It: Welcome to Derry just revealed another character from the movies 

The fifth episode of It: Welcome to Derry opens with a lot of lore in the franchise. We get the closest ever look at Pennywise, a heap of twists and a character reveal that might have missed your attention if you weren't attentive enough.

Neibolt Street gives us a better look at one of the characters that have been hanging around the episodes: Ingrid. The episode winds down with her character, as she approaches Mrs. Hanlon, who already has her suspicions about Hank's case. And during one conversation, she states her full name to the camera.

“Mrs. Hanlon, my name is Ingrid Kersh. You do not know me, but we have a mutual friend.”

And that is where everything flips. Anyone familiar with the It novel, the original miniseries, or It: Chapter Two will immediately recognize the surname. Mrs. Kersh is the unsettling old woman Beverly Marsh visits before realizing the figure is actually Pennywise wearing a human disguise. It: Welcome to Derry proposes something far stranger. It suggests Mrs. Kersh was not just a form taken by Pennywise. She might have existed as a real person.

Whether Ingrid is her daughter or the same woman decades younger remains unconfirmed. But the hints are sharp. Joan Gregson’s Mrs. Kersh in It: Chapter Two has a distinctive pronunciation of “father” and repeats the eerie line that no one in Derry ever really dies. Ingrid has echoed both the pronunciation and the sentiment this season.

With only three episodes left of It: Welcome to Derry, every storyline is sliding toward the same inevitable collision. The identity of Ingrid Kersh is now one of the season’s biggest threads, and if the past is any indication, anyone tied to that name rarely escapes Pennywise’s orbit.

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Episode five of It: Welcome to Derry packs in so much carnage and lore that the cold open feels like a warning about what is coming. Things kick off with Taniel vomiting white foam, followed by a brutal close-up of Margie’s injured eye being cleaned in the hospital. On the Air Force base, Hallorann quietly updates Shaw, and the general tells Leroy Hanlon it is finally time for answers. Meanwhile, Margie explains that she covered for Lilly by pretending her glasses had shattered and that Lilly was only meaning to help.

Back in the kids’ circle, something impossible happens. Matty Clements crawls out of a tent months after everyone believed he died in the bat baby attack. He is filthy, long-haired, and technically not alive. He claims he was kept underground by “the clown,” who preserves certain victims for their fear while fully eating others, like Teddy. Phil is still breathing but immobilized, and Matty refuses to go to the police or his father.

As the bus takes Hank Grogan toward Shawshank State Prison, chaos erupts. Phil and Suzie’s father tries to kill him on the street but is stopped. Charlotte notices one officer briefly revealing Pennywise’s buck teeth before disappearing.

Lilly visits Ingrid, and we meet Stan Kersh, confirming Ingrid is the same Mrs. Kersh associated with It: Chapter Two. Hank later appears in Ingrid’s car, terrified and convinced something had attacked the prison bus.

The episode ends with Hallorann stumbling out of the sewers, dazed, as Pauly Russo’s ghost appears. Inside Hallorann’s vision space, his mental lockbox lies wide open, glowing, with blood on the floor, setting up the final three episodes.

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All five episodes of It: Welcome to Derry are streaming on HBO Max.

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