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While she’s explaining her attempted escape from Dr. Kay’s (Linda Hamilton) lab Stranger Things season 5, episode 5, “Shock Jock,” Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) reveals that she came across a lab full of pregnant women in the Upside Down. The fate of these women wasn’t directly revealed in Stranger Things season 5, leading some to wonder whether the heroes destroying the Upside Down also sacrificed these innocent lives. A recent article by The Wrap, however, sees the Duffer brothers reveal this wasn’t the case, as “those pregnant women died because [Eight’s] blood did not work.”
“Either way, Eleven’s choice is, I think, courageous and selfless, because even though she’s having to leave her friends behind, she’s protecting any other child from experiencing what she experienced. Just look at what Kay was trying to do with all those pregnant women. All those pregnant women died because that blood did not work. But if that were to work, then you’ve got dozens of children who are going to grow up just like her and that are going to be turned into weapons and abused.”
Why Were There Pregnant Women in the Upside Down in Stranger Things Season 5?
Kali explains in “Shock Jock” that Dr. Kay and her team abducted her and brought her to the Upside Down in order to run experiments with her blood. Kay hoped to infuse pregnant women with Eight’s blood in order to make a new generation of psychic children, replicating the very same experiments run by Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) prior to Stranger Things season 1. Eight’s blood was not suitable for this purpose, however, so all these pregnant women became sick and died long before the Upside Down was destroyed.
