1 00:00:02,611 --> 00:00:05,005 [Jughead] The weirdest thing about pretending to be dead is that after a while, 2 00:00:05,048 --> 00:00:07,485 you actually start feeling like you're dead. 3 00:00:07,529 --> 00:00:10,010 As in, "dead as a doornail" dead. 4 00:00:11,054 --> 00:00:13,839 [microwave beeps] 5 00:00:13,883 --> 00:00:17,017 For starters, I was underground, as if in a tomb. 6 00:00:17,060 --> 00:00:19,845 Granted, I was hiding out in Dilton's doomsday bunker 7 00:00:19,889 --> 00:00:21,630 and not in a coffin, but still. 8 00:00:23,110 --> 00:00:25,416 Two weeks, no sunlight, 9 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:28,463 with no sense of time or its passing? 10 00:00:28,506 --> 00:00:30,204 It's gotta be what limbo feels like, right? 11 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:34,643 Other similarities to being dead. 12 00:00:34,686 --> 00:00:38,690 Not one, but two obituaries about me ran. 13 00:00:38,734 --> 00:00:42,259 A rather perfunctory one inThe Riverdale Register. 14 00:00:42,303 --> 00:00:45,045 A second, more irreverent one in theBlue and Gold. 15 00:00:46,176 --> 00:00:47,569 I liked that one. 16 00:00:49,484 --> 00:00:51,877 I had a funeral. Well, a wake. 17 00:00:53,401 --> 00:00:55,881 I watched it on my laptop. 18 00:00:55,925 --> 00:00:58,928 Live-streamed from a camera Betty had set up in the living room. 19 00:01:04,281 --> 00:01:07,067 Betty and I suspected that the Stonies would show up, 20 00:01:07,110 --> 00:01:09,069 and, sure enough, they did. 21 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:11,549 We wanted to study them 22 00:01:11,593 --> 00:01:14,639 to see if anything they did was suspicious. 23 00:01:14,683 --> 00:01:16,859 Not that there was any doubt in our mind about their guilt. 24 00:01:16,902 --> 00:01:19,079 The Preppies had stone-cold murdered me 25 00:01:19,122 --> 00:01:20,689 and were trying to pin it on Betty. 26 00:01:21,646 --> 00:01:23,213 We just couldn't prove it. 27 00:01:23,822 --> 00:01:24,954 Not yet. 28 00:01:25,824 --> 00:01:27,826 Meanwhile... 29 00:01:27,870 --> 00:01:30,220 The hardest part of playing dead was letting everyone believe 30 00:01:30,264 --> 00:01:32,440 I was in the semi-sweet hereafter. 31 00:01:33,354 --> 00:01:34,920 Our family, our friends. 32 00:01:36,270 --> 00:01:38,185 The lies we had to tell. 33 00:01:38,228 --> 00:01:41,013 The things we had to do to sell that illusion. 34 00:01:41,057 --> 00:01:43,712 Like pretending that my bereft girlfriend had found comfort 35 00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:47,324 in the strong, steely arms of my best bud. 36 00:01:47,368 --> 00:01:51,023 Which turned out to be the greatest misdirect of them all. 37 00:01:51,067 --> 00:01:53,591 Of course, we needed to let some people know the truth. 38 00:01:54,462 --> 00:01:56,377 Except in one case. 39 00:01:56,420 --> 00:01:57,856 My kid sister Jellybean? 40 00:01:58,640 --> 00:01:59,945 Didn't have to be told. 41 00:01:59,989 --> 00:02:03,079 Oh, you found the fake blood. Thanks, Jellybean. 42 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:04,646 Do you need it for Jughead? 43 00:02:05,995 --> 00:02:07,779 What? What do you... What do you mean? 44 00:02:07,823 --> 00:02:09,520 Do you need it to help my brother? 45 00:02:12,610 --> 00:02:15,352 Jellybean, do you know where Jughead is? 46 00:02:15,396 --> 00:02:18,094 I heard you whispering on the phone to Charles last night. 47 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:20,052 The walls are super thin. 48 00:02:20,096 --> 00:02:21,750 You don't have to tell me where he is, 49 00:02:21,793 --> 00:02:22,925 just that he's okay. 50 00:02:23,969 --> 00:02:25,580 Is he? Okay? 51 00:02:28,322 --> 00:02:29,671 Can you keep a secret? 52 00:02:29,714 --> 00:02:31,412 [knocking on door] 53 00:02:31,455 --> 00:02:32,630 [Jughead] We brought my dad into it pretty quick too. 54 00:02:32,674 --> 00:02:34,023 Betty. 55 00:02:34,502 --> 00:02:36,330 I, uh... 56 00:02:36,373 --> 00:02:38,158 I gave that bloody rock to Charles, 57 00:02:38,201 --> 00:02:40,508 he said the FBI is gonna have it tested. 58 00:02:40,551 --> 00:02:42,814 And when they do, they will tell you that it's covered 59 00:02:42,858 --> 00:02:44,947 in fake blood that you can buy at a drugstore. 60 00:02:44,990 --> 00:02:47,297 [scoffs] The hell are you talking about? 61 00:02:47,341 --> 00:02:48,951 I don't want you to worry anymore. 62 00:02:48,994 --> 00:02:51,432 Mr. Jones, I'm really sorry that you've been worrying. 63 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:54,696 Jughead's fine. 64 00:02:54,739 --> 00:02:56,741 He's... Okay, he's not fine, but he's okay. 65 00:02:56,785 --> 00:02:59,440 Hold on, you know where Jughead is? 66 00:02:59,483 --> 00:03:01,050 -Yes. -[sighs heavily] 67 00:03:03,879 --> 00:03:05,489 I will tell you everything, okay? 68 00:03:05,533 --> 00:03:07,752 But we really, really need your help, please. 69 00:03:07,796 --> 00:03:10,059 I'm afraid to ask, but what kind of help? 70 00:03:11,756 --> 00:03:13,062 For starters, 71 00:03:14,281 --> 00:03:16,805 a search party. 72 00:03:16,848 --> 00:03:19,155 [Jughead] Archie went rogue and told his mom too. 73 00:03:28,338 --> 00:03:30,210 Mom, I have to confess something to you. 74 00:03:31,994 --> 00:03:34,779 [Jughead] And then there was Veronica's sister, Hermosa, 75 00:03:34,823 --> 00:03:36,520 who was sniffing around, looking for bones. 76 00:03:36,564 --> 00:03:39,001 All right. What do you wanna know? 77 00:03:39,044 --> 00:03:42,526 Let me ask you straight up, hermanita. 78 00:03:44,702 --> 00:03:47,270 Did you help Betty kill her boyfriend? 79 00:03:47,314 --> 00:03:50,099 What? No, why would I do that? 80 00:03:50,142 --> 00:03:52,971 Because that's the kind of thing that secret girlfriends do. 81 00:03:53,015 --> 00:03:55,539 They kill each other's boyfriends so they can be together. 82 00:03:55,583 --> 00:03:59,369 [scoffs] Okay, I don't know what kind of crypto-lesbian 83 00:03:59,413 --> 00:04:02,372 pulp fiction you're conjuring, Hermosa, but Betty and I are just friends. 84 00:04:02,416 --> 00:04:04,766 Well, then, what did happen to that dead Torombolo? 85 00:04:06,376 --> 00:04:08,683 Either you can tell me or I'll just keep digging. 86 00:04:08,726 --> 00:04:11,120 -Don't forget, I'm a licensed-- -Private investigator, right. 87 00:04:14,689 --> 00:04:17,082 Not sure why I didn't think of this before... 88 00:04:18,562 --> 00:04:21,086 but maybe you could help us with something. 89 00:04:21,130 --> 00:04:22,436 Me, Betty, and Archie. 90 00:04:25,613 --> 00:04:28,398 How much do you charge, Hermosa? 91 00:04:28,442 --> 00:04:30,574 And is there a discount for family members? 92 00:04:30,618 --> 00:04:33,403 [Jughead] In the months that followed, people will ask us, 93 00:04:33,447 --> 00:04:35,405 "Did we need to do it?" 94 00:04:35,449 --> 00:04:37,146 Go to such extreme lengths? 95 00:04:38,103 --> 00:04:39,714 Maybe, maybe not. 96 00:04:40,802 --> 00:04:42,282 But this I did know... 97 00:04:45,154 --> 00:04:48,331 If I was going to recover without the Preppies trying to kill me again 98 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:50,768 and figure out how to solve my own murder, 99 00:04:50,812 --> 00:04:54,294 I needed the illusion to be perfect to buy myself time. 100 00:04:58,472 --> 00:05:00,952 So while above me, a world without Jughead 101 00:05:00,996 --> 00:05:03,694 continued spinning forward, 102 00:05:03,738 --> 00:05:07,176 I pored over every scrap of evidence we'd gathered, 103 00:05:07,219 --> 00:05:10,310 went over every detail of my time at Stonewall Prep, 104 00:05:10,353 --> 00:05:14,139 looking for hidden patterns, hints and clues. 