{"id":320607,"date":"2025-12-01T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:26:15","slug":"it-welcome-to-derry-episode-6-recap-who-is-ingrid-kersh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320607\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Welcome To Derry Episode 6 Recap: Who Is Ingrid Kersh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"itPennywise in 1935. All photography courtesy of HBO<\/p>\n

EVERYONE IS REELING after the events in the sewers. In episode six of IT: Welcome to Derry, Leroy is grieving the loss of his airmate, Pauly, after he jumped in front of his gun to protect Will. Hallorann\u2019s mind lid has been pried off, leaving him compromised to the voices in his head. Lilly goes off on her own seeking refuge with Ingrid, but it turns out her confidante has been using her as bait (more on that below). The only ones to come out of the sewers with any luck were Marge and Rich, who bonded over pirates and knights pissing into chamberpots. <\/p>\n

So, we recap this week\u2019s episode of IT: Welcome to Derry, titled \u201cIn The Name of The Father\u201d, below.<\/p>\n

Spoilers abound! Read our recap on the previous episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who is Ingrid Kersh?<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve been watching IT theorists on social media dissect every easter egg over the last few weeks like me, this episode confirms the biggest twist yet: Ingrid Kersh is the daughter of Bob Gray, the carnival performer better known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. This doesn\u2019t mean Ingrid is the daughter of IT (the entity can\u2019t reproduce), except that IT takes the form of her father\u2019s circus act.<\/p>\n

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In the black-and-white flashback to 1935, we meet a young Ingrid Kirsh working as a junior maid at Juniper Hill. One night, she wakes up little Mabel, a patient, and brings her down to the basement. Amidst the steamers and machinery, a red balloon (the only colour in these monochromatic flashbacks) floats by a doorway, until a white-gloved hand pinches its string. Mabel wants to leave, but Ingrid is fascinated by the clown.<\/p>\n

In the name of the father<\/p>\n

Later in the episode, Lilly wanders into Ingrid\u2019s house, where she finds a photo album in her attic, filled with pictures from Ingrid\u2019s 10th anniversary, wedding day, teen years, and then . . . as a little girl standing next to a very tall man who looks like the clown she encountered (Bill Skarsg\u00e4rd with a receding hairline). Ingrid walks in and hugs Lilly, only for Lilly to see the extent of her confidante\u2019s Pennywise paraphernalia: a framed photo of Bob Gray in his full Pennywise outfit. \u201cYou\u2019ve seen him?\u201d Ingrid says. \u201cYou did it! Of course, it was you. You brought him back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"itPennywise shapeshifts into Bob Gray.<\/p>\n

Ingrid got close to Lilly the same way she did Mabel in 1935 to draw out Pennywise. In another flashback, Ingrid talks about how her much-adored father went missing one day, and then the carnival moved on, and only she remained to wait for him. Back in the basement, she calls Pennywise \u201cPapa\u201d, which hilariously gags IT. (Maybe because it isn\u2019t fear that IT smells on her, but love? Never in IT\u2019s millions of years in existence has anyone called IT daddy. Who\u2019s your daddy?)<\/p>\n

\"itIngrid Kersh is the daughter of Bob Gray, aka the original Pennywise the Dancing Clown.<\/p>\n

IT devours Mabel and then shapeshifts into Ingrid\u2019s father, Bob Gray. Here\u2019s the twist: Ingrid has rationalised that IT is her father after all of these years, but just different. In that moment, she felt whole again, and wanted to help free him from this predatory form. It\u2019s unclear yet if Ingrid has lured more children to IT, but in 1962, she found Lilly would have potential to do the same. So, Ingrid dressed up in her old Periwinkle costume to follow the kids around town, and hopefully run into her father. It was Ingrid in the cemetery that night and outside of Will\u2019s window.<\/p>\n

Ingrid\u2019s betrayal<\/p>\n

\"itIngrid getting into her Periwinkle drag.<\/p>\n

Lilly naturally feels betrayed after finding out she\u2019s been used as bait. But Ingrid continues appealing to her \u201cdaughter with daddy issues\u201d judgment, saying that Lilly would do the same to see her dead father again. \u201cA daughter knows,\u201d Ingrid says. But Lilly knows her father is gone forever. \u201cOh, you know what they say about Derry, dear. No one who dies here ever really dies.\u201d Unsure if this is one of IT\u2019s manifestations, she takes out the dagger and slashes Ingrid\u2019s palm. Fleeing on her bike, a hand bloodstain on her shirt, Lilly retreats into her friend group.<\/p>\n

The kids now have the star dagger<\/p>\n

\"itThe kids figure out what to do with the dagger.<\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019ve unpacked Ingrid Kersh, here\u2019s what happened with everyone else. The kids, Leroy, and Dick Hallorann are all left reeling after going into the sewers last episode. Will is haunted by the phrase, \u201cDuck and cover, kiddos\u201d, while he has to sit through his father\u2019s tirade about why his son was even down there. Will is sorry his father had to kill Uncle Pauly. Leroy tells Charlotte IT \u201ccould change shape, it could see inside my head\u201d. Will still wants to go out and help save his friends, to do what his father would do. But Leroy says he isn\u2019t him. That\u2019s right, Will retorts, \u201cI know I\u2019m not like you, \u2019cause I would never let my friends die\u201d. Shots fired, and Will gets a slap on the face.<\/p>\n

\"itLilly\u2019s teacher is more upset about the uproar than the fact that a student is holding a sharp object like a weapon. <\/p>\n

