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[Jughead] The following
isn't an imaginary story. It happened.

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It starts with a corpse
on a lonely country road.

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[mysterious music playing]

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While in the town of Rivervale...

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Archie Andrews has somehow
just come back from the dead.

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[Betty] Arch.

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Sorry I woke you, Betty.

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No, it's okay.

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-I was having a nightmare.
-What was it about?

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The whole town was sacrificing you.

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[thunder crashing]

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[Toni] Sorry I woke you, Fangs.

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Oh, I was just having
this crazy-ass dream.

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You were...

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drowning.

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And you came back as a ghost.

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Was I trying to hurt Baby Anthony?

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I was having the strangest dream, Reggie.

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Did I get dragged to hell in it?

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Nana, what are you doing in my room?

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I had the most frightful dream, child.

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Same. I...
You and I swapped bodies for some reason.

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[clock ticking quickly]

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[ticking stops]

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[explosion]

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[explosion echoes]

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[mysterious music playing]

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-Morning. How'd you sleep?
-Uh...

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I'm not sure.

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Oh, were you up late writing?

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No, I woke up in Archie's garage.

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I think I was sleepwalking.

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Oh, well, it's probably just nerves.

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Yeah. Wait. What am I
supposed to be nervous about?

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Well, it is your first day
back at school teaching, isn't it?

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That's gotta be nerve-racking.

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But don't worry. It'll be great.
You will do great.

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[Simple Minds'
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" playing]

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♪ Won't you come see about me? ♪

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♪ I'll be alone, dancing
You know it, baby ♪

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♪ Tell me your troubles and doubts ♪

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♪ Giving everything inside and out, and ♪

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♪ Love's strange, so real in the dark ♪

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♪ Think of the tender things
That we were working on ♪

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♪ Slow change may pull us apart ♪

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♪ When the light gets into your heart
Baby ♪

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♪ Don't you forget about me ♪

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♪ As you walk on by ♪

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♪ Will you call my name? ♪

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♪ As you walk on by ♪

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[water runs, then stops]

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[music stops]

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Hey, Jughead.

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What's up?

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[eerie music playing]

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Ben?

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-You're Ben Button?
-Of course. Who else would I be?

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Ben, you died. You jumped out of a window,
sacrificing yourself to the Gargoyle King.

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No, that's that dude from Stonewall Prep.

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Mr. Chipping, yeah.

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No. No.

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-You did it first.
-Maybe you hallucinated it.

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Yeah, maybe I'm hallucinating all this.

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FYI, daytime hallucinations are a symptom
of paranoid schizophrenia.

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But listen. Have an awesome day.

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Jug! You okay?
You look like you're about to pass out.

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I'm just lightheaded. What's going on?

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Just updating everyone
on the wedding plans.

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Wedding? Who's getting married?

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[singsong] Awkward.

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Betty and I, and you're my best man.

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[cell phone ringing]

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Impeccable timing, as always.

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Yes, Dr. Curdle.

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[Curdle over phone] Miss Cooper,
I have some very distressing news.

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This afternoon, I received a corpse.

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Jughead Jones' corpse.

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Is this more of your gallows humor?

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Because I'm looking right at Jughead,
who is very much alive.

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That's not possible.

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If you're still upset about not being
invited to my wedding, get over yourself.

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Goodbye, and please stop harassing me.

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Hey. You okay?

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Yeah. Dr. Curdle's attempt
at humor, I guess.

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He claims your body is on his slab,

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which is obviously impossible
because I'm talking to you.

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[door opens]

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[Curdle] Mr. Jones.

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But it... It can't be.

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And yet it is.

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Well, may I?

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[electricity crackling]

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[glass cracking]

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It's a paradox. It must be.

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How did I--? How did he die?

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Asphyxiation.

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His windpipe was crushed.

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He was strangled.

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-And where was he found?
-The Lonely Highway.

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At the town limits, by the sign.

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Facedown.

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Where are his clothes?
His personal effects?

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Keep this body on ice
and under wraps, okay?

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Lonely Highway, you said?

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[eerie music playing]

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[Jughead] It was impossible,
yet happening.

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Somehow, I had a set of comic books

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that seemed to be about me and my friends.

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Where had I gotten them?
I couldn't remember.

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Why was my doppelganger
clutching one when he died?

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How did I even have a doppelganger?

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Hoping to find sane answers
to these questions,

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I sat down and began to read...

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from the beginning.

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[woman screams]

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[woman screams]

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[mysterious music playing]

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-How many comic books do you have?
-This is just a fraction.

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I didn't know you were that into comics.

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What can I say? I contain multitudes.

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-[Tabitha] Hey!
-[door closes]

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-How was your first day back?
-Tabitha.

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I feel like I'm in a movie
about parallel universes,

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-and I need your help to figure this out.
-Okay.

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I've been having
these strange hallucinations.

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And these comics,
they're about us. Our lives.

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The first 95 are called Riverdale.

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And they're set
in a town called Riverdale,

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and then there's this explosion,
and suddenly, it's Rivervale.

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Okay, so you think Riverdale
is a parallel universe to Rivervale.

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No, I... No, I think Rivervale is
a parallel universe to Riverdale.

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It's like the comics.

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Riverdale comes first,
and then there's Rivervale,

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which is a lot like Riverdale,
except it's darker, nastier.

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It's, um... It's like
a warped reflection of Riverdale.

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And it just keeps getting more twisted.

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So we live in the parallel universe?

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Yeah. I know it's counterintuitive.

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Read them. Then we'll talk.

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[Jughead] And Tabitha did.

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And her experience
was very similar to my own.

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I remembered recent events clearly,

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but going back further,
my memory was hazier.

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Reading about events in the comic books
made me recall them,

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but as Tabitha said...

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That's so strange.