105 00:05:14,183 --> 00:05:16,968 But this was a different kind of mystery than the ones we'd tackled before. 106 00:05:17,012 --> 00:05:19,014 This wasn't a "whodunnit." 107 00:05:19,057 --> 00:05:21,364 This was a "whydunnit." 108 00:05:21,408 --> 00:05:23,497 More psychological. 109 00:05:23,540 --> 00:05:26,326 I needed to get under my suspects' skin, inside their heads. 110 00:05:27,979 --> 00:05:29,459 I had to let my intuition take over 111 00:05:29,503 --> 00:05:32,157 to draw these disparate strands together. 112 00:05:32,201 --> 00:05:35,422 The missing Stonewall Four. The "accidental deaths" of DuPont's classmates. 113 00:05:35,465 --> 00:05:38,250 My attempted murder. How were they all connected? 114 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,950 A key piece of information came from Hermosa. 115 00:05:43,038 --> 00:05:44,518 Which was that Donna... 116 00:05:45,867 --> 00:05:46,868 Jug? 117 00:05:49,392 --> 00:05:50,350 Jug? 118 00:05:51,481 --> 00:05:53,527 Are you okay? 119 00:05:53,570 --> 00:05:56,704 Yeah, sorry, I was just going over everything one more time. 120 00:05:56,747 --> 00:05:59,881 -What's up, did they find him? -Yeah, yes. We did. 121 00:05:59,924 --> 00:06:02,362 -Well, I mean, Charles and FP did. -And did he agree? 122 00:06:03,319 --> 00:06:04,625 Completely. 123 00:06:04,668 --> 00:06:06,540 He's showering as we speak. 124 00:06:08,672 --> 00:06:12,197 -So are we doing this or what? -Oh, yeah. 125 00:06:12,241 --> 00:06:14,722 We are gonna blow Stonewall Prep out of the water. 126 00:06:15,766 --> 00:06:16,724 [Betty chuckles] 127 00:06:27,082 --> 00:06:29,171 Crime and Punishment. 128 00:06:29,214 --> 00:06:32,522 A novel of murder and its psychological toll. 129 00:06:33,784 --> 00:06:35,830 The floor is open. 130 00:06:35,873 --> 00:06:39,050 Any thoughts regarding Dostoevsky's take on morality? 131 00:06:43,272 --> 00:06:44,273 Hey, guys. 132 00:06:47,450 --> 00:06:48,930 Well, what, did you even miss me? 133 00:06:48,973 --> 00:06:50,235 You gotta be kidding me. 134 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:51,889 Mr. Jones. 135 00:06:51,933 --> 00:06:54,457 I... I don't understand. We all thought-- 136 00:06:54,501 --> 00:06:56,459 That I was dead? Well... 137 00:06:56,503 --> 00:06:58,505 Yeah, actually for a minute there, I did too. 138 00:06:58,548 --> 00:06:59,723 Yeah. 139 00:06:59,767 --> 00:07:02,030 Hey, what's that oft-used Mark Twain quote? 140 00:07:03,466 --> 00:07:05,425 "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." 141 00:07:05,468 --> 00:07:08,123 What is happening right now? 142 00:07:08,166 --> 00:07:11,039 It is called "getting your comeuppance," Joan. 143 00:07:12,388 --> 00:07:14,434 You guys are reading Crime and Punishment,huh? 144 00:07:16,697 --> 00:07:19,351 How apropos. 145 00:07:22,224 --> 00:07:25,923 You know, the one kind of crime story that we never really touched upon in this seminar 146 00:07:25,967 --> 00:07:29,449 was the time-tested genre of a locked room mystery. 147 00:07:30,972 --> 00:07:33,104 Where all the suspects are sequestered in a room. 148 00:07:33,148 --> 00:07:34,758 One or more of them could be the killer, 149 00:07:34,802 --> 00:07:38,109 but the door is not unlocked until the identity is revealed. 150 00:07:38,153 --> 00:07:39,502 Betty, could you do the honor? 151 00:07:48,163 --> 00:07:50,382 The next bell doesn't ring for half an hour. 152 00:07:50,426 --> 00:07:53,647 So for the next 30 minutes, your asses belong to us. 153 00:07:53,690 --> 00:07:55,083 I knew you weren't really dead. 154 00:07:56,171 --> 00:07:58,521 Good job, Donna. 155 00:07:58,565 --> 00:08:01,132 And yet since you failed to prove it or find Jughead, 156 00:08:01,176 --> 00:08:04,658 we had time to figure out all the twists and turns of this murder-mystery 157 00:08:04,701 --> 00:08:06,964 that we've all been living for the past few months. 158 00:08:07,008 --> 00:08:08,966 I have no idea what you're talking about. 159 00:08:09,010 --> 00:08:11,534 [laughs] Don't worry 'cause I'm gonna take you through it, step by step. 160 00:08:11,578 --> 00:08:14,145 No, this is ridiculous. Mr. DuPont, I'm calling security. 161 00:08:14,189 --> 00:08:16,800 Shut the hell up, Bret. Like I said, for the next 30 minutes, 162 00:08:16,844 --> 00:08:19,063 we're in charge. So, give me your cellphones. 163 00:08:19,107 --> 00:08:21,413 -Why the hell-- -Joan, just do what she says. 164 00:08:23,546 --> 00:08:25,330 We have nothing to hide. 165 00:08:25,374 --> 00:08:27,855 I'd get comfortable if I were you guys 166 00:08:27,898 --> 00:08:30,510 'cause I'm going to take you through it from the very beginning. 167 00:08:30,553 --> 00:08:33,991 Starting with that very curious fact that both Moose Mason and myself 168 00:08:34,035 --> 00:08:36,385 were invited to Stonewall Prep during our senior year. 169 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:40,520 Jughead? 170 00:08:41,085 --> 00:08:42,522 Moose! [gasps] 171 00:08:43,218 --> 00:08:44,872 What the hell? 172 00:08:44,915 --> 00:08:46,787 It's good to see you. 173 00:08:46,830 --> 00:08:49,659 Was it like that when you met my grandfather, Forsythe the First? 174 00:08:49,703 --> 00:08:51,574 He was asked to study at Stonewall too. 175 00:08:51,618 --> 00:08:54,621 You were roommates with him, weren't you, Mr. DuPont? 176 00:08:55,143 --> 00:08:56,536 Yes. 177 00:08:56,579 --> 00:08:58,929 And you're very much like him, Mr. Jones. 178 00:08:58,973 --> 00:09:02,542 Your grandfather was an arrogant fool too. 179 00:09:02,585 --> 00:09:06,371 Why do you say that, huh? 180 00:09:06,415 --> 00:09:09,897 Because he had the gall to consider himself worthy of your little inner circle? 181 00:09:09,940 --> 00:09:12,769 The first iteration of Stonewall's Literary Society. 182 00:09:12,813 --> 00:09:14,989 What exactly is this proving, Mr. Jones? 183 00:09:15,032 --> 00:09:18,209 That this is not a story about a murder. 184 00:09:18,253 --> 00:09:21,604 This is a story about grandparents and their grandchildren. 185 00:09:23,606 --> 00:09:27,175 Of the sins from one generation being passed on to the next. 186 00:09:28,916 --> 00:09:31,396 Cycles of violence. 187 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,007 Which brings me neatly to my next point. 188 00:09:33,529 --> 00:09:34,878 Halloween. 189 00:09:34,922 --> 00:09:37,054 When I was drugged by you psychos. 190 00:09:37,098 --> 00:09:38,316 I think I... 191 00:09:39,274 --> 00:09:41,537 I think I need some air. 192 00:09:41,581 --> 00:09:43,365 -[Jughead exhales heavily] -No. 193 00:09:44,845 --> 00:09:46,107 You need to lie down. 194 00:09:47,587 --> 00:09:49,066 [sighs] 195 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:51,503 Say hello to the Stonewall Four for us. 196 00:09:51,547 --> 00:09:55,333 [Jughead] Only to wake up in a coffin and be let out a day later. 197 00:09:55,377 --> 00:09:56,508 [box creaks] 198 00:09:58,032 --> 00:10:00,643 [gasps] To return to my dorm. 199 00:10:00,687 --> 00:10:03,603 Moose, you are not going to believe what Bret... 200 00:10:03,646 --> 00:10:05,474 And find that Moose had vanished. 201 00:10:07,694 --> 00:10:12,612 So naturally, I assumed he went out the same way as the Stonewall Four, 202 00:10:12,655 --> 00:10:15,484 that group of students that mysteriously vanished 203 00:10:15,527 --> 00:10:17,965 while attending Stonewall Prep over a few decades. 