1 00:00:39,868 --> 00:00:42,958 The year is 1955. 2 00:00:42,984 --> 00:00:46,161 Number one on the Billboard charts is "Rock Around The Clock," 3 00:00:46,187 --> 00:00:48,585 an earworm if I've ever heard one. 4 00:00:49,421 --> 00:00:51,312 Now, some random fun facts. 5 00:00:51,338 --> 00:00:53,687 In 1955, a hamburger with a side of fries 6 00:00:53,713 --> 00:00:55,628 set you back 30 cents. 7 00:00:55,654 --> 00:00:57,648 A comic book, a dime. 8 00:00:57,889 --> 00:01:00,116 A pulp novel, a quarter. 9 00:01:01,007 --> 00:01:04,194 It's been two days since Bailey's Comet almost decimated us, 10 00:01:04,220 --> 00:01:07,382 and we were somehow zapped back to the 1950s. 11 00:01:07,408 --> 00:01:09,585 I'm not sure how that happened exactly. 12 00:01:09,611 --> 00:01:11,770 I'm not sure if we're merely in the past, 13 00:01:11,796 --> 00:01:13,508 or in the past of an alternate universe. 14 00:01:13,551 --> 00:01:16,585 But things are different here in Riverdale. 15 00:01:16,611 --> 00:01:20,297 For starters, I live in an abandoned train car with Hot Dog, 16 00:01:20,323 --> 00:01:23,195 which actually tracks. 17 00:01:23,297 --> 00:01:26,213 And at Riverdale High, we're all juniors again. 18 00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:28,046 Betty and Kevin aren't merely friends, 19 00:01:28,072 --> 00:01:29,768 they're dating. 20 00:01:29,794 --> 00:01:32,765 Cheryl's twin brother is alive, but he's not Jason. 21 00:01:32,791 --> 00:01:34,109 He's Julian. 22 00:01:34,974 --> 00:01:37,116 No sign of a Reggie yet. 23 00:01:37,315 --> 00:01:42,257 But Archie exists, and he's still pretty much a teen Charles Atlas. 24 00:01:42,359 --> 00:01:44,007 None of them remember our lives 25 00:01:44,033 --> 00:01:45,866 from before we became teenagers again, 26 00:01:45,892 --> 00:01:47,982 and I haven't tried to remind them yet. 27 00:01:48,008 --> 00:01:50,390 I've been waiting to reconnect with the one person 28 00:01:50,416 --> 00:01:52,241 who might be able to shed light on our predicament, 29 00:01:52,286 --> 00:01:55,445 because she was both chronokinetic and the town's guardian angel, 30 00:01:55,471 --> 00:01:57,482 my girlfriend, Tabitha Tate. 31 00:01:57,508 --> 00:01:59,866 Bus from Mississippi's pulling in. 32 00:02:00,983 --> 00:02:03,246 Wonder if it was as bad down there 33 00:02:03,353 --> 00:02:04,937 as they're saying on the radio. 34 00:02:04,963 --> 00:02:07,726 I already knew what Pop would soon find out. 35 00:02:07,752 --> 00:02:10,059 It was much, much worse. 36 00:02:10,085 --> 00:02:13,468 Tabitha, Toni and some of Riverdale High's other students of color 37 00:02:13,494 --> 00:02:16,028 were in Mississippi for the trial of the two men 38 00:02:16,054 --> 00:02:18,616 who murdered Black teenager Emmett Till, 39 00:02:18,741 --> 00:02:21,632 for supposedly whistling at a white woman. 40 00:02:21,687 --> 00:02:24,372 The jury deliberated for all of 67 minutes 41 00:02:24,398 --> 00:02:26,171 and then acquitted the killers. 42 00:02:26,197 --> 00:02:28,077 It was one of the single most shameful 43 00:02:28,103 --> 00:02:31,499 and appalling events of this or any era. 44 00:02:37,597 --> 00:02:38,882 Tabitha? 45 00:02:42,590 --> 00:02:43,898 They 46 00:02:44,142 --> 00:02:46,314 announced the verdict on the radio. 47 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:48,085 It made me sick in my stomach. 48 00:02:48,867 --> 00:02:53,038 - If you need anything... - That's what we're trying to figure out now. 49 00:02:53,536 --> 00:02:55,852 What our next move should be... 50 00:02:56,768 --> 00:02:58,933 But I appreciate the offer. 51 00:03:00,412 --> 00:03:03,154 It's Jughead, right? 52 00:03:03,180 --> 00:03:04,834 Yeah. Yes. 53 00:03:06,856 --> 00:03:08,404 I'll let you know. 54 00:03:13,003 --> 00:03:14,482 It's overwhelming. 55 00:03:15,192 --> 00:03:16,630 Heartbreaking. 56 00:03:17,302 --> 00:03:19,193 Whichever genius said that the '50s 57 00:03:19,219 --> 00:03:20,771 were the greatest decade of all time 58 00:03:20,797 --> 00:03:23,076 should seriously have their head examined. 59 00:03:23,744 --> 00:03:27,193 Archie? Can I speak to you for a minute? 60 00:03:34,562 --> 00:03:35,935 What's wrong, Mom? 61 00:03:35,961 --> 00:03:39,530 They printed more pictures from James Dean's car accident. 62 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,646 - Oh, I can't even show them to you. - You shouldn't look at that stuff, Mom, 63 00:03:42,672 --> 00:03:44,589 - it upsets you. - No, what upsets me 64 00:03:44,615 --> 00:03:47,705 is the idea of you on the road being reckless. 65 00:03:47,731 --> 00:03:49,435 And that's why I... 66 00:03:49,810 --> 00:03:51,834 I'm going to need your keys, Archie. 67 00:03:52,005 --> 00:03:54,190 You're not going to drive that hot rod anymore. 68 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:56,975 Mom. Whoa! Now, Mom, I'm a safe driver. 69 00:03:57,019 --> 00:03:59,677 It's not a hot rod. It's barely a cut above a jalopy... 70 00:03:59,703 --> 00:04:01,943 It's got fire painted on its doors. 71 00:04:01,969 --> 00:04:04,740 - Mom. - Keys. Now. 72 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:53,646 What do you think, Betty? 73 00:04:53,672 --> 00:04:57,279 Toni, your writing is... remarkable. 74 00:04:57,305 --> 00:05:02,141 This is the most important piece of reporting that I've read in my two years 75 00:05:02,167 --> 00:05:03,929 as editor-in-chief at the Blue and Gold. 76 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:06,784 But we've tried covering Emmett Till before. 77 00:05:06,828 --> 00:05:10,610 Both times Principal Featherhead has vetoed the stories. 78 00:05:10,874 --> 00:05:15,835 Betty, I heard Mamie Till give the most incredible, inspiring speech 79 00:05:15,861 --> 00:05:18,227 after the verdict was delivered. 80 00:05:18,631 --> 00:05:22,026 And I got a chance to interview people that knew Emmett personally, 81 00:05:22,054 --> 00:05:25,165 his friends, his neighbors. 82 00:05:25,765 --> 00:05:28,704 And I made them a promise I would help tell his story. 83 00:05:29,675 --> 00:05:32,274 I agree wholeheartedly. 84 00:05:33,912 --> 00:05:36,407 I'll make an appointment for us with Featherhead. 85 00:05:37,165 --> 00:05:38,946 This is a squirrel mill. 86 00:05:38,972 --> 00:05:41,449 A mill is a hot rod or souped-up jalopy 87 00:05:41,475 --> 00:05:43,315 which was once just a car. 88 00:05:44,196 --> 00:05:46,129 Well, it should happen to all... 89 00:05:46,155 --> 00:05:48,415 Mrs. Thornton, I'm sorry to interrupt your class, 90 00:05:48,441 --> 00:05:53,847 but I did want to personally introduce a new student to our Riverdale High family. 