1 00:00:01,412 --> 00:00:03,626 The weirdest thing about pretending to be dead 2 00:00:03,647 --> 00:00:04,752 is that after a while, 3 00:00:04,836 --> 00:00:07,353 you actually start feeling like you're dead. 4 00:00:07,373 --> 00:00:10,574 As in, "dead as a doornail" dead. 5 00:00:13,486 --> 00:00:16,637 For starters, I was underground, as if in a tomb. 6 00:00:16,658 --> 00:00:19,860 Granted, I was hiding out in Dilton's doomsday bunker 7 00:00:19,881 --> 00:00:21,815 and not in a coffin, but still. 8 00:00:22,893 --> 00:00:25,198 Two weeks, no sunlight, 9 00:00:25,219 --> 00:00:28,235 with no sense of time or its passing? 10 00:00:28,256 --> 00:00:30,389 It's gotta be what limbo feels like, right? 11 00:00:31,804 --> 00:00:34,287 Other similarities to being dead. 12 00:00:34,307 --> 00:00:38,291 Not one, but two obituaries about me ran. 13 00:00:38,311 --> 00:00:41,758 A rather perfunctory one in The Riverdale Register. 14 00:00:42,154 --> 00:00:45,898 A second, more irreverent one in the Blue and Gold. 15 00:00:45,918 --> 00:00:47,418 I liked that one. 16 00:00:49,392 --> 00:00:51,926 I had a funeral. Well, a wake. 17 00:00:53,307 --> 00:00:55,612 I watched it on my laptop. 18 00:00:55,632 --> 00:00:58,965 Live-streamed from a camera Betty had set up in the living room. 19 00:01:04,072 --> 00:01:06,955 Betty and I suspected that the Stonies would show up, 20 00:01:06,975 --> 00:01:09,109 and, sure enough, they did. 21 00:01:10,011 --> 00:01:11,427 We wanted to study them 22 00:01:11,447 --> 00:01:14,463 to see if anything they did was suspicious. 23 00:01:14,483 --> 00:01:16,732 Not that there was any doubt in our mind about their guilt. 24 00:01:16,752 --> 00:01:18,967 The Preppies had stone-cold murdered me 25 00:01:18,987 --> 00:01:20,787 and were trying to pin it on Betty. 26 00:01:21,590 --> 00:01:23,805 We just couldn't prove it. 27 00:01:23,825 --> 00:01:25,024 Not yet. 28 00:01:25,827 --> 00:01:27,276 Meanwhile... 29 00:01:27,296 --> 00:01:30,145 The hardest part of playing dead was letting everyone believe 30 00:01:30,165 --> 00:01:32,531 I was in the semi-sweet hereafter. 31 00:01:33,301 --> 00:01:35,001 Our family, our friends. 32 00:01:36,238 --> 00:01:38,053 The lies we had to tell. 33 00:01:38,073 --> 00:01:40,822 The things we had to do to sell that illusion. 34 00:01:40,842 --> 00:01:43,723 Like pretending that my bereft girlfriend had found comfort 35 00:01:43,743 --> 00:01:47,129 in the strong, steely arms of my best bud. 36 00:01:47,149 --> 00:01:50,832 Which turned out to be the greatest misdirect of them all. 37 00:01:50,852 --> 00:01:54,402 Of course, we needed to let some people know the truth. 38 00:01:54,422 --> 00:01:56,371 Except in one case. 39 00:01:56,391 --> 00:01:58,573 My kid sister Jellybean? 40 00:01:58,593 --> 00:01:59,774 Didn't have to be told. 41 00:01:59,794 --> 00:02:03,010 Oh, you found the fake blood. Thanks, Jellybean. 42 00:02:03,030 --> 00:02:04,729 Do you need it for Jughead? 43 00:02:05,866 --> 00:02:07,681 What? What do you... What do you mean? 44 00:02:07,701 --> 00:02:09,601 Do you need it to help my brother? 45 00:02:12,445 --> 00:02:15,351 Jellybean, do you know where Jughead is? 46 00:02:15,371 --> 00:02:18,058 I heard you whispering on the phone to Charles last night. 47 00:02:18,078 --> 00:02:19,960 The walls are super thin. 48 00:02:19,980 --> 00:02:21,728 You don't have to tell me where he is, 49 00:02:21,748 --> 00:02:23,015 just that he's okay. 50 00:02:23,951 --> 00:02:25,684 Is he? Okay? 51 00:02:28,289 --> 00:02:29,688 Can you keep a secret? 52 00:02:31,058 --> 00:02:32,673 We brought my dad into it pretty quick too. 53 00:02:32,693 --> 00:02:34,508 Betty. 54 00:02:34,528 --> 00:02:36,383 I, uh... 55 00:02:36,403 --> 00:02:38,208 I gave that bloody rock to Charles, 56 00:02:38,228 --> 00:02:40,347 he said the FBI is gonna have it tested. 57 00:02:40,367 --> 00:02:42,996 And when they do, they will tell you that it's covered 58 00:02:43,016 --> 00:02:45,215 in fake blood that you can buy at a drugstore. 59 00:02:45,235 --> 00:02:47,253 The hell are you talking about? 60 00:02:47,273 --> 00:02:48,789 I don't want you to worry anymore. 61 00:02:48,809 --> 00:02:52,125 Mr. Jones, I'm really sorry that you've been worrying. 62 00:02:52,145 --> 00:02:54,594 Jughead's fine. 63 00:02:54,614 --> 00:02:56,663 He's... Okay, he's not fine, but he's okay. 64 00:02:56,683 --> 00:02:59,433 Hold on, you know where Jughead is? 65 00:02:59,453 --> 00:03:01,118 Yes. 66 00:03:03,790 --> 00:03:05,519 I will tell you everything, okay? 67 00:03:05,539 --> 00:03:07,787 But we really, really need your help, please. 68 00:03:07,807 --> 00:03:10,273 I'm afraid to ask, but what kind of help? 69 00:03:11,911 --> 00:03:13,276 For starters, 70 00:03:14,380 --> 00:03:16,796 a search party. 71 00:03:16,816 --> 00:03:19,383 Archie went rogue and told his mom too. 72 00:03:28,394 --> 00:03:30,427 Mom, I have to confess something to you. 73 00:03:31,931 --> 00:03:34,780 And then there was Veronica's sister, Hermosa, 74 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,616 who was sniffing around, looking for bones. 75 00:03:36,636 --> 00:03:39,018 All right. What do you wanna know? 76 00:03:39,038 --> 00:03:42,772 Let me ask you straight up, hermanita. 77 00:03:44,743 --> 00:03:47,393 Did you help Betty kill her boyfriend? 78 00:03:47,413 --> 00:03:50,181 What? No, why would I do that? 79 00:03:50,201 --> 00:03:52,931 Because that's the kind of thing that secret girlfriends do. 80 00:03:52,951 --> 00:03:55,534 They kill each other's boyfriends so they can be together. 81 00:03:55,554 --> 00:03:59,271 Okay, I don't know what kind of crypto-lesbian 82 00:03:59,291 --> 00:04:01,213 pulp fiction you're conjuring, Hermosa, 83 00:04:01,233 --> 00:04:02,545 but Betty and I are just friends. 84 00:04:02,565 --> 00:04:05,165 Well, then, what did happen to that dead Torombolo? 85 00:04:06,365 --> 00:04:08,647 Either you can tell me or I'll just keep digging. 86 00:04:08,667 --> 00:04:11,334 - Don't forget, I'm a licensed... - Private investigator, right. 87 00:04:14,706 --> 00:04:17,306 Not sure why I didn't think of this before... 88 00:04:18,577 --> 00:04:21,192 but maybe you could help us with something. 89 00:04:21,212 --> 00:04:22,679 Me, Betty, and Archie. 90 00:04:25,684 --> 00:04:28,433 How much do you charge, Hermosa? 91 00:04:28,453 --> 00:04:30,501 And is there a discount for family members? 92 00:04:30,521 --> 00:04:33,538 In the months that followed, people will ask us, 93 00:04:33,558 --> 00:04:35,506 "Did we need to do it?" 94 00:04:35,526 --> 00:04:37,359 Go to such extreme lengths? 95 00:04:38,196 --> 00:04:39,963 Maybe, maybe not. 96 00:04:40,899 --> 00:04:42,531 But this I did know... 97 00:04:45,003 --> 00:04:48,352 If I was going to recover without the Preppies trying to kill me again 98 00:04:48,372 --> 00:04:50,721 and figure out how to solve my own murder, 99 00:04:50,741 --> 00:04:54,543 I needed the illusion to be perfect to buy myself time. 100 00:04:58,483 --> 00:05:01,031 So while above me, a world without Jughead 101 00:05:01,051 --> 00:05:03,667 continued spinning forward, 102 00:05:03,687 --> 00:05:07,138 I pored over every scrap of evidence we'd gathered, 103 00:05:07,158 --> 00:05:10,308 went over every detail of my time at Stonewall Prep, 104 00:05:10,328 --> 00:05:13,978 looking for hidden patterns, hints and clues. 