204 00:10:18,008 --> 00:10:19,531 Oh, here we go again. 205 00:10:19,575 --> 00:10:22,404 Now, Moose's fate was more banal. He joined the Army. 206 00:10:22,447 --> 00:10:27,278 But there's a twist! Mr. Chipping was the one who encouraged Moose to enlist. 207 00:10:27,322 --> 00:10:29,977 But it was more like forced him to. 208 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:32,327 He was encouraging me to leave. 209 00:10:32,370 --> 00:10:34,808 Until Halloween night, when it became more than a suggestion. 210 00:10:34,851 --> 00:10:37,245 I mean, he practically shoved me out the door. 211 00:10:37,288 --> 00:10:40,422 So, what was the connection between Moose and Chipping that would make him take his advice? 212 00:10:40,465 --> 00:10:43,730 He recruited me. To play football. 213 00:10:43,773 --> 00:10:46,950 Wait. Mr. Chipping's the reason why you went to Stonewall Prep? 214 00:10:46,994 --> 00:10:50,475 Chipping had recruited Moose the same way he had Jughead 215 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:53,391 and then ran him out of Stonewall Prep. 216 00:10:53,435 --> 00:10:54,871 Meaning what, exactly? 217 00:10:54,915 --> 00:10:57,700 Meaning Chipping knew Moose was going to get murdered 218 00:10:57,744 --> 00:10:59,702 and was trying to save his life. 219 00:10:59,746 --> 00:11:02,139 And I would remember that next point. It's gonna be on the qu-- 220 00:11:02,183 --> 00:11:03,706 -Oh, Mr. J-- -Shut up! 221 00:11:05,708 --> 00:11:08,058 Mr. DuPont, as they say in Lord of the Flies, 222 00:11:09,843 --> 00:11:11,192 I have the conch. 223 00:11:14,543 --> 00:11:18,982 Now, after Halloween is when things got really interesting. 224 00:11:19,026 --> 00:11:21,506 See, that's when you announced the writing competition. 225 00:11:21,550 --> 00:11:24,945 Chipping has written the last four Baxter Brothers books. 226 00:11:24,988 --> 00:11:27,034 It's time he pass on the torch. 227 00:11:27,077 --> 00:11:32,082 And someone in this very room is going to be anointed the next ghostwriter. 228 00:11:32,126 --> 00:11:34,171 You had already taken a shine to me, Mr. DuPont. 229 00:11:34,215 --> 00:11:36,783 You were asking about my father and my grandfather. 230 00:11:36,826 --> 00:11:39,481 Your grandfather was an excellent writer. 231 00:11:40,569 --> 00:11:41,788 Tell me, how's he doing? 232 00:11:41,831 --> 00:11:42,789 Does he still write? 233 00:11:42,832 --> 00:11:45,661 So imagine my surprise... 234 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:49,665 when I found out that my good-for-nothing drop-out grandfather 235 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:53,669 had actually written the original Baxter Brothers novel. 236 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:55,758 Which a young Francis DuPont would then steal from him. 237 00:11:55,802 --> 00:11:58,935 It was a 100% legal transaction. A sale. 238 00:11:58,979 --> 00:12:00,807 [scoffs] It's highway robbery. 239 00:12:00,850 --> 00:12:04,288 A measly five grand for an idea that generated millions of dollars. 240 00:12:04,332 --> 00:12:08,118 You exploited Forsythe, Mr. DuPont. 241 00:12:08,162 --> 00:12:11,078 You took advantage of a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. 242 00:12:11,121 --> 00:12:13,645 And if that secret ever came out, 243 00:12:13,689 --> 00:12:16,692 can you imagine the damage that would do 244 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:19,260 to the very valuable Baxter Brothers brand? 245 00:12:19,303 --> 00:12:22,089 [exhales] Hell. 246 00:12:22,132 --> 00:12:25,396 Someone might kill to keep that secret. 247 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,617 Which is exactly what we thought happened with Mr. Chipping. 248 00:12:28,660 --> 00:12:31,011 I told Chipping about my gramps. 249 00:12:31,054 --> 00:12:32,752 And then he talked to you, Mr. DuPont. 250 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:34,666 And the next day, well... 251 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:40,890 I think we all remember his dive out the window. 252 00:12:42,587 --> 00:12:43,980 I thought you had urged him to do it. 253 00:12:44,024 --> 00:12:46,026 I thought you had some leverage over Chipping. 254 00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:48,419 I mean, you guys were all part of the same secret society, Quill and Skull. 255 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:50,944 But it was actually you guys. 256 00:12:52,336 --> 00:12:55,078 It was your blank expressions 257 00:12:55,122 --> 00:12:56,601 as you watched him jump. 258 00:12:56,645 --> 00:12:58,212 Call an ambulance! 259 00:13:01,911 --> 00:13:03,130 I just couldn't shake it. 260 00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:07,961 That's when I knew there was a deeper game afoot. 261 00:13:08,004 --> 00:13:11,268 No, Chipping suicided 'cause he was messing around with Donna, 262 00:13:11,312 --> 00:13:12,835 she ended it, and he short-circuited. 263 00:13:12,879 --> 00:13:14,750 Except... 264 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:18,754 they never really had a physical relationship. 265 00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:20,669 Isn't that right, Donna? 266 00:13:20,712 --> 00:13:22,627 We had an affair and it got out of hand. 267 00:13:22,671 --> 00:13:24,151 Mmm-hmm. 268 00:13:24,194 --> 00:13:27,023 Yes, an affair that went down exactly 269 00:13:27,067 --> 00:13:30,766 like the affair that you had with Mr. Kotter. 270 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:33,595 -Uh... -Except, I looked into it and... 271 00:13:34,901 --> 00:13:37,599 turns out there is no Mr. Kotter. 272 00:13:37,642 --> 00:13:40,602 -Rupert, Rupert had demons. -Oh, he did. 273 00:13:40,645 --> 00:13:43,213 Mrs. Chipping filled us in on all of those. 274 00:13:44,911 --> 00:13:48,131 Yeah, she said that he had been drinking more. 275 00:13:48,915 --> 00:13:50,481 And having trouble sleeping. 276 00:13:50,525 --> 00:13:52,875 ...complaining about the Baxter Brothersbooks. 277 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:55,138 Wishing he'd never gotten the contract. 278 00:13:56,226 --> 00:13:57,793 So then, we started to ask ourselves, 279 00:13:57,837 --> 00:14:00,448 what would turn the opportunity of a lifetime, 280 00:14:00,491 --> 00:14:03,668 winning the Baxter Brothers contract, into a burden? 281 00:14:03,712 --> 00:14:05,801 An albatross? Any ideas? 282 00:14:07,934 --> 00:14:12,329 Your ghostwriter challenge was to devise the perfect murder. 283 00:14:12,373 --> 00:14:14,288 What if the real challenge, 284 00:14:14,331 --> 00:14:19,119 the real price that someone had to pay was to commit the perfect murder? 285 00:14:19,162 --> 00:14:21,469 In order to prove that you could write it, first you had to do it. 286 00:14:23,079 --> 00:14:26,822 I mean, it kind of makes a twisted, pathological sense, no? 287 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:29,346 And that's what was tormenting Mr. Chipping. 288 00:14:30,260 --> 00:14:31,914 The guilt of what he had done, 289 00:14:31,958 --> 00:14:35,787 the blood that he had shed, in order to win the contract. 290 00:14:35,831 --> 00:14:38,790 Mr. Chipping invited Moose to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim. 291 00:14:38,834 --> 00:14:41,968 To be killed by the next ghostwriter. One of you. 292 00:14:42,011 --> 00:14:45,275 And Moose was the perfect candidate. 