1 00:00:01,042 --> 00:00:03,811 The weirdest thing about pretending to be dead is that after a while, 2 00:00:03,847 --> 00:00:06,413 you actually start feeling like you're dead. 3 00:00:06,449 --> 00:00:09,052 As in, "dead as a doornail" dead. 4 00:00:12,723 --> 00:00:15,825 For starters, I was underground, as if in a tomb. 5 00:00:15,861 --> 00:00:18,694 Granted, I was hiding out in Dilton's doomsday bunker 6 00:00:18,730 --> 00:00:20,532 and not in a coffin, but still. 7 00:00:21,901 --> 00:00:24,368 Two weeks, no sunlight, 8 00:00:24,404 --> 00:00:27,404 with no sense of time or its passing? 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,208 It's gotta be what limbo feels like, right? 10 00:00:31,145 --> 00:00:33,545 Other similarities to being dead. 11 00:00:33,581 --> 00:00:37,583 Not one, but two obituaries about me ran. 12 00:00:37,619 --> 00:00:41,254 A rather perfunctory one in The Riverdale Register. 13 00:00:41,290 --> 00:00:44,093 A second, more irreverent one in the Blue and Gold. 14 00:00:45,194 --> 00:00:46,496 I liked that one. 15 00:00:48,432 --> 00:00:50,735 I had a funeral. Well, a wake. 16 00:00:52,369 --> 00:00:54,736 I watched it on my laptop. 17 00:00:54,772 --> 00:00:57,776 Live-streamed from a camera Betty had set up in the living room. 18 00:01:03,282 --> 00:01:05,883 Betty and I suspected that the Stonies would show up, 19 00:01:05,919 --> 00:01:07,888 and, sure enough, they did. 20 00:01:08,889 --> 00:01:10,488 We wanted to study them 21 00:01:10,524 --> 00:01:13,558 to see if anything they did was suspicious. 22 00:01:13,594 --> 00:01:15,728 Not that there was any doubt in our mind about their guilt. 23 00:01:15,764 --> 00:01:17,897 The Preppies had stone-cold murdered me 24 00:01:17,933 --> 00:01:19,601 and were trying to pin it on Betty. 25 00:01:20,570 --> 00:01:22,237 We just couldn't prove it. 26 00:01:22,705 --> 00:01:23,806 Not yet. 27 00:01:24,707 --> 00:01:26,239 Meanwhile... 28 00:01:26,275 --> 00:01:29,243 The hardest part of playing dead was letting everyone believe 29 00:01:29,279 --> 00:01:31,415 I was in the semi-sweet hereafter. 30 00:01:32,349 --> 00:01:33,785 Our family, our friends. 31 00:01:35,286 --> 00:01:37,219 The lies we had to tell. 32 00:01:37,255 --> 00:01:39,856 The things we had to do to sell that illusion. 33 00:01:39,892 --> 00:01:42,626 Like pretending that my bereft girlfriend had found comfort 34 00:01:42,662 --> 00:01:46,330 in the strong, steely arms of my best bud. 35 00:01:46,366 --> 00:01:49,868 Which turned out to be the greatest misdirect of them all. 36 00:01:49,904 --> 00:01:52,540 Of course, we needed to let some people know the truth. 37 00:01:53,441 --> 00:01:55,374 Except in one case. 38 00:01:55,410 --> 00:01:56,745 My kid sister Jellybean? 39 00:01:57,579 --> 00:01:58,578 Didn't have to be told. 40 00:01:58,614 --> 00:02:01,915 Oh, you found the fake blood. Thanks, Jellybean. 41 00:02:01,951 --> 00:02:03,586 Do you need it for Jughead? 42 00:02:04,854 --> 00:02:06,688 What? What do you... What do you mean? 43 00:02:06,724 --> 00:02:08,492 Do you need it to help my brother? 44 00:02:11,562 --> 00:02:14,363 Jellybean, do you know where Jughead is? 45 00:02:14,399 --> 00:02:16,933 I heard you whispering on the phone to Charles last night. 46 00:02:16,969 --> 00:02:18,902 The walls are super thin. 47 00:02:18,938 --> 00:02:20,671 You don't have to tell me where he is, 48 00:02:20,707 --> 00:02:21,808 just that he's okay. 49 00:02:22,842 --> 00:02:24,544 Is he? Okay? 50 00:02:27,347 --> 00:02:28,613 Can you keep a secret? 51 00:02:29,984 --> 00:02:31,583 We brought my dad into it pretty quick too. 52 00:02:31,619 --> 00:02:32,887 Betty. 53 00:02:33,488 --> 00:02:35,354 I, uh... 54 00:02:35,390 --> 00:02:36,990 I gave that bloody rock to Charles, 55 00:02:37,026 --> 00:02:39,492 he said the FBI is gonna have it tested. 56 00:02:39,528 --> 00:02:41,729 And when they do, they will tell you that it's covered 57 00:02:41,765 --> 00:02:43,831 in fake blood that you can buy at a drugstore. 58 00:02:43,867 --> 00:02:46,333 The hell are you talking about? 59 00:02:46,369 --> 00:02:47,836 I don't want you to worry anymore. 60 00:02:47,872 --> 00:02:50,441 Mr. Jones, I'm really sorry that you've been worrying. 61 00:02:51,008 --> 00:02:53,643 Jughead's fine. 62 00:02:53,679 --> 00:02:55,678 He's... Okay, he's not fine, but he's okay. 63 00:02:55,714 --> 00:02:58,448 Hold on, you know where Jughead is? 64 00:02:58,484 --> 00:02:59,919 Yes. 65 00:03:02,789 --> 00:03:04,488 I will tell you everything, okay? 66 00:03:04,524 --> 00:03:06,691 But we really, really need your help, please. 67 00:03:06,727 --> 00:03:08,929 I'm afraid to ask, but what kind of help? 68 00:03:10,699 --> 00:03:11,933 For starters, 69 00:03:13,101 --> 00:03:15,735 a search party. 70 00:03:15,771 --> 00:03:18,007 Archie went rogue and told his mom too. 71 00:03:27,384 --> 00:03:29,053 Mom, I have to confess something to you. 72 00:03:30,889 --> 00:03:33,723 And then there was Veronica's sister, Hermosa, 73 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:35,525 who was sniffing around, looking for bones. 74 00:03:35,561 --> 00:03:37,894 All right. What do you wanna know? 75 00:03:37,930 --> 00:03:41,535 Let me ask you straight up, hermanita. 76 00:03:43,670 --> 00:03:46,337 Did you help Betty kill her boyfriend? 77 00:03:46,373 --> 00:03:48,974 What? No, why would I do that? 78 00:03:49,010 --> 00:03:51,878 Because that's the kind of thing that secret girlfriends do. 79 00:03:51,914 --> 00:03:54,547 They kill each other's boyfriends so they can be together. 80 00:03:54,583 --> 00:03:58,418 Okay, I don't know what kind of crypto-lesbian 81 00:03:58,454 --> 00:04:01,421 pulp fiction you're conjuring, Hermosa, but Betty and I are just friends. 82 00:04:01,457 --> 00:04:03,727 Well, then, what did happen to that dead Torombolo? 83 00:04:05,429 --> 00:04:07,662 Either you can tell me or I'll just keep digging. 84 00:04:07,698 --> 00:04:10,001 - Don't forget, I'm a licensed... - Private investigator, right. 85 00:04:13,672 --> 00:04:15,975 Not sure why I didn't think of this before... 86 00:04:17,577 --> 00:04:19,977 but maybe you could help us with something. 87 00:04:20,013 --> 00:04:21,480 Me, Betty, and Archie. 88 00:04:24,618 --> 00:04:27,452 How much do you charge, Hermosa? 89 00:04:27,488 --> 00:04:29,588 And is there a discount for family members? 90 00:04:29,624 --> 00:04:32,457 In the months that followed, people will ask us, 91 00:04:32,493 --> 00:04:34,460 "Did we need to do it?" 92 00:04:34,496 --> 00:04:36,032 Go to such extreme lengths? 93 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,702 Maybe, maybe not. 94 00:04:39,769 --> 00:04:41,371 But this I did know... 95 00:04:44,041 --> 00:04:47,409 If I was going to recover without the Preppies trying to kill me again 96 00:04:47,445 --> 00:04:49,745 and figure out how to solve my own murder, 97 00:04:49,781 --> 00:04:53,385 I needed the illusion to be perfect to buy myself time. 98 00:04:57,523 --> 00:04:59,891 So while above me, a world without Jughead 99 00:04:59,927 --> 00:05:02,694 continued spinning forward, 100 00:05:02,730 --> 00:05:06,065 I pored over every scrap of evidence we'd gathered, 101 00:05:06,101 --> 00:05:09,168 went over every detail of my time at Stonewall Prep, 102 00:05:09,204 --> 00:05:13,039 looking for hidden patterns, hints and clues. 