Stranger Things: Who Is The American?
3. Mayor Larry Kline
While the whole fiasco in season three is easy to blame on Billy for trying to get some married trim, Mayor Kline (nice to see you again Cary Elwes) can easily share just as much of the blame for allowing the Russians to operate in his town’s new mall in the first place.
As a result of his role in everything, he was seen getting ragdolled by bigger and stronger men such as Hopper throughout the season. After the news comes out in the "Cutting Edge" segment of the “ strange things” that happened in Hawkins, we see Mayor Kline being taken away in handcuffs.
The thing is, Stranger Things has taught us to expect strange things. It wasn't the run-of-the-mill Hawkins police that arrested Kline, it was what appeared to be a government organization. It's easy to say it was the FBI, but the logos on their jackets were hard to decipher. Could it have been disguised Russians leading him away to their own imprisonment facility in Kamchatka to be fed to the returning Demogorgan? It definitely isn’t something to rule out.
The other thing to consider is that thanks to Dr. Owens, the "Cutting Edge" segment revealed the whole fiasco was essentially swept under the rug as just a building fire instead of inter-dimensional genocide. Conspiracy theories and government cover-ups are nothing new to this show, and speaking of the "Cutting Edge" segment, it also showed that a certain someone (as the government/media wants citizens to believe) died in this fire...