293 00:14:45,319 --> 00:14:47,451 I mean, he was a messed-up kid, he had no family, 294 00:14:47,495 --> 00:14:49,236 he couldn't handle the stresses of life. 295 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:53,936 After my dad was arrested for impersonating the Gargoyle King, 296 00:14:53,980 --> 00:14:58,680 it, uh, kinda blew up my life, my family, everything. 297 00:14:58,723 --> 00:15:01,509 I even ended up in a facility for a couple of months. 298 00:15:01,552 --> 00:15:03,598 Chipping ran Moose out of town. 299 00:15:04,468 --> 00:15:06,122 You said it yourself. 300 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:07,602 Good, you remember. 301 00:15:07,645 --> 00:15:09,734 Okay, we think Chipping couldn't go through with it. 302 00:15:09,778 --> 00:15:13,956 And-or, maybe he just wanted to atone for what he had done. 303 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,523 I mean, whatever the reason. 304 00:15:15,566 --> 00:15:17,873 He ran Moose the hell away from Stonewall Prep 305 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:20,267 and then killed himself, it was his only escape. 306 00:15:21,268 --> 00:15:24,053 Pure demented conjecture. 307 00:15:24,097 --> 00:15:27,927 Well, yes and no. Chipping's behavior is hypothesis, but if proven, 308 00:15:27,970 --> 00:15:32,148 it shows a pattern of how the previous ghostwriters won their contract. 309 00:15:32,192 --> 00:15:35,717 Same year, same month as Chipping was awarded his contract, 310 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,327 a Stonewall student disappeared. 311 00:15:37,371 --> 00:15:39,242 One of the so-called Stonewall Four. 312 00:15:42,376 --> 00:15:45,683 We believe this student was murdered by Mr. Chipping. 313 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:53,039 Ryan Allan, the previous ghostwriter, 314 00:15:53,082 --> 00:15:55,171 who took up the mantle the same month 315 00:15:55,215 --> 00:15:57,043 another one of the Stonewall Four disappeared. 316 00:15:58,783 --> 00:16:01,525 The sequence holds true for every ghostwriter who preceded them. 317 00:16:01,569 --> 00:16:04,311 It's... It's actually incredibly simple. 318 00:16:04,354 --> 00:16:08,141 Which brings us to a couple months ago, when I was awarded the contract. 319 00:16:08,663 --> 00:16:09,838 But why? 320 00:16:10,882 --> 00:16:13,102 To put a target on my back. 321 00:16:13,146 --> 00:16:15,583 Probably because I was already circling the truth, 322 00:16:15,626 --> 00:16:18,368 so he gave you guys a new challenge. 323 00:16:18,412 --> 00:16:20,980 To commit the perfect murder, against me, 324 00:16:22,068 --> 00:16:25,158 and be awarded the contract. 325 00:16:25,201 --> 00:16:27,987 [Betty] So, the million dollar question is... 326 00:16:29,162 --> 00:16:33,122 who was going to kill Jughead? And how? 327 00:16:38,301 --> 00:16:40,608 So, which one of you heartless bastards killed me? 328 00:16:44,829 --> 00:16:47,571 It was actually Mr. DuPont that gave me a clue. 329 00:16:47,615 --> 00:16:50,096 When I asked who had re-written my Baxter Brothers novel, 330 00:16:50,139 --> 00:16:52,011 you told me they all had a crack at it. 331 00:16:52,054 --> 00:16:57,625 [chuckles] Well, actually, all of your classmates collaborated on it. 332 00:16:57,668 --> 00:17:00,584 And that suggested to me that each one of you had a hand in my murder. 333 00:17:00,628 --> 00:17:03,500 -Oh, this should be good. -Donna, you kept Betty busy. 334 00:17:06,721 --> 00:17:08,331 Oh, good, you made it. 335 00:17:08,375 --> 00:17:10,681 [Jughead] Bret, you led me deeper into the woods, 336 00:17:10,725 --> 00:17:13,467 where I took off the bunny mask I was wearing and put on my beanie. 337 00:17:16,383 --> 00:17:20,169 And was it that beanie that kept my head from being completely cracked open 338 00:17:20,213 --> 00:17:22,519 when Joan crept up behind me... 339 00:17:22,563 --> 00:17:24,826 and hit me with a baseball-sized rock? 340 00:17:24,869 --> 00:17:27,568 What? How do you know it was me? Why couldn't it have been Jonathan? 341 00:17:27,611 --> 00:17:30,875 Well, I don't recall Jonathan wearing your perfume. 342 00:17:30,919 --> 00:17:33,530 Yeah, where... Where is Jonathan again? 343 00:17:33,574 --> 00:17:36,403 Or did you kill him because he started to develop a conscience? 344 00:17:36,446 --> 00:17:39,145 He had food poisoning, he still has food poisoning. 345 00:17:39,188 --> 00:17:41,321 Okay, Jonathan aside, 346 00:17:41,364 --> 00:17:44,889 you had a fool-proof plan, air-tight alibis. 347 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:48,067 It all should have worked so perfectly, but it didn't. 348 00:17:50,373 --> 00:17:52,114 -Why? -Because in all your plotting, 349 00:17:52,158 --> 00:17:54,421 all of your lurid conspiring and your brilliance, 350 00:17:54,464 --> 00:17:56,249 you didn't kill me. 351 00:17:56,292 --> 00:17:58,077 I mean, whose job was it to check my pulse? 352 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:58,990 Jonathan! 353 00:18:00,644 --> 00:18:02,255 [Jughead exhales sharply] 354 00:18:04,431 --> 00:18:06,433 Oh, you Einsteins. 355 00:18:06,476 --> 00:18:08,957 All you had to do was hit me in the back of the head hard enough with a rock. 356 00:18:09,784 --> 00:18:11,438 You failed spectacularly. 357 00:18:11,481 --> 00:18:14,049 Yeah, meanwhile, Donna was blowing Devil's Breath in my face 358 00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:16,312 to set me up as the ultimate fall-girl. 359 00:18:19,272 --> 00:18:20,925 Devil's Breath? Really? 360 00:18:20,969 --> 00:18:23,014 Yeah, the technical term being scopolamine, 361 00:18:23,058 --> 00:18:25,930 which leaves a person highly suggestive and in a drunken state. 362 00:18:25,974 --> 00:18:29,369 Which is why I don't remember when Donna led me into the clearing 363 00:18:29,412 --> 00:18:32,676 where Jughead's body was and placed the bloody rock in my hand, 364 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,724 leaving me literally red-handed with the murder weapon. 365 00:18:36,767 --> 00:18:40,162 After which, the four of you returned to the party 366 00:18:40,206 --> 00:18:43,034 and ran into Archie and Veronica. 367 00:18:43,078 --> 00:18:46,125 Hey, have you guys seen Betty and Jughead? 368 00:18:47,126 --> 00:18:48,779 I think they went that way, 369 00:18:48,823 --> 00:18:50,564 into the clearing behind those trees. 370 00:18:54,568 --> 00:18:55,656 Thanks. 371 00:19:01,488 --> 00:19:03,751 [Betty] And pointed them to where you knew they would find me. 372 00:19:05,056 --> 00:19:06,797 Standing over Jughead's corpse. 373 00:19:06,841 --> 00:19:08,712 Oh, my God, Betty, what happened? 374 00:19:08,756 --> 00:19:10,888 Jug! Is he breathing? 375 00:19:16,677 --> 00:19:17,852 He's dead. 376 00:19:19,419 --> 00:19:23,510 At which point, one of two scenarios could've played out. 377 00:19:23,553 --> 00:19:28,993 One, Archie and Veronica could turn me in. 378 00:19:29,037 --> 00:19:35,565 Two, they could help me cover up the "murder" that I had just committed. 379 00:19:35,609 --> 00:19:37,828 Either way, I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. 380 00:19:37,872 --> 00:19:40,962 But honestly, you guys could've gotten away with it too. 381 00:19:41,005 --> 00:19:43,486 Yeah, except, again... 382 00:19:44,270 --> 00:19:45,706 You guys didn't kill me. 383 00:19:45,749 --> 00:19:49,057 -Archie... -Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 384 00:19:49,797 --> 00:19:51,015 Betty, what happened? 