\u00ab\u00a0In Episode 3, the second he touches that slingshot, it’s over,\u00a0\u00bb Chris Chalk said.<\/b>
\nWelcome to Derry has shown us countless terrifying incarnations of the monstrous cosmic evil known simply as \u201cIt,\u201d but have we seen the iconic Stephen King villain in his Pennywise (Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd) form? Does Pennywise haunt IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 \u201cNow You See It\u201d or is the HBO show holding out on us?
**Spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 \u201cNow You See It,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max**
While we haven\u2019t seen Pennywise in all his clownish glory quite yet, two characters come very, very close this week.
Halfway through IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 \u201cNow You See It,\u201d Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk) uses his abilities to \u201cshine\u201d to psychically travel to Pennywise\u2019s subterranean lair. He not only sees Pennywise\u2019s clown wagon, his floating victims, and the sewers, but he also appears to see glowing eyes, aka the deadlights.
Later, at the end of the episode, the new \u201closer\u2019s club\u201d that\u2019s emerged on IT: Welcome to Derry \u2014 comprised of Lilly Bainbridge (Clara Stack), Ronnie Grogan (Amanda Christine), Will Hanlon (Blake Cameron James), and Rich Santos (Arian S. Cartaya) \u2014 attempts to contact their dead friends with a graveyard s\u00e9ance. Their hope is to photograph their ghosts, therefore proving the horrific visions they\u2019ve been seeing are real. The plan works so well they even get a blurry snapshot of what Will saw in a crypt: a clown.
Whether you need to know more about Dick Hallorann\u2019s first use of his \u201cshining\u201d ability or want to know if those child actors had any fun whatsoever shooting that scary graveyard sequence, here\u2019s everything you need to know about the end of IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 \u201cNow You See It\u201d\u2026
IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 ends with kids\u2019 plan to photograph It in action going a little bit too well. Soon, the ghosts of their friends are chasing them through a graveyard in a montage that evokes some of classic IT scenes. At one point, Will becomes separated from the group. He walks into a crypt and snaps a photograph as a creepy monster leering at him from the shadows.
When the kids finally develop the film, a blurry image pops up in the photo. Lilly asks what it is and Will says, \u201cIt\u2019s a clown.\u201d The implication is he got some brief glance at It in his full Pennywise drag, but we have to wait a little longer to see Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd as Pennywise on screen.
Fun fact: the IT: Welcome to Derry production team also kept Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s Pennywise away from the young actors for as long as possible in real life, too.
\u201cWe couldn\u2019t like really see him,\u201d Amanda Christine said. \u201cThey kept it really top secret and everything.\u201d
When DECIDER spoke with the young stars of IT: Welcome to Derry, they all recalled that it took about a week of very late night shoots in a real graveyard to nail that Episode 3 action sequence.
\u201cWe were there from like twelve to like three in the morning, rolling over graves. I feel terrible,\u201d Christine said, putting her hands in prayer pose. \u201cBut it was fun. It was really fun. We were just silly because, I mean, we were kids and literally were [working] off of no sleep. So we were just running around doing whatever in the graveyard for real.\u201d
\u201cHonestly, it was so much fun,\u201d Clara Stack said. \u201cIt\u2019d be 2 AM and we would all go to crafty and get snacks and just hang around.\u201d
\u201cI think we truly discovered who we are as a friend group and as people in that scene, just because the amount of time we spent together,\u201d Arian S. Cartaya said. \u201cWe had a lot of fun, but it was also spooky because, like, it\u2019s three in the morning at a cemetery. Like, that\u2019s that\u2019s just weird.\u201d
Blake Cameron James said that he felt that was the scene the boys\u2019 characters \u201creally clicked up\u201d with the rest of the group.
\u201cMe and Rich didn\u2019t even really believe them that much at first and then it all attacked us at the same time,\u201d James said. \u201cSo just like, all right, now we got to get to the bottom of this, you know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d
One of the coolest sequences in IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 comes when Dick Hallorann uses General Shaw\u2019s (James Remar) old slingshot \u2014 which was used to fight off It in 1908 \u2014 to hunt Pennywise from the skies. We immediately see how Dick uses his psychic abilities and why he\u2019s terrified of It.
\u201cThe way Dick is rolled out in the show is really slow, and then it\u2019s not,\u201d Chris Chalk told DECIDER. \u201cIn Episode 3, the second he touches that slingshot, it\u2019s over.\u201d
\u201cBecause he thinks, arrogantly, that this is easy. Let me just get this bag real quick. Get the general out of my face! You know I\u2019m talking trash to all these, like, white, elite, military people,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd the second I touch that, I go, \u2018Oh, no, this is too big. This is too big for me.\u2019 And in that moment, everything changes for Dick.\u201d
Dick\u2019s vision takes him into the sewers beneath Derry, there he sees a painted wagon with the name Pennywise above a clown. The wagon then opens and yellow eyes peer at Dick. \u201cWho are you?\u201d Pennywise asks as a mechanical face emerges. There\u2019s then a super cut of violent war scenes, masked beings, and soon toys are falling from the ceiling.
Dick looks up and sees bodies floating. One of these people? His grandmother, who warns him to get out of there. (Fans of The Shining will remember that Dick\u2019s grandmother also had the gift, which she named \u201cthe shine.\u201d)
As Hallorann attempts to escape, he almost leaps to his death from the plane. Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo) saves him. Later, when Dick Hallorann is then debriefed by General Shaw, he warns him about the threat Pennywise holds. He notes that It wasn\u2019t supposed to see them, harkening back to Chalk\u2019s warning that \u201ceverything changes for Dick\u201d the moment he encounters Pennywise.
So, yes, Dick Hallorann makes contact with Pennywise in IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3, but we still have not see the full Pennywise reveal.
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