1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,002 [thunder crashing] 2 00:00:06,214 --> 00:00:08,216 [doorbell ringing] 3 00:00:08,299 --> 00:00:10,301 [ominous music playing] 4 00:00:11,052 --> 00:00:13,096 Min-Min. You made it. 5 00:00:14,472 --> 00:00:15,515 [speaks in French] 6 00:00:25,316 --> 00:00:27,527 I've alerted the auction house of my whereabouts, 7 00:00:27,610 --> 00:00:30,905 so if you're sacrificing me to your crimson gods, don't. 8 00:00:31,406 --> 00:00:33,700 First of all, they're goddesses, 9 00:00:33,783 --> 00:00:38,079 and I would never dream of doing such a thing to you, pet. 10 00:00:39,122 --> 00:00:40,957 Consider this evening an apology. 11 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:44,294 You said over the phone you finished a new series of paintings. 12 00:00:44,377 --> 00:00:45,837 That's the only reason I'm here. 13 00:00:47,672 --> 00:00:49,257 Let's get to it then. 14 00:00:54,012 --> 00:00:58,099 Welcome to my little Night Gallery, I like to call it. 15 00:01:00,059 --> 00:01:02,270 Where the depths of the human psyche are plumbed, 16 00:01:02,353 --> 00:01:05,273 and all manner of nightmares are summoned up and bound to canvas. 17 00:01:05,356 --> 00:01:08,485 I'm sensing Goya, Dali, Bacon. 18 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:10,403 My heroes. 19 00:01:11,362 --> 00:01:12,739 Tell me about this one. 20 00:01:13,782 --> 00:01:14,866 Ah, yes. 21 00:01:16,951 --> 00:01:18,036 It's about a hero, 22 00:01:18,703 --> 00:01:22,457 haunted by his past and plagued by the trauma of his present. 23 00:01:28,421 --> 00:01:30,965 Uh, my nightmares have... 24 00:01:32,509 --> 00:01:34,260 been so vivid, Dr. Winters. 25 00:01:34,344 --> 00:01:37,305 But confusing too. I mean, everything's... 26 00:01:39,849 --> 00:01:40,725 jumbled up. 27 00:01:40,809 --> 00:01:44,479 That's your subconscious trying to make sense of the senseless. 28 00:01:45,063 --> 00:01:48,775 Your anxiety is normal, given the trauma you went through. 29 00:01:48,858 --> 00:01:51,486 We can get it under control with anti-anxiety medication. 30 00:01:51,569 --> 00:01:53,780 No, no, no. No pills. 31 00:01:53,863 --> 00:01:55,406 Okay. No pills. 32 00:01:55,490 --> 00:02:00,745 You know, there are other ways of dealing with anxiety, like EMDR. 33 00:02:01,412 --> 00:02:04,124 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming. 34 00:02:04,874 --> 00:02:07,168 Tell the story of what happened to you 35 00:02:07,252 --> 00:02:10,964 while I move my hand back and forth like this. 36 00:02:11,047 --> 00:02:13,299 You follow my fingers with your eyes, 37 00:02:13,383 --> 00:02:16,094 so that as you remember, your body stays in the present. 38 00:02:17,011 --> 00:02:18,012 Should we try it? 39 00:02:19,681 --> 00:02:21,641 [ominous music playing] 40 00:02:26,729 --> 00:02:27,730 [Archie] Private Butler. 41 00:02:30,066 --> 00:02:31,359 We called him Bingo. 42 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:39,909 I... 43 00:02:44,998 --> 00:02:46,291 I let him die. 44 00:02:49,627 --> 00:02:51,504 He was caught in no-man's-land. 45 00:02:54,799 --> 00:02:57,218 I was in a foxhole with Jackson, who was bleeding out. 46 00:03:03,766 --> 00:03:06,352 Repetition takes power away from the memory. 47 00:03:07,145 --> 00:03:08,563 Tell me the story again. 48 00:03:11,941 --> 00:03:15,153 I gotta admit, you were right about Dr. Winters, Eric. 49 00:03:15,236 --> 00:03:16,613 She's a miracle worker. 50 00:03:16,696 --> 00:03:18,323 You do an EMDR with her? 51 00:03:18,406 --> 00:03:21,618 Doc's got me on this drug regimen. Meds will help with the nerve pain. 52 00:03:21,701 --> 00:03:24,287 -What about side effects? -Nothing serious. 53 00:03:24,704 --> 00:03:25,872 [knocking on door] 54 00:03:28,333 --> 00:03:29,375 [door closes] 55 00:03:32,545 --> 00:03:33,379 No. 56 00:03:34,464 --> 00:03:36,674 Gentlemen, I've only recently learned 57 00:03:36,758 --> 00:03:39,344 what everyone else in town seems to have known for weeks, 58 00:03:39,427 --> 00:03:41,846 if not months, that, allegedly, 59 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:46,267 the largest deposit of palladium on this continent is beneath my maple groves. 60 00:03:46,351 --> 00:03:50,480 Which is why I need a team of brawny, strong men to reopen my mines 61 00:03:50,563 --> 00:03:53,399 and harvest the precious metal before Hiram Lodge steals it. 62 00:03:53,483 --> 00:03:57,237 So, naturally, I thought of you and, um, Andrews Construction. 63 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,489 I don't have any experience mining. 64 00:03:59,572 --> 00:04:03,576 Archie, you've been a soldier, a fireman, a football coach, 65 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:05,495 a teacher, and a bounty hunter? 66 00:04:06,537 --> 00:04:08,331 Is a miner so far outside your purview? 67 00:04:08,414 --> 00:04:12,168 Opening existing mines is doable. I ran a crew in Alaska for a spell. 68 00:04:15,129 --> 00:04:16,714 Okay. Count us in. 69 00:04:17,632 --> 00:04:21,344 We'll set up one of my dad's old trailers and run the whole operation from there. 70 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:22,595 [Cheryl] Perfection. 71 00:04:22,679 --> 00:04:24,681 And can you start immediately? 72 00:04:27,725 --> 00:04:28,851 Ready to do this? 73 00:04:28,935 --> 00:04:31,479 Yeah. I can smell the palladium from here. 74 00:04:31,562 --> 00:04:35,358 Halt. Before you go forth, I would like to offer my blessing as ministress. 75 00:04:35,984 --> 00:04:37,944 Gather round and join hands. 76 00:04:39,112 --> 00:04:40,488 [Fangs] You know, uh... 77 00:04:41,739 --> 00:04:44,158 -I'm not religious. -Keep an open mind. 78 00:04:45,159 --> 00:04:49,497 [clears throat] To our Brother Divine, in entering this dark cavity, 79 00:04:49,580 --> 00:04:53,209 help keep our strapping muck-men safe from harm and danger, 80 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:59,090 and let their great labors lead to even greater riches. 81 00:04:59,173 --> 00:05:00,883 -Amen! -Amen! 82 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:01,926 Amen. 83 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,053 All right. In you go. 84 00:05:07,223 --> 00:05:09,225 [suspenseful music playing] 85 00:05:15,231 --> 00:05:16,316 You okay, Andrews? 86 00:05:18,776 --> 00:05:19,610 Yeah. 87 00:05:20,361 --> 00:05:21,571 Yeah, let's do this. 88 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:25,325 [snoring] 89 00:05:32,915 --> 00:05:34,917 -Where's Kev? -He wasn't hungry, 90 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:36,711 -so he kept on digging. -What? 91 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,214 No. No one works in the mines alone. 92 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:43,676 [door opens] 93 00:05:44,385 --> 00:05:46,387 [ominous music playing] 94 00:05:47,013 --> 00:05:47,889 Kevin! 