91 00:05:53,873 --> 00:05:56,808 She's just moved here from sunny Los Angeles. 92 00:06:10,914 --> 00:06:12,030 Damn. 93 00:06:12,056 --> 00:06:16,022 Even in 1955, Veronica Lodge knew how to make an entrance. 94 00:06:16,048 --> 00:06:18,062 Enchante, I'm sure. 95 00:06:18,277 --> 00:06:20,335 Thank you, Principal Featherhead. 96 00:06:20,361 --> 00:06:21,927 Now, before you ask, 97 00:06:21,953 --> 00:06:24,651 yes, I am that Veronica Lodge, 98 00:06:24,710 --> 00:06:27,539 the daughter of Hiram and Hermione Lodge, 99 00:06:27,565 --> 00:06:32,135 the married stars of America's number-one rated television program, Oh Mija! 100 00:06:32,233 --> 00:06:33,757 For the foreseeable future, 101 00:06:33,783 --> 00:06:35,892 I will be staying with my auntie and uncle 102 00:06:35,918 --> 00:06:38,147 at the Pembrooke in downtown Riverdale. 103 00:06:38,352 --> 00:06:39,976 Why? Well, 104 00:06:40,093 --> 00:06:44,804 you may have heard about MGM's upcoming film adaptation of Our Town. 105 00:06:44,830 --> 00:06:49,618 Though I can't confirm that the lead role of innocent ingenue Emily Webb 106 00:06:49,698 --> 00:06:51,171 has already been cast 107 00:06:51,197 --> 00:06:54,344 with a certain raven-haired starlet, namely moi, 108 00:06:54,370 --> 00:06:57,069 I did feel it was an opportune time 109 00:06:57,095 --> 00:06:58,952 to take a sabbatical from Hollywood 110 00:06:58,978 --> 00:07:03,218 and get a feel for small-town life. 111 00:07:03,244 --> 00:07:05,757 But please, I beg of you treat me as one of your own, 112 00:07:05,783 --> 00:07:09,015 not as a scion of Tinseltown royalty. 113 00:07:11,543 --> 00:07:12,835 Thank you. 114 00:07:29,742 --> 00:07:33,030 www.subtitulamos.tv 115 00:07:36,086 --> 00:07:38,088 Mind if I join you? 116 00:07:38,226 --> 00:07:40,022 - Actually... - Yeah, sure. 117 00:07:41,843 --> 00:07:45,468 I believe I caught on your names in Mrs. Thornton's class. 118 00:07:45,494 --> 00:07:47,890 Archie. Betty. 119 00:07:47,989 --> 00:07:50,546 Kevin. Julian. 120 00:07:54,181 --> 00:07:55,663 Remind me, what's yours again? 121 00:07:56,469 --> 00:07:58,655 - Cheryl. - That's right, Cheryl. 122 00:07:59,278 --> 00:08:02,511 So, what are we dishing about? Clue me in. 123 00:08:02,537 --> 00:08:05,014 James Dean's untimely passing, of course. 124 00:08:05,093 --> 00:08:07,351 I am the president of his fan club here at Riverdale High. 125 00:08:07,377 --> 00:08:09,683 Your parents' show is hilarious. 126 00:08:09,709 --> 00:08:11,275 We tune in every week. 127 00:08:11,447 --> 00:08:14,581 You and everyone else, if Mr. Nielsen is to be believed. 128 00:08:14,624 --> 00:08:17,218 - Where in Los Angeles did you live? - Bel Air. 129 00:08:17,244 --> 00:08:20,085 In a ghastly old mansion Vincent Price used to own. 130 00:08:20,111 --> 00:08:22,200 Is that close to where James Dean lived? 131 00:08:22,226 --> 00:08:25,671 - Wait, you didn't know James Dean, did you? - Kevin, don't be so provincial. 132 00:08:25,697 --> 00:08:27,296 James Dean was a movie star. 133 00:08:27,322 --> 00:08:29,897 He was friends with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. 134 00:08:29,923 --> 00:08:32,142 Actually, Jimmy and I were quite friendly. 135 00:08:32,168 --> 00:08:34,843 We went skinny-dipping in the pool at the Chateau Marmaduke. 136 00:08:37,952 --> 00:08:40,116 - You went skinny-dipping? - With James Dean? 137 00:08:40,142 --> 00:08:41,796 Once or was it a regular thing? 138 00:08:41,822 --> 00:08:44,304 I suppose next you'll be saying you and Jimmy dated. 139 00:08:44,330 --> 00:08:48,163 No, but he did enjoy playing both sides of the net. 140 00:08:48,310 --> 00:08:50,210 Girls and boys. 141 00:08:50,251 --> 00:08:55,069 Wait. Hang on. Are you... suggesting that James Dean was... 142 00:08:55,095 --> 00:08:59,012 What? I mean, he seemed like such a regular guy. Like a cowboy, almost. 143 00:08:59,038 --> 00:09:01,475 How dare you besmirch his memory like that? 144 00:09:01,501 --> 00:09:03,218 Don't you be so provincial. 145 00:09:03,244 --> 00:09:05,796 I don't know why I'm so surprised to hear such filthy lies 146 00:09:05,822 --> 00:09:07,911 coming out of the mouth of some wild child 147 00:09:07,937 --> 00:09:11,905 who grew up surrounded by perverts going to sex parties and orgies! 148 00:09:12,169 --> 00:09:15,335 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have lost my appetite. 149 00:09:19,301 --> 00:09:20,740 What about Sal Mineo? 150 00:09:23,015 --> 00:09:25,515 Remember, the astronomy club is meeting after school today. 151 00:09:25,541 --> 00:09:27,062 We will be bringing something ideas to fundraise 152 00:09:27,088 --> 00:09:29,882 so we can purchase new telescope before Bailey's Comet arrives. 153 00:09:30,867 --> 00:09:33,022 B-Bailey's Comet is coming again? 154 00:09:34,008 --> 00:09:35,400 Guys! 155 00:09:35,444 --> 00:09:36,499 When? 156 00:09:36,525 --> 00:09:38,273 Oh, not for two years, Mr. Jones. 157 00:09:38,299 --> 00:09:40,028 But it's an extremely expensive telescope, 158 00:09:40,054 --> 00:09:43,483 and this will be the only opportunity we'll have to see the comet in our lifetime. 159 00:09:43,509 --> 00:09:44,921 We mustn't miss it. 160 00:09:46,872 --> 00:09:49,519 Hey, Veronica, can I walk you home? 161 00:09:50,162 --> 00:09:51,397 Walk? 162 00:09:51,797 --> 00:09:54,655 - Do I look like the kind of girl who walks home? - Ready, Ronnie? 163 00:09:54,681 --> 00:09:56,483 Thanks for the offer, Archie, 164 00:09:56,509 --> 00:09:59,132 but as you can see, I've already secured an escort home. 165 00:09:59,943 --> 00:10:01,647 Excuse me. 166 00:10:01,991 --> 00:10:04,734 And how do you expect me to get home, dear brother? 167 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,030 You got two feet, don't you? 168 00:10:06,845 --> 00:10:08,124 Use them or lose them. 169 00:10:19,676 --> 00:10:21,025 I'm sorry. 170 00:10:21,051 --> 00:10:24,187 Miss Topaz, Miss Cooper, 171 00:10:24,667 --> 00:10:26,827 but I gave your article to Dr. Werthers for review, 172 00:10:26,853 --> 00:10:28,562 and we both agree, 173 00:10:28,755 --> 00:10:31,069 it's not suitable for publication. 174 00:10:31,507 --> 00:10:37,785 Toni's reporting is, it's thorough, insightful, balanced. 175 00:10:37,811 --> 00:10:41,874 Be that as it may, as a child psychologist, 176 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:45,365 it's my expert opinion that the details of the Emmett Till case 177 00:10:45,391 --> 00:10:48,056 are far too violent and disturbing 178 00:10:48,082 --> 00:10:50,632 for young, impressionable minds. 