[Jughead] The following isn't an imaginary story. It happened.
It starts with a corpse on a lonely country road.
[mysterious music playing]
While in the town of Rivervale...
Archie Andrews has somehow just come back from the dead.
[Betty] Arch.
Sorry I woke you, Betty.
No, it's okay.
-I was having a nightmare. -What was it about?
The whole town was sacrificing you.
[thunder crashing]
[Toni] Sorry I woke you, Fangs.
Oh, I was just having this crazy-ass dream.
You were...
drowning.
And you came back as a ghost.
Was I trying to hurt Baby Anthony?
I was having the strangest dream, Reggie.
Did I get dragged to hell in it?
Nana, what are you doing in my room?
I had the most frightful dream, child.
Same. I... You and I swapped bodies for some reason.
[clock ticking quickly]
[ticking stops]
[explosion]
[explosion echoes]
[mysterious music playing]
-Morning. How'd you sleep? -Uh...
I'm not sure.
Oh, were you up late writing?
No, I woke up in Archie's garage.
I think I was sleepwalking.
Oh, well, it's probably just nerves.
Yeah. Wait. What am I supposed to be nervous about?
Well, it is your first day back at school teaching, isn't it?
That's gotta be nerve-racking.
But don't worry. It'll be great. You will do great.
[Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" playing]
♪ Won't you come see about me? ♪
♪ I'll be alone, dancing You know it, baby ♪
♪ Tell me your troubles and doubts ♪
♪ Giving everything inside and out, and ♪
♪ Love's strange, so real in the dark ♪
♪ Think of the tender things That we were working on ♪
♪ Slow change may pull us apart ♪
♪ When the light gets into your heart Baby ♪
♪ Don't you forget about me ♪
♪ As you walk on by ♪
♪ Will you call my name? ♪
♪ As you walk on by ♪
[water runs, then stops]
[music stops]
Hey, Jughead.
What's up?
[eerie music playing]
Ben?
-You're Ben Button? -Of course. Who else would I be?
Ben, you died. You jumped out of a window, sacrificing yourself to the Gargoyle King.
No, that's that dude from Stonewall Prep.
Mr. Chipping, yeah.
No. No.
-You did it first. -Maybe you hallucinated it.
Yeah, maybe I'm hallucinating all this.
FYI, daytime hallucinations are a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia.
But listen. Have an awesome day.
Jug! You okay? You look like you're about to pass out.
I'm just lightheaded. What's going on?
Just updating everyone on the wedding plans.
Wedding? Who's getting married?
[singsong] Awkward.
Betty and I, and you're my best man.
[cell phone ringing]
Impeccable timing, as always.
Yes, Dr. Curdle.
[Curdle over phone] Miss Cooper, I have some very distressing news.
This afternoon, I received a corpse.
Jughead Jones' corpse.
Is this more of your gallows humor?
Because I'm looking right at Jughead, who is very much alive.
That's not possible.
If you're still upset about not being invited to my wedding, get over yourself.
Goodbye, and please stop harassing me.
Hey. You okay?
Yeah. Dr. Curdle's attempt at humor, I guess.
He claims your body is on his slab,
which is obviously impossible because I'm talking to you.
[door opens]
[Curdle] Mr. Jones.
But it... It can't be.
And yet it is.
Well, may I?
[suspenseful music playing]
[electricity crackling]
[glass cracking]
It's a paradox. It must be.
How did I--? How did he die?
Asphyxiation.
His windpipe was crushed.
He was strangled.
-And where was he found? -The Lonely Highway.
At the town limits, by the sign.
Facedown.
Where are his clothes? His personal effects?
Keep this body on ice and under wraps, okay?
Lonely Highway, you said?
[eerie music playing]
[Jughead] It was impossible, yet happening.
Somehow, I had a set of comic books
that seemed to be about me and my friends.
Where had I gotten them? I couldn't remember.
Why was my doppelganger clutching one when he died?
How did I even have a doppelganger?
Hoping to find sane answers to these questions,
I sat down and began to read...
from the beginning.
[woman screams]
[mysterious music playing]
-How many comic books do you have? -This is just a fraction.
I didn't know you were that into comics.
What can I say? I contain multitudes.
-[Tabitha] Hey! -[door closes]
-How was your first day back? -Tabitha.