95 00:05:51,601 --> 00:05:52,852 Kev, are you in here? 96 00:05:55,855 --> 00:05:56,856 Kev! 97 00:06:00,860 --> 00:06:01,694 Kev! 98 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:05,364 [gun cocks] 99 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,242 [gunfire and explosions] 100 00:06:16,501 --> 00:06:17,627 [gasps] 101 00:06:18,878 --> 00:06:21,506 -Archie. -Kevin, you can't stay back alone! 102 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:22,423 Look what I found. 103 00:06:30,181 --> 00:06:31,432 It's a maple miracle. 104 00:06:32,433 --> 00:06:34,268 Well done, Archie. 105 00:06:34,352 --> 00:06:37,480 I'd suggest a celebratory toast, but you have to get right back to it. 106 00:06:45,154 --> 00:06:46,906 [Winters] Another good session, Archie. 107 00:06:48,407 --> 00:06:49,575 Dr. Winters, 108 00:06:50,326 --> 00:06:54,539 if I agreed to take some drugs for my PTSD, 109 00:06:55,581 --> 00:06:57,375 what would you prescribe me? 110 00:06:57,458 --> 00:07:00,419 A low dose of anti-anxiety medication, as we discussed. 111 00:07:01,212 --> 00:07:04,715 -Why? Did something happen? -A crazy flashback. 112 00:07:04,799 --> 00:07:08,052 I have a crew depending on me now, so I can't get squirrely on them. 113 00:07:10,721 --> 00:07:11,973 These will help. 114 00:07:20,898 --> 00:07:24,402 -[snoring] -Have you guys ever heard of the Mothmen? 115 00:07:25,027 --> 00:07:27,029 Yeah. Jug was investigating them. 116 00:07:27,697 --> 00:07:30,658 I saw his sketches, but they're just a hoax, right? 117 00:07:30,741 --> 00:07:31,659 Maybe. 118 00:07:33,369 --> 00:07:36,622 There were some stories from the truck drivers 119 00:07:36,706 --> 00:07:38,666 who worked in the mines when they were open. 120 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:41,252 And every so often, 121 00:07:42,211 --> 00:07:43,754 they'd talk about these... 122 00:07:44,589 --> 00:07:47,717 humanoid creatures that lived underground. 123 00:07:49,010 --> 00:07:50,887 With big red eyes. 124 00:07:50,970 --> 00:07:56,142 To absorb as much light as possible. Not to mention they were cannibalistic. 125 00:07:56,934 --> 00:07:59,687 Okay. Enough storytelling. Get back to work. 126 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:14,535 [Bingo] Archie! 127 00:08:19,624 --> 00:08:21,083 Help me, sarge! 128 00:08:27,215 --> 00:08:29,258 [ominous music playing] 129 00:08:29,342 --> 00:08:30,259 [Archie] Eric! 130 00:08:31,510 --> 00:08:32,345 Eric? 131 00:08:33,221 --> 00:08:34,555 Eric, you okay, buddy? 132 00:08:36,098 --> 00:08:36,933 Eric? 133 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,730 Hey. Are you okay? 134 00:08:44,982 --> 00:08:46,567 [Frank] Archie? You okay? 135 00:08:46,651 --> 00:08:48,819 You ran out like a bat out of hell. 136 00:08:48,903 --> 00:08:51,697 -I'm fine. I had to get out of there. -What happened? 137 00:08:52,907 --> 00:08:54,242 I'm fine, Uncle Frank. 138 00:08:56,827 --> 00:08:58,329 Someone's messing with me. 139 00:08:59,747 --> 00:09:01,582 Someone's messing with my head! 140 00:09:03,334 --> 00:09:04,669 What were those pills? 141 00:09:04,752 --> 00:09:06,796 Sergeant Andrews, you can't burst in here-- 142 00:09:06,879 --> 00:09:09,715 What were those pills you gave me? Huh? Psychotics? 143 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:11,759 Hallucinogenics? LSD? 144 00:09:12,635 --> 00:09:16,055 Whatever drugs she wants you to take, don't. She's experimenting on us! 145 00:09:16,138 --> 00:09:18,224 Who do you even work for? Who do you work for? 146 00:09:18,307 --> 00:09:21,936 Some government corporation? Let me guess. It's Hiram Lodge. 147 00:09:22,019 --> 00:09:23,563 The rum-maker? 148 00:09:24,188 --> 00:09:25,564 I don't even know that man. 149 00:09:25,648 --> 00:09:29,277 -Leave or I'm gonna call security. -No. What were those pills? 150 00:09:31,112 --> 00:09:32,238 You heard the doc. 151 00:09:33,948 --> 00:09:34,782 Fine. 152 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:36,951 I'm gone. 153 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:42,957 -[Archie] Jackson! -Yo. 154 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:43,874 Jackson. 155 00:09:45,209 --> 00:09:48,004 Stop seeing Dr. Winters. Okay? She's dangerous. 156 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:53,092 -What are you talking about? -Listen, she's using us as guinea pigs. 157 00:09:54,927 --> 00:09:57,805 With all due respect, I'm not gonna stop seeing Dr. Winters. 158 00:09:58,806 --> 00:10:02,351 I don't think you should either. You got a lot of baggage. 159 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:03,686 More than you let on. 160 00:10:04,228 --> 00:10:05,521 Losing that many men? 161 00:10:06,522 --> 00:10:07,732 That's not easy. 162 00:10:10,359 --> 00:10:11,902 I'm surprised it didn't break you. 163 00:10:25,374 --> 00:10:26,584 [door opens] 164 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:28,210 [Frank] Hey, there he is. 165 00:10:28,794 --> 00:10:29,920 Hey. Uncle Frank. 166 00:10:30,421 --> 00:10:33,466 Uh, hey, listen. Me and the guys were talking, and... 167 00:10:34,342 --> 00:10:37,720 we think you should take the day off. Rest up. Take your mind off things. 168 00:10:38,637 --> 00:10:41,223 I'm not taking Dr. Winter's meds anymore. 169 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:43,142 They should be flushed out of my system. 170 00:10:43,225 --> 00:10:45,978 Yeah. I don't think you should go underground. 171 00:10:47,229 --> 00:10:50,941 You could get caught up on the payroll, so we don't fall behind. 172 00:10:51,025 --> 00:10:55,529 -We'll come back and have lunch together. -Yeah, yeah. Cool. Sounds good. 173 00:10:56,572 --> 00:10:57,656 Great. Okay. 174 00:11:02,870 --> 00:11:04,872 [indistinct shouting] 175 00:11:07,458 --> 00:11:09,460 [shouting continues] 176 00:11:13,130 --> 00:11:15,132 [ominous music playing] 177 00:11:20,596 --> 00:11:21,430 Uncle Frank! 178 00:11:23,224 --> 00:11:24,058 Kevin! 179 00:11:24,642 --> 00:11:25,684 Uncle Frank? 180 00:11:27,019 --> 00:11:28,729 He loves me. He loves me not. 181 00:11:28,813 --> 00:11:31,399 -Kevin. -He loves me. He loves me not. 182 00:11:32,024 --> 00:11:33,442 -He loves me. -Archie! 183 00:11:34,193 --> 00:11:35,653 -[Kevin] He loves me. -[Fangs] Archie? 184 00:11:35,736 --> 00:11:38,447 -Can you hear them? Can you hear them? -Hear what? 185 00:11:38,531 --> 00:11:41,909 The Tommy-knockers singing in my head! 186 00:11:41,992 --> 00:11:43,661 Fangs, listen. Look at me. 187 00:11:43,744 --> 00:11:46,455 There's monsters! There's monsters here! 188 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:48,749 Reggie! Reggie! Reggie! Look at me! 189 00:11:49,375 --> 00:11:52,253 Take Kevin and Fangs, get them out of here. Okay? 190 00:11:52,336 --> 00:11:54,630 Take Kevin and Fangs, get them out of here. 191 00:11:54,713 --> 00:11:55,840 Okay. 192 00:11:55,923 --> 00:11:56,757 Go! Go! 193 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:04,640 -Uncle Frank! -You are a devil. 