179 00:10:50,658 --> 00:10:53,262 People, your students, 180 00:10:53,288 --> 00:10:56,944 need to understand the gravity of what happens so it doesn't happen again... 181 00:10:57,119 --> 00:10:58,288 here. 182 00:10:58,891 --> 00:11:02,366 These sorts of things don't happen in Riverdale. 183 00:11:03,101 --> 00:11:04,929 And may I remind you that we were 184 00:11:04,963 --> 00:11:08,077 one of the first high schools in the country to integrate. 185 00:11:08,676 --> 00:11:10,944 - Isn't that enough? - Hardly. 186 00:11:11,059 --> 00:11:13,460 We don't have any Black teachers. 187 00:11:13,498 --> 00:11:16,116 We don't study or learn about Black authors. 188 00:11:16,142 --> 00:11:18,960 Change doesn't happen overnight, Miss Topaz. 189 00:11:19,403 --> 00:11:22,374 Your article's very well-written. 190 00:11:22,570 --> 00:11:25,319 Surely you can find some satisfaction in that. 191 00:11:29,797 --> 00:11:33,148 Mom, Dad, you haven't said anything. 192 00:11:33,174 --> 00:11:35,679 Did you read the article my friend Toni wrote? 193 00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:39,327 Yes, we did, honey. 194 00:11:43,571 --> 00:11:44,694 And? 195 00:11:45,951 --> 00:11:49,108 And it was very well-written. 196 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,536 Extremely well-written. 197 00:11:51,580 --> 00:11:53,429 So you'll read it on the air, Dad? 198 00:11:54,933 --> 00:11:59,416 Jeez, hon, we only get 15 minutes of airtime a night. 199 00:11:59,498 --> 00:12:04,757 Do we really need to spend one minute on a story that... 200 00:12:04,975 --> 00:12:07,796 well, has nothing to do with us? 201 00:12:07,822 --> 00:12:10,791 Dad, everyone watches your nightly broadcast. 202 00:12:10,817 --> 00:12:12,866 Imagine the impact it would have 203 00:12:12,892 --> 00:12:16,466 if you, the face of RIVW, talked about Emmett Till. 204 00:12:16,492 --> 00:12:19,905 Elizabeth, it's not that simple, honey. 205 00:12:20,262 --> 00:12:22,481 I mean, you know very well that we have to run 206 00:12:22,507 --> 00:12:24,134 every single one of our stories 207 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,241 past our sponsors for approval. 208 00:12:26,267 --> 00:12:29,366 And I'm sorry, this is just not in their bailiwick. 209 00:12:29,392 --> 00:12:30,973 Your sponsors, you're talking about 210 00:12:30,999 --> 00:12:33,143 The Blossoms, Blossom Maple Syrup. 211 00:12:33,169 --> 00:12:34,942 But if we lose their support, 212 00:12:34,968 --> 00:12:39,218 RIVW won't be able to expand its programming. 213 00:12:39,530 --> 00:12:42,202 You won't be able to give yourself a raise, you mean. 214 00:12:42,517 --> 00:12:46,858 Betty. Darling, why is this so important to you? 215 00:12:46,884 --> 00:12:51,288 Because what happened to Emmett Till was a complete injustice. 216 00:12:51,413 --> 00:12:55,562 A crime emblematic of everything that's wrong with this country. 217 00:12:55,588 --> 00:12:57,515 And nobody except my friend Toni 218 00:12:57,541 --> 00:12:59,739 and her friends seem to care about it. 219 00:13:03,385 --> 00:13:05,452 You know, this might sound crazy, Jug. 220 00:13:05,478 --> 00:13:07,663 The first time that I saw her, 221 00:13:07,906 --> 00:13:10,720 I felt like I was hit by a thunderbolt or something. 222 00:13:10,746 --> 00:13:12,304 Shazam! 223 00:13:12,921 --> 00:13:14,772 But how is a guy like me going to get anywhere 224 00:13:14,798 --> 00:13:17,772 with a girl like Veronica Lodge if I'm riding a damn bicycle? 225 00:13:19,562 --> 00:13:21,782 That's why I'm sneaking this baby out tonight. 226 00:13:21,808 --> 00:13:24,112 I admit, while Archie poured his heart out to me, 227 00:13:24,138 --> 00:13:26,062 I was racking my brains. 228 00:13:26,194 --> 00:13:28,554 If Bailey's Comet was what sent us all to the past, 229 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:30,796 Bailey's Comet might be able to send us back to the future. 230 00:13:30,822 --> 00:13:32,476 But I needed help. 231 00:13:32,502 --> 00:13:35,663 But with my friends unaware of their former lives, how can I make them remember? 232 00:13:35,689 --> 00:13:39,288 It would take some kind of tangible proof to jolt them awake, but what? 233 00:13:39,314 --> 00:13:42,186 Jug, have you seen my dad's hammer? I need to smack this dent out. 234 00:13:42,212 --> 00:13:43,822 Your dad's hammer? 235 00:13:43,973 --> 00:13:45,608 Did everyone bring an item? 236 00:13:45,634 --> 00:13:49,843 Putting in a guitar pick and a hammer from my dad's toolbox. 237 00:13:51,078 --> 00:13:52,427 It was a long shot. 238 00:13:52,453 --> 00:13:55,030 But could that time capsule we buried graduation weekend, 239 00:13:55,056 --> 00:13:58,632 possibly have survived whatever cosmic event sent us back to 1955? 240 00:13:58,658 --> 00:14:01,443 The items in that capsule might trigger their memories. 241 00:14:01,597 --> 00:14:03,413 Do you have a shovel that I could borrow? 242 00:14:30,483 --> 00:14:31,731 Thank God! 243 00:14:52,543 --> 00:14:54,054 Well, well, well. 244 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:55,777 Color me curious. 245 00:14:55,803 --> 00:14:58,310 The all-American boy is secretly a hot-rodder. 246 00:14:58,336 --> 00:15:01,179 I was hoping I could maybe give you a ride home today. 247 00:15:02,008 --> 00:15:04,562 - Consider it a date. - Archie. Veronica. 248 00:15:04,588 --> 00:15:07,476 I'm holding an emergency meeting in the music room. Hurry! 249 00:15:08,831 --> 00:15:10,647 Who is that person again? 250 00:15:17,905 --> 00:15:19,778 What is all this junk, Jughead? 251 00:15:19,804 --> 00:15:21,944 These headlines are like Dr. Seuss. 252 00:15:21,970 --> 00:15:24,319 Just take a moment. Look at what you're holding. 253 00:15:26,079 --> 00:15:28,944 Do you remember anything? Do you... Do you feel anything? 254 00:15:29,837 --> 00:15:33,405 I mean, I like the jacket, but I've never seen this before in my life. 255 00:15:33,499 --> 00:15:35,390 I've been to a lot of movie sets, 256 00:15:35,416 --> 00:15:39,536 so I know a good prop when I see one, and these are okay. 257 00:15:39,562 --> 00:15:41,874 - They're not props. - Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 258 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:43,293 I don't get it. An "inch" of what? 259 00:15:43,319 --> 00:15:46,554 When did you even get a chance to bury my dad's hammer in a cooler? 260 00:15:46,580 --> 00:15:48,124 I didn't. You did. 261 00:15:48,150 --> 00:15:51,544 We all buried something of emotional significance 262 00:15:51,570 --> 00:15:55,265 in that time capsule 67 years ago. 263 00:15:55,643 --> 00:15:57,906 - But in the future. - The future? 