1 00:00:05,161 --> 00:00:07,763 One distinct advantage of dating the owner of a movie theater 2 00:00:07,796 --> 00:00:10,367 is getting to see flicks with my pals for free. 3 00:00:10,399 --> 00:00:13,602 Which is why every Tuesday night, we would gather to watch 4 00:00:13,636 --> 00:00:16,839 whatever latest atomic age fright-fest was playing, 5 00:00:16,872 --> 00:00:20,409 little imagining that we would soon be walking into our very own 6 00:00:20,442 --> 00:00:23,914 real-life, science-fiction-tinged B movie. 7 00:00:27,449 --> 00:00:29,785 There, suddenly, was a melting man, 8 00:00:29,818 --> 00:00:32,389 coming towards us looking like a wax statue 9 00:00:32,421 --> 00:00:35,557 that had been left out in the sun for too long. 10 00:00:35,591 --> 00:00:38,028 At which point the cavalry suddenly arrived. 11 00:00:45,868 --> 00:00:49,039 Sheriff Keller would soon be claiming that the man was a vagrant, 12 00:00:49,072 --> 00:00:53,642 suffering from a rare case of... wait for it... leprosy. 13 00:00:53,676 --> 00:00:57,113 But that didn't jibe with what I overheard Ethel say to Ben Button. 14 00:00:57,147 --> 00:01:01,051 He's wearing the same uniform my dad did when he worked at the maple factory. 15 00:01:01,084 --> 00:01:04,620 Once again, there was something rotten in the town of Riverdale, 16 00:01:04,653 --> 00:01:07,290 and if I was going to get real answers this time, 17 00:01:07,324 --> 00:01:08,824 I'd have to hunt them down myself. 18 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,560 Luckily, I knew for a fact 19 00:01:11,593 --> 00:01:13,363 that the town coroner, Dr. Curdle, 20 00:01:13,396 --> 00:01:15,497 was a fan of Pep's horror comics, 21 00:01:15,531 --> 00:01:17,100 which were hard to come by these days. 22 00:01:17,133 --> 00:01:19,702 Unless you had an inside connection like me. 23 00:01:19,735 --> 00:01:20,602 Oh, yes. 24 00:01:20,636 --> 00:01:23,539 These are quite marvelous, Mr. Jones. 25 00:01:25,108 --> 00:01:27,077 Worthy of a quid pro quo. 26 00:01:27,110 --> 00:01:31,647 Keen-o. So, clue me in on what you know about that mysterious melting man. 27 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,083 How'd he end up looking that way? 28 00:01:35,085 --> 00:01:38,554 I believe he was suffering from acute radiation poisoning. 29 00:01:39,322 --> 00:01:41,757 Jeepers! 30 00:01:42,491 --> 00:01:44,127 Nuclear or atomic? 31 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,562 And where would he get radiation poisoning? 32 00:01:47,230 --> 00:01:48,530 I couldn't say. 33 00:01:48,564 --> 00:01:50,799 Unfortunately, I didn't have much time with the body 34 00:01:50,833 --> 00:01:53,569 before Mayor Blossom claimed it and whisked it away. 35 00:01:53,602 --> 00:01:56,538 The melting man, as you call him, 36 00:01:56,572 --> 00:02:02,379 was an employee of the mayor's maple factory is my understanding. 37 00:02:02,412 --> 00:02:04,646 That stinks like a rotten fish. 38 00:02:08,851 --> 00:02:11,854 Ethel, are you ready to walk to school? 39 00:02:11,887 --> 00:02:14,324 Betty, are you sure you don't want your mom 40 00:02:14,357 --> 00:02:15,791 to drive you and Ethel to school? 41 00:02:16,558 --> 00:02:17,659 Under no circumstances. 42 00:02:17,693 --> 00:02:19,362 Ethel, come on. We're gonna be late. 43 00:02:19,396 --> 00:02:20,729 Don't worry, Hal. 44 00:02:20,763 --> 00:02:22,698 One day it'll be raining cats and dogs, 45 00:02:22,731 --> 00:02:24,600 and she will finally let me give her a ride. 46 00:02:24,633 --> 00:02:26,336 -You'll see. -Mm, no, I won't. 47 00:02:26,369 --> 00:02:29,105 Ethel, Veronica and I signed up for driver's education at school. 48 00:02:29,139 --> 00:02:32,909 So, pretty soon I'll be driving myself wherever I want. 49 00:02:41,251 --> 00:02:44,921 Great news from Coach Parsley over at Camp Evans. 50 00:02:45,455 --> 00:02:48,391 You are in, Reggie. 51 00:02:48,425 --> 00:02:50,393 -No foolin', Coach? -In where? 52 00:02:50,427 --> 00:02:52,761 Only the best summer basketball camp 53 00:02:52,795 --> 00:02:55,532 for high-schoolers in the country. 54 00:02:55,564 --> 00:02:57,400 That's wonderful news. 55 00:02:57,434 --> 00:02:58,501 Congratulations, Reggie. 56 00:02:58,535 --> 00:03:01,237 And what about you, Bill Shakespeare? 57 00:03:01,271 --> 00:03:02,871 What are your plans? 58 00:03:02,906 --> 00:03:05,741 Guess there's no summer camp for poetry, is there? 59 00:03:09,312 --> 00:03:12,681 Well, there'll be plenty for Archie to do in town, Frank. 60 00:03:12,714 --> 00:03:14,551 He can pick up his old job at Pop's, 61 00:03:14,583 --> 00:03:16,486 or he can help me down at the dress shop. 62 00:03:16,519 --> 00:03:19,721 Oh, you hear that? 63 00:03:19,755 --> 00:03:21,424 You can work in your mom's dress shop. 64 00:03:21,458 --> 00:03:25,594 I bet you wish you didn't quit the team now. 65 00:03:28,864 --> 00:03:32,801 Let's motor, sis. Train's leaving with or without you. 66 00:03:41,578 --> 00:03:44,447 And who, pray tell, was that? 67 00:03:44,481 --> 00:03:45,548 You enlisting, Dad? 68 00:03:45,582 --> 00:03:47,816 Oh, don't be asinine, the both of you. 69 00:03:47,850 --> 00:03:50,353 That was General Taylor from Washington. 70 00:03:50,386 --> 00:03:51,854 He was delivering unto me, uh... 71 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:55,291 Well, a gift. 72 00:03:55,325 --> 00:03:56,459 Come into my study, 73 00:03:56,493 --> 00:03:58,094 I want you to see it. 74 00:04:07,570 --> 00:04:10,473 What godforsaken creature is that? 75 00:04:10,507 --> 00:04:12,108 This is Moloch, Cheryl. 76 00:04:12,641 --> 00:04:14,344 Ancient pagan deity. 77 00:04:14,377 --> 00:04:17,779 It can only be appeased through child sacrifice. 78 00:04:18,747 --> 00:04:20,716 You should both keep Moloch in mind, 79 00:04:20,749 --> 00:04:23,386 should you ever be inclined to give me any more grief. 80 00:04:33,630 --> 00:04:34,763 Ethel? 81 00:04:36,533 --> 00:04:38,700 Look, I don't mean to open old wounds, 82 00:04:38,734 --> 00:04:41,538 but that melting man outside the Babylonium... 83 00:04:41,571 --> 00:04:43,206 -What about him? -You told Ben 84 00:04:43,239 --> 00:04:46,276 that he was wearing the same uniform that your father did 85 00:04:46,309 --> 00:04:47,577 at the Blossom maple factory. 