I feel like I'm in a movie about parallel universes,
-and I need your help to figure this out. -Okay.
I've been having these strange hallucinations.
And these comics, they're about us. Our lives.
The first 95 are called Riverdale.
And they're set in a town called Riverdale,
and then there's this explosion, and suddenly, it's Rivervale.
Okay, so you think Riverdale is a parallel universe to Rivervale.
No, I... No, I think Rivervale is a parallel universe to Riverdale.
It's like the comics.
Riverdale comes first, and then there's Rivervale,
which is a lot like Riverdale, except it's darker, nastier.
It's, um... It's like a warped reflection of Riverdale.
And it just keeps getting more twisted.
So we live in the parallel universe?
Yeah. I know it's counterintuitive.
Read them. Then we'll talk.
[Jughead] And Tabitha did.
And her experience was very similar to my own.
I remembered recent events clearly,
but going back further, my memory was hazier.
Reading about events in the comic books made me recall them,
but as Tabitha said...
That's so strange.
I mean, I remember these things happening, but not in Riverdale.
All this happened here in Rivervale.
Didn't it?
[Jughead] I went to Betty and Archie next. I asked them about one page in particular.
Do you remember that explosion, Archie?
No.
Not at all.
That event ended the Riverdale comics. The next issue is when Rivervale started.
I have a theory that that explosion
is what created this parallel universe we're in.
I remember something about this.
Or, Arch, didn't you have a dream about an explosion like this one?
Or am I making that up?
[explosion echoes]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, I mean, that was just a dream, Jug.
[Jughead] I went to Veronica and Reggie next.
This is impossible.
[Jughead] What is?
These comics depict my father terrorizing Riverdale for years,
but my father died before my quinceañera.
We had to cancel the Jonas Brothers performance.
That's a massive discrepancy.
Because in Riverdale, Hiram is the main villain.
He's like Darth Vader.
If Rivervale is the dark twinverse, who's our big bad?
How come I look different?
What do you mean?
I mean, I look like two different people. Look.
Both devastatingly handsome, but other than that...
That... That might be an anomaly.
Have you shown these to Cheryl?
[sighs]
So according to this horrid pamphlet,
Kevin Keller and Moose Mason discovered the corpse of my dead brother
whilst secretly canoodling in the woods?
How does that sync up with your memory of Jason's death?
It doesn't, you "ghoulunatic." To begin with, Jay-Jay's not dead.
What? That's impossible.
Your life was basically defined by his death.
I don't know what to tell you. But I can assure you, he is very alive.
No, he's dead. You had a funeral for him.
And then you talked to his corpse for months.
[door opens]
[mysterious music playing]
Oh, hey, Jughead. I didn't know you were here.
-Ready to hit the courts? -I just need a minute.
-Wait for me at the convertible? -Sure. Don't be too long.
Uh-- We had an "in memoriam" page for him in our yearbook.
No, hobo. We didn't.
Now, if you'll excuse me, my beloved and very much alive twin brother and I
are off to play doubles. Toodles!
And feel free to see yourself out.
[Jughead] And then I had one of my hunches.
[school bell rings]
[Jughead] I was right.
Though Riverdale and Rivervale diverged in ways minor and major, they were analogous.
But I needed to understand the rules of these worlds.
I needed to sharpen my knowledge of parallel universes.
Damn. You're all knotted up, babe.
What gives?
Jughead. He triggered me with all that talk about my father.
Yeah. Donnie Darko's the worst.
I got you, though. How can Reggie make it all better?
[knocking on door]
Hey, babe. Miss me?
[dramatic music playing]
[pensive music playing]
I'm sorry, Mr. Jones, but The Philosophy of Parallel Universes
was checked out years ago and never returned.
What? Who checked it out?
Dilton Doiley.
Great. I can't even ask him, because he's dead.
Mr. Doiley's alive.
In fact, he teaches physics just down the hall.
-[Jughead] Dilton. -Hey, Jughead.
I heard you're coming back. We've missed you.
[woman] Yes, we have.
-Ethel. What are you doing here? -[Dilton] Ethel's my teaching assistant.
Oh, yeah?
[Jughead] I shared my wild theories with Dilton, who miraculously said...
I believe you, Jughead. And I know a thing or two about parallel universes.