105 00:05:13,998 --> 00:05:15,558 But this was a different kind of mystery 106 00:05:15,578 --> 00:05:17,081 than the ones we'd tackled before. 107 00:05:17,101 --> 00:05:19,117 This wasn't a "whodunnit." 108 00:05:19,137 --> 00:05:21,486 This was a "whydunnit." 109 00:05:21,506 --> 00:05:23,053 More psychological. 110 00:05:23,073 --> 00:05:26,574 I needed to get under my suspects' skin, inside their heads. 111 00:05:27,978 --> 00:05:29,493 I had to let my intuition take over 112 00:05:29,513 --> 00:05:31,996 to draw these disparate strands together. 113 00:05:32,016 --> 00:05:33,534 The missing Stonewall Four. 114 00:05:33,554 --> 00:05:35,432 The "accidental deaths" of DuPont's classmates. 115 00:05:35,452 --> 00:05:38,453 My attempted murder. How were they all connected? 116 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:42,190 A key piece of information came from Hermosa. 117 00:05:43,127 --> 00:05:44,760 Which was that Donna... 118 00:05:46,063 --> 00:05:47,095 Jug? 119 00:05:49,566 --> 00:05:50,598 Jug? 120 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:53,482 Are you okay? 121 00:05:53,502 --> 00:05:56,719 Yeah, sorry, I was just going over everything one more time. 122 00:05:56,739 --> 00:05:59,856 - What's up, did they find him? - Yeah, yes. We did. 123 00:05:59,876 --> 00:06:02,609 - Well, I mean, Charles and FP did. - And did he agree? 124 00:06:03,445 --> 00:06:04,727 Completely. 125 00:06:04,747 --> 00:06:06,781 He's showering as we speak. 126 00:06:08,685 --> 00:06:12,168 - So are we doing this or what? - Oh, yeah. 127 00:06:12,188 --> 00:06:14,989 We are gonna blow Stonewall Prep out of the water. 128 00:06:20,489 --> 00:06:23,921 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 129 00:06:27,858 --> 00:06:29,873 Crime and Punishment. 130 00:06:30,107 --> 00:06:33,676 A novel of murder and its psychological toll. 131 00:06:34,741 --> 00:06:36,655 The floor is open. 132 00:06:36,676 --> 00:06:40,112 Any thoughts regarding Dostoevsky's take on morality? 133 00:06:44,568 --> 00:06:45,634 Hey, guys. 134 00:06:48,383 --> 00:06:49,998 Well, what, did you even miss me? 135 00:06:50,019 --> 00:06:51,334 You gotta be kidding me. 136 00:06:51,355 --> 00:06:52,869 Mr. Jones. 137 00:06:52,889 --> 00:06:55,594 I... I don't understand. We all thought... 138 00:06:55,615 --> 00:06:57,373 That I was dead? Well... 139 00:06:57,394 --> 00:06:59,566 Yeah, actually for a minute there, I did too. 140 00:06:59,586 --> 00:07:00,590 Yeah. 141 00:07:00,610 --> 00:07:03,144 Hey, what's that oft-used Mark Twain quote? 142 00:07:04,335 --> 00:07:06,450 "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." 143 00:07:06,470 --> 00:07:09,052 What is happening right now? 144 00:07:09,072 --> 00:07:12,206 It is called "getting your comeuppance", Joan. 145 00:07:13,276 --> 00:07:15,610 You guys are reading Crime and Punishment, huh? 146 00:07:17,780 --> 00:07:20,481 How apropos. 147 00:07:22,952 --> 00:07:24,712 You know, the one kind of crime story that 148 00:07:24,732 --> 00:07:26,869 we never really touched upon in this seminar 149 00:07:26,889 --> 00:07:30,591 was the time-tested genre of a locked room mystery. 150 00:07:31,894 --> 00:07:34,325 Where all the suspects are sequestered in a room. 151 00:07:34,345 --> 00:07:35,850 One or more of them could be the killer, 152 00:07:35,870 --> 00:07:39,115 but the door is not unlocked until the identity is revealed. 153 00:07:39,135 --> 00:07:40,668 Betty, could you do the honor? 154 00:07:49,078 --> 00:07:51,464 The next bell doesn't ring for half an hour. 155 00:07:51,484 --> 00:07:54,858 So for the next 30 minutes, your asses belong to us. 156 00:07:54,878 --> 00:07:56,443 I knew you weren't really dead. 157 00:07:57,219 --> 00:07:59,468 Good job, Donna. 158 00:07:59,488 --> 00:08:02,180 And yet since you failed to prove it or find Jughead, 159 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,431 we had time to figure out all the twists and turns 160 00:08:04,451 --> 00:08:05,607 of this murder-mystery 161 00:08:05,627 --> 00:08:07,943 that we've all been living for the past few months. 162 00:08:07,963 --> 00:08:09,812 I have no idea what you're talking about. 163 00:08:09,832 --> 00:08:12,012 Don't worry 'cause I'm gonna take you through it, 164 00:08:12,032 --> 00:08:13,631 - step by step. - No, this is ridiculous. 165 00:08:13,651 --> 00:08:15,117 Mr. DuPont, I'm calling security. 166 00:08:15,137 --> 00:08:17,962 Shut the hell up, Bret. Like I said, for the next 30 minutes, 167 00:08:17,982 --> 00:08:20,220 we're in charge. So, give me your cellphones. 168 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,773 - Why the hell... - Joan, just do what she says. 169 00:08:24,645 --> 00:08:26,394 We have nothing to hide. 170 00:08:26,414 --> 00:08:28,830 I'd get comfortable if I were you guys 171 00:08:28,850 --> 00:08:31,432 'cause I'm going to take you through it from the very beginning. 172 00:08:31,452 --> 00:08:35,036 Starting with that very curious fact that both Moose Mason and myself 173 00:08:35,056 --> 00:08:37,656 were invited to Stonewall Prep during our senior year. 174 00:08:40,485 --> 00:08:42,057 Jughead? 175 00:08:42,077 --> 00:08:44,181 Moose! 176 00:08:44,201 --> 00:08:46,080 What the hell? 177 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:47,782 It's good to see you. 178 00:08:47,802 --> 00:08:50,785 Was it like that when you met my grandfather, Forsythe the First? 179 00:08:50,805 --> 00:08:52,620 He was asked to study at Stonewall too. 180 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,356 You were roommates with him, weren't you, Mr. DuPont? 181 00:08:56,376 --> 00:08:57,624 Yes. 182 00:08:57,644 --> 00:09:00,027 And you're very much like him, Mr. Jones. 183 00:09:00,047 --> 00:09:03,697 Your grandfather was an arrogant fool too. 184 00:09:03,717 --> 00:09:07,267 Why do you say that, huh? 185 00:09:07,287 --> 00:09:09,497 Because he had the gall to consider himself worthy 186 00:09:09,517 --> 00:09:10,938 of your little inner circle? 187 00:09:10,958 --> 00:09:13,874 The first iteration of Stonewall's Literary Society. 188 00:09:13,894 --> 00:09:16,109 What exactly is this proving, Mr. Jones? 189 00:09:16,129 --> 00:09:19,213 That this is not a story about a murder. 190 00:09:19,233 --> 00:09:22,901 This is a story about grandparents and their grandchildren. 191 00:09:24,571 --> 00:09:28,472 Of the sins from one generation being passed on to the next. 192 00:09:29,913 --> 00:09:32,318 Cycles of violence. 193 00:09:32,338 --> 00:09:34,543 Which brings me neatly to my next point. 194 00:09:34,563 --> 00:09:35,995 Halloween. 195 00:09:36,015 --> 00:09:38,297 When I was drugged by you psychos. 196 00:09:38,317 --> 00:09:39,583 I think I... 197 00:09:40,419 --> 00:09:42,668 I think I need some air. 198 00:09:42,688 --> 00:09:44,654 No. 199 00:09:45,905 --> 00:09:47,271 You need to lie down. 200 00:09:50,076 --> 00:09:52,324 Say hello to the Stonewall Four for us. 201 00:09:52,344 --> 00:09:56,446 Only to wake up in a coffin and be let out a day later. 202 00:09:59,018 --> 00:10:01,599 To return to my dorm. 203 00:10:01,619 --> 00:10:04,569 Moose, you are not going to believe what Bret... 204 00:10:04,589 --> 00:10:06,622 And find that Moose had vanished. 