86 00:04:47,610 --> 00:04:51,214 I... I was just wondering what your father actually did there. 87 00:04:51,247 --> 00:04:52,282 He was a janitor. 88 00:04:52,315 --> 00:04:53,316 Why? 89 00:04:53,349 --> 00:04:54,651 Did he ever get sick? 90 00:04:54,683 --> 00:04:57,120 My mom sometimes said that he started drinking 91 00:04:57,153 --> 00:05:01,558 to help deal with the chronic pain he felt in his stomach and his joints. 92 00:05:01,591 --> 00:05:03,893 And also because he was losing his hair. 93 00:05:05,195 --> 00:05:06,196 Golly. 94 00:05:06,229 --> 00:05:08,164 But, Jughead, why are you asking me about this? 95 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:13,269 Look, I can't say for certain yet, 96 00:05:13,303 --> 00:05:16,639 but the fact that your father and the melting man, 97 00:05:16,673 --> 00:05:18,675 and Mr. Rayberry, now that I think about it, 98 00:05:18,707 --> 00:05:20,543 all worked at the Blossom maple factory 99 00:05:20,577 --> 00:05:22,679 and all bit the linoleum 100 00:05:22,711 --> 00:05:25,881 in, shall we say, bizarre circumstances, I-- 101 00:05:25,915 --> 00:05:28,084 Well, I just don't think that's a coincidence. 102 00:05:28,117 --> 00:05:30,553 I think the Blossoms are hiding something. 103 00:05:30,587 --> 00:05:31,688 And I'm going to find out what. 104 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,424 So I can get us, you, me, Mrs. Rayberry... 105 00:05:35,491 --> 00:05:36,459 some closure. 106 00:05:37,961 --> 00:05:38,928 What? 107 00:05:40,163 --> 00:05:41,064 What is it? 108 00:05:41,097 --> 00:05:43,799 Jughead, I appreciate what you're doing. 109 00:05:43,832 --> 00:05:46,970 But I'm trying to move on with my life. 110 00:05:47,003 --> 00:05:49,105 I'm applying for my driver's license. 111 00:05:49,138 --> 00:05:52,741 I just got my car that I won as Miss Riverdale Teen Queen, 112 00:05:53,409 --> 00:05:55,111 I'm going steady with Ben. 113 00:05:55,144 --> 00:05:56,112 Hi. 114 00:05:58,747 --> 00:06:02,118 You're going steady with our Ben? Ben Button? 115 00:06:02,151 --> 00:06:06,089 In any case, I'm trying to put the past where it belongs, behind me. 116 00:06:06,122 --> 00:06:08,458 All right, class, please finish taking your seats. 117 00:06:11,394 --> 00:06:14,063 Mayor Blossom and Principal Featherhead have asked me to show you 118 00:06:14,097 --> 00:06:16,865 this informational film about what to do in the event 119 00:06:16,899 --> 00:06:19,402 of an atomic bomb detonating in Riverdale. 120 00:06:23,206 --> 00:06:25,642 Now, we must be ready for a new danger... 121 00:06:25,675 --> 00:06:27,644 the atomic bomb. 122 00:06:27,677 --> 00:06:29,245 You will know when it comes. 123 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,115 There is a bright flash brighter than the sun. 124 00:06:32,148 --> 00:06:35,817 If you are not ready, it could hurt you in different ways. 125 00:06:36,486 --> 00:06:37,886 It could knock you down hard 126 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,523 or throw you against a tree or a wall. 127 00:06:40,556 --> 00:06:44,427 It is such a big explosion, it can smash in buildings, 128 00:06:44,460 --> 00:06:45,794 and knock signboards over, 129 00:06:45,827 --> 00:06:47,796 and break windows all over town. 130 00:06:47,829 --> 00:06:49,932 Jeepers, that atomic bomb movie 131 00:06:49,966 --> 00:06:51,968 really gave me the zorros. 132 00:06:52,435 --> 00:06:53,569 It should have. 133 00:06:53,603 --> 00:06:55,405 That dumb movie was telling us to "duck and cover," 134 00:06:55,438 --> 00:06:58,541 as if flying glass is going to be the biggest of our worries. 135 00:06:58,574 --> 00:07:02,679 In truth, most of us wouldn't even likely survive an atomic explosion. 136 00:07:02,712 --> 00:07:04,714 What... What are you playing at, Jug? 137 00:07:04,747 --> 00:07:08,084 Have any of you seen the newsreels from Japan? 138 00:07:08,117 --> 00:07:10,852 If a bomb drops on or near Riverdale, 139 00:07:10,886 --> 00:07:13,656 all of us are vaporized in less than a nanosecond. 140 00:07:13,690 --> 00:07:16,092 Not to mention the radiation we would all be exposed to, 141 00:07:16,125 --> 00:07:18,394 even if we managed to survive the initial detonation. 142 00:07:18,428 --> 00:07:21,931 Well, I know what I'd do if a bomb were heading our way, 143 00:07:21,964 --> 00:07:25,834 I'd sequester myself in the Pembrooke sub-sub-basement. 144 00:07:25,867 --> 00:07:28,705 It's like a little underground city down there. 145 00:07:28,738 --> 00:07:31,240 You'd be invited, of course, Juggiekins. 146 00:07:31,274 --> 00:07:32,608 Ugh. 147 00:07:32,642 --> 00:07:35,378 I would seek shelter in the abandoned Blossom mines. 148 00:07:35,411 --> 00:07:38,281 They have stood strong since before the Revolutionary War. 149 00:07:38,314 --> 00:07:41,584 Isn't it dark and cold down in those mines? 150 00:07:41,617 --> 00:07:44,620 Hmm, why, yes, Toni, it is. 151 00:07:44,654 --> 00:07:49,125 I would have to find some way to stay cozy and warm. 152 00:07:49,158 --> 00:07:51,828 I'd head back to Duck Creek. We've got a well so deep 153 00:07:51,860 --> 00:07:53,763 no bomb or radiation could reach it. 154 00:07:53,796 --> 00:07:55,765 Well, why stop at Duck Creek? 155 00:07:55,798 --> 00:07:57,467 I mean, if we hear these sirens, 156 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:00,536 I'm hopping in my hot rod, I'm grabbin' my mom and I'm heading out West. 157 00:08:00,570 --> 00:08:04,474 There is no way these radiation clouds are gonna cross the Rockies. 158 00:08:04,507 --> 00:08:06,309 Out West sounds nice. 159 00:08:06,743 --> 00:08:07,876 Sure does. 160 00:08:07,910 --> 00:08:10,879 You can't outrun an atomic bomb, Archie. 161 00:08:10,913 --> 00:08:12,881 No matter how screamin' fast your hot rod is. 162 00:08:12,915 --> 00:08:17,186 Guys, I read somewhere that if you are inside a refrigerator, 163 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:19,856 when the big one hits, you're safe. 164 00:08:19,888 --> 00:08:21,357 But then you're inside a refrigerator. 165 00:08:21,391 --> 00:08:25,094 Yeah, Kev, what would you do about food and water? 166 00:08:25,128 --> 00:08:27,263 I mean, I'd be inside of a refrigerator. 167 00:08:28,664 --> 00:08:30,133 I'm not holing up anywhere. 