1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,460 [narrator] Previously on Riverdale: 2 00:00:02,544 --> 00:00:05,338 [Toni] You wanna get through this? Hang with the Serpents. 3 00:00:05,422 --> 00:00:08,049 You think you can come to my house and there wouldn't be payback? 4 00:00:08,133 --> 00:00:11,010 [Alice] I'm wondering when you're gonna actually address 5 00:00:11,094 --> 00:00:13,638 the real problem in Riverdale, the Southside. 6 00:00:13,722 --> 00:00:17,475 [Fred] We need to be united. If we let the fear take over, we're dead. 7 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:19,436 I want a more active role in Lodge Industries. 8 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:21,730 Of course. You're a Lodge, after all. 9 00:00:21,813 --> 00:00:24,858 -Everybody needs to leave. -The Black Hood is coming. 10 00:00:24,941 --> 00:00:28,403 This is from the Black Hood. He says he's doing it for me. 11 00:00:29,404 --> 00:00:30,947 -Hello? -[man] Hello, Betty. 12 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,992 This is the Black Hood speaking. 13 00:00:34,659 --> 00:00:35,535 How--? 14 00:00:37,620 --> 00:00:39,330 How do I know this is real? 15 00:00:39,831 --> 00:00:43,376 -"I will strike next where it all began." -Were you there? 16 00:00:44,335 --> 00:00:46,171 -At the Town Hall? -Oh, yes. 17 00:00:46,671 --> 00:00:48,381 But you didn't hurt anyone? 18 00:00:49,382 --> 00:00:51,050 Tonight was all about you. 19 00:00:51,134 --> 00:00:52,469 What do you want? 20 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:54,012 The same as you. 21 00:00:54,721 --> 00:00:57,182 To set Riverdale on the righteous path again. 22 00:00:57,265 --> 00:00:59,225 To cleanse it of sinners. 23 00:00:59,809 --> 00:01:02,979 -Isn't that what you want? -Not by killing people. 24 00:01:03,062 --> 00:01:04,731 Only the ones who deserve it. 25 00:01:05,315 --> 00:01:07,275 People like your sister. 26 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:11,613 I know about the sin she carries in her womb. 27 00:01:12,155 --> 00:01:15,700 I also know she's at a farm two hours north. 28 00:01:16,618 --> 00:01:18,536 If you try to warn her, I'll know. 29 00:01:18,828 --> 00:01:23,208 If you tell the police we've spoken or your mystery-loving boyfriend, 30 00:01:23,291 --> 00:01:25,418 I'll carve her like a jack-o'-lantern. 31 00:01:26,002 --> 00:01:27,587 Please, don't hurt her. 32 00:01:28,546 --> 00:01:31,925 -Who are you talking to? It's late. -Then don't you deny me. 33 00:01:32,008 --> 00:01:35,011 -It's Jughead, wasn't it? -Yeah. 34 00:01:35,470 --> 00:01:37,472 I gave him the benefit of the doubt. 35 00:01:37,555 --> 00:01:41,059 Now he's living on the Southside amongst criminals and degenerates. 36 00:01:41,142 --> 00:01:45,522 He's showing his true colors. No doubt inspiring your stunt at Town Hall. 37 00:01:45,605 --> 00:01:48,733 -Pulling the fire alarm? -I didn't know what else to do. 38 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:51,528 Given the letter the Black Hood sent. 39 00:01:51,611 --> 00:01:55,573 If he even wrote it. Sheriff Keller says something seems off. 40 00:01:55,657 --> 00:01:58,368 He's gonna have it analyzed with the one I got. 41 00:01:58,451 --> 00:02:02,413 In the meantime, I want you home straight after school. Are we clear? 42 00:02:02,497 --> 00:02:04,207 Yeah. Sorry, Mom. 43 00:02:06,334 --> 00:02:08,795 [Archie] I did what Weatherbee asked. Wrote an apology 44 00:02:08,878 --> 00:02:11,548 and posted a new video apologizing some more. 45 00:02:12,006 --> 00:02:15,802 So, this, uh, Red Circle business, it's over? 46 00:02:17,303 --> 00:02:18,596 I'm happy to hear it. 47 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:23,977 I've been missing my son. 48 00:02:27,730 --> 00:02:29,107 [phone chimes] 49 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:38,867 I need to tell you something, but you can't tell anyone else. 50 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:42,912 Not Veronica, not Jughead, not your dad. Just no one. You promise me? 51 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:44,747 Yeah, sure. I promise. 52 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:46,541 The Black Hood called me. 53 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,420 -What? -No, keep walking. 54 00:02:51,629 --> 00:02:53,798 Wait. The Black Hood called you? 55 00:02:53,882 --> 00:02:57,594 Yes, it's risky for me to be telling you, but we're best friends. 56 00:02:57,677 --> 00:03:00,763 We live right next door. Us walking to school together 57 00:03:00,847 --> 00:03:04,058 would look normal to anyone watching, including him. 58 00:03:04,893 --> 00:03:07,270 -You think he's watching us? -He could be. 59 00:03:07,353 --> 00:03:11,733 -I know it sounds crazy, but it was him. -Tell the police, even if it's not him. 60 00:03:11,816 --> 00:03:15,278 It is him. He told me if I went to the police or told Jughead-- 61 00:03:16,613 --> 00:03:18,615 God, he knows where Polly is, Arch. 62 00:03:18,698 --> 00:03:22,285 -If he calls, I have to answer. -I won't let you go through this alone. 63 00:03:26,122 --> 00:03:30,627 "This most recent incident confirms that the real threat is not the Black Hood 64 00:03:30,710 --> 00:03:33,463 but the Southside and its corruptive forces. 65 00:03:33,838 --> 00:03:36,758 Developer and ex-con Hiram Lodge 66 00:03:36,841 --> 00:03:40,803 boasts his SoDale project will revitalize the forsaken neighborhood, 67 00:03:40,887 --> 00:03:43,097 but this reporter speculates Hiram Lodge 68 00:03:43,181 --> 00:03:45,892 doesn't want to fix our problems, merely profit from them." 69 00:03:45,975 --> 00:03:49,062 Right before our open house. Thank you, Alice Cooper. 70 00:03:50,855 --> 00:03:53,232 We can't let anything derail this project. 71 00:03:53,316 --> 00:03:56,778 Not Alice, not the Southside gangs, not some hooded psychopath. 72 00:03:56,861 --> 00:03:59,572 Well, right now, our biggest problem is capital. 73 00:03:59,656 --> 00:04:01,574 We're running out of it and fast. 74 00:04:01,658 --> 00:04:05,662 I've invited investors to the open house. The St. Clairs from New York. 75 00:04:06,537 --> 00:04:09,249 Wait. They are? Nicky included? 76 00:04:09,832 --> 00:04:12,043 I haven't seen Nicky in forever. 77 00:04:14,379 --> 00:04:17,590 Yeah, he's a budding music producer now. 78 00:04:17,674 --> 00:04:20,510 And his father is King Midas rich. 79 00:04:20,593 --> 00:04:22,887 We get him to invest, others will follow. 80 00:04:22,971 --> 00:04:24,722 You wanted a seat at the table. 81 00:04:25,139 --> 00:04:26,891 Nick has his father's ear. 82 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,851 Help us close this. 83 00:04:28,935 --> 00:04:31,813 Show him all the good things Riverdale has to offer. 84 00:04:32,814 --> 00:04:33,773 With pleasure. 