205 00:10:08,493 --> 00:10:11,085 So naturally, I assumed he went out the same way 206 00:10:11,105 --> 00:10:13,544 as the Stonewall Four, 207 00:10:13,564 --> 00:10:16,414 that group of students that mysteriously vanished 208 00:10:16,434 --> 00:10:19,050 while attending Stonewall Prep over a few decades. 209 00:10:19,070 --> 00:10:20,385 Oh, here we go again. 210 00:10:20,405 --> 00:10:23,433 Now, Moose's fate was more banal. He joined the Army. 211 00:10:23,453 --> 00:10:24,896 But there's a twist! 212 00:10:24,916 --> 00:10:28,260 Mr. Chipping was the one who encouraged Moose to enlist. 213 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,996 But it was more like forced him to. 214 00:10:31,016 --> 00:10:33,198 He was encouraging me to leave. 215 00:10:33,218 --> 00:10:35,766 Until Halloween night, when it became more than a suggestion. 216 00:10:35,786 --> 00:10:37,701 I mean, he practically shoved me out the door. 217 00:10:37,721 --> 00:10:39,765 So, what was the connection between Moose and Chipping 218 00:10:39,785 --> 00:10:41,405 that would make him take his advice? 219 00:10:41,425 --> 00:10:44,608 He recruited me. To play football. 220 00:10:44,628 --> 00:10:47,878 Wait. Mr. Chipping's the reason why you went to Stonewall Prep? 221 00:10:47,898 --> 00:10:51,661 Chipping had recruited Moose the same way he had Jughead 222 00:10:51,681 --> 00:10:54,451 and then ran him out of Stonewall Prep. 223 00:10:54,471 --> 00:10:55,945 Meaning what, exactly? 224 00:10:55,965 --> 00:10:58,689 Meaning Chipping knew Moose was going to get murdered 225 00:10:58,709 --> 00:11:00,786 and was trying to save his life. 226 00:11:00,806 --> 00:11:03,194 And I would remember that next point. It's gonna be on the qu... 227 00:11:03,214 --> 00:11:04,880 - Oh, Mr. J... - Shut up! 228 00:11:06,788 --> 00:11:09,389 Mr. DuPont, as they say in Lord of the Flies, 229 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,353 I have the conch. 230 00:11:16,182 --> 00:11:20,699 Now, after Halloween is when things got really interesting. 231 00:11:20,719 --> 00:11:23,202 See, that's when you announced the writing competition. 232 00:11:23,222 --> 00:11:26,772 Chipping has written the last four Baxter Brothers books. 233 00:11:26,792 --> 00:11:28,574 It's time he pass on the torch. 234 00:11:28,594 --> 00:11:30,548 And someone in this very room 235 00:11:30,568 --> 00:11:33,845 is going to be anointed the next ghostwriter. 236 00:11:33,865 --> 00:11:35,881 You had already taken a shine to me, Mr. DuPont. 237 00:11:35,901 --> 00:11:38,583 You were asking about my father and my grandfather. 238 00:11:38,603 --> 00:11:42,090 Your grandfather was an excellent writer. 239 00:11:42,110 --> 00:11:43,414 Tell me, how's he doing? 240 00:11:43,434 --> 00:11:44,453 Does he still write? 241 00:11:44,473 --> 00:11:47,122 So imagine my surprise... 242 00:11:47,142 --> 00:11:51,126 when I found out that my good-for-nothing drop-out grandfather 243 00:11:51,146 --> 00:11:55,163 had actually written the original Baxter Brothers novel. 244 00:11:55,183 --> 00:11:57,641 Which a young Francis DuPont would then steal from him. 245 00:11:57,661 --> 00:12:00,568 It was a 100% legal transaction. A sale. 246 00:12:00,588 --> 00:12:02,170 It's highway robbery. 247 00:12:02,190 --> 00:12:06,229 A measly five grand for an idea that generated millions of dollars. 248 00:12:06,249 --> 00:12:09,577 You exploited Forsythe, Mr. DuPont. 249 00:12:09,597 --> 00:12:12,679 You took advantage of a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. 250 00:12:12,699 --> 00:12:15,216 And if that secret ever came out, 251 00:12:15,236 --> 00:12:18,219 can you imagine the damage that would do 252 00:12:18,239 --> 00:12:20,954 to the very valuable Baxter Brothers brand? 253 00:12:20,974 --> 00:12:23,657 Hell. 254 00:12:23,677 --> 00:12:26,894 Someone might kill to keep that secret. 255 00:12:26,914 --> 00:12:30,197 Which is exactly what we thought happened with Mr. Chipping. 256 00:12:30,217 --> 00:12:32,599 I told Chipping about my gramps. 257 00:12:32,619 --> 00:12:34,368 And then he talked to you, Mr. DuPont. 258 00:12:34,388 --> 00:12:36,422 And the next day, well... 259 00:12:39,093 --> 00:12:42,464 I think we all remember his dive out the window. 260 00:12:44,063 --> 00:12:45,600 I thought you had urged him to do it. 261 00:12:45,620 --> 00:12:47,402 I thought you had some leverage over Chipping. 262 00:12:47,422 --> 00:12:49,320 I mean, you guys were all part of the same secret society, 263 00:12:49,340 --> 00:12:50,406 Quill and Skull. 264 00:12:51,401 --> 00:12:52,767 But it was actually you guys. 265 00:12:53,995 --> 00:12:56,811 It was your blank expressions 266 00:12:56,831 --> 00:12:58,313 as you watched him jump. 267 00:12:58,333 --> 00:13:00,032 Call an ambulance! 268 00:13:03,605 --> 00:13:04,937 I just couldn't shake it. 269 00:13:07,175 --> 00:13:09,664 That's when I knew there was a deeper game afoot. 270 00:13:09,684 --> 00:13:12,894 No, Chipping suicided 'cause he was messing around with Donna, 271 00:13:12,914 --> 00:13:14,794 she ended it, and he short-circuited. 272 00:13:14,814 --> 00:13:16,331 Except... 273 00:13:16,351 --> 00:13:20,434 they never really had a physical relationship. 274 00:13:20,454 --> 00:13:22,270 Isn't that right, Donna? 275 00:13:22,290 --> 00:13:24,405 We had an affair and it got out of hand. 276 00:13:24,425 --> 00:13:25,807 Mmm-hmm. 277 00:13:25,827 --> 00:13:28,642 Yes, an affair that went down exactly 278 00:13:28,662 --> 00:13:32,588 like the affair that you had with Mr. Kotter. 279 00:13:32,608 --> 00:13:35,642 - Uh... - Except, I looked into it and... 280 00:13:36,503 --> 00:13:39,220 turns out there is no Mr. Kotter. 281 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,223 - Rupert, Rupert had demons. - Oh, he did. 282 00:13:42,243 --> 00:13:45,044 Mrs. Chipping filled us in on all of those. 283 00:13:46,447 --> 00:13:50,564 Yeah, she said that he had been drinking more. 284 00:13:50,584 --> 00:13:51,833 And having trouble sleeping. 285 00:13:51,853 --> 00:13:54,535 ... complaining about the Baxter Brothers books. 286 00:13:54,555 --> 00:13:56,955 Wishing he'd never gotten the contract. 287 00:13:57,858 --> 00:13:59,373 So then, we started to ask ourselves, 288 00:13:59,393 --> 00:14:02,008 what would turn the opportunity of a lifetime, 289 00:14:02,028 --> 00:14:05,379 winning the Baxter Brothers contract, into a burden? 290 00:14:05,399 --> 00:14:07,599 An albatross? Any ideas? 291 00:14:09,436 --> 00:14:14,020 Your ghostwriter challenge was to devise the perfect murder. 292 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,756 What if the real challenge, 293 00:14:15,776 --> 00:14:18,188 the real price that someone had to pay 294 00:14:18,208 --> 00:14:20,627 was to commit the perfect murder? 295 00:14:20,647 --> 00:14:23,281 In order to prove that you could write it, first you had to do it. 296 00:14:24,618 --> 00:14:28,589 I mean, it kind of makes a twisted, pathological sense, no? 297 00:14:28,609 --> 00:14:31,905 And that's what was tormenting Mr. Chipping. 298 00:14:31,925 --> 00:14:33,473 The guilt of what he had done, 299 00:14:33,493 --> 00:14:37,277 the blood that he had shed, in order to win the contract. 300 00:14:37,297 --> 00:14:40,380 Mr. Chipping invited Moose to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim. 301 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,616 To be killed by the next ghostwriter. One of you. 302 00:14:43,636 --> 00:14:46,853 And Moose was the perfect candidate. 