194 00:12:04,723 --> 00:12:07,393 -And all devils go to hell! -Eric! Stop! Eric! 195 00:12:08,352 --> 00:12:10,521 Stop it. Eric! I'm not your enemy. 196 00:12:10,604 --> 00:12:13,065 Yeah. You are. You're the devil! 197 00:12:13,149 --> 00:12:14,483 No. I'm not! 198 00:12:17,987 --> 00:12:19,029 [coughing] 199 00:12:19,864 --> 00:12:21,574 -Uncle Frank, you okay? -Yeah. 200 00:12:21,657 --> 00:12:24,410 -What is going on down here? -Gas. It's gas. 201 00:12:24,493 --> 00:12:26,620 We gotta get everyone topside ASAP. 202 00:12:28,914 --> 00:12:30,916 I wanna hear it from the horses' mouths. 203 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,794 What happened to your crew? Why has the digging stopped? 204 00:12:33,878 --> 00:12:35,212 It's not safe to work. 205 00:12:35,296 --> 00:12:39,758 Given the state of delirium of the men, those tunnels are full of carbon monoxide. 206 00:12:39,842 --> 00:12:41,635 It's odorless, and if you breathe enough of it, 207 00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:43,762 it causes hallucinations, violent outbursts. 208 00:12:43,846 --> 00:12:46,891 Which all of us have been experiencing to greater or less degrees. 209 00:12:46,974 --> 00:12:49,268 That's annoying. How do we fix it? 210 00:12:50,895 --> 00:12:52,897 We can hook up a pump to make sure there's fresh air. 211 00:12:52,980 --> 00:12:54,064 Yes! Do that. 212 00:12:54,148 --> 00:12:56,525 And I'll order a flock of canaries. 213 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,527 But I want you back in there digging ASAP. 214 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:00,613 [dramatic music playing] 215 00:13:01,906 --> 00:13:03,324 What are you doing here? 216 00:13:04,033 --> 00:13:05,409 Dr. Winters, please. 217 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:08,662 It turns out I was suffering the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning. 218 00:13:08,746 --> 00:13:11,457 But I took my aggression out on you and for that I'm sorry. 219 00:13:12,917 --> 00:13:17,129 Don't cut me loose. I need help. I haven't told you this, a lot of men-- 220 00:13:20,049 --> 00:13:22,134 A lot of men died under my command. 221 00:13:23,093 --> 00:13:26,347 I started seeing one of them, Private Bingo, but now I-- 222 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:35,773 Now I'm seeing all of them. 223 00:13:36,774 --> 00:13:39,735 I don't know what you want me to say, Archie. 224 00:13:41,070 --> 00:13:45,074 I'm scared to be alone with you after how you came in here last time. 225 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:47,243 And if you're experiencing 226 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:50,412 such an extreme level of hallucination, then... 227 00:13:51,997 --> 00:13:54,583 I don't think it's safe for you to be around anyone. 228 00:14:04,593 --> 00:14:07,388 -[thunder crashing] -[Minerva] These paintings, Cheryl, 229 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:09,682 their subject matter is somehow... 230 00:14:10,140 --> 00:14:11,725 more haunted than before. 231 00:14:11,809 --> 00:14:13,811 Thank you, Minerva. 232 00:14:15,271 --> 00:14:16,272 [Minerva] My God. 233 00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:18,440 Inspired by my poor, dear cousin. 234 00:14:19,984 --> 00:14:23,320 Wrestling with the question: "Who is the true monster, 235 00:14:23,404 --> 00:14:26,824 the ghoul our girl is hunting or the girl herself?" 236 00:14:31,453 --> 00:14:33,455 [ominous music playing] 237 00:14:34,999 --> 00:14:37,501 [Tabitha] I am not as used to this as you are. 238 00:14:38,168 --> 00:14:40,796 But we just caught a man who might be the Highway Killer. 239 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,674 Are you sure we shouldn't hand him over to the authorities? 240 00:14:43,757 --> 00:14:47,553 No. If we do that, I could get cut out of the investigation. 241 00:14:47,636 --> 00:14:49,054 He might have killed Polly. 242 00:14:49,138 --> 00:14:51,348 I know I can get that information out of him. 243 00:14:51,432 --> 00:14:52,725 It is what I do. 244 00:14:55,686 --> 00:14:58,022 But I think it's time you bow out, Tabitha. 245 00:14:58,105 --> 00:14:59,982 Just let me handle this, okay? 246 00:15:00,065 --> 00:15:02,026 -Wait, are you serious? -Deadly. 247 00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:04,653 Please trust me. 248 00:15:06,363 --> 00:15:07,197 Okay. 249 00:15:08,198 --> 00:15:10,868 But if at any point you need backup, 250 00:15:11,410 --> 00:15:12,745 I'm here. 251 00:15:12,828 --> 00:15:17,374 I don't want any other girls dying and that includes you. 252 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:21,587 Yeah. 253 00:15:27,885 --> 00:15:29,553 [grunting] 254 00:15:32,806 --> 00:15:35,225 Hi. I'm Betty. 255 00:15:37,478 --> 00:15:38,520 What's your name? 256 00:15:41,148 --> 00:15:41,982 Martin. 257 00:15:44,985 --> 00:15:47,237 No, it's not. That's not your name. 258 00:15:47,321 --> 00:15:50,532 That's the name on the driver's license you've been carrying around. 259 00:15:50,616 --> 00:15:53,953 But the real Martin Tucker died almost, mmm, 50 years ago? 260 00:15:54,703 --> 00:15:58,082 I'm with the FBI. So you should really start telling me... 261 00:15:59,041 --> 00:16:02,252 about the women you've killed along the Lonely Highway. 262 00:16:03,837 --> 00:16:04,672 All of them. 263 00:16:04,755 --> 00:16:06,548 If you're with the FBI, 264 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:09,760 then why am I in some shop class 265 00:16:09,843 --> 00:16:11,553 instead of in jail right now? 266 00:16:12,096 --> 00:16:13,347 I want a phone call. 267 00:16:13,430 --> 00:16:15,557 I am a citizen of the United States. 268 00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:16,725 I have rights. 269 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:21,188 Mm-hm. Yeah. Well, actually, you're not in the United States anymore. 270 00:16:23,899 --> 00:16:25,192 You're in Riverdale. 271 00:16:26,610 --> 00:16:27,444 Welcome. 272 00:16:28,487 --> 00:16:32,574 And killers of women do not have rights. 273 00:16:33,283 --> 00:16:35,911 And if you're thinking of yelling for help, 274 00:16:37,037 --> 00:16:38,622 it's a long weekend. 275 00:16:39,123 --> 00:16:40,124 Let me guess. 276 00:16:40,749 --> 00:16:44,336 You're one of those women who runs around entrapping men, 277 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:45,754 gets off on it. 278 00:16:46,463 --> 00:16:47,589 Who hurt you? 279 00:16:48,590 --> 00:16:50,050 A bitter boyfriend? 280 00:16:53,387 --> 00:16:54,805 [screaming] 281 00:16:56,807 --> 00:16:58,642 Okay. Well, I'll be back. 282 00:16:59,226 --> 00:17:02,604 Maybe next time we can have a more fruitful conversation. 