The Hunt For Red October + Stranger Things
Okay, so I own both a paperback of the Tom Clancy novel and the DVD. Reading the text on the back of both is already giving me clues about S3:
The tagline on the back of the book is this:
The Russians want her back.
And the most incredible chase in
This implies Russia does have something to do with Eleven and maybe she's being chased?
This is the plot from the back of the 2003 Paramount DVD:
"The Hunt for Red October seethes with high-tech excitement and sweats with tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands.
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, The Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. The hunt is on!"
Hmm... This may give some ideas on what's up with Brenner and Eleven this season. Brenner is possibly Ramius, Eleven the submarine and Dr. Owens is the analyst?
Edit: the submarine could also theoretically be the mall. Just look at Scoops Ahoy...