At the water tower, Lilly shows off the star dagger she found, talking about how IT looked almost afraid of it. The dagger\u2019s provenance is ancient, Will believes, with the hieroglyphs. Lilly gets possessive of it, too, treating the dagger almost like \u201cMy precioussss\u201c. With IT\u2019s weakness in their hands, Lilly wants to go back down to the sewers and kill IT once and for all. But Ronnie is thinking otherwise, who has seen the town awash in WANTED posters for her father and men around town walking with shotguns looking for him. She calls Lilly crazy, and wishes she, Phil, Teddy and Susie had never shown up at her apartment in the first place \u2013 maybe her father wouldn\u2019t be dragged through the mud now.<\/p>\n

Ronnie is reunited with her father<\/p>\n

\"itRonnie reunites with her father at the Black Spot.<\/p>\n

Will follows Ronnie after her fight with Lilly. She thinks she went too far with her remarks by calling her crazy; she really likes Lilly, but she\u2019s just tired of being scared, which is so valid. Will and Ronnie hug, and as they part, give each other the triangle method. Before they can do anything else, a familiar voice calls out, \u201cWilliam Dubois Hanlon\u201d. It\u2019s his mother. \u201cDubois?\u201d Ronnie asks of his French middle name. She tells them both to get in the car. \u201cYa\u2019ll think ya\u2019ll grown?\u201d Charlotte says, \u201cMhm\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"itYa\u2019ll think ya\u2019ll grown? Mhm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last episode, Ingrid visited Charlotte at the base about \u201chelping their mutual friend\u201d. What came of that is that Hank is hiding on the Black Spot, the off-site hangout for Hallorann and the coloured airmen. Hallorann has mentally checked out after his run-in with IT, who has left him compromised after opening his mind box. While he disagrees that his friends let Hank hide in their place, Ronnie is finally reunited with her father. Watching the parental display of affection, Charlotte comforts Will about The Slap, but he\u2019d rather not talk about it. Stoic, then, like his father, after all. Later at the apartment, Charlotte is packing her and Will\u2019s bags to leave town and go back to Shreveport, far away from this monster\u2019s cage.<\/p>\n

Hallorann is crashing out<\/p>\n

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Hallorann really doesn\u2019t have time for this sh*t right now. On top of harbouring a wanted fugitive in the hangout he bagged for his friends, Hallorann is also dealing with the world\u2019s worst migraine. Trying to wash the voices out with bottles of Pap, Leroy visits him about a new order from General Shaw that he\u2019s still on the hunt for the pillars. The man is relentless. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, Hallorann gives Leroy a crash course in his Shine abilities: about how he\u2019s had them since he was a child, how he can see the dead, and how, when he was nine, his grandmother taught him a trick to keep all the dead\u2019s voices contained in a box. The lid has been sealed tight until IT went inside his mind and ripped it off. (This is also the mind trick he\u2019ll eventually teach to Danny Torrence in Doctor Sleep.) The trick now is to not acknowledge the dead, like how he saw Pauly walking around the woods, or a soldier with half his head blown off behind Leroy when he walked in. (Apparently, the soldier met his maker in that very room.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dead always wander back to where they died,\u201d says Hallorann. And the dead know things the living aren\u2019t supposed to. Naturally, Leroy wants to know, and thinks it\u2019s simple enough for Hallorann to put the lid back on the voices.<\/p>\n

A knight and a pirate<\/p>\n

\"itMarge gets her eyepatch. <\/p>\n

The only positive thing to come out of that sewer is Rich and Marge getting closer. At the water tower, our guy Rich helps redress her eye (with his suspicious anti-septic saliva). And at the school cafeteria the next day, he gives her an old family heirloom eye-patch, which supposedly belonged to a corsair his ancestors knew back in Cuba. They\u2019ve both been hearing voices from the pipes; Rich hasn\u2019t been able to go to the toilet at night, so he\u2019s been peeing into a jar\/chamberpot. He\u2019s a knight to her pirate, and that\u2019s their costumes sorted for next Halloween \u2013\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a date!\u201d says Marge. <\/p>\n

\"itThe Pattycakes. <\/p>\n

Patty and her Pattycakes spot the two catching feelings. They so want to hear about Marge\u2019s encounter with death, but she\u2019s sitting with Riccardo and the losers. Marge, the now reformed Pattycake, flips open her eye-patch to repel the Pattycakes. Her oozing eye scab is so gruesome that it chokes Rhonda. As the half-season trailer showed, the final two episodes won\u2019t be good for Patty and the Pattycakes \u2013 but we\u2019ll leave that to be seen.<\/p>\n

Later, Marge, Will, and Rich head to the Black Spot to convince Ronnie to come back and join them. Hank has a little sit down with Will to see if this pre-pubescent child has good intentions with his daughter. So he asks, \u201cWill, what\u2019s your favourite movie?\u201d A litmus test, perhaps, let\u2019s hope he didn\u2019t say Citizen Kane.<\/p>\n

The attack on the Black Spot<\/p>\n

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Rich and Marge get drunk on \u201cAir Force Coke\u201d; he hops on the drums and bamboozles his friends and the rest of the Black Spot party guests. Meanwhile, Bowers has been relieved of his duties to serve and protect. So he starts rallying other racists to hunt down Hank. He received an anonymous tip from a woman (potentially Ingrid?) that Hank is hiding out in the Black Spot. Sounds about right. The lynch mob presents itself as the very real-world threat outside of IT. Soon they turn up to the party in droves, masked and wielding shotguns. Ingrid, on the other hand, gets ready in her Periwinkle drag, sensing daddy Pennywise is close.<\/p>\n

\"itNew episodes of IT: Welcome to Derry are released every Monday in Australia on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/p>\n

It: Welcome to Derry episode 1 recap: who are our heroes?<\/a><\/p>\n

The best Australian horror films to add to your watchlist this spooky season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennywise in 1935. All photography courtesy of HBO EVERYONE IS REELING after the events in the sewers. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,81711,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-320607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-it-welcome-to-derry","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}