85 00:04:35,024 --> 00:04:37,151 [indistinct chatter] 86 00:04:37,986 --> 00:04:39,904 [Fogarty] Sweet Pea. Take care of this. 87 00:04:39,988 --> 00:04:43,032 -Nice article your girlfriend's mom wrote. -I saw that. 88 00:04:43,866 --> 00:04:46,286 Dilton Doiley was stabbed and you jumped him? 89 00:04:46,369 --> 00:04:48,830 The idiot stabbed himself with his own knife. 90 00:04:48,913 --> 00:04:51,082 [Sweet Pea] We didn't jump him. There was a fight. 91 00:04:51,165 --> 00:04:53,126 Bulldogs versus Serpents. See this? 92 00:04:54,043 --> 00:04:57,797 Andrews gave it to me before his girlfriend shot a gun into the air. 93 00:04:58,047 --> 00:05:00,216 -What happened? -And, of course, 94 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:03,970 Northsiders get off scot-free, the rest of us are hauled in by police. 95 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:07,306 -It's payback time. -What are you guys talking about? 96 00:05:08,474 --> 00:05:10,810 What is--? What is that? 97 00:05:12,854 --> 00:05:14,272 Is that a pipe bomb? 98 00:05:15,064 --> 00:05:18,234 Fogarty's cousin served in the Army. He's gonna build us something. 99 00:05:18,318 --> 00:05:22,947 We'll do it after hours. It'll shut the Riverdale Register down. 100 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:25,450 You think blowing up a building will make things better? 101 00:05:25,533 --> 00:05:28,953 -Can't get any worse. -Yeah, Sweet Pea, it can. 102 00:05:30,038 --> 00:05:35,001 -Let me talk to Archie, figure this out. -That's your answer for everything. Talk. 103 00:05:35,668 --> 00:05:37,503 We don't know who you stand with. 104 00:05:37,587 --> 00:05:39,964 Us? Or them? 105 00:05:44,385 --> 00:05:46,054 You can't be half a Serpent. 106 00:05:54,353 --> 00:05:57,523 Great. So, Archie started World War III. 107 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:00,443 Northside has been dumping on us for years. 108 00:06:00,943 --> 00:06:03,112 Your dad tried to keep the peace. 109 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:05,031 Avoid bloodshed. 110 00:06:05,114 --> 00:06:09,410 Now that he's gone, idiots like Sweet Pea think there's one path and solution. 111 00:06:10,578 --> 00:06:11,579 Violence. 112 00:06:16,042 --> 00:06:19,420 Nick and I were the "will-they-or-won't-they" of our jet set. 113 00:06:19,504 --> 00:06:22,215 He's an outrageous flirt, but we never dated. 114 00:06:22,298 --> 00:06:25,760 We'd hop from club to club, go on these madcap adventures, 115 00:06:25,843 --> 00:06:26,928 stay up all night. 116 00:06:27,011 --> 00:06:30,056 -Who's this now? -Oh, Archiekins, don't be jelly. 117 00:06:30,139 --> 00:06:33,226 It's just a ghost from my bad-girl past, Nick St. Clair, 118 00:06:33,309 --> 00:06:37,188 breezing to town for the open house. You have nothing to worry about. 119 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:52,787 I think this Northsider's lost. 120 00:06:53,704 --> 00:06:54,914 I'm not. 121 00:06:56,624 --> 00:06:58,251 I'm over being half a Serpent. 122 00:06:58,918 --> 00:07:02,964 Wow. You'll do anything to protect your Northside buddies. 123 00:07:04,924 --> 00:07:06,676 My father was a Serpent. 124 00:07:07,343 --> 00:07:08,427 He led you. 125 00:07:10,012 --> 00:07:11,639 I wanna stand with you guys. 126 00:07:15,476 --> 00:07:18,271 Tall Boy was the one who gave me this jacket. 127 00:07:18,354 --> 00:07:20,314 It's finally time I start wearing it. 128 00:07:23,192 --> 00:07:26,445 So, now you wanna be a Serpent, huh? 129 00:07:28,948 --> 00:07:31,659 Let's see if you survive the initiation first. 130 00:07:40,877 --> 00:07:43,379 ["Lollipop" playing on phone] 131 00:07:43,462 --> 00:07:44,964 ♪ Lollipop ♪ 132 00:07:45,047 --> 00:07:45,965 "Unknown." 133 00:07:46,048 --> 00:07:47,717 ♪ Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 134 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,219 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop, oh, lolli-lolli-- ♪ 135 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:51,554 [phone beeps] 136 00:07:51,637 --> 00:07:53,472 -Hello? -[Black Hood] Your mother's at work. 137 00:07:55,016 --> 00:07:56,350 Yes, she and my dad are. 138 00:07:56,434 --> 00:07:59,729 I know. I'm looking at them through a big picture window. 139 00:08:00,563 --> 00:08:01,606 Are you alone? 140 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:04,734 I am. 141 00:08:04,817 --> 00:08:07,153 She's a thorn in our sides, your mother. 142 00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:10,364 We can't have her looming over us. 143 00:08:10,448 --> 00:08:13,117 -Wait, if you're suggesting-- -Check your e-mail. 144 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:16,621 Publish what I've sent. Then I'll know you're loyal. 145 00:08:20,833 --> 00:08:24,545 I want something in return to prove your loyalty. 146 00:08:25,129 --> 00:08:26,214 How about... 147 00:08:27,465 --> 00:08:31,219 you do this for me, and then you get to ask me a question. 148 00:08:31,302 --> 00:08:33,012 And I have to answer. 149 00:08:33,095 --> 00:08:34,972 You have until tomorrow night. 150 00:08:47,401 --> 00:08:49,403 [Archie] Oh, my God. Is that--? 151 00:08:49,487 --> 00:08:50,988 That's my mom. 152 00:09:04,710 --> 00:09:07,838 -What the hell? -[man] Your initiation begins now. 153 00:09:07,922 --> 00:09:11,050 With you assuming guardianship of the Beast. 154 00:09:13,844 --> 00:09:16,514 -You gotta be kidding. -[Toni] What do you think of the Beast? 155 00:09:16,597 --> 00:09:20,810 He stinks. And he barks all the time. He's got no boundaries. 156 00:09:20,893 --> 00:09:25,564 Every new recruit has to care of Hot Dog. It's tradition. This is our third Hot Dog. 157 00:09:26,190 --> 00:09:27,817 Oh, Hot Dog the third. 158 00:09:28,317 --> 00:09:32,697 -It's getting borderline ridiculous. -Oh, kind of like Forsyth the third? 159 00:09:34,198 --> 00:09:35,866 [both chuckle] 160 00:09:37,285 --> 00:09:41,414 Mom went after the Black Hood hard. No surprise he wants to humiliate her. 161 00:09:41,497 --> 00:09:43,958 We can't do it. It'd destroy her credibility. 162 00:09:44,041 --> 00:09:46,085 And build yours with the Black Hood. 163 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:50,756 Anyway, what credibility? Your mom's always going after our friends. 164 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,341 It would blindside her. 165 00:09:53,092 --> 00:09:54,468 We can't publish it. 166 00:09:57,805 --> 00:10:00,224 [Veronica] Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair. 167 00:10:01,142 --> 00:10:05,104 Nicholas. On behalf of my mother and father, welcome to Riverdale. 168 00:10:05,187 --> 00:10:08,566 While you're in town, think of me as your corporate concierge. 169 00:10:08,649 --> 00:10:10,192 Anything you need, ask away. 170 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:12,320 How about a better hotel, to start? 171 00:10:12,903 --> 00:10:14,196 Now, now, Nicholas. 