HBO Max shares new stills from the upcoming It: Welcome to Derry Episode 5 

Still from It: Welcome to Derry (Image via HBO)
Still from It: Welcome to Derry (Image via HBO)

Brand new visuals for It: Welcome to Derry are teasing the fifth episode of the show with some eerie new pictures, and a clearer look at the Neibolt house, which is becoming a more important part of the show's plot now. The fourth episode showed how Pennywise is more related to the Neibolt house than one could have thought, and how an old well at the house is directly connected to the sewers where Pennywise resides.

It: Welcome to Derry currently has a 76% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The positive reviews coming in have already paved the way for the show's second and third seasons. With just three more episodes to go, fans will now unveil more of Pennywise's origins, and the eerie hauntings of Derry that will be explored further in the show's future.

The fifth episode for It: Welcome to Derry is called 29 Neibolt Street, and drops on 23 November at 9 PM Eastern Time.


What happened in the fourth episode of It: Welcome to Derry?

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Episode four of It: Welcome to Derry, directed by Andrew Bernstein and written by Helen Shang, moves across two timelines and builds a clearer picture of how Derry became what it is. The story begins with the kids bringing their graveyard photos to Chief Bowers, hoping for help but getting only sarcasm and threats. Lilly is warned she might be sent back to the institution, and the police dismiss everything they show. At Juniper Hill, Ingrid becomes the only adult willing to listen, offering comfort even if she cannot confirm anything supernatural.

The episode shifts into the past through a psychic vision triggered during Dick Hallorann’s interrogation of Taniel. Young Taniel, played by Tres Garcia, recounts how a fallen star released an ancient spirit. The tribe used a shard from the star to create the Galloo and later crafted thirteen talismans to contain the creature within the Western Wood. Kiawentiio appears as Necani and Morningstar Angeline plays Sesqui. When settlers ignored the tribe’s warnings, the monster resurfaced in brutal forms, including a decomposing moose and a priest birthing a grotesque infant. Necani eventually reclaimed enough shards to forge the thirteen talismans and bury them, creating the boundary that would define Derry.

In 1962, the kids continue their investigation. Will, Ronnie, Lilly, and Rich bring new photos to the police and to Ingrid. Will’s curiosity pulls his parents into the mystery. Blake Cameron James plays Will, Clara Stack plays Lilly, and Amanda Christine plays Ronnie. Charlotte, played by Taylour Paige, finds Will’s photos and starts connecting the town’s disappearances to her own fight for justice. She confronts the police about Hank Grogan. Stephen Rider’s Hank admits he was with a married white woman the night of the theater massacre and fears what would happen if the truth came out.

Leroy and Will go fishing, and Pennywise appears to Will in the burned form of his father. Will returns with bloody marks on his arms, and a single red balloon drifts by. Leroy demands answers from General Shaw, played by James Remar, and watches Dick probe ancestral memory. Hallorann experiences visions of his grandmother and grows more unsettled about Operation Precept and a missing machine.

At school, a science lesson about parasitic worms foreshadows the most disturbing moment of the episode. Matilda Lawler’s Marge suffers a gruesome transformation as her eyes bulge and rupture. She injures herself with a chisel and then uses a bandsaw in one of the most shocking sequences on television. Lilly tries to intervene but is left covered in blood as the school arrives, making it appear as if she has attacked Marge.

It: Welcome to Derry Episode 4 ends with Taniel directing Hallorann toward the tunnels and pillars beneath the old well. The vision reveals Neibolt Street, suggesting the story is circling back to where Pennywise waits.


It: Welcome to Derry is streaming on HBO Max.

Edited by Nibir Konwar