1 00:00:02,043 --> 00:00:03,837 [Jughead] The weirdest thing about pretending to be dead is 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,173 that after a while, you actually start feeling like you're dead. 3 00:00:07,632 --> 00:00:10,051 As in "dead as a doornail" dead. 4 00:00:11,761 --> 00:00:12,762 [beeps] 5 00:00:13,930 --> 00:00:16,683 For starters, I was underground, as if in a tomb. 6 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:19,853 Granted, I was hiding out in Dilton's doomsday bunker 7 00:00:19,936 --> 00:00:21,771 and not in a coffin, but still. 8 00:00:23,148 --> 00:00:25,358 Two weeks, no sunlight, 9 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:27,777 with no sense of time or its passing. 10 00:00:28,486 --> 00:00:30,655 It's gotta be what Limbo feels like, right? 11 00:00:32,073 --> 00:00:33,616 Other similarities to being dead: 12 00:00:34,743 --> 00:00:38,204 Not one, but two obituaries about me ran. 13 00:00:38,872 --> 00:00:41,624 A rather perfunctory one in The Riverdale Register. 14 00:00:42,375 --> 00:00:45,253 A second, more irreverent one in The Blue and Gold. 15 00:00:46,212 --> 00:00:47,088 I liked that one. 16 00:00:49,507 --> 00:00:50,467 And a funeral. 17 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:51,885 Well, a wake. 18 00:00:53,470 --> 00:00:54,888 I watched it on my laptop. 19 00:00:55,930 --> 00:00:59,100 Live-streamed from a camera Betty had set up in the living room. 20 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:06,858 Betty and I suspected the Stonies would show up. 21 00:01:06,941 --> 00:01:08,985 And sure enough, they did. 22 00:01:10,111 --> 00:01:11,654 We wanted to study them, 23 00:01:11,738 --> 00:01:13,907 to see if anything they did was suspicious. 24 00:01:14,741 --> 00:01:16,993 Not that there was any doubt in our mind about their guilt. 25 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:20,914 The preppies had stone-cold murdered me and were trying to pin it on Betty. 26 00:01:21,706 --> 00:01:23,041 We just couldn't prove it. 27 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:24,751 Not yet. 28 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:28,671 Meanwhile, the hardest part of playing dead 29 00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:32,550 was letting everyone believe I was in the semisweet hereafter. 30 00:01:33,468 --> 00:01:35,053 Our family, our friends. 31 00:01:36,346 --> 00:01:37,680 The lies we had to tell, 32 00:01:38,306 --> 00:01:40,683 the things we had to do to sell that illusion. 33 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:43,603 Like pretending that my bereft girlfriend had found comfort 34 00:01:43,686 --> 00:01:46,147 in the strong, steely arms of my best bud. 35 00:01:47,398 --> 00:01:50,276 Which turned out to be the greatest misdirect of them all. 36 00:01:50,860 --> 00:01:53,613 Of course, we needed to let some people know the truth. 37 00:01:54,531 --> 00:01:55,615 Except in one case. 38 00:01:56,449 --> 00:01:57,826 My kid sister, Jellybean? 39 00:01:58,660 --> 00:01:59,828 Didn't have to be told. 40 00:01:59,911 --> 00:02:02,539 Oh, you found the fake blood. Thanks, Jellybean. 41 00:02:03,122 --> 00:02:04,707 Do you need it for Jughead? 42 00:02:06,042 --> 00:02:08,044 What? What do you--? What do you mean? 43 00:02:08,127 --> 00:02:09,587 Do you need it to help my brother? 44 00:02:12,674 --> 00:02:15,510 Jellybean, do you know where Jughead is? 45 00:02:15,593 --> 00:02:18,138 I heard you whispering on the phone to Charles last night. 46 00:02:18,221 --> 00:02:19,556 The walls are super thin. 47 00:02:20,056 --> 00:02:22,976 You don't have to tell me where he is, just that he's okay. 48 00:02:24,018 --> 00:02:25,854 Is he... okay? 49 00:02:28,314 --> 00:02:30,567 -Can you keep a secret? -[knocking on door] 50 00:02:30,942 --> 00:02:32,610 [Jughead] We brought my dad into it pretty quick, too. 51 00:02:32,694 --> 00:02:33,736 -Hey, Betty. -Hey. 52 00:02:34,612 --> 00:02:35,530 I, uh... 53 00:02:36,531 --> 00:02:38,283 I gave that bloody rock to Charles. 54 00:02:38,366 --> 00:02:40,493 He said the FBI was gonna have it tested. 55 00:02:40,577 --> 00:02:43,663 When they do, they'll tell you that it's covered in fake blood 56 00:02:43,746 --> 00:02:45,582 that you can buy at a drugstore. 57 00:02:45,915 --> 00:02:49,544 -What the hell are you talking about? -I don't want you to worry anymore. 58 00:02:49,627 --> 00:02:51,504 I'm really sorry that you've been worrying. 59 00:02:52,213 --> 00:02:53,381 Jughead's fine. 60 00:02:54,799 --> 00:02:56,634 He's-- Okay, he's not fine, but he's okay. 61 00:02:56,718 --> 00:02:57,594 Hold on. 62 00:02:57,927 --> 00:02:59,929 -You know where Jughead is? -Yes. 63 00:03:03,933 --> 00:03:05,602 I will tell you everything, okay? 64 00:03:05,685 --> 00:03:08,396 But we really, really need your help, please? 65 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:10,064 I'm afraid to ask, but what kind of help? 66 00:03:11,816 --> 00:03:12,984 For starters... 67 00:03:14,527 --> 00:03:15,570 a search party. 68 00:03:16,905 --> 00:03:18,948 [Jughead] Archie went rogue and told his mom, too. 69 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:30,627 Mom, I have to confess something to you. 70 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:34,756 [Jughead] And then there was Veronica's sister, Hermosa, 71 00:03:34,839 --> 00:03:36,507 who was sniffing around, looking for bones. 72 00:03:36,591 --> 00:03:39,052 All right. What do you want to know? 73 00:03:39,135 --> 00:03:42,639 Let me ask you straight up, hermanita. 74 00:03:44,724 --> 00:03:46,935 Did you help Betty kill her boyfriend? 75 00:03:47,352 --> 00:03:48,186 What? 76 00:03:48,645 --> 00:03:50,104 No, why would I do that? 77 00:03:50,188 --> 00:03:52,982 Because that's the kind of thing secret girlfriends do. 78 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:55,526 They kill each other's boyfriends so they can be together. 79 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:56,486 Okay. 80 00:03:56,903 --> 00:04:01,032 I don't know what kind of crypto-lesbian pulp fiction you're conjuring, Hermosa, 81 00:04:01,115 --> 00:04:02,408 but Betty and I are just friends. 82 00:04:02,492 --> 00:04:05,203 Well, then what did happen to that dead Torombolo? 83 00:04:06,621 --> 00:04:08,623 Either you can tell me, or I'll just keep digging. 84 00:04:08,706 --> 00:04:11,751 -Don't forget, I'm a licensed private-- -Private investigator. Right. 85 00:04:14,671 --> 00:04:17,173 I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before... 86 00:04:18,591 --> 00:04:21,302 but maybe you could help us with something. 87 00:04:21,386 --> 00:04:22,512 Me, Betty and Archie. 88 00:04:25,682 --> 00:04:27,308 How much do you charge, Hermosa? 89 00:04:28,518 --> 00:04:30,645 And is there a discount for family members? 90 00:04:30,728 --> 00:04:33,523 [Jughead] In the months that followed, people will ask us, 91 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:34,774 did we need to do it? 92 00:04:35,525 --> 00:04:37,402 Go to such extreme lengths? 93 00:04:38,152 --> 00:04:39,737 Maybe. Maybe not. 94 00:04:40,863 --> 00:04:41,906 But this I did know: 95 00:04:41,990 --> 00:04:42,824 [neck cracking] 96 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:48,579 If I was going to recover without the preppies trying to kill me again 97 00:04:48,663 --> 00:04:50,790 and figure out how to solve my own murder, 98 00:04:50,873 --> 00:04:54,210 I needed the illusion to be perfect to buy myself time. 99 00:04:55,628 --> 00:04:57,505 [woman] Please make sure you're following along. 100 00:04:58,548 --> 00:05:00,925 [Jughead] And so while above me, a world without Jughead 101 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:02,677 continued spinning forward... 102 00:05:03,803 --> 00:05:07,181 I pored over every scrap of evidence we'd gathered. 