Okay, I think the explosion at the end of Issue 95 of Riverdale
is what created Rivervale. Like the Big Bang.
It's as valid as any theory.
Why do you think the events in Riverdale are playing out differently here?
In my research,
parallel universes are exact copies or mirror images of one another.
What you're describing is something in between.
Like a warping, right?
And I don't know. I have this impending sense of doom.
Like something bad is going to happen.
-What do we do about it? -Do? We do nothing.
At any given moment, there are an infinite number of parallel universes
in peaceful coexistence with one another. Just forget it, Jughead. Live your life.
Dude, I'm not just gonna drop it. I became aware for a reason.
Conscious of the two universes. Why? What about the other Jughead?
Isn't that a paradox?
It sounds more like an anomaly than a paradox.
Dilton, he was murdered.
Then have Sheriff Keller investigate.
My advice? Stop trying to figure out the secrets to the universe.
You have a good life here, Jughead.
Go with the flow.
So you're saying he's me.
No, bro. You're me. There's no you. All right?
There is, though. Based on Jughead's earlier visit,
there are two parallel universes and, apparently, two Reggies.
But I came first. I'm Reggie Prime.
Yeah, but you've been in three issues. I've been in dozens.
Guys. It doesn't matter who came first or who's been in more issues.
You're both here now.
We obviously can't have the two of you running around town
freaking everybody out.
So you're both staying here, incommunicado, until further notice.
I have to get the casino ready for the parties tonight.
What? No. I'm coming.
Yeah, I wanna go.
It's Archie's bachelor party, and I can't miss it.
I would rather crash the bachelorette party.
[women whooping]
[Ginuwine's "Pony" playing]
♪ Ride it, my pony ♪
♪ My saddle's waiting ♪
♪ Come and jump on it ♪
♪ If you're horny, let's do it ♪
♪ My pony ♪
[women whoop]
[upbeat jazz music playing]
-Yeah! -[crowd cheers]
-How you hanging in there? -Yeah, good.
I've been thinking about my dad a lot recently.
He would've loved this.
Me marrying Betty? Come on. He would've been beside himself.
[poignant music playing]
This is stupid, but I keep...
I keep imagining that somehow he'll show up for the wedding.
He'll be standing next to us, smiling.
[Jughead] It's not stupid, Arch.
[ZHU's "I Need That" playing]
♪ I feel it drippin' tonight... ♪
[Veronica] Come on. The night is young.
Let's dance.
Who wants to dance with me?
♪ My hands can feel all the rhythm... ♪
[Veronica] Excellent.
Thank you, Other Reggie. I knew I could count on you.
Come on, Reginald. Don't be shy.
You know, we could have a sweet thing here, the three of us.
Nobody has to know.
Sorry, Ronnie.
[tense music playing]
I'm not used to sharing.
Yeah, well, me neither.
[Veronica] You know what, guys?
The irony is Veronica Lodge is more woman than either of you can handle alone.
[water splashes]
[fizzing]
[doleful music playing]
Thank you.
[chuckles]
Do you guys remember when we were in high school
and we'd party too hard and be hungover and we could just skip class?
Yeah. The good old days. [chuckles] Being a teacher sucks.
-[Cheryl] Oh, my God. -Babe, what's wrong?
My brother's been kidnapped by some lunatic calling himself the Black Hood.
[ominous music playing]
-Who's the Black Hood? -How should I know, cousin?
He's demanding a ransom. If I don't pay, he'll kill my brother.
Listen, Archie, I know this is gonna sound nuts.
I think I know where Jason is.
Is this another one of those parallel-universe things?
Well, yeah. But if the events of Riverdale are repeating here in Rivervale...
then Jason is at the Whyte Wyrm.
-What do you wanna do? -Let's get Sheriff Keller to back us up.
Let's go save him.
[dramatic music playing]
Jason. Jason.
[Black Hood] What the hell is going on here?
[grunts]
[Jughead] It occurred to me that whoever was under the mask
was most likely the same person who killed my double.
Rivervale's big bad. Not Hiram Lodge, but...
Clifford Blossom.
[Reggies grunting]
[Veronica] Excuse me.
Are you kidding?
Why aren't you dressed for the rehearsal dinner?
[both] He started it.
I don't care who started it.
I am so done with this macho, toxic, competitive bullcrap.