103 00:05:13,075 --> 00:05:15,909 But this was a different kind of mystery than the ones we'd tackled before. 104 00:05:15,945 --> 00:05:17,945 This wasn't a "whodunnit." 105 00:05:17,981 --> 00:05:20,214 This was a "whydunnit." 106 00:05:20,250 --> 00:05:21,849 More psychological. 107 00:05:21,885 --> 00:05:25,422 I needed to get under my suspects' skin, inside their heads. 108 00:05:26,925 --> 00:05:28,523 I had to let my intuition take over 109 00:05:28,559 --> 00:05:31,060 to draw these disparate strands together. 110 00:05:31,096 --> 00:05:34,497 The missing Stonewall Four. The "accidental deaths" of DuPont's classmates. 111 00:05:34,533 --> 00:05:37,137 My attempted murder. How were they all connected? 112 00:05:38,638 --> 00:05:40,908 A key piece of information came from Hermosa. 113 00:05:41,976 --> 00:05:43,577 Which was that Donna... 114 00:05:44,845 --> 00:05:45,846 Jug? 115 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:49,451 Jug? 116 00:05:50,552 --> 00:05:52,585 Are you okay? 117 00:05:52,621 --> 00:05:55,722 Yeah, sorry, I was just going over everything one more time. 118 00:05:55,758 --> 00:05:58,860 - What's up, did they find him? - Yeah, yes. We did. 119 00:05:58,896 --> 00:06:01,465 - Well, I mean, Charles and FP did. - And did he agree? 120 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:03,665 Completely. 121 00:06:03,701 --> 00:06:05,602 He's showering as we speak. 122 00:06:07,706 --> 00:06:11,107 - So are we doing this or what? - Oh, yeah. 123 00:06:11,143 --> 00:06:13,746 We are gonna blow Stonewall Prep out of the water. 124 00:06:17,958 --> 00:06:22,958 Subtitles by explosiveskull www.OpenSubtitles.org 125 00:06:26,027 --> 00:06:28,094 Crime and Punishment. 126 00:06:28,130 --> 00:06:31,600 A novel of murder and its psychological toll. 127 00:06:32,801 --> 00:06:34,835 The floor is open. 128 00:06:34,871 --> 00:06:38,008 Any thoughts regarding Dostoevsky's take on morality? 129 00:06:42,179 --> 00:06:43,181 Hey, guys. 130 00:06:46,318 --> 00:06:47,917 Well, what, did you even miss me? 131 00:06:47,953 --> 00:06:49,152 You gotta be kidding me. 132 00:06:49,188 --> 00:06:50,887 Mr. Jones. 133 00:06:50,923 --> 00:06:53,323 I... I don't understand. We all thought... 134 00:06:53,359 --> 00:06:55,326 That I was dead? Well... 135 00:06:55,362 --> 00:06:57,594 Yeah, actually for a minute there, I did too. 136 00:06:57,630 --> 00:06:58,529 Yeah. 137 00:06:58,565 --> 00:07:01,001 Hey, what's that oft-used Mark Twain quote? 138 00:07:02,337 --> 00:07:04,303 "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." 139 00:07:04,339 --> 00:07:07,073 What is happening right now? 140 00:07:07,109 --> 00:07:10,012 It is called "getting your comeuppance," Joan. 141 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,549 You guys are reading Crime and Punishment, huh? 142 00:07:15,752 --> 00:07:18,256 How apropos. 143 00:07:21,159 --> 00:07:24,926 You know, the one kind of crime story that we never really touched upon in this seminar 144 00:07:24,962 --> 00:07:28,333 was the time-tested genre of a locked room mystery. 145 00:07:29,968 --> 00:07:32,069 Where all the suspects are sequestered in a room. 146 00:07:32,105 --> 00:07:33,337 One or more of them could be the killer, 147 00:07:33,373 --> 00:07:37,075 but the door is not unlocked until the identity is revealed. 148 00:07:37,111 --> 00:07:38,611 Betty, could you do the honor? 149 00:07:47,122 --> 00:07:49,289 The next bell doesn't ring for half an hour. 150 00:07:49,325 --> 00:07:52,726 So for the next 30 minutes, your asses belong to us. 151 00:07:52,762 --> 00:07:54,064 I knew you weren't really dead. 152 00:07:55,132 --> 00:07:57,632 Good job, Donna. 153 00:07:57,668 --> 00:08:00,102 And yet since you failed to prove it or find Jughead, 154 00:08:00,138 --> 00:08:03,739 we had time to figure out all the twists and turns of this murder-mystery 155 00:08:03,775 --> 00:08:05,975 that we've all been living for the past few months. 156 00:08:06,011 --> 00:08:07,510 I have no idea what you're talking about. 157 00:08:07,546 --> 00:08:10,414 Don't worry 'cause I'm gonna take you through it, step by step. 158 00:08:10,450 --> 00:08:13,117 No, this is ridiculous. Mr. DuPont, I'm calling security. 159 00:08:13,153 --> 00:08:15,853 Shut the hell up, Bret. Like I said, for the next 30 minutes, 160 00:08:15,889 --> 00:08:18,056 we're in charge. So, give me your cellphones. 161 00:08:18,092 --> 00:08:20,328 - Why the hell... - Joan, just do what she says. 162 00:08:22,431 --> 00:08:24,263 We have nothing to hide. 163 00:08:24,299 --> 00:08:26,899 I'd get comfortable if I were you guys 164 00:08:26,935 --> 00:08:29,403 'cause I'm going to take you through it from the very beginning. 165 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:33,006 Starting with that very curious fact that both Moose Mason and myself 166 00:08:33,042 --> 00:08:35,312 were invited to Stonewall Prep during our senior year. 167 00:08:38,416 --> 00:08:39,650 Jughead? 168 00:08:40,084 --> 00:08:41,419 Moose! 169 00:08:42,187 --> 00:08:43,919 What the hell? 170 00:08:43,955 --> 00:08:45,855 It's good to see you. 171 00:08:45,891 --> 00:08:48,758 Was it like that when you met my grandfather, Forsythe the First? 172 00:08:48,794 --> 00:08:50,461 He was asked to study at Stonewall too. 173 00:08:50,497 --> 00:08:53,733 You were roommates with him, weren't you, Mr. DuPont? 174 00:08:54,134 --> 00:08:55,433 Yes. 175 00:08:55,469 --> 00:08:57,969 And you're very much like him, Mr. Jones. 176 00:08:58,005 --> 00:09:01,441 Your grandfather was an arrogant fool too. 177 00:09:01,477 --> 00:09:05,311 Why do you say that, huh? 178 00:09:05,347 --> 00:09:08,948 Because he had the gall to consider himself worthy of your little inner circle? 179 00:09:08,984 --> 00:09:11,852 The first iteration of Stonewall's Literary Society. 180 00:09:11,888 --> 00:09:14,021 What exactly is this proving, Mr. Jones? 181 00:09:14,057 --> 00:09:17,192 That this is not a story about a murder. 182 00:09:17,228 --> 00:09:20,731 This is a story about grandparents and their grandchildren. 183 00:09:22,501 --> 00:09:26,171 Of the sins from one generation being passed on to the next. 184 00:09:27,974 --> 00:09:30,340 Cycles of violence. 185 00:09:30,376 --> 00:09:32,045 Which brings me neatly to my next point. 186 00:09:32,446 --> 00:09:33,945 Halloween. 187 00:09:33,981 --> 00:09:36,080 When I was drugged by you psychos. 188 00:09:36,116 --> 00:09:37,284 I think I... 189 00:09:38,253 --> 00:09:40,452 I think I need some air. 190 00:09:40,488 --> 00:09:42,324 No. 191 00:09:43,925 --> 00:09:45,127 You need to lie down. 192 00:09:48,130 --> 00:09:50,431 Say hello to the Stonewall Four for us. 193 00:09:50,467 --> 00:09:54,302 Only to wake up in a coffin and be let out a day later. 194 00:09:57,075 --> 00:09:59,775 To return to my dorm. 195 00:09:59,811 --> 00:10:02,512 Moose, you are not going to believe what Bret... 196 00:10:02,548 --> 00:10:04,416 And find that Moose had vanished. 