Riverdale

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Well, hes dead.

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Betty, Veronica, and Archie visit his grave.

Come back to me, Jug, his girlfriend-widow cries.

Just kidding this is actually a dream sequence.

Dont be mad at me, Im sorry, I love you!

His dad is at his bedside.

FP reports the Serpents fought hard, but were sorely outnumbered by the Ghoulies.

Also, by the way, Fangs is actually alive?

The sheriffs deputy who told FP of his demise was, apparently, full of shit.

Anyway, most of Sunnyside Trailer Park has burned.

The Serpents, they dont exist anymore, FP laments.

Do you want to see where he ate?

Without politics to distract them, the Scooby Gang considers the mystery of the second Black Hood.

Its pretty clear to all of them, including Veronica, that Hiram must have hadsomethingto do with it.

But who, exactly, has been under that hood?

A hired gang member?

who died after engaging the cops in a firefight.

Guns and, yes, a black hood found on the premises link him to the town-hall shooting.

Whats that, over there?

Okay, see you later!

Kevin finds Moose crying in the bathroom.

Midges locker was trashed during Riot Night.

All her belongings and the memorial tributes people had left for her have disappeared.

Kevins consoling hug rapidly evolves into a consoling smooch session, as these things often do.

Jug finds FP drunk at home Hiram fired him from Pops.

So why did he lie about the remaining Serpents?

FP says they need to give up on the gang and skip town.

Hes moving the two of them to Toledo, to be with Jugheads mom and sister Jellybean.

She even arms her daughter with a powerful secret.

Veronica enlists Mayor McCoys legal help (I told you: business is booming!)

to get her million dollars back from the trust Hiram shoved it in.

She threatens to smear his secrets all over town, with Hermiones mayoral election just days away.

Blackmail is nothing if not effective.

The Serpents scatter just as the cruisers pull up.

Theyve been offered asylum at the Andrews house (which is … notthatbig, no?

), where Fred makes everyone breakfast the next morning.

Hiram pays a visit to the Wyrm, where he meets its brand-new teenage owner.

Veronica makes him an offer.

Im intrigued by this development!

What would Veronica on a budget look like, dressed exclusively in Forever 21?

Polly, visiting with her twin babies, encourages Betty to forgive their father.

Youll be back, Betty, he shouts at her retreating form.

But Alice is still on shaky ground.

who healed her after Jasons death.

Alice is open to it.

Weatherbee shares the results of the latter race over the PA: Archie Andrews is their new president.

And also, by the way, the Southside kids can stay in Riverdale after all!

(Fortunately,shedid not have do that idioticSerpent Danceas part of her initiation.)

Shell think it over!

Fred gets a call: Hermione won the election.

Someone knocks on the front door.

New Daddy may have manipulated Archie when he was vulnerable after Freds shooting, but no more.

I wont hesitate like I did with the Black Hood, he says.

Im going to make my bones once and for all.

Veronica has learned from Pop that the basement of the Chocklit Shoppe was once a speakeasy.

She does expect her father is plotting revenge, which, of course, he is.

Welcome to new Southside, he says.

And he has a plan in store to sideline those meddling kids, too.

(Is that even their jurisdiction?)

I have so many questions: Will Veronica get conjugal visits?

And can he and Hal be bunkmates?

The cruelest and most unusual punishment is that we have to wait until season three to find out.