The batch of "Stranger Things" episodes that dropped on December 25 mark one big lead-up to the finale. Before you go into the final episode, here's where everyone is at the end of Season 5 Vol. 2. Major spoilers ahead!

After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season, creators Matt and Ross Duffer offered answers aplenty, while also setting up the potentially tragic stakes of the series finale.

As Stranger Things approaches its finale, character relationships deepen amid rising tensions. The Hawkins crew confronts Vecna's apocalyptic plan, culminating in a tense battle.

On Christmas Day, Netflix dropped three new episodes in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, and with them came long-awaited answers fans have been waiting for.

Note: This story contains spoilers from "Stranger Things" Season 5, Volume 2. "Stranger Things" marches toward its finale with the second batch of episodes for the fifth and final season. While "Stranger Things 5" Volume 2 certainly has its fans,

"I hope by the time people get to the end that it feels like there’s something inevitable about what happens," Matt Duffer tells The Hollywood Reporter in a conversation with brother Ross Duffer about the second part of the final season and how it sets up their endgame.

By the end of Volume 2, the group finally settles on a plan: Vecna has to keep pulling the worlds together, because that is the only way to reach the Abyss. When the Squawk radio tower breaks through a rift, it creates a path upward, which will give Eleven the proximity she needs to reach him.

Netflix has finally dropped Stranger Things Season 5 Part 2 (Episodes 5-7), leaving only the final entry in the Duffer Brothers' sci-fi saga, scheduled to release on New Year's Eve.