197 00:10:06,586 --> 00:10:11,523 So naturally, I assumed he went out the same way as the Stonewall Four, 198 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,426 that group of students that mysteriously vanished 199 00:10:14,462 --> 00:10:17,028 while attending Stonewall Prep over a few decades. 200 00:10:17,064 --> 00:10:18,264 Oh, here we go again. 201 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:21,367 Now, Moose's fate was more banal. He joined the Army. 202 00:10:21,403 --> 00:10:26,273 But there's a twist! Mr. Chipping was the one who encouraged Moose to enlist. 203 00:10:26,309 --> 00:10:29,042 But it was more like forced him to. 204 00:10:29,078 --> 00:10:31,312 He was encouraging me to leave. 205 00:10:31,348 --> 00:10:33,915 Until Halloween night, when it became more than a suggestion. 206 00:10:33,951 --> 00:10:35,783 I mean, he practically shoved me out the door. 207 00:10:35,819 --> 00:10:39,388 So, what was the connection between Moose and Chipping that would make him take his advice? 208 00:10:39,424 --> 00:10:42,858 He recruited me. To play football. 209 00:10:42,894 --> 00:10:46,029 Wait. Mr. Chipping's the reason why you went to Stonewall Prep? 210 00:10:46,065 --> 00:10:49,433 Chipping had recruited Moose the same way he had Jughead 211 00:10:49,469 --> 00:10:52,371 and then ran him out of Stonewall Prep. 212 00:10:52,407 --> 00:10:53,971 Meaning what, exactly? 213 00:10:54,007 --> 00:10:56,608 Meaning Chipping knew Moose was going to get murdered 214 00:10:56,644 --> 00:10:58,611 and was trying to save his life. 215 00:10:58,647 --> 00:11:01,180 And I would remember that next point. It's gonna be on the qu... 216 00:11:01,216 --> 00:11:02,851 - Oh, Mr. J... - Shut up! 217 00:11:04,621 --> 00:11:07,123 Mr. DuPont, as they say in Lord of the Flies, 218 00:11:08,958 --> 00:11:10,226 I have the conch. 219 00:11:12,997 --> 00:11:17,567 Now, after Halloween is when things got really interesting. 220 00:11:17,603 --> 00:11:19,969 See, that's when you announced the writing competition. 221 00:11:20,005 --> 00:11:23,541 Chipping has written the last four Baxter Brothers books. 222 00:11:23,577 --> 00:11:25,177 It's time he pass on the torch. 223 00:11:25,213 --> 00:11:30,649 And someone in this very room is going to be anointed the next ghostwriter. 224 00:11:30,685 --> 00:11:32,717 You had already taken a shine to me, Mr. DuPont. 225 00:11:32,753 --> 00:11:35,421 You were asking about my father and my grandfather. 226 00:11:35,457 --> 00:11:37,960 Your grandfather was an excellent writer. 227 00:11:39,028 --> 00:11:40,426 Tell me, how's he doing? 228 00:11:40,462 --> 00:11:41,428 Does he still write? 229 00:11:41,464 --> 00:11:44,098 So imagine my surprise... 230 00:11:44,134 --> 00:11:48,102 when I found out that my good-for-nothing drop-out grandfather 231 00:11:48,138 --> 00:11:52,107 had actually written the original Baxter Brothers novel. 232 00:11:52,143 --> 00:11:54,177 Which a young Francis DuPont would then steal from him. 233 00:11:54,213 --> 00:11:57,546 It was a 100% legal transaction. A sale. 234 00:11:57,582 --> 00:11:58,982 It's highway robbery. 235 00:11:59,018 --> 00:12:02,820 A measly five grand for an idea that generated millions of dollars. 236 00:12:02,856 --> 00:12:06,691 You exploited Forsythe, Mr. DuPont. 237 00:12:06,727 --> 00:12:09,661 You took advantage of a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. 238 00:12:09,697 --> 00:12:12,097 And if that secret ever came out, 239 00:12:12,133 --> 00:12:15,134 can you imagine the damage that would do 240 00:12:15,170 --> 00:12:17,804 to the very valuable Baxter Brothers brand? 241 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,674 Hell. 242 00:12:20,710 --> 00:12:23,911 Someone might kill to keep that secret. 243 00:12:23,947 --> 00:12:27,082 Which is exactly what we thought happened with Mr. Chipping. 244 00:12:27,118 --> 00:12:29,618 I told Chipping about my gramps. 245 00:12:29,654 --> 00:12:31,187 And then he talked to you, Mr. DuPont. 246 00:12:31,223 --> 00:12:33,125 And the next day, well... 247 00:12:37,196 --> 00:12:39,532 I think we all remember his dive out the window. 248 00:12:41,067 --> 00:12:42,599 I thought you had urged him to do it. 249 00:12:42,635 --> 00:12:44,168 I thought you had some leverage over Chipping. 250 00:12:44,204 --> 00:12:46,941 I mean, you guys were all part of the same secret society, Quill and Skull. 251 00:12:48,209 --> 00:12:49,576 But it was actually you guys. 252 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:53,679 It was your blank expressions 253 00:12:53,715 --> 00:12:55,081 as you watched him jump. 254 00:12:55,117 --> 00:12:56,786 Call an ambulance! 255 00:13:00,556 --> 00:13:01,725 I just couldn't shake it. 256 00:13:04,094 --> 00:13:06,594 That's when I knew there was a deeper game afoot. 257 00:13:06,630 --> 00:13:09,831 No, Chipping suicided 'cause he was messing around with Donna, 258 00:13:09,867 --> 00:13:11,267 she ended it, and he short-circuited. 259 00:13:11,303 --> 00:13:13,202 Except... 260 00:13:13,238 --> 00:13:17,207 they never really had a physical relationship. 261 00:13:17,243 --> 00:13:19,143 Isn't that right, Donna? 262 00:13:19,179 --> 00:13:21,111 We had an affair and it got out of hand. 263 00:13:21,147 --> 00:13:22,746 Mmm-hmm. 264 00:13:22,782 --> 00:13:25,650 Yes, an affair that went down exactly 265 00:13:25,686 --> 00:13:29,221 like the affair that you had with Mr. Kotter. 266 00:13:29,257 --> 00:13:32,094 - Uh... - Except, I looked into it and... 267 00:13:33,329 --> 00:13:36,096 turns out there is no Mr. Kotter. 268 00:13:36,132 --> 00:13:39,099 - Rupert, Rupert had demons. - Oh, he did. 269 00:13:39,135 --> 00:13:41,805 Mrs. Chipping filled us in on all of those. 270 00:13:43,340 --> 00:13:46,744 Yeah, she said that he had been drinking more. 271 00:13:47,578 --> 00:13:48,777 And having trouble sleeping. 272 00:13:48,813 --> 00:13:51,547 ...complaining about the Baxter Brothers books. 273 00:13:51,583 --> 00:13:53,753 Wishing he'd never gotten the contract. 274 00:13:54,820 --> 00:13:56,253 So then, we started to ask ourselves, 275 00:13:56,289 --> 00:13:58,990 what would turn the opportunity of a lifetime, 276 00:13:59,026 --> 00:14:02,159 winning the Baxter Brothers contract, into a burden? 277 00:14:02,195 --> 00:14:04,265 An albatross? Any ideas? 278 00:14:06,601 --> 00:14:10,903 Your ghostwriter challenge was to devise the perfect murder. 279 00:14:10,939 --> 00:14:12,872 What if the real challenge, 280 00:14:12,908 --> 00:14:17,745 the real price that someone had to pay was to commit the perfect murder? 281 00:14:17,781 --> 00:14:20,016 In order to prove that you could write it, first you had to do it. 282 00:14:21,718 --> 00:14:25,287 I mean, it kind of makes a twisted, pathological sense, no? 283 00:14:25,323 --> 00:14:27,926 And that's what was tormenting Mr. Chipping. 284 00:14:28,860 --> 00:14:30,593 The guilt of what he had done, 285 00:14:30,629 --> 00:14:34,264 the blood that he had shed, in order to win the contract. 286 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,268 Mr. Chipping invited Moose to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim. 287 00:14:37,304 --> 00:14:40,638 To be killed by the next ghostwriter. One of you. 288 00:14:40,674 --> 00:14:43,875 And Moose was the perfect candidate. 