We are all adults here.
So we should be able to act like adults.
Until that happens, you're both grounded.
-What? -No fair!
You two need to work out whatever it is you need to work out in order to coexist.
Or you're out of the Pembrooke and out of my life.
[door opens]
[both] Idiot.
[door slams]
[glass clinking]
I want to thank everyone for being here on this very special occasion.
It's not every night that a mom gets to host the rehearsal dinner
for her daughter's wedding,
to the finest young gentleman in this town,
Archie Andrews.
Now, my husband, Hal, would like to say a few words.
Just a few, though.
Thank you, Alice. Uh...
I remember when Betty was born, she--
-[door opens] -[bell jingles]
Toni? What is it? What's happened?
[Jughead] I knew it even before Toni said it.
She's dead.
[dramatic music playing]
Who's dead, Toni?
Cheryl.
She was strangled.
[Jughead] Betty and I went to Thornhill straight from the rehearsal dinner.
The scene there was a gruesome one.
The rules of this universe were making less sense every day.
It was as if Riverdale's reality were trying to reassert itself on Rivervale.
And innocent people were dying.
How could I take Dilton's advice to do nothing?
Wait a minute.
Dilton. I've been wondering who this universe's big bad is.
Could it be meek Dilton Doiley, hiding in plain sight?
Considering you're here, I think it's time we talk.
-Little busy right now. -No.
Dilton, you asked me to do nothing, but it's happening again.
The same events that took place in Riverdale are happening here!
People are dying!
-Yes. Isn't it glorious? -What?
-Oh, you know what's going on, don't you? -He does.
[Dilton] I'm sorry, Jughead.
But I had to see what would happen if the universes remained conjoined.
And now we know.
They become dangerously unstable, and, eventually,
they're both going to implode.
Why are they going to implode?
Riverdale and Rivervale, the two universes are expanding,
as universes do, but they're still linked at the point of creation.
So, what, they're bleeding into each other?
They're just going to expand into each other?
And I, Dilton Doiley, will have a front-row seat to their destruction.
I'll be the first scientist to document a prime and pocket universe
collapsing in real time.
How do we stop it?
We don't. We can't.
It's too late. [laughs]
[coughing]
[gagging]
[gasps]
-[Jughead] Ethel. -I snuck poison into his grape juice.
Why?
Because he was willing to let everyone in two universes die,
just so he could study what happens when the twinverses implode?
Ethel, do you know how to save these universes?
Of course I do, Jughead.
Well, one of them.
The prime one.
I can save Riverdale.
[Veronica] Reggie?
[electricity crackling]
Reggies?
[ominous music playing]
[gasps]
You dim, egotistical, narcissistic morons!
When I said settle this, I didn't mean with a duel.
That's the moment of time the pocket universe,
this universe, was created.
If we can recreate the circumstances of its birth,
theoretically, the same energy that conjoined them
could also separate them.
We just need to figure out what that moment was and where.
I think I know.
Archie's bedroom when that bomb exploded?
It would have to be a more significant event than just an explosion.
That might not sound like a lot, but it was a confluence of good and evil.
Archie and Betty's love. Hiram's hate.
There was creation. I was in the garage, writing.
And destruction, the explosion.
There was science. Archie had this...
chunk of palladium on his desk. And magic.
Cheryl's curse on the town.
That might definitely do it.
Okay, so by your logic...
we just have to accurately recreate the events in Archie's bedroom...
as closely as we can.
And the universes should separate. Yes.
The prime universe will stabilize, and our universe will...
cease to exist.
[tense music playing]
Everyone in Rivervale will die?
Jughead...
Rivervale wasn't ever meant to exist.
You, me, all of us, our town? We're just...
aberrations.
One big, messy anomaly that will simply...
stop being.
And if we do nothing...
both universes will collapse?
Billions will die?
So we just need to detonate a bomb under Archie's bed.
With Betty and Archie in it.
What? No.
No, no.
We're not blowing up Archie and Betty. They're about to get married.
We have to recreate the circumstances as closely as possible.
If not Betty and Archie, then maybe it could be--
Me and Veronica.
What are we if we're not counterparts to Archie and Betty?
Ethel, you're brilliant.
[Veronica] So if what you're saying is true, and we do this...
we won't die?
No. We'll...
cease to exist.