172 00:10:15,114 --> 00:10:17,158 It's not the Waldorf, nor the Plaza, 173 00:10:17,241 --> 00:10:20,911 but the Five Seasons, like all of Riverdale, has its charms. 174 00:10:21,495 --> 00:10:22,538 One charm. 175 00:10:23,122 --> 00:10:24,373 Veronica Lodge... 176 00:10:25,499 --> 00:10:26,584 as lovely as ever. 177 00:10:29,837 --> 00:10:34,008 We sent the letters to two specialists, but the handwriting wasn't a match. 178 00:10:34,091 --> 00:10:37,553 Whoever wrote your letter was a copycat, or pranking you, or-- 179 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:39,138 Or something more banal, 180 00:10:39,221 --> 00:10:41,599 like a teenager acting out to get attention. 181 00:10:41,682 --> 00:10:43,017 You think I wrote it? 182 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:47,188 The cipher was cribbed from a Nancy Drew book of all places. 183 00:10:47,271 --> 00:10:50,483 Mom, what possible reason could I have for making this up? 184 00:10:50,566 --> 00:10:54,820 Maybe you and your Serpent boyfriend cooked this up because you were bored. 185 00:10:54,904 --> 00:10:59,408 We're not gonna rule anything out yet, not until we know what we're dealing with. 186 00:11:03,579 --> 00:11:04,705 [grunts] 187 00:11:05,289 --> 00:11:06,374 [phone chimes] 188 00:11:17,551 --> 00:11:19,678 [Jughead] A Serpent never shows cowardice. 189 00:11:19,762 --> 00:11:23,808 If a Serpent is killed or imprisoned, their family will be taken care of. 190 00:11:23,891 --> 00:11:26,644 Serpents, uh... 191 00:11:26,727 --> 00:11:28,437 Come on. Focus. 192 00:11:28,521 --> 00:11:30,356 You need to take this seriously. 193 00:11:30,439 --> 00:11:33,401 Okay, I am, Toni. I swear to God I am. It's just-- 194 00:11:33,776 --> 00:11:37,988 -First the Beast and now these laws? -Why the change of heart, anyway? 195 00:11:38,072 --> 00:11:41,409 Why go from conscientious objector to full-fledged member? 196 00:11:41,492 --> 00:11:43,411 Because of something you said. 197 00:11:45,996 --> 00:11:49,417 My dad was the only one keeping idiots like Sweet Pea in line. 198 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,419 Someone needs to step up... 199 00:11:52,795 --> 00:11:54,880 to keep an all-out war from erupting. 200 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,635 I am taking this seriously, Toni. 201 00:12:00,803 --> 00:12:02,263 So, from the top. 202 00:12:02,346 --> 00:12:05,474 What is the fourth law?! 203 00:12:06,016 --> 00:12:07,768 No Serpent is left for dead! 204 00:12:07,852 --> 00:12:10,604 What is the fifth law?! 205 00:12:10,688 --> 00:12:13,190 A Serpent never betrays his own! 206 00:12:13,274 --> 00:12:14,817 What is the sixth?! 207 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:17,403 In unity, there is strength! 208 00:12:17,486 --> 00:12:19,405 [all] In unity there is strength! 209 00:12:19,488 --> 00:12:21,490 [rock music playing over speakers] 210 00:12:25,327 --> 00:12:26,537 You know the laws. 211 00:12:27,163 --> 00:12:29,874 Now it's time for the next trial. 212 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:38,674 Retrieve the knife. 213 00:12:39,925 --> 00:12:41,051 What? 214 00:12:44,972 --> 00:12:48,184 A rattlesnake, Toni. A rattlesnake bit me and drew blood. 215 00:12:48,267 --> 00:12:50,895 One that had its venom glands removed, okay? 216 00:12:50,978 --> 00:12:54,315 The important thing is you showed no fear, grabbed the knife, 217 00:12:54,398 --> 00:12:55,900 and remembered the laws. 218 00:12:55,983 --> 00:12:58,194 Which means you're almost a Serpent now. 219 00:13:07,786 --> 00:13:09,872 My regular, Pop. Thanks. 220 00:13:10,164 --> 00:13:11,665 I don't judge you, Alice. 221 00:13:11,749 --> 00:13:14,668 -It was years ago. -What are you talking about? 222 00:13:14,752 --> 00:13:16,587 ["Chances" playing over speakers] 223 00:13:16,670 --> 00:13:18,422 [indistinct chatter] 224 00:13:18,506 --> 00:13:21,091 ♪ What are the chances? ♪ 225 00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:25,721 Who gave you this article? 226 00:13:25,804 --> 00:13:29,975 Because I know that I ripped it out of every public archive. 227 00:13:30,059 --> 00:13:34,230 Maybe it was one of the thousands of Southsiders you attack in your paper. 228 00:13:34,313 --> 00:13:35,898 I mean, really, Mom. 229 00:13:35,981 --> 00:13:38,817 You talk trash about FP, Jughead, the Serpents, 230 00:13:38,901 --> 00:13:40,611 when you yourself were one. 231 00:13:40,694 --> 00:13:42,446 Why would you publish that? 232 00:13:44,448 --> 00:13:45,533 Revenge. 233 00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:46,992 Plain and simple. 234 00:13:48,577 --> 00:13:50,829 No, Mom. Not revenge. 235 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:53,457 Justice. 236 00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:57,795 Against you and your holier-than-thou attitude. 237 00:13:57,878 --> 00:13:59,463 Betty, that is enough. 238 00:14:03,551 --> 00:14:06,595 I'm so glad you two are getting this chance to meet. 239 00:14:07,137 --> 00:14:10,599 Although your brown-nosing at dinner was over-the-top, Nicky. 240 00:14:10,683 --> 00:14:13,435 How dare you? I love your mother's flan. 241 00:14:16,564 --> 00:14:20,150 Although, I still have room for more dessert. 242 00:14:23,028 --> 00:14:24,154 Here. 243 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:30,077 No, thank you. I'm full. 244 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,413 Veronica Lodge turning down a bump. 245 00:14:32,788 --> 00:14:34,665 What a brave new world it is. 246 00:14:36,125 --> 00:14:37,585 How about it, Big Red? 247 00:14:43,674 --> 00:14:47,177 So, what is it that you country mice do for fun up here? 248 00:14:47,261 --> 00:14:49,680 Catch lightning bugs with Mason jars? 249 00:14:49,763 --> 00:14:51,265 -No, we-- -Basically. 250 00:14:53,225 --> 00:14:54,268 Ronnie. 251 00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,229 What kind of kink is this? 252 00:14:57,313 --> 00:15:00,399 I wear them when playing with Josie and the Pussycats. 253 00:15:01,650 --> 00:15:04,528 -You're in a band called the Pussycats? -Mm-hm. 254 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:08,407 Just when I thought you couldn't possibly get any sexier. 255 00:15:09,867 --> 00:15:11,327 [chuckles] 256 00:15:18,042 --> 00:15:19,668 ["Lollipop" playing on phone] 257 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:21,253 ♪ Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 258 00:15:21,337 --> 00:15:23,714 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop, oh-- ♪ 259 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:27,843 Hello? 260 00:15:27,926 --> 00:15:29,386 [Black Hood] How does it feel, Betty? 261 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:32,222 Knocking your mother off her high horse? 262 00:15:33,599 --> 00:15:34,725 We had a deal. 263 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,144 What's your question? 