"Nothing's smaller than Hawkins, Indiana," he says, giving a rough laugh. "So it'd still be a step up from there in terms of excitement."

And Darrow has its share of crime. In his time here, Hopper has figured out just how many people there are here who take care of crime in ways that aren't exactly legal. If he's honest, he doesn't much care. He doesn't have much respect for men and women who go out of their way to hurt others, which he realizes is pretty rich coming from an alcoholic, but either way, he's not about the report superheroes or spies for doing what they do. There's still enough crime to leave him as a cop with a busy job.

"I was Chief there and I spent a lot of my days in my office drinking coffee," he admits.