"Well, for that you'd have to have my phone number," Hopper says and he realizes it sounds like sort of a come on in the same moment he decides it is. Since moving back to Hawkins from New York, he's gone on a few dates, though most of them have ended up being nothing more than a single date, a single night spent together in some cases, and he knows that's partly due to the fact that he'd still been hung up on Diane.

Ever since Eleven barrelled into his life, he hadn't thought much about his ex-wife. She had moved on, remarried, had another child and for so long he had been so angry with her, resented that she was able to just forget Sara in a way he never could, but he's not angry anymore. He's not caught up in thinking about her anymore. And Lucy is pretty, she's smart, she understands what he's been through in a way few other people do. Maybe it's crazy, but he doesn't think so.

"Which I can give you," he adds a second later. "And you can use if maybe you think you'd like to have dinner with me sometime?"