264 00:15:39,563 --> 00:15:40,939 And it can't be my name. 265 00:15:45,486 --> 00:15:47,905 The face under the hood... 266 00:15:49,698 --> 00:15:51,158 would I recognize it? 267 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:54,662 Yes. 268 00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,833 Do you feel closer to me now? 269 00:16:00,417 --> 00:16:02,920 I do. I feel as if we're friends. 270 00:16:03,003 --> 00:16:04,630 But I'm selfish, Betty. 271 00:16:04,713 --> 00:16:07,049 I don't like sharing you with other people. 272 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:11,470 I need you to cut them out of your life, or I will my way. 273 00:16:12,054 --> 00:16:15,683 Let's start with that daughter of a philanderer 274 00:16:15,766 --> 00:16:17,226 and an embezzler, 275 00:16:17,309 --> 00:16:19,478 complicit in her father's crimes. 276 00:16:19,561 --> 00:16:20,771 Veronica's not-- 277 00:16:22,147 --> 00:16:23,232 She's innocent. 278 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:26,193 Oh, Betty. You don't really believe that. 279 00:16:27,152 --> 00:16:28,195 [line clicks] 280 00:16:33,742 --> 00:16:35,744 ["Count On Me" playing over speakers] 281 00:16:35,828 --> 00:16:37,830 [door opens and bell jingles] 282 00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:42,418 Betty Cooper. 283 00:16:44,753 --> 00:16:47,172 You are a sight for sore eyes. 284 00:16:48,590 --> 00:16:50,175 Thanks for coming to meet me. 285 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:58,976 ♪ When you're needing rest ♪ 286 00:16:59,059 --> 00:17:00,811 ♪ From the road ♪ 287 00:17:00,894 --> 00:17:03,772 God, I've missed you. I've just been feeling-- 288 00:17:04,481 --> 00:17:05,566 I don't know. 289 00:17:06,608 --> 00:17:08,694 -Unmoored. -Me, too. 290 00:17:11,238 --> 00:17:14,408 -I wanted to make sure you were alive. -What do you mean? 291 00:17:15,659 --> 00:17:19,121 That exposé that you published about your mom, 292 00:17:19,204 --> 00:17:21,165 -that article that you wrote. -Oh, um... 293 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,003 That's a long story, yeah, pretty intense. What happened to your hand? 294 00:17:27,629 --> 00:17:29,256 Oh, I'm dog-sitting. 295 00:17:29,339 --> 00:17:31,967 Do you remember Hot Dog, that mutt? 296 00:17:32,551 --> 00:17:34,303 Don't worry. He's got his shots. 297 00:17:35,387 --> 00:17:39,266 ♪ Everybody needs a pick-me-up You can count on me ♪ 298 00:17:40,142 --> 00:17:43,562 ♪ Come what may come what might Everybody falls down ♪ 299 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:45,355 I wish we could just go. 300 00:17:48,150 --> 00:17:51,904 Just hop on a motorcycle and just leave Riverdale. 301 00:17:52,571 --> 00:17:55,866 Go someplace where there's no Northside, or Southside... 302 00:17:56,450 --> 00:17:58,577 or Serpents, Ghoulies. 303 00:17:58,660 --> 00:17:59,661 No... 304 00:18:00,954 --> 00:18:03,248 crazy moms, no Black Hoods. 305 00:18:07,586 --> 00:18:12,382 Like Romeo and Juliet, but we live happily ever after instead. 306 00:18:19,473 --> 00:18:21,475 [applause] 307 00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:27,106 You Pussycats are pearls before the swine of Riverdale. 308 00:18:27,189 --> 00:18:32,569 You have to come to the party I'm hosting tonight in your honor. Let's say 10:00? 309 00:18:32,653 --> 00:18:34,321 My room at the Five Seasons. 310 00:18:35,072 --> 00:18:36,865 Did somebody say party? 311 00:18:39,493 --> 00:18:40,702 Hi there. 312 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:43,956 I'm Riverdale's resident it-girl, Cheryl Blossom. 313 00:18:44,373 --> 00:18:46,667 You must be Veronica's old-school chum. 314 00:18:46,750 --> 00:18:48,627 Nick St. Clair. 315 00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:51,129 Now that's a name I can get behind. 316 00:18:51,964 --> 00:18:53,382 Ten o'clock, you said? 317 00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:54,925 I'll be there at 11. 318 00:19:02,975 --> 00:19:04,017 Betty. 319 00:19:04,768 --> 00:19:07,771 -What's up? -I, uh, went by your house this morning, 320 00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:11,108 to walk you to school, but your mom said you'd already left. 321 00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:13,569 Did he call you again? 322 00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:17,239 No. He didn't. 323 00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:18,991 Betty. 324 00:19:19,074 --> 00:19:23,078 My old friend Nick here is having a little soirée at his hotel tonight. 325 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:26,665 Will you come? Betty is my bestie and the best. 326 00:19:26,748 --> 00:19:28,709 I won't take no for an answer. 327 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:31,086 I wouldn't miss it. 328 00:19:35,257 --> 00:19:38,468 Then we walk into the Gilded Lily, and there's Gal again. 329 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:39,845 [laughs] 330 00:19:39,928 --> 00:19:42,097 -Gal? -Gadot. Keep up, Archie. 331 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:44,892 Archiekins, a refill, s'il vous plait? 332 00:19:44,975 --> 00:19:48,312 Forget teetotaling. Let's move to something with more kick. 333 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:51,231 -Is that--? -Jingle-Jangle? Why, yes, it is. 334 00:19:51,315 --> 00:19:53,942 -I hooked him up. -Tasters? Who's up first? 335 00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,820 -We're not doing-- -Don't take this the wrong way, 336 00:19:56,904 --> 00:19:58,864 but you are an epic buzzkill. 337 00:19:58,947 --> 00:20:00,866 [pop music playing over speakers] 338 00:20:01,617 --> 00:20:04,578 -Come on, V. Like back in the day? -[chuckles] 339 00:20:04,661 --> 00:20:08,123 Aren't you supposed to be showing me a good time, per Daddy's orders? 340 00:20:10,667 --> 00:20:11,960 Down, Nicky. 341 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:13,420 I'm just getting going. 342 00:20:14,087 --> 00:20:16,173 And now that you mention it, 343 00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:20,177 I, in fact, wouldn't mind a little sugar to spice up this party. 344 00:20:22,137 --> 00:20:25,515 What? Every other night it's burgers and milkshakes. 345 00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:28,977 Can't we just cut loose and pretend we're normal for once? 346 00:20:29,478 --> 00:20:30,938 -I'm in. -Me, too. 347 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:32,314 Kevin? 348 00:20:33,815 --> 00:20:35,943 [Nick] Pussycats, care to partake? 349 00:20:36,526 --> 00:20:39,029 -Betty? -No, thanks. 350 00:20:39,112 --> 00:20:40,906 -It'll be fun. -I said no, V. 351 00:20:41,490 --> 00:20:44,451 Okay, relax, Betty. This is strictly voluntary. 