385 00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:54,628 [Betty breathing rapidly] 386 00:19:56,717 --> 00:19:59,763 All right, start pounding on his chest. Right now, okay? 387 00:19:59,807 --> 00:20:01,548 Vee, use the beanie to stop the bleeding. 388 00:20:01,591 --> 00:20:04,942 Go, one, two, three, four, five. 389 00:20:08,294 --> 00:20:10,600 -Come on, Jug. -[Archie] ...four, five... 390 00:20:10,644 --> 00:20:12,820 Come on, come on, Jug! Come on! 391 00:20:14,256 --> 00:20:16,215 -[Veronica] Betty, he's... -Come back to me, Jug. 392 00:20:19,261 --> 00:20:21,872 [gasps] Jug, hey, hey, hey. 393 00:20:21,916 --> 00:20:24,048 Hey, we're gonna get you to a hospital, okay? 394 00:20:24,092 --> 00:20:25,789 No... No hospital. 395 00:20:27,574 --> 00:20:31,447 Hey, stay awake, stay with me, please, Jug. Hey. Stay awake, okay? 396 00:20:33,057 --> 00:20:36,191 Though I didn't regain consciousness for another 36 hours. 397 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:38,759 The worst 36 hours of my life. 398 00:20:42,415 --> 00:20:44,286 Why would you say that, Jones? 399 00:20:44,330 --> 00:20:48,247 "No hospital." Why would a man on death's door say that? 400 00:20:49,422 --> 00:20:52,338 I honestly don't know. 401 00:20:52,381 --> 00:20:56,516 Maybe I had some small feeling that you were going to try and frame Betty. 402 00:20:56,559 --> 00:20:58,561 And I wanted her to have a fighting chance. 403 00:21:02,565 --> 00:21:05,481 I'm... I'm calling Charles, I'm calling Charles. 404 00:21:05,525 --> 00:21:08,571 -What? Why? -We can trust him. He'll help us, okay? 405 00:21:08,615 --> 00:21:09,659 Hey, Jug. 406 00:21:09,703 --> 00:21:12,967 [Betty breathing heavily] 407 00:21:13,010 --> 00:21:16,318 Charles, I'm in the woods with Archie and Veronica. 408 00:21:16,362 --> 00:21:19,495 Jughead, he's hurt really badly, we need help. 409 00:21:19,539 --> 00:21:22,150 We need your help, please! 410 00:21:22,193 --> 00:21:25,545 We carried Jug through the woods to the old postal road, 411 00:21:25,588 --> 00:21:29,810 where my brother Charles was waiting for us with an FBI med-van. 412 00:21:34,075 --> 00:21:36,773 -What happened to him, Betty? -A head wound. 413 00:21:36,817 --> 00:21:39,776 We slowed the bleeding, we did chest compressions and CPR. 414 00:21:39,820 --> 00:21:40,951 You think he's gonna make it? 415 00:21:40,995 --> 00:21:41,996 We're gonna do everything that we can. 416 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:43,345 What about us? What do we do? 417 00:21:43,389 --> 00:21:45,478 Go back to where you found him. Clean the scene. 418 00:21:45,521 --> 00:21:48,176 Make absolutely certain that you don't leave anything behind, all right? 419 00:21:48,219 --> 00:21:49,960 Also, your clothes are covered with blood. 420 00:21:50,004 --> 00:21:51,962 You need to get rid of those and get washed up, okay? 421 00:21:52,006 --> 00:21:53,224 [all] Okay. 422 00:22:01,058 --> 00:22:03,104 [Betty] And then we did what Charles asked. 423 00:22:03,147 --> 00:22:05,628 We went back to the clearing. 424 00:22:05,672 --> 00:22:08,065 Threw the bloody rock in the swimming hole. 425 00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:12,113 Took off our clothes and started a bonfire. 426 00:22:12,156 --> 00:22:13,593 What happens if he doesn't make it? 427 00:22:13,636 --> 00:22:14,768 He'll make it. 428 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:17,466 But what if he doesn't? 429 00:22:18,598 --> 00:22:19,686 He will. 430 00:22:22,645 --> 00:22:25,648 But if he doesn't, then... 431 00:22:27,563 --> 00:22:30,914 Archie... Archie? 432 00:22:32,438 --> 00:22:35,615 -Archie! You listening to me? -Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 433 00:22:38,052 --> 00:22:41,751 We have to burn all of our clothes including Jughead's beanie. 434 00:22:44,232 --> 00:22:46,365 We'll rinse off the blood in the swimming hole. 435 00:22:48,889 --> 00:22:51,413 After tonight, we never speak of this. Ever. 436 00:22:51,457 --> 00:22:54,416 Not to each other, not to our parents. No one. 437 00:22:55,548 --> 00:22:58,768 We'll finish our senior year, graduate, 438 00:22:58,812 --> 00:23:00,161 and we'll go our separate ways. 439 00:23:00,204 --> 00:23:02,642 That is the only way that we won't get caught. 440 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:07,908 Do it. 441 00:23:15,132 --> 00:23:18,440 That is how it'll have to be if Jug doesn't make it. 442 00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:21,051 But it won't come to that. He will pull through. 443 00:23:21,095 --> 00:23:22,401 He has to. 444 00:23:23,576 --> 00:23:26,187 [Betty] And then, we went home. 445 00:23:29,103 --> 00:23:32,367 And what happened next was a waking nightmare. 446 00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:36,327 Not knowing if or when Jughead was going to wake up, 447 00:23:36,371 --> 00:23:39,722 and wondering if I had actually been responsible. 448 00:23:39,766 --> 00:23:42,464 Wait, but we saw Jughead's corpse at the coroner's office. 449 00:23:42,508 --> 00:23:43,726 Was he in on it? 450 00:23:43,770 --> 00:23:45,598 Who? Dr. Curdle Jr.? 451 00:23:46,773 --> 00:23:50,994 Yeah, mmm-hmm, yeah. We go way back. 452 00:23:51,038 --> 00:23:54,476 [Jughead] You see, Bret, in a town like Riverdale, 453 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,913 everybody's got a price. 454 00:23:56,957 --> 00:23:59,873 And that includes our friendly neighborhood doctor of death. 455 00:24:02,528 --> 00:24:06,270 And while Betty was keeping you guys busy with a game of cat-and-mouse, 456 00:24:06,314 --> 00:24:10,274 I was in the underground bunker untangling this Gordian knot of a year. 457 00:24:10,318 --> 00:24:13,843 And it is crazy how much untangling you can get done 458 00:24:13,887 --> 00:24:15,410 when everyone thinks you're dead. 459 00:24:15,454 --> 00:24:17,891 Which brings us, basically, to today. 460 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,546 So, Mr. DuPont, 461 00:24:22,199 --> 00:24:24,463 the floor is open. What do you think? 462 00:24:26,116 --> 00:24:28,118 Oh, Mr. Jones... 463 00:24:30,077 --> 00:24:31,731 "A" for effort. 464 00:24:31,774 --> 00:24:33,080 If nothing else, 465 00:24:33,123 --> 00:24:35,604 this fiction is significantly more entertaining 466 00:24:35,648 --> 00:24:38,302 than anything you ever produced for my class. 467 00:24:38,346 --> 00:24:40,130 Oh, did I forget to mention 468 00:24:40,174 --> 00:24:43,177 that Betty and I went and saw the Baxter Brothers ghostwriters? 469 00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:47,703 And when we told them our theory, they all asked for their lawyers. 470 00:24:47,747 --> 00:24:50,140 What if you did track them down? 471 00:24:50,184 --> 00:24:54,754 And even if you found one who corroborated your wild theories in some vague way, 472 00:24:54,797 --> 00:24:58,758 then you will know that I never explicitly directed 473 00:24:58,801 --> 00:25:01,456 my students or mentees to do anything criminal. 474 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,153 Oh. 475 00:25:03,197 --> 00:25:06,592 What a canny serial killer you are, Mr. DuPont. 476 00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:08,985 But we haven't even gotten to the best part. 477 00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:13,686 Specifically, the three members of your original literary society... 478 00:25:14,295 --> 00:25:15,731 who you murdered. 