168 00:08:30,166 --> 00:08:33,903 Come on, guys. We can't let this bomb get us down. 169 00:08:33,936 --> 00:08:35,705 In places like Nevada, where the US 170 00:08:35,738 --> 00:08:37,073 does most of its atomic testing, 171 00:08:37,106 --> 00:08:39,008 people have bomb shelters in case something goes wrong. 172 00:08:39,041 --> 00:08:41,878 That's what it would take to be truly safe, 173 00:08:41,911 --> 00:08:44,013 a lead-lined underground bunker. 174 00:08:44,046 --> 00:08:45,915 If Russia wanted to bomb us, 175 00:08:45,948 --> 00:08:48,618 wouldn't they target larger cities 176 00:08:48,651 --> 00:08:50,820 like Los Angeles or New York? 177 00:08:50,853 --> 00:08:52,121 People who live in the sticks like us, 178 00:08:52,155 --> 00:08:54,724 we don't actually have to worry about 179 00:08:54,757 --> 00:08:57,126 nuclear attacks, do we? 180 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,429 Mm. I wouldn't bet the farm on it. 181 00:09:00,263 --> 00:09:02,765 An atomic bomb could drop anywhere. 182 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:05,067 Even here, in Riverdale. 183 00:09:14,076 --> 00:09:16,979 It says, "Make rope end wrap around the rope." 184 00:09:17,647 --> 00:09:18,815 Whatever that means. 185 00:09:18,848 --> 00:09:20,516 Hey, what are you fellas up to? 186 00:09:20,550 --> 00:09:24,153 We're trying to tie a sailor's knot and failing miserably. 187 00:09:24,187 --> 00:09:26,956 A sailor's knot? I can show you how. 188 00:09:26,989 --> 00:09:28,624 Don't you remember your Adventure Scouts training? 189 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:32,595 "The rabbit goes out the hole, 190 00:09:32,995 --> 00:09:34,163 around the tree, 191 00:09:35,865 --> 00:09:37,066 back through the hole again." 192 00:09:37,935 --> 00:09:39,168 You should get a nice loop. 193 00:09:40,169 --> 00:09:41,871 What are you guys practicing this for anyways? 194 00:09:41,905 --> 00:09:43,506 You do realize if the bomb hits, 195 00:09:43,539 --> 00:09:46,175 there's not much a sailor's knot can do for you. 196 00:09:47,477 --> 00:09:50,680 Kevin and I are considering joining the Merchant Marines. 197 00:09:51,481 --> 00:09:53,115 Merchant Marines? Wow. 198 00:09:53,149 --> 00:09:55,485 What is that? Part of the Navy or something? 199 00:09:55,518 --> 00:09:56,886 No, it's a civilian job. 200 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,722 They pay you to work on a cargo ship and travel around the world. 201 00:10:01,224 --> 00:10:03,359 You know, Archie, you might be keen on this too. 202 00:10:03,392 --> 00:10:05,127 A lot of great writers were Merchant Marines. 203 00:10:05,161 --> 00:10:06,863 A lot of the Beats have served too. 204 00:10:06,897 --> 00:10:10,867 Ginsberg and Kerouac both did their time on the seven seas. 205 00:10:10,901 --> 00:10:13,202 "Adventure awaits you on the open water." 206 00:10:14,670 --> 00:10:17,607 I'll say this much, I wouldn't hate getting away from my uncle. 207 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,143 Seeing the world, having adventures, it would enrich my writing. 208 00:10:21,177 --> 00:10:23,279 I mean, that sounds super swell to me. 209 00:10:24,580 --> 00:10:25,748 And I do love tying knots. 210 00:10:25,781 --> 00:10:27,416 If you're serious, there's a recruiter coming tomorrow. 211 00:10:27,450 --> 00:10:31,287 You can ask him questions and hear what he has to say. 212 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:36,125 Ladies, you are the drivers of tomorrow. 213 00:10:36,158 --> 00:10:40,429 As such, it is important to learn to be alert, 214 00:10:40,463 --> 00:10:45,601 confident, conscientious motor vehicle operators. 215 00:10:45,635 --> 00:10:46,769 Stop sign. 216 00:10:48,271 --> 00:10:52,275 Driving is not a right, as many young men believe. 217 00:10:52,775 --> 00:10:54,076 It is a privilege... 218 00:10:54,677 --> 00:10:55,979 and a responsibility. 219 00:10:56,013 --> 00:10:58,314 Upcoming left turn. 220 00:11:00,082 --> 00:11:01,884 That's wonderful, girls. 221 00:11:01,919 --> 00:11:03,586 Now, let's bring our cars into park. 222 00:11:04,587 --> 00:11:06,055 And shake it out. 223 00:11:06,088 --> 00:11:07,958 Very good. Excellent. 224 00:11:07,991 --> 00:11:11,494 Now, your homework for tonight is to rest, 225 00:11:11,527 --> 00:11:15,731 because tomorrow, your true test of skills begins. 226 00:11:15,765 --> 00:11:19,835 We will be getting into a real, working automobile 227 00:11:21,004 --> 00:11:23,040 to practice parallel parking. 228 00:11:27,076 --> 00:11:29,078 How was school today, boys? 229 00:11:29,111 --> 00:11:30,246 Anything interesting happen? 230 00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:31,881 We watched a movie that taught us what to do 231 00:11:31,915 --> 00:11:33,449 if the Russians drop a bomb on us. 232 00:11:34,584 --> 00:11:36,519 I'm thinking of joining the Merchant Marines. 233 00:11:36,552 --> 00:11:39,121 Well, as long as you finish high school first, 234 00:11:39,155 --> 00:11:43,159 and when that day comes, I hope you'll still consider going to college. 235 00:11:43,192 --> 00:11:44,727 Well, now, wait a minute, Mary. 236 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,197 Merchant Marines sounds like a solid, sensible idea. 237 00:11:48,230 --> 00:11:51,701 Much better than going to some college to pursue poetry. 238 00:11:54,170 --> 00:11:56,073 Actually, the Merchant Marines would be a way 239 00:11:56,105 --> 00:11:57,740 for me to pursue my poetry, Uncle Frank. 240 00:11:57,773 --> 00:11:59,709 A lot of Beats would join the Merchant Marines 241 00:11:59,742 --> 00:12:00,676 to learn more about themselves 242 00:12:00,710 --> 00:12:03,212 and the world and then to write about it. 243 00:12:03,245 --> 00:12:04,948 You'd know that if you ever cracked open a book. 244 00:12:04,982 --> 00:12:06,083 What was that? 245 00:12:06,115 --> 00:12:08,250 Well, no one is joining anything tonight. 246 00:12:08,284 --> 00:12:11,554 So can we please just finish our supper in peace? 247 00:12:13,122 --> 00:12:15,092 Well, Dilton, what's the occasion? 248 00:12:15,124 --> 00:12:19,462 I... I just came by because... 249 00:12:19,495 --> 00:12:22,698 after the melting man and that movie my dad showed in class, 250 00:12:22,732 --> 00:12:24,367 I know you're unsettled. 