Allow me to begin this week with an apology. Last week, It: Welcome to Derry<\/a><\/em> ended with the U.S. military digging up an old car<\/a> full of skeletons. I mistakenly thought it was the station wagon of the family that picked up Matty<\/a> and drove him to a hellish end. It’s not! But in my defense, the scene was dimly lit, and as much as I love cars, I just couldn’t tell the difference between a 1960s station wagon and a 1930s mob car. Sorry!<\/p>\n But the point stands: Pennywise’s evil can imbue itself into objects, as it apparently did during a mob massacre that killed gangster Al Bradley, which took place in Derry during Prohibition and that Pennywise, or rather “The Entity,” was involved. It’s why General Shaw (James Remar) holds on to his slingshot from his childhood. He, too, encountered it in a forest many moons ago. With the psychic powers of Dick (Chris Chalk<\/a>), Francis Shaw is back in town with the might of Uncle Sam to finally track it down. But as we can already guess, his efforts may bear no fruit whatsoever.<\/p>\n Episode 3 of IT: Welcome to Derry<\/em>, “Now You See It,” is a mostly strong episode hindered by one of the worst climaxes I’ve seen on television in years. Although the episode impressively spans decades and places focus on some tertiary characters while still<\/em> advancing the A-plot to formalize its core group of kids, I just can’t get past the atrocity of the climax. I’m a Vietnam veteran reliving awful memories, only my war traumas are made up of The Book of Boba Fett<\/em> and its sluggish speeder chases. Maybe Pennywise<\/a> really does know my greatest fears. <\/p>\n Here’s everything that happened in It: Welcome to Derry<\/em> episode 3.<\/p>\n Kimberly Guerrero makes her first appearance in Welcome to Derry<\/em> as Rose in episode 3, “Now You See It.” We begin in 1908, following a young Francis Shaw (Diesel La Torraca) long before he’s a general in the U.S. Army. On one fateful trip to the fair, Francis feels real fear for the first time, only to be instructed by his father to not be a coward. This might explain why he’s still chasing Pennywise after all this time. He’s still trying to prove something to his father.<\/p>\n After his dad gifts him a slingshot from the fair, he trades it for water with a pretty girl from a local Native tribe, Rose (Violet Sutherland appears as twelve-year-old Rose, while adult Rose is played by Kimberly Norris Guerrero). This slingshot gains its auras when the two young lovebirds encounter “it” in a forbidden forest (and appears as one of the freak show attractions Francis saw at the carnival), and Rose uses the slingshot to defend Francis. While “it” is contained to the forests (for now, at least), its evil is simply too powerful to be kept in there forever. How Pennywise breaks out of his confines to unleash itself on all of Derry is sure to be revealed in due time.<\/p>\n As an adult, Francis, now General Shaw, returns to Derry to seek out “The Entity” and weaponize it on behalf of the U.S. military. (Because what else <\/em>could the Army use it for?) Derry’s strange power of existing in its own psychological island is reinforced when Francis, reuniting with Rose, tells her he nearly forgot all about her and Derry. Though they’re happy to see each other again, they stand at odds. The local Natives are not happy about the military excavating the land and disturbing unmarked burial grounds. General Shaw offers an olive branch and invites Rose to help the government point to which lands they can<\/em> dig up. Rose is hesitant, but she agrees to try. (“No promises.”)<\/p>\n Rose may not be the front-leaning face leader of the tribe, but she seems to have serious pull behind the scenes. Her nephew Taniel (Joshua Odjick, who was also in the excellent The Long Walk<\/em>) comes to her like a loyal soldier, taking orders to stand down until further notice. After informing her the military dug up Al Bradley’s car, he says they “have to do something now before they get any closer.” Closer to what? Rose interrupts him before he finishes his sentence. Yet another mystery It: Welcome to Derry<\/em> will drag out for at least another episode.<\/p>\n Chris Chalk, as Dick, takes on greater importance in episode 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n And so we see the start of an uneasy friendship between Leroy (Jovan Adepo) and Dick. General Shaw, who continues to support Dick and his powers, assigns him to Leroy and Captain Pauly Russo (Rudy Mancuso), who take Dick up in the air to potentially find Pennywise from the air. Indeed, Dick gets closer to the clown as he experiences a psychic episode that puts him front and center before Pennywise. <\/p>\n After they survive the mission, Leroy invites Dick for dinner at home with his wife Charlotte (Taylour Paige). The evening turns tense when, right before dessert, Dick and Leroy come to an uneasy agreement. While Leroy isn’t ignorant of the supernatural, he doesn’t like Dick being in his head. Leroy tells Dick that he knows he was one of the masked assailants from General Shaw’s “test,” based on a vague psychic connection the two shared. Meanwhile, Dick tells Leroy he’s disturbed by what he felt in Leroy’s head. Where most men’s thoughts are full of pleading and regret when they face death, Leroy was “analyzing.”<\/p>\n “It’s like the part of your brain that’s supposed to be afraid, it’s not even there,” Dick says. “So you are not the kind of fella I’m likely to fuck with, Major. But you saved my life up in that bird. So I sure wouldn’t mind having you with me in them trenches.”<\/p>\nYoung Loves, Old Memories<\/h2>\n
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