103 00:05:07,265 --> 00:05:10,393 Went over every detail of my time at Stonewall Prep, 104 00:05:10,476 --> 00:05:12,770 looking for hidden patterns, hints and clues. 105 00:05:14,105 --> 00:05:16,983 But this was a different kind of mystery than the ones we'd tackled before. 106 00:05:17,066 --> 00:05:18,443 This wasn't a whodunit. 107 00:05:19,068 --> 00:05:22,530 This was a whydunit. More psychological. 108 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:26,659 I needed to get under my suspects' skin, inside their heads. 109 00:05:27,869 --> 00:05:31,622 I had to let my intuition take over, to draw these strands together. 110 00:05:32,248 --> 00:05:33,458 The missing Stonewall Four, 111 00:05:33,541 --> 00:05:35,501 the accidental deaths of DuPont's classmates, 112 00:05:35,585 --> 00:05:36,627 my attempted murder. 113 00:05:36,711 --> 00:05:38,254 How were they all connected? 114 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:41,924 A key piece of information came from Hermosa. 115 00:05:43,134 --> 00:05:44,385 Which was that Donna-- 116 00:05:45,970 --> 00:05:46,804 Jug? 117 00:05:49,348 --> 00:05:50,391 Jug? 118 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:52,894 Are you okay? 119 00:05:53,686 --> 00:05:55,980 Yeah, sorry. I was just going over everything one more time. 120 00:05:56,814 --> 00:05:59,859 -What's up? Did they find him? -Yeah. Yes. We did. 121 00:05:59,942 --> 00:06:02,445 -Well, I mean, Charles and FP did. -Did he agree? 122 00:06:03,321 --> 00:06:04,614 Completely. 123 00:06:04,697 --> 00:06:06,574 He's showering as we speak. 124 00:06:08,534 --> 00:06:11,370 -So, are we gonna do this or what? -Oh, yeah. 125 00:06:12,205 --> 00:06:14,749 We are gonna blow Stonewall Prep out of the water. 126 00:06:27,386 --> 00:06:28,930 Crime and Punishment, 127 00:06:29,472 --> 00:06:32,892 a novel of murder and its psychological toll. 128 00:06:34,018 --> 00:06:34,936 Floor is open. 129 00:06:36,187 --> 00:06:39,273 Any thoughts regarding Dostoyevsky's take on morality? 130 00:06:43,861 --> 00:06:45,196 Hey, guys. 131 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:49,200 What? Did you even miss me? 132 00:06:49,575 --> 00:06:51,744 -You gotta be kidding me. -Mr. Jones. 133 00:06:52,245 --> 00:06:54,997 I, uh-- I don't understand. We all thought-- 134 00:06:55,081 --> 00:06:56,290 That I was dead? Well... 135 00:06:56,958 --> 00:06:59,377 -actually for a minute there, I did, too. -Yeah. 136 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:02,463 Hey, what's that, um, oft-used Mark Twain quote? 137 00:07:03,631 --> 00:07:05,675 "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." 138 00:07:05,758 --> 00:07:07,635 What is happening right now? 139 00:07:08,469 --> 00:07:11,347 It is called getting your comeuppance, Joan. 140 00:07:12,682 --> 00:07:14,809 You guys are reading Crime and Punishment, huh? 141 00:07:16,978 --> 00:07:19,605 How... apropos. 142 00:07:22,692 --> 00:07:26,195 You know, the one kind of crime story that we never touched upon in this seminar 143 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:30,116 is the time-tested genre of a locked-room mystery. 144 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:33,286 Where all the suspects are sequestered in a room, 145 00:07:33,369 --> 00:07:34,912 one or more of them could be the killer, 146 00:07:34,996 --> 00:07:37,957 but the door is not unlocked until the identity is revealed. 147 00:07:38,541 --> 00:07:39,834 Betty, could you do the honor? 148 00:07:48,384 --> 00:07:50,553 The next bell doesn't ring for half an hour, 149 00:07:50,636 --> 00:07:53,931 so for the next 30 minutes, your asses belong to us. 150 00:07:54,015 --> 00:07:56,142 I knew you weren't really dead. 151 00:07:56,225 --> 00:07:58,311 Good job, Donna. 152 00:07:58,936 --> 00:08:01,397 Yet, since you failed to prove it or find Jughead, 153 00:08:01,481 --> 00:08:04,942 we had time to figure out all the twists and turns of this murder mystery 154 00:08:05,026 --> 00:08:07,028 that we've all been living for the past few months. 155 00:08:07,403 --> 00:08:08,988 I have no idea what you're talking about. 156 00:08:09,071 --> 00:08:11,782 Oh, look, don't worry. I'll take you through it step by step. 157 00:08:11,866 --> 00:08:13,951 This is ridiculous. Mr. DuPont, I'm calling security. 158 00:08:14,368 --> 00:08:18,039 Shut the hell up, Bret. Like I said, for the next 30 minutes, we're in charge, 159 00:08:18,122 --> 00:08:19,332 so give me your phones. 160 00:08:19,415 --> 00:08:21,959 -Why the hell--? -Joan, just do what she says. 161 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,171 We have nothing to hide. 162 00:08:25,671 --> 00:08:27,381 I'd get comfortable if I were you. 163 00:08:28,216 --> 00:08:30,718 Because I'm going to take you through it from the very beginning. 164 00:08:30,801 --> 00:08:34,222 Starting with that very curious fact that both Moose Mason and myself 165 00:08:34,305 --> 00:08:36,724 were invited to Stonewall Prep during our senior year. 166 00:08:39,727 --> 00:08:40,853 Jughead? 167 00:08:41,395 --> 00:08:42,271 Moose. 168 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:46,317 What the hell? It's good to see you. 169 00:08:47,151 --> 00:08:50,154 Was it like that when you met my grandfather, Forsythe the First? 170 00:08:50,238 --> 00:08:51,822 He was asked to study at Stonewall, too. 171 00:08:52,281 --> 00:08:54,951 You were roommates with him, weren't you, Mr. DuPont? 172 00:08:55,451 --> 00:08:56,327 Yes. 173 00:08:56,827 --> 00:08:59,205 And you're very much like him, Mr. Jones. 174 00:08:59,288 --> 00:09:02,416 Your grandfather was an arrogant fool, too. 175 00:09:03,042 --> 00:09:04,043 Why do you say that? 176 00:09:05,127 --> 00:09:05,962 Huh? 177 00:09:06,629 --> 00:09:10,216 Because he had the gall to consider himself worthy of your inner circle? 178 00:09:10,299 --> 00:09:13,052 The first iteration of Stonewall's Literary Society. 179 00:09:13,427 --> 00:09:15,263 What exactly is this proving? 180 00:09:15,346 --> 00:09:17,807 That this is not a story about a murder. 181 00:09:18,599 --> 00:09:21,978 This is a story about grandparents and their grandchildren. 182 00:09:23,854 --> 00:09:27,483 Of the sins from one generation being passed down to the next. 183 00:09:29,151 --> 00:09:30,653 Cycles of violence. 184 00:09:31,612 --> 00:09:33,322 Which brings me to my next point: 185 00:09:33,864 --> 00:09:37,326 Halloween, when I was drugged by you psychos. 186 00:09:37,618 --> 00:09:38,536 I think I... 187 00:09:39,745 --> 00:09:40,997 I think I need some air. 188 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:43,874 No. 189 00:09:45,167 --> 00:09:46,252 You need to lie down. 190 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:48,838 [heart beating] 191 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:51,382 Say hello to the Stonewall Four for us. 192 00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:55,553 [Jughead] Only to wake up in a coffin and be let out a day later... 193 00:09:58,806 --> 00:10:00,224 to return to my dorm. 194 00:10:01,017 --> 00:10:03,436 Moose, you are not going to believe what Bret-- 195 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:05,730 And find that Moose had vanished. 196 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:11,694 So, naturally, I assumed he went out the same way as the Stonewall Four, 197 00:10:12,903 --> 00:10:15,698 that group of students that mysteriously vanished 198 00:10:15,781 --> 00:10:18,242 while attending Stonewall Prep over a few decades. 199 00:10:18,326 --> 00:10:19,535 Oh, here we go again. 200 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:22,663 Now, Moose's fate was more banal. He joined the Army. 201 00:10:22,747 --> 00:10:24,582 But there's a twist. 202 00:10:24,665 --> 00:10:27,543 Mr. Chipping was the one who encouraged Moose to enlist. 