289 00:14:43,911 --> 00:14:46,011 I mean, he was a messed-up kid, he had no family, 290 00:14:46,047 --> 00:14:47,846 he couldn't handle the stresses of life. 291 00:14:47,882 --> 00:14:52,385 After my dad was arrested for impersonating the Gargoyle King, 292 00:14:52,421 --> 00:14:57,191 it, uh, kinda blew up my life, my family, everything. 293 00:14:57,227 --> 00:15:00,061 I even ended up in a facility for a couple of months. 294 00:15:00,097 --> 00:15:02,133 Chipping ran Moose out of town. 295 00:15:03,034 --> 00:15:04,766 You said it yourself. 296 00:15:04,802 --> 00:15:05,901 Good, you remember. 297 00:15:05,937 --> 00:15:08,237 Okay, we think Chipping couldn't go through with it. 298 00:15:08,273 --> 00:15:12,409 And-or, maybe he just wanted to atone for what he had done. 299 00:15:12,445 --> 00:15:14,078 I mean, whatever the reason. 300 00:15:14,114 --> 00:15:16,346 He ran Moose the hell away from Stonewall Prep 301 00:15:16,382 --> 00:15:18,885 and then killed himself, it was his only escape. 302 00:15:19,886 --> 00:15:22,720 Pure demented conjecture. 303 00:15:22,756 --> 00:15:26,392 Well, yes and no. Chipping's behavior is hypothesis, but if proven, 304 00:15:26,428 --> 00:15:30,796 it shows a pattern of how the previous ghostwriters won their contract. 305 00:15:30,832 --> 00:15:34,234 Same year, same month as Chipping was awarded his contract, 306 00:15:34,270 --> 00:15:35,936 a Stonewall student disappeared. 307 00:15:35,972 --> 00:15:37,875 One of the so-called Stonewall Four. 308 00:15:40,978 --> 00:15:44,215 We believe this student was murdered by Mr. Chipping. 309 00:15:49,421 --> 00:15:51,721 Ryan Allan, the previous ghostwriter, 310 00:15:51,757 --> 00:15:53,823 who took up the mantle the same month 311 00:15:53,859 --> 00:15:55,728 another one of the Stonewall Four disappeared. 312 00:15:57,297 --> 00:16:00,098 The sequence holds true for every ghostwriter who preceded them. 313 00:16:00,134 --> 00:16:02,934 It's... It's actually incredibly simple. 314 00:16:02,970 --> 00:16:06,807 Which brings us to a couple months ago, when I was awarded the contract. 315 00:16:07,209 --> 00:16:08,343 But why? 316 00:16:09,378 --> 00:16:11,777 To put a target on my back. 317 00:16:11,813 --> 00:16:14,148 Probably because I was already circling the truth, 318 00:16:14,184 --> 00:16:16,984 so he gave you guys a new challenge. 319 00:16:17,020 --> 00:16:19,456 To commit the perfect murder, against me, 320 00:16:20,525 --> 00:16:23,825 and be awarded the contract. 321 00:16:23,861 --> 00:16:26,464 So, the million dollar question is... 322 00:16:27,832 --> 00:16:31,804 who was going to kill Jughead? And how? 323 00:16:36,069 --> 00:16:38,304 So, which one of you heartless bastards killed me? 324 00:16:42,476 --> 00:16:45,277 It was actually Mr. DuPont that gave me a clue. 325 00:16:45,313 --> 00:16:47,913 When I asked who had re-written my Baxter Brothers novel, 326 00:16:47,949 --> 00:16:49,381 you told me they all had a crack at it. 327 00:16:49,417 --> 00:16:55,322 Well, actually, all of your classmates collaborated on it. 328 00:16:55,358 --> 00:16:58,292 And that suggested to me that each one of you had a hand in my murder. 329 00:16:58,328 --> 00:17:01,231 - Oh, this should be good. - Donna, you kept Betty busy. 330 00:17:04,402 --> 00:17:06,101 Oh, good, you made it. 331 00:17:06,137 --> 00:17:08,371 Bret, you led me deeper into the woods, 332 00:17:08,407 --> 00:17:11,210 where I took off the bunny mask I was wearing and put on my beanie. 333 00:17:14,146 --> 00:17:17,981 And was it that beanie that kept my head from being completely cracked open 334 00:17:18,017 --> 00:17:20,251 when Joan crept up behind me... 335 00:17:20,287 --> 00:17:22,487 and hit me with a baseball-sized rock? 336 00:17:22,523 --> 00:17:25,290 What? How do you know it was me? Why couldn't it have been Jonathan? 337 00:17:25,326 --> 00:17:28,527 Well, I don't recall Jonathan wearing your perfume. 338 00:17:28,563 --> 00:17:31,263 Yeah, where... Where is Jonathan again? 339 00:17:31,299 --> 00:17:34,167 Or did you kill him because he started to develop a conscience? 340 00:17:34,203 --> 00:17:36,970 He had food poisoning, he still has food poisoning. 341 00:17:37,006 --> 00:17:39,107 Okay, Jonathan aside, 342 00:17:39,143 --> 00:17:42,544 you had a fool-proof plan, air-tight alibis. 343 00:17:42,580 --> 00:17:45,917 It all should have worked so perfectly, but it didn't. 344 00:17:48,153 --> 00:17:49,952 - Why? - Because in all your plotting, 345 00:17:49,988 --> 00:17:52,188 all of your lurid conspiring and your brilliance, 346 00:17:52,224 --> 00:17:54,057 you didn't kill me. 347 00:17:54,093 --> 00:17:55,693 I mean, whose job was it to check my pulse? 348 00:17:55,729 --> 00:17:56,630 Jonathan! 349 00:18:02,203 --> 00:18:03,736 Oh, you Einsteins. 350 00:18:03,772 --> 00:18:06,608 All you had to do was hit me in the back of the head hard enough with a rock. 351 00:18:07,476 --> 00:18:09,208 You failed spectacularly. 352 00:18:09,244 --> 00:18:11,678 Yeah, meanwhile, Donna was blowing Devil's Breath in my face 353 00:18:11,714 --> 00:18:14,117 to set me up as the ultimate fall-girl. 354 00:18:17,086 --> 00:18:18,586 Devil's Breath? Really? 355 00:18:18,622 --> 00:18:20,655 Yeah, the technical term being scopolamine, 356 00:18:20,691 --> 00:18:23,592 which leaves a person highly suggestive and in a drunken state. 357 00:18:23,628 --> 00:18:27,163 Which is why I don't remember when Donna led me into the clearing 358 00:18:27,199 --> 00:18:30,400 where Jughead's body was and placed the bloody rock in my hand, 359 00:18:30,436 --> 00:18:34,438 leaving me literally red-handed with the murder weapon. 360 00:18:34,474 --> 00:18:37,775 After which, the four of you returned to the party 361 00:18:37,811 --> 00:18:40,679 and ran into Archie and Veronica. 362 00:18:40,715 --> 00:18:43,751 Hey, have you guys seen Betty and Jughead? 363 00:18:44,753 --> 00:18:46,486 I think they went that way, 364 00:18:46,522 --> 00:18:48,324 into the clearing behind those trees. 365 00:18:52,328 --> 00:18:53,396 Thanks. 366 00:18:59,270 --> 00:19:01,472 And pointed them to where you knew they would find me. 367 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:04,507 Standing over Jughead's corpse. 368 00:19:04,543 --> 00:19:06,442 Oh, my God, Betty, what happened? 369 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:08,580 Jug! Is he breathing? 370 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:15,556 He's dead. 371 00:19:16,757 --> 00:19:21,292 At which point, one of two scenarios could've played out. 372 00:19:21,328 --> 00:19:26,666 One, Archie and Veronica could turn me in. 373 00:19:26,702 --> 00:19:33,340 Two, they could help me cover up the "murder" that I had just committed. 374 00:19:33,376 --> 00:19:35,543 Either way, I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. 375 00:19:35,579 --> 00:19:38,647 But honestly, you guys could've gotten away with it too. 376 00:19:38,683 --> 00:19:41,286 Yeah, except, again... 377 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,452 You guys didn't kill me. 378 00:19:43,488 --> 00:19:46,725 - Archie... - Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 379 00:19:47,526 --> 00:19:48,694 Betty, what happened? 