352 00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:48,538 Perhaps we should decamp to the bedroom, to not corrupt the country mice. 353 00:20:48,622 --> 00:20:50,457 I changed my mind. I'm in. 354 00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:52,501 Bravo, Archie Andrews. 355 00:20:52,584 --> 00:20:56,004 There's that good, strong Riverdale stock I've been jonesing for. 356 00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:57,130 [chuckles] 357 00:20:57,798 --> 00:21:01,843 ♪ It feels good to be running From the devil ♪ 358 00:21:01,927 --> 00:21:05,681 ♪ Another breath And I'm up another level ♪ 359 00:21:05,764 --> 00:21:09,726 ♪ It feels good To be up above the clouds ♪ 360 00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:13,105 ♪ It feels good for the first time In a long time now ♪ 361 00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:21,446 ♪ It feels good for the first time In a long time now ♪ 362 00:21:24,491 --> 00:21:25,450 [girl whoops] 363 00:21:26,535 --> 00:21:27,869 Come on, Betty. 364 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:29,579 Don't be such a wallflower. 365 00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:32,332 You're boyfriend-less for a night. Have some fun. 366 00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:33,917 Like you, you mean? 367 00:21:34,584 --> 00:21:37,170 You're making a fool out of yourself, 368 00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:42,301 just acting like some privileged, shallow, airhead party girl. 369 00:21:42,384 --> 00:21:44,803 -[scoffs] Excuse me? -Yeah. 370 00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:48,432 I mean, it's all just recycled banter... 371 00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:52,352 and plunging necklines, and throwing shade to distract us all 372 00:21:52,436 --> 00:21:55,439 from the fact that there's nothing going on underneath. 373 00:21:55,522 --> 00:21:58,567 -Betty, what are you saying? -What we're all thinking. 374 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:02,738 That the only reason Veronica hangs out with us is circumstance. 375 00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:03,989 She's not our friend. 376 00:22:04,072 --> 00:22:07,034 The minute someone from her trashy past shows up, 377 00:22:07,117 --> 00:22:09,369 she starts using us for drugs, 378 00:22:09,453 --> 00:22:11,246 or music, or distraction. 379 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:13,040 And why should we be surprised? 380 00:22:13,123 --> 00:22:15,375 Like father, like daughter, right? 381 00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:18,545 -You better shut it down, Betty. -Or what, Veronica? 382 00:22:19,129 --> 00:22:22,966 You'll have your dad put a hit on me? Or maybe you'll do it yourself. 383 00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:25,969 Because you may have fooled all of them, but not me. 384 00:22:26,053 --> 00:22:28,263 Try to reform all you want, 385 00:22:28,346 --> 00:22:30,724 but you're a bad person, Veronica. 386 00:22:30,807 --> 00:22:32,726 You'll always be a bad person. 387 00:22:35,145 --> 00:22:37,689 Why don't you go then, if I'm such a monster. 388 00:22:46,239 --> 00:22:47,491 [door closes] 389 00:22:48,408 --> 00:22:50,077 -Veronica-- -I'm fine. 390 00:22:50,452 --> 00:22:52,120 Obviously, she's not. 391 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,873 Wanna go after her? Be my guest. 392 00:22:54,956 --> 00:22:59,127 I'll be damned if I'm chasing Betty down after that-- Whatever it was. 393 00:22:59,711 --> 00:23:01,004 In fact, Reggie? 394 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:02,798 Turn the music up, will you? 395 00:23:04,758 --> 00:23:05,759 What's up? 396 00:23:07,302 --> 00:23:08,512 Jughead, I, um... 397 00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:11,890 I came to warn you, I guess. 398 00:23:13,141 --> 00:23:15,352 If you're having any second thoughts... 399 00:23:16,144 --> 00:23:19,648 now would be the time to back out because the final trial... 400 00:23:20,607 --> 00:23:22,192 is on a whole other level. 401 00:23:22,275 --> 00:23:23,902 The Gauntlet, you mean? 402 00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:27,739 If it's anything like the Beast, I'll be fine. 403 00:23:28,323 --> 00:23:31,409 -It's whatever. -No, Jughead, it's not whatever. 404 00:23:32,327 --> 00:23:35,705 You join us, you gotta be willing to die for us. 405 00:23:37,791 --> 00:23:39,417 Because we will for you. 406 00:23:39,876 --> 00:23:42,838 And your Northside friends, your girlfriend? 407 00:23:43,797 --> 00:23:46,883 You're gonna look up one day, and they'll all be gone. 408 00:23:46,967 --> 00:23:49,970 Because that's what happens when you join a gang. 409 00:23:50,053 --> 00:23:51,763 The Serpents are no exception. 410 00:23:53,014 --> 00:23:54,307 Consider me warned. 411 00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:56,059 Thank you, Toni. 412 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:05,610 Never has one of my parties fizzled out so spectacularly. 413 00:24:06,194 --> 00:24:08,446 I don't know what got into Betty. 414 00:24:09,364 --> 00:24:11,616 She's my best friend, believe it or not. 415 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:15,829 Those things that she said, you're not a bad person, Veronica. 416 00:24:15,912 --> 00:24:16,830 In fact... 417 00:24:17,706 --> 00:24:18,790 you're incredible. 418 00:24:18,874 --> 00:24:21,585 You're smart, vivacious. 419 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:24,254 And you're sexy. 420 00:24:24,337 --> 00:24:28,466 Nick, I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression. 421 00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:29,926 I'm with Archie. 422 00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:31,469 Oh, come on, V. 423 00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:35,432 You barely looked at that hayseed yokel. You were all over me. 424 00:24:35,515 --> 00:24:36,850 Nick, we're friends. 425 00:24:36,933 --> 00:24:38,018 -Old friends. -No. 426 00:24:38,101 --> 00:24:40,187 Nick. Nick, I mean it. Stop! 427 00:24:43,231 --> 00:24:46,443 Same old Veronica, huh? You flirt and you tease. 428 00:24:46,526 --> 00:24:49,613 But, in the end... you think you're better than me. 429 00:24:49,696 --> 00:24:50,697 You're a pig. 430 00:24:50,780 --> 00:24:55,327 With the power to implode this deal your father's trying to make happen. 431 00:24:55,410 --> 00:24:57,287 Unless you want that to go away, 432 00:24:57,370 --> 00:25:00,707 I'd think of ways you might start showing me appreciation. 433 00:25:00,790 --> 00:25:02,042 If you need any help... 434 00:25:02,959 --> 00:25:04,336 I can suggest a couple. 