264 00:15:57,932 --> 00:16:00,022 Yeah. Yes. 265 00:16:00,325 --> 00:16:02,999 This is gonna sound nuts, okay? Just hear me out. 266 00:16:03,302 --> 00:16:05,217 Thanks to a cataclysmic event, 267 00:16:05,243 --> 00:16:08,890 all of us, we were all sent back in time... 268 00:16:09,813 --> 00:16:13,054 to maybe an alternate parallel universe. 269 00:16:15,795 --> 00:16:19,413 And we need to get back to our future. 270 00:16:19,843 --> 00:16:20,989 Our present. 271 00:16:21,015 --> 00:16:23,671 I was hoping that by showing you guys these objects, 272 00:16:23,697 --> 00:16:25,312 it would help jog your memory. 273 00:16:25,499 --> 00:16:27,327 Okay. What's your object? What did you bury? 274 00:16:27,353 --> 00:16:29,007 It was a yarn beanie. 275 00:16:29,033 --> 00:16:31,937 But for whatever reason, it wasn't in the time capsule. 276 00:16:33,808 --> 00:16:36,772 - All right. I'll play along. - Yeah. Okay. 277 00:16:37,068 --> 00:16:39,374 In the future, who's more famous? 278 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,116 - Me or Elizabeth Taylor? - Never mind her. She just got here. 279 00:16:42,142 --> 00:16:44,476 Bird's-eye view. What's the future like? 280 00:16:46,461 --> 00:16:48,327 Where do I start? 281 00:16:49,368 --> 00:16:50,468 Okay. 282 00:16:50,494 --> 00:16:52,897 We don't use regular phones anymore. 283 00:16:52,923 --> 00:16:54,622 We use something called smartphones, 284 00:16:54,648 --> 00:16:56,911 which we can carry around everywhere with us. 285 00:16:56,937 --> 00:16:59,499 And, ironically, we don't even call people on them. 286 00:16:59,525 --> 00:17:03,056 We just send texts, which are like messages 287 00:17:03,082 --> 00:17:05,858 and listen to music on Spotify and... 288 00:17:05,905 --> 00:17:08,538 Oh, the Internet. The Internet is like... 289 00:17:08,723 --> 00:17:10,663 having an entire encyclopedia at your fingertips. 290 00:17:10,689 --> 00:17:13,436 Well, maybe tell us about us. What were we like in the future? 291 00:17:13,462 --> 00:17:16,470 Okay. Archie joins the Army and fought in a war. 292 00:17:16,512 --> 00:17:18,646 Betty, you were in the FBI 293 00:17:18,689 --> 00:17:20,811 and you were hunting down serial killers, 294 00:17:20,837 --> 00:17:23,405 which I guess is a term that doesn't exist yet. 295 00:17:23,431 --> 00:17:26,780 Veronica, you owned a casino. But before that, a speakeasy, 296 00:17:26,806 --> 00:17:29,554 which Toni bought and turned into a biker bar. 297 00:17:29,579 --> 00:17:30,913 Kevin, 298 00:17:31,593 --> 00:17:35,062 you directed, some musicals, 299 00:17:35,088 --> 00:17:39,132 and were in an organ-harvesting cult. 300 00:17:40,724 --> 00:17:42,769 Okay. What about me? 301 00:17:42,795 --> 00:17:45,671 You were possessed by your ancestor and... 302 00:17:45,697 --> 00:17:47,851 and became a witch. 303 00:17:50,008 --> 00:17:52,358 If that's what we were doing in the future, 304 00:17:52,507 --> 00:17:54,546 why would we want to go back? We sound miserable. 305 00:17:54,572 --> 00:17:56,843 Yeah, and how would that even happen? 306 00:17:56,869 --> 00:18:00,109 Okay, I have an idea. Now, it's a crazy one, but it might work. 307 00:18:00,135 --> 00:18:02,794 So, short of waiting for Bailey's Comet to return, 308 00:18:02,820 --> 00:18:06,593 the other way that we could break through the space-time barrier 309 00:18:06,619 --> 00:18:10,373 is by getting Archie and Betty to make out 310 00:18:10,399 --> 00:18:13,015 on top of Archie's bed, 311 00:18:13,041 --> 00:18:16,578 and then we blow up a bomb underneath them. 312 00:18:18,229 --> 00:18:21,145 All right, Jug. That's enough, man. Let's go for a walk. 313 00:18:21,171 --> 00:18:23,597 You're not going to beat me up, are you? Because you're really violent in the future. 314 00:18:23,641 --> 00:18:25,974 What? No, we're gonna talk. Come on. 315 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,758 Just look at that. 316 00:18:27,784 --> 00:18:30,830 - You don't understand! - No, Jug, you don't understand. 317 00:18:30,856 --> 00:18:32,553 We are not from the future. 318 00:18:32,579 --> 00:18:35,117 Jughead, it's 1955. 319 00:18:35,187 --> 00:18:38,900 And things are hard enough to figure out without your crazy stories 320 00:18:38,943 --> 00:18:42,140 about time traveling and other universes. 321 00:18:42,166 --> 00:18:44,476 And setting off bombs? 322 00:18:44,502 --> 00:18:47,368 I mean, for Pete's sake, Jughead. If you're not careful, 323 00:18:47,394 --> 00:18:50,882 people might start thinking you belong in the loony bin with the other nutjobs. 324 00:18:51,232 --> 00:18:52,600 You think I'm crazy? 325 00:18:52,783 --> 00:18:54,218 No, I... 326 00:18:55,180 --> 00:18:59,202 I just, I think you have an overactive imagination, is all. 327 00:19:00,210 --> 00:19:03,054 And look, you should keep writing your comic books and your stories 328 00:19:03,098 --> 00:19:05,367 instead of trying to convince us that we're trapped 329 00:19:05,393 --> 00:19:08,202 in some kind of science-fiction picture show. 330 00:19:08,228 --> 00:19:09,858 Jug, life's good. 331 00:19:10,343 --> 00:19:13,414 It's not perfect, but... but what is? 332 00:19:13,945 --> 00:19:16,593 Well, just trust me on this one, will you, bud, please? 333 00:19:16,619 --> 00:19:17,794 Yeah. 334 00:19:19,506 --> 00:19:21,156 - Yeah, no... - Yeah? 335 00:19:22,435 --> 00:19:23,662 Attaboy. 336 00:19:28,507 --> 00:19:30,343 I feel like all I'm doing lately 337 00:19:30,386 --> 00:19:33,359 is apologizing to you, Toni. But... 338 00:19:33,976 --> 00:19:37,437 my parents say they wouldn't be able to get your story past The Blossoms, 339 00:19:37,463 --> 00:19:40,302 and they sponsor the nightly news, so... 340 00:19:40,328 --> 00:19:42,195 Well, I'm not surprised. 341 00:19:42,397 --> 00:19:45,085 When Emmett was murdered, nobody wanted to talk about it 342 00:19:45,111 --> 00:19:47,234 and nobody wanted to hear about it. 343 00:19:47,468 --> 00:19:51,359 It took Mrs. Till publishing her son's funeral pictures 344 00:19:51,385 --> 00:19:53,625 for people to finally wake up. 345 00:19:53,796 --> 00:19:55,846 I don't think I know about that. 346 00:19:55,890 --> 00:19:59,203 Before Emmett was buried, his mother asked for an open casket 347 00:19:59,229 --> 00:20:01,914 so people could see what was done to her son. 348 00:20:02,931 --> 00:20:07,976 How he'd been beaten, tortured and disfigured. 349 00:20:10,688 --> 00:20:15,585 Toni, do you have copies of those pictures? 