283 00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:03,731 If not... 284 00:17:05,774 --> 00:17:07,484 guess I'll just have to get creative. 285 00:17:09,820 --> 00:17:11,905 [suspenseful music playing] 286 00:17:22,249 --> 00:17:23,500 Mary-Catherine Avery, 287 00:17:23,584 --> 00:17:27,880 last seen two years ago waiting tables at a diner in Seaside. 288 00:17:28,672 --> 00:17:32,426 Nicole Houston, missing a year ago while hitchhiking to Canada. 289 00:17:39,141 --> 00:17:42,227 Polly Cooper, last seen this past summer. 290 00:17:47,149 --> 00:17:51,278 Hmm, I thought I recognized her for a second, but, no, I was mistaken. 291 00:17:55,073 --> 00:17:56,158 Alison McCall. 292 00:17:58,535 --> 00:18:01,121 It's been a minute, but I never forget a face that pretty. 293 00:18:01,997 --> 00:18:03,707 -[grunts] -Where is she? 294 00:18:04,583 --> 00:18:08,295 An old hiker's trail in the northeast corner of Swedlow Swamp. 295 00:18:08,378 --> 00:18:11,006 She's underneath a gorgeous sycamore tree. 296 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,758 You just gotta dig! 297 00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:17,304 So did you find her? She's a real bitch, isn't she? 298 00:18:17,387 --> 00:18:18,555 [grunts] 299 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:20,307 They're dog bones, you psychopath. 300 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:21,683 Oh, right. 301 00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:24,686 That's where I buried my old dog after she passed away. 302 00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,271 Poor little thing. 303 00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:29,024 Sorry about the confusion, Agent Cooper. 304 00:18:30,567 --> 00:18:31,693 How do you know my name? 305 00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:34,613 There's been stories up and down the highway 306 00:18:34,696 --> 00:18:38,742 about some crazy, rogue FBI agent out looking for her sister. 307 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,454 Polly. Where is she? 308 00:18:42,538 --> 00:18:47,167 If I knew and if I told you, you'd be like every other woman, 309 00:18:47,251 --> 00:18:49,920 casting me aside after getting what you want! 310 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:51,630 Fine. 311 00:18:55,425 --> 00:18:57,010 Let's talk about something else. 312 00:18:57,594 --> 00:18:59,471 Why did you start doing this? 313 00:19:00,806 --> 00:19:03,183 -I wanted to see how it would feel? -And? 314 00:19:06,186 --> 00:19:09,731 -How does it feel? -No different from hunting with my family. 315 00:19:11,149 --> 00:19:12,192 These-- Uh... 316 00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:16,363 These people that you're hunting... 317 00:19:18,031 --> 00:19:19,324 aren't animals. 318 00:19:20,701 --> 00:19:23,203 They're human beings with families. 319 00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:25,247 No, they're just prey. 320 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:27,875 That's how I see it. 321 00:19:38,218 --> 00:19:39,219 [door closes] 322 00:19:39,845 --> 00:19:40,679 [Betty] Mom? 323 00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:44,099 I have to tell you something. 324 00:19:44,892 --> 00:19:45,976 What is it, honey? 325 00:19:48,103 --> 00:19:51,648 I... captured a trucker. 326 00:19:53,025 --> 00:19:55,819 I think he's the man who may have killed Polly. 327 00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:58,655 The man who's been killing the young women on the highway. 328 00:19:58,739 --> 00:20:00,115 Oh, my God. 329 00:20:01,909 --> 00:20:05,746 One thing serial killers do... 330 00:20:07,164 --> 00:20:09,625 is dehumanize their victims before killing them. 331 00:20:09,708 --> 00:20:13,045 It's risky, Mom, but I believe that if he saw you... 332 00:20:14,254 --> 00:20:17,591 really saw you as a grieving mother 333 00:20:17,674 --> 00:20:19,760 and Polly as a human being... 334 00:20:22,846 --> 00:20:24,973 he might confess. 335 00:20:25,724 --> 00:20:27,851 There's no guarantees but maybe... 336 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:30,479 I'll do it. 337 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,231 Okay. Good. 338 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:36,360 Okay. 339 00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:42,991 [Alice] I wanna tell you about my daughter, Polly. 340 00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:47,788 This was her at 10 years old. 341 00:20:48,372 --> 00:20:49,957 My little golden girl. 342 00:20:53,835 --> 00:20:56,672 She loved to dance and swim. 343 00:20:57,255 --> 00:20:59,883 She was a baton-twirler. [sobs] 344 00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:05,097 You can't imagine what it's like to be a mother 345 00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:08,850 that has no idea where her child is. 346 00:21:11,061 --> 00:21:13,063 [dramatic music playing] 347 00:21:13,981 --> 00:21:14,815 Your--? 348 00:21:17,192 --> 00:21:19,027 -Your daughter? -Yeah? 349 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,283 Your daughter squealed like a pig when I slit her throat. 350 00:21:24,366 --> 00:21:26,576 -[squeals] -You monster! 351 00:21:27,244 --> 00:21:29,371 I'll kill you! I'll kill you! 352 00:21:29,454 --> 00:21:30,455 Hey, hey. 353 00:21:30,539 --> 00:21:32,374 -Please. -No! 354 00:21:33,625 --> 00:21:35,210 -[Alice sobbing] -Stop it. 355 00:21:35,293 --> 00:21:36,712 [Alice wailing] 356 00:21:39,006 --> 00:21:40,590 [Betty] We're not getting through to him. 357 00:21:40,674 --> 00:21:42,175 Have to push harder. 358 00:21:42,259 --> 00:21:45,095 Okay, appealing to his humanity didn't work. 359 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:51,268 But maybe if he believed that he was actually going to die, 360 00:21:51,351 --> 00:21:52,644 maybe then he would talk. 361 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:55,105 Why don't you just kill him, Betty? 362 00:21:57,482 --> 00:21:58,400 Mom, come on. 363 00:21:59,067 --> 00:22:03,488 -That scumbag killed my daughter. -It's not gonna make you feel any better. 364 00:22:03,572 --> 00:22:05,907 I'll feel better knowing that my daughter's killer's dead. 365 00:22:06,908 --> 00:22:08,076 So do it, Betty. 366 00:22:09,619 --> 00:22:11,872 As your mother, I give you permission. 367 00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:14,332 Kill that monster. 368 00:22:18,628 --> 00:22:20,756 I wanna try one more thing first. 369 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:26,678 [Betty] I know my sister's dead. 370 00:22:28,805 --> 00:22:30,057 I've accepted that. 371 00:22:31,099 --> 00:22:35,312 So I'm asking you one more time to tell me where Polly is. 372 00:22:37,981 --> 00:22:38,899 Please. 