435 00:25:13,428 --> 00:25:14,638 [door closes] 436 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,809 [sighs] 437 00:25:21,978 --> 00:25:23,647 ["Lollipop" playing on phone] 438 00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:25,315 ♪ Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 439 00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:28,526 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 440 00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:31,780 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli-- ♪ 441 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:32,781 [phone beeps] 442 00:25:38,161 --> 00:25:39,246 I did it. 443 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:42,832 But now I want my question. 444 00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:46,878 What will make you stop? 445 00:25:46,962 --> 00:25:50,006 [Black Hood] You. As long as you continue showing me your devotion. 446 00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:52,968 I can't keep doing this. 447 00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:54,219 Sure you can. 448 00:25:55,345 --> 00:25:57,847 Jughead, the son of a Serpent. 449 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:00,392 -No. -He's not worthy of your love. 450 00:26:02,686 --> 00:26:04,271 Cut him out of your life. 451 00:26:05,438 --> 00:26:06,856 Or I will. 452 00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:08,108 [line clicks] 453 00:26:18,034 --> 00:26:19,911 What the hell was that last night? 454 00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:23,206 -Betty? -I lied to you. 455 00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:29,254 When you asked me if the Black Hood called again, he did. 456 00:26:31,047 --> 00:26:32,090 [Betty sighs] 457 00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:36,386 And he told me to cut Veronica out of my life or he-- 458 00:26:37,554 --> 00:26:40,015 And now he wants me to do the same with Jug. 459 00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:42,809 -Why didn't you tell me? -You'd try to talk me out of it. 460 00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:44,853 You're right. 461 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:46,563 It's my mistake. 462 00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:50,608 Archie, put the phone-- Put the phone down! 463 00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:51,901 Listen to me. 464 00:26:51,985 --> 00:26:56,114 He hasn't attacked or killed anyone since we started talking. 465 00:26:56,197 --> 00:26:58,533 I think this is distracting him. 466 00:26:58,616 --> 00:27:00,160 Betty, he's torturing you. 467 00:27:00,243 --> 00:27:03,413 Making you hurt your mom, Veronica, and now Jughead? 468 00:27:03,997 --> 00:27:07,667 How are you gonna put him and yourself through that? 469 00:27:13,214 --> 00:27:15,175 I was hoping maybe you would do it. 470 00:27:18,845 --> 00:27:19,804 What? 471 00:27:21,681 --> 00:27:23,558 Maybe you could tell him... 472 00:27:24,392 --> 00:27:27,937 that we just need to stay away from each other for a while. 473 00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:31,483 Something, anything, to just keep him away, 474 00:27:31,566 --> 00:27:33,026 to appease the Black Hood. 475 00:27:33,109 --> 00:27:35,236 -Betty. -It doesn't have to be cruel. 476 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,655 Just enough to make Jug believe it. 477 00:27:39,115 --> 00:27:41,493 -We can walk it back later. -You hope we can. 478 00:27:41,576 --> 00:27:43,411 No. We can. 479 00:27:43,745 --> 00:27:44,829 And we will. 480 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:49,209 Please, Arch. 481 00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:52,796 Don't quit on me now. 482 00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:02,138 [indistinct chatter] 483 00:28:02,222 --> 00:28:04,557 [lounge music playing over speakers] 484 00:28:07,602 --> 00:28:10,897 Hey. So nice to see you. Thank you for coming. 485 00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:12,148 Glad to see you. 486 00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:16,277 If this turnout doesn't convince the St. Clairs to invest, 487 00:28:16,361 --> 00:28:17,987 -I don't know what will. -Yeah. 488 00:28:18,655 --> 00:28:21,157 Hey, mija. How'd it go with Nick? 489 00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:24,536 -Did he say something? -No, haven't seen him. 490 00:28:24,619 --> 00:28:27,539 From all reports, your charm offensive is paying off. 491 00:28:27,622 --> 00:28:28,540 Good work. 492 00:28:28,623 --> 00:28:30,250 Oh, there's Nick now. 493 00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:32,544 Uh-oh. Looks like we're running low on canapés. 494 00:28:32,627 --> 00:28:35,296 Excuse me while I go quietly yell at the caterer. 495 00:28:36,631 --> 00:28:38,967 [Hermione] And I have a partner to wrangle. 496 00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:39,926 Yeah. 497 00:28:44,264 --> 00:28:46,891 The point of this open house is to socialize. 498 00:28:46,975 --> 00:28:50,019 I figured I'd leave that to the pros. 499 00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:52,981 You're not without your charms, Fred Andrews. 500 00:28:54,941 --> 00:28:56,651 We're glad you're back at work. 501 00:28:57,277 --> 00:28:58,278 "We," huh? 502 00:29:00,196 --> 00:29:01,531 Hiram Lodge. 503 00:29:01,614 --> 00:29:03,533 -Been a long time, buddy. -Hey, Hal. 504 00:29:03,908 --> 00:29:05,785 -Glad you could make it. -My pleasure. 505 00:29:05,869 --> 00:29:06,953 Where's Alice? 506 00:29:07,036 --> 00:29:09,122 Well, between us, 507 00:29:09,205 --> 00:29:11,249 that mug shot took a toll on her. 508 00:29:11,332 --> 00:29:14,544 We decided it would be better if I covered the event alone. 509 00:29:14,961 --> 00:29:18,798 Yes. We would love to have you standing with us up on that stage. 510 00:29:21,801 --> 00:29:23,136 Hell, you built it. 511 00:29:23,803 --> 00:29:24,763 That's true. 512 00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:28,683 Oh, my God. 513 00:29:28,766 --> 00:29:30,727 ♪ Thunder, thunder ♪ 514 00:29:30,810 --> 00:29:32,479 ♪ Thunder, thunder ♪ 515 00:29:32,562 --> 00:29:34,314 ♪ Th-thunder, thunder ♪ 516 00:29:34,397 --> 00:29:37,150 ♪ Thunder, thunder, thun-- ♪ 517 00:29:37,233 --> 00:29:39,903 ♪ Thunder, th-thunder Thunder ♪ 518 00:29:39,986 --> 00:29:42,822 ♪ Thunder, feel the thunder ♪ 519 00:29:42,906 --> 00:29:45,700 ♪ Lightning and the thunder ♪ 520 00:29:45,783 --> 00:29:49,204 ♪ Thunder, feel the thunder Lightning ♪ 521 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:50,622 -Alice-- -Shove it, Hal. 522 00:29:52,415 --> 00:29:54,876 You're gonna need to top those off. Thank you. 523 00:29:55,793 --> 00:29:58,213 Before you throw a drink in my face... 524 00:29:58,296 --> 00:29:59,297 I'm sorry. 525 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:02,008 I crossed a line. 526 00:30:02,091 --> 00:30:04,052 You obliterated a line. 527 00:30:04,135 --> 00:30:06,012 I strongly concur. 