303 00:14:46,873 --> 00:14:49,089 I mean, he was a messed-up kid, he had no family, 304 00:14:49,109 --> 00:14:50,790 he couldn't handle the stresses of life. 305 00:14:50,810 --> 00:14:55,495 After my dad was arrested for impersonating the Gargoyle King, 306 00:14:55,515 --> 00:15:00,233 it, uh, kinda blew up my life, my family, everything. 307 00:15:00,253 --> 00:15:03,169 I even ended up in a facility for a couple of months. 308 00:15:03,189 --> 00:15:05,390 Chipping ran Moose out of town. 309 00:15:06,159 --> 00:15:07,840 You said it yourself. 310 00:15:07,860 --> 00:15:09,108 Good, you remember. 311 00:15:09,128 --> 00:15:11,277 Okay, we think Chipping couldn't go through with it. 312 00:15:11,297 --> 00:15:15,615 And-or, maybe he just wanted to atone for what he had done. 313 00:15:15,635 --> 00:15:17,116 I mean, whatever the reason. 314 00:15:17,136 --> 00:15:19,452 He ran Moose the hell away from Stonewall Prep 315 00:15:19,472 --> 00:15:22,072 and then killed himself, it was his only escape. 316 00:15:22,942 --> 00:15:25,874 Pure demented conjecture. 317 00:15:25,894 --> 00:15:29,639 Well, yes and no. Chipping's behavior is hypothesis, but if proven, 318 00:15:29,659 --> 00:15:31,322 it shows a pattern 319 00:15:31,342 --> 00:15:33,666 of how the previous ghostwriters won their contract. 320 00:15:33,686 --> 00:15:37,369 Same year, same month as Chipping was awarded his contract, 321 00:15:37,389 --> 00:15:38,971 a Stonewall student disappeared. 322 00:15:38,991 --> 00:15:41,058 One of the so-called Stonewall Four. 323 00:15:43,929 --> 00:15:47,497 We believe this student was murdered by Mr. Chipping. 324 00:15:52,537 --> 00:15:54,956 Ryan Allan, the previous ghostwriter, 325 00:15:54,976 --> 00:15:56,788 who took up the mantle the same month 326 00:15:56,808 --> 00:15:58,875 another one of the Stonewall Four disappeared. 327 00:16:00,244 --> 00:16:03,161 The sequence holds true for every ghostwriter who preceded them. 328 00:16:03,181 --> 00:16:05,943 It's... It's actually incredibly simple. 329 00:16:05,963 --> 00:16:07,281 Which brings us 330 00:16:07,301 --> 00:16:10,401 to a couple months ago, when I was awarded the contract. 331 00:16:10,421 --> 00:16:11,621 But why? 332 00:16:12,524 --> 00:16:14,705 To put a target on my back. 333 00:16:14,725 --> 00:16:17,208 Probably because I was already circling the truth, 334 00:16:17,228 --> 00:16:19,978 so he gave you guys a new challenge. 335 00:16:19,998 --> 00:16:22,764 To commit the perfect murder, against me, 336 00:16:23,701 --> 00:16:26,750 and be awarded the contract. 337 00:16:26,770 --> 00:16:29,771 So, the million dollar question is... 338 00:16:30,774 --> 00:16:34,943 who was going to kill Jughead? And how? 339 00:16:40,831 --> 00:16:44,831 So, which one of you heartless bastards killed me? 340 00:16:46,926 --> 00:16:50,208 It was actually Mr. DuPont that gave me a clue. 341 00:16:50,229 --> 00:16:52,868 When I asked who had re-written my Baxter Brothers novel, 342 00:16:52,889 --> 00:16:54,789 you told me they all had a crack at it. 343 00:16:55,244 --> 00:16:57,549 Well, actually, 344 00:16:57,570 --> 00:17:00,450 all of your classmates collaborated on it. 345 00:17:00,471 --> 00:17:01,893 And that suggested to me 346 00:17:01,914 --> 00:17:03,632 that each one of you had a hand in my murder. 347 00:17:03,653 --> 00:17:06,643 - Oh, this should be good. - Donna, you kept Betty busy. 348 00:17:09,604 --> 00:17:11,119 Oh, good, you made it. 349 00:17:11,139 --> 00:17:13,355 Bret, you led me deeper into the woods, 350 00:17:13,375 --> 00:17:16,509 where I took off the bunny mask I was wearing and put on my beanie. 351 00:17:19,013 --> 00:17:20,771 And was it that beanie 352 00:17:20,791 --> 00:17:23,294 that kept my head from being completely cracked open 353 00:17:23,314 --> 00:17:25,366 when Joan crept up behind me... 354 00:17:25,386 --> 00:17:27,502 and hit me with a baseball-sized rock? 355 00:17:27,522 --> 00:17:29,534 What? How do you know it was me? 356 00:17:29,554 --> 00:17:30,622 Why couldn't it have been Jonathan? 357 00:17:30,642 --> 00:17:33,708 Well, I don't recall Jonathan wearing your perfume. 358 00:17:33,728 --> 00:17:36,276 Yeah, where... Where is Jonathan again? 359 00:17:36,296 --> 00:17:39,213 Or did you kill him because he started to develop a conscience? 360 00:17:39,233 --> 00:17:42,082 He had food poisoning, he still has food poisoning. 361 00:17:42,102 --> 00:17:44,151 Okay, Jonathan aside, 362 00:17:44,171 --> 00:17:47,834 you had a fool-proof plan, air-tight alibis. 363 00:17:47,854 --> 00:17:51,288 It all should have worked so perfectly, but it didn't. 364 00:17:53,212 --> 00:17:54,928 - Why? - Because in all your plotting, 365 00:17:54,948 --> 00:17:57,363 all of your lurid conspiring and your brilliance, 366 00:17:57,383 --> 00:17:59,098 you didn't kill me. 367 00:17:59,118 --> 00:18:01,034 I mean, whose job was it to check my pulse? 368 00:18:01,054 --> 00:18:02,054 Jonathan! 369 00:18:06,868 --> 00:18:08,573 Oh, you Einsteins. 370 00:18:08,593 --> 00:18:10,697 All you had to do was hit me in the back of the head 371 00:18:10,717 --> 00:18:12,646 hard enough with a rock. 372 00:18:12,666 --> 00:18:14,180 You failed spectacularly. 373 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,883 Yeah, meanwhile, Donna was blowing Devil's Breath in my face 374 00:18:16,903 --> 00:18:19,336 to set me up as the ultimate fall-girl. 375 00:18:22,175 --> 00:18:23,757 Devil's Breath? Really? 376 00:18:23,777 --> 00:18:25,973 Yeah, the technical term being scopolamine, 377 00:18:25,993 --> 00:18:28,854 which leaves a person highly suggestive and in a drunken state. 378 00:18:28,874 --> 00:18:32,267 Which is why I don't remember when Donna led me into the clearing 379 00:18:32,287 --> 00:18:35,571 where Jughead's body was and placed the bloody rock in my hand, 380 00:18:35,591 --> 00:18:39,472 leaving me literally red-handed with the murder weapon. 381 00:18:39,492 --> 00:18:42,942 After which, the four of you returned to the party 382 00:18:42,962 --> 00:18:45,811 and ran into Archie and Veronica. 383 00:18:45,831 --> 00:18:49,100 Hey, have you guys seen Betty and Jughead? 384 00:18:49,935 --> 00:18:51,584 I think they went that way, 385 00:18:51,604 --> 00:18:53,571 into the clearing behind those trees. 386 00:18:57,510 --> 00:18:58,642 Thanks. 387 00:19:04,149 --> 00:19:06,750 And pointed them to where you knew they would find me. 388 00:19:07,886 --> 00:19:09,635 Standing over Jughead's corpse. 389 00:19:09,655 --> 00:19:11,604 Oh, my God, Betty, what happened? 390 00:19:11,624 --> 00:19:13,857 Jug! Is he breathing? 391 00:19:19,598 --> 00:19:20,831 He's dead. 392 00:19:22,067 --> 00:19:26,318 At which point, one of two scenarios could've played out. 393 00:19:26,338 --> 00:19:31,624 One, Archie and Veronica could turn me in. 394 00:19:31,644 --> 00:19:33,863 Two, 395 00:19:33,883 --> 00:19:38,362 they could help me cover up the "murder" that I had just committed. 396 00:19:38,382 --> 00:19:40,598 Either way, I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. 397 00:19:40,618 --> 00:19:43,868 But honestly, you guys could've gotten away with it too. 398 00:19:43,888 --> 00:19:47,171 Yeah, except, again... 