This Grisly It: Welcome to Derry Episode 7 Scene Directly Sets Up the Catastrophe Driving Season 3
Welcome to Derry season 1 doesn’t just set the stage; it slips in a chilling sneak peek at the terror season 3 has in store.
Episode 7 of It: Welcome to Derry goes hard on the chaos and fire, but there is a sneaky little deep-lore scare tucked into the background that sets up a major chapter the show has not actually shown yet. If you blinked, you probably missed it.
Spoilers ahead for It: Welcome to Derry episode 7.
The scene: a mob, a fire, and Pennywise eating well
After a detour back to 1908 to patch in how Bob Grey becomes the clown we all regret recognizing in the mirror, the penultimate episode, The Black Spot, drops us back into the main timeline. An angry crowd storms Hallorann's makeshift club demanding they hand over Ronnie's father, Hank. Hallorann and his crew refuse, the mob torches the cabin, and everyone is suddenly fighting smoke and flame. That is exactly when Pennywise slinks in to snack on the panic.
The blink-and-you-miss-it horror in the background
While Pennywise closes in on Hallorann and the kids, a pack of rotting, half-there figures collects behind him. One of them is a headless little boy with smoke trailing off the scorch where his neck should be. A fan who clipped the moment called it out with a very specific ID:
'The Headless Egg Boy from the 1908 Kitchener Ironworks Explosion Easter Egg Hunt Tragedy was among them.'
If that rings a bell, yep — the headless kid shows up in the 2017 It movie, where Pennywise uses him to rattle Ben. The backstory: in 1908, an explosion at the Kitchener Ironworks wiped out more than 100 people during an Easter egg hunt. Multiple witnesses said they saw a clown amid the wreckage. The show has been teasing that catastrophe, and this is the clearest nod yet.
When we actually see that disaster
Not in season 1. Not even in season 2. Because Pennywise wakes every 27 years, the series is hopscotching backward to avoid crashing into the movies:
- Season 2: jumps to 1935
- Season 3: goes back to 1908 for the Kitchener Ironworks explosion
The logic is simple: moving forward 27 years from season 1 would put you at It: Chapter 1 territory, and 27 years after that is It: Chapter 2, when the Losers finally put the thing down. So the show is filling in the earlier awakenings instead.
Finale timing
It: Welcome to Derry season 1 wraps up on December 14.