479 00:25:17,603 --> 00:25:21,607 Jane Dallas Brown, Charles W. Chickens, Theodore Weisel... 480 00:25:24,218 --> 00:25:27,569 -There it is. -Let's loop back to the original sin, shall we? 481 00:25:27,613 --> 00:25:30,180 When Mr. DuPont stole, and I do mean stole, 482 00:25:30,224 --> 00:25:32,226 my grandfather's original Baxter Brothers novel. 483 00:25:32,269 --> 00:25:34,010 A fact known to you, Mr. DuPont, 484 00:25:34,054 --> 00:25:35,577 and of course, Jughead's grandfather 485 00:25:35,621 --> 00:25:39,320 but also to your inner circle, your classmates. 486 00:25:41,017 --> 00:25:43,585 The corrupt secret at the heart of an empire. 487 00:25:43,629 --> 00:25:45,674 [Jughead] Although it wasn't an empire just yet. 488 00:25:45,718 --> 00:25:48,242 It was a house of cards that you built over many decades. 489 00:25:48,895 --> 00:25:50,636 And the bigger it got, 490 00:25:50,679 --> 00:25:53,377 the more worried you became that one little slip of the tongue 491 00:25:53,421 --> 00:25:55,510 would send the whole thing tumbling down. 492 00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:58,382 Your life's work would be revealed as a lie, 493 00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:00,646 and you as a fraud. 494 00:26:00,689 --> 00:26:01,734 And a thief. 495 00:26:02,604 --> 00:26:04,127 A man of dishonor. 496 00:26:04,171 --> 00:26:06,390 So, you started going after people who knew the truth 497 00:26:06,434 --> 00:26:10,917 and started staging their accidental deaths. 498 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:16,226 You cut brakes. You tampered with fuselages. 499 00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:18,664 You compromised oxygen tanks. 500 00:26:18,707 --> 00:26:20,622 Until there was only one living member 501 00:26:20,666 --> 00:26:23,407 of your literary society left. 502 00:26:23,451 --> 00:26:26,759 Betty, I think it's time we let in our guests. 503 00:26:27,673 --> 00:26:28,891 With pleasure. 504 00:26:31,764 --> 00:26:33,113 [door unlocking] 505 00:26:48,650 --> 00:26:51,174 -Forsythe. -Live and in the flesh. 506 00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:54,264 Hello, Francis. 507 00:26:54,308 --> 00:26:56,440 Why don't you tell him what you told us, Grandpa? 508 00:26:56,484 --> 00:26:59,618 Weisel came to see me before he died. 509 00:27:01,097 --> 00:27:02,490 He hadn't slept for days. 510 00:27:04,144 --> 00:27:09,540 He told me that you killed Charles and Jane 511 00:27:09,584 --> 00:27:12,282 'cause they were gonna spill the truth 512 00:27:12,326 --> 00:27:14,023 about the damn Baxter Brothers. 513 00:27:15,982 --> 00:27:18,637 He said we knew too much and you were gonna off us, too. 514 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,597 You and I both know Theodore was a paranoid drunk. 515 00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:25,339 But two days later, 516 00:27:25,382 --> 00:27:29,822 the expert diver drowned in shallow water. 517 00:27:31,562 --> 00:27:34,696 So he was right, and I was next. 518 00:27:37,307 --> 00:27:39,701 So, I went out for a pack of cigarettes... 519 00:27:42,095 --> 00:27:44,532 and never came back. 520 00:27:44,575 --> 00:27:47,666 What were you doing off-grid since 2002, exactly? 521 00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:50,886 Collecting evidence that linked Francis here 522 00:27:50,930 --> 00:27:54,020 with the murders of Charles and Jane and Theodore. 523 00:27:54,063 --> 00:27:59,721 I started by calling hotels and motels near the accident sites. 524 00:27:59,765 --> 00:28:01,331 You know what the one thing I couldn't figure out 525 00:28:01,375 --> 00:28:03,333 at first was, Mr. DuPont? 526 00:28:03,377 --> 00:28:06,510 That if Moose was invited to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim, 527 00:28:06,554 --> 00:28:08,034 then why was I also invited? 528 00:28:10,036 --> 00:28:12,125 I was bait 529 00:28:12,168 --> 00:28:14,127 to lure my grandfather out of hiding 530 00:28:14,170 --> 00:28:16,390 so you could finish the job that you started. 531 00:28:16,433 --> 00:28:19,828 Took off like a coward after Jughead found me. 532 00:28:19,872 --> 00:28:23,179 But, to my old man's credit, when Charles and I found him the second time, 533 00:28:23,223 --> 00:28:25,791 and he heard what happened to his grandson, 534 00:28:25,834 --> 00:28:28,097 he figured it was finally time to take your ass down. 535 00:28:28,141 --> 00:28:30,404 [Charles] While you were in here playing Agatha Christie, 536 00:28:30,447 --> 00:28:33,712 my team was combing through DuPont's house for the last hour. 537 00:28:33,755 --> 00:28:37,367 Now, given the trophies of your victims that we found in your hollowed out OED, 538 00:28:37,411 --> 00:28:40,544 and your ghostwriters lawyering up, 539 00:28:40,588 --> 00:28:43,199 not to mention Forsythe's detective work... 540 00:28:43,243 --> 00:28:46,028 Well, why don't you tell him? 541 00:28:48,335 --> 00:28:49,553 It's over, Francis. 542 00:28:54,036 --> 00:28:58,737 You... call me a thief and a coward. 543 00:29:00,129 --> 00:29:01,261 I'm not. 544 00:29:02,088 --> 00:29:03,785 I'm a builder. 545 00:29:03,829 --> 00:29:05,874 I built the Baxter Brothers franchise 546 00:29:05,918 --> 00:29:08,877 and with that money, I helped build this school. 547 00:29:08,921 --> 00:29:11,097 Without me, neither would exist. 548 00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:12,968 Francis DuPont, you have the right to remain silent. 549 00:29:13,012 --> 00:29:15,666 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 550 00:29:15,710 --> 00:29:20,236 Never. A writer's power is in his words. 551 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,326 Only the meek and the timid choose silence. 552 00:29:23,370 --> 00:29:26,765 Oh, I am a man of honor. 553 00:29:31,552 --> 00:29:32,683 To the end. 554 00:29:51,528 --> 00:29:56,359 [Jughead] After that, it was a matter of dotting I's and crossing T's. 555 00:29:56,403 --> 00:29:59,232 We obtained these text exchanges between you and Donna. 556 00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:03,540 Donna was manipulating you, Joan. 557 00:30:03,584 --> 00:30:05,107 She tricked you into doing her dirty work 558 00:30:05,151 --> 00:30:07,022 so her hands would remain clean. 559 00:30:07,980 --> 00:30:09,546 Don't protect her. 560 00:30:09,590 --> 00:30:11,157 I'll see to it that you get a reduced sentence. 561 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,247 Agent Smith, you have nothing to offer me. 562 00:30:18,425 --> 00:30:21,210 Reminder, my father is an ambassador 563 00:30:21,254 --> 00:30:22,864 and I have diplomatic immunity. 564 00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:24,735 If you leave the country now, 565 00:30:24,779 --> 00:30:26,346 you won't ever be able to return. 566 00:30:26,389 --> 00:30:28,827 And your friends, they'll take all the heat. 567 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:31,220 They're not my friends. 568 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,363 Hey, why did you lie to Jughead? 569 00:30:43,406 --> 00:30:45,756 You told him Bret had diplomatic immunity, but it was Joan. 570 00:30:47,193 --> 00:30:49,238 I... I lied to Jughead 571 00:30:49,282 --> 00:30:52,676 because I was trying to keep him from antagonizing Bret. 572 00:30:54,461 --> 00:30:57,246 You know it was Bret's idea to kill Jughead. 573 00:30:57,290 --> 00:31:00,249 Uh-huh. How did you get Mr. Chipping's tie pin? 574 00:31:00,293 --> 00:31:03,339 And don't tell me that you were having an affair. 