251 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,336 Sue me. I don't wanna die in an atomic attack. 252 00:12:27,370 --> 00:12:31,407 Yeah, except, you don't have to worry, Jughead. 253 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,142 You, you're one of my best pals. 254 00:12:33,175 --> 00:12:34,410 You're my comic book buddy. 255 00:12:34,443 --> 00:12:37,047 If anything bad were to actually happen, 256 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,715 I'd take care of you. You'd be safe. 257 00:12:39,749 --> 00:12:44,620 Well, that's swell of you to say, Dilton, but how would I be safe? 258 00:12:45,956 --> 00:12:47,256 It's... 259 00:12:47,289 --> 00:12:50,027 It would probably be easier if I just showed you. 260 00:12:55,164 --> 00:12:58,434 Ho-ho-holy crapola, Dilton. 261 00:13:00,202 --> 00:13:03,040 How does your family have a bunker? 262 00:13:03,073 --> 00:13:04,473 My dad built it. 263 00:13:04,507 --> 00:13:07,243 He says we're deep enough to survive an atomic blast 264 00:13:07,276 --> 00:13:10,147 and any radiation after the blast. 265 00:13:10,179 --> 00:13:12,581 Am I missing something? 266 00:13:12,615 --> 00:13:15,384 Does your dad think that Riverdale could be a target? 267 00:13:18,922 --> 00:13:19,956 Dilton? 268 00:13:22,525 --> 00:13:24,460 What does your dad know that we don't? 269 00:13:26,129 --> 00:13:28,230 Nothing for certain. 270 00:13:28,264 --> 00:13:30,934 But about a year before Ethel's folks were killed, 271 00:13:32,069 --> 00:13:33,937 her dad showed up to our house... 272 00:13:35,771 --> 00:13:37,306 with this. 273 00:13:40,643 --> 00:13:43,779 Mr. Muggs wanted to see if it was worth anything. 274 00:13:43,813 --> 00:13:47,216 He figured since my dad was a science teacher, he'd know. 275 00:13:47,984 --> 00:13:49,218 What is it? 276 00:13:49,585 --> 00:13:50,553 Palladium. 277 00:13:51,454 --> 00:13:54,991 Mr. Muggs said he swiped it from work. 278 00:13:55,025 --> 00:13:56,559 The maple factory? 279 00:13:56,592 --> 00:13:57,660 I guess so. 280 00:13:57,693 --> 00:14:00,830 He said Clifford Blossom was sitting on a pile of it 281 00:14:00,863 --> 00:14:03,666 and doing something with it. 282 00:14:03,699 --> 00:14:06,402 That's when my dad started building this bunker. 283 00:14:07,204 --> 00:14:09,338 Because Clifford Blossom was, 284 00:14:09,371 --> 00:14:12,308 or is, doing something with palladium? 285 00:14:13,210 --> 00:14:16,312 A secret something? Worth killing for? 286 00:14:16,345 --> 00:14:20,483 In its inert state, palladium is basically harmless. 287 00:14:20,516 --> 00:14:24,955 But in its purest state, concentrated and compressed, 288 00:14:25,922 --> 00:14:27,090 some scientists speculate 289 00:14:27,124 --> 00:14:30,127 it could be more volatile than plutonium, 290 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,229 and if detonated, 291 00:14:32,261 --> 00:14:35,364 more destructive than a hydrogen bomb. 292 00:14:37,399 --> 00:14:39,301 This is starting to ring a bell for me. 293 00:14:39,335 --> 00:14:42,338 Not just a bell, in fact, a four-alarm siren. 294 00:14:42,371 --> 00:14:44,540 Sure enough, I'd recently had my nose in a story 295 00:14:44,573 --> 00:14:47,210 about a palladium bomb destroying a small town 296 00:14:47,244 --> 00:14:50,279 by my former, deceased mentor Brad Rayberry, 297 00:14:50,312 --> 00:14:53,116 who, at one point, worked at the Blossom factory. 298 00:14:53,150 --> 00:14:54,617 Had he seen or heard something there 299 00:14:54,650 --> 00:14:57,853 about palladium that had inspired his story? 300 00:14:59,321 --> 00:15:00,790 That's the emergency siren! 301 00:15:00,823 --> 00:15:02,159 As we were warned! 302 00:15:02,192 --> 00:15:05,095 This is it! This is the big one! 303 00:15:12,102 --> 00:15:14,370 Jughead! Duck and cover! 304 00:15:14,403 --> 00:15:16,206 Jughead? Jughead? What are you doing? 305 00:15:16,239 --> 00:15:17,908 Get under your desk! 306 00:15:17,941 --> 00:15:19,242 No! Jughead! 307 00:15:19,276 --> 00:15:22,311 Get away from the-- 308 00:15:35,791 --> 00:15:39,095 Damn you and your fearmongering, Jughead Jones. 309 00:16:30,113 --> 00:16:31,982 As a Merchant Marine, you'll be traveling the globe 310 00:16:32,015 --> 00:16:35,218 on the world's most technologically advanced ships. 311 00:16:35,252 --> 00:16:36,619 You will work and train alongside 312 00:16:36,652 --> 00:16:38,621 this country's best and brightest young men, 313 00:16:38,654 --> 00:16:42,458 all eager to experience life to the fullest. 314 00:16:42,491 --> 00:16:44,995 -Yes, son. -Would we have time to explore, 315 00:16:45,028 --> 00:16:48,298 places we'd be visiting, you know, really get to soak them up? 316 00:16:48,331 --> 00:16:49,632 This isn't a pleasure cruise. 317 00:16:49,665 --> 00:16:51,368 It's something you should all know right now, 318 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,736 no one here is guaranteed a spot. 319 00:16:57,173 --> 00:16:59,042 Cheryl, hi-ho. 320 00:17:01,044 --> 00:17:03,412 Has anything strange been happening at your house lately? 321 00:17:03,445 --> 00:17:06,116 Mayhaps. Why do you care? 322 00:17:06,149 --> 00:17:08,517 Well, I heard you mention those abandoned mines yesterday. 323 00:17:08,550 --> 00:17:11,520 And I was just wondering if they're close to your family's maple factory. 324 00:17:11,553 --> 00:17:14,057 The factory is practically right on top of them, yes. 325 00:17:14,790 --> 00:17:16,092 Okay... 326 00:17:16,126 --> 00:17:18,929 Look, Cheryl, this is gonna sound like gobbledygook. 327 00:17:18,962 --> 00:17:21,064 But I have reason to believe that your father is up to no good. 328 00:17:21,097 --> 00:17:24,301 I think he is involved in the milkman murders, 329 00:17:24,334 --> 00:17:25,434 not to mention the melting man, 330 00:17:25,467 --> 00:17:27,337 and I think that those mines 331 00:17:27,370 --> 00:17:28,939 are actually palladium mines, 332 00:17:28,972 --> 00:17:30,773 and that they're not as abandoned as you think. 333 00:17:30,806 --> 00:17:33,509 Jughead, there's no love lost between my father and I. 334 00:17:33,542 --> 00:17:35,378 In fact, I'm fairly certain if he had the chance, 335 00:17:35,412 --> 00:17:38,348 he would sacrifice me to a pagan god he worships named Moloch. 