene is one of several tear-jerkers in the second volume of episodes, released on Christmas Day. In addition to a whirlwind of emotional sequences, the back half of the season is finally beginning to provide some answers about the Upside Down and the evils that Hawkins has been facing this whole time.

Stranger Things has been hinting at this reveal throughout Season 5. Look no further than its references to A Wrinkle in Time, which features wormhole-like tesseracts. Or how about Mr. Clarke fully teaching a class on Einstein-Rosen Bridges, aka wormholes?

Eleven’s final choice in The Bridge suggests she may sacrifice herself for Operation Beanstalk. Here’s what Kali’s pitch means for the finale.

Nearly a decade after the hit sci-fi horror series debuted, cast members including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Maya Hawke gathered in New York City.

The play reveals that the cave system was where Henry first ventured to Dimension X — now dubbed "The Abyss" in Stranger Things. That's the alternate dimension where the Mind Flayer and Demogorgons are from, as opposed to the Upside Down, which Volume 2 reveals is a bridge connecting the Abyss to our world.

It sets the stage for a massive showing on both Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve as Netflix rolls out the final episodes of the series. While Nielsen reports are a month delayed, Netflix will report the totals for Season 5’s remaining episodes in the coming weeks, as it did for the first four episodes .

Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer just confirmed the runtimes for the final episodes of the Netflix hit series. With just four episodes left in the highly anticipated new season, Duffer confirmed on social media that the all of the episodes have a runtime north of an hour, with the series finale clocking in at a whopping two hours.