575 00:31:03,383 --> 00:31:04,732 No one's buying that story anymore. 576 00:31:05,951 --> 00:31:07,561 Mr. DuPont gave it to me. 577 00:31:09,215 --> 00:31:12,087 Said I had to lie to the headmaster, 578 00:31:12,131 --> 00:31:14,481 so that Mr. Chipping's death would be ruled a suicide 579 00:31:14,524 --> 00:31:15,830 and people would stop asking questions. 580 00:31:18,398 --> 00:31:22,924 But I'm just glad that the real monster behind all of this, 581 00:31:22,968 --> 00:31:25,013 Mr. DuPont, has paid for his crimes. 582 00:31:28,451 --> 00:31:30,845 You have a known history of antagonizing Jughead. 583 00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:33,979 Witnesses saw you walking with him into the woods the night he was attacked. 584 00:31:34,022 --> 00:31:35,894 Have I actually been charged with a crime? 585 00:31:37,591 --> 00:31:40,072 You're facing hard time for both attempted murder 586 00:31:40,115 --> 00:31:43,118 and the creation and possession of illegally recorded sex tapes 587 00:31:43,162 --> 00:31:45,207 featuring fellow students. 588 00:31:45,251 --> 00:31:47,949 Including Jughead and Betty. 589 00:31:47,993 --> 00:31:53,128 Now, I'm willing to reduce your charge to only attempted murder 590 00:31:53,172 --> 00:31:55,478 if you turn over your collection of videotapes. 591 00:31:55,522 --> 00:31:57,698 Here's my counter-offer, 592 00:31:57,741 --> 00:32:00,527 reduce my charge to conspiracy after the fact, 593 00:32:00,570 --> 00:32:03,530 which my lawyer will plead down to community service, 594 00:32:03,573 --> 00:32:06,315 or Betty and Jughead's puerile sex tape 595 00:32:06,359 --> 00:32:08,143 will be released to the world wide web. 596 00:32:09,188 --> 00:32:11,320 Hmm. Let me think it over. 597 00:32:20,199 --> 00:32:21,200 [sighs] 598 00:32:23,071 --> 00:32:24,333 That was quick. 599 00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:33,734 What the hell is this? 600 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,389 The counter to your counter. 601 00:32:42,047 --> 00:32:45,920 I understand you've decided to co-operate with our investigation 602 00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:47,878 and reveal the location of your illicit videotapes. 603 00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:49,968 Is that correct? 604 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,409 [Alice] Hidden in a secret compartment behind Stonewall's crest 605 00:32:56,452 --> 00:32:59,847 was a treasure trove of dark secrets. 606 00:32:59,890 --> 00:33:02,154 Illegally recorded videotapes, 607 00:33:02,197 --> 00:33:06,071 more fuel to add to the firestorm of controversy that is consuming 608 00:33:06,114 --> 00:33:09,378 one of the country's oldest and more prestigious prep schools. 609 00:33:09,422 --> 00:33:11,902 For now, Stonewall Prep's doors remain open, 610 00:33:11,946 --> 00:33:15,471 but its secret society Quill and Skull has been disbanded. 611 00:33:15,515 --> 00:33:19,649 For RIVW news, this is Alice Smith. 612 00:33:19,693 --> 00:33:21,434 It's good to be back, Riverdale. 613 00:33:22,087 --> 00:33:24,132 [all applaud] 614 00:33:24,176 --> 00:33:25,612 Thank you. Thank you very much. 615 00:33:25,655 --> 00:33:27,657 Your report came out really good, Mom. 616 00:33:27,701 --> 00:33:30,269 Oh, thanks, honey. I had a lot of help from an inside source. 617 00:33:30,312 --> 00:33:31,313 -Mmm-hmm. -Mmm-hmm? 618 00:33:32,097 --> 00:33:33,272 [both laugh] 619 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:35,578 -I'm gonna head out. -Yeah. 620 00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:37,363 Wait. Where are you going? We're about to have cake. 621 00:33:39,974 --> 00:33:42,324 Um, I will be back soon, okay? 622 00:33:42,368 --> 00:33:45,110 I just have one last T to cross. 623 00:33:51,551 --> 00:33:52,943 Hello, Donna. 624 00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:55,511 Going somewhere? 625 00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:58,732 If you must know, I'm transferring to a new school. 626 00:33:58,775 --> 00:34:00,429 Well, I'm glad I caught you then. 627 00:34:00,473 --> 00:34:02,518 I wanted to congratulate you personally. 628 00:34:02,562 --> 00:34:05,304 Jughead and I heard that you're taking over the Baxter Brothers. 629 00:34:05,347 --> 00:34:07,175 The brand is relaunching. 630 00:34:08,263 --> 00:34:09,612 As Tracy True. 631 00:34:11,527 --> 00:34:12,659 Jealous? 632 00:34:14,008 --> 00:34:15,705 Your plan worked, Donna. 633 00:34:15,749 --> 00:34:18,969 You managed to get everyone else to do the actual dirty work. 634 00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:21,407 Hell, even DuPont's dead. 635 00:34:21,450 --> 00:34:25,889 You covered your tracks extremely well. 636 00:34:25,933 --> 00:34:27,326 [clicks tongue] Betty... 637 00:34:29,415 --> 00:34:32,548 Are you really so delusional 638 00:34:32,592 --> 00:34:37,249 you would believe I would mastermind some elaborate conspiracy 639 00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:39,947 that caused the deaths of multiple people 640 00:34:39,990 --> 00:34:42,515 just to win a YA book contract? 641 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,127 No. 642 00:34:47,302 --> 00:34:49,304 But you would do it for revenge. 643 00:34:49,348 --> 00:34:52,046 Oh, really? 644 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,614 -Revenge for what? -The murder of your grandmother. 645 00:34:56,616 --> 00:34:58,313 Jane Dallas Brown. 646 00:34:58,357 --> 00:35:00,228 One of the classmates DuPont killed 647 00:35:00,272 --> 00:35:03,362 to cover up the ugly truth that he didn't create the Baxter Brothers. 648 00:35:04,406 --> 00:35:05,625 She was your grandmother. 649 00:35:05,668 --> 00:35:07,409 How could you possibly know that? 650 00:35:07,453 --> 00:35:09,542 A friend of a friend told me. 651 00:35:09,585 --> 00:35:12,110 You dedicated yourself to getting into Stonewall Prep 652 00:35:12,153 --> 00:35:14,024 and getting into Chipping's class 653 00:35:14,068 --> 00:35:17,767 and each step brought you ever closer to your grandmother's killer. 654 00:35:18,855 --> 00:35:21,336 You wanted revenge. 655 00:35:21,380 --> 00:35:24,034 So what was the original plan, Donna? 656 00:35:24,078 --> 00:35:27,821 Win the contract no matter how many people had to die? 657 00:35:27,864 --> 00:35:30,998 And then stage an accident that would take care of DuPont 658 00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:34,306 so you could tear down the house that he built? 659 00:35:34,349 --> 00:35:35,959 Fascinating theory, Betty. 660 00:35:37,222 --> 00:35:39,093 You've left out one minor detail. 661 00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:41,922 DuPont didn't merely kill my grandmother. 662 00:35:42,749 --> 00:35:44,620 He stole from her. 663 00:35:44,664 --> 00:35:46,448 The same way he did from Forsythe. 664 00:35:48,885 --> 00:35:50,844 Tracy True. 665 00:35:50,887 --> 00:35:54,152 The female teen detective who was introduced in the Baxter Brothers' books. 666 00:35:55,631 --> 00:35:58,547 She was your grandmother's invention. 667 00:35:58,591 --> 00:36:02,856 Now I've taken Tracy back and DuPont is rotting in a grave. 668 00:36:02,899 --> 00:36:04,727 Huh. 669 00:36:04,771 --> 00:36:07,382 How did you really find out about my grandmother? 670 00:36:07,426 --> 00:36:09,123 A private investigator. 