336 00:17:38,381 --> 00:17:42,152 But to your point, he has been meeting with an Army general 337 00:17:42,185 --> 00:17:43,619 in his study recently, 338 00:17:43,652 --> 00:17:47,223 and I did overhear him and my mother last night 339 00:17:47,257 --> 00:17:49,858 speaking what I believe was Russian. 340 00:17:49,893 --> 00:17:52,661 Holy moly! 341 00:17:52,695 --> 00:17:54,730 Do you think you can get in there and play gumshoe? 342 00:17:54,763 --> 00:17:56,299 Just poke around, snoop a little, 343 00:17:56,333 --> 00:17:58,034 see if you find anything incriminating? 344 00:18:26,029 --> 00:18:30,300 I am very pleased to announce that since all of you passed 345 00:18:30,333 --> 00:18:31,734 both the written and practical portions 346 00:18:31,767 --> 00:18:34,270 of your driver's education exam, 347 00:18:34,304 --> 00:18:35,704 we will all be taking a field trip 348 00:18:35,738 --> 00:18:38,574 to the Riverdale Department of Motor Vehicles 349 00:18:38,607 --> 00:18:40,377 at the end of the week. 350 00:18:41,444 --> 00:18:44,580 But girls, this is very important. 351 00:18:44,613 --> 00:18:46,749 In order to obtain your legal license, 352 00:18:46,782 --> 00:18:50,253 you must bring a copy of your birth certificate with you. 353 00:18:50,286 --> 00:18:51,421 The DMV needs to make sure 354 00:18:51,454 --> 00:18:53,490 that none of you are Russian spies. 355 00:19:03,967 --> 00:19:06,535 I was wondering why the light was on out here. 356 00:19:07,303 --> 00:19:08,704 Let me guess, 357 00:19:08,737 --> 00:19:10,507 this is for the Merchant Marines. 358 00:19:10,539 --> 00:19:12,108 Well, the recruiter said 359 00:19:12,142 --> 00:19:15,611 everyone rows at least an hour a day when they're out at sea 360 00:19:15,644 --> 00:19:19,315 to stay in shape, so... I'm just getting a head start. 361 00:19:20,483 --> 00:19:22,052 Listen, about that... 362 00:19:22,919 --> 00:19:24,387 Can we talk? 363 00:19:24,421 --> 00:19:25,687 Man-to-man for a minute. 364 00:19:28,491 --> 00:19:29,825 I know I'm not your father. 365 00:19:31,194 --> 00:19:32,328 But just so you know, 366 00:19:33,396 --> 00:19:34,531 I want what's best for you, Archie, 367 00:19:34,563 --> 00:19:36,166 just the same as he would want. 368 00:19:41,404 --> 00:19:42,604 What is that? 369 00:19:43,639 --> 00:19:45,375 Your old man's dog tags. 370 00:19:45,408 --> 00:19:47,143 I know he'd want you to have them, 371 00:19:47,177 --> 00:19:50,579 just like I'll bet he'd want you to quit this Merchant Marines business, 372 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:55,218 join the Army, enlist, just like he did. 373 00:19:57,554 --> 00:19:58,754 Oh, you didn't know? 374 00:20:00,457 --> 00:20:02,591 Your father wasn't drafted, Archie. 375 00:20:02,624 --> 00:20:04,260 He volunteered for the Army 376 00:20:04,294 --> 00:20:08,998 because he knew what being a real man and a good American meant. 377 00:20:09,032 --> 00:20:12,601 He believed there was no greater duty than serving this country 378 00:20:12,634 --> 00:20:15,572 and fighting for democracy and freedom. 379 00:20:15,604 --> 00:20:17,773 And you wanna be like your father, don't you? 380 00:20:20,642 --> 00:20:21,710 Well, yeah, I... 381 00:20:21,743 --> 00:20:23,446 try to be like him every day. 382 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,815 Well, then drop this poetry nonsense and join the Army. 383 00:20:26,849 --> 00:20:29,486 Become the kind of man he'd be proud of. 384 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:31,720 The man I know is inside you, 385 00:20:32,222 --> 00:20:33,356 fighting to get out. 386 00:20:34,924 --> 00:20:37,160 And the best part about joining the Army... 387 00:20:38,895 --> 00:20:40,964 you don't have to wait until graduation. 388 00:21:07,590 --> 00:21:09,858 Let's see what you're hiding, Daddy. 389 00:21:46,963 --> 00:21:47,964 A draft? 390 00:22:40,650 --> 00:22:42,418 Good morning, honey. 391 00:22:42,452 --> 00:22:43,819 One waffle or two? 392 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:45,054 Uh... 393 00:22:46,289 --> 00:22:47,423 Are those your dad's... 394 00:22:48,358 --> 00:22:50,226 Dog tags. Yeah. 395 00:22:50,927 --> 00:22:52,895 Uncle Frank gave 'em to me. 396 00:22:52,929 --> 00:22:54,830 Well, why would he have done that? 397 00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:58,334 Oh, I think I know. 398 00:22:59,502 --> 00:23:02,171 But maybe you should sit down so we can talk about it. 399 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,849 Betty, can we talk for a second? 400 00:23:14,350 --> 00:23:15,251 Sure. 401 00:23:16,519 --> 00:23:18,688 Are things not hunky-dory? 402 00:23:18,721 --> 00:23:21,857 No, there is a problem, um... 403 00:23:21,891 --> 00:23:24,193 I don't have my birth certificate. 404 00:23:24,661 --> 00:23:26,062 It's at my house. 405 00:23:27,463 --> 00:23:29,098 Where my parents... 406 00:23:29,132 --> 00:23:31,301 Don't worry about it. I'll grab it for you. 407 00:23:31,334 --> 00:23:32,735 Really, Betty? 408 00:23:32,769 --> 00:23:34,704 Sure. Yeah. I'll book it there after school 409 00:23:34,737 --> 00:23:36,572 before we go to the DMV. 410 00:23:36,606 --> 00:23:37,839 Do you have any idea 411 00:23:37,873 --> 00:23:39,642 where your birth certificate would be? 412 00:23:39,676 --> 00:23:41,044 My mom had a crafting desk 413 00:23:41,077 --> 00:23:43,812 where she kept important papers and things. 414 00:23:43,845 --> 00:23:45,114 I bet you it's in there. 415 00:23:56,793 --> 00:23:58,161 Did you find something? 416 00:23:58,194 --> 00:24:00,763 Did I ever? You were right on the beam, Jughead. 417 00:24:00,797 --> 00:24:02,198 -About what part? -Everything. 418 00:24:02,231 --> 00:24:03,865 Last night whilst snooping through Daddy's study, 419 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:05,501 I stumbled upon a secret panel 420 00:24:05,535 --> 00:24:07,070 and found a bunch of these... 421 00:24:10,973 --> 00:24:12,675 and matching uniforms to boot! 422 00:24:12,709 --> 00:24:15,144 Holy Toledo! 423 00:24:16,179 --> 00:24:19,182 That milkman must've been working for your father. 424 00:24:19,716 --> 00:24:21,883 Doing his bidding? 425 00:24:21,918 --> 00:24:23,653 Cheryl, are you in danger? 426 00:24:23,686 --> 00:24:25,054 No more than usual. 