203 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,254 But it was more like force him to. 204 00:10:30,588 --> 00:10:33,341 He was encouraging me to leave. Until Halloween night, 205 00:10:33,424 --> 00:10:36,594 when it became more than a suggestion. He practically shoved me out the door. 206 00:10:36,886 --> 00:10:38,929 So, what was the connection between Moose and Chipping 207 00:10:39,013 --> 00:10:40,681 that would make him take his advice? 208 00:10:40,765 --> 00:10:42,516 He recruited me to play football. 209 00:10:44,101 --> 00:10:46,604 Wait, Mr. Chipping's the reason why you went to Stonewall Prep? 210 00:10:47,229 --> 00:10:50,733 Chipping had recruited Moose the same way he had Jughead, 211 00:10:50,816 --> 00:10:53,277 and then ran him out of Stonewall Prep. 212 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:55,029 Meaning what, exactly? 213 00:10:55,112 --> 00:10:57,948 Meaning, Chipping knew Moose was going to get murdered 214 00:10:58,032 --> 00:10:59,950 and was trying to save his life. 215 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:02,828 And I would remember that next point. It's gonna be on the quiz. 216 00:11:02,912 --> 00:11:04,163 -Oh, Mr. Jon-- -Shut up! 217 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,001 Mr. DuPont, as they say in Lord of the Flies: 218 00:11:10,252 --> 00:11:11,337 "I have the conch." 219 00:11:14,757 --> 00:11:18,177 Now, after Halloween is when things got really interesting. 220 00:11:19,261 --> 00:11:21,722 See, that's when you announced the writing competition. 221 00:11:21,806 --> 00:11:25,518 Chipping has written the last four Baxter Brothers books. 222 00:11:25,601 --> 00:11:27,019 It's time he pass on the torch. 223 00:11:27,436 --> 00:11:31,273 And someone in this very room was going to be anointed the next ghostwriter. 224 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,402 You had already taken a shine to me, Mr. DuPont. 225 00:11:34,485 --> 00:11:36,987 You were asking about my father and my grandfather. 226 00:11:37,071 --> 00:11:39,532 Your grandfather was an excellent writer. 227 00:11:40,699 --> 00:11:42,910 Tell me, how's he doing? Does he still write? 228 00:11:42,993 --> 00:11:45,037 So, imagine my surprise... 229 00:11:45,913 --> 00:11:49,333 when I found out my good-for-nothing, dropout grandfather 230 00:11:49,959 --> 00:11:53,462 had actually written the original Baxter Brothers novel. 231 00:11:54,088 --> 00:11:56,549 Which a young Francis DuPont would steal from him. 232 00:11:56,632 --> 00:11:59,468 It was a hundred percent legal transaction, a sale-- 233 00:11:59,552 --> 00:12:00,511 It was highway robbery. 234 00:12:00,886 --> 00:12:04,515 A measly 5 grand for an idea that generated millions of dollars? 235 00:12:04,932 --> 00:12:07,268 You exploited Forsythe, Mr. DuPont. 236 00:12:08,310 --> 00:12:11,397 You took advantage of a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. 237 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,858 And if that secret ever came out, 238 00:12:13,941 --> 00:12:16,777 can you imagine the damage that would do 239 00:12:16,861 --> 00:12:19,488 to the very valuable Baxter Brothers brand? 240 00:12:19,947 --> 00:12:21,407 [exhales sharply] Hell... 241 00:12:22,366 --> 00:12:24,410 someone might kill to keep that secret. 242 00:12:25,744 --> 00:12:28,914 Which is exactly what we thought happened with Mr. Chipping. 243 00:12:28,998 --> 00:12:30,624 I told Chipping about my gramps. 244 00:12:31,292 --> 00:12:33,002 Then he talked to you, Mr. DuPont. 245 00:12:33,085 --> 00:12:35,129 And the very next day, well... 246 00:12:38,883 --> 00:12:41,260 I think we all remember his dive out the window. 247 00:12:42,970 --> 00:12:45,973 I thought you had urged him to do it, that you had some leverage over Chipping. 248 00:12:46,056 --> 00:12:49,185 You guys were part of the same secret society, Quill and Skull. 249 00:12:50,102 --> 00:12:51,228 But it was actually you guys. 250 00:12:52,605 --> 00:12:56,817 It was your... blank expressions as you watched him jump. 251 00:12:57,234 --> 00:12:58,360 Call an ambulance! 252 00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:03,449 I just couldn't shake it. 253 00:13:05,784 --> 00:13:08,204 That's when I knew there was a deeper game afoot. 254 00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:11,624 No, Chipping suicided because he was messing around with Donna. 255 00:13:11,707 --> 00:13:14,126 -She ended it and he short-circuited. -Except... 256 00:13:15,044 --> 00:13:18,589 they never really had a physical relationship. 257 00:13:19,006 --> 00:13:20,341 Isn't that right, Donna? 258 00:13:21,175 --> 00:13:24,011 -We had an affair, and it got out of hand. -Mm-hm. 259 00:13:24,428 --> 00:13:27,223 Yes, an affair that went down exactly 260 00:13:27,306 --> 00:13:30,976 like the affair that you had with... Mr. Kotter. 261 00:13:31,268 --> 00:13:33,896 -What--? -Except, I looked into it and... 262 00:13:35,105 --> 00:13:37,650 turns out there is no Mr. Kotter. 263 00:13:37,733 --> 00:13:40,236 -Rupert-- Rupert had demons. -Oh, he did. 264 00:13:40,861 --> 00:13:43,614 Mrs. Chipping filled us in on all of those. 265 00:13:45,199 --> 00:13:50,454 Yeah, she said that he had been drinking more and having trouble sleeping. 266 00:13:50,871 --> 00:13:53,207 Complaining about the Baxter Brothers books. 267 00:13:53,290 --> 00:13:55,709 Wishing he'd never gotten the contract. 268 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:57,920 So, then we started to ask ourselves, 269 00:13:58,003 --> 00:14:00,839 what would turn the opportunity of a lifetime, 270 00:14:00,923 --> 00:14:04,843 winning the Baxter Brothers contract, into a burden? An albatross? 271 00:14:05,344 --> 00:14:06,178 Any ideas? 272 00:14:08,389 --> 00:14:11,850 The ghostwriter challenge was to devise the perfect murder. 273 00:14:12,601 --> 00:14:16,730 What if the real challenge, the real price that someone had to pay, 274 00:14:16,814 --> 00:14:18,482 was to commit the perfect murder? 275 00:14:19,441 --> 00:14:21,986 In order to prove that you could write it, first you had to do it. 276 00:14:23,362 --> 00:14:27,032 I mean, it kind of makes a twisted pathological sense, no? 277 00:14:27,366 --> 00:14:29,535 And that's what was tormenting Mr. Chipping. 278 00:14:30,536 --> 00:14:32,037 The guilt of what he had done, 279 00:14:32,121 --> 00:14:35,541 the blood that he had shed in order to win the contract. 280 00:14:36,083 --> 00:14:39,086 Mr. Chipping invited Moose to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim, 281 00:14:39,169 --> 00:14:42,214 to be killed by the next ghostwriter, one of you. 282 00:14:42,298 --> 00:14:44,842 And Moose was the perfect candidate. 283 00:14:45,593 --> 00:14:47,678 He was a messed-up kid, he had no family. 284 00:14:47,761 --> 00:14:49,471 He couldn't handle the stresses of life. 285 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:53,475 After my dad was arrested for impersonating the Gargoyle King, 286 00:14:54,226 --> 00:14:58,522 it, uh... kind of blew up my life, my family, everything. 287 00:14:59,189 --> 00:15:01,108 I even ended up in a facility for a couple months. 288 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:03,777 Chipping ran Moose out of town. 289 00:15:04,653 --> 00:15:05,779 You said it yourself. 290 00:15:06,614 --> 00:15:08,324 Good. You remembered. Okay. 291 00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:10,117 We think Chipping couldn't go through with it 292 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,537 and/or maybe he just wanted to atone for what he had done. 293 00:15:14,246 --> 00:15:17,958 Whatever the reason, he ran Moose the hell away from Stonewall Prep 294 00:15:18,042 --> 00:15:20,544 and then killed himself. It was his only escape. 295 00:15:21,545 --> 00:15:24,298 Pure demented conjecture. 296 00:15:24,381 --> 00:15:25,591 Well, yes and no. 297 00:15:25,674 --> 00:15:28,469 Chipping's behavior is hypothesis, but if proven, 298 00:15:28,552 --> 00:15:32,389 it shows a pattern of how the previous ghostwriters won their contracts. 