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The IT: Welcome to Derry premiere builds towards a shocking conclusion that sees Pennywise unleashing a carnage in a different form. The episode is cyclical as it opens and closes with death. Set in the 1960s, the prequel series introduces major characters while simultaneously including a few characters related to the Losers.
The main storyline of the episode focuses on three children trying to find out what happened to their friend Matty Clements. The ten-minute-long opening scene focuses on Matty as he becomes Pennywise's prey. The synopsis for IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 reads:
"As four misfit kids vow to find their missing classmate, Major Leroy Hanlon arrives to a mixed reception at Derry Air Force Base."
IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 recap:
Here are some of the major events in the IT: Welcome to Derry premiere:
- Matty Clements
The episode opens with young Matty Clements in a movie theater, when he is identified by the usher for not paying for his ticket. As the young boy hides from the usher, he is noticed by the young Ronnie Grogan, who works there. She misdirects the usher, and as Ronnie leaves the presence, Matty is spotted by the usher as the former manages to run out of the door.
As the young boy is aimlessly walking on the snowy night, he comes across a kind family that claims to be heading out of Derry, something even Matty wants. While the family seems normal in the beginning, they begin to act weird, and Matt realizes that they have been driving in circles as they drive by the Derry billboard, the place where the family picked him up.
Soon, the woman "gives birth" to a winged demon (one of Pennywise's forms), and Matty is killed, as his pacifier falls into the drain and it floats on the surface, leading towards the title card.
- Leroy Hanlon enters Derry
Leroy Hanlon, Mike Hanlon's grandfather, sets foot in Derry as he is stationed in the town for duty. He is waiting for his wife and son to arrive, and in this IT: Welcome to Derry episode, he experiences the racism of Derry firsthand. We also learned that he has a mysterious injury that supposedly renders him unable to feel fear.
In the last act of the episode, he is attacked by some masked men who want him to reveal the plans for the blueprints of a plane.
- The new losers?
After that opening, we meet kids who knew Matty: Lilly, Teddy, and Phil. Lilly and Matty seem closest in a flashback scene in the middle of the episode. And she is the first to be haunted by Pennywise, in a way that's similar to Beverly Marsh in the 2017 movie, for the first time: through plumbing. In the IT: Welcome to Derry premiere, Lilly hears Matty's voice.
She goes to Phil and Teddy the next day and tells them what happened. While Phil doesn't believe her, Teddy is in the middle. Lilly is the first to be haunted because she is the first to experience tragedy in her life, as her father died in a tragic accident in her presence. Teddy later asks his father at the family table during dinner if someone can survive being hostage in the Derry sewer, but his father dismisses him.
It should be noted that Teddy's last name is Uris, and we learn that he is Stanley Uris's uncle from his father's side. We also see Stanley's father, Donald, who is the older sibling. Before dismissing Teddy, his father tells him the horrors of the holocaust, including how Ilse Koch, the Kommandeuse of Buchenwald, made lampshades made of human skin belonging to Jewish prisoners.
This has a rather traumatic effect on young Teddy, as later that night, as he is reading a Batman comic (1961's Detective Comics #298) featuring Clayface, the table lamp starts to switch off. Suddenly, the lampshades have human faces, scaring the young boy. He then goes to Phil and Lilly and tells them what happened. Later that day, the three go to the library with Phil's young sister Susie to read old newspapers and learn about Ronnie.
As they meet Ronnie, the latter is cold because she reveals that the police were pinning the crime on her father. As she goes away, the three talk about their experiences with Pennywise, prompting Ronnie to come back to them and tell them that even she had heard voices from the plumbing like Lilly. She also tells them that she hears the voices singing The Music Man's "Ya Got Trouble", something even Lilly heard.
They go back to the closed movie theater, and Ronnie plays The Music Man.
- The Carnage
This IT: Welcome to Derry episode made some believe that Phil, Susie, Teddy, Lilly, and Ronnie are the Losers before Stanley, Bill, Eddie, Richie, Ben, and Beverley. But that could not be farther from the truth, as the closing minutes of the episode see most of them die. As Ronnie plays Ya Got Trouble on the screen, Matty and the family from the beginning of the episode appear on the screen.
The kids are shocked to see Matty, who blames them and lets loose the same demon on them from the screen. The said demon kills Susie, Teddy, and Phil, leaving Lilly and Ronnie alive, and the IT: Welcome to Derry episode closes with Lilly's traumatized reaction to Teddy, Phil, and Susie's death.
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The IT: Welcome to Derry premiere sets up an exciting second episode, which is set to air this Halloween.
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