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Disclaimer: This video contains major spoilers for "IT: Welcome to Derry" Episode 3. It is a recap and review for educational and entertainment purposes under fair use. All clips and imagery are property of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Pennywise is back, and this time, we're seeing the creature's true power from the start. In this video, we break down "IT: Welcome to Derry" Episode 3, where we get our first real, terrifying look at the ancient evil haunting Derry. This isn't just a cameo; this is a full reveal of the shape-shifting entity that will become Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

We're diving into the chilling 1930s flashback, the military's psychic investigation led by Dick Hallorann, and the new group of kids who just performed a dangerous séance in the graveyard. What does the ghostly photo mean? And how does the creature's attack on young Francis Shaw connect to its future reign of terror?
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Transcript
00:00We open on a carnival in the 1930s, where a boy goes inside the freak show house and sees a hall
00:06of mirrors. Someone in the shadows tells him to come closer, and when he does, an old man missing
00:12an eye laughs loudly, and the boy runs out straight into his father's arms. His father calls Francis,
00:19a young General Shaw, a sissy, but tells him he won him a prize, a new slingshot. On the way home,
00:26their car breaks down, so they buy a jug of water from a local native girl on the side of the road.
00:32Francis also gives her his new slingshot in trade, and later, they're playing outside with the other
00:37kids. When Francis runs into the woods, the girl, Rose, begs him to come back and won't follow him.
00:45All alone, he's chased by the one-eyed old man, who turns into a monster running on all fours with
00:51some familiar rows of big teeth, but Rose hits it in the head with a rock from her slingshot.
00:57They flee, but the creature won't follow them past the tree lean. In the present, Lily, Clara Stack,
01:04is back at Juniper Hill, surrounded by the wails of laughing and crying patience, where a housekeeper,
01:10Madeline Stowe, tells Lily she believes that the girl has seen the impossible, and that if Ronnie,
01:15Amanda Christine, means so much to her, she'll find a way to make things right between them.
01:21Meanwhile, Ronnie's dad, Hank, Stephen Ryder, is in jail being questioned by Chief Bowers,
01:28Peter Outerbridge, who wants to know where he was the night of the murders.
01:32Hank continues to insist he was at home, but Bowers reveals that someone has written a sworn
01:37statement that she saw him outside that night. At the military's dig site, the car with the skeletons
01:43belongs to a gang from the 1935 cycle, but it's not what they're looking for. Dick Halloran,
01:50Chris Chalk, has proven psychic abilities, but there's only so much he can do looking at maps.
01:57He needs to be put on top of the site, so Shaw sends him up in a helicopter with Hanlon and
02:01Pauly Russo, Rudy Mancuso, with the officers told to think of Haloran as a compass and fly wherever he
02:07directs them. Haloran's holding a cigar box with a familiar slingshot inside, and as he touches it,
02:14his face goes rigid as if he's seeing something. He tells Hanlon and Russo to turn east before he
02:20closes his eyes. When he opens them again, he walks towards the back of the helicopter.
02:27It's filling up with water over his feet now. He's no longer in the chopper, but locked in a sewer
02:33facing a familiar circus wagon with a sign for Pennywise the Dancing Clown. It drops to reveal a
02:39stage where two eyes are glowing from the darkness. Who are you, a deep voice asks.
02:46Dick looks up to see a mound of dead floating bodies, including his own grandmother, and tries
02:51to flee, but he's actually opening the rear hatch of the helicopter to jump out. Hanlon has to tackle
02:57him so he doesn't fall out to his death. Back on the ground, Dick tells General Shaw that something
03:03saw him, and if they keep going, something bad is coming. To repay him for his efforts,
03:09and maybe to help sustain him, Shaw agrees to find a better place for Dick and his friends to hang out
03:14in. When she returns to school, Lily seeks out Ronnie and promises she'll tell the police the truth about
03:21what she saw. Still, no one will believe her unless she gets visual proof, so she pulls out a camera,
03:27but who can they get to develop the film? This leads them to Will Hamlin, Blake Cameron James.
03:34He doesn't know if he can help, but Rich, Arian S, Cartaya, thinks he will because he's in love with
03:40Ronnie, even if he denies it. It looks like they're all in this together now, and Rich, with his knowledge
03:46of evil spirits from his Cuban relatives, has a plan to make the evil reveal itself. At a local tribal
03:53meeting in Derry, Rose, Kimberly Guerrero, tells her nephew not to do anything about the dig site yet
03:59because she doesn't want to stop the military until she knows what they're doing out there.
04:04Later, at her second-hand rose shop, Shaw walks in to see his old friend for the first time in 50 years.
04:11He had forgotten all about her until he came back to Derry, but Rose says that's normal here.
04:17She finds out he's in charge of the dig, so he lies and says they're digging up unmarked burial
04:22grounds for water pipes. Shaw asks for her help with which digging areas to stay away from,
04:27and Rose says she'll talk to the town council but can't promise anything. Haloran shows up for dinner
04:33at the Hamlin house, where he inquires about their son Will's whereabouts, but, later, when the two men
04:39are alone on the porch, Leroy points out that he never told Haloran he had a son. Haloran confesses
04:45that he can see things without seeing things, but Leroy doesn't think it's crazy.
04:50Just before Dick asked about his son, he felt something he couldn't describe.
04:55The only other time he felt it was when he was attacked.
04:59Hamlin tells Haloran to stay out of his mind, and Haloran agrees because the man saved his life,
05:05he wouldn't mind having him by his side in the trenches. Meanwhile, Will, Lily, Rich, and Ronnie are
05:12hanging out in a graveyard, sitting around a circle of candles. Rich is speaking a prayer for the dead in
05:18Spanish, but nothing happens after a short pause. Lily and Ronnie are ready to quit because they
05:24don't believe this will work, while Ronnie is also upset that Will doesn't believe what she saw.
05:30She gets on her bike, and Lily leaves with her. Will and Rich are left behind,
05:35but abandon the circle to try and catch up. As they pedal toward the cemetery gates,
05:41the barrier impossibly moves farther away. They ride through the grass, with the ground caving in,
05:47when their three dead friends, now with rotting faces, float above them, chasing them through the
05:53night. Lily manages to snap a few pictures, but everyone gets separated, with Will ending up all
05:59alone at the mausoleum. Inside, a hand appears, and Will takes a photo of it as he screams. Lily,
06:08Rich, and Ronnie have made it to the cemetery limits, anxiously waiting for any sign of Will until
06:13he suddenly appears, much to their relief. It's safe to say that Will believes Ronnie now,
06:19and this new group of losers hugs as one before breaking into the school's darkroom to develop their
06:24photos. One by one, each of the ghosts' faces is revealed, but then Will's last picture develops.
06:31Something is standing in the distance, out of focus, with glowing eyes. It's a clown, he says.
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