299 00:15:32,473 --> 00:15:35,935 The same year, the same month as Chipping was awarded his contract, 300 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:37,269 a Stonewall student disappeared. 301 00:15:37,686 --> 00:15:39,521 One of the so-called Stonewall Four. 302 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:45,736 We believe this student was murdered by Mr. Chipping. 303 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,620 Ryan Allan, the previous ghostwriter who took up the mantle 304 00:15:54,703 --> 00:15:57,289 the same month another one of the Stonewall Four disappeared. 305 00:15:58,916 --> 00:16:02,252 The sequence holds true for every ghostwriter who preceded them. 306 00:16:02,711 --> 00:16:04,380 It's actually incredibly simple. 307 00:16:04,463 --> 00:16:08,550 Which brings us to a couple months ago when I was awarded the contract. 308 00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:09,968 But why? 309 00:16:11,178 --> 00:16:12,638 To put a target on my back. 310 00:16:13,430 --> 00:16:17,559 Probably because I was circling the truth, so he gave you guys a new challenge: 311 00:16:18,644 --> 00:16:21,188 To commit the perfect murder against me... 312 00:16:22,231 --> 00:16:23,732 and be awarded the contract. 313 00:16:25,401 --> 00:16:28,237 [Betty] So, the million-dollar question is... 314 00:16:29,405 --> 00:16:33,200 who was going to kill Jughead, and how? 315 00:16:38,789 --> 00:16:41,542 So, which one of you heartless bastards killed me? 316 00:16:45,129 --> 00:16:47,339 It was actually Mr. DuPont that gave me a clue. 317 00:16:47,923 --> 00:16:50,217 When I asked who had rewritten my Baxter Brothers novel, 318 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:51,844 you told me they all had a crack at it. 319 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:57,891 Well, actually, all of your classmates collaborated on it. 320 00:16:57,975 --> 00:17:00,853 And that suggested to me that each one of you had a hand in my murder. 321 00:17:00,936 --> 00:17:02,021 Oh, this should be good. 322 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:03,772 Donna, you kept Betty busy. 323 00:17:07,234 --> 00:17:08,610 Oh, good, you made it. 324 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:10,863 [Jughead] Bret, you led me deeper into the woods, 325 00:17:10,946 --> 00:17:14,283 where I took off the bunny mask I was wearing and put on my beanie. 326 00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:20,456 And was it that beanie that kept my head from being completely cracked open 327 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:21,999 when Joan crept up behind me 328 00:17:22,750 --> 00:17:25,002 and hit me with a baseball-sized rock? 329 00:17:25,085 --> 00:17:27,838 What? How do you know it was me? Why couldn't it have been Jonathan? 330 00:17:27,921 --> 00:17:30,632 Well, I don't recall Jonathan wearing your perfume. 331 00:17:31,175 --> 00:17:32,509 Yeah, where--? 332 00:17:32,593 --> 00:17:33,802 Where is Jonathan again? 333 00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:36,513 Or did you kill him because he started to develop a conscience? 334 00:17:36,597 --> 00:17:37,848 He had food poisoning. 335 00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:40,434 -He still has food poisoning. -Okay. 336 00:17:40,517 --> 00:17:45,230 Jonathan aside, you had a foolproof plan, airtight alibis. 337 00:17:45,314 --> 00:17:47,274 It all should have worked so perfectly, 338 00:17:47,357 --> 00:17:48,400 but it didn't. 339 00:17:50,527 --> 00:17:52,404 -Why? -Because in all your plotting, 340 00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:55,991 all of your lurid conspiring and your brilliance, you didn't kill me. 341 00:17:56,575 --> 00:17:58,327 Whose job was it to check my pulse? 342 00:17:58,410 --> 00:17:59,495 Jonathan! 343 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:07,920 Oh, you Einsteins, all you had to do was hit me in the back of the head 344 00:18:08,003 --> 00:18:09,338 hard enough with the rock. 345 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,757 You failed, spectacularly. 346 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,218 Yeah, meanwhile, Donna was blowing Devil's Breath in my face 347 00:18:14,301 --> 00:18:16,595 to set me up as the ultimate fall girl. 348 00:18:19,556 --> 00:18:21,183 Devil's Breath? Really? 349 00:18:21,266 --> 00:18:23,393 Yeah, the technical term being scopolamine, 350 00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:26,188 which leaves a person highly suggestive and in a drunken state, 351 00:18:26,271 --> 00:18:29,566 which is why I don't remember when Donna led me into the clearing 352 00:18:29,650 --> 00:18:32,903 where Jughead's body was and placed the bloody rock in my hand, 353 00:18:32,986 --> 00:18:36,198 leaving me literally red-handed with the murder weapon. 354 00:18:37,074 --> 00:18:40,035 After which, the four of you returned to the party, 355 00:18:40,494 --> 00:18:42,204 and ran into Archie and Veronica. 356 00:18:43,372 --> 00:18:44,206 Hey. 357 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:46,500 Have you guys seen Betty and Jughead? 358 00:18:47,417 --> 00:18:50,921 I think they went that way, into the clearing behind those trees. 359 00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:55,926 Thanks. 360 00:19:01,723 --> 00:19:04,184 [Betty] And pointed them to where you knew they would find me... 361 00:19:05,394 --> 00:19:07,062 standing over Jughead's corpse. 362 00:19:07,437 --> 00:19:09,565 -Oh, my God. Betty, what happened? -Jug! 363 00:19:10,399 --> 00:19:11,316 Is he breathing? 364 00:19:16,905 --> 00:19:17,781 He's dead. 365 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:23,537 At which point, one of two scenarios could have played out. 366 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:24,454 One... 367 00:19:25,372 --> 00:19:27,833 Archie and Veronica could turn me in. 368 00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:30,168 Two... 369 00:19:31,253 --> 00:19:34,840 they could help me cover up the murder that I had just committed. 370 00:19:35,924 --> 00:19:38,343 Either way, I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't, 371 00:19:38,427 --> 00:19:41,263 but honestly, you guys could have gotten away with it, too. 372 00:19:41,346 --> 00:19:43,724 Yeah, except, uh, again... 373 00:19:44,641 --> 00:19:45,976 you guys didn't kill me. 374 00:19:46,435 --> 00:19:47,686 -Archie. -Oh, my God. 375 00:19:48,645 --> 00:19:50,939 -Oh, my God. -Betty, what happened? 376 00:19:57,070 --> 00:20:00,032 Arch, start pounding on his chest. Right now, okay? 377 00:20:00,115 --> 00:20:02,451 Vee, use the beanie to stop the bleeding, go. 378 00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:05,245 One, two, three, four, five. 379 00:20:07,915 --> 00:20:10,834 -[Archie] One... Four, five. -Come on, Jug. 380 00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:13,128 -Wake up, wake up, Jug. Come on! -[Veronica] He's dead. 381 00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:14,546 Four... 382 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:16,632 -Betty, he's dead. -Come back to me, Jug. 383 00:20:19,509 --> 00:20:22,179 [gasps] Jug! Hey, hey, hey. 384 00:20:22,262 --> 00:20:24,264 Hey, we'll get you to a hospital, okay? 385 00:20:24,348 --> 00:20:26,058 No. No hospital. 386 00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:27,768 Jug... 387 00:20:27,851 --> 00:20:30,062 Hey, stay awake. Stay with me please, Jug. 388 00:20:30,145 --> 00:20:31,730 Hey, stay awake, okay? 389 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:36,443 Though I didn't regain consciousness for another 36 hours. 390 00:20:36,944 --> 00:20:39,029 The worst 36 hours of my life. 391 00:20:42,741 --> 00:20:44,576 Why would you say that, Jones? 