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I mean, I remember these things happening,
but not in Riverdale.

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All this happened here in Rivervale.

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Didn't it?

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[Jughead] I went to Betty and Archie next.
I asked them about one page in particular.

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Do you remember that explosion, Archie?

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No.

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Not at all.

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That event ended the Riverdale comics.
The next issue is when Rivervale started.

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I have a theory that that explosion

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is what created
this parallel universe we're in.

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I remember something about this.

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Or, Arch, didn't you have a dream
about an explosion like this one?

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Or am I making that up?

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[explosion echoes]

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But, I mean, that was just a dream, Jug.

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[Jughead] I went to Veronica
and Reggie next.

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This is impossible.

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[Jughead] What is?

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These comics depict my father
terrorizing Riverdale for years,

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but my father died before my quinceañera.

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We had to cancel
the Jonas Brothers performance.

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That's a massive discrepancy.

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Because in Riverdale,
Hiram is the main villain.

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He's like Darth Vader.

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If Rivervale is the dark twinverse,
who's our big bad?

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How come I look different?

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What do you mean?

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I mean, I look like
two different people. Look.

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Both devastatingly handsome,
but other than that...

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That... That might be an anomaly.

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Have you shown these to Cheryl?

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[sighs]

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So according to this horrid pamphlet,

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Kevin Keller and Moose Mason
discovered the corpse of my dead brother

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whilst secretly canoodling in the woods?

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How does that sync up
with your memory of Jason's death?

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It doesn't, you "ghoulunatic."
To begin with, Jay-Jay's not dead.

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What? That's impossible.

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Your life was
basically defined by his death.

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I don't know what to tell you.
But I can assure you, he is very alive.

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No, he's dead. You had a funeral for him.

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And then you talked
to his corpse for months.

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[door opens]

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[mysterious music playing]

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Oh, hey, Jughead.
I didn't know you were here.

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-Ready to hit the courts?
-I just need a minute.

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-Wait for me at the convertible?
-Sure. Don't be too long.

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Uh-- We had an "in memoriam" page
for him in our yearbook.

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No, hobo. We didn't.

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Now, if you'll excuse me, my beloved
and very much alive twin brother and I

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are off to play doubles. Toodles!

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And feel free to see yourself out.

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[Jughead] And then
I had one of my hunches.

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[school bell rings]

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[Jughead] I was right.

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Though Riverdale and Rivervale diverged in
ways minor and major, they were analogous.

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But I needed to understand
the rules of these worlds.

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I needed to sharpen my knowledge
of parallel universes.

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Damn. You're all knotted up, babe.

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What gives?

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00:13:38,734 --> 00:13:42,530
Jughead. He triggered me
with all that talk about my father.

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Yeah. Donnie Darko's the worst.

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I got you, though.
How can Reggie make it all better?

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[knocking on door]

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Hey, babe. Miss me?

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[dramatic music playing]

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[pensive music playing]

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I'm sorry, Mr. Jones,
but The Philosophy of Parallel Universes

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was checked out years ago
and never returned.

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00:14:17,606 --> 00:14:19,984
What? Who checked it out?

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00:14:22,778 --> 00:14:23,612
Dilton Doiley.

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Great. I can't even ask him,
because he's dead.

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Mr. Doiley's alive.

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In fact, he teaches physics
just down the hall.

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-[Jughead] Dilton.
-Hey, Jughead.

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I heard you're coming back.
We've missed you.

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[woman] Yes, we have.

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-Ethel. What are you doing here?
-[Dilton] Ethel's my teaching assistant.

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Oh, yeah?

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[Jughead] I shared my wild theories
with Dilton, who miraculously said...

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I believe you, Jughead. And I know
a thing or two about parallel universes.

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Okay, I think the explosion
at the end of Issue 95 of Riverdale

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is what created Rivervale.
Like the Big Bang.

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It's as valid as any theory.

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Why do you think the events in Riverdale
are playing out differently here?

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In my research,

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parallel universes are exact copies
or mirror images of one another.

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What you're describing
is something in between.

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Like a warping, right?

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And I don't know.
I have this impending sense of doom.

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Like something bad is going to happen.

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-What do we do about it?
-Do? We do nothing.

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At any given moment, there are
an infinite number of parallel universes

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in peaceful coexistence with one another.
Just forget it, Jughead. Live your life.

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Dude, I'm not just gonna drop it.
I became aware for a reason.

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Conscious of the two universes. Why?
What about the other Jughead?

245
00:16:07,049 --> 00:16:08,050
Isn't that a paradox?

246
00:16:08,133 --> 00:16:10,886
It sounds more like
an anomaly than a paradox.

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Dilton, he was murdered.

248
00:16:12,554 --> 00:16:15,140
Then have Sheriff Keller investigate.

249
00:16:15,849 --> 00:16:19,687
My advice? Stop trying
to figure out the secrets to the universe.

250
00:16:20,938 --> 00:16:23,065
You have a good life here, Jughead.

251
00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:26,235
Go with the flow.

252
00:16:28,946 --> 00:16:31,573
So you're saying he's me.

253
00:16:32,366 --> 00:16:36,662
No, bro. You're me.
There's no you. All right?

254
00:16:36,745 --> 00:16:39,707
There is, though.
Based on Jughead's earlier visit,

255
00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:44,503
there are two parallel universes
and, apparently, two Reggies.

256
00:16:44,586 --> 00:16:46,880
But I came first. I'm Reggie Prime.

257
00:16:46,964 --> 00:16:50,843
Yeah, but you've been in three issues.
I've been in dozens.

258
00:16:50,926 --> 00:16:55,848
Guys. It doesn't matter who came first
or who's been in more issues.

259
00:16:56,724 --> 00:16:58,308
You're both here now.

