Warning: This post contains spoilers for the IT: Welcome to Derry finale.
By the start of the eighth and final episode of Andy Muschietti’s IT prequel series Welcome to Derry, the foolish decision by General Shaw (James Remar) to remove and incinerate one of the Shokopiwah people’s magical caging pillars has reawakened It from hibernation and created an opportunity for it to escape the bounds of Derry. And after It uses its Deadlights form to kidnap all the lowerclassmen of Derry High, it tries to do exactly that.
Fortunately, the dagger Lilly (Clara Stack) retrieved from the sewer that was made from the same cosmic rock as the pillars has the ability to re-lock the cage. That is, as long as they can plant it in the right spot in the ground before It makes a run for it. The bad news is the dagger is a lost fragment of the comet It arrived on that crash landed on Earth where Neibolt House was later built, and it wants to return “home.” That means the further the kids take the dagger from Neibolt, the more damage it does to their minds and the more it resists. This makes their task a near-impossible one.
It also doesn’t help that when Lilly, Ronnie (Amanda Christine), and Marge (Matilda Lawler) rush out onto the frozen river to try to free Will (Blake Cameron James) from the hold of the Deadlights, we learn It has an ulterior motive. Appearing once again as Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), It isolates Marge from her friends and reveals she will eventually grow up to marry a man with the last name Tozier and become the mother of Losers Club member Richie Tozier (played by Finn Wolfhard as a child and Bill Hader as an adult in Muschietti’s IT movies). Pennywise even pulls out one of Derry’s classic missing kid posters to show Marge a picture of her son. “The seed of your stinking loins and his filthy friends bring me my death,” Pennywise tells her. “Or is it birth? I get confused. Tomorrow? Yesterday? It’s all the same for little Pennywise.”
Basically, since It exists…