392 00:20:44,660 --> 00:20:48,497 "No hospital." Why would a man on death's door say that? 393 00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:51,083 I honestly don't know. 394 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,004 Maybe I had some small feeling that you were going to try and frame Betty, 395 00:20:56,797 --> 00:20:58,924 and I wanted her to have a fighting chance. 396 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:05,764 Um, I'm calling Charles. I'm calling Charles. 397 00:21:05,847 --> 00:21:07,391 -What? Why? -We can trust him. 398 00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:08,767 He'll help us, okay? 399 00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:09,935 Hey, Jug. 400 00:21:13,313 --> 00:21:17,317 Charles! I'm in the woods with Archie and Veronica. Jughead, 401 00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:19,903 he's hurt really badly. We need-- We need help. 402 00:21:19,987 --> 00:21:21,363 We need your help, please. 403 00:21:22,489 --> 00:21:25,909 We carried Jug through the woods to the old postal road 404 00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:30,247 where my brother Charles was waiting for us with an FBI med van. 405 00:21:34,209 --> 00:21:37,004 -What happened to him, Betty? -A head wound. 406 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:40,048 We slowed the bleeding. We did chest compressions and CPR. 407 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:42,259 -You think he'll make it? -We'll do everything we can. 408 00:21:42,342 --> 00:21:43,552 [Veronica] And us? What do we do? 409 00:21:43,635 --> 00:21:45,679 Go back to where you found him, clean the scene. 410 00:21:45,762 --> 00:21:48,515 Make absolutely certain that you don't leave anything behind, all right? 411 00:21:48,598 --> 00:21:52,561 Also, your clothes are covered with blood. Get rid of those and get washed up, okay? 412 00:21:52,644 --> 00:21:53,562 [all] Okay. 413 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:54,479 Come on. 414 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,113 [Betty] And then we did what Charles asked. 415 00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:05,073 We went back to the clearing... 416 00:22:05,699 --> 00:22:08,493 threw the bloody rock in the swimming hole... 417 00:22:09,619 --> 00:22:11,788 took off our clothes, and started a bonfire. 418 00:22:12,456 --> 00:22:15,167 -What happens if he doesn't make it? -He'll make it. 419 00:22:16,543 --> 00:22:17,711 But what if he doesn't? 420 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,838 He will. 421 00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:24,384 But if he doesn't... 422 00:22:25,302 --> 00:22:26,178 then we... 423 00:22:27,929 --> 00:22:28,764 Archie. 424 00:22:30,557 --> 00:22:31,391 Archie. 425 00:22:32,726 --> 00:22:34,394 -Archie! -Yeah, yeah. 426 00:22:34,478 --> 00:22:35,812 -Are you listening to me? -Yeah. 427 00:22:38,356 --> 00:22:42,652 We have to burn all of our clothes, including Jughead's beanie. 428 00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:46,448 We'll rinse off the blood in the swimming hole. 429 00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:51,661 After tonight, we never speak of this, ever. 430 00:22:51,745 --> 00:22:54,915 Not to each other, not to our parents. No one. 431 00:22:55,832 --> 00:23:00,420 We'll finish our senior year, graduate, and we'll go our separate ways. 432 00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:03,298 That is the only way that we won't get caught. 433 00:23:07,135 --> 00:23:08,053 Do it. 434 00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:18,271 That is how it'll have to be if Jug doesn't make it. 435 00:23:18,855 --> 00:23:21,316 But it won't come to that. He will pull through. 436 00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:22,609 He has to. 437 00:23:23,944 --> 00:23:24,778 [Betty] And then... 438 00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:26,613 we went home. 439 00:23:29,324 --> 00:23:32,244 And what happened next was a waking nightmare. 440 00:23:32,744 --> 00:23:35,539 Not knowing if or when Jughead was going to wake up. 441 00:23:36,581 --> 00:23:40,001 And wondering if I had actually been responsible. 442 00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:42,754 Wait, but we saw Jughead's corpse at the coroner's office. 443 00:23:42,838 --> 00:23:45,841 -Was he in on it? -Who? Dr. Curdle Jr.? 444 00:23:47,342 --> 00:23:50,262 Yeah. Mm-hm. Yeah. We go way back. 445 00:23:51,346 --> 00:23:54,224 [Jughead] You see, Bret, in a town like Riverdale, 446 00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:56,184 everybody's got a price. 447 00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:59,980 And that includes our friendly neighborhood doctor of death. 448 00:24:02,899 --> 00:24:06,528 And while Betty was keeping you guys busy with a game of cat and mouse, 449 00:24:06,611 --> 00:24:10,157 I was in the underground bunker untangling this Gordian knot of a year. 450 00:24:10,615 --> 00:24:14,369 And it is crazy how much untangling you can get done 451 00:24:14,452 --> 00:24:18,290 -when everyone thinks you're dead. -Which brings us basically to today. 452 00:24:18,748 --> 00:24:20,876 So, Mr. DuPont... 453 00:24:22,335 --> 00:24:24,796 floor's open. What do you think? 454 00:24:26,423 --> 00:24:28,133 Oh, Mr. Jones... 455 00:24:30,427 --> 00:24:31,595 A for effort. 456 00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:35,891 If nothing else, this fiction is significantly more entertaining 457 00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:38,185 than anything you ever produced for my class. 458 00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:41,646 Oh, did I forget to mention that Betty and I went and saw 459 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,398 the Baxter Brothers ghostwriters? 460 00:24:43,481 --> 00:24:47,277 And when we told them our theory, they all asked for their lawyers. 461 00:24:48,069 --> 00:24:49,446 What if you did track them down? 462 00:24:50,488 --> 00:24:53,533 And even if you found one who corroborated your wild theories 463 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:57,078 in some vague way, then you will know that I never 464 00:24:57,162 --> 00:25:01,708 explicitly directed my students or mentees to do anything criminal. 465 00:25:01,791 --> 00:25:02,792 Oh. 466 00:25:03,543 --> 00:25:07,005 What a canny serial killer you are, Mr. DuPont. 467 00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:09,257 But we haven't even gotten to the best part. 468 00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:14,054 Specifically, the three members of your original Literary Society 469 00:25:14,638 --> 00:25:15,931 who you murdered. 470 00:25:17,682 --> 00:25:21,978 Jane Dallas Brown, Charles W. Chickens, Theodore Weisel. 471 00:25:24,606 --> 00:25:25,523 There it is. 472 00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:27,901 Let's loop back to the original sin, shall we? 473 00:25:27,984 --> 00:25:30,570 When Mr. DuPont stole, and I do mean "stole," 474 00:25:30,654 --> 00:25:32,489 my grandfather's original Baxter Brothers novel. 475 00:25:32,822 --> 00:25:35,700 A fact known to you, Mr. DuPont, and of course Jughead's grandfather, 476 00:25:35,784 --> 00:25:39,788 but also to your inner circle, your classmates. 477 00:25:41,289 --> 00:25:43,833 The corrupt secret at the heart of an empire. 478 00:25:44,125 --> 00:25:45,961 [Jughead] Well, there wasn't an empire just yet. 479 00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:48,964 It was a house of cards that you built over many decades. 480 00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:50,465 And the bigger it got, 481 00:25:50,966 --> 00:25:53,635 the more worried you became that one little slip of the tongue 482 00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:55,845 would send the whole thing tumbling down. 483 00:25:55,929 --> 00:25:58,640 Your life's work would be revealed as a lie 484 00:25:58,723 --> 00:26:02,227 and you as a fraud and a thief, 485 00:26:02,936 --> 00:26:03,853 a man of dishonor. 