260
00:16:58,392 --> 00:17:02,479
We obviously can't have
the two of you running around town

261
00:17:02,563 --> 00:17:03,981
freaking everybody out.

262
00:17:04,481 --> 00:17:09,570
So you're both staying here,
incommunicado, until further notice.

263
00:17:09,653 --> 00:17:13,031
I have to get the casino ready
for the parties tonight.

264
00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:14,491
What? No. I'm coming.

265
00:17:14,575 --> 00:17:15,784
Yeah, I wanna go.

266
00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:18,328
It's Archie's bachelor party,
and I can't miss it.

267
00:17:18,412 --> 00:17:21,248
I would rather
crash the bachelorette party.

268
00:17:21,331 --> 00:17:22,416
[women whooping]

269
00:17:22,499 --> 00:17:24,501
[Ginuwine's "Pony" playing]

270
00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:28,964
♪ Ride it, my pony ♪

271
00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:32,634
♪ My saddle's waiting ♪

272
00:17:33,343 --> 00:17:36,180
♪ Come and jump on it ♪

273
00:17:36,263 --> 00:17:38,932
♪ If you're horny, let's do it ♪

274
00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:40,851
♪ My pony ♪

275
00:17:40,934 --> 00:17:42,394
[women whoop]

276
00:17:42,478 --> 00:17:44,980
[upbeat jazz music playing]

277
00:17:45,063 --> 00:17:46,815
-Yeah!
-[crowd cheers]

278
00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:53,030
-How you hanging in there?
-Yeah, good.

279
00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,702
I've been thinking about my dad
a lot recently.

280
00:17:58,786 --> 00:18:00,162
He would've loved this.

281
00:18:00,788 --> 00:18:04,374
Me marrying Betty? Come on.
He would've been beside himself.

282
00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:06,418
[poignant music playing]

283
00:18:07,127 --> 00:18:09,046
This is stupid, but I keep...

284
00:18:10,380 --> 00:18:15,177
I keep imagining that
somehow he'll show up for the wedding.

285
00:18:17,262 --> 00:18:19,515
He'll be standing next to us, smiling.

286
00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,350
[Jughead] It's not stupid, Arch.

287
00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:25,687
[ZHU's "I Need That" playing]

288
00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:31,151
♪ I feel it drippin' tonight... ♪

289
00:18:31,985 --> 00:18:34,696
[Veronica] Come on. The night is young.

290
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,240
Let's dance.

291
00:18:37,074 --> 00:18:38,742
Who wants to dance with me?

292
00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:44,289
♪ My hands can feel all the rhythm... ♪

293
00:18:44,373 --> 00:18:45,457
[Veronica] Excellent.

294
00:18:45,541 --> 00:18:49,211
Thank you, Other Reggie.
I knew I could count on you.

295
00:18:50,754 --> 00:18:54,007
Come on, Reginald. Don't be shy.

296
00:18:56,927 --> 00:19:01,390
You know, we could have
a sweet thing here, the three of us.

297
00:19:02,307 --> 00:19:03,642
Nobody has to know.

298
00:19:08,188 --> 00:19:09,439
Sorry, Ronnie.

299
00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,110
[tense music playing]

300
00:19:13,193 --> 00:19:14,945
I'm not used to sharing.

301
00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:17,656
Yeah, well, me neither.

302
00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,827
[Veronica] You know what, guys?

303
00:19:21,910 --> 00:19:27,583
The irony is Veronica Lodge is more woman
than either of you can handle alone.

304
00:19:31,169 --> 00:19:32,129
[water splashes]

305
00:19:32,212 --> 00:19:34,256
[fizzing]

306
00:19:34,339 --> 00:19:36,341
[doleful music playing]

307
00:19:39,511 --> 00:19:40,637
Thank you.

308
00:19:40,721 --> 00:19:42,014
[chuckles]

309
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,393
Do you guys remember
when we were in high school

310
00:19:46,476 --> 00:19:50,606
and we'd party too hard and be hungover
and we could just skip class?

311
00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:55,152
Yeah. The good old days. [chuckles]
Being a teacher sucks.

312
00:19:56,111 --> 00:19:59,197
-[Cheryl] Oh, my God.
-Babe, what's wrong?

313
00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:03,202
My brother's been kidnapped by some
lunatic calling himself the Black Hood.

314
00:20:03,285 --> 00:20:06,246
[ominous music playing]

315
00:20:07,497 --> 00:20:10,584
-Who's the Black Hood?
-How should I know, cousin?

316
00:20:10,667 --> 00:20:14,463
He's demanding a ransom.
If I don't pay, he'll kill my brother.

317
00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:18,800
Listen, Archie,
I know this is gonna sound nuts.

318
00:20:19,343 --> 00:20:21,345
I think I know where Jason is.

319
00:20:21,428 --> 00:20:23,972
Is this another one
of those parallel-universe things?

320
00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:28,560
Well, yeah. But if the events of Riverdale
are repeating here in Rivervale...

321
00:20:29,478 --> 00:20:31,396
then Jason is at the Whyte Wyrm.

322
00:20:33,732 --> 00:20:36,944
-What do you wanna do?
-Let's get Sheriff Keller to back us up.

323
00:20:37,027 --> 00:20:38,195
Let's go save him.

324
00:20:38,278 --> 00:20:40,280
[dramatic music playing]

325
00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:45,077
Jason. Jason.

326
00:20:46,745 --> 00:20:49,373
[Black Hood] What the hell
is going on here?

327
00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:57,089
[grunts]

328
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,094
[Jughead] It occurred to me
that whoever was under the mask

329
00:21:02,177 --> 00:21:05,222
was most likely the same person
who killed my double.

330
00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:11,436
Rivervale's big bad.
Not Hiram Lodge, but...

