"Hell," he says with a laugh. "Almost makes me hope I get assigned to homicide. Except then I might be investigation a string of goblin murders."

They had killed people. Hopper knows he and Beverly had been lucky, able to wait it all out in their apartment and he knows not everyone had been able to do the same. People had died and there was nothing he could do about it.

At this point he's just glad Steve wasn't here when it all happened.