373 00:22:38,982 --> 00:22:41,985 There's no earthly reason for me to do that. 374 00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:46,990 Okay, then. 375 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,038 Here's what's gonna happen next. 376 00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:57,584 I'm not gonna kill you because I want you to suffer. 377 00:22:58,251 --> 00:22:59,086 So... 378 00:23:00,170 --> 00:23:02,672 I'm gonna start carving pieces off of you. 379 00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:07,636 First, I'll use a chain saw on your feet. 380 00:23:09,012 --> 00:23:11,556 I'll cut them off at the ankles and then cauterize the wounds. 381 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,474 [man] Mm-hm. 382 00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:15,977 And then I'll cut off your legs at the knees... 383 00:23:16,937 --> 00:23:18,688 cauterize those wounds. 384 00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:21,775 And then your upper legs at the groin. 385 00:23:22,526 --> 00:23:26,154 And then I'll move on to your hands, sever them at the wrists. 386 00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:29,658 And by that point, you might die of a heart attack, but I don't know. 387 00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:33,411 You seem pretty strong. 388 00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:36,373 And I have a couple tricks up my sleeve. 389 00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:40,460 Wait. Okay, wait. 390 00:23:45,757 --> 00:23:50,178 Did your sister have blue eyes and a tattoo of the infinity symbol? 391 00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:53,932 And did she ever go by the name "Patty" instead of "Polly"? 392 00:23:56,643 --> 00:23:57,477 Yeah. 393 00:24:00,397 --> 00:24:01,606 Do you remember her? 394 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:06,570 Not in the least. 395 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:09,281 [dramatic music playing] 396 00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:15,287 [panting] 397 00:24:18,832 --> 00:24:21,501 Please. Just kill me. 398 00:24:22,335 --> 00:24:24,129 Just kill me, please. 399 00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:28,008 [TBK] You tiny, pretty thing. 400 00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:30,802 I'm not going to kill you. 401 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,306 I'm gonna carve pieces off of you. 402 00:24:35,390 --> 00:24:38,894 First, I'll use a chain saw on your feet. 403 00:24:40,645 --> 00:24:43,940 Then I'll cauterize the wounds. 404 00:24:47,986 --> 00:24:50,280 ["The Wild One" playing] 405 00:24:50,363 --> 00:24:54,659 ♪ You called once In your mysterious ways ♪ 406 00:24:55,285 --> 00:24:57,954 ♪ I don't know how ♪ 407 00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:02,792 ♪ I don't know when now I lost my mind ♪ 408 00:25:07,255 --> 00:25:08,256 [Alice] So, Betty... 409 00:25:09,549 --> 00:25:10,383 did you do it? 410 00:25:11,509 --> 00:25:12,344 Nope. 411 00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:15,138 But he did it himself. 412 00:25:15,222 --> 00:25:16,973 Bit off his own tongue. 413 00:25:18,475 --> 00:25:19,309 Swallowed it. 414 00:25:20,894 --> 00:25:22,562 And choked to death on it. 415 00:25:23,230 --> 00:25:25,482 Maybe he was afraid of what I was gonna do to him, 416 00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:28,360 or maybe he finally felt guilty about what he'd done. 417 00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:34,366 So he takes his secrets to the grave and we're no closer to finding Polly. 418 00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:37,911 We'll have to wait and see what Dr. Curdle's autopsy report says. 419 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:40,372 Do you feel better? 420 00:25:42,123 --> 00:25:43,333 Now that he's dead? 421 00:25:46,419 --> 00:25:49,673 I do. I think some lives were saved tonight. 422 00:25:51,174 --> 00:25:52,467 Do you feel better? 423 00:25:54,261 --> 00:25:55,303 Yeah. 424 00:25:56,429 --> 00:25:58,056 But based on a few things he said, 425 00:25:58,139 --> 00:26:01,101 my gut's telling me that he's not the only killer. 426 00:26:01,810 --> 00:26:06,147 I think maybe there's a family of them hunting together. 427 00:26:08,108 --> 00:26:10,110 [suspenseful music playing] 428 00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:20,453 [thunder crashing] 429 00:26:20,537 --> 00:26:21,579 [Minerva] My God. 430 00:26:21,663 --> 00:26:23,665 It's remarkable, isn't it? 431 00:26:23,748 --> 00:26:27,585 Portrait of a young writer caught betwixt fact and fiction, 432 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,381 memory and madness, truth and trauma. 433 00:26:31,464 --> 00:26:33,008 Interpret it for me. 434 00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:38,013 Let's just say it's about the stories we tell ourselves to survive. 435 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:40,515 And about addiction. 436 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,812 [group leader] Would anyone new like to start us off? 437 00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:52,027 Uh... Yeah. Sure. 438 00:26:52,861 --> 00:26:59,451 Uh, my name is Forsythe Pendleton Jones III. 439 00:26:59,534 --> 00:27:00,869 [all] Welcome, Forsythe. 440 00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:05,373 It's just kind of weird being in here at night not as a teacher but as a... 441 00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:08,960 An alcoholic. 442 00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:12,464 We're happy to listen to whatever you want to say. 443 00:27:13,631 --> 00:27:16,509 I guess I'll start with when I left Riverdale. 444 00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:19,679 After high school, I joined the Iowa Writers' Workshop. 445 00:27:20,430 --> 00:27:22,182 I thought Iowa was gonna be an escape, 446 00:27:22,265 --> 00:27:26,686 but in reality, my freshman year was actually kind of boring. 447 00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:30,357 So I focused on my craft. 448 00:27:31,107 --> 00:27:34,319 Origins of storytelling stuff, like Greek myths, Dostoyevsky, 449 00:27:34,986 --> 00:27:35,987 The Sopranos. 450 00:27:37,322 --> 00:27:41,951 And every afternoon at dusk, I'd segue from coffee to whiskey. 451 00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:43,370 And I'd start writing. 