350 00:20:16,339 --> 00:20:17,656 At home. 351 00:20:18,048 --> 00:20:20,000 From when they were in a newsletter. 352 00:20:21,530 --> 00:20:23,287 Are you sure you want to see them? 353 00:20:33,177 --> 00:20:37,461 Why on God's earth are you two in such sullen, sulking moods? 354 00:20:37,487 --> 00:20:39,036 It's not like you're poor. 355 00:20:39,062 --> 00:20:41,606 Julian's mad because that fake stuck-up Veronica Lodge 356 00:20:41,632 --> 00:20:43,912 ditched him for a date with Archie Andrews. 357 00:20:43,938 --> 00:20:46,505 Cheryl's mad because suddenly she's not the most beautiful, 358 00:20:46,531 --> 00:20:48,925 most interesting girl at Riverdale High anymore. 359 00:20:48,951 --> 00:20:50,880 As if she ever was. 360 00:20:50,906 --> 00:20:54,954 Anyway, these inane movie magazines came in the mail for you. 361 00:20:54,980 --> 00:20:56,646 Perhaps they'll cheer you up. 362 00:21:03,271 --> 00:21:06,216 _ 363 00:21:14,719 --> 00:21:17,325 - They're good, right? - Delicious. 364 00:21:17,351 --> 00:21:19,930 Honestly, I think these onion rings might be better 365 00:21:19,956 --> 00:21:21,794 than the ones at the Brown Derby. 366 00:21:22,522 --> 00:21:24,271 Wow. What's the Brown Derby? 367 00:21:24,410 --> 00:21:27,128 It's a chain of restaurants that Gloria Swanson's husband 368 00:21:27,154 --> 00:21:29,216 has been started in Los Angeles. 369 00:21:29,933 --> 00:21:31,552 Who's Gloria Swanson? 370 00:21:33,122 --> 00:21:35,386 You know what? Let's skip it. 371 00:21:35,412 --> 00:21:38,676 Enough Hollywood talk. I want to hear about you. 372 00:21:38,702 --> 00:21:41,140 Tell me everything there is to know about Archie Andrews. 373 00:21:41,202 --> 00:21:43,950 The hot-rodder next door. What do you do for fun? 374 00:21:43,988 --> 00:21:45,990 Well, I work on my car. 375 00:21:46,065 --> 00:21:47,588 I like sports. 376 00:21:48,677 --> 00:21:50,489 I come here to Pop's. 377 00:21:50,968 --> 00:21:53,144 And I hang out at Sweetwater River. 378 00:21:53,274 --> 00:21:54,364 Yeah. 379 00:21:55,106 --> 00:21:56,739 To skinny dip, I hope. 380 00:21:57,768 --> 00:21:59,442 Mostly to fish. 381 00:21:59,687 --> 00:22:01,689 My dad and I used to go there together. 382 00:22:01,715 --> 00:22:03,138 You used to? 383 00:22:03,577 --> 00:22:05,535 Yeah, he's not around anymore. 384 00:22:05,561 --> 00:22:08,520 He served in the Korean War and he didn't make it back. 385 00:22:08,546 --> 00:22:11,418 - Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean... - No, it's okay. 386 00:22:11,444 --> 00:22:13,013 It's okay. You didn't know. 387 00:22:14,310 --> 00:22:16,099 Anyway, it's just me and my mom now. 388 00:22:16,125 --> 00:22:18,833 And she works part-time at the dress shop downtown. 389 00:22:19,684 --> 00:22:22,147 Well, I will have to pay her a visit. 390 00:22:22,173 --> 00:22:24,089 I'll make sure she gives you a discount. 391 00:22:27,233 --> 00:22:28,677 What about girls? 392 00:22:29,606 --> 00:22:31,785 I mean, as handsome as you are, 393 00:22:31,835 --> 00:22:34,091 I assume you're beating them off with a stick. 394 00:22:36,330 --> 00:22:40,160 Well, I'm probably digging myself into a hole here, but... 395 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,427 You know, I've never had a serious girlfriend before. 396 00:22:45,294 --> 00:22:46,380 Really? 397 00:22:46,828 --> 00:22:47,903 Why's that? 398 00:22:47,929 --> 00:22:50,739 I don't know. Maybe I just haven't met the right girl yet. 399 00:22:52,985 --> 00:22:54,138 Until now. 400 00:23:02,446 --> 00:23:03,669 J'accuse! 401 00:23:03,930 --> 00:23:05,216 Excuse me? 402 00:23:06,439 --> 00:23:09,573 - Cheryl, what is your problem? - She is my problem, Archie. 403 00:23:09,599 --> 00:23:11,927 Veronica Lodge is nothing but a liar and a fraud. 404 00:23:11,953 --> 00:23:15,083 And I'm going to make sure the entire world knows it. 405 00:23:15,536 --> 00:23:17,613 You're not starring in Our Town. 406 00:23:17,639 --> 00:23:20,119 Natalie Wood is. It says so right there. 407 00:23:20,145 --> 00:23:21,880 You've been lying to us ever since you got here. 408 00:23:21,906 --> 00:23:25,341 Which makes me wonder, why are you actually in Riverdale? 409 00:23:25,367 --> 00:23:27,282 Was it really your choice or 410 00:23:27,308 --> 00:23:29,403 did your parents banish you because they were fed up 411 00:23:29,429 --> 00:23:32,614 with their lying liar of a spoiled brat daughter? 412 00:23:38,562 --> 00:23:41,255 Hey, it's... It's okay. 413 00:23:41,281 --> 00:23:43,966 That's just... It's sort of what Cheryl's like. 414 00:23:43,997 --> 00:23:45,805 But don't worry, no one takes her seriously. 415 00:23:45,831 --> 00:23:48,106 In this case, she's right, though. 416 00:23:49,235 --> 00:23:53,255 I haven't been entirely honest with you guys. 417 00:23:53,583 --> 00:23:57,810 The truth is, my parents did banish me. 418 00:23:58,205 --> 00:23:59,685 Why would they do that? 419 00:23:59,829 --> 00:24:02,876 Because I am a problem, 420 00:24:03,006 --> 00:24:05,731 and when problems interfere with their lives, 421 00:24:05,757 --> 00:24:07,810 they make them go away. 422 00:24:07,950 --> 00:24:10,910 In a way, it feels like they've been 423 00:24:10,953 --> 00:24:14,169 making me go away since I was born. 424 00:24:14,450 --> 00:24:17,833 Ignoring me and sidelining me since they... 425 00:24:18,824 --> 00:24:21,437 started that damn show of theirs. 426 00:24:22,036 --> 00:24:24,439 So I began acting out 427 00:24:24,951 --> 00:24:28,620 like some spoiled little rich girl to get their attention. 428 00:24:28,646 --> 00:24:31,521 And the straw that finally broke the camel's back 429 00:24:31,547 --> 00:24:36,841 and made my parents ship me across the country was... 430 00:24:37,802 --> 00:24:40,177 - the accident. - With James Dean? 431 00:24:40,289 --> 00:24:41,726 You were in the car? 432 00:24:41,752 --> 00:24:46,989 No, I was part of a convoy of some other good-time girls. 433 00:24:47,015 --> 00:24:50,802 We were going to cheer Jimmy on at a race in Salinas. 434 00:24:51,036 --> 00:24:53,669 Anyway, to keep my name out of the papers, 435 00:24:53,695 --> 00:24:56,763 my parents spirited me away 436 00:24:56,919 --> 00:24:59,236 and put me on a private plane to Riverdale. 437 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,369 To live with your aunt and uncle. 438 00:25:01,497 --> 00:25:03,458 They don't exist, Archie. 439 00:25:03,484 --> 00:25:06,083 This is my parent's place. 440 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:07,911 I can't... 441 00:25:08,886 --> 00:25:11,406 believe they would do that. 442 00:25:11,647 --> 00:25:14,583 I mean, exile you to live alone. 