380 00:19:54,467 --> 00:19:57,502 All right, start pounding on his chest. Right now, okay? 381 00:19:57,538 --> 00:19:59,337 Vee, use the beanie to stop the bleeding. 382 00:19:59,373 --> 00:20:02,644 Go, one, two, three, four, five. 383 00:20:06,148 --> 00:20:08,382 - Come on, Jug. - ...four, five... 384 00:20:08,418 --> 00:20:10,553 Come on, come on, Jug! Come on! 385 00:20:11,889 --> 00:20:13,857 - Betty, he's... - Come back to me, Jug. 386 00:20:16,894 --> 00:20:19,595 Jug, hey, hey, hey. 387 00:20:19,631 --> 00:20:21,730 Hey, we're gonna get you to a hospital, okay? 388 00:20:21,766 --> 00:20:23,069 No... No hospital. 389 00:20:25,370 --> 00:20:29,275 Hey, stay awake, stay with me, please, Jug. Hey. Stay awake, okay? 390 00:20:30,744 --> 00:20:33,844 Though I didn't regain consciousness for another 36 hours. 391 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,516 The worst 36 hours of my life. 392 00:20:40,254 --> 00:20:42,154 Why would you say that, Jones? 393 00:20:42,190 --> 00:20:45,894 "No hospital." Why would a man on death's door say that? 394 00:20:47,262 --> 00:20:50,197 I honestly don't know. 395 00:20:50,233 --> 00:20:54,335 Maybe I had some small feeling that you were going to try and frame Betty. 396 00:20:54,371 --> 00:20:56,374 And I wanted her to have a fighting chance. 397 00:21:00,378 --> 00:21:03,312 I'm... I'm calling Charles, I'm calling Charles. 398 00:21:03,348 --> 00:21:06,383 - What? Why? - We can trust him. He'll help us, okay? 399 00:21:06,419 --> 00:21:07,451 Hey, Jug. 400 00:21:10,724 --> 00:21:14,192 Charles, I'm in the woods with Archie and Veronica. 401 00:21:14,228 --> 00:21:17,328 Jughead, he's hurt really badly, we need help. 402 00:21:17,364 --> 00:21:19,832 We need your help, please! 403 00:21:19,868 --> 00:21:23,369 We carried Jug through the woods to the old postal road, 404 00:21:23,405 --> 00:21:27,576 where my brother Charles was waiting for us with an FBI med-van. 405 00:21:31,782 --> 00:21:34,549 - What happened to him, Betty? - A head wound. 406 00:21:34,585 --> 00:21:37,552 We slowed the bleeding, we did chest compressions and CPR. 407 00:21:37,588 --> 00:21:38,453 You think he's gonna make it? 408 00:21:38,489 --> 00:21:39,722 We're gonna do everything that we can. 409 00:21:39,758 --> 00:21:40,757 What about us? What do we do? 410 00:21:40,793 --> 00:21:43,326 Go back to where you found him. Clean the scene. 411 00:21:43,362 --> 00:21:45,863 Make absolutely certain that you don't leave anything behind, all right? 412 00:21:45,899 --> 00:21:47,698 Also, your clothes are covered with blood. 413 00:21:47,734 --> 00:21:49,700 You need to get rid of those and get washed up, okay? 414 00:21:49,736 --> 00:21:50,905 Okay. 415 00:21:58,780 --> 00:22:00,813 And then we did what Charles asked. 416 00:22:00,849 --> 00:22:03,449 We went back to the clearing. 417 00:22:03,485 --> 00:22:05,788 Threw the bloody rock in the swimming hole. 418 00:22:07,024 --> 00:22:09,824 Took off our clothes and started a bonfire. 419 00:22:09,860 --> 00:22:11,426 What happens if he doesn't make it? 420 00:22:11,462 --> 00:22:12,563 He'll make it. 421 00:22:13,865 --> 00:22:15,332 But what if he doesn't? 422 00:22:16,434 --> 00:22:17,502 He will. 423 00:22:20,472 --> 00:22:23,476 But if he doesn't, then... 424 00:22:25,411 --> 00:22:28,682 Archie... Archie? 425 00:22:30,084 --> 00:22:33,453 - Archie! You listening to me? - Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 426 00:22:35,790 --> 00:22:39,561 We have to burn all of our clothes including Jughead's beanie. 427 00:22:41,930 --> 00:22:44,266 We'll rinse off the blood in the swimming hole. 428 00:22:46,669 --> 00:22:49,070 After tonight, we never speak of this. Ever. 429 00:22:49,106 --> 00:22:52,309 Not to each other, not to our parents. No one. 430 00:22:53,410 --> 00:22:56,579 We'll finish our senior year, graduate, 431 00:22:56,615 --> 00:22:57,880 and we'll go our separate ways. 432 00:22:57,916 --> 00:23:00,485 That is the only way that we won't get caught. 433 00:23:04,624 --> 00:23:05,691 Do it. 434 00:23:12,867 --> 00:23:16,335 That is how it'll have to be if Jug doesn't make it. 435 00:23:16,371 --> 00:23:18,805 But it won't come to that. He will pull through. 436 00:23:18,841 --> 00:23:20,308 He has to. 437 00:23:21,443 --> 00:23:23,914 And then, we went home. 438 00:23:26,850 --> 00:23:30,051 And what happened next was a waking nightmare. 439 00:23:30,087 --> 00:23:34,022 Not knowing if or when Jughead was going to wake up, 440 00:23:34,058 --> 00:23:37,560 and wondering if I had actually been responsible. 441 00:23:37,596 --> 00:23:40,363 Wait, but we saw Jughead's corpse at the coroner's office. 442 00:23:40,399 --> 00:23:41,564 Was he in on it? 443 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,469 Who? Dr. Curdle Jr.? 444 00:23:44,604 --> 00:23:48,773 Yeah, mmm-hmm, yeah. We go way back. 445 00:23:48,809 --> 00:23:52,144 You see, Bret, in a town like Riverdale, 446 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:54,713 everybody's got a price. 447 00:23:54,749 --> 00:23:57,686 And that includes our friendly neighborhood doctor of death. 448 00:24:00,422 --> 00:24:03,991 And while Betty was keeping you guys busy with a game of cat-and-mouse, 449 00:24:04,027 --> 00:24:07,995 I was in the underground bunker untangling this Gordian knot of a year. 450 00:24:08,031 --> 00:24:11,667 And it is crazy how much untangling you can get done 451 00:24:11,703 --> 00:24:13,101 when everyone thinks you're dead. 452 00:24:13,137 --> 00:24:15,707 Which brings us, basically, to today. 453 00:24:16,175 --> 00:24:18,443 So, Mr. DuPont, 454 00:24:19,945 --> 00:24:22,381 the floor is open. What do you think? 455 00:24:23,884 --> 00:24:25,886 Oh, Mr. Jones... 456 00:24:27,855 --> 00:24:29,588 "A" for effort. 457 00:24:29,624 --> 00:24:30,622 If nothing else, 458 00:24:30,658 --> 00:24:33,491 this fiction is significantly more entertaining 459 00:24:33,527 --> 00:24:36,028 than anything you ever produced for my class. 460 00:24:36,064 --> 00:24:37,430 Oh, did I forget to mention 461 00:24:37,466 --> 00:24:40,934 that Betty and I went and saw the Baxter Brothers ghostwriters? 462 00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:45,572 And when we told them our theory, they all asked for their lawyers. 463 00:24:45,608 --> 00:24:47,909 What if you did track them down? 464 00:24:47,945 --> 00:24:52,615 And even if you found one who corroborated your wild theories in some vague way, 465 00:24:52,651 --> 00:24:56,619 then you will know that I never explicitly directed 466 00:24:56,655 --> 00:24:59,155 my students or mentees to do anything criminal. 467 00:24:59,191 --> 00:25:00,924 Oh. 468 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,494 What a canny serial killer you are, Mr. DuPont. 469 00:25:04,530 --> 00:25:06,797 But we haven't even gotten to the best part. 470 00:25:06,833 --> 00:25:11,572 Specifically, the three members of your original literary society... 471 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,608 who you murdered. 472 00:25:15,277 --> 00:25:19,515 Jane Dallas Brown, Charles W. Chickens, Theodore Weisel... 