486 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:07,190 So, you started going after people who knew the truth 487 00:26:07,274 --> 00:26:11,194 and started staging their accidental deaths. 488 00:26:11,653 --> 00:26:15,615 You cut brakes. You tampered with fuselages. 489 00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:18,952 You compromised oxygen tanks. 490 00:26:19,035 --> 00:26:22,622 Until there was only one living member of your Literary Society left. 491 00:26:23,748 --> 00:26:24,582 Betty... 492 00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:27,252 I think it's time we let in our guest. 493 00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:28,837 With pleasure. 494 00:26:31,089 --> 00:26:33,008 [lock clicking] 495 00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:49,899 Forsythe? 496 00:26:50,233 --> 00:26:51,484 Live and in the flesh. 497 00:26:52,902 --> 00:26:54,112 Hello, Francis. 498 00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:56,698 Why don't you tell him what you told us, Grandpa? 499 00:26:57,073 --> 00:26:59,993 Weisel came to see me before he died. 500 00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:02,954 He hadn't slept for days. 501 00:27:04,497 --> 00:27:09,169 He told me that you killed Charles and Jane 502 00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:14,382 because they were gonna spill the truth about the damn Baxter Brothers. 503 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:19,471 He said we knew too much, and you were gonna off us, too. 504 00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:22,849 You and I both know Theodore was a paranoid drunk. 505 00:27:22,932 --> 00:27:24,976 But two days later, 506 00:27:25,727 --> 00:27:30,023 the expert diver drowned in shallow water. 507 00:27:31,733 --> 00:27:32,817 So, he was right. 508 00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:35,028 And I was next. 509 00:27:37,572 --> 00:27:40,033 So, I went out for a pack of cigarettes... 510 00:27:42,577 --> 00:27:43,828 and I never came back. 511 00:27:45,288 --> 00:27:47,332 What were you doing off-grid since 2002 exactly? 512 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:51,169 Collecting evidence that linked Francis here 513 00:27:51,252 --> 00:27:54,881 with the murders of Charles and Jane and Theodore. 514 00:27:54,964 --> 00:27:59,969 I started by calling hotels and motels near the accident sites. 515 00:28:00,053 --> 00:28:03,014 You know what the one thing I couldn't figure out at first was, Mr. DuPont? 516 00:28:03,681 --> 00:28:06,935 That if Moose was invited to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim, 517 00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:08,353 then why was I also invited? 518 00:28:10,438 --> 00:28:11,398 I was bait. 519 00:28:12,565 --> 00:28:14,442 To lure my grandfather out of hiding, 520 00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:16,361 so you could finish the job that you started. 521 00:28:16,736 --> 00:28:20,115 Took off like a coward after Jughead found me. 522 00:28:20,198 --> 00:28:23,785 But to my old man's credit, when Charles and I found him the second time 523 00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:26,079 and he heard what happened to his grandson... 524 00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,957 he figured it was finally time to take your ass down. 525 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,251 [Charles] While you were in here playing Agatha Christie, 526 00:28:31,334 --> 00:28:34,045 my team was combing through DuPont's house for the last hour. 527 00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:37,715 Given the trophies of your victims that we found in your hollowed-out OED 528 00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:39,759 and your ghostwriters lawyering up... 529 00:28:40,885 --> 00:28:43,972 not to mention Forsythe's detective work, well... 530 00:28:45,598 --> 00:28:46,516 Why don't you tell him? 531 00:28:48,685 --> 00:28:49,811 It's over, Francis. 532 00:28:54,357 --> 00:28:55,191 You... 533 00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:59,112 call me a thief and a coward? 534 00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:01,448 Well, I'm not. 535 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:06,077 I'm a builder. I built the Baxter Brothers franchise, 536 00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:08,538 and with that money, I helped build this school. 537 00:29:09,247 --> 00:29:11,374 Without me, neither would exist. 538 00:29:11,458 --> 00:29:13,460 Francis DuPont, you have the right to remain silent. 539 00:29:13,543 --> 00:29:15,920 Anything you say can and will be used against you in court. 540 00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:16,880 Never. 541 00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:19,674 A writer's power is in his words. 542 00:29:20,633 --> 00:29:23,595 Only the meek and the timid choose silence. 543 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:27,015 I am... a man of honor. 544 00:29:31,811 --> 00:29:32,729 To the end. 545 00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:56,044 [Jughead] After that, it was a matter of dotting I's and crossing T's. 546 00:29:56,753 --> 00:29:59,464 We obtained these text exchanges between you and Donna. 547 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,092 Donna was manipulating you, Joan. 548 00:30:03,927 --> 00:30:07,055 She tricked you into doing her dirty work so her hands would remain clean. 549 00:30:08,348 --> 00:30:11,434 Don't protect her. I'll see to it that you get a reduced sentence-- 550 00:30:11,518 --> 00:30:14,562 Agent Smith, you have nothing to offer me. 551 00:30:18,733 --> 00:30:23,154 Reminder, my father is an ambassador, and I have diplomatic immunity. 552 00:30:23,655 --> 00:30:26,783 If you leave the country now, you won't ever be able to return. 553 00:30:26,866 --> 00:30:29,077 And your friends, they'll take all the heat. 554 00:30:30,245 --> 00:30:31,454 They're not my friends. 555 00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:43,091 Hey. Why did you lie to Jughead? 556 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,636 You told him Bret had diplomatic immunity, but it was Joan. 557 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:49,347 I-- I lied to Jughead 558 00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:53,017 because I was trying to keep him from antagonizing Bret. 559 00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:57,105 You know it was Bret's idea to kill Jughead. 560 00:30:57,605 --> 00:31:00,108 Uh-huh. How did you get Mr. Chipping's tiepin? 561 00:31:00,608 --> 00:31:03,111 And don't tell me that you were having an affair. 562 00:31:03,611 --> 00:31:04,988 No one's buying that story anymore. 563 00:31:06,322 --> 00:31:07,991 Mr. DuPont gave it to me. 564 00:31:09,492 --> 00:31:12,370 Said I had to lie to the headmaster 565 00:31:12,453 --> 00:31:14,789 so that Mr. Chipping's death would be ruled a suicide 566 00:31:14,872 --> 00:31:16,708 and people would stop asking questions. 567 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:23,131 But I'm just glad that the real monster behind all of this, 568 00:31:23,214 --> 00:31:25,341 Mr. DuPont, has paid for his crimes. 569 00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:31,097 [Charles] You have a known history of antagonizing Jughead. 570 00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:34,267 Witnesses saw you walking with him into the woods the night he was attacked. 571 00:31:34,601 --> 00:31:36,811 Have I actually been charged with a crime? 572 00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:40,481 You're facing hard time for both attempted murder 573 00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:43,443 and the creation and possession of illegally recorded sex tapes 574 00:31:43,526 --> 00:31:45,778 featuring your fellow students, 575 00:31:45,862 --> 00:31:47,280 including Jughead and Betty. 