443 00:25:14,950 --> 00:25:17,372 Like a fairy tale princess, I guess. 444 00:25:19,213 --> 00:25:22,771 The show is their real baby, Archie. Not me. 445 00:25:32,822 --> 00:25:34,188 Archie. 446 00:25:35,722 --> 00:25:36,813 Mom. 447 00:25:38,571 --> 00:25:41,226 - What are you doing up? - Waiting for you. 448 00:25:41,708 --> 00:25:44,754 I went into the garage to get a screwdriver, 449 00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:47,130 and I saw that you'd taken your car out. 450 00:25:47,222 --> 00:25:50,594 - Mom, I can explain. - You're grounded, Archie. 451 00:25:51,686 --> 00:25:54,641 Because I took my car out without your permission? 452 00:25:55,523 --> 00:25:58,106 Why is that all of a sudden a criminal offense? 453 00:25:58,132 --> 00:26:00,906 The pictures of James Dean's car crash. 454 00:26:02,873 --> 00:26:04,773 I can't lose you... 455 00:26:05,639 --> 00:26:07,609 like I lost your father. 456 00:26:11,594 --> 00:26:14,094 And I can't get a call in the middle of the night 457 00:26:14,127 --> 00:26:17,740 telling me that you wrapped your car around some telephone pole. 458 00:26:17,766 --> 00:26:19,638 Come on, Mom. You won't. 459 00:26:20,140 --> 00:26:21,375 You won't. 460 00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:23,631 And I promise I won't speed. 461 00:26:23,657 --> 00:26:25,742 I won't go drag racing. 462 00:26:26,033 --> 00:26:29,080 In fact, I'll ask Betty to un-soup my car 463 00:26:29,114 --> 00:26:32,914 so that it doesn't go faster than... than... 464 00:26:33,219 --> 00:26:35,245 - Twenty-five miles an hour. - Fifteen. 465 00:26:35,271 --> 00:26:36,422 Twenty. 466 00:26:36,529 --> 00:26:39,125 - Deal. - Deal. 467 00:26:39,826 --> 00:26:41,898 - Twenty. Sounds great. - Okay. 468 00:26:50,816 --> 00:26:55,342 Oh Mija! Starring Hiram Lodge, Hermione Lodge 469 00:26:55,368 --> 00:26:57,851 and Tillie Temple as Little Ronnie. 470 00:26:57,877 --> 00:26:59,086 Bitch. 471 00:27:06,251 --> 00:27:07,305 Hello? 472 00:27:07,331 --> 00:27:09,540 Veronica? Veronica, can you hear me? 473 00:27:09,566 --> 00:27:10,547 Mom? 474 00:27:10,646 --> 00:27:12,952 Yes. Yes, I can. How are you? 475 00:27:12,978 --> 00:27:15,546 - Where are you? - Listen, darling, I only have a minute. 476 00:27:15,572 --> 00:27:19,010 But, what's this I'm hearing about a boy at the apartment? 477 00:27:19,078 --> 00:27:22,205 You know we didn't send you to Riverdale to get into more trouble, Veronica. 478 00:27:22,249 --> 00:27:24,484 Mom, please. It was nothing. 479 00:27:24,510 --> 00:27:26,381 He's just a friend from school. 480 00:27:26,407 --> 00:27:29,352 Good, good. That's music to my ears. 481 00:27:29,899 --> 00:27:32,424 Mom, have you decided on Thanksgiving yet? 482 00:27:32,516 --> 00:27:35,117 - I can fly back. - Oh, honey, I'm sorry. I have to go. 483 00:27:35,143 --> 00:27:38,538 Your Uncle Orson just arrived. But please, mija, fly right, 484 00:27:38,564 --> 00:27:40,891 no boys, and we'll see about the holidays. 485 00:27:41,104 --> 00:27:42,953 Talk soon. Kisses. 486 00:28:05,306 --> 00:28:08,739 Thank you for letting me borrow the newsletter, Toni. 487 00:28:11,971 --> 00:28:13,544 I had no idea. 488 00:28:15,945 --> 00:28:18,982 The pictures make it so much more real, don't they? 489 00:28:19,661 --> 00:28:21,841 Can you imagine the strength and courage 490 00:28:21,867 --> 00:28:24,575 it took Mrs. Till to let them be published? 491 00:28:25,689 --> 00:28:27,098 I truly can't. 492 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:31,629 But it did help me decide that 493 00:28:31,655 --> 00:28:35,006 I'm going to publish your article in the next edition of The Blue and Gold. 494 00:28:35,059 --> 00:28:36,887 Consequences be damned. 495 00:28:37,032 --> 00:28:39,295 I may have a different idea. 496 00:28:39,321 --> 00:28:40,736 Nobody wanted to see these pictures 497 00:28:40,762 --> 00:28:43,112 and Featherhead and The Blossoms 498 00:28:43,156 --> 00:28:45,817 don't want anybody to read my article, fine. 499 00:28:46,043 --> 00:28:48,567 But what about a poem about Emmett Till 500 00:28:48,712 --> 00:28:50,746 read during the morning announcements? 501 00:28:50,772 --> 00:28:52,916 But Cheryl does the morning announcements. 502 00:28:52,942 --> 00:28:55,065 Exactly. Look, I don't know her well, 503 00:28:55,091 --> 00:28:57,974 but she's going to make up for her parents' cowardice. 504 00:28:58,558 --> 00:29:00,747 You want to help me with an ambush? 505 00:29:05,250 --> 00:29:07,567 Hey, Jughead. 506 00:29:07,956 --> 00:29:09,966 Tabitha. Hi. 507 00:29:10,869 --> 00:29:13,393 You remember that offer you made me before 508 00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:15,841 to help out in any way that you can? 509 00:29:15,867 --> 00:29:18,435 Oh, yeah. Yes, of course. 510 00:29:18,461 --> 00:29:23,031 Well, the NAACP asked Emmett Till's mother to travel around the country 511 00:29:23,057 --> 00:29:25,755 to speak about what happened to her son, 512 00:29:25,781 --> 00:29:29,857 and my folks are joining the tour to pitch in. 513 00:29:31,293 --> 00:29:33,474 I've decided that... 514 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,887 I want to go with them. 515 00:29:36,728 --> 00:29:39,295 After I help Toni with a little something. 516 00:29:39,949 --> 00:29:41,302 That's incredible. 517 00:29:41,917 --> 00:29:44,614 - They're going to let you drop out of school? - No. 518 00:29:44,875 --> 00:29:47,835 But I got special permission from Featherhead. 519 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,457 I'll have my books with me, 520 00:29:49,483 --> 00:29:51,920 but I would love to have a friend help me 521 00:29:51,964 --> 00:29:53,443 stay on top of everything. 522 00:29:53,469 --> 00:29:55,357 Okay. Yeah, I'll do it. 523 00:29:56,567 --> 00:29:57,850 Thank you. 524 00:29:57,885 --> 00:29:59,713 I so appreciate it. 525 00:29:59,764 --> 00:30:01,984 - I'll be in touch, okay? - Awesome. 526 00:30:02,136 --> 00:30:04,872 I mean, swell. 527 00:30:11,497 --> 00:30:13,411 Hey, Cheryl. 528 00:30:13,580 --> 00:30:15,669 Can we talk to you for a second? 529 00:30:15,745 --> 00:30:20,146 What can I do for you... Toni, is it? And Betty. 530 00:30:20,607 --> 00:30:24,751 Your family controls our RIVW, which means they control 531 00:30:24,777 --> 00:30:26,909 what Riverdale watches, 532 00:30:26,935 --> 00:30:30,958 and Principal Featherhead decides what I can and cannot publish in the Blue and Gold. 533 00:30:30,984 --> 00:30:34,849 The powers that be have silenced my article on Emmett Till's murder trial, 534 00:30:34,874 --> 00:30:37,567 but you can fix this. 535 00:30:37,593 --> 00:30:39,919 During the morning announcements. 