"That's... that's something to think about," Hopper agrees, surprised by the suggestion. It's not something he would have come up with one his own, instead too focused on the idea of going back to what he used to be, which he's not. Maybe he can't. Maybe being a small town cop was what he was in Hawkins, but in Darrow it's got to be something different.

In Darrow, for one, he's without. Without Eleven, without Joyce, without the freedom to do whatever the hell he wanted when it came to police work.

"You're probably right," he adds. "Too much time to think ends in too many beers in my case."