528 00:30:06,095 --> 00:30:07,639 And it's not an excuse... 529 00:30:08,139 --> 00:30:10,683 but over the last three months, I've been... 530 00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:12,936 in and out of rehab. 531 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:14,395 It's been... 532 00:30:15,522 --> 00:30:17,482 a struggle, obviously. 533 00:30:19,567 --> 00:30:21,569 [inaudible dialogue] 534 00:30:24,113 --> 00:30:27,575 Last night was... messy. 535 00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:30,119 But... we've all been there. 536 00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:34,249 So, why don't we start over with two glasses of ginger ale? 537 00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:35,375 I'll drink to that. 538 00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:58,523 -Archie? -We gotta talk, Jug. 539 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,443 Uh, now's really not a good time. Okay? 540 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:04,404 You need to leave. You gotta go. 541 00:31:04,487 --> 00:31:06,281 -What's going on? -I'm serious. 542 00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:08,575 -What do we have here? -[Jughead] He was leaving. 543 00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:10,910 Wait, you're friends with these thugs? 544 00:31:10,994 --> 00:31:12,495 It's not what you think. 545 00:31:13,621 --> 00:31:16,583 -Are you joining the Serpents? -If he survives. 546 00:31:16,666 --> 00:31:21,337 -Go ahead and call us thugs one more time. -These are the guys who attacked me. 547 00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:24,465 Who attacked Reggie, Veronica, Dilton, your friends. 548 00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,175 Wait, is this why you're here? 549 00:31:27,802 --> 00:31:29,429 -To warn me? -No. 550 00:31:29,512 --> 00:31:31,848 I came to tell you to stay away from Betty. 551 00:31:32,473 --> 00:31:34,017 She doesn't want to see you anymore. 552 00:31:37,020 --> 00:31:39,814 Screw you. I just saw Betty yesterday. She-- 553 00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:43,610 -She was fine. -No, dude. 554 00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:48,156 She's been wanting to break up with you. She's been agonizing over it. 555 00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:51,659 Since you crossed the dark side. She couldn't bring herself to do it. 556 00:31:52,201 --> 00:31:54,746 So, she sent you? Betty would never do that. 557 00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:56,706 If you don't believe me, call her. 558 00:31:57,582 --> 00:31:59,959 Feel free to tell her you're a Serpent now. 559 00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:01,294 I bet she'll love that. 560 00:32:01,377 --> 00:32:03,671 She saw where you were headed, Jughead. 561 00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:07,133 We all did. And she knows you can't be with them and with her. 562 00:32:08,468 --> 00:32:09,761 Come on, man. 563 00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:11,888 You know it, too. 564 00:32:19,187 --> 00:32:20,813 Tell Betty I got the message. 565 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:24,442 Yeah. 566 00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:32,450 What? 567 00:32:32,533 --> 00:32:33,993 Did you enjoy the show? 568 00:32:35,536 --> 00:32:37,497 Show hasn't even started yet. 569 00:32:42,627 --> 00:32:44,754 [lounge music playing over speakers] 570 00:32:46,756 --> 00:32:50,760 -We didn't get a chance to talk. -I'm choosing to blame Betty's meltdown. 571 00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:53,388 -Heh. -I'll let you make it up to me. 572 00:32:58,685 --> 00:33:01,187 [speaking in French] 573 00:33:05,858 --> 00:33:07,026 [Hiram] Ladies and gentlemen, 574 00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:12,031 a new story begins in Riverdale tonight, a story about reinvention and aspiration. 575 00:33:12,615 --> 00:33:15,410 This building is the first chapter of that story. 576 00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:19,163 Luxury apartments, shopping, and even a golf course. 577 00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:22,917 The Southside as we know it will be gone, replaced with a new Eden. 578 00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:27,422 So, let's raise our glasses to a brighter tomorrow. 579 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,966 Today, let's celebrate with a little music. 580 00:33:30,591 --> 00:33:33,261 [Josie] ♪ What's the time ♪ 581 00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:36,639 ♪ Well, it's gotta be close to midnight ♪ 582 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:39,517 ♪ My body's talking to me ♪ 583 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,603 ♪ It says, "Time for danger" ♪ 584 00:33:43,604 --> 00:33:46,941 [Veronica] ♪ It says, "I wanna commit a crime" ♪ 585 00:33:47,024 --> 00:33:50,194 ♪ Wanna be the cause of a fight ♪ 586 00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:52,196 ♪ I wanna put on a tight skirt ♪ 587 00:33:53,948 --> 00:33:56,284 [Veronica] ♪ And flirt with a stranger ♪ 588 00:33:58,077 --> 00:34:01,205 ♪ I've had a knack from way back ♪ 589 00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:04,542 ♪ At breaking the rules Once I learn the game ♪ 590 00:34:04,625 --> 00:34:06,294 ♪ Get up Life's too quick ♪ 591 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:07,962 ♪ I know some place sick ♪ 592 00:34:08,045 --> 00:34:12,008 ♪ Where this chick will dance In the flames ♪ 593 00:34:12,091 --> 00:34:15,261 [Josie] ♪ We don't need any money ♪ 594 00:34:15,344 --> 00:34:18,306 ♪ I always get in for free ♪ 595 00:34:18,806 --> 00:34:20,933 ♪ You can get in, too ♪ 596 00:34:21,017 --> 00:34:24,979 ♪ If you get in with me ♪ 597 00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:30,026 [Josie] ♪ Let's go out tonight ♪ 598 00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:39,410 Meow. 599 00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:41,454 You all right? 