427 00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:26,689 I also went to the mines last night 428 00:24:26,723 --> 00:24:27,824 and you were right about those too. 429 00:24:27,856 --> 00:24:29,625 They are palladium mines... 430 00:24:30,526 --> 00:24:33,296 Very much not abandoned. 431 00:24:33,329 --> 00:24:35,864 Meet me on the Thornhill grounds tonight after dark 432 00:24:35,898 --> 00:24:38,034 and bring your camera, and pray an atomic disaster 433 00:24:38,067 --> 00:24:39,602 doesn't befall us all before then. 434 00:25:39,829 --> 00:25:41,330 What? Wha-- 435 00:25:45,903 --> 00:25:48,538 What was my dad paying the Muggs' for? 436 00:26:02,718 --> 00:26:04,220 So Frank, Archie told me 437 00:26:04,253 --> 00:26:06,989 about your little talk in the garage last night. 438 00:26:08,858 --> 00:26:10,359 Did he now? 439 00:26:10,393 --> 00:26:12,795 - And what did he say? - A few things. 440 00:26:12,829 --> 00:26:13,897 But it sounded to me 441 00:26:13,931 --> 00:26:16,365 like you used his father, your brother, 442 00:26:16,399 --> 00:26:19,669 to try to manipulate my son into joining the Army. 443 00:26:20,470 --> 00:26:21,404 How dare you, Frank? 444 00:26:21,437 --> 00:26:24,073 Especially when you yourself never served. 445 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:28,912 The Army is the best place for him, Mary. 446 00:26:28,946 --> 00:26:29,812 It'll set him straight. 447 00:26:29,846 --> 00:26:31,314 Let's not mince words, Frank. 448 00:26:31,347 --> 00:26:33,316 We all know what this is really about. 449 00:26:33,349 --> 00:26:36,652 It's about you not wanting Archie to write poetry. 450 00:26:36,686 --> 00:26:38,688 He's on the road to ruin. 451 00:26:38,721 --> 00:26:40,958 He's... Well, he's lost. 452 00:26:40,990 --> 00:26:43,961 He's not lost. He's 17. 453 00:26:43,993 --> 00:26:45,595 He's got his whole life ahead of him. 454 00:26:45,628 --> 00:26:48,631 Whether that's joining the Merchant Marines, or the Army, 455 00:26:48,664 --> 00:26:52,001 or going to college to study literature and poetry, 456 00:26:52,034 --> 00:26:53,669 after he finishes high school. 457 00:26:53,703 --> 00:26:57,673 But he'll be the one who decides his path, not his bullying uncle. 458 00:26:59,943 --> 00:27:02,612 I can't have you here anymore, Frank. 459 00:27:02,645 --> 00:27:04,046 It's time for you to move out. 460 00:27:05,047 --> 00:27:07,250 Mary, you called me here to help. 461 00:27:07,283 --> 00:27:08,885 And now she's telling you to hit the road. 462 00:27:08,919 --> 00:27:11,821 And who's gonna be the man of the house when I'm gone? 463 00:27:11,854 --> 00:27:14,958 - I am. - Not that I need one. 464 00:27:14,992 --> 00:27:17,426 I am the woman of this house, after all. 465 00:27:17,460 --> 00:27:20,263 I'm the one who pays the mortgage around here. 466 00:27:20,296 --> 00:27:23,934 Well, I suppose I could shack up with my old pal Tom Keller. 467 00:27:23,967 --> 00:27:27,670 I hear he's been handed a similar set of marching orders recently. 468 00:27:27,703 --> 00:27:28,804 Wonderful. 469 00:27:28,838 --> 00:27:30,740 That works out for everyone then. 470 00:27:41,083 --> 00:27:42,752 Betty. How you doing, kiddo? 471 00:27:42,785 --> 00:27:46,924 Why were you two writing checks once a month, 472 00:27:46,957 --> 00:27:49,292 year after year, to the Muggs'? 473 00:27:53,129 --> 00:27:57,133 Because, Betty, Mrs. Muggs was our housekeeper. 474 00:27:57,166 --> 00:28:00,904 Those must have been payments for those services. 475 00:28:00,938 --> 00:28:02,705 That doesn't make any sense. 476 00:28:02,738 --> 00:28:05,008 Some of these checks are from two years ago. 477 00:28:05,042 --> 00:28:07,443 If Mrs. Muggs were ever our housekeeper, 478 00:28:07,476 --> 00:28:10,846 she hadn't been for as long as I can remember. 479 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,317 Oh, and... and what's the story behind this photo? 480 00:28:16,118 --> 00:28:17,988 Who's that baby? 481 00:28:18,021 --> 00:28:20,523 Because it's not me and it's not Polly. 482 00:28:21,123 --> 00:28:22,658 That's Ethel. 483 00:28:22,692 --> 00:28:28,464 Why did the Muggs' have a photo of you holding Ethel as a baby? 484 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:32,035 Because the Muggs' asked 485 00:28:32,069 --> 00:28:34,570 if I would be Ethel's godfather. 486 00:28:35,005 --> 00:28:36,272 And I agreed. 487 00:28:36,305 --> 00:28:38,274 So why haven't I heard about this? 488 00:28:38,909 --> 00:28:39,910 Why hasn't anyone? 489 00:28:39,943 --> 00:28:41,544 I don't know... 490 00:28:42,045 --> 00:28:43,646 Stop, Hal. 491 00:28:44,982 --> 00:28:46,515 Just stop. 492 00:28:48,018 --> 00:28:49,251 It's over. 493 00:28:50,087 --> 00:28:51,387 Can't you see that? 494 00:28:54,958 --> 00:28:58,227 You're Ethel's father, aren't you? 495 00:28:59,261 --> 00:29:02,198 Why don't you go for a walk, dear? Hmm? 496 00:29:03,165 --> 00:29:05,701 So that Betty and I can have a little chat. 497 00:29:13,175 --> 00:29:16,113 Mildred Muggs did clean our house 498 00:29:16,145 --> 00:29:19,548 before you were born. That part is true. 499 00:29:19,582 --> 00:29:23,486 And at some point, she and your father started having an affair. 500 00:29:24,887 --> 00:29:27,024 And I suspected it for a long time, 501 00:29:27,057 --> 00:29:29,092 but it was finally confirmed when... 502 00:29:29,126 --> 00:29:31,028 Mrs. Muggs got pregnant. 503 00:29:31,061 --> 00:29:34,031 Your father admitted everything. 504 00:29:34,064 --> 00:29:36,198 He was crying, 505 00:29:36,232 --> 00:29:39,069 apologizing. He didn't know what to do. 506 00:29:39,102 --> 00:29:42,438 I mean, if any whiff of the scandal got out, 507 00:29:42,939 --> 00:29:44,840 the consequences, 508 00:29:44,874 --> 00:29:49,245 for the station, for... for us, for our family... 509 00:29:49,278 --> 00:29:51,180 So you stayed with him? 510 00:29:51,213 --> 00:29:53,083 I had no other choice. 511 00:29:53,116 --> 00:29:54,850 Yes, I stayed. 512 00:29:54,884 --> 00:29:56,318 But I... I handled it. 513 00:29:57,186 --> 00:29:58,454 I made a deal with the Muggs' 514 00:29:58,487 --> 00:30:01,892 that if they agreed to raise the baby as their own 515 00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,093 and keep our secret 516 00:30:03,126 --> 00:30:06,163 that we would financially support the child 517 00:30:06,195 --> 00:30:08,165 until she turned 16. 