331
00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:13,939
Clifford Blossom.

332
00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:24,700
[Reggies grunting]

333
00:21:27,661 --> 00:21:29,246
[Veronica] Excuse me.

334
00:21:29,329 --> 00:21:30,580
Are you kidding?

335
00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:34,376
Why aren't you dressed
for the rehearsal dinner?

336
00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:35,961
[both] He started it.

337
00:21:36,044 --> 00:21:37,921
I don't care who started it.

338
00:21:38,005 --> 00:21:43,176
I am so done with this macho,
toxic, competitive bullcrap.

339
00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:44,678
We are all adults here.

340
00:21:44,761 --> 00:21:47,264
So we should be able to act like adults.

341
00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:49,725
Until that happens, you're both grounded.

342
00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:51,268
-What?
-No fair!

343
00:21:51,351 --> 00:21:55,272
You two need to work out whatever it is
you need to work out in order to coexist.

344
00:21:55,355 --> 00:21:58,275
Or you're out of the Pembrooke
and out of my life.

345
00:22:00,402 --> 00:22:01,653
[door opens]

346
00:22:01,737 --> 00:22:02,821
[both] Idiot.

347
00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:04,031
[door slams]

348
00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:06,199
[glass clinking]

349
00:22:07,284 --> 00:22:12,831
I want to thank everyone for being here
on this very special occasion.

350
00:22:14,124 --> 00:22:18,879
It's not every night that a mom
gets to host the rehearsal dinner

351
00:22:18,962 --> 00:22:20,213
for her daughter's wedding,

352
00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:25,218
to the finest young gentleman
in this town,

353
00:22:25,302 --> 00:22:26,720
Archie Andrews.

354
00:22:27,888 --> 00:22:31,016
Now, my husband, Hal,
would like to say a few words.

355
00:22:31,099 --> 00:22:32,309
Just a few, though.

356
00:22:33,602 --> 00:22:35,437
Thank you, Alice. Uh...

357
00:22:37,064 --> 00:22:40,067
I remember when Betty was born, she--

358
00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:41,693
-[door opens]
-[bell jingles]

359
00:22:43,403 --> 00:22:46,198
Toni? What is it? What's happened?

360
00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:49,701
[Jughead] I knew it
even before Toni said it.

361
00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:50,744
She's dead.

362
00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:53,705
[dramatic music playing]

363
00:22:53,789 --> 00:22:54,956
Who's dead, Toni?

364
00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:56,374
Cheryl.

365
00:22:57,209 --> 00:22:58,627
She was strangled.

366
00:23:00,629 --> 00:23:03,840
[Jughead] Betty and I went to Thornhill
straight from the rehearsal dinner.

367
00:23:03,924 --> 00:23:06,009
The scene there was a gruesome one.

368
00:23:06,093 --> 00:23:09,221
The rules of this universe
were making less sense every day.

369
00:23:09,304 --> 00:23:12,974
It was as if Riverdale's reality were
trying to reassert itself on Rivervale.

370
00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:15,102
And innocent people were dying.

371
00:23:15,185 --> 00:23:17,562
How could I take Dilton's advice
to do nothing?

372
00:23:17,646 --> 00:23:18,688
Wait a minute.

373
00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:23,318
Dilton. I've been wondering
who this universe's big bad is.

374
00:23:23,401 --> 00:23:26,613
Could it be meek Dilton Doiley,
hiding in plain sight?

375
00:23:27,781 --> 00:23:30,992
Considering you're here,
I think it's time we talk.

376
00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:33,078
-Little busy right now.
-No.

377
00:23:33,161 --> 00:23:36,706
Dilton, you asked me to do nothing,
but it's happening again.

378
00:23:36,790 --> 00:23:40,001
The same events that took place
in Riverdale are happening here!

379
00:23:40,836 --> 00:23:41,837
People are dying!

380
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,756
-Yes. Isn't it glorious?
-What?

381
00:23:47,717 --> 00:23:50,679
-Oh, you know what's going on, don't you?
-He does.

382
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:54,266
[Dilton] I'm sorry, Jughead.

383
00:23:54,349 --> 00:23:58,061
But I had to see what would happen
if the universes remained conjoined.

384
00:23:58,145 --> 00:24:00,355
And now we know.

385
00:24:00,438 --> 00:24:03,400
They become dangerously unstable,
and, eventually,

386
00:24:03,483 --> 00:24:04,943
they're both going to implode.

387
00:24:05,026 --> 00:24:06,695
Why are they going to implode?

388
00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:09,990
Riverdale and Rivervale,
the two universes are expanding,

389
00:24:10,073 --> 00:24:13,160
as universes do, but they're still linked
at the point of creation.

390
00:24:13,243 --> 00:24:15,745
So, what,
they're bleeding into each other?

391
00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:17,831
They're just going to expand
into each other?

392
00:24:17,914 --> 00:24:22,460
And I, Dilton Doiley, will have
a front-row seat to their destruction.

393
00:24:22,544 --> 00:24:26,548
I'll be the first scientist
to document a prime and pocket universe

394
00:24:26,631 --> 00:24:28,258
collapsing in real time.

395
00:24:30,093 --> 00:24:31,344
How do we stop it?

396
00:24:31,845 --> 00:24:34,347
We don't. We can't.

397
00:24:35,557 --> 00:24:38,476
It's too late. [laughs]

398
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,812
[coughing]

399
00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:42,898
[gagging]

400
00:24:49,696 --> 00:24:51,239
[gasps]

401
00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:56,995
-[Jughead] Ethel.
-I snuck poison into his grape juice.

402
00:24:57,579 --> 00:24:58,413
Why?

403
00:24:58,496 --> 00:25:01,208
Because he was willing to let
everyone in two universes die,

404
00:25:01,291 --> 00:25:05,462
just so he could study what happens
when the twinverses implode?