576 00:31:48,364 --> 00:31:49,198 Now... 577 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:52,869 I'm willing to reduce your charge to only attempted murder 578 00:31:53,494 --> 00:31:55,997 if you turn over your collection of videotapes. 579 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,290 Here's my counteroffer: 580 00:31:58,082 --> 00:32:00,710 Reduce my charge to conspiracy after the fact, 581 00:32:00,793 --> 00:32:03,463 which my lawyer will plead down to community service, 582 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,259 or Betty and Jughead's puerile sex tape will be released to the World Wide Web. 583 00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:11,804 Hm. Let me think it over. 584 00:32:19,062 --> 00:32:20,229 [door closes] 585 00:32:20,438 --> 00:32:21,939 [sighs] 586 00:32:22,523 --> 00:32:24,192 -[door opens] -That was quick. 587 00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:27,528 [door closes] 588 00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:33,993 What the hell is this? 589 00:32:35,161 --> 00:32:37,372 -The counter to your counter. -Wait-- 590 00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:38,623 [blow lands] 591 00:32:42,377 --> 00:32:45,838 I understand that you've decided to cooperate with our investigation 592 00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:48,341 and reveal the location of your illicit videotapes. 593 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:50,301 Is that correct? 594 00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:56,724 [Alice] Hidden in a secret compartment behind Stonewall's crest 595 00:32:56,808 --> 00:33:00,103 was a treasure trove of dark secrets. 596 00:33:00,186 --> 00:33:02,438 Illegally recorded videotapes. 597 00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:06,359 More fuel to add to the firestorm of controversy that is consuming 598 00:33:06,442 --> 00:33:09,612 one of the country's oldest and more prestigious prep schools. 599 00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:12,115 For now, Stonewall Prep's doors remain open, 600 00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:15,743 but its secret society, Quill and Skull, has been disbanded. 601 00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:19,247 For RIVW news, this is Alice Smith. 602 00:33:20,081 --> 00:33:21,791 It's good to be back, Riverdale. 603 00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:25,962 Thank you. Thank you very much. 604 00:33:26,045 --> 00:33:27,880 Your report came out really good, Mom. 605 00:33:27,964 --> 00:33:30,466 Oh, thanks, honey. I had a lot of help from an inside source. 606 00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:31,634 [both] Mm-hm. 607 00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:33,261 [FP and Alice laugh] 608 00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:35,346 -Okay, I'm gonna head out. -[Jughead] Yeah. 609 00:33:35,972 --> 00:33:38,266 Wait, where are you going? We're about to have cake. 610 00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:42,353 Um, I will be back soon, okay? 611 00:33:42,437 --> 00:33:45,773 I just have one last T to cross. 612 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:53,406 Hello, Donna. 613 00:33:54,490 --> 00:33:55,366 Going somewhere? 614 00:33:55,450 --> 00:33:58,953 If you must know, I'm transferring to a new school. 615 00:33:59,036 --> 00:34:02,749 Well, I'm glad I caught you, then. I wanted to congratulate you personally. 616 00:34:03,082 --> 00:34:05,585 Jughead and I heard that you're taking over the Baxter Brothers. 617 00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:07,545 The brand is relaunching. 618 00:34:08,588 --> 00:34:09,964 As Tracy True. 619 00:34:12,091 --> 00:34:12,967 Jealous? 620 00:34:14,427 --> 00:34:15,720 Your plan worked, Donna. 621 00:34:16,095 --> 00:34:19,849 You managed to get everyone else to do the actual dirty work. 622 00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:21,684 Hell, even DuPont's dead. 623 00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:26,147 You covered your tracks extremely well. 624 00:34:26,856 --> 00:34:27,690 Betty... 625 00:34:29,776 --> 00:34:32,820 are you really so delusional, 626 00:34:33,196 --> 00:34:37,533 you would believe I would mastermind some elaborate conspiracy 627 00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:39,827 that caused the deaths of multiple people 628 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:42,830 just to win a YA book contract? 629 00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:46,334 No. 630 00:34:47,627 --> 00:34:49,587 But you would do it for revenge. 631 00:34:49,962 --> 00:34:51,214 Oh, really? 632 00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:54,926 -Revenge for what? -The murder of your grandmother. 633 00:34:56,886 --> 00:34:58,346 Jane Dallas Brown. 634 00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:01,599 One of the classmates DuPont killed to cover up the ugly truth 635 00:35:01,682 --> 00:35:03,893 that he didn't create the Baxter Brothers. 636 00:35:04,811 --> 00:35:05,895 She was your grandmother. 637 00:35:06,354 --> 00:35:09,565 -How could you possibly know that? -A friend of a friend told me. 638 00:35:09,899 --> 00:35:12,360 You dedicated yourself to getting into Stonewall Prep 639 00:35:12,443 --> 00:35:13,778 and getting into Chipping's class, 640 00:35:13,861 --> 00:35:18,157 and each step brought you ever-closer to your grandmother's killer. 641 00:35:19,158 --> 00:35:21,536 You wanted... revenge. 642 00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:24,497 So, what was the original plan, Donna? 643 00:35:24,580 --> 00:35:28,042 Win the contract, no matter how many people had to die? 644 00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:31,087 And then stage an accident that would take care of DuPont 645 00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:34,006 so you could tear down the house that he built? 646 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:36,259 Fascinating theory, Betty. 647 00:35:37,468 --> 00:35:39,470 You left out one minor detail. 648 00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:42,223 DuPont didn't merely kill my grandmother. 649 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:44,475 He stole from her, 650 00:35:45,017 --> 00:35:46,769 the same way he did from Forsythe. 651 00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:50,439 Tracy True, 652 00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:53,109 the female teen detective who was introduced 653 00:35:53,192 --> 00:35:54,652 in the Baxter Brothers books. 654 00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:57,530 She was your grandmother's invention. 655 00:35:58,990 --> 00:36:03,119 Now I've taken Tracy back and DuPont is rotting in a grave. 656 00:36:03,202 --> 00:36:04,495 Oh. 657 00:36:05,037 --> 00:36:07,081 How did you really find out about my grandmother? 658 00:36:07,790 --> 00:36:08,791 A private investigator... 659 00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:12,587 At my behest, Hermosa put her private-eye skills to good use 660 00:36:12,670 --> 00:36:15,298 and did some digging on those Stonewall WASPs. 661 00:36:15,381 --> 00:36:18,676 And your gal-pal Donna is not so sweet. 662 00:36:19,927 --> 00:36:22,013 ...who supplied us with the medical files 663 00:36:22,096 --> 00:36:25,892 that confirmed that you are the granddaughter of Jane Dallas Brown, 664 00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:28,686 which gives the police a motive 665 00:36:28,769 --> 00:36:32,940 and links this entire web of death... 