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The ancient secret of IT is finally uncovered! In this recap of "IT: Welcome to Derry" Episode 4, we dive deep into the grisly, extraterrestrial origin of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Discover how the Shokopiwah tribe first encountered the entity known as "The Galloo," the ancient weapon they forged from a meteor to trap it, and how Dick Hallorann's "shining" reveals this terrifying history. We're breaking down the new lore, the government conspiracy, and what these ancient secrets mean for the Losers' Club! #Pennywise #WelcomeToDerry #ItChapter1 #StephenKing #HorrorSeries #ItPrequel #PennywiseOrigin #Derry #HorrorRecap #Clown #It1990 #BillSkarsgard #HorrorCommunity #MovieBreakdown #EasterEggs #ItFandom #itwelcometoderry #itwelcometoderryepisode2 #itwelcometoderrytrailer #itwelcometoderryreaction #itwelcometoderryepisode2reaction #itwelcometoderryepisode1 #itwelcometoderryepisode3 #itwelcometoderryepisode1reaction #itwelcometoderrytheaterscene #itwelcometoderryintro #itwelcometoderryepisode2trailer #itwelcometoderryepisode3trailer #itwelcometoderryreview #itwelcometoderrytrailerreaction
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00:00The kids are riding their bikes through the downtown streets and straight to the police
00:03department, where they put the photos they've developed on Chief Bowers, Peter Outerbridge,
00:07desk. They tell him what happened, so he takes a look and shows it to two officers,
00:12but there's nothing much to see. The ghostly dead kids are nowhere to be seen in the photos,
00:17and while they can see the clown in one image, they insist it must be a statue.
00:21In gym class later, the new friends realize that the entity could have ended their lives,
00:25but chose to mess with them instead. They decide no one will believe them,
00:29but Lily, Clara Stack, does have one adult she trusts, Ingrid, Madeline Stowe,
00:34the nurse from Juniper Hill who doesn't judge her at all. She remembers kids disappearing in the
00:381930s, but they were probably just runaways, nothing like what Lily's describing. Still,
00:44she doesn't want Lily to stop trying to find out what's going on, because, as she says,
00:48the girl can do anything with good friends by her side. Meanwhile, Rose, Kimberly Guerrero,
00:54and Tanyol, Joshua Ogick, show up at the Hanlon home to drop off some of the items Charlotte,
00:58Taylor Page, bought at Rose's thrift shop. The two women talk over coffee, and Rose asks if Leroy,
01:05Yovan Adipo, is working on the pipeline General Shaw, James Remar, told her about.
01:10This confuses Charlotte, who insists her husband is a pilot who's doing something top secret.
01:15When she asks whether she needs to be concerned about the missing kids, Rose says bad things happen
01:19in Derry from time to time, so Charlotte should keep the people she loves close.
01:23When Will, Blake Cameron James, gets home from school later and ultimately breaks down,
01:28insisting that something is coming after him, Charlotte hugs her son tight and tells him
01:31there's no more going outside except to go to school until she finds out what's going on.
01:35At dinner, Leroy asks Will about his first week of school, but he doesn't have much to say and
01:40asks to be excused. Charlotte doesn't divulge what their son revealed to her, but she asks Leroy to
01:45do something with Will, so the two go fishing in that weekend. Will is bored, but he does catch a fish
01:50before it gets away. When the line breaks, Leroy goes to the car for more lures, leaving Will alone
01:56in the knee-deep water. This is a mistake, because the entity strikes, taking the form of a burned
02:01Leroy and pulling Will under the water. Thankfully, Leroy hears his son's screams and rushes to him
02:06just in time to save him from drowning. He doesn't see what happened, but does discover bloody scratches
02:11on Will's arm. Then, both father and son see a red balloon floating across the river.
02:16Charlotte visits Chief Bowers, where she points out that if someone is chasing kids in the cemetery,
02:22the police may have the wrong man in jail. She's denied when she asks to speak to Hank Grogan,
02:27Steven Ryder, so she goes to his home and talks to his mother and Ronnie, Amanda Christine,
02:31about wanting to help. At the same time, Haloran and his fellow black soldiers are cleaning up their
02:36new hangout when he's hit by a flash of pain in his head. He sees his mother in the woods,
02:41telling him to watch himself and, keep, his, lid on tight. The next second, she's not there,
02:47but that's also Hanlon shows up to tell Haloran what happened at the river. He demands to know
02:51what they're looking for in Derry, but Haloran doesn't know, and he isn't sure he wants to.