536 00:30:40,653 --> 00:30:43,583 As junior class president, I can't read an article 537 00:30:43,609 --> 00:30:45,481 that Principal Featherhead has already rejected. 538 00:30:45,507 --> 00:30:48,286 Not an article. Something else. 539 00:30:48,312 --> 00:30:50,183 He'd pull the plug. He's done it before. 540 00:30:50,213 --> 00:30:51,958 We'll take care of Featherhead. 541 00:30:52,127 --> 00:30:55,435 All you have to do is let us borrow your soapbox for a few minutes. 542 00:30:57,692 --> 00:30:59,192 What would I be reading? 543 00:31:05,974 --> 00:31:08,068 Good morning, Miss Bell. 544 00:31:08,094 --> 00:31:09,732 Are you ready for the morning announcements? 545 00:31:09,758 --> 00:31:12,138 Apparently, one of your classmates, Tabatha Tate, 546 00:31:12,164 --> 00:31:14,194 has passed out on the football field. 547 00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:16,482 Principal Featherhead is tending to her now. 548 00:31:16,508 --> 00:31:19,552 I'm to bring both him and her some smelling salts. 549 00:31:19,606 --> 00:31:20,968 You don't say. 550 00:31:20,994 --> 00:31:22,793 You know how to use a microphone, don't you? 551 00:31:22,837 --> 00:31:26,116 Indeed, I do. Don't worry, Miss Bell. All will be well. 552 00:31:26,646 --> 00:31:27,950 Toodles. 553 00:31:35,572 --> 00:31:37,513 Good morning, Riverdaleans. 554 00:31:37,966 --> 00:31:42,483 In lieu of our usual morning announcements, I, Cheryl Blossom, 555 00:31:42,509 --> 00:31:44,310 will be turning over my microphone 556 00:31:44,336 --> 00:31:47,482 to one of our classmates, Toni Topaz. 557 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,372 Please give her your undivided attention. 558 00:31:54,394 --> 00:31:58,529 Some of you may have heard what's happening in Mississippi right now. 559 00:31:58,737 --> 00:32:01,565 How a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, 560 00:32:01,591 --> 00:32:05,116 was murdered for maybe whistling at a white woman 561 00:32:05,146 --> 00:32:07,626 and how his killers were just acquitted. 562 00:32:07,652 --> 00:32:10,044 I wrote an article about the trial, 563 00:32:10,070 --> 00:32:14,379 and nobody wants you to read it because it is "too upsetting." 564 00:32:14,405 --> 00:32:18,716 So, instead, I'm going to read you a poem that the great American writer 565 00:32:18,742 --> 00:32:21,653 Langston Hughes wrote about Emmett Till. 566 00:32:22,056 --> 00:32:24,885 It's titled Mississippi-1955. 567 00:32:24,911 --> 00:32:30,630 And I hope you hear his words and reflect on them 568 00:32:30,757 --> 00:32:33,591 and talk to each other about them. 569 00:32:38,658 --> 00:32:42,083 "Oh, what sorrow! Oh, what pity! 570 00:32:42,424 --> 00:32:44,091 Oh, what pain! 571 00:32:44,423 --> 00:32:47,622 That tears and blood Should mix like rain 572 00:32:47,874 --> 00:32:50,692 And terror come again To Mississippi. 573 00:32:51,090 --> 00:32:52,544 Come again? 574 00:32:52,849 --> 00:32:54,481 Where has terror been? 575 00:32:55,071 --> 00:32:57,813 On vacation? Up North? 576 00:32:57,902 --> 00:33:00,818 In some other section of the nation, 577 00:33:00,862 --> 00:33:03,995 Lying low, unpublicized? 578 00:33:04,107 --> 00:33:06,653 Masked-with only Jaundiced eyes 579 00:33:06,679 --> 00:33:08,841 Showing through the mask? 580 00:33:09,863 --> 00:33:13,278 Oh, what sorrow, Pity, pain, 581 00:33:13,429 --> 00:33:16,780 That tears and blood Should mix like rain 582 00:33:16,879 --> 00:33:18,583 In Mississippi! 583 00:33:18,868 --> 00:33:20,950 And terror, fetid hot, 584 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,497 Yet clammy cold remain." 585 00:33:29,099 --> 00:33:31,357 I don't think any of the students at Riverdale High 586 00:33:31,383 --> 00:33:33,646 had ever heard a poem like that. 587 00:33:33,806 --> 00:33:35,829 Hopefully, it was worth whatever blowback 588 00:33:35,855 --> 00:33:37,705 the girls were certain to get. 589 00:33:37,927 --> 00:33:39,060 The lies, 590 00:33:39,747 --> 00:33:42,161 the insubordination, the trickery. 591 00:33:42,187 --> 00:33:44,341 I did feel sick. 592 00:33:44,675 --> 00:33:46,732 Then I felt better. 593 00:33:46,935 --> 00:33:50,638 Surely you aren't saying that we can't read poems during the morning announcements. 594 00:33:50,664 --> 00:33:52,989 A poem written by one of our greatest living authors. 595 00:33:53,015 --> 00:33:57,458 All poems read during morning announcements must be approved by me. 596 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,472 This is the first I've heard of any such rule, 597 00:33:59,515 --> 00:34:01,700 but I assure you, moving forward, 598 00:34:01,726 --> 00:34:03,927 all poems will be submitted for your approval. 599 00:34:03,953 --> 00:34:05,524 Cross my heart and hope to die. 600 00:34:08,468 --> 00:34:12,083 I'm not sure what you ladies think you've accomplished. 601 00:34:12,945 --> 00:34:14,816 But something had been accomplished. 602 00:34:14,845 --> 00:34:18,805 Given recent events, it might be fruitful for us to discuss 603 00:34:18,872 --> 00:34:22,544 the poem Langston Hughes wrote about Emmett Till. 604 00:34:27,652 --> 00:34:29,442 How did it make you feel? 605 00:34:35,925 --> 00:34:37,153 Angry. 606 00:34:40,285 --> 00:34:41,521 Upset. 607 00:34:41,970 --> 00:34:43,192 Hopeless. 608 00:34:46,344 --> 00:34:48,528 Was he really just 14 years old? 609 00:34:48,930 --> 00:34:50,239 He was. 610 00:34:51,182 --> 00:34:53,677 He was younger than all of us in this room. 611 00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:57,591 Taken out of his home in the middle of the night, 612 00:34:58,281 --> 00:34:59,419 beaten, 613 00:35:00,226 --> 00:35:01,426 tortured. 614 00:35:01,452 --> 00:35:03,614 His body thrown into the river. 615 00:35:06,904 --> 00:35:09,472 Miss Topaz, Miss Tate, Mr. Walker, 616 00:35:09,499 --> 00:35:12,633 I understand that you were in Mississippi for the trial. 617 00:35:12,716 --> 00:35:15,638 If you're comfortable sharing your experience, 618 00:35:15,905 --> 00:35:19,082 I believe it would be valuable for the rest of us 619 00:35:19,108 --> 00:35:21,632 to hear about what you saw. 620 00:35:21,717 --> 00:35:23,216 Miss Topaz. 621 00:35:24,020 --> 00:35:25,685 Would you like to start? 622 00:35:30,677 --> 00:35:33,552 Fitfully, but also necessarily, 623 00:35:33,770 --> 00:35:36,771 a conversation that might not have happened for decades 624 00:35:36,955 --> 00:35:39,614 began at Riverdale High that afternoon. 