Riverdale
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Thats right: This time shesactually dead.
and the cheerleaders raise their pom-poms overhead in a solemn salute.
Your days of failing this town over and over again are numbered, Cheryl growls at Sheriff Keller.
Is no one concerned about liberatingthem?)
And yet Sister Whomever is positive thats the boy she knew as Alices biological son.
Sure seems like theres an innocent explanation.
This triopromptly kicks the shit out of Archie.
Meanwhile, Veronica gets a call from his number, but its not Archie on the line.
Its our old friend, Nick St. Clair!
Until then, hes got him tied to a chair, in perfect getting-repeatedly-punched position.
Chic comes to, tied to a chair in the Cooper family basement.
You must have known him, Betty says, so where is her brother?
Chic spins a tale: They met on the streets and Chic moved into his crappy motel room.
Charles once came to the Coopers door, but Alice slammed it in his face.
That very night, he overdosed onjingle jangle.
Shes distraught, believing herself to be responsible for killing her son.
This demands biblical punishment, she says.
I had your baby, she tells Jugheads father.
I named him Charles … and now hes dead.
Hes dead because of me.
responds by wrapping her up in a big, silent hug.
), but its not enough.
(I originally misspelled Archie as Achie in that last sentence, which feels appropriate.)
She can pay him another way: By finally giving him the night together hes owed.
Im starting to think this Nick St. Clair isnt a very nice young man.
Chic, he warns her, lived in a den of sinners and has murdered before.
And so Betty and Jughead are off to the cheap motel where they found Chic to canvass the neighbors.
A woman on the second floor recognizes Charles, the nice one, from the picture.
May he rest in peace, she says.
(This episodes theme: hitting tied-up people.)
Black Hood calls to offer another option: Deliver Chic directly to him.
She pours Nick a drink; he purrs that Archie is beneath her.
Archie breaks down the door to their room to find Nick passed out on the floor.
Veronica,fittingly, drugged him.
With the help of the handy-dandy revolver she swiped fromMiss Grundy, R.I.P.
(Real Icky Pedophile), Betty marches Chic out of the basement and to the cemetery.
Holding him at gunpoint, she asks him again if he killed her brother.
We got in a fight, he admits.
I didnt meant to hurt him.
Whether thats true or not, its time for him to answer for his sins.
The Black Hood is there, waiting.
Chic takes off running; the Black Hood gives chase.
I have to say, the Black Hood is in pretty good shape.
Murder must be great cardio.
Before long, the deputy mayor demands he step down.
Unless Fred Andrews wins the mayoral election, Keller is permanently out of a job.
Oh, and he also wants to do it by bringing down the Black Hood.
Betty comes home to tell her mother she took Chic away, to the bus station.
Suddenly, she realizes someone else is missing: Wheres Hal?
He went looking for you, Alice says.
Did he happen to leave the house in a hood, by chance?
Maybe a dark-colored one?
But not navy blue?