671 00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:12,300 At my behest, Hermosa put her private eye skills to good use 672 00:36:12,344 --> 00:36:15,042 and did some digging on those Stonewall WASPs. 673 00:36:15,085 --> 00:36:18,350 And your gal pal Donna is not so sweet. 674 00:36:19,612 --> 00:36:21,831 ...who supplied us with the medical files 675 00:36:21,875 --> 00:36:26,271 that confirmed that you are the granddaughter of Jane Dallas Brown. 676 00:36:26,314 --> 00:36:28,403 Which gives the police a motive 677 00:36:28,447 --> 00:36:35,280 and links this entire web of death back to you. 678 00:36:35,323 --> 00:36:37,151 It's circumstantial at best. 679 00:36:38,892 --> 00:36:40,459 But I'll play one last round. 680 00:36:41,938 --> 00:36:42,939 What do you want, Betty? 681 00:36:45,464 --> 00:36:49,119 I want you to walk away from the Tracy True contract. 682 00:36:49,163 --> 00:36:50,947 Why in God's name would I do that? 683 00:36:50,991 --> 00:36:53,254 Fictional though she may be, 684 00:36:53,298 --> 00:36:55,604 Tracy deserves better, 685 00:36:55,648 --> 00:36:57,954 as does the memory of your grandmother. 686 00:36:57,998 --> 00:37:00,914 And you certainly don't deserve to profit 687 00:37:00,957 --> 00:37:03,656 off the near-death of my boyfriend. 688 00:37:05,788 --> 00:37:06,876 Or... 689 00:37:08,051 --> 00:37:11,620 don't walk away. That's fine. 690 00:37:11,664 --> 00:37:14,362 But I will make sure every newspaper of every major city 691 00:37:14,406 --> 00:37:16,146 gets a copy of that medical file. 692 00:37:21,978 --> 00:37:24,329 You play nice from now on, Donna. 693 00:37:26,809 --> 00:37:28,420 I'll be keeping an eye on you. 694 00:37:47,874 --> 00:37:52,008 Months at Stonewall Prep away from you guys, what a waste. 695 00:37:52,052 --> 00:37:57,492 Jug, okay. We put a stop to DuPont, we solved eight murders, 696 00:37:57,536 --> 00:38:00,539 and we gave closure to every family of every missing child. 697 00:38:00,582 --> 00:38:02,367 I would not call that a waste of time. 698 00:38:02,410 --> 00:38:04,064 I know. It's just... 699 00:38:06,022 --> 00:38:08,851 -I feel... [sighs heavily] -Cheated? 700 00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:11,376 I know. 701 00:38:13,726 --> 00:38:15,162 I know. 702 00:38:15,205 --> 00:38:19,035 You'll find a meaning to all of this at some point. 703 00:38:19,514 --> 00:38:20,515 Okay? 704 00:38:25,781 --> 00:38:28,175 So, Jughead Jones back from the dead. 705 00:38:28,218 --> 00:38:29,611 Color me completely not surprised. 706 00:38:29,655 --> 00:38:32,397 -[bell rings] -You're not? 707 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,660 No one ever really dies in Riverdale, do they? 708 00:38:36,009 --> 00:38:39,317 But what about you and Archie canoodling then? 709 00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:41,580 Yeah, that was just pretend. 710 00:38:43,059 --> 00:38:45,279 I don't know, cousin. That looked pretty real to me. 711 00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:46,715 Yeah, that was the point. 712 00:38:46,759 --> 00:38:47,890 [scoffs] 713 00:38:49,762 --> 00:38:51,241 Right. 714 00:38:51,285 --> 00:38:54,680 All I'm saying is, your secret's safe with me. 715 00:38:55,594 --> 00:38:56,682 Toodles. 716 00:39:00,163 --> 00:39:02,165 -[Betty sighs] -What did Cheryl want? 717 00:39:02,209 --> 00:39:04,211 Nothing. What did Mr. Honey say? 718 00:39:04,254 --> 00:39:05,734 Well, I don't think he's too happy about it, 719 00:39:05,778 --> 00:39:07,519 but he legally has to let me back to Riverdale High. 720 00:39:07,562 --> 00:39:11,392 -That's great! -Yeah, I just really hope my credits transfer. 721 00:39:11,436 --> 00:39:13,612 On the bright side, no one's gonna try to kill me while I'm here. 722 00:39:14,308 --> 00:39:15,570 Don't jinx yourself. 723 00:39:20,227 --> 00:39:21,881 [FP] Hey, boy. Betty. 724 00:39:21,924 --> 00:39:22,969 Hey. 725 00:39:24,536 --> 00:39:26,015 Um, I'll be right down. 726 00:39:26,059 --> 00:39:28,366 Grandpa, I thought you left. 727 00:39:28,409 --> 00:39:29,932 Oh, not yet. [chuckles] 728 00:39:30,716 --> 00:39:32,761 Joining us for dinner? 729 00:39:32,805 --> 00:39:36,722 Ah, Betty and I are actually going to meet Archie and Veronica at Pop's. So... 730 00:39:36,765 --> 00:39:39,159 -Unless you want me to stay. -No, go have fun. 731 00:39:39,202 --> 00:39:40,378 Yeah. 732 00:39:41,509 --> 00:39:43,990 Should I say goodbye? 733 00:39:44,033 --> 00:39:45,948 Oh, no. 734 00:39:45,992 --> 00:39:49,648 I expect your father and I will still be talking when you get back. 735 00:39:54,174 --> 00:39:55,305 Hey, hold on. 736 00:39:59,571 --> 00:40:02,269 I don't know what's gonna happen with him and me. 737 00:40:02,312 --> 00:40:04,793 But, uh, we're talking, so that's something. 738 00:40:06,491 --> 00:40:09,972 So, thank you. You made all this happen. 739 00:40:13,193 --> 00:40:14,542 -Have fun. -Yeah. 740 00:40:15,282 --> 00:40:17,415 Betty? 741 00:40:17,458 --> 00:40:20,069 Maybe something good did come out of this whole Stonewall mess. 742 00:40:20,113 --> 00:40:23,812 My dad and my grandfather talking again for the first time in 30 years! 743 00:40:23,856 --> 00:40:25,466 Who would've thought of that? 744 00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:27,642 You think your dad will forgive him? 745 00:40:27,686 --> 00:40:30,079 Oh, I don't know. I mean, they have a lot of bad history between each other, but... 746 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,081 I hope so. 747 00:40:33,561 --> 00:40:34,519 All right, guys. 748 00:40:35,389 --> 00:40:36,390 Let's make a vow. 749 00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:38,305 -[all groan] -I know. 750 00:40:39,045 --> 00:40:40,612 I know. 751 00:40:40,655 --> 00:40:42,483 The last time we made a vow to have a normal senior year, 752 00:40:42,527 --> 00:40:44,485 everything went to hell pretty quick. 753 00:40:44,529 --> 00:40:47,967 But we only have two, three months left. 754 00:40:48,837 --> 00:40:50,056 Let's end it on a high note. 755 00:40:51,884 --> 00:40:53,625 Are we just gonna ignore the fact 756 00:40:53,668 --> 00:40:55,496 that Archie and I will probably not be graduating with you guys? 757 00:40:55,540 --> 00:40:57,019 Jug, okay. 758 00:40:57,063 --> 00:40:59,021 Do you really think Vee and I are going to sit idly by 759 00:40:59,065 --> 00:41:00,849 and not help our boyfriends graduate? 760 00:41:00,893 --> 00:41:05,985 Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones, you will graduate. 761 00:41:06,028 --> 00:41:08,117 Even if it takes a thousand tutors, 762 00:41:08,161 --> 00:41:09,815 you will set aside everything. 763 00:41:09,858 --> 00:41:11,643 No more mysteries. 764 00:41:11,686 --> 00:41:15,342 And make graduating your sole purpose in life. 765 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:17,866 Why does that sound like a threat? 766 00:41:17,910 --> 00:41:19,085 [Veronica] Because it is. 767 00:41:20,913 --> 00:41:23,611 To going out on top together. 768 00:41:23,655 --> 00:41:25,526 -Cheers. -Cheers to that. 769 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:29,399 Guys, guys, just a reminder. 770 00:41:29,443 --> 00:41:32,011 I'm posting the sign-up sheet for the variety show tomorrow, 771 00:41:32,054 --> 00:41:33,447 you all have to perform. 772 00:41:34,579 --> 00:41:36,406 Even you, Jughead. 773 00:41:36,450 --> 00:41:38,800 -Count us in, Kev. -Oh, no. 774 00:41:39,801 --> 00:41:40,889 Yeah. 775 00:41:40,933 --> 00:41:44,153 Check out this list of local names.