{"id":416680,"date":"2025-12-01T06:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416680\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:52:24","slug":"it-welcome-to-derry-episode-6-ending-explained-who-is-periwinkle-what-happens-to-the-black-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416680\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018IT: Welcome to Derry\u2019 Episode 6 Ending Explained: Who is Periwinkle? What Happens to the Black Spot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT: Welcome to Derry<\/a> Episode 6 \u201cIn the Name of the Father\u201d ends by teasing one of the most disturbing episodes referenced in Stephen King<\/a>\u2018s It and by officially introducing a terrifying clown we\u2019ve already seen snatches of on the HBO<\/a> show. <\/p>\n

**Spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 \u201cIn The Name of the Father,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max**<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT: Welcome to Derry finally reveals that Pennywise (Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>) isn\u2019t the only clown who has been terrorizing the kids of Derry. No, Ingrid Kersh (Madeline Stowe<\/a>) has been stalking Lilly Bainbridge (Clara Stack<\/a>) and her misfit friends as her alter ego, \u201cPeriwinkle the Clown,\u201d in the twisted hopes of being reunited with her father, Bob Grey, aka the original Pennywise the Dancing Clown. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Charlotte Hanlon (Taylour Paige<\/a>) has hidden Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider<\/a>) at the Black Spot, the Black airmen\u2019s hangout. She brings Ronnie (Amanda Christine<\/a>) and Will (Blake Cameron James<\/a>) to the Black Spot just so the little girl can reunite with her father. However, Will soon brings Marge (Matilda Lawler<\/a>) and Rich (Arian S. Cartaya<\/a>) to the bar, too, so the three of them can try to convince Ronnie to make up with Lilly and the group. While the kids partake in adorable antics at the bar, including drinking \u201cAir Force Coke,\u201d Clint Bowers (Peter Outerbridge) stokes the racist white locals\u2019 rage and tells a group of angry men where they can \u201cfind\u201d Hank. <\/p>\n

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 ends with a racist mob arriving at the Black Spot and with Ingrid Kersh decked out in her full \u201cPeriwinkle\u201d costume. So what does this tell us about what\u2019s going to happen next? Why is the Black Spot so significant in Stephen King\u2019s books? Who is Periwinkle? Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the end of IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Young Photos: HBO<\/p>\n

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 Ending Explained: Who is Periwinkle the Clown?<\/p>\n

In IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6, an upset Lilly Bainbridge goes to Mrs. Kersh for comfort and discovers she\u2019s been cozying up to the enemy this whole time. If IT: Chapter Two<\/a> established that Mrs. Kersh was the daughter of Pennywise the Clown, IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 reveals the insane lengths she\u2019s gone to over the years to be reunited with her dead father. <\/p>\n

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 opens with a creepy black and white cold open set at Juniper Hill in 1935. There, a pretty nurse \u2014 the young Mrs. Kersh (Tyner Rushing) \u2014 is asking a pint-sized patient about her visions of Pennywise the Clown. Later in the episode, we learn that young Mrs. Kersh isn\u2019t scared of Pennywise because she desperately misses and wants to be reconnected with her father at all costs. Even if it means the kids\u2019 deaths.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Kersh is essentially using the young patients of Juniper Hill to lure It to appear as her father, Pennywise, aka Bob Grey. Her theory is that her father is still somewhere in there and if he saw his daughter in her full Periwinkle get up, he\u2019d snap out of It\u2019s grasp. <\/p>\n

Periwinkle is Ingrid Kersh\u2019s clown alter ego. In fact we\u2019ve already seen Periwinkle multiple times in IT: Welcome to Derry, specifically in Episode 3. She was the creepy little clown (Emma-Leigh Cullum) watching young Francis Shaw (Diesel La Torraca) in Episode 3\u2019s circus flashbacks and she was also there, dressed as Periwinkle, in the graveyard. It was Periwinkle, not Pennywise, that Will Hanlon captured on film. <\/p>\n

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 ends with Ingrid Kersh in her full Periwinkle drag, ready to meet her father again. Only, as we know, her father is totally dead and It has just adopted the creepy clown\u2019s visage to hunt its prey. <\/p>\n

\"Dick Photo: HBO<\/p>\n

What Happens to the Black Spot in Stephen King\u2019s It Book? <\/p>\n

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 ends with a darkly tense cliffhanger: a racist mob rolls up to the Black Spot determined to bring Hank Grogan to \u201cjustice.\u201d So what\u2019s going to happen next? Well, we can look to Stephen King\u2019s It to find out\u2026<\/p>\n

In Stephen King\u2019s book, It, he writes about earlier historical instances where the evil cosmic entity known as \u201cIt\u201d unleashed horror upon the town of Derry. A generation before the events of the novel, a racist mob, known as the \u201cMaine Legion of White Decency,\u201d burned the Black Spot to the ground, killing most of the patrons inside. Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk) just so happened to be at the club that night and managed to use his gifts to save young Will Hanlon from the inferno. Thus, ensuring that Dick would survive for the events of The Shining and Will would go on to father original Loser\u2019s Club member, Mike Hanlon. <\/p>\n

Because Dick Hallorann\u2019s involvement in this awful race massacre is canon in Stephen King\u2019s work, hardcore King fans have understood from the start why The Shining character is in IT: Welcome to Derry in the first place. It\u2019s also a clear hint that, yes, the Black Spot is likely going to go down in flames in next week\u2019s IT: Welcome to Derry and the only two characters we know for sure are safe are Dick Hallorann and Will Hanlon. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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