399 00:19:47,191 --> 00:19:48,572 You guys didn't kill me. 400 00:19:48,592 --> 00:19:52,677 - Archie... - Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 401 00:19:52,697 --> 00:19:54,030 Betty, what happened? 402 00:19:59,470 --> 00:20:02,586 All right, start pounding on his chest. Right now, okay? 403 00:20:02,606 --> 00:20:04,624 Vee, use the beanie to stop the bleeding. 404 00:20:04,644 --> 00:20:08,146 Go, one, two, three, four, five. 405 00:20:11,114 --> 00:20:13,496 - Come on, Jug. - ... four, five... 406 00:20:13,516 --> 00:20:15,850 Come on, come on, Jug! Come on! 407 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:19,220 - Betty, he's... - Come back to me, Jug. 408 00:20:22,125 --> 00:20:24,675 Jug, hey, hey, hey. 409 00:20:24,695 --> 00:20:26,977 Hey, we're gonna get you to a hospital, okay? 410 00:20:26,997 --> 00:20:28,730 No... No hospital. 411 00:20:30,273 --> 00:20:32,717 Hey, stay awake, stay with me, please, Jug. 412 00:20:32,737 --> 00:20:34,699 Hey. Stay awake, okay? 413 00:20:35,772 --> 00:20:39,056 Though I didn't regain consciousness for another 36 hours. 414 00:20:39,076 --> 00:20:41,776 The worst 36 hours of my life. 415 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,063 Why would you say that, Jones? 416 00:20:47,083 --> 00:20:51,251 "No hospital." Why would a man on death's door say that? 417 00:20:52,321 --> 00:20:55,037 I honestly don't know. 418 00:20:55,057 --> 00:20:56,976 Maybe I had some small feeling 419 00:20:56,996 --> 00:20:59,341 that you were going to try and frame Betty. 420 00:20:59,361 --> 00:21:01,595 And I wanted her to have a fighting chance. 421 00:21:05,334 --> 00:21:08,405 I'm... I'm calling Charles, I'm calling Charles. 422 00:21:08,425 --> 00:21:11,553 - What? Why? - We can trust him. He'll help us, okay? 423 00:21:11,573 --> 00:21:12,606 Hey, Jug. 424 00:21:15,778 --> 00:21:19,293 Charles, I'm in the woods with Archie and Veronica. 425 00:21:19,313 --> 00:21:22,396 Jughead, he's hurt really badly, we need help. 426 00:21:22,416 --> 00:21:24,899 We need your help, please! 427 00:21:24,919 --> 00:21:28,449 We carried Jug through the woods to the old postal road, 428 00:21:28,469 --> 00:21:33,005 where my brother Charles was waiting for us with an FBI med-van. 429 00:21:36,865 --> 00:21:39,513 - What happened to him, Betty? - A head wound. 430 00:21:39,533 --> 00:21:42,650 We slowed the bleeding, we did chest compressions and CPR. 431 00:21:42,670 --> 00:21:43,752 You think he's gonna make it? 432 00:21:43,772 --> 00:21:44,853 We're gonna do everything that we can. 433 00:21:44,873 --> 00:21:46,087 What about us? What do we do? 434 00:21:46,107 --> 00:21:48,156 Go back to where you found him. Clean the scene. 435 00:21:48,176 --> 00:21:49,627 Make absolutely certain 436 00:21:49,647 --> 00:21:50,992 that you don't leave anything behind, all right? 437 00:21:51,012 --> 00:21:52,726 Also, your clothes are covered with blood. 438 00:21:52,746 --> 00:21:54,928 You need to get rid of those and get washed up, okay? 439 00:21:54,948 --> 00:21:56,214 Okay. 440 00:22:03,824 --> 00:22:05,973 And then we did what Charles asked. 441 00:22:05,993 --> 00:22:08,441 We went back to the clearing. 442 00:22:08,461 --> 00:22:11,062 Threw the bloody rock in the swimming hole. 443 00:22:12,132 --> 00:22:14,948 Took off our clothes and started a bonfire. 444 00:22:14,968 --> 00:22:16,549 What happens if he doesn't make it? 445 00:22:16,569 --> 00:22:17,803 He'll make it. 446 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:20,505 But what if he doesn't? 447 00:22:21,574 --> 00:22:22,707 He will. 448 00:22:25,544 --> 00:22:28,679 But if he doesn't, then... 449 00:22:30,482 --> 00:22:33,918 Archie... Archie? 450 00:22:35,188 --> 00:22:38,655 - Archie! You listening to me? - Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 451 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:44,761 We have to burn all of our clothes including Jughead's beanie. 452 00:22:46,999 --> 00:22:49,399 We'll rinse off the blood in the swimming hole. 453 00:22:51,670 --> 00:22:54,187 After tonight, we never speak of this. Ever. 454 00:22:54,207 --> 00:22:57,441 Not to each other, not to our parents. No one. 455 00:22:58,376 --> 00:23:01,626 We'll finish our senior year, graduate, 456 00:23:01,646 --> 00:23:02,961 and we'll go our separate ways. 457 00:23:02,981 --> 00:23:05,681 That is the only way that we won't get caught. 458 00:23:09,787 --> 00:23:10,920 Do it. 459 00:23:17,863 --> 00:23:21,246 That is how it'll have to be if Jug doesn't make it. 460 00:23:21,266 --> 00:23:24,015 But it won't come to that. He will pull through. 461 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:25,434 He has to. 462 00:23:26,437 --> 00:23:29,205 And then, we went home. 463 00:23:31,876 --> 00:23:35,125 And what happened next was a waking nightmare. 464 00:23:35,145 --> 00:23:39,096 Not knowing if or when Jughead was going to wake up, 465 00:23:39,116 --> 00:23:42,499 and wondering if I had actually been responsible. 466 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:45,435 Wait, but we saw Jughead's corpse at the coroner's office. 467 00:23:45,455 --> 00:23:46,670 Was he in on it? 468 00:23:46,690 --> 00:23:48,623 Who? Dr. Curdle Jr.? 469 00:23:49,593 --> 00:23:53,744 Yeah, mmm-hmm, yeah. We go way back. 470 00:23:53,764 --> 00:23:57,348 You see, Bret, in a town like Riverdale, 471 00:23:57,368 --> 00:23:59,616 everybody's got a price. 472 00:23:59,636 --> 00:24:02,905 And that includes our friendly neighborhood doctor of death. 473 00:24:05,209 --> 00:24:06,559 And while Betty 474 00:24:06,579 --> 00:24:09,128 was keeping you guys busy with a game of cat-and-mouse, 475 00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:10,460 I was in the underground bunker 476 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,029 untangling this Gordian knot of a year. 477 00:24:13,049 --> 00:24:16,699 And it is crazy how much untangling you can get done 478 00:24:16,719 --> 00:24:18,234 when everyone thinks you're dead. 479 00:24:18,254 --> 00:24:21,371 Which brings us, basically, to today. 480 00:24:21,391 --> 00:24:23,590 So, Mr. DuPont, 481 00:24:24,994 --> 00:24:27,494 the floor is open. What do you think? 482 00:24:29,032 --> 00:24:31,132 Oh, Mr. Jones... 483 00:24:33,002 --> 00:24:34,683 "A" for effort. 484 00:24:34,703 --> 00:24:35,818 If nothing else, 485 00:24:35,838 --> 00:24:38,541 this fiction is significantly more entertaining 486 00:24:38,561 --> 00:24:41,190 than anything you ever produced for my class. 487 00:24:41,210 --> 00:24:42,758 Oh, did I forget to mention 488 00:24:42,778 --> 00:24:45,861 that Betty and I went and saw the Baxter Brothers ghostwriters? 489 00:24:45,881 --> 00:24:50,566 And when we told them our theory, they all asked for their lawyers. 490 00:24:50,586 --> 00:24:52,802 What if you did track them down? 491 00:24:52,822 --> 00:24:55,188 And even if you found one who corroborated 492 00:24:55,208 --> 00:24:57,665 your wild theories in some vague way, 493 00:24:57,685 --> 00:25:01,577 then you will know that I never explicitly directed 494 00:25:01,597 --> 00:25:04,413 my students or mentees to do anything criminal. 495 00:25:04,433 --> 00:25:05,948 Oh. 496 00:25:05,968 --> 00:25:09,418 What a canny serial killer you are, Mr. DuPont. 