666 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:35,151 back to you. 667 00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:37,445 It's circumstantial, at best. 668 00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:40,740 But I'll play one last round. 669 00:36:42,241 --> 00:36:43,201 What do you want, Betty? 670 00:36:45,786 --> 00:36:48,664 I want you to walk away from the Tracy True contract. 671 00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:51,792 Why in God's name would I do that? 672 00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:56,088 Fictional though she may be, Tracy deserves better. 673 00:36:56,172 --> 00:36:58,216 As does the memory of your grandmother. 674 00:36:58,591 --> 00:37:03,846 And you certainly don't deserve to profit off the near-death of my boyfriend. 675 00:37:06,098 --> 00:37:06,933 Or... 676 00:37:08,392 --> 00:37:09,352 don't walk away. 677 00:37:09,977 --> 00:37:10,853 That's fine. 678 00:37:11,979 --> 00:37:14,565 But I will make sure every newspaper of every major city 679 00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:16,400 gets a copy of that medical file. 680 00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:24,617 You play nice from now on, Donna. 681 00:37:27,161 --> 00:37:28,746 I'll be keeping an eye on you. 682 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:50,726 Months at Stonewall Prep, away from you guys, 683 00:37:50,810 --> 00:37:53,854 -what a waste. -Jug. Okay. 684 00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:57,692 We put a stop to DuPont, we solved eight murders, 685 00:37:57,775 --> 00:38:00,695 and we gave closure to every family of every missing child. 686 00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:02,571 I would not call that a waste of time. 687 00:38:02,655 --> 00:38:04,448 I know. It's just... 688 00:38:06,242 --> 00:38:07,159 I feel... 689 00:38:08,452 --> 00:38:09,370 Cheated? 690 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:11,455 I know. 691 00:38:14,333 --> 00:38:17,253 I know. You'll find a meaning to all of this... 692 00:38:18,337 --> 00:38:20,381 at some point, okay? 693 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,264 So, Jughead Jones, back from the dead. 694 00:38:28,347 --> 00:38:29,765 Color me completely not surprised. 695 00:38:29,849 --> 00:38:31,183 [bell ringing] 696 00:38:31,267 --> 00:38:32,101 You're not? 697 00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:35,062 No one ever really dies in Riverdale, do they? 698 00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:39,817 But... what about you and Archie canoodling then? 699 00:38:40,568 --> 00:38:41,819 Yeah, that was just pretend. 700 00:38:43,237 --> 00:38:45,448 I don't know, cousin, that looked pretty real to me. 701 00:38:45,531 --> 00:38:47,158 Well, yeah, that was the point. 702 00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:50,828 Right. 703 00:38:51,495 --> 00:38:54,874 All I'm saying is, your secret's safe with me. 704 00:38:55,583 --> 00:38:56,625 Toodles! 705 00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:03,299 -What did Cheryl want? -Nothing. 706 00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:04,717 What did Mr. Honey say? 707 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,720 He isn't happy, but he legally has to let me back to Riverdale High. 708 00:39:07,803 --> 00:39:11,057 -That's great. -Yeah, I just hope my credits transfer. 709 00:39:11,849 --> 00:39:14,435 On the bright side, no one's going to try to kill me while I'm here. 710 00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:15,603 Don't jinx yourself. 711 00:39:20,441 --> 00:39:21,275 [FP] Hey, boy. 712 00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:22,777 -Betty. -[Betty] Hey. 713 00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:25,780 Um, I'll be right down. 714 00:39:26,113 --> 00:39:26,989 Grandpa. 715 00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:29,784 -I thought you left. -No, no. Not yet. 716 00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:32,036 You joining us for dinner? 717 00:39:32,995 --> 00:39:36,916 Uh, Betty and I are actually going to meet Archie and Veronica at Pop's, so... 718 00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:39,377 -Unless you want me to stay. -No, go have fun. 719 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:40,544 Yeah. 720 00:39:41,837 --> 00:39:44,048 Should I... say goodbye? 721 00:39:44,131 --> 00:39:45,424 Oh, no, no. 722 00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:50,388 I expect your father and I will still be talking when you get back. 723 00:39:54,308 --> 00:39:55,518 Hey, hold on. 724 00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:02,024 I don't know what's gonna happen with him and me, 725 00:40:02,566 --> 00:40:04,985 but we're talking, so that's something. 726 00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:08,614 So... thank you. 727 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:10,449 You made all this happen. 728 00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:14,620 Have fun. 729 00:40:15,621 --> 00:40:16,705 -[Jughead] Ready? -Mm-hm. 730 00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:19,625 [Jughead] Maybe something good did come out of this whole Stonewall mess. 731 00:40:20,167 --> 00:40:23,712 My dad and my grandfather talking again for the first time in 30 years. 732 00:40:24,338 --> 00:40:25,714 Who would've thought of that? 733 00:40:25,798 --> 00:40:28,050 -Do you think your dad will forgive him? -Oh, I don't know. 734 00:40:28,134 --> 00:40:32,304 I mean, they have a lot of bad history between each other, but... I hope so. 735 00:40:33,848 --> 00:40:34,682 All right, guys. 736 00:40:35,975 --> 00:40:37,351 -Let's make a vow. -Ugh. 737 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,186 -[Archie] I know. -[Veronica] Mm. 738 00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:40,187 I know. 739 00:40:40,521 --> 00:40:42,731 The last time we made a vow to have a normal senior year, 740 00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,442 everything went to hell pretty quick. 741 00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:48,320 But we only have two, three months left. 742 00:40:49,155 --> 00:40:50,281 Let's end it on a high note. 743 00:40:52,158 --> 00:40:53,993 Are we gonna ignore the fact that Archie and I 744 00:40:54,076 --> 00:40:55,828 will probably not be graduating with you guys? 745 00:40:55,911 --> 00:40:59,123 Jug, okay. Do you really think Vee and I are going to sit idly by 746 00:40:59,206 --> 00:41:01,208 and not help our boyfriends graduate? 747 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:05,462 Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones, you will graduate. 748 00:41:06,213 --> 00:41:10,050 Even if it takes a thousand tutors, you will set aside everything, 749 00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:11,469 no more mysteries, 750 00:41:11,969 --> 00:41:15,514 and make graduating your sole purpose in life. 751 00:41:16,891 --> 00:41:19,477 -Why does that sound like a threat? -[Veronica] Because it is. 752 00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,814 To going out on top. Together. 753 00:41:23,898 --> 00:41:25,941 -Cheers. -Cheers to that. 754 00:41:27,651 --> 00:41:29,528 Guys, guys, just a reminder, 755 00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:32,239 I'm posting the sign-up sheet for the variety show tomorrow. 756 00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:33,824 You all have to perform. 757 00:41:34,992 --> 00:41:36,118 Even you, Jughead. 758 00:41:36,577 --> 00:41:37,995 Count us in, Kev. 759 00:41:38,078 --> 00:41:39,246 Oh, no. 760 00:41:39,872 --> 00:41:41,123 Yes. 761 00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:44,835 Check out this list of local names. 762 00:41:44,919 --> 00:41:46,921 [inaudible dialogue] 763 00:41:49,715 --> 00:41:53,093 ♪ You make it look way too good ♪ variety show tomorrow.