473 00:25:21,985 --> 00:25:25,486 - There it is. - Let's loop back to the original sin, shall we? 474 00:25:25,522 --> 00:25:27,956 When Mr. DuPont stole, and I do mean stole, 475 00:25:27,992 --> 00:25:29,991 my grandfather's original Baxter Brothers novel. 476 00:25:30,027 --> 00:25:31,827 A fact known to you, Mr. DuPont, 477 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:33,495 and of course, Jughead's grandfather 478 00:25:33,531 --> 00:25:37,070 but also to your inner circle, your classmates. 479 00:25:38,838 --> 00:25:41,272 The corrupt secret at the heart of an empire. 480 00:25:41,308 --> 00:25:43,573 Although it wasn't an empire just yet. 481 00:25:43,609 --> 00:25:46,013 It was a house of cards that you built over many decades. 482 00:25:46,747 --> 00:25:48,546 And the bigger it got, 483 00:25:48,582 --> 00:25:51,116 the more worried you became that one little slip of the tongue 484 00:25:51,152 --> 00:25:53,219 would send the whole thing tumbling down. 485 00:25:53,255 --> 00:25:56,122 Your life's work would be revealed as a lie, 486 00:25:56,158 --> 00:25:58,558 and you as a fraud. 487 00:25:58,594 --> 00:25:59,628 And a thief. 488 00:26:00,297 --> 00:26:01,461 A man of dishonor. 489 00:26:01,497 --> 00:26:04,131 So, you started going after people who knew the truth 490 00:26:04,167 --> 00:26:08,770 and started staging their accidental deaths. 491 00:26:08,806 --> 00:26:14,010 You cut brakes. You tampered with fuselages. 492 00:26:14,046 --> 00:26:16,579 You compromised oxygen tanks. 493 00:26:16,615 --> 00:26:18,548 Until there was only one living member 494 00:26:18,584 --> 00:26:21,151 of your literary society left. 495 00:26:21,187 --> 00:26:24,657 Betty, I think it's time we let in our guests. 496 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:26,761 With pleasure. 497 00:26:46,351 --> 00:26:48,987 - Forsythe. - Live and in the flesh. 498 00:26:50,255 --> 00:26:52,055 Hello, Francis. 499 00:26:52,091 --> 00:26:54,190 Why don't you tell him what you told us, Grandpa? 500 00:26:54,226 --> 00:26:57,330 Weisel came to see me before he died. 501 00:26:58,932 --> 00:27:00,233 He hadn't slept for days. 502 00:27:01,968 --> 00:27:07,272 He told me that you killed Charles and Jane 503 00:27:07,308 --> 00:27:10,076 'cause they were gonna spill the truth 504 00:27:10,112 --> 00:27:11,880 about the damn Baxter Brothers. 505 00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:16,350 He said we knew too much and you were gonna off us, too. 506 00:27:16,386 --> 00:27:20,321 You and I both know Theodore was a paranoid drunk. 507 00:27:20,357 --> 00:27:23,124 But two days later, 508 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,731 the expert diver drowned in shallow water. 509 00:27:29,301 --> 00:27:32,637 So he was right, and I was next. 510 00:27:35,108 --> 00:27:37,643 So, I went out for a pack of cigarettes... 511 00:27:39,947 --> 00:27:42,280 and never came back. 512 00:27:42,316 --> 00:27:45,384 What were you doing off-grid since 2002, exactly? 513 00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:48,787 Collecting evidence that linked Francis here 514 00:27:48,823 --> 00:27:51,891 with the murders of Charles and Jane and Theodore. 515 00:27:51,927 --> 00:27:57,431 I started by calling hotels and motels near the accident sites. 516 00:27:57,467 --> 00:27:59,133 You know what the one thing I couldn't figure out 517 00:27:59,169 --> 00:28:01,135 at first was, Mr. DuPont? 518 00:28:01,171 --> 00:28:04,272 That if Moose was invited to Stonewall Prep to be the next victim, 519 00:28:04,308 --> 00:28:05,910 then why was I also invited? 520 00:28:07,912 --> 00:28:09,979 I was bait 521 00:28:10,015 --> 00:28:11,981 to lure my grandfather out of hiding 522 00:28:12,017 --> 00:28:14,184 so you could finish the job that you started. 523 00:28:14,220 --> 00:28:17,754 Took off like a coward after Jughead found me. 524 00:28:17,790 --> 00:28:21,025 But, to my old man's credit, when Charles and I found him the second time, 525 00:28:21,061 --> 00:28:23,728 and he heard what happened to his grandson, 526 00:28:23,764 --> 00:28:25,965 he figured it was finally time to take your ass down. 527 00:28:26,001 --> 00:28:28,200 While you were in here playing Agatha Christie, 528 00:28:28,236 --> 00:28:31,438 my team was combing through DuPont's house for the last hour. 529 00:28:31,474 --> 00:28:35,175 Now, given the trophies of your victims that we found in your hollowed out OED, 530 00:28:35,211 --> 00:28:38,312 and your ghostwriters lawyering up, 531 00:28:38,348 --> 00:28:41,048 not to mention Forsythe's detective work... 532 00:28:41,084 --> 00:28:43,922 Well, why don't you tell him? 533 00:28:46,157 --> 00:28:47,326 It's over, Francis. 534 00:28:51,931 --> 00:28:56,703 You... call me a thief and a coward. 535 00:28:58,004 --> 00:28:59,105 I'm not. 536 00:28:59,973 --> 00:29:01,739 I'm a builder. 537 00:29:01,775 --> 00:29:03,808 I built the Baxter Brothers franchise 538 00:29:03,844 --> 00:29:06,811 and with that money, I helped build this school. 539 00:29:06,847 --> 00:29:08,981 Without me, neither would exist. 540 00:29:09,017 --> 00:29:10,883 Francis DuPont, you have the right to remain silent. 541 00:29:10,919 --> 00:29:13,420 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 542 00:29:13,456 --> 00:29:18,092 Never. A writer's power is in his words. 543 00:29:18,128 --> 00:29:21,162 Only the meek and the timid choose silence. 544 00:29:21,198 --> 00:29:24,502 Oh, I am a man of honor. 545 00:29:29,342 --> 00:29:30,443 To the end. 546 00:29:48,831 --> 00:29:53,701 After that, it was a matter of dotting I's and crossing T's. 547 00:29:53,737 --> 00:29:56,607 We obtained these text exchanges between you and Donna. 548 00:29:58,510 --> 00:30:00,843 Donna was manipulating you, Joan. 549 00:30:00,879 --> 00:30:02,511 She tricked you into doing her dirty work 550 00:30:02,547 --> 00:30:04,449 so her hands would remain clean. 551 00:30:05,417 --> 00:30:06,850 Don't protect her. 552 00:30:06,886 --> 00:30:08,551 I'll see to it that you get a reduced sentence. 553 00:30:08,587 --> 00:30:11,625 Agent Smith, you have nothing to offer me. 554 00:30:15,763 --> 00:30:18,597 Reminder, my father is an ambassador 555 00:30:18,633 --> 00:30:20,332 and I have diplomatic immunity. 556 00:30:20,368 --> 00:30:22,001 If you leave the country now, 557 00:30:22,037 --> 00:30:23,703 you won't ever be able to return. 558 00:30:23,739 --> 00:30:26,075 And your friends, they'll take all the heat. 559 00:30:27,376 --> 00:30:28,611 They're not my friends. 560 00:30:37,721 --> 00:30:40,723 Hey, why did you lie to Jughead? 561 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:43,029 You told him Bret had diplomatic immunity, but it was Joan. 562 00:30:44,596 --> 00:30:46,630 I... I lied to Jughead 563 00:30:46,666 --> 00:30:49,970 because I was trying to keep him from antagonizing Bret. 564 00:30:51,805 --> 00:30:54,639 You know it was Bret's idea to kill Jughead. 565 00:30:54,675 --> 00:30:57,643 Uh-huh. How did you get Mr. Chipping's tie pin? 566 00:30:57,679 --> 00:31:00,712 And don't tell me that you were having an affair. 567 00:31:00,748 --> 00:31:02,017 No one's buying that story anymore. 