Last week on It: Welcome to Derry , we learned some important new details about Madeleine Stowe’s character Ingrid , the head housekeeper at Juniper Hill Asylum who befriends the troubled Lilly Bainbridge (Clara Stack).

Even when Lilly’s no longer a patient, she seeks out the kindly older woman for comfort and advice—and why not, considering Derry is a hellscape and positive role models are hard to come by? However, every Stephen King fan watching was startled to learn last week that Ingrid’s last name is “Kersh.” As in Mrs. Kersh, the manifestation of Pennywise that torments the original It character Beverly Marsh. What’s the connection exactly? This week’s sixth episode lifted the lid on who Ingrid Kersh is and what her motivations are for being such a good friend to Lilly.

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