Painlessly.
All so Riverdale...
a universe we don't even know for sure exists,
can be spared?
It does exist, Veronica.
It's a universe of high school dances and masked serial killers,
of football and milkshakes and musicals and cults,
diabolical board games and murderous nuns.
It's a world where billions of people will die if we don't split the universes.
[pensive music playing]
All right.
Let's do it.
Let's make out to save the universe.
One thing.
Can we do it during the wedding?
'Cause I'm not really in the mood.
Yeah. I hear that. Same.
Here's to Vughead becoming canon.
[pensive music playing]
[Jughead] Is it possible to be nostalgic for a life
that you're not even sure is yours?
Flipping through the yearbook,
I remembered things as if I'd seen them in a movie of my life.
[door opens]
All right, Lodge. Are we doing this or what?
[tense music playing]
Archie. What are you doing here?
You know, when you didn't show up to my wedding,
I knew you'd be doing something stupid.
Like trying to separate the two universes.
Well, I can't let you do that.
Before you do anything final, know that Veronica's on her way here right now.
No, Jug, she's not.
Ronnie's dead.
-I killed her. -[Veronica gasping]
You what?
Why would you do that?
Because you told her the truth...
about the universe,
and she was gonna help you destroy it.
You killed Cheryl?
And the other Jughead?
Not Hiram or Clifford or Hal? You're Rivervale's big bad?
I'm not a villain, Jug.
No one stays dead here.
Cheryl and Ronnie, they'll be back. All the people we've lost...
Everyone comes back to life in this universe.
Everyone comes back.
Is this about your dad?
Don't you get it?
He's coming home. He has to.
He'd never miss my wedding. Especially not to Betty. He loved Betty.
Archie, how do you know all this?
The rules of this world?
To kill the other Jughead before I showed you the comics?
Bro, I know all the secrets of this universe.
I was at ground zero for the birth of Rivervale.
The moment of creation and destruction.
The threshold of revelation.
I saw everything.
The other Jughead.
The dead coming back to life.
The distortions.
It's not a copy or a mistake like you think it is.
It's another chance for me to be with my dad.
Archie.
If we don't separate these universes, and soon,
everyone's going to die, in both of them.
And you don't know that Fred can come back.
Even if there's a 0.0001% chance that he will...
I wanna be here, waiting for him.
I'm sorry.
[groans]
[gunshot]
[Jughead gasping]
Betty.
Never leave a Cooper woman standing at the altar.
Hey, hey. Are you okay?
How did you know to come here?
When Archie stood me up at the altar, something clicked.
I don't know, like my life flashed before my eyes. I knew to come here.
Then you also know that Rivervale should not exist?
That bomb needs to be detonated.
By us?
If you're willing.
[ticking quickly]
What do we do now, just wait?
No. We need to recreate the moments before the original explosion
as closely as possible.
-Oh. Well, Archie and I were-- -I know.
I read it in the comics.
♪ Whoa, you don't want me ♪
♪ The way that I want you ♪
♪ You don't need me The way that I need you ♪
♪ You don't want ♪
-[knocking on door] -[record screeches]
Hey. Ooh. Hey, sorry.
There may be a way to separate the two universes
-without erasing this one. -Okay.
We should stop the bomb. Could you please disarm it?
What? I-- What? I don't know how to disarm a bomb.
Yes, you do. You went to the FBI Academy.
You've done it before, when Polly had a bomb strapped to her body?
[inaudible dialogue]
You came back from the dead too?
Where were you after Archie strangled you?
The great Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe in the sky.
-["Sugar, Sugar" playing] -[bell jingles]
[Jughead] From the second I walked through that door, I immediately felt at peace.
The sweet-hereafter Pop's is a lot like ours, except it also sells comics.
[people laughing]
[Jughead] It's like one of those old-fashioned soda shops.
Everything about this Pop's is old-fashioned.
Grab something to read and have a seat.
It's all-you-can-eat. On the house, of course.
[Jughead] And that's when I found it.
The special comic book that came in between Issues 95 and 96.
And it bridged the gap between Riverdale and Rivervale.
It told the tale of two linked universes
and how if that second universe were to become separated from the first,
it would die, unless a new power source could be found and maintained.
[playful music playing]
[Jughead] I was looking around at all these comic books,
all these wonderful stories,
made me realize what that power source could be.