568 00:31:03,419 --> 00:31:04,887 Mr. DuPont gave it to me. 569 00:31:06,622 --> 00:31:09,523 Said I had to lie to the headmaster, 570 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:11,826 so that Mr. Chipping's death would be ruled a suicide 571 00:31:11,862 --> 00:31:13,097 and people would stop asking questions. 572 00:31:15,766 --> 00:31:20,402 But I'm just glad that the real monster behind all of this, 573 00:31:20,438 --> 00:31:22,474 Mr. DuPont, has paid for his crimes. 574 00:31:25,812 --> 00:31:28,112 You have a known history of antagonizing Jughead. 575 00:31:28,148 --> 00:31:31,448 Witnesses saw you walking with him into the woods the night he was attacked. 576 00:31:31,484 --> 00:31:33,387 Have I actually been charged with a crime? 577 00:31:34,922 --> 00:31:37,523 You're facing hard time for both attempted murder 578 00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:40,559 and the creation and possession of illegally recorded sex tapes 579 00:31:40,595 --> 00:31:42,629 featuring fellow students. 580 00:31:42,665 --> 00:31:45,199 Including Jughead and Betty. 581 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:50,571 Now, I'm willing to reduce your charge to only attempted murder 582 00:31:50,607 --> 00:31:52,840 if you turn over your collection of videotapes. 583 00:31:52,876 --> 00:31:55,010 Here's my counter-offer, 584 00:31:55,046 --> 00:31:57,880 reduce my charge to conspiracy after the fact, 585 00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:00,884 which my lawyer will plead down to community service, 586 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,720 or Betty and Jughead's puerile sex tape 587 00:32:03,756 --> 00:32:05,591 will be released to the world wide web. 588 00:32:06,626 --> 00:32:08,728 Hmm. Let me think it over. 589 00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:21,743 That was quick. 590 00:32:29,954 --> 00:32:31,055 What the hell is this? 591 00:32:32,523 --> 00:32:33,791 The counter to your counter. 592 00:32:39,298 --> 00:32:43,199 I understand you've decided to co-operate with our investigation 593 00:32:43,235 --> 00:32:45,172 and reveal the location of your illicit videotapes. 594 00:32:46,239 --> 00:32:47,473 Is that correct? 595 00:32:50,144 --> 00:32:53,812 Hidden in a secret compartment behind Stonewall's crest 596 00:32:53,848 --> 00:32:57,150 was a treasure trove of dark secrets. 597 00:32:57,186 --> 00:32:59,619 Illegally recorded videotapes, 598 00:32:59,655 --> 00:33:03,556 more fuel to add to the firestorm of controversy that is consuming 599 00:33:03,592 --> 00:33:06,794 one of the country's oldest and more prestigious prep schools. 600 00:33:06,830 --> 00:33:09,197 For now, Stonewall Prep's doors remain open, 601 00:33:09,233 --> 00:33:12,867 but its secret society Quill and Skull has been disbanded. 602 00:33:12,903 --> 00:33:17,006 For RIVW news, this is Alice Smith. 603 00:33:17,042 --> 00:33:18,844 It's good to be back, Riverdale. 604 00:33:21,647 --> 00:33:22,980 Thank you. Thank you very much. 605 00:33:23,016 --> 00:33:25,015 Your report came out really good, Mom. 606 00:33:25,051 --> 00:33:27,719 Oh, thanks, honey. I had a lot of help from an inside source. 607 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:28,756 - Mmm-hmm. - Mmm-hmm? 608 00:33:30,758 --> 00:33:32,958 - I'm gonna head out. - Yeah. 609 00:33:32,994 --> 00:33:34,796 Wait. Where are you going? We're about to have cake. 610 00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:39,766 Um, I will be back soon, okay? 611 00:33:39,802 --> 00:33:42,605 I just have one last T to cross. 612 00:33:48,945 --> 00:33:50,248 Hello, Donna. 613 00:33:51,349 --> 00:33:52,448 Going somewhere? 614 00:33:52,484 --> 00:33:56,085 If you must know, I'm transferring to a new school. 615 00:33:56,121 --> 00:33:57,854 Well, I'm glad I caught you then. 616 00:33:57,890 --> 00:33:59,922 I wanted to congratulate you personally. 617 00:33:59,958 --> 00:34:02,760 Jughead and I heard that you're taking over the Baxter Brothers. 618 00:34:02,796 --> 00:34:04,664 The brand is relaunching. 619 00:34:05,732 --> 00:34:07,001 As Tracy True. 620 00:34:08,936 --> 00:34:10,037 Jealous? 621 00:34:11,306 --> 00:34:12,637 Your plan worked, Donna. 622 00:34:12,673 --> 00:34:16,279 You managed to get everyone else to do the actual dirty work. 623 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,845 Hell, even DuPont's dead. 624 00:34:18,881 --> 00:34:23,217 You covered your tracks extremely well. 625 00:34:23,253 --> 00:34:24,787 Betty... 626 00:34:26,857 --> 00:34:29,958 Are you really so delusional 627 00:34:29,994 --> 00:34:34,730 you would believe I would mastermind some elaborate conspiracy 628 00:34:34,766 --> 00:34:37,267 that caused the deaths of multiple people 629 00:34:37,303 --> 00:34:39,939 just to win a YA book contract? 630 00:34:42,375 --> 00:34:43,643 No. 631 00:34:44,778 --> 00:34:46,777 But you would do it for revenge. 632 00:34:46,813 --> 00:34:49,347 Oh, really? 633 00:34:49,383 --> 00:34:52,019 - Revenge for what? - The murder of your grandmother. 634 00:34:54,022 --> 00:34:55,788 Jane Dallas Brown. 635 00:34:55,824 --> 00:34:57,257 One of the classmates DuPont killed 636 00:34:57,293 --> 00:35:00,830 to cover up the ugly truth that he didn't create the Baxter Brothers. 637 00:35:01,865 --> 00:35:03,030 She was your grandmother. 638 00:35:03,066 --> 00:35:04,865 How could you possibly know that? 639 00:35:04,901 --> 00:35:06,968 A friend of a friend told me. 640 00:35:07,004 --> 00:35:09,405 You dedicated yourself to getting into Stonewall Prep 641 00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:10,873 and getting into Chipping's class 642 00:35:10,909 --> 00:35:15,147 and each step brought you ever closer to your grandmother's killer. 643 00:35:16,215 --> 00:35:18,815 You wanted revenge. 644 00:35:18,851 --> 00:35:21,352 So what was the original plan, Donna? 645 00:35:21,388 --> 00:35:25,189 Win the contract no matter how many people had to die? 646 00:35:25,225 --> 00:35:28,327 And then stage an accident that would take care of DuPont 647 00:35:28,363 --> 00:35:31,797 so you could tear down the house that he built? 648 00:35:31,833 --> 00:35:33,302 Fascinating theory, Betty. 649 00:35:34,503 --> 00:35:36,402 You've left out one minor detail. 650 00:35:36,438 --> 00:35:39,276 DuPont didn't merely kill my grandmother. 651 00:35:40,143 --> 00:35:42,042 He stole from her. 652 00:35:42,078 --> 00:35:43,914 The same way he did from Forsythe. 653 00:35:46,250 --> 00:35:47,749 Tracy True. 654 00:35:47,785 --> 00:35:51,456 The female teen detective who was introduced in the Baxter Brothers' books. 655 00:35:53,058 --> 00:35:55,992 She was your grandmother's invention. 656 00:35:56,028 --> 00:36:00,230 Now I've taken Tracy back and DuPont is rotting in a grave. 657 00:36:00,266 --> 00:36:02,133 Huh. 658 00:36:02,169 --> 00:36:04,869 How did you really find out about my grandmother? 659 00:36:04,905 --> 00:36:06,204 A private investigator. 660 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,808 At my behest, Hermosa put her private eye skills to good use 661 00:36:09,844 --> 00:36:12,379 and did some digging on those Stonewall WASPs. 662 00:36:12,415 --> 00:36:15,851 And your gal pal Donna is not so sweet. 