497 00:25:09,438 --> 00:25:11,687 But we haven't even gotten to the best part. 498 00:25:11,707 --> 00:25:17,191 Specifically, the three members of your original literary society... 499 00:25:17,211 --> 00:25:18,744 who you murdered. 500 00:25:20,281 --> 00:25:24,650 Jane Dallas Brown, Charles W. Chickens, Theodore Weisel... 501 00:25:26,888 --> 00:25:28,261 There it is. 502 00:25:28,281 --> 00:25:30,656 Let's loop back to the original sin, shall we? 503 00:25:30,676 --> 00:25:32,974 When Mr. DuPont stole, and I do mean stole, 504 00:25:32,994 --> 00:25:35,195 my grandfather's original Baxter Brothers novel. 505 00:25:35,215 --> 00:25:36,987 A fact known to you, Mr. DuPont, 506 00:25:37,007 --> 00:25:38,412 and of course, Jughead's grandfather 507 00:25:38,432 --> 00:25:42,334 but also to your inner circle, your classmates. 508 00:25:43,805 --> 00:25:46,629 The corrupt secret at the heart of an empire. 509 00:25:46,649 --> 00:25:48,456 Although it wasn't an empire just yet. 510 00:25:48,476 --> 00:25:51,758 It was a house of cards that you built over many decades. 511 00:25:51,778 --> 00:25:53,361 And the bigger it got, 512 00:25:53,381 --> 00:25:56,197 the more worried you became that one little slip of the tongue 513 00:25:56,217 --> 00:25:58,299 would send the whole thing tumbling down. 514 00:25:58,319 --> 00:26:01,302 Your life's work would be revealed as a lie, 515 00:26:01,322 --> 00:26:03,604 and you as a fraud. 516 00:26:03,624 --> 00:26:05,473 And a thief. 517 00:26:05,493 --> 00:26:06,807 A man of dishonor. 518 00:26:06,827 --> 00:26:09,176 So, you started going after people who knew the truth 519 00:26:09,196 --> 00:26:13,714 and started staging their accidental deaths. 520 00:26:13,734 --> 00:26:19,086 You cut brakes. You tampered with fuselages. 521 00:26:19,106 --> 00:26:21,522 You compromised oxygen tanks. 522 00:26:21,542 --> 00:26:23,524 Until there was only one living member 523 00:26:23,544 --> 00:26:26,192 of your literary society left. 524 00:26:26,212 --> 00:26:29,781 Betty, I think it's time we let in our guests. 525 00:26:30,584 --> 00:26:31,917 With pleasure. 526 00:26:51,471 --> 00:26:54,172 - Forsythe. - Live and in the flesh. 527 00:26:55,408 --> 00:26:57,057 Hello, Francis. 528 00:26:57,077 --> 00:26:59,259 Why don't you tell him what you told us, Grandpa? 529 00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:02,613 Weisel came to see me before he died. 530 00:27:03,983 --> 00:27:05,483 He hadn't slept for days. 531 00:27:06,919 --> 00:27:12,338 He told me that you killed Charles and Jane 532 00:27:12,358 --> 00:27:15,141 'cause they were gonna spill the truth 533 00:27:15,161 --> 00:27:17,061 about the damn Baxter Brothers. 534 00:27:18,764 --> 00:27:21,694 He said we knew too much and you were gonna off us, too. 535 00:27:21,714 --> 00:27:25,518 You and I both know Theodore was a paranoid drunk. 536 00:27:25,538 --> 00:27:28,188 But two days later, 537 00:27:28,208 --> 00:27:32,876 the expert diver drowned in shallow water. 538 00:27:34,413 --> 00:27:37,747 So he was right, and I was next. 539 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,752 So, I went out for a pack of cigarettes... 540 00:27:45,023 --> 00:27:47,339 and never came back. 541 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,476 What were you doing off-grid since 2002, exactly? 542 00:27:50,496 --> 00:27:53,678 Collecting evidence that linked Francis here 543 00:27:53,698 --> 00:27:57,421 with the murders of Charles and Jane and Theodore. 544 00:27:57,441 --> 00:28:02,521 I started by calling hotels and motels near the accident sites. 545 00:28:02,541 --> 00:28:04,256 You know what the one thing I couldn't figure out 546 00:28:04,276 --> 00:28:06,057 at first was, Mr. DuPont? 547 00:28:06,077 --> 00:28:09,427 That if Moose was invited to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim, 548 00:28:09,447 --> 00:28:11,080 then why was I also invited? 549 00:28:13,018 --> 00:28:15,000 I was bait 550 00:28:15,020 --> 00:28:16,968 to lure my grandfather out of hiding 551 00:28:16,988 --> 00:28:19,203 so you could finish the job that you started. 552 00:28:19,223 --> 00:28:22,540 Took off like a coward after Jughead found me. 553 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,056 But, to my old man's credit, 554 00:28:24,076 --> 00:28:26,011 when Charles and I found him the second time, 555 00:28:26,031 --> 00:28:28,613 and he heard what happened to his grandson, 556 00:28:28,633 --> 00:28:31,259 he figured it was finally time to take your ass down. 557 00:28:31,279 --> 00:28:33,551 While you were in here playing Agatha Christie, 558 00:28:33,571 --> 00:28:36,354 my team was combing through DuPont's house for the last hour. 559 00:28:36,374 --> 00:28:38,303 Now, given the trophies of your victims 560 00:28:38,323 --> 00:28:40,224 that we found in your hollowed out OED, 561 00:28:40,244 --> 00:28:43,361 and your ghostwriters lawyering up, 562 00:28:43,381 --> 00:28:46,096 not to mention Forsythe's detective work... 563 00:28:46,116 --> 00:28:49,084 Well, why don't you tell him? 564 00:28:51,255 --> 00:28:52,588 It's over, Francis. 565 00:28:56,894 --> 00:29:01,797 You... call me a thief and a coward. 566 00:29:03,133 --> 00:29:05,015 I'm not. 567 00:29:05,035 --> 00:29:06,651 I'm a builder. 568 00:29:06,671 --> 00:29:08,719 I built the Baxter Brothers franchise 569 00:29:08,739 --> 00:29:11,789 and with that money, I helped build this school. 570 00:29:11,809 --> 00:29:13,891 Without me, neither would exist. 571 00:29:13,911 --> 00:29:15,693 Francis DuPont, you have the right to remain silent. 572 00:29:15,713 --> 00:29:18,495 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 573 00:29:18,515 --> 00:29:23,067 Never. A writer's power is in his words. 574 00:29:23,087 --> 00:29:26,269 Only the meek and the timid choose silence. 575 00:29:26,289 --> 00:29:29,791 Oh, I am a man of honor. 576 00:29:34,235 --> 00:29:35,435 To the end. 577 00:29:55,184 --> 00:30:00,102 After that, it was a matter of dotting I's and crossing T's. 578 00:30:00,123 --> 00:30:03,257 We obtained these text exchanges between you and Donna. 579 00:30:04,069 --> 00:30:07,129 Donna was manipulating you, Joan. 580 00:30:07,150 --> 00:30:08,854 She tricked you into doing her dirty work 581 00:30:08,875 --> 00:30:11,458 so her hands would remain clean. 582 00:30:11,488 --> 00:30:12,936 Don't protect her. 583 00:30:12,957 --> 00:30:15,095 I'll see to it that you get a reduced sentence. 584 00:30:15,116 --> 00:30:18,384 Agent Smith, you have nothing to offer me. 585 00:30:21,864 --> 00:30:24,736 Reminder, my father is an ambassador 586 00:30:24,756 --> 00:30:26,599 and I have diplomatic immunity. 587 00:30:26,619 --> 00:30:28,434 If you leave the country now, 588 00:30:28,454 --> 00:30:30,002 you won't ever be able to return. 589 00:30:30,022 --> 00:30:32,657 And your friends, they'll take all the heat. 590 00:30:33,660 --> 00:30:35,092 They're not my friends. 591 00:30:44,036 --> 00:30:46,952 Hey, why did you lie to Jughead? 592 00:30:46,972 --> 00:30:49,607 You told him Bret had diplomatic immunity, but it was Joan. 593 00:30:50,943 --> 00:30:52,825 I... I lied to Jughead 594 00:30:52,845 --> 00:30:56,513 because I was trying to keep him from antagonizing Bret. 595 00:30:58,083 --> 00:31:00,900 You know it was Bret's idea to kill Jughead. 