405
00:25:05,545 --> 00:25:08,298
Ethel, do you know
how to save these universes?

406
00:25:09,758 --> 00:25:11,218
Of course I do, Jughead.

407
00:25:12,052 --> 00:25:13,720
Well, one of them.

408
00:25:14,554 --> 00:25:15,680
The prime one.

409
00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:19,017
I can save Riverdale.

410
00:25:21,019 --> 00:25:21,895
[Veronica] Reggie?

411
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,482
[electricity crackling]

412
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:27,150
Reggies?

413
00:25:31,112 --> 00:25:33,114
[ominous music playing]

414
00:25:34,741 --> 00:25:35,825
[gasps]

415
00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:42,999
You dim, egotistical, narcissistic morons!

416
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:51,591
When I said settle this,
I didn't mean with a duel.

417
00:25:58,139 --> 00:26:00,183
That's the moment of time
the pocket universe,

418
00:26:00,267 --> 00:26:01,893
this universe, was created.

419
00:26:01,977 --> 00:26:04,521
If we can recreate
the circumstances of its birth,

420
00:26:04,604 --> 00:26:06,856
theoretically, the same energy
that conjoined them

421
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:08,775
could also separate them.

422
00:26:08,858 --> 00:26:11,444
We just need to figure out
what that moment was and where.

423
00:26:11,528 --> 00:26:12,487
I think I know.

424
00:26:13,321 --> 00:26:15,198
Archie's bedroom when that bomb exploded?

425
00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:18,493
It would have to be a more
significant event than just an explosion.

426
00:26:18,576 --> 00:26:22,914
That might not sound like a lot,
but it was a confluence of good and evil.

427
00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:25,333
Archie and Betty's love. Hiram's hate.

428
00:26:25,417 --> 00:26:27,627
There was creation.
I was in the garage, writing.

429
00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:29,546
And destruction, the explosion.

430
00:26:29,629 --> 00:26:31,423
There was science. Archie had this...

431
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:34,801
chunk of palladium on his desk. And magic.

432
00:26:34,884 --> 00:26:36,261
Cheryl's curse on the town.

433
00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:38,722
That might definitely do it.

434
00:26:38,805 --> 00:26:40,807
Okay, so by your logic...

435
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:45,729
we just have to accurately recreate
the events in Archie's bedroom...

436
00:26:45,812 --> 00:26:47,397
as closely as we can.

437
00:26:47,981 --> 00:26:50,442
And the universes should separate. Yes.

438
00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:53,737
The prime universe will stabilize,
and our universe will...

439
00:26:55,864 --> 00:26:57,032
cease to exist.

440
00:26:57,532 --> 00:26:59,534
[tense music playing]

441
00:27:00,285 --> 00:27:02,162
Everyone in Rivervale will die?

442
00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:03,580
Jughead...

443
00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:07,208
Rivervale wasn't ever meant to exist.

444
00:27:08,543 --> 00:27:11,838
You, me, all of us, our town?
We're just...

445
00:27:13,506 --> 00:27:14,632
aberrations.

446
00:27:15,925 --> 00:27:19,596
One big, messy anomaly that will simply...

447
00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:21,514
stop being.

448
00:27:23,099 --> 00:27:24,476
And if we do nothing...

449
00:27:26,019 --> 00:27:27,729
both universes will collapse?

450
00:27:29,522 --> 00:27:30,690
Billions will die?

451
00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:39,574
So we just need to detonate
a bomb under Archie's bed.

452
00:27:39,657 --> 00:27:41,201
With Betty and Archie in it.

453
00:27:41,284 --> 00:27:42,660
What? No.

454
00:27:43,453 --> 00:27:44,537
No, no.

455
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,292
We're not blowing up Archie and Betty.
They're about to get married.

456
00:27:49,959 --> 00:27:52,921
We have to recreate the circumstances
as closely as possible.

457
00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:55,882
If not Betty and Archie,
then maybe it could be--

458
00:27:58,968 --> 00:28:00,095
Me and Veronica.

459
00:28:01,096 --> 00:28:03,723
What are we if we're not counterparts
to Archie and Betty?

460
00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:07,227
Ethel, you're brilliant.

461
00:28:10,146 --> 00:28:15,568
[Veronica] So if what you're saying
is true, and we do this...

462
00:28:16,945 --> 00:28:19,322
we won't die?

463
00:28:20,281 --> 00:28:22,200
No. We'll...

464
00:28:23,284 --> 00:28:24,828
cease to exist.

465
00:28:24,911 --> 00:28:26,121
Painlessly.

466
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:27,747
All so Riverdale...

467
00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:32,627
a universe we don't even know
for sure exists,

468
00:28:32,710 --> 00:28:33,628
can be spared?

469
00:28:33,711 --> 00:28:35,505
It does exist, Veronica.

470
00:28:36,089 --> 00:28:42,220
It's a universe of high school dances
and masked serial killers,

471
00:28:42,303 --> 00:28:45,807
of football and milkshakes
and musicals and cults,

472
00:28:45,890 --> 00:28:48,935
diabolical board games and murderous nuns.

473
00:28:50,728 --> 00:28:55,567
It's a world where billions of people
will die if we don't split the universes.

474
00:28:55,650 --> 00:28:57,652
[pensive music playing]

475
00:29:00,905 --> 00:29:01,906
All right.

476
00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:04,576
Let's do it.

477
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,038
Let's make out to save the universe.

478
00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:10,081
One thing.

479
00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:12,917
Can we do it during the wedding?

480
00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:15,253
'Cause I'm not really in the mood.

481
00:29:15,336 --> 00:29:17,922
Yeah. I hear that. Same.

482
00:29:19,466 --> 00:29:21,426
Here's to Vughead becoming canon.

