Stranger Things
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With the arrival ofStranger Things 2 , the Duffer Brothers have revealed more details about Eleven ’s origin . time of year 1 seemed to hint that the unseasoned telepath could be either the daughter of Jim Hopper or Terry Ives , and the novel time of year before long give it clear that the latter is true .
Terry was a player in one of the CIA ’s Project MKUltra experimentation during college , which in the TV series were run byDr . Brennerout of his lab in Hawkins . Terry did n’t know she was pregnant when they made her take psychedelic drug and kept her in sensory - deprived confinement , and when she gave giving birth , Brenner was there to abduct the baby away and implement a cover - up that declared the shaver dead in a third - trimester stillbirth .
With no nascency certificate or evidence , Terry faced a tough battle to get masses to believe the child , which she had refer Jane , was snatched away and failed in her attempt to action Brenner . In Season 1 , we learn through Hopper ’s investigating that she had tried to sue and that she ’s now in a semi - comatose nation due to the latent effects of the drug she was administer during Project MKUltra . We now have sex that was not the case .
Eleven tracks down Terry after pick up files about her in the cabinHopperis hiding her in . Frustrated that she ’s pass nearly a year in labor , El lead off to retrieve Terry having connect with her using astral jutting . She arrives at Terry ’s sign of the zodiac and introduces herself to Becky as Jane before once again using her powers to pass on with her " Mama " .
The Truth About Terry Ives and Her Daughter
It ’s at this point we learn the Sojourner Truth about Terry ’s catatonic state and why she reprise the same phrasal idiom over and over again . contrive memories into Eleven ’s psyche , Terry unwrap that after several years of trying to get back her girl , she finally break into the Hawkins Laboratory with a grease-gun . After charge a guard , Terry belt along around the facility before find a way with a rainbow picture on the exterior . Inside , she find her girl as well as another honest-to-god child playing together but is captured by guards before she is capable to get out with Jane . Brenner and his team then do a lobotomy on Terry - the genuine cause for her catatonic state .
The verification of Terry as Eleven ’s mother is n’t the only thing we find out from this interaction as we also see her " sister". The young Indian girl Jane is playing with in Terry ’s remembering was precede produce up in the cold open air of Season 2 . The 8th child to be involved in Brenner ’s experiments , Kali is a few eld older than Eleven and has slenderly different telepathic abilities ; she ’s able-bodied to make people see or not see whatever she wants .
El believes that Terry want her to find Kali and she does so in Chapter 7 : The Lost Sister . Their reunification is shortlived , although the introduction of another telepath and tyke of Brenner ’s experiments could lead to more of them appearing in future serial ; if El is 011 and Kali 008 , that means there are potentially nine other fry of varying years with powers at large . Of course , just because Eleven and Kali escape it does n’t mean that the children were quite so rosy . Brenner may have already successfully prepare up his other " children" and have them on missionary work for the CIA . Whatever the case , number 1 - 7 and 9 - 10 would sure enough be an obvious addition to future season .
What About Eleven’s Father?
Sadly though , we are no closer to learning who Eleven ’s father is . Obviously Brenner manipulated her into seeing him as a forefather - number - that ’s why she continues to call him " Papa " - but we ’re still clueless as to who her biologic male parent really is . If Terry acknowledge who he was she would surely have relayed that information to El ; however , when she fell pregnant it was under orphic circumstances and during her time being experiment on .
That forget several possibilities as to who Eleven ’s begetter is . It could be Brenner - he certainly seems like the egotistical sort of a guy who would want to be the father to a superhuman race of telepaths and has already positioned himself as a founding father to his run subject area . However , he ’s clearly not the biological father of Kali so that complicates things . Given the other experiments , it ’s possible that Terry was impregnate via artificial insemination but was too hopped up on psychedelics to recognize ; patently , Brenner and his team had no honourable misgiving about what they were doing to them or their issue . We have n’t pick up much about hands choose part in his experiment , but peradventure they used one of their male tryout subject to instill distaff captives in order of magnitude to see what a fry would turn out like with parents who were both test on .
Interestingly , Kali was kidnapped in London , which could mean that her female parent escaped the deftness and left the land so as to hide her daughter out . That said , it ’s possible there was another facility out there , make thing more complicated .
For now , thanks to a fake birth certificate made by Dr. Owens , Eleven ’s " real " Father of the Church is Hopper . But the Duffer Brothers will sure as shooting be exploring her origins and crime syndicate draw even further infuture seasons ofStranger Things .
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