596 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,903 Uh-huh. How did you get Mr. Chipping's tie pin? 597 00:31:03,923 --> 00:31:07,039 And don't tell me that you were having an affair. 598 00:31:07,059 --> 00:31:08,591 No one's buying that story anymore. 599 00:31:09,695 --> 00:31:11,428 Mr. DuPont gave it to me. 600 00:31:12,898 --> 00:31:15,908 Said I had to lie to the headmaster, 601 00:31:15,928 --> 00:31:18,367 so that Mr. Chipping's death would be ruled a suicide 602 00:31:18,387 --> 00:31:19,947 and people would stop asking questions. 603 00:31:21,941 --> 00:31:26,624 But I'm just glad that the real monster behind all of this, 604 00:31:26,644 --> 00:31:28,878 Mr. DuPont, has paid for his crimes. 605 00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:34,332 You have a known history of antagonizing Jughead. 606 00:31:34,352 --> 00:31:36,860 Witnesses saw you walking with him into the woods 607 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,006 the night he was attacked. 608 00:31:38,026 --> 00:31:40,126 Have I actually been charged with a crime? 609 00:31:41,431 --> 00:31:43,880 You're facing hard time for both attempted murder 610 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:47,117 and the creation and possession of illegally recorded sex tapes 611 00:31:47,137 --> 00:31:49,186 featuring fellow students. 612 00:31:49,206 --> 00:31:51,754 Including Jughead and Betty. 613 00:31:51,774 --> 00:31:57,026 Now, I'm willing to reduce your charge to only attempted murder 614 00:31:57,046 --> 00:31:59,463 if you turn over your collection of videotapes. 615 00:31:59,483 --> 00:32:01,564 Here's my counter-offer, 616 00:32:01,584 --> 00:32:04,366 reduce my charge to conspiracy after the fact, 617 00:32:04,386 --> 00:32:07,436 which my lawyer will plead down to community service, 618 00:32:07,456 --> 00:32:10,239 or Betty and Jughead's puerile sex tape 619 00:32:10,259 --> 00:32:12,945 will be released to the world wide web. 620 00:32:12,965 --> 00:32:15,232 Hmm. Let me think it over. 621 00:32:26,604 --> 00:32:27,971 That was quick. 622 00:32:36,285 --> 00:32:37,517 What the hell is this? 623 00:32:38,823 --> 00:32:40,289 The counter to your counter. 624 00:32:45,596 --> 00:32:49,547 I understand you've decided to co-operate with our investigation 625 00:32:49,567 --> 00:32:51,767 and reveal the location of your illicit videotapes. 626 00:32:52,770 --> 00:32:53,902 Is that correct? 627 00:32:56,374 --> 00:33:00,124 Hidden in a secret compartment behind Stonewall's crest 628 00:33:00,144 --> 00:33:03,594 was a treasure trove of dark secrets. 629 00:33:03,614 --> 00:33:05,763 Illegally recorded videotapes, 630 00:33:05,783 --> 00:33:09,667 more fuel to add to the firestorm of controversy that is consuming 631 00:33:09,687 --> 00:33:13,070 one of the country's oldest and more prestigious prep schools. 632 00:33:13,090 --> 00:33:15,505 For now, Stonewall Prep's doors remain open, 633 00:33:15,525 --> 00:33:19,209 but its secret society Quill and Skull has been disbanded. 634 00:33:19,229 --> 00:33:23,380 For RIVW news, this is Alice Smith. 635 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,900 It's good to be back, Riverdale. 636 00:33:27,937 --> 00:33:29,319 Thank you. Thank you very much. 637 00:33:29,339 --> 00:33:31,254 Your report came out really good, Mom. 638 00:33:31,274 --> 00:33:34,091 Oh, thanks, honey. I had a lot of help from an inside source. 639 00:33:34,111 --> 00:33:35,943 - Mmm-hmm. - Mmm-hmm? 640 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,229 - I'm gonna head out. - Yeah. 641 00:33:39,249 --> 00:33:41,289 Wait. Where are you going? We're about to have cake. 642 00:33:43,685 --> 00:33:46,068 Um, I will be back soon, okay? 643 00:33:46,088 --> 00:33:49,323 I just have one last T to cross. 644 00:33:55,364 --> 00:33:56,830 Hello, Donna. 645 00:33:57,866 --> 00:33:59,081 Going somewhere? 646 00:33:59,101 --> 00:34:02,451 If you must know, I'm transferring to a new school. 647 00:34:02,471 --> 00:34:04,153 Well, I'm glad I caught you then. 648 00:34:04,173 --> 00:34:06,347 I wanted to congratulate you personally. 649 00:34:06,367 --> 00:34:09,091 Jughead and I heard that you're taking over the Baxter Brothers. 650 00:34:09,111 --> 00:34:11,078 The brand is relaunching. 651 00:34:12,081 --> 00:34:13,514 As Tracy True. 652 00:34:15,384 --> 00:34:16,550 Jealous? 653 00:34:17,786 --> 00:34:19,462 Your plan worked, Donna. 654 00:34:19,482 --> 00:34:23,739 You managed to get everyone else to do the actual dirty work. 655 00:34:23,759 --> 00:34:25,140 Hell, even DuPont's dead. 656 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,711 You covered your tracks extremely well. 657 00:34:29,731 --> 00:34:31,264 Betty... 658 00:34:33,201 --> 00:34:36,251 Are you really so delusional 659 00:34:36,271 --> 00:34:39,485 you would believe I would mastermind some 660 00:34:39,505 --> 00:34:41,023 elaborate conspiracy 661 00:34:41,043 --> 00:34:43,641 that caused the deaths of multiple people 662 00:34:43,661 --> 00:34:46,361 just to win a YA book contract? 663 00:34:48,984 --> 00:34:50,116 No. 664 00:34:51,086 --> 00:34:53,234 But you would do it for revenge. 665 00:34:53,254 --> 00:34:55,736 Oh, really? 666 00:34:55,756 --> 00:34:58,591 - Revenge for what? - The murder of your grandmother. 667 00:35:00,359 --> 00:35:02,007 Jane Dallas Brown. 668 00:35:02,027 --> 00:35:03,875 One of the classmates DuPont killed 669 00:35:03,895 --> 00:35:07,230 to cover up the ugly truth that he didn't create the Baxter Brothers. 670 00:35:08,221 --> 00:35:09,425 She was your grandmother. 671 00:35:09,445 --> 00:35:11,149 How could you possibly know that? 672 00:35:11,169 --> 00:35:13,151 A friend of a friend told me. 673 00:35:13,171 --> 00:35:15,787 You dedicated yourself to getting into Stonewall Prep 674 00:35:15,807 --> 00:35:17,456 and getting into Chipping's class 675 00:35:17,476 --> 00:35:21,611 and each step brought you ever closer to your grandmother's killer. 676 00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:25,030 You wanted revenge. 677 00:35:25,050 --> 00:35:27,632 So what was the original plan, Donna? 678 00:35:27,652 --> 00:35:31,402 Win the contract no matter how many people had to die? 679 00:35:31,422 --> 00:35:34,639 And then stage an accident that would take care of DuPont 680 00:35:34,659 --> 00:35:38,075 so you could tear down the house that he built? 681 00:35:38,095 --> 00:35:39,795 Fascinating theory, Betty. 682 00:35:40,865 --> 00:35:42,747 You've left out one minor detail. 683 00:35:42,767 --> 00:35:46,484 DuPont didn't merely kill my grandmother. 684 00:35:46,504 --> 00:35:48,319 He stole from her. 685 00:35:48,339 --> 00:35:50,305 The same way he did from Forsythe. 686 00:35:52,644 --> 00:35:54,258 Tracy True. 687 00:35:54,278 --> 00:35:55,928 The female teen detective 688 00:35:55,948 --> 00:35:58,004 who was introduced in the Baxter Brothers' books. 689 00:35:59,283 --> 00:36:02,133 She was your grandmother's invention. 690 00:36:02,153 --> 00:36:06,670 Now I've taken Tracy back and DuPont is rotting in a grave. 691 00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:08,339 Huh. 692 00:36:08,359 --> 00:36:11,142 How did you really find out about my grandmother? 693 00:36:11,162 --> 00:36:12,643 A private investigator. 