483
00:29:27,474 --> 00:29:29,225
[pensive music playing]

484
00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:31,269
[Jughead] Is it possible to be nostalgic
for a life

485
00:29:31,352 --> 00:29:32,812
that you're not even sure is yours?

486
00:29:34,355 --> 00:29:35,732
Flipping through the yearbook,

487
00:29:35,815 --> 00:29:38,276
I remembered things as if I'd seen them
in a movie of my life.

488
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:39,194
[door opens]

489
00:29:40,153 --> 00:29:42,947
All right, Lodge.
Are we doing this or what?

490
00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:45,033
[tense music playing]

491
00:29:47,076 --> 00:29:50,497
Archie. What are you doing here?

492
00:29:51,414 --> 00:29:53,750
You know, when you didn't show up
to my wedding,

493
00:29:53,833 --> 00:29:56,169
I knew you'd be doing something stupid.

494
00:29:56,252 --> 00:29:58,755
Like trying to separate the two universes.

495
00:29:58,838 --> 00:30:00,799
Well, I can't let you do that.

496
00:30:01,424 --> 00:30:04,886
Before you do anything final, know that
Veronica's on her way here right now.

497
00:30:04,969 --> 00:30:06,346
No, Jug, she's not.

498
00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:08,932
Ronnie's dead.

499
00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:12,143
-I killed her.
-[Veronica gasping]

500
00:30:15,355 --> 00:30:16,272
You what?

501
00:30:17,398 --> 00:30:18,733
Why would you do that?

502
00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:20,360
Because you told her the truth...

503
00:30:21,110 --> 00:30:22,362
about the universe,

504
00:30:22,445 --> 00:30:24,405
and she was gonna help you destroy it.

505
00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:27,116
You killed Cheryl?

506
00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:30,703
And the other Jughead?

507
00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:36,918
Not Hiram or Clifford or Hal?
You're Rivervale's big bad?

508
00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:38,878
I'm not a villain, Jug.

509
00:30:40,463 --> 00:30:41,840
No one stays dead here.

510
00:30:43,591 --> 00:30:47,345
Cheryl and Ronnie, they'll be back.
All the people we've lost...

511
00:30:49,973 --> 00:30:52,934
Everyone comes back to life
in this universe.

512
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,063
Everyone comes back.

513
00:30:58,606 --> 00:31:00,024
Is this about your dad?

514
00:31:00,108 --> 00:31:01,234
Don't you get it?

515
00:31:04,153 --> 00:31:06,823
He's coming home. He has to.

516
00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:11,619
He'd never miss my wedding.
Especially not to Betty. He loved Betty.

517
00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:14,289
Archie, how do you know all this?

518
00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:15,999
The rules of this world?

519
00:31:16,082 --> 00:31:18,710
To kill the other Jughead
before I showed you the comics?

520
00:31:18,793 --> 00:31:22,005
Bro, I know all the secrets
of this universe.

521
00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:26,801
I was at ground zero
for the birth of Rivervale.

522
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:30,513
The moment of creation and destruction.

523
00:31:30,597 --> 00:31:32,515
The threshold of revelation.

524
00:31:33,766 --> 00:31:35,143
I saw everything.

525
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:36,978
The other Jughead.

526
00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:39,731
The dead coming back to life.

527
00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:42,442
The distortions.

528
00:31:42,525 --> 00:31:46,613
It's not a copy or a mistake
like you think it is.

529
00:31:46,696 --> 00:31:49,616
It's another chance
for me to be with my dad.

530
00:31:50,325 --> 00:31:51,159
Archie.

531
00:31:51,242 --> 00:31:53,953
If we don't separate these universes,
and soon,

532
00:31:54,037 --> 00:31:56,456
everyone's going to die, in both of them.

533
00:31:56,539 --> 00:31:58,499
And you don't know
that Fred can come back.

534
00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:04,005
Even if there's a 0.0001% chance
that he will...

535
00:32:05,006 --> 00:32:07,425
I wanna be here, waiting for him.

536
00:32:10,136 --> 00:32:11,137
I'm sorry.

537
00:32:23,149 --> 00:32:24,734
[groans]

538
00:32:29,405 --> 00:32:30,448
[gunshot]

539
00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:33,326
[Jughead gasping]

540
00:32:38,414 --> 00:32:39,248
Betty.

541
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:44,462
Never leave a Cooper woman
standing at the altar.

542
00:32:44,545 --> 00:32:46,506
Hey, hey. Are you okay?

543
00:32:47,256 --> 00:32:49,467
How did you know to come here?

544
00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:52,428
When Archie stood me up at the altar,
something clicked.

545
00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:56,516
I don't know, like my life flashed
before my eyes. I knew to come here.

546
00:32:56,599 --> 00:32:59,018
Then you also know that Rivervale
should not exist?

547
00:33:00,728 --> 00:33:03,106
That bomb needs to be detonated.

548
00:33:03,189 --> 00:33:04,399
By us?

549
00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:07,026
If you're willing.

550
00:33:08,152 --> 00:33:10,154
[ticking quickly]

551
00:33:11,864 --> 00:33:13,449
What do we do now, just wait?

552
00:33:13,533 --> 00:33:16,327
No. We need to recreate the moments
before the original explosion

553
00:33:16,411 --> 00:33:17,620
as closely as possible.

554
00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:20,456
-Oh. Well, Archie and I were--
-I know.

555
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,125
I read it in the comics.

556
00:33:22,208 --> 00:33:26,462
♪ Whoa, you don't want me ♪

557
00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,257
♪ The way that I want you ♪

558
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:33,970
♪ You don't need me
The way that I need you ♪

559
00:33:34,053 --> 00:33:36,431
♪ You don't want ♪

560
00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:38,141
-[knocking on door]
-[record screeches]

561
00:33:38,224 --> 00:33:40,977
Hey. Ooh. Hey, sorry.