I resurrected and I came right here.
What is the other source that's going to fuel Rivervale after it separates?
Imagination.
It's limitless and all-powerful. It's boundless and ever-replenishing.
There's no fuel more potent, no generator more awesome.
I don't understand.
And I think I do.
The explosion is destruction, right?
-What's the opposite of destruction? -Creation?
Exactly.
It's all in the comics,
how Jughead here is going to save Rivervale
by becoming a living battery.
A, um...
Story generator.
That powers Rivervale by writing the stories that fuel the universe.
So it doesn't have to keep leeching off of Riverdale.
It's an oversimplification, but...
Yeah, you write and Rivervale lives.
One thing, though, once you start producing,
you will have to be in complete isolation.
I mean, think about if someone saw two Jugheads just walking and talking.
It could actually break down reality, so...
Well, no, no. Then why can't you do it?
I'm the narrator. He's the writer.
What does that mean? This isn't fair.
No, it's--
It's how it has to be.
If everyone is going to live, our family, our friends...
This is why I became aware, isn't it?
Because I'm both inside and outside of the story.
In the end, the universe knew I'd be the only one capable of saving it.
All right.
Where do I set up shop? Dilton's bunker?
Your typewriter is already down there.
You'll have plenty of paper and tons of food.
And once you're settled, we'll, uh...
seal you in.
This is insane. I will not be able to live with myself, Jug.
Actually, you will.
In time-- Well, very quickly, actually.
Soon you will forget all about Jughead's sacrifice for you and for us,
and he will fade from memory.
[Betty] Oh, my God. This is so...
Hey, hey. Look at me.
I need you to be strong.
Please. I need you in my corner for this one.
Make sure that bomb goes off.
Jughead...
It's gonna be okay.
Really.
We got this. You and me.
Saving the universes.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jughead] It was at this moment that Jughead and Betty began, yet again,
the doomsday clock's countdown.
[ticking quickly]
[Jughead] While in the living room,
Archie Andrews reanimated and resumed his mission to stop Jughead.
Hey. Cooper.
Whatever happens...
We'll face it together.
[doorknob rattling]
[banging on door]
[Jughead] With nothing to do but wait, Betty and Jughead held each other tightly,
like children terrified of the dark.
[ticking quickly]
[Jughead] As the bomb's counter finally reached zero,
they braced themselves for an explosion
that should've obliterated one or more universes
but instead...
[ticking stops]
...never happened.
-The bomb was gone. -[typewriter keys clacking]
[Jughead] The pounding on the door had ceased.
And Betty and Jughead realized that the storm had passed them by.
They survived and could resume their lives.
-[people chattering] -[utensils clinking]
There you guys are.
We were just about to send a search party.
Seriously. What were you guys doing up there?
-Um... -I actually can't remember.
Don't mind him. He always turns into a space cadet
when he's working on a new novel. [chuckles]
No, seriously. What were we--? What were we doing?
Come on, Betty. Your spaghetti's gonna get cold.
[tender music playing]
-Hey. -Hey.
-Thank you. -Yeah.
-[Tabitha] Mwah. -[Jughead] After dinner,
Jughead and Tabitha will start moving his belongings out of Archie's garage
and into their new apartment.
Including a comic-book collection Jughead had forgotten that he had.
And though he will not know it in the moment,
his collection of comic books and the secrets contained within its pages
will one day save his and countless others' lives.
[Ethel] So it worked.
Rivervale will continue to exist in an endless time loop you created.
As long as you keep typing.
Luckily, I've got a lot of stories.
One question, though.
What happens in the prime Riverdale universe?
I guess we'll never know if someone did something
to change the course of events in Riverdale.
[typewriter keys clacking]
[AG & Cece and the Dark Hearts' "Cross My Heart" playing]
♪ He had a song he'd always sing ♪
♪ La la la, la la la, la la La la la, la la la, la la... ♪
-[cell phone ringing] -[clock ticking quickly]
Can you hear that?
[ringing continues]
It's my phone.
Hello?
[man over phone] Get out of that house, Betty!
-Who is this? -Listen to me!
There's a bomb under the bed. You have to go now. Right now.
We have to go.
Now.
[explosion]
[high-pitched ringing]
[theme music playing]