452 00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:47,707 And from those late nights came the first few chapters of a novel 453 00:27:47,791 --> 00:27:49,918 and, I hoped, my ticket out of Iowa. 454 00:27:50,668 --> 00:27:54,422 So I polished the pages and sent them off to a hundred literary agents in New York. 455 00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:57,175 And one got back to me. 456 00:27:57,675 --> 00:28:01,679 A guy named Samm Pansky. He was an old-school legend, and he wrote: 457 00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:05,016 "Hey, kid. Drop me a line next time you're in New York." 458 00:28:05,642 --> 00:28:07,894 So I took Samm up on his offer. 459 00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:11,815 Based on what I've read, 460 00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:14,192 you got a lot of talent, kid. 461 00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:17,987 I got you something. 462 00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:23,118 -What's this for? -What? 463 00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:25,787 An agent can't get his client a gift? 464 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,038 [jazz music playing] 465 00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,039 Wait, are--? 466 00:28:28,790 --> 00:28:30,959 I have an agent? Are you my agent? 467 00:28:32,502 --> 00:28:34,671 Welcome to the Samm Pansky family. 468 00:28:34,754 --> 00:28:36,256 -[Samm laughs] -[line rings] 469 00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:37,215 Hey, Betty. 470 00:28:38,091 --> 00:28:40,009 Oh, I'm surprised you picked up. 471 00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:44,764 My roommate has some company over, so I'm just killing time. 472 00:28:44,848 --> 00:28:46,808 Yeah, that's rough. 473 00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:48,435 Um... 474 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:51,104 I got an agent. 475 00:28:52,147 --> 00:28:55,108 He signed me after reading two chapters of my new novel. 476 00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:56,818 Jug, that's huge. 477 00:28:56,901 --> 00:28:58,069 Congratulations. 478 00:28:58,153 --> 00:28:59,946 Please tell me your Iowa friends 479 00:29:00,029 --> 00:29:02,532 are taking you out for a celebratory drink. 480 00:29:04,325 --> 00:29:06,661 Yeah, uh, they are but later. 481 00:29:07,245 --> 00:29:10,457 [Jughead] And that night, I decided that I was gonna move to New York City 482 00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:12,167 and become a proper writer. 483 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:15,170 In my new apartment, in the East Village, 484 00:29:15,253 --> 00:29:17,964 I was hit with a lethal case of writer's block. 485 00:29:20,550 --> 00:29:25,430 Luckily, my girlfriend, Jessica, knew where to score some maple mushrooms. 486 00:29:25,513 --> 00:29:26,514 -Do you have it? -Yeah. 487 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,183 -Perfect. Oh, yeah. -Hey. 488 00:29:35,565 --> 00:29:37,275 When I was tripping on shrooms, it... 489 00:29:38,401 --> 00:29:40,278 just felt like... 490 00:29:41,488 --> 00:29:44,949 doors to my mind just swung right open. 491 00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:47,785 I wrote 200 pages that night. 492 00:29:49,496 --> 00:29:54,375 And from that crazy, raw first draft came The Outcasts. 493 00:29:59,255 --> 00:30:00,089 Well... 494 00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:05,678 I think The Outcasts... 495 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,683 is gonna be a monster YA hit. [laughs] 496 00:30:10,767 --> 00:30:14,896 And let me tell you, YA is hot. Which means moola. Lots of moola. 497 00:30:15,730 --> 00:30:16,606 YA it is. 498 00:30:17,565 --> 00:30:23,905 The year leading up to the publication of the book was just a whirlwind. 499 00:30:24,906 --> 00:30:26,366 I was drinking pretty steadily. 500 00:30:26,449 --> 00:30:30,453 And though Jess had moved in, I was still holding on to the past. 501 00:30:33,748 --> 00:30:36,376 Or more specifically, my ex. 502 00:30:40,046 --> 00:30:42,048 [tender music playing] 503 00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:52,684 [Jughead] Spoiler alert. 504 00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:55,311 It was not a great night. No. 505 00:30:56,479 --> 00:31:00,692 It quickly began to derail after I got a call from Betty... 506 00:31:00,775 --> 00:31:01,693 All right. Bye. 507 00:31:01,776 --> 00:31:06,072 ...saying she wasn't going to be able to make the book release after all. 508 00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:14,998 Stumbling in the general direction of my party, I called Betty, 509 00:31:15,081 --> 00:31:19,627 and I left her just this crazy, super-toxic voicemail. 510 00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:21,671 -[Betty] Please leave a message. -[voicemail beeps] 511 00:31:21,754 --> 00:31:23,673 Betty. Of course you bailed. 512 00:31:24,465 --> 00:31:26,301 You've been blowing me off for years. 513 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:28,803 Why should I have even expected anything different? 514 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:29,721 I see you, Betty. 515 00:31:29,804 --> 00:31:31,014 I see now... 516 00:31:31,764 --> 00:31:34,809 what I should have seen seven years ago. 517 00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:36,978 You pretend to be nice... 518 00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:38,813 but really... 519 00:31:40,189 --> 00:31:41,983 you're looking for weak spots. 520 00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:45,528 And when you find them, 521 00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:49,574 you just press on them like a bruise. 522 00:31:49,657 --> 00:31:54,579 Like when you hooked up with Archie, you really found the one person... 523 00:31:54,662 --> 00:31:55,705 [glass shatters] 524 00:31:55,788 --> 00:31:58,166 ...that would hurt Veronica and I the most. 525 00:31:59,334 --> 00:32:00,877 And you just went there. 526 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,131 You're a cold, fake, duplicitous bitch. 527 00:32:05,715 --> 00:32:09,052 And when people read my book, everyone is gonna see that. 528 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:20,563 And then... 529 00:32:21,481 --> 00:32:22,482 I vanished. 530 00:32:23,107 --> 00:32:24,943 I was swallowed up by the dark. 531 00:32:28,821 --> 00:32:33,201 So "swallowed up by the dark," was that a metaphor? 532 00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:34,369 [Jughead] No, I wish. 533 00:32:34,452 --> 00:32:36,621 One moment I was stumbling in a back alley, 534 00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:42,085 and the next moment I was waking up in a hospital room. 535 00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:44,170 [monitor beeping] 536 00:32:50,426 --> 00:32:51,344 Where am I? 537 00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:55,056 Hey, hey. 538 00:32:56,265 --> 00:32:57,100 You're okay. 539 00:32:59,185 --> 00:33:00,603 You're at St. Vincent's. 540 00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:04,023 You went on a bender, Jones. 