562
00:33:41,644 --> 00:33:43,813
There may be a way
to separate the two universes

563
00:33:43,896 --> 00:33:45,648
-without erasing this one.
-Okay.

564
00:33:45,732 --> 00:33:48,234
We should stop the bomb.
Could you please disarm it?

565
00:33:48,317 --> 00:33:50,903
What? I-- What?
I don't know how to disarm a bomb.

566
00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:52,905
Yes, you do. You went to the FBI Academy.

567
00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:55,950
You've done it before, when Polly
had a bomb strapped to her body?

568
00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:58,035
[inaudible dialogue]

569
00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:02,331
You came back from the dead too?

570
00:34:02,415 --> 00:34:06,627
Where were you after Archie strangled you?

571
00:34:06,711 --> 00:34:09,714
The great Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe
in the sky.

572
00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:12,675
-["Sugar, Sugar" playing]
-[bell jingles]

573
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:22,060
[Jughead] From the second I walked through
that door, I immediately felt at peace.

574
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,939
The sweet-hereafter Pop's is a lot
like ours, except it also sells comics.

575
00:34:27,023 --> 00:34:28,316
[people laughing]

576
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,486
[Jughead] It's like one of those
old-fashioned soda shops.

577
00:34:32,278 --> 00:34:34,322
Everything about this Pop's
is old-fashioned.

578
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:36,741
Grab something to read and have a seat.

579
00:34:36,824 --> 00:34:39,744
It's all-you-can-eat.
On the house, of course.

580
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:48,377
[Jughead] And that's when I found it.

581
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:54,050
The special comic book
that came in between Issues 95 and 96.

582
00:34:54,634 --> 00:34:58,054
And it bridged the gap
between Riverdale and Rivervale.

583
00:34:58,137 --> 00:35:00,932
It told the tale of two linked universes

584
00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:04,519
and how if that second universe
were to become separated from the first,

585
00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:08,314
it would die, unless a new power source
could be found and maintained.

586
00:35:08,397 --> 00:35:10,691
[playful music playing]

587
00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,487
[Jughead] I was looking around
at all these comic books,

588
00:35:14,570 --> 00:35:16,239
all these wonderful stories,

589
00:35:16,322 --> 00:35:19,200
made me realize
what that power source could be.

590
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:22,912
I resurrected and I came right here.

591
00:35:22,995 --> 00:35:26,666
What is the other source that's going
to fuel Rivervale after it separates?

592
00:35:30,169 --> 00:35:31,504
Imagination.

593
00:35:32,505 --> 00:35:36,717
It's limitless and all-powerful.
It's boundless and ever-replenishing.

594
00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:40,596
There's no fuel more potent,
no generator more awesome.

595
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,223
I don't understand.

596
00:35:42,306 --> 00:35:43,558
And I think I do.

597
00:35:43,641 --> 00:35:46,227
The explosion is destruction, right?

598
00:35:46,310 --> 00:35:49,438
-What's the opposite of destruction?
-Creation?

599
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:50,690
Exactly.

600
00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:52,150
It's all in the comics,

601
00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:54,152
how Jughead here
is going to save Rivervale

602
00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:55,778
by becoming a living battery.

603
00:35:56,487 --> 00:35:57,446
A, um...

604
00:35:58,114 --> 00:35:59,156
Story generator.

605
00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:03,286
That powers Rivervale by writing
the stories that fuel the universe.

606
00:36:03,911 --> 00:36:06,747
So it doesn't have to keep
leeching off of Riverdale.

607
00:36:07,415 --> 00:36:10,042
It's an oversimplification, but...

608
00:36:10,126 --> 00:36:12,712
Yeah, you write and Rivervale lives.

609
00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:16,299
One thing, though,
once you start producing,

610
00:36:16,382 --> 00:36:18,426
you will have to be in complete isolation.

611
00:36:20,803 --> 00:36:26,642
I mean, think about if someone saw
two Jugheads just walking and talking.

612
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:29,228
It could actually
break down reality, so...

613
00:36:29,312 --> 00:36:32,106
Well, no, no. Then why can't you do it?

614
00:36:34,442 --> 00:36:36,068
I'm the narrator. He's the writer.

615
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:38,279
What does that mean? This isn't fair.

616
00:36:38,362 --> 00:36:39,322
No, it's--

617
00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:42,700
It's how it has to be.

618
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,746
If everyone is going to live,
our family, our friends...

619
00:36:46,829 --> 00:36:48,706
This is why I became aware, isn't it?

620
00:36:48,789 --> 00:36:51,000
Because I'm both inside and outside
of the story.

621
00:36:51,083 --> 00:36:54,295
In the end, the universe knew
I'd be the only one capable of saving it.

622
00:36:55,129 --> 00:36:56,214
All right.

623
00:36:57,882 --> 00:37:00,426
Where do I set up shop? Dilton's bunker?

624
00:37:00,509 --> 00:37:02,762
Your typewriter is already down there.

625
00:37:02,845 --> 00:37:04,972
You'll have plenty of paper
and tons of food.

626
00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:07,058
And once you're settled, we'll, uh...

627
00:37:07,892 --> 00:37:08,893
seal you in.

628
00:37:08,976 --> 00:37:12,980
This is insane. I will not
be able to live with myself, Jug.

629
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:14,523
Actually, you will.

630
00:37:14,607 --> 00:37:17,193
In time-- Well, very quickly, actually.

631
00:37:18,611 --> 00:37:23,115
Soon you will forget all about
Jughead's sacrifice for you and for us,

632
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,076
and he will fade from memory.

633
00:37:26,827 --> 00:37:29,121
[Betty] Oh, my God. This is so...