02:56At the standpipe, Will tells his friends about the river and how the entity showed him his fears.
03:01He wonders if the creature is like an animal, feeding on their fear before eating them.
03:05Their conversation leads to Lily stealing her mom's anti-anxiety pills and giving them to everyone
03:10so they can take one if anything scary happens. She might need them for something else, though,
03:15because even though Marge, Matilda Lawler, apologizes to Lily at school for being so mean,
03:19a glance at the leader of the popular girls shows that something sinister is being planned.
03:24Meanwhile, Charlotte returns to the police station with written permission from Hank's
03:27mother to speak to her son. She's refused again, but after threatening to call in a bus full of
03:32freedom riders, the cop on duty backs down. Charlotte tells Hank to file prejudicial treatment
03:37papers so he can skip bail and remain on house arrest until trial. He might have to go to
03:42Shawshank for a few days, but he'll finally be at home. At some point, though, he'll have to go on
03:47record with the truth. Hank finally reveals the reason he's been keeping his mouth shut about his
03:52real whereabouts, he was spending time with a married white woman that night, and he doesn't
03:56want the consequences to come down on either her or himself. At lunch, Marge insists she wants to start
04:01over and tells Lily she should say hi to the cute boy who noticed her. Excited, Lily goes to freshen up,
04:07while the other girls approach Marge and discuss their plan to embarrass her in front of the school.
04:12Feeling guilty, Marge goes to the bathroom to confess to her friend, but suddenly screams as her
04:16eyes bulge and pop out of her skull. Lily immediately knows what's happening and tries to grab her mom's
04:22pill, but accidentally drops it down the toilet. In the chaos, Marge stumbles into an empty shop class,
04:27where she stabs her bulging eyes and then tries to chop them off with a table saw.
04:32Everyone runs in, but in the aftermath, it only looks like Lily has been assaulting Marge herself,
04:37rather than trying to save her. Will is in bed, thinking about what happened in the river and
04:41unable to sleep, so he looks through his telescope and sees a silhouette of a clown behind a tree in
04:46the front yard. He screams, and his dad runs outside, demanding the person show themselves,
04:51but no one is there, just another red balloon up in the tree. The next morning, Hanlon marches into
04:56Shaw's office and demands to know what the general has them chasing. Shaw takes him to an interrogation
05:01room window where the two watch Haloran with Taniel. He apologizes, then puts two fingers to
05:06his forehead before the teen screams in pain. Haloran is in Taniel's memories now, witnessing a
05:12moment between his younger self and his aunt Rose. She brings up their people's story of the monster in
05:16the woods and how it's actually real, and asks Taniel to tell it back to her so she knows he has the
05:21truth straight. Millions of years ago, Taniel recounts, an evil spirit fell to earth in a
05:26fallen star, and the spirit was set free. The star it came from was used to create a weapon,
05:31a dagger to fight the monster. When settlers arrived and didn't listen to locals' warnings to stay out
05:36of the woods, the entity killed them. It fed on them, growing stronger and more powerful until it
05:41could hunt outside the woods. A single dagger could no longer protect the village. One member of the
05:47tribe, a young girl, refused to leave and took the dagger into the woods to gather more pieces of
05:51the sacred star to fashion into weapons. A search party, led by the girl's mother was formed when
05:56she and others were discovered missing, but when they went into the woods without protection,
06:00the entity appeared as the things they feared the most, killing them all. Refusing to relent,
06:05the girl led another group into the woods to break off shards of the ancient star, and formed a
06:09different plan, not to kill the monster but to cage it, by burying 13 secret shards in a circle
06:14around the woods. In the memory, Aunt Rose freezes, and Halorin appears in front of young Taniel,
06:19asking him how to find the shards. The older Taniel tells him to follow the tunnels under the old well,
06:24and the episode ends with a reveal of the old, dilapidated kneebolt house.
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