#owensgate

You can see this clearly if you compare the way the chair is seen and Jonathan’s posture.

Then, this shot is followed by (what would you think) the surveillance camera shot 🙂‍↕️ where everything goes even wilder right away:

as much as I could dismiss Jonathan’s hands (the right one is on the left one, while in the shot before the left one was above) or Nancy’s bag (and its shoulder strap) changing position, we still have Jonathan’s posture on the left where he sits with his back against his backrest, while in the mirror it’s different again, but also!!!!

NANCY IS TRANSPARENT!

It looks like her image was put above Jonathan’s. There’s literally no explanation for this table to be seen at the same time we see Nancy. And besides, her image clearly differs from the whole shot. Meanwhile, the shot with Jonathan looks like he is alone there silently looking right into the camera.

My first theory was that Nancy is non-existent in this sequence whatsoever and this is only Jon’s memory, but some dialogues after made me reconsider this. Anyways, then Owens suggest a walk, and Jonathan again doesn’t match his reflection: staying right in front of the chair on this side, he stands very far in the mirror, and also close to the end of the table (although he moves synchronically).

They start walking, and here I caught The Truman Show vibes, when several people were turning around (as if they were curious actors), and The Shutter Island vibes bc, even though Owens addresses them both a couple of times, it still can be seen as if he was talking to only one of them for whom this spectacle is played. (+ Fight Club)

(fyi, George Sargon died on March 22nd, 1956)

Here I had a theory that Jonathan lost his mind after Will’s death, and Owens plays along to his fantasy that he investigates something with Nancy Wheeler, and everyone knows what’s happening and that’s why they turn around.

But is the corridor walk Jonathan’s memory?

The wording “your brother and Ms. Holland”… Whose brother? Did anything happened to Mike? Why does it sound like he speaks to just one person? And this person is Nancy… Imagine, that she’s alone: he speaks of Mike, or Barbara, then:

“You guys been together long?” “We (we)re not together.” “Wanna see what really killed your friend?”

It could be about Jonathan and Will, but then Barb stands out and I barely see Jonathan and Barb as a possibility… but who knows atp. My bet is Bancy though, with the hunch that here we witness two separate tapes and memories combined. Firstly, Jonathan’s, then Nancy’s. Corrupted memories by Brenner’s tapes?

Enjoy!

I’ll finish the post with this:

Consider the possibility that Jonathan in the mirror is Jonathan on the tape, the hands actually match… the fact that tape!Jon’s and real!John’s hands do not match can be just a production error (moreover, on the tape we can see a mirror too in the “correct” place, not mirrored, so I might be wrong), but the idea of the mirrored reality seems curious.

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leading to another ‘episode’ in the distance when Will is at home bc they injected something in his arm? (the hand hints to injecting, the nurse doesn’t hold the syringe as if she was taking his blood for analysis)

so that after Will had a cozy evening with his family we end up in the surreal distant visual manipulation translated into his mind?

it probably wasn’t done on purpose this time bc if the Lab wanted to manipulate Will’s mind in distance before, they could’ve done it a million times (could his episodes be caused by it?); however, the scientist is shocked that the machine goes crazy, and that is shown right after the call to the Byers, and right before Will’s vision when he’s alone again and in the UD.