518 00:30:08,197 --> 00:30:12,835 Support... Ethel, my sister? 519 00:30:12,868 --> 00:30:13,904 Your half-sister. 520 00:30:15,237 --> 00:30:19,475 This is why you "adopted" Ethel. 521 00:30:21,912 --> 00:30:25,548 This is why you've been the way that you've been... 522 00:30:26,615 --> 00:30:27,650 with me. 523 00:30:30,219 --> 00:30:32,621 Wanting Kevin to pin me over Archie. 524 00:30:33,990 --> 00:30:37,326 Why you were scared of me reading Dr. Kingsley's book. 525 00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:43,599 You were afraid of something like what happened to you happening to me? 526 00:30:45,102 --> 00:30:47,403 I just wanted to give you 527 00:30:48,071 --> 00:30:50,840 a good, happy life. 528 00:30:51,741 --> 00:30:52,742 Unburdened. 529 00:30:53,809 --> 00:30:55,878 Safe, free of shame. 530 00:30:55,912 --> 00:31:01,918 You've been obsessed with presenting as the perfect family 531 00:31:01,952 --> 00:31:03,285 when all along... 532 00:31:05,922 --> 00:31:07,656 this is what's been wrong. 533 00:31:07,690 --> 00:31:11,027 This... secret. 534 00:31:11,061 --> 00:31:13,262 This... shame, 535 00:31:13,295 --> 00:31:15,331 not what I've been doing. 536 00:31:16,233 --> 00:31:17,833 Or what Polly did. 537 00:31:20,137 --> 00:31:21,637 It was Dad's affair... 538 00:31:24,174 --> 00:31:26,076 and your decision to stay with him 539 00:31:26,109 --> 00:31:28,410 and pretend that everything was fine. 540 00:31:29,146 --> 00:31:31,347 And for all my efforts, 541 00:31:33,049 --> 00:31:34,450 I failed you. 542 00:31:37,353 --> 00:31:39,522 As a mother... 543 00:31:40,356 --> 00:31:42,825 I failed you, and I'm sorry. 544 00:31:47,696 --> 00:31:48,697 You didn't. 545 00:31:51,201 --> 00:31:53,069 You did the best that you could. 546 00:31:56,305 --> 00:31:58,474 You did what you thought was right. 547 00:32:01,945 --> 00:32:02,946 But now... 548 00:32:05,514 --> 00:32:07,616 we need to get Dad back here, 549 00:32:09,351 --> 00:32:12,888 and we need to tell Ethel everything. 550 00:32:50,526 --> 00:32:53,230 What you say is here is really here? 551 00:32:53,263 --> 00:32:54,830 It is. You will see for yourself. 552 00:32:54,864 --> 00:32:56,599 Well, wouldn't there be more guards? 553 00:32:56,632 --> 00:33:00,237 I imagine my father is trying to avoid undue attention. 554 00:33:00,270 --> 00:33:02,538 That's a good point. 555 00:33:02,571 --> 00:33:04,341 And as Cheryl and I were on the cusp 556 00:33:04,373 --> 00:33:06,343 of uncovering one explosive truth, 557 00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:08,510 Ethel was experiencing emotional shock waves 558 00:33:08,544 --> 00:33:11,014 after learning the truth about her life. 559 00:33:11,047 --> 00:33:12,381 It explains things. 560 00:33:14,416 --> 00:33:16,452 Why my parents were so sad, 561 00:33:16,485 --> 00:33:18,121 why they fought all the time. 562 00:33:20,957 --> 00:33:22,025 Why I always felt... 563 00:33:23,525 --> 00:33:26,395 I don't know, like it was somehow my fault. 564 00:33:26,428 --> 00:33:28,597 Oh, it was never your fault, Ethel. 565 00:33:29,933 --> 00:33:30,934 Ethel... 566 00:33:32,269 --> 00:33:36,172 Mrs. Cooper and I, were discussing and... 567 00:33:37,307 --> 00:33:39,042 Well, we'd like to... 568 00:33:39,075 --> 00:33:40,643 We'd like to make things right. 569 00:33:42,012 --> 00:33:44,413 And formally adopt you. 570 00:33:44,446 --> 00:33:47,483 Show you that we could be a... a true family. 571 00:33:52,389 --> 00:33:54,690 I appreciate that. 572 00:33:54,723 --> 00:33:58,794 Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, it's kind of you to offer. 573 00:34:00,763 --> 00:34:02,933 But I don't think that's what I want. 574 00:34:04,901 --> 00:34:05,902 What do you want? 575 00:34:07,404 --> 00:34:08,604 To be happy. 576 00:34:11,308 --> 00:34:12,976 To move on with my life. 577 00:34:15,111 --> 00:34:16,112 To start over. 578 00:34:23,386 --> 00:34:25,454 Well, you enjoy my room. 579 00:34:25,487 --> 00:34:27,090 Don't get into too much trouble. 580 00:34:27,123 --> 00:34:28,325 I won't. 581 00:34:28,358 --> 00:34:30,659 And, uh, I'll see you at practice, Coach. 582 00:34:33,229 --> 00:34:38,234 Mary, I don't know how I'm going to survive without your chicken pot pie. 583 00:34:38,268 --> 00:34:39,635 Oh, come on, Frank. 584 00:34:39,668 --> 00:34:42,038 You know you'll always be welcome at Sunday dinner. 585 00:34:47,277 --> 00:34:48,777 In that case, I will see you Sunday. 586 00:34:50,914 --> 00:34:51,680 You... 587 00:34:51,714 --> 00:34:52,983 So you're the man of the house now. 588 00:34:53,016 --> 00:34:55,484 I hope you're up for the task 589 00:34:55,517 --> 00:34:59,488 and, uh, I hope you don't hold anything against me. 590 00:35:01,424 --> 00:35:02,926 Of course not, Uncle Frank. 591 00:35:04,526 --> 00:35:06,495 But just to be clear, 592 00:35:06,528 --> 00:35:09,598 writing poetry doesn't make you any less of a man. 593 00:35:09,631 --> 00:35:11,401 Some of the most beautiful poems I've ever read 594 00:35:11,434 --> 00:35:13,203 were written by soldiers in trenches, 595 00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:15,939 covered in mud and the blood of their brothers. 596 00:35:17,374 --> 00:35:18,908 Well, maybe that's my path. 597 00:35:21,478 --> 00:35:23,480 Well, maybe not. 598 00:35:23,512 --> 00:35:25,048 Guess we'll have to wait and see. 599 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:46,036 We have to show these photos to Sheriff Keller. 600 00:35:46,069 --> 00:35:48,604 Maybe, maybe not. 601 00:35:48,637 --> 00:35:50,440 For all we know, Sheriff Keller is in on it. 602 00:35:50,473 --> 00:35:52,075 Kevin's father? 603 00:35:52,108 --> 00:35:54,676 No, he's just a dimwitted small-town sheriff that's in over his head. 604 00:35:54,710 --> 00:35:58,314 Well, still, now that we have hard proof, it's better to be careful. 605 00:35:58,348 --> 00:35:59,648 Veronica has some contacts in the FBI 606 00:35:59,681 --> 00:36:01,051 from when they investigated her father. 607 00:36:01,084 --> 00:36:02,618 I'll reach out to her and see if she can get me 608 00:36:02,651 --> 00:36:03,685 the names of some of those agents. 