541 00:33:04,941 --> 00:33:05,900 An epic one. 542 00:33:06,526 --> 00:33:07,610 The hell happened? 543 00:33:10,488 --> 00:33:12,198 Actually, I don't wanna know. 544 00:33:13,408 --> 00:33:16,035 -How long was I out? -A few days. 545 00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:17,870 Oh, my God. 546 00:33:19,872 --> 00:33:22,375 [Jughead] Oh, I wish I could say that that signaled a fresh start 547 00:33:22,458 --> 00:33:25,044 for Jess and I but nope. 548 00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:27,630 No, we kept on drinking and fighting and... 549 00:33:28,548 --> 00:33:29,716 Certainly not writing. 550 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:31,634 [cell phone rings] 551 00:33:31,718 --> 00:33:34,887 So when my old pal Archie Andrews called out of the blue, 552 00:33:34,971 --> 00:33:36,347 I came home. 553 00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:37,682 Here. To Riverdale. 554 00:33:38,766 --> 00:33:43,688 But something was still gnawing at me, at my mind and my sanity. 555 00:33:43,771 --> 00:33:46,274 And, uh, I was still drinking. 556 00:33:46,357 --> 00:33:47,734 Heavily. Heavily. 557 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,279 And shortly after that, I hit rock bottom. 558 00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:53,281 On skid row, no less. 559 00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:56,492 Then I figured I needed to go back to New York City. 560 00:33:57,702 --> 00:34:00,329 Find out what happened to me the night of my book release 561 00:34:00,413 --> 00:34:02,707 when I lost those days of my life. 562 00:34:03,332 --> 00:34:05,626 So I went back to St. Vincent's Hospital 563 00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:07,754 and requested a copy of my discharge records, 564 00:34:07,837 --> 00:34:11,299 which said I had been treated for a rabies infection. 565 00:34:11,382 --> 00:34:12,550 So I went to see Jess. 566 00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:13,968 Rabies. 567 00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:16,846 What the hell happened? Jess. 568 00:34:17,805 --> 00:34:18,639 Just tell me. 569 00:34:19,390 --> 00:34:21,559 You disappeared the night of your party. 570 00:34:21,642 --> 00:34:24,353 And three days later, you ended up at St. Vincent's. 571 00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:27,315 The doctors said when you came in, you were out of your mind, 572 00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:28,524 raving and ranting. 573 00:34:29,525 --> 00:34:30,485 About what? 574 00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:32,111 She told me that I had been... 575 00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:36,532 yelling about a Rat King. 576 00:34:38,534 --> 00:34:39,368 A man... 577 00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:43,498 that lived underneath the streets of New York City. 578 00:34:43,581 --> 00:34:44,916 Wait. I'm sorry. 579 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:46,709 A what? 580 00:34:46,793 --> 00:34:48,920 Yeah. No, let me explain. Um... 581 00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:54,467 The night of my book release, I never even made it to the party. 582 00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:57,470 Moments after I left that voicemail for Betty, 583 00:34:57,553 --> 00:35:02,475 I fell down a sinkhole that had opened up in the pavement. 584 00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:05,561 Yeah, it's rare, but I guess it happens. 585 00:35:07,563 --> 00:35:09,357 There must have been some impulse in me 586 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,027 to just vanish or walk away from the shambles of my life. 587 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:15,947 Because I thought to myself, "I could stay here." 588 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:21,619 So I pushed together a couple crates and formed this kind of cot, 589 00:35:21,702 --> 00:35:23,037 then I tried to sleep. 590 00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:27,083 But that is when he showed up. 591 00:35:29,544 --> 00:35:30,711 [man] Who are you? 592 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,092 -[Jughead] Samm? -I'm the king of the underworld. 593 00:35:38,678 --> 00:35:40,471 And you are a trespasser here. 594 00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:45,768 -No! No! -What good are you? 595 00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:47,645 I mean, what do you even do? 596 00:35:47,728 --> 00:35:48,604 I'm a-- 597 00:35:49,772 --> 00:35:50,773 I'm a writer. 598 00:35:51,566 --> 00:35:52,483 I tell stories. 599 00:35:54,652 --> 00:35:57,446 I can tell you a story. Let me tell you a story. 600 00:35:59,782 --> 00:36:00,616 All right. 601 00:36:01,742 --> 00:36:02,910 Go ahead. 602 00:36:06,497 --> 00:36:08,040 Tell me a story. 603 00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:11,544 Now, luckily, I had a copy of my book, The Outcasts, on me. 604 00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:13,796 So I read it aloud. 605 00:36:15,047 --> 00:36:18,718 And the Rat King ate it up. [chuckles] 606 00:36:18,801 --> 00:36:20,595 [Rat King clapping] 607 00:36:21,721 --> 00:36:22,555 [whoops] 608 00:36:22,638 --> 00:36:26,058 That's what I'm talking about. You're a born storyteller. 609 00:36:26,142 --> 00:36:28,811 And because of that, I want you to stay down here with me, 610 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:31,856 -where you'll regale me with your tales. -That sounds great. 611 00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:36,068 I'll come back tomorrow when everything will be prepared for your arrival. 612 00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:37,111 There, 613 00:36:37,695 --> 00:36:41,490 away from my responsibilities and expectations, 614 00:36:42,241 --> 00:36:45,203 deadlines and dead-end relationships, I, uh... 615 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:49,707 I was very eager to join the Rat King's domain. 616 00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:55,546 But that night... she came to visit me. 617 00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:56,464 [Betty] Jughead. 618 00:36:57,423 --> 00:36:58,424 Jughead, wake up. 619 00:37:00,426 --> 00:37:03,554 Betty. What the hell? What are you doing here? 620 00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:04,639 I'm saving you. 621 00:37:04,722 --> 00:37:07,391 You're in danger. You need to get out of here. 622 00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:09,852 -Danger? What do you mean? -Listen to me. 623 00:37:09,936 --> 00:37:11,938 The city floods the sewer once every two weeks. 