694 00:36:12,663 --> 00:36:15,979 At my behest, Hermosa put her private eye skills to good use 695 00:36:15,999 --> 00:36:18,715 and did some digging on those Stonewall WASPs. 696 00:36:18,735 --> 00:36:22,237 And your gal pal Donna is not so sweet. 697 00:36:23,274 --> 00:36:25,356 ... who supplied us with the medical files 698 00:36:25,376 --> 00:36:29,993 that confirmed that you are the granddaughter of Jane Dallas Brown. 699 00:36:30,013 --> 00:36:32,062 Which gives the police a motive 700 00:36:32,082 --> 00:36:39,036 and links this entire web of death back to you. 701 00:36:39,056 --> 00:36:40,989 It's circumstantial at best. 702 00:36:42,593 --> 00:36:44,325 But I'll play one last round. 703 00:36:45,662 --> 00:36:46,795 What do you want, Betty? 704 00:36:49,066 --> 00:36:52,816 I want you to walk away from the Tracy True contract. 705 00:36:52,836 --> 00:36:54,685 Why in God's name would I do that? 706 00:36:54,705 --> 00:36:56,987 Fictional though she may be, 707 00:36:57,007 --> 00:36:59,289 Tracy deserves better, 708 00:36:59,309 --> 00:37:01,625 as does the memory of your grandmother. 709 00:37:01,645 --> 00:37:04,594 And you certainly don't deserve to profit 710 00:37:04,614 --> 00:37:07,514 off the near-death of my boyfriend. 711 00:37:09,585 --> 00:37:10,718 Or... 712 00:37:11,754 --> 00:37:15,204 don't walk away. That's fine. 713 00:37:15,224 --> 00:37:18,074 But I will make sure every newspaper of every major city 714 00:37:18,094 --> 00:37:19,994 gets a copy of that medical file. 715 00:37:25,635 --> 00:37:28,201 You play nice from now on, Donna. 716 00:37:30,506 --> 00:37:32,305 I'll be keeping an eye on you. 717 00:37:52,611 --> 00:37:56,763 Months at Stonewall Prep away from you guys, what a waste. 718 00:37:56,783 --> 00:38:02,099 Jug, okay. We put a stop to DuPont, we solved eight murders, 719 00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:05,235 and we gave closure to every family of every missing child. 720 00:38:05,255 --> 00:38:07,169 I would not call that a waste of time. 721 00:38:07,189 --> 00:38:08,923 I know. It's just... 722 00:38:10,611 --> 00:38:13,646 - I feel... - Cheated? 723 00:38:15,006 --> 00:38:16,072 I know. 724 00:38:18,052 --> 00:38:19,267 I know. 725 00:38:19,287 --> 00:38:23,838 You'll find a meaning to all of this at some point. 726 00:38:23,858 --> 00:38:24,924 Okay? 727 00:38:29,964 --> 00:38:32,708 So, Jughead Jones back from the dead. 728 00:38:32,728 --> 00:38:34,232 Color me completely not surprised. 729 00:38:34,252 --> 00:38:36,935 You're not? 730 00:38:36,955 --> 00:38:39,422 No one ever really dies in Riverdale, do they? 731 00:38:40,525 --> 00:38:44,093 But what about you and Archie canoodling then? 732 00:38:44,896 --> 00:38:46,329 Yeah, that was just pretend. 733 00:38:47,532 --> 00:38:49,881 I don't know, cousin. That looked pretty real to me. 734 00:38:49,901 --> 00:38:51,434 Yeah, that was the point. 735 00:38:54,439 --> 00:38:55,753 Right. 736 00:38:55,773 --> 00:39:00,094 All I'm saying is, your secret's safe with me. 737 00:39:00,114 --> 00:39:01,280 Toodles. 738 00:39:04,683 --> 00:39:06,824 What did Cheryl want? 739 00:39:06,844 --> 00:39:08,849 Nothing. What did Mr. Honey say? 740 00:39:08,869 --> 00:39:10,374 Well, I don't think he's too happy about it, 741 00:39:10,394 --> 00:39:12,142 but he legally has to let me back to Riverdale High. 742 00:39:12,162 --> 00:39:14,517 - That's great! - Yeah, I just really hope 743 00:39:14,537 --> 00:39:15,979 my credits transfer. 744 00:39:15,999 --> 00:39:19,049 On the bright side, no one's gonna try to kill me while I'm here. 745 00:39:19,069 --> 00:39:20,468 Don't jinx yourself. 746 00:39:24,803 --> 00:39:26,574 Hey, boy. Betty. 747 00:39:26,594 --> 00:39:27,693 Hey. 748 00:39:29,135 --> 00:39:30,583 Um, I'll be right down. 749 00:39:30,603 --> 00:39:32,952 Grandpa, I thought you left. 750 00:39:32,972 --> 00:39:35,288 Oh, not yet. 751 00:39:35,308 --> 00:39:37,023 Joining us for dinner? 752 00:39:37,043 --> 00:39:38,974 Ah, Betty and I are actually going 753 00:39:38,994 --> 00:39:41,227 to meet Archie and Veronica at Pop's. So... 754 00:39:41,247 --> 00:39:43,830 - Unless you want me to stay. - No, go have fun. 755 00:39:43,850 --> 00:39:45,049 Yeah. 756 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:48,634 Should I say goodbye? 757 00:39:48,654 --> 00:39:50,546 Oh, no. 758 00:39:50,566 --> 00:39:54,768 I expect your father and I will still be talking when you get back. 759 00:39:58,764 --> 00:39:59,996 Hey, hold on. 760 00:40:04,036 --> 00:40:06,752 I don't know what's gonna happen with him and me. 761 00:40:06,772 --> 00:40:09,505 But, uh, we're talking, so that's something. 762 00:40:11,009 --> 00:40:14,677 So, thank you. You made all this happen. 763 00:40:17,783 --> 00:40:19,898 - Have fun. - Yeah. 764 00:40:19,918 --> 00:40:21,433 Betty? 765 00:40:21,453 --> 00:40:24,435 Maybe something good did come out of this whole Stonewall mess. 766 00:40:24,455 --> 00:40:26,403 My dad and my grandfather talking again 767 00:40:26,423 --> 00:40:28,372 for the first time in 30 years! 768 00:40:28,392 --> 00:40:29,974 Who would've thought of that? 769 00:40:29,994 --> 00:40:31,643 You think your dad will forgive him? 770 00:40:31,663 --> 00:40:33,744 Oh, I don't know. I mean, they have a lot of bad history 771 00:40:33,764 --> 00:40:35,679 between each other, but... 772 00:40:35,699 --> 00:40:36,766 I hope so. 773 00:40:38,006 --> 00:40:39,951 All right, guys. 774 00:40:39,971 --> 00:40:40,985 Let's make a vow. 775 00:40:41,005 --> 00:40:43,654 I know. 776 00:40:43,674 --> 00:40:44,989 I know. 777 00:40:45,009 --> 00:40:47,290 The last time we made a vow to have a normal senior year, 778 00:40:47,310 --> 00:40:49,026 everything went to hell pretty quick. 779 00:40:49,046 --> 00:40:53,364 But we only have two, three months left. 780 00:40:53,384 --> 00:40:54,750 Let's end it on a high note. 781 00:40:56,420 --> 00:40:57,968 Are we just gonna ignore the fact 782 00:40:57,988 --> 00:41:00,170 that Archie and I will probably not be graduating with you guys? 783 00:41:00,190 --> 00:41:01,261 Jug, okay. 784 00:41:01,281 --> 00:41:03,592 Do you really think Vee and I are going to sit idly by 785 00:41:03,612 --> 00:41:05,361 and not help our boyfriends graduate? 786 00:41:05,381 --> 00:41:10,566 Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones, you will graduate. 787 00:41:10,586 --> 00:41:12,735 Even if it takes a thousand tutors, 788 00:41:12,755 --> 00:41:14,503 you will set aside everything. 789 00:41:14,523 --> 00:41:16,205 No more mysteries. 790 00:41:16,225 --> 00:41:20,093 And make graduating your sole purpose in life. 791 00:41:21,029 --> 00:41:22,511 Why does that sound like a threat? 792 00:41:22,531 --> 00:41:23,831 Because it is. 793 00:41:25,501 --> 00:41:28,283 To going out on top together. 794 00:41:28,303 --> 00:41:30,303 - Cheers. - Cheers to that. 795 00:41:32,074 --> 00:41:34,066 Guys, guys, just a reminder. 796 00:41:34,086 --> 00:41:36,450 I'm posting the sign-up sheet for the variety show tomorrow, 797 00:41:36,470 --> 00:41:39,161 you all have to perform. 798 00:41:39,181 --> 00:41:40,963 Even you, Jughead. 799 00:41:40,983 --> 00:41:43,483 - Count us in, Kev. - Oh, no. 800 00:41:44,329 --> 00:41:45,400 Yeah. 801 00:41:45,420 --> 00:41:48,821 Check out this list of local names. 802 00:41:55,525 --> 00:41:58,852 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com -