625 00:35:53,596 --> 00:35:54,931 Hey, doll face. 626 00:35:55,522 --> 00:35:56,706 What do you say? 627 00:35:56,990 --> 00:35:58,792 You want a ride to Pop's, Ronnie? 628 00:36:02,832 --> 00:36:05,080 I see two paths before me. 629 00:36:05,438 --> 00:36:07,409 Light and dark, 630 00:36:07,747 --> 00:36:09,688 fast and slow, 631 00:36:10,150 --> 00:36:12,479 shallow and earnest. 632 00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:15,289 But today... 633 00:36:16,618 --> 00:36:19,042 I believe I'll walk home, fellas. 634 00:36:29,587 --> 00:36:31,127 Had it finally happened? 635 00:36:31,744 --> 00:36:33,397 Had I lost my mind? 636 00:36:33,423 --> 00:36:35,475 Maybe 1955 wasn't the dream. 637 00:36:35,501 --> 00:36:37,916 Maybe the future, maybe that was the dream, 638 00:36:37,942 --> 00:36:39,555 and I finally woke up. 639 00:36:40,152 --> 00:36:41,540 Hi, stranger. 640 00:36:41,971 --> 00:36:43,563 Mind if I join you? 641 00:36:44,322 --> 00:36:45,360 Yeah. 642 00:36:45,386 --> 00:36:47,571 I thought... I thought you were leaving. 643 00:36:48,219 --> 00:36:52,438 I'm not the Tabitha from 1955. 644 00:36:52,735 --> 00:36:55,884 She's with her parents heading to Memphis. 645 00:36:56,185 --> 00:36:58,329 - I'm... - Riverdale's guardian angel. 646 00:36:58,749 --> 00:37:01,907 The Tabitha who remembers and loves you. 647 00:37:02,176 --> 00:37:03,430 Oh, my God! 648 00:37:03,965 --> 00:37:07,577 You need to use your chronokinesis and get us the hell out of 1955. 649 00:37:07,603 --> 00:37:10,759 Archie is trying to get me committed to The Sisters of Quiet Mercy. 650 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,313 God, it's so... I'm so happy to see you. 651 00:37:14,569 --> 00:37:16,727 I am happy to see you too. 652 00:37:17,201 --> 00:37:20,141 But I can't take us home. 653 00:37:20,922 --> 00:37:22,077 Not yet. 654 00:37:23,012 --> 00:37:24,298 Why? Well, why not? 655 00:37:24,324 --> 00:37:26,670 Our last-minute gambit to stop 656 00:37:26,704 --> 00:37:29,344 Bailey's Comet from destroying Riverdale 657 00:37:29,734 --> 00:37:31,173 didn't work. 658 00:37:31,614 --> 00:37:33,118 So the comet hit? 659 00:37:34,122 --> 00:37:37,540 And it triggered an extinction level event. 660 00:37:39,843 --> 00:37:42,193 Are... Are we all dead? 661 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:44,790 Is that... Is that what this is? 662 00:37:44,816 --> 00:37:47,985 - The sweet hereafter? - No, we are alive. 663 00:37:48,373 --> 00:37:51,094 In the past, I had a plan B. 664 00:37:52,208 --> 00:37:55,863 At the moment of impact, I used what was left of my life-force 665 00:37:55,938 --> 00:37:58,245 to send everyone back to the past 666 00:37:58,271 --> 00:38:01,001 to a point far enough back that might give us the necessary runway 667 00:38:01,027 --> 00:38:03,143 to make it back to the present, a present in which 668 00:38:03,169 --> 00:38:05,540 Riverdale isn't destroyed by Bailey's Comet. 669 00:38:05,761 --> 00:38:07,908 Is that even possible? 670 00:38:07,934 --> 00:38:09,391 Hopefully. 671 00:38:10,198 --> 00:38:12,399 But if it is, I have to do it alone. 672 00:38:12,712 --> 00:38:15,298 By exploring and untangling the various timelines 673 00:38:15,324 --> 00:38:18,343 that became knotted and entwined when the comet struck. 674 00:38:18,369 --> 00:38:20,086 Well, what about the rest of us? 675 00:38:21,269 --> 00:38:24,097 You all have to make a go of it here in the '50s 676 00:38:24,123 --> 00:38:25,820 by doing what you can to ensure, 677 00:38:25,846 --> 00:38:28,118 to paraphrase one of my heroes, 678 00:38:28,347 --> 00:38:31,179 that the moral arc of this universe 679 00:38:31,205 --> 00:38:33,201 bends towards justice. 680 00:38:33,227 --> 00:38:36,401 That way, when I finally do untangle the various timelines, 681 00:38:36,444 --> 00:38:38,720 we can make it back to a Riverdale that 682 00:38:38,746 --> 00:38:43,048 isn't on the verge of moral and societal collapse. 683 00:38:44,193 --> 00:38:45,697 But fair warning. 684 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:49,462 Given the near infinite number of timelines and universes, 685 00:38:49,688 --> 00:38:51,407 it could take a while, 686 00:38:51,554 --> 00:38:53,970 so you better get comfortable. 687 00:38:55,392 --> 00:38:57,233 I mean, how... How can I? 688 00:38:57,259 --> 00:38:59,598 I remember everything about our old lives? 689 00:38:59,624 --> 00:39:02,587 You asking questions, creating ripples... 690 00:39:03,944 --> 00:39:07,212 that's what drew me here. 691 00:39:07,691 --> 00:39:08,953 Jughead. 692 00:39:08,979 --> 00:39:11,595 You remembering is an anomaly, 693 00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:14,251 a dangerous one that I'm here to fix 694 00:39:14,476 --> 00:39:16,275 by making you forget. 695 00:39:17,056 --> 00:39:19,447 Otherwise, your knowledge could drive you insane, 696 00:39:19,473 --> 00:39:23,525 or it could drive you to do something that further corrupts this timeline. 697 00:39:27,014 --> 00:39:28,993 Will I... I'll forget everything? 698 00:39:29,938 --> 00:39:31,126 Yes. 699 00:39:31,816 --> 00:39:35,798 You'd be just like everyone else, able to live in the present. 700 00:39:36,506 --> 00:39:37,860 In the moment. 701 00:39:41,244 --> 00:39:45,165 I don't... I mean, I don't want to forget about you or about us. 702 00:39:45,625 --> 00:39:46,813 I know. 703 00:39:48,161 --> 00:39:49,641 But you have to. 704 00:39:50,620 --> 00:39:52,298 It's for the best. 705 00:40:50,390 --> 00:40:52,958 In those first few seconds after Angel Tabitha disappeared, 706 00:40:52,984 --> 00:40:55,588 I could feel the effects of her kiss taking hold. 707 00:40:55,732 --> 00:40:57,900 But for the moment, I still remembered. 708 00:40:58,057 --> 00:41:00,338 I needed to write down everything, our stories, 709 00:41:00,364 --> 00:41:02,611 our lives, before it was too late. 710 00:41:13,108 --> 00:41:16,658 But then, like mist evaporating in the sun, 711 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,393 it was all gone. 712 00:41:18,621 --> 00:41:20,840 I had only managed to get down three words. 713 00:41:20,931 --> 00:41:23,361 Bend. Towards. Justice. 714 00:41:23,692 --> 00:41:25,494 Meaning what, exactly? 715 00:41:25,750 --> 00:41:27,796 And that wasn't even the weirdest thing. 716 00:41:27,822 --> 00:41:30,049 That would be the sudden, inexplicable appearance 717 00:41:30,075 --> 00:41:33,043 of something I've never seen before. 718 00:41:50,549 --> 00:41:53,713 www.subtitulamos.tv