624 00:37:12,021 --> 00:37:15,608 That's happening any minute, okay? If you stay down here, you will drown. 625 00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:18,527 -Come with me. -[dramatic music playing] 626 00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:23,616 Betty walked behind me... 627 00:37:25,368 --> 00:37:27,161 urging me through those dark tunnels. 628 00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:30,957 It was a lot like that Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. 629 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,043 The two young lovers try to escape the underworld together. 630 00:37:34,710 --> 00:37:35,711 Well, somehow, 631 00:37:37,004 --> 00:37:40,341 I made it to the light and to civilization. 632 00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:44,971 Some back alley in the East Village. 633 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:46,681 I was dirty. 634 00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:48,349 I was just out of my mind. 635 00:37:48,849 --> 00:37:51,227 I was also infected, which I didn't know at the time. 636 00:37:52,228 --> 00:37:54,272 So the cops found me, and they picked me up, 637 00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:56,274 and they took me to St. Vincent's Hospital. 638 00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:57,984 [siren wailing] 639 00:37:59,068 --> 00:38:03,990 Betty saved me in the darkness like she had so many times before. 640 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:13,499 So how much of what you told us was true? 641 00:38:14,166 --> 00:38:15,626 That's a good question. 642 00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:19,964 Well, when Jess told me what I told her at the hospital, I felt... 643 00:38:21,716 --> 00:38:25,594 that I needed to return to the physical site of that core trauma. 644 00:38:26,595 --> 00:38:27,430 That darkness. 645 00:38:28,723 --> 00:38:31,392 And it took me two days, but I found the alley 646 00:38:31,892 --> 00:38:35,396 and... the sinkhole that was now paved over. 647 00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:39,817 And next to it, there was a sewer grate, which I pried open. 648 00:38:41,861 --> 00:38:43,279 And I entered the abyss. 649 00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:46,991 [eerie music playing] 650 00:38:47,074 --> 00:38:48,701 It was definitely familiar. 651 00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:54,248 I'd absolutely been there. 652 00:38:56,751 --> 00:38:59,879 Confirmed when I found a copy of my book. 653 00:39:02,173 --> 00:39:06,385 Scribbled in the margins was the story of the Rat King and his captive 654 00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:08,637 that I had completely made up. 655 00:39:09,430 --> 00:39:12,308 Going to the source of my trauma made me understand the Rat King 656 00:39:12,391 --> 00:39:14,226 was just a fiction I'd conjured 657 00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:16,979 to distract myself from what really happened down there. 658 00:39:19,565 --> 00:39:23,277 The night of my book launch, I was angry... 659 00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:26,197 and drunk. 660 00:39:27,823 --> 00:39:30,993 And I fell into a sinkhole and I lost consciousness. 661 00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:36,415 And when I came to, I couldn't scream for help because I was covered in rats. 662 00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:37,708 [rats squealing] 663 00:39:39,251 --> 00:39:43,255 I was afraid that if I opened my mouth, they would crawl into it. 664 00:39:44,131 --> 00:39:45,299 [group leader] Oh, that's so-- 665 00:39:46,425 --> 00:39:47,593 It's horrible. 666 00:39:48,594 --> 00:39:50,096 The worst part was that-- 667 00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:52,556 The whole event just... 668 00:39:53,682 --> 00:39:55,810 made me realize how alone I was. 669 00:39:56,769 --> 00:39:57,603 You know? 670 00:39:59,605 --> 00:40:02,483 That night was supposed to be one of my greatest triumphs, 671 00:40:03,109 --> 00:40:04,610 and I was in a dark hole. 672 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:07,822 Literally and existentially. 673 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:13,577 And no one... 674 00:40:15,496 --> 00:40:16,872 Like, no one missed me? 675 00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:18,582 At all? 676 00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:20,793 [dramatic music playing] 677 00:40:20,876 --> 00:40:23,087 And that's what I'm dealing with now. 678 00:40:24,713 --> 00:40:26,632 Just the wreckage of my life. 679 00:40:29,677 --> 00:40:32,763 Step one is, I need to get my drinking under control. 680 00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:36,100 -That's why I'm here. -We're glad you are. 681 00:40:37,893 --> 00:40:39,061 Thank you for your share. 682 00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:43,649 All right. So who's next? 683 00:40:47,319 --> 00:40:48,320 [Minerva] Well... 684 00:40:48,404 --> 00:40:49,738 [thunder crashes] 685 00:40:49,822 --> 00:40:52,158 A truly masterful showing, Cheryl. 686 00:40:53,033 --> 00:40:57,204 Hope you know I didn't just bring you here for the paintings, Minerva. 687 00:40:57,288 --> 00:41:02,334 Although, there is one more piece I'd love to show you. 688 00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:04,336 I painted us as... 689 00:41:07,131 --> 00:41:10,009 Psyche? Revived by Cupid's kiss. 690 00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:12,011 It's gorgeous. 691 00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:14,597 Do you love it? 692 00:41:17,349 --> 00:41:21,061 Cheryl, last time I was here, your nana suggested sacrificing me 693 00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:22,813 to an angry eldritch terror. 694 00:41:24,273 --> 00:41:26,692 Are you saying you feel nothing, Min-Min? 695 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,739 Look, I do love the painting. 696 00:41:32,406 --> 00:41:36,035 And despite our last encounter, I still have feelings for you. 697 00:41:36,702 --> 00:41:39,455 But I'm about to leave on an art-buying trip to South Africa. 698 00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:41,373 In the morning? 699 00:41:41,457 --> 00:41:42,666 Yes, I'm afraid so. 700 00:41:43,375 --> 00:41:46,587 Well, that still leaves us with tonight, doesn't it? 701 00:41:47,922 --> 00:41:48,756 Yes. 702 00:42:00,976 --> 00:42:02,978 [theme music playing] s us with tonight, doesn't it?