663 00:36:17,053 --> 00:36:19,220 ...who supplied us with the medical files 664 00:36:19,256 --> 00:36:23,791 that confirmed that you are the granddaughter of Jane Dallas Brown. 665 00:36:23,827 --> 00:36:25,893 Which gives the police a motive 666 00:36:25,929 --> 00:36:32,802 and links this entire web of death back to you. 667 00:36:32,838 --> 00:36:34,473 It's circumstantial at best. 668 00:36:36,276 --> 00:36:37,943 But I'll play one last round. 669 00:36:39,312 --> 00:36:40,313 What do you want, Betty? 670 00:36:42,949 --> 00:36:46,451 I want you to walk away from the Tracy True contract. 671 00:36:46,487 --> 00:36:48,321 Why in God's name would I do that? 672 00:36:48,357 --> 00:36:50,556 Fictional though she may be, 673 00:36:50,592 --> 00:36:53,059 Tracy deserves better, 674 00:36:53,095 --> 00:36:55,329 as does the memory of your grandmother. 675 00:36:55,365 --> 00:36:58,298 And you certainly don't deserve to profit 676 00:36:58,334 --> 00:37:01,105 off the near-death of my boyfriend. 677 00:37:03,207 --> 00:37:04,275 Or... 678 00:37:05,410 --> 00:37:09,078 don't walk away. That's fine. 679 00:37:09,114 --> 00:37:11,880 But I will make sure every newspaper of every major city 680 00:37:11,916 --> 00:37:13,486 gets a copy of that medical file. 681 00:37:19,359 --> 00:37:21,862 You play nice from now on, Donna. 682 00:37:24,232 --> 00:37:25,933 I'll be keeping an eye on you. 683 00:37:44,914 --> 00:37:49,017 Months at Stonewall Prep away from you guys, what a waste. 684 00:37:49,053 --> 00:37:54,623 Jug, okay. We put a stop to DuPont, we solved eight murders, 685 00:37:54,659 --> 00:37:57,660 and we gave closure to every family of every missing child. 686 00:37:57,696 --> 00:37:59,529 I would not call that a waste of time. 687 00:37:59,565 --> 00:38:01,067 I know. It's just... 688 00:38:03,036 --> 00:38:05,906 - I feel... - Cheated? 689 00:38:07,541 --> 00:38:08,542 I know. 690 00:38:10,812 --> 00:38:11,910 I know. 691 00:38:11,946 --> 00:38:16,051 You'll find a meaning to all of this at some point. 692 00:38:16,652 --> 00:38:17,653 Okay? 693 00:38:22,859 --> 00:38:25,160 So, Jughead Jones back from the dead. 694 00:38:25,196 --> 00:38:26,727 Color me completely not surprised. 695 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:29,564 You're not? 696 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,769 No one ever really dies in Riverdale, do they? 697 00:38:33,038 --> 00:38:36,508 But what about you and Archie canoodling then? 698 00:38:37,276 --> 00:38:38,710 Yeah, that was just pretend. 699 00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:42,246 I don't know, cousin. That looked pretty real to me. 700 00:38:42,282 --> 00:38:43,814 Yeah, that was the point. 701 00:38:46,854 --> 00:38:48,220 Right. 702 00:38:48,256 --> 00:38:51,793 All I'm saying is, your secret's safe with me. 703 00:38:52,727 --> 00:38:53,795 Toodles. 704 00:38:57,166 --> 00:38:59,165 What did Cheryl want? 705 00:38:59,201 --> 00:39:01,202 Nothing. What did Mr. Honey say? 706 00:39:01,238 --> 00:39:02,837 Well, I don't think he's too happy about it, 707 00:39:02,873 --> 00:39:04,672 but he legally has to let me back to Riverdale High. 708 00:39:04,708 --> 00:39:08,576 - That's great! - Yeah, I just really hope my credits transfer. 709 00:39:08,612 --> 00:39:10,748 On the bright side, no one's gonna try to kill me while I'm here. 710 00:39:11,283 --> 00:39:12,717 Don't jinx yourself. 711 00:39:17,223 --> 00:39:18,956 Hey, boy. Betty. 712 00:39:18,992 --> 00:39:20,026 Hey. 713 00:39:21,694 --> 00:39:23,060 Um, I'll be right down. 714 00:39:23,096 --> 00:39:25,330 Grandpa, I thought you left. 715 00:39:25,366 --> 00:39:27,001 Oh, not yet. 716 00:39:27,835 --> 00:39:29,402 Joining us for dinner? 717 00:39:29,438 --> 00:39:33,839 Ah, Betty and I are actually going to meet Archie and Veronica at Pop's. So... 718 00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:36,176 - Unless you want me to stay. - No, go have fun. 719 00:39:36,212 --> 00:39:37,346 Yeah. 720 00:39:38,681 --> 00:39:41,049 Should I say goodbye? 721 00:39:41,085 --> 00:39:43,017 Oh, no. 722 00:39:43,053 --> 00:39:46,790 I expect your father and I will still be talking when you get back. 723 00:39:51,196 --> 00:39:52,298 Hey, hold on. 724 00:39:56,735 --> 00:39:59,270 I don't know what's gonna happen with him and me. 725 00:39:59,306 --> 00:40:01,908 But, uh, we're talking, so that's something. 726 00:40:03,677 --> 00:40:07,048 So, thank you. You made all this happen. 727 00:40:10,219 --> 00:40:11,719 - Have fun. - Yeah. 728 00:40:12,287 --> 00:40:13,920 Betty? 729 00:40:13,956 --> 00:40:17,124 Maybe something good did come out of this whole Stonewall mess. 730 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,928 My dad and my grandfather talking again for the first time in 30 years! 731 00:40:20,964 --> 00:40:22,430 Who would've thought of that? 732 00:40:22,466 --> 00:40:24,099 You think your dad will forgive him? 733 00:40:24,135 --> 00:40:27,138 Oh, I don't know. I mean, they have a lot of bad history between each other, but... 734 00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:29,141 I hope so. 735 00:40:30,742 --> 00:40:31,710 All right, guys. 736 00:40:32,378 --> 00:40:33,376 Let's make a vow. 737 00:40:33,412 --> 00:40:35,314 I know. 738 00:40:36,115 --> 00:40:37,314 I know. 739 00:40:37,350 --> 00:40:39,683 The last time we made a vow to have a normal senior year, 740 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,686 everything went to hell pretty quick. 741 00:40:41,722 --> 00:40:45,058 But we only have two, three months left. 742 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,128 Let's end it on a high note. 743 00:40:48,997 --> 00:40:50,330 Are we just gonna ignore the fact 744 00:40:50,366 --> 00:40:52,698 that Archie and I will probably not be graduating with you guys? 745 00:40:52,734 --> 00:40:53,867 Jug, okay. 746 00:40:53,903 --> 00:40:56,102 Do you really think Vee and I are going to sit idly by 747 00:40:56,138 --> 00:40:57,972 and not help our boyfriends graduate? 748 00:40:58,008 --> 00:41:03,078 Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones, you will graduate. 749 00:41:03,114 --> 00:41:05,180 Even if it takes a thousand tutors, 750 00:41:05,216 --> 00:41:06,948 you will set aside everything. 751 00:41:06,984 --> 00:41:08,817 No more mysteries. 752 00:41:08,853 --> 00:41:12,357 And make graduating your sole purpose in life. 753 00:41:13,459 --> 00:41:14,992 Why does that sound like a threat? 754 00:41:15,028 --> 00:41:16,162 Because it is. 755 00:41:18,031 --> 00:41:20,797 To going out on top together. 756 00:41:20,833 --> 00:41:22,736 - Cheers. - Cheers to that. 757 00:41:24,472 --> 00:41:26,405 Guys, guys, just a reminder. 758 00:41:26,441 --> 00:41:29,108 I'm posting the sign-up sheet for the variety show tomorrow, 759 00:41:29,144 --> 00:41:30,446 you all have to perform. 760 00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:33,413 Even you, Jughead. 761 00:41:33,449 --> 00:41:35,952 - Count us in, Kev. - Oh, no. 762 00:41:36,953 --> 00:41:38,019 Yeah. 763 00:41:38,055 --> 00:41:41,225 Check out this list of local names. 764 00:41:47,843 --> 00:41:51,093 Subtitles by explosiveskull www.OpenSubtitles.org