609 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,788 Good thinking, Sherlock Jones. 610 00:36:05,821 --> 00:36:10,160 By the way, are you and Veronica officially an item now? 611 00:36:12,529 --> 00:36:13,530 Shucks, I don't know. 612 00:36:13,562 --> 00:36:16,366 Talk about being in over your crown. 613 00:36:16,399 --> 00:36:18,968 -Oh, I'm holding my own. -Mm-hmm. 614 00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,147 I'll get it. 615 00:36:34,451 --> 00:36:36,553 Gentlemen, you're right on time. 616 00:36:36,585 --> 00:36:38,154 They're having breakfast in the grand hall. 617 00:36:42,791 --> 00:36:46,829 Clifford Marion Blossom, Penelope Pavlina Novikov Blossom, 618 00:36:46,862 --> 00:36:48,331 you're under arrest for treason, 619 00:36:48,364 --> 00:36:51,334 conspiracy and advocating for the violent overthrow 620 00:36:51,367 --> 00:36:52,936 of the American government. 621 00:36:52,969 --> 00:36:56,139 The FBI is shutting down your so-called Project Moloch. 622 00:37:01,743 --> 00:37:03,513 You did a bad thing, Daddy. 623 00:37:03,546 --> 00:37:05,647 Over the coming days, the world would learn 624 00:37:05,681 --> 00:37:07,484 about the American capitalist 625 00:37:07,517 --> 00:37:09,718 seduced by the Soviet sleeper agent. 626 00:37:12,621 --> 00:37:14,690 Operation Project Moloch 627 00:37:14,723 --> 00:37:17,293 was to have been the next leg of the arms race, 628 00:37:17,327 --> 00:37:21,164 from the A-bomb to the H-bomb to the P-bomb, 629 00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:22,966 the palladium bomb. 630 00:37:22,999 --> 00:37:25,902 The US believed Clifford Blossom was developing it for them, 631 00:37:25,935 --> 00:37:27,669 when, in fact, his plan had been 632 00:37:27,703 --> 00:37:29,506 to develop the P-bomb in Riverdale 633 00:37:29,539 --> 00:37:31,640 and deliver it to Mother Russia. 634 00:37:31,673 --> 00:37:33,543 The FBI and the US Army were credited 635 00:37:33,576 --> 00:37:35,545 with foiling the plot against America, 636 00:37:35,578 --> 00:37:37,679 which is fine by me, because I was busy 637 00:37:37,713 --> 00:37:39,648 putting the rest of the pieces together. 638 00:37:39,681 --> 00:37:42,919 Mr. Rayberry must have glimpsed just enough during his job 639 00:37:42,952 --> 00:37:45,787 at the Blossom factory to grow concerned. 640 00:37:45,821 --> 00:37:47,756 He warned us, as he always did, 641 00:37:47,789 --> 00:37:49,993 with his brilliant, terrifying stories. 642 00:37:50,026 --> 00:37:52,028 He might have continued flying under the radar, 643 00:37:52,061 --> 00:37:54,364 but then he started agitating at Riverdale High 644 00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:57,799 invoking the Supreme Court, spooking the powers that be, 645 00:37:57,833 --> 00:38:00,570 prompting Mayor Blossom to have his hit man, 646 00:38:00,603 --> 00:38:02,704 aka the milkman, kill him. 647 00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:07,277 Ethel's folks also paid the ultimate price. 648 00:38:07,310 --> 00:38:09,579 Mr. Muggs had discovered that the Blossoms were sitting 649 00:38:09,612 --> 00:38:11,581 on a stockpile of palladium. 650 00:38:11,614 --> 00:38:13,249 That made him a threat. 651 00:38:13,283 --> 00:38:15,952 One that, for whatever reason, needed to be eliminated. 652 00:38:15,985 --> 00:38:18,121 Ethel didn't care so much about the details. 653 00:38:18,154 --> 00:38:20,590 But now that she knew the complete truth of her life, 654 00:38:20,623 --> 00:38:22,325 she was ready, she said, 655 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,395 to finally start to hope again 656 00:38:25,428 --> 00:38:26,462 for a better tomorrow. 657 00:38:27,729 --> 00:38:30,200 Hey, love bug, you ready to peel out? 658 00:38:34,370 --> 00:38:38,074 ♪ The clock is smiling Like a long-lost prayer ♪ 659 00:38:38,107 --> 00:38:42,711 ♪ Another minute And the class will end... ♪ 660 00:38:44,780 --> 00:38:46,983 Are you sure about this, Ethel? 661 00:38:48,551 --> 00:38:49,818 Moving to Hollywood? 662 00:38:49,851 --> 00:38:51,688 Don't you worry, Mrs. Cooper. 663 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:53,822 I called ahead to my friend Peter Roth. 664 00:38:53,855 --> 00:38:56,526 He saw some of Ethel's artwork and got her a job 665 00:38:56,559 --> 00:38:58,428 as a storyboard artist on the lot. 666 00:38:58,461 --> 00:38:59,662 And I've already arranged for Ethel 667 00:38:59,696 --> 00:39:00,997 to live with one of my girlfriends 668 00:39:01,030 --> 00:39:03,466 at the most glamorous of buildings, 669 00:39:03,499 --> 00:39:04,601 the El Royale. 670 00:39:04,634 --> 00:39:05,867 Thanks again, Veronica. 671 00:39:06,369 --> 00:39:07,370 My pleasure. 672 00:39:08,705 --> 00:39:09,939 Give 'em hell, Ethel. 673 00:39:13,076 --> 00:39:15,578 Don't forget to send us your address once you're settled, 674 00:39:15,612 --> 00:39:17,180 so I can come visit you this summer. 675 00:39:17,213 --> 00:39:18,214 I won't forget. 676 00:39:20,816 --> 00:39:22,352 Thank you for everything, Betty. 677 00:39:23,620 --> 00:39:25,021 Of course. 678 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:38,767 I'll miss you. 679 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,304 You always were the best partner in crime. 680 00:39:42,305 --> 00:39:43,406 Thanks, Jughead. 681 00:39:45,408 --> 00:39:46,409 Don't be too sad. 682 00:39:47,644 --> 00:39:49,445 We'll always have Pep Comics. 683 00:39:49,479 --> 00:39:51,147 Well, hopefully. We'll see. 684 00:39:55,451 --> 00:39:57,886 You're going to be just fine. 685 00:39:58,488 --> 00:40:00,690 I truly feel that. 686 00:40:00,723 --> 00:40:02,125 I hope so, Mrs. Cooper. 687 00:40:21,477 --> 00:40:24,414 Ethel was the first of us to go, 688 00:40:24,447 --> 00:40:25,814 to leave Riverdale behind. 689 00:40:26,716 --> 00:40:28,284 There would be others soon. 690 00:40:29,185 --> 00:40:31,587 All the pieces were falling into place. 691 00:40:32,722 --> 00:40:34,691 Project Moloch had failed, 692 00:40:34,724 --> 00:40:36,225 and it was just about time to find out 693 00:40:36,259 --> 00:40:38,428 if our little town would be avoiding 694 00:40:38,461 --> 00:40:40,330 an even greater cataclysm. 695 00:40:42,665 --> 00:40:47,236 ♪ Nothing can stop me ♪ 696 00:40:48,705 --> 00:40:52,241 ♪ Now ♪