634
00:37:29,205 --> 00:37:30,790
Hey, hey. Look at me.

635
00:37:33,209 --> 00:37:34,585
I need you to be strong.

636
00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:38,047
Please.
I need you in my corner for this one.

637
00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:40,049
Make sure that bomb goes off.

638
00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:41,968
Jughead...

639
00:37:43,302 --> 00:37:44,470
It's gonna be okay.

640
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:46,514
Really.

641
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:51,185
We got this. You and me.

642
00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:54,855
Saving the universes.

643
00:38:01,153 --> 00:38:03,197
[suspenseful music playing]

644
00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:11,664
[Jughead] It was at this moment that
Jughead and Betty began, yet again,

645
00:38:11,747 --> 00:38:13,833
the doomsday clock's countdown.

646
00:38:13,916 --> 00:38:15,251
[ticking quickly]

647
00:38:15,835 --> 00:38:17,378
[Jughead] While in the living room,

648
00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:21,382
Archie Andrews reanimated
and resumed his mission to stop Jughead.

649
00:38:24,969 --> 00:38:26,595
Hey. Cooper.

650
00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:28,472
Whatever happens...

651
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:31,225
We'll face it together.

652
00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:34,895
[doorknob rattling]

653
00:38:37,565 --> 00:38:38,441
[banging on door]

654
00:38:38,524 --> 00:38:41,610
[Jughead] With nothing to do but wait,
Betty and Jughead held each other tightly,

655
00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:45,031
like children terrified of the dark.

656
00:38:45,114 --> 00:38:46,449
[ticking quickly]

657
00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:49,785
[Jughead] As the bomb's counter
finally reached zero,

658
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:51,954
they braced themselves for an explosion

659
00:38:52,038 --> 00:38:54,332
that should've obliterated
one or more universes

660
00:38:54,415 --> 00:38:55,583
but instead...

661
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:56,917
[ticking stops]

662
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,169
...never happened.

663
00:39:07,303 --> 00:39:09,180
-The bomb was gone.
-[typewriter keys clacking]

664
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:11,140
[Jughead] The pounding
on the door had ceased.

665
00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:15,019
And Betty and Jughead realized
that the storm had passed them by.

666
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,774
They survived
and could resume their lives.

667
00:39:21,525 --> 00:39:23,778
-[people chattering]
-[utensils clinking]

668
00:39:25,237 --> 00:39:26,405
There you guys are.

669
00:39:26,989 --> 00:39:28,991
We were just about to send a search party.

670
00:39:29,075 --> 00:39:31,494
Seriously.
What were you guys doing up there?

671
00:39:32,411 --> 00:39:36,374
-Um...
-I actually can't remember.

672
00:39:36,457 --> 00:39:39,210
Don't mind him.
He always turns into a space cadet

673
00:39:39,293 --> 00:39:41,712
when he's working on a new novel.
[chuckles]

674
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:46,842
No, seriously. What were we--?
What were we doing?

675
00:39:46,926 --> 00:39:49,095
Come on, Betty.
Your spaghetti's gonna get cold.

676
00:39:49,178 --> 00:39:50,805
[tender music playing]

677
00:39:50,888 --> 00:39:52,264
-Hey.
-Hey.

678
00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:53,641
-Thank you.
-Yeah.

679
00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:55,893
-[Tabitha] Mwah.
-[Jughead] After dinner,

680
00:39:55,976 --> 00:39:59,688
Jughead and Tabitha will start moving
his belongings out of Archie's garage

681
00:39:59,772 --> 00:40:01,357
and into their new apartment.

682
00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:07,780
Including a comic-book collection
Jughead had forgotten that he had.

683
00:40:07,863 --> 00:40:09,865
And though he will not know it
in the moment,

684
00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:14,036
his collection of comic books
and the secrets contained within its pages

685
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,082
will one day save his
and countless others' lives.

686
00:40:18,666 --> 00:40:19,708
[Ethel] So it worked.

687
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,588
Rivervale will continue to exist
in an endless time loop you created.

688
00:40:24,672 --> 00:40:26,507
As long as you keep typing.

689
00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:28,676
Luckily, I've got a lot of stories.

690
00:40:31,178 --> 00:40:32,555
One question, though.

691
00:40:33,931 --> 00:40:36,851
What happens
in the prime Riverdale universe?

692
00:40:40,396 --> 00:40:42,815
I guess we'll never know
if someone did something

693
00:40:42,898 --> 00:40:45,526
to change the course of events
in Riverdale.

694
00:40:49,738 --> 00:40:51,699
[typewriter keys clacking]

695
00:40:51,782 --> 00:40:54,785
[AG & Cece and the Dark Hearts'
"Cross My Heart" playing]

696
00:40:59,498 --> 00:41:03,169
♪ He had a song he'd always sing ♪

697
00:41:03,252 --> 00:41:08,632
♪ La la la, la la la, la la
La la la, la la la, la la... ♪

698
00:41:08,716 --> 00:41:11,260
-[cell phone ringing]
-[clock ticking quickly]

699
00:41:11,343 --> 00:41:12,470
Can you hear that?

700
00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:15,222
[ringing continues]

701
00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:16,432
It's my phone.

702
00:41:18,309 --> 00:41:19,351
Hello?

703
00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:21,479
[man over phone]
Get out of that house, Betty!

704
00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:24,064
-Who is this?
-Listen to me!

705
00:41:24,148 --> 00:41:27,651
There's a bomb under the bed.
You have to go now. Right now.

706
00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:30,237
We have to go.

707
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,281
Now.

708
00:41:35,576 --> 00:41:38,120
[explosion]

709
00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:43,792
[high-pitched ringing]

710
00:41:58,974 --> 00:42:00,893
[theme music playing]