600 00:34:41,954 --> 00:34:43,206 I'm fine. I'm just-- 601 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:44,999 I need-- I need some air. 602 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,209 Okay. 603 00:34:57,303 --> 00:34:58,179 [grunting] 604 00:35:20,493 --> 00:35:22,328 Is that all you got? 605 00:35:25,248 --> 00:35:26,165 [grunting] 606 00:35:27,667 --> 00:35:30,503 ♪ You wanna play, let's run away ♪ 607 00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:35,174 ♪ We won't be back Before it's New Year's Day ♪ 608 00:35:35,258 --> 00:35:37,093 ♪ Take me out ♪ 609 00:35:37,426 --> 00:35:38,761 ♪ Tonight ♪ 610 00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:40,721 Get off of her! 611 00:35:41,889 --> 00:35:44,559 ♪ In the evening I've got to roam ♪ 612 00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:48,187 ♪ Can't sleep in the city Of neon and chrome ♪ 613 00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:50,898 ♪ Feels too damn much like home ♪ 614 00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:55,278 ♪ When the Spanish babies cry ♪ 615 00:35:55,736 --> 00:35:57,738 ♪ So, let's find a bar ♪ 616 00:35:57,822 --> 00:36:01,784 ♪ So dark, we forget who we are ♪ 617 00:36:01,868 --> 00:36:07,957 ♪ Where all the scars From the nevers and maybes die ♪ 618 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:13,713 ♪ Let's go out tonight ♪ 619 00:36:14,589 --> 00:36:16,174 ♪ Don't forsake me ♪ 620 00:36:16,799 --> 00:36:20,678 ♪ Out tonight ♪ 621 00:36:20,761 --> 00:36:22,221 ♪ Tonight ♪ 622 00:36:22,305 --> 00:36:23,472 ♪ Tonight ♪ 623 00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:27,351 ["Lollipop" playing on phone] 624 00:36:27,435 --> 00:36:28,603 ♪ Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 625 00:36:28,686 --> 00:36:32,523 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli, lollipop ♪ 626 00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:33,858 [phone beeps] 627 00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:38,362 [Black Hood] Is it done? 628 00:36:40,823 --> 00:36:41,699 Yes. 629 00:36:41,991 --> 00:36:43,451 Ask me your question. 630 00:36:44,327 --> 00:36:46,245 There's only one I care about now. 631 00:36:46,746 --> 00:36:48,164 You wanna know who I am. 632 00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:52,877 Well, there's an abandoned house on the edge of Fox Forest, 633 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,712 at the end of the service road. 634 00:36:55,922 --> 00:36:57,548 You'll find your answer there. 635 00:36:58,257 --> 00:36:59,300 [line clicks] 636 00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:27,411 ["Lollipop" playing on phone] 637 00:37:27,495 --> 00:37:29,247 ♪ Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 638 00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:31,707 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop Oh, lolli-- ♪ 639 00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:32,708 [phone beeps] 640 00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:35,628 I'm here. 641 00:37:36,212 --> 00:37:37,380 [Black Hood] Do you see it? 642 00:37:44,178 --> 00:37:45,429 Yes. 643 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,391 It's the answer to your question. 644 00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:17,545 Put it on. 645 00:38:18,879 --> 00:38:19,755 Why? 646 00:38:19,839 --> 00:38:21,257 Put it on and you'll see. 647 00:38:42,528 --> 00:38:43,404 It's on. 648 00:38:43,487 --> 00:38:44,697 Now turn around. 649 00:38:58,544 --> 00:39:00,379 Why are you doing this to me? 650 00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:03,174 To show you that we're the same. 651 00:39:04,467 --> 00:39:05,801 [floorboard creaks] 652 00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:16,145 -[phone beeps] -[Archie] Hey. 653 00:39:16,228 --> 00:39:18,147 -[static hissing] -Archie? 654 00:39:19,148 --> 00:39:20,107 I can't-- 655 00:39:20,191 --> 00:39:22,693 Come to the Pem-- Cheryl-- Something bad-- 656 00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:25,696 What? 657 00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:29,116 If you hadn't come when you did-- 658 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,452 Where the hell is he? 659 00:39:31,535 --> 00:39:35,039 You can put your cape away. The Pussycats already saved me. 660 00:39:35,122 --> 00:39:37,625 I feel so sick about this. 661 00:39:38,417 --> 00:39:40,628 Nick's a monster. 662 00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:43,881 There's no way he hasn't done this before, probably under my nose. 663 00:39:43,964 --> 00:39:47,343 -It's not your fault, Veronica. -[Cheryl] I wanna press charges. 664 00:39:48,302 --> 00:39:49,929 I want Nick to pay. 665 00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:51,639 To suffer. 666 00:39:52,973 --> 00:39:54,433 To burn in hell. 667 00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:00,815 [crying] 668 00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:07,279 ["Sign Of The Times" playing] 669 00:40:07,363 --> 00:40:09,448 Welcome to the Serpents. 670 00:40:09,532 --> 00:40:10,783 Officially. 671 00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:16,247 You're gonna have a hard time hiding that from Betty. 672 00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:20,876 I think that's a non-issue now. 673 00:40:22,586 --> 00:40:25,673 ♪ Hope you're wearing your best clothes ♪ 674 00:40:28,008 --> 00:40:31,178 ♪ We never learn, we been here before ♪ 675 00:40:32,012 --> 00:40:36,308 ♪ Why are we always stuck And running from the bullets? ♪ 676 00:40:40,062 --> 00:40:41,647 ["Lollipop" playing on phone] 677 00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:43,274 ♪ Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 678 00:40:43,357 --> 00:40:46,485 ♪ Lollipop, lollipop Oh, lolli-lolli-lolli ♪ 679 00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:48,279 -♪ Lollipop, lolli-- ♪ -[phone beeps] 680 00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:55,035 I wasn't sure if you would call again. 681 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,413 [Black Hood] There's one piece of unfinished business. 682 00:40:58,289 --> 00:40:59,457 [sighs] 683 00:41:00,624 --> 00:41:01,709 What's that? 684 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:05,004 The fact that you've been telling Archie about our chats. 685 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:08,591 Betty, I've been watching you. 686 00:41:08,966 --> 00:41:12,428 -You never said I couldn't tell Archie. -You broke the rules. 687 00:41:12,511 --> 00:41:16,390 -And now your sister will pay. -Please, don't hurt her. 688 00:41:16,473 --> 00:41:18,142 Then give me another name. 689 00:41:18,225 --> 00:41:20,102 -Right now. -What? 690 00:41:20,186 --> 00:41:23,439 If you wanna save your sister, give me another name. 691 00:41:23,522 --> 00:41:25,065 The name of someone guilty. 692 00:41:25,608 --> 00:41:27,776 Come on, Betty. One little name. 693 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:30,029 I won't. I can't do that. 694 00:41:30,112 --> 00:41:32,698 Then I'll kill your sister, and your mother, 695 00:41:32,781 --> 00:41:35,826 and your father, and everyone you hold dear. 696 00:41:37,244 --> 00:41:38,746 Nick St. Clair. 697 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:43,125 He's staying at the Five Seasons. 698 00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:48,339 I told you, we were the same. ns.