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[BETTY] Previously on Riverdale...
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Now that the doll's
back, the spirit of Julian
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is haunting Thistlehouse?
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What other explanation
could there possibly be?
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These kids, they're good kids.
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Reg, we're thinking maybe the Bulldogs
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could be like big brothers to them.
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Did you happen to know my grandfather?
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[FRANCIS] Your grandfather
was an excellent writer.
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[BETTY] We don't actually
know anything about Charles.
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I'm interested in, "Is he
a serial killer or not?"
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You see, our father needed help,
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"Our father?"
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Leave town
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or the next time we meet,
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you won't be driving away.
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You won't even be walking.
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[GUN COCKING]
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You're a dead man, you hear me?
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You're a dead man!
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[JUGHEAD] This is what
happens in Riverdale.
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Once the sun sets,
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Dodger's minions go to work.
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He recruits hungry and homeless kids,
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so that if they're arrested,
they do some time in juvie,
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but then, they're back on the streets...
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...working for Dodger again.
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They're chewed up by the system.
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[METAL CLANKING]
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Except that recently,
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someone's thrown a tire
iron into the system.
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You'll thank me someday.
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[MUFFLED] Let me go. Come on, man.
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[JUGHEAD] Usually, Dodger or the police
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would go to the kid next, but
tonight's his lucky night.
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Instead of getting sucked
back into the system
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then spat out again...
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...these kids,
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they've got someone
looking out for 'em now.
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People that ask themselves,
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"How do you save a town?"
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And who know the answer...
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Welcome to the team.
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..."One kid at a time."
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For every kid saved,
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there was one less hustling for Dodger,
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and that would not do at all.
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[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS]
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[ENGINE STARTS]
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[JUGHEAD] Meanwhile, in existential hell,
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I was facing the tyranny of a blank page.
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[DIAL PAD BEEPS]
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I need my anchor.
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[CELL PHONE DIALING]
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Hey, I didn't wake you, did I?
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[BELL DINGING]
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- Hi.
- Hey.
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Are you okay?
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Yeah, I just can't write.
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Mr. Chipping gave the
class this assignment
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where we're supposed
to write our own version
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of a Baxter Brothers novel,
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which should be a dream come true,
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but for the first time in my life,
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I'm having writer's block.
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Why?
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My advice, just take a break.
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Okay? Take a walk. Look at some art.
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Kiss your girlfriend.
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I keep thinking I should be breaking
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the Baxter Brothers novels down
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like, scientifically, or something.
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That could work, but you could also...
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...kiss your girlfriend.
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- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- I'm sorry.
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[INDISTINCT VOICES]
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[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
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[STAMMERS] What are you all doing here?
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[SPOOKY TONE] Julian
needs a body, Cheryl.
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So we're giving him yours.
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[SCREAMING]
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[GASPING]
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[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
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[MUSIC INCREASES IN TEMPO]
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[DOOR OPENS]
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What?
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Andrews, you asked
us to be big brothers,
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not soldiers in a turf war.
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Who did this?
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I got a pretty good idea.
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It was definitely Dodger.
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He's been coming after us for weeks.
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We've been chipping away at his gang,
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there's more kids
getting off the streets,
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but there's only so much we can do
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until Dodger himself is behind bars.
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I can add Sketch Alley to
the nightly patrol area.
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That's great, but go after Dodger.
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He works out of the Wipeout Arcade.
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[BETTY] So, based on the last
few days of following Charles,
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this is what I've logged.
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7:00 a.m. he leaves the Five Seasons
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where he has a suite
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and goes to the FBI field office.
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He has all of his meals
at Pop's or our house.
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And then rounding out his daily routine,
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he goes to the Casa Grande
Gym for a 90-minute-workout,
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including weekends,
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and then he goes back
to the Five seasons.
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Well, um...
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I'm no expert, Betty, but...
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...it doesn't sound like
Charles is a serial killer.
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Kinda just sounds like,
he's a... a lonely gay guy.
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Or maybe he's both.
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Oh, my God.
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Of course.
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Now that the trials are over,
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I think it's time to
let bygones be bygones.
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
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[HIRAM] I want us to move forward.
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No more secrets, no more lies.
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Speaking of secrets and lies,
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how many more secret children
should we be expecting?
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Hermosa is your one
and only half-sibling.
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I swear.
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If we did decide to
move forward together...
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...what exactly would that look like?
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Well, now that the prison
is bringing in a good income,
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I'd like to return to my true passion.
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Extortion?
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Murder?
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Rum.
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Papi's passion is rum.
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Rum has been in our
family for generations,
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and Hermosa, who runs
our clubs in Miami,
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will be staying in Riverdale,
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to establish a rum outpost here.
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I also thought she could
help out at the Speakeasy.
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No.
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I don't need any more
help at La Bonne Nuit.
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With the exception of my newest hostess.
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And seeing as how this is our house,
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you two can show yourselves out.
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Are you sure it's safe
out here in the night?
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I'll be all right, Mr. Jones.
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What's up?
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Well, after your intel
and probable cause,
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we raided the Wipeout Arcade,
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turned over every Pinball
and Pac-Man machine in it.
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Found plenty of contraband but...
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...none on Dodger.
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He was clean.
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And let me guess, you
found it on a bunch of kids?
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That scumbag is using them, Mr. Jones.
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Even so, I can't arrest Dodger
unless I find evidence on him.
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You're not going to.
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Not as long as he has
these kids working for him.
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[SIGHS]
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[JUGHEAD] I think there's a real
life mystery in these books.
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Now, I've gone and
re-read the entire series
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and I noticed something strange.
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Where there is a hoarse
voice and an overall tone,
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sure, you can tell when a
new ghostwriter takes over.
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Oh, yeah, a writer can't
completely suppress their own style.
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Exactly. The verbiage, the phrasing,
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these things are like
literary fingerprints.
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And when I went back
to read the first book,
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its fingerprint is unlike
any of the rest of them.
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It's raw, it's real.
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The characters have tension.
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There's political commentary
woven throughout it.
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They mention the war,
the boys have summer jobs,
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and none of the rest of
them are this grounded.
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Meaning?
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Well, allegedly, Mr. DuPont
wrote the first five books
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before passing the series off.
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But after my analysis,
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the stylistic differences
from book one to book two
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are too distinct to ignore.
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There's no way that whoever
wrote the first novel
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wrote the following.
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There's just no way.
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Okay, well, who wrote it then?
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This is gonna sound crazy, okay?
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What if it was my grandfather?
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Jug, your conspiracy theories
are usually... spot on,
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but this one feels like a real stretch.
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I know.
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This is the one missing puzzle piece
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I have of my grandfather.
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Think about it, Betty.
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He sent me a first edition,
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first Baxter Brothers book.
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And if that's not coincidental enough,
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he wrote inside...
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..."Never let them
take anything from you."
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Does that not imply that
something was stolen from him?
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Implies, yes.
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Proves, no.
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You need proof, Jug.
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Yeah, you're right.
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I'll get proof.
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I know I'm onto something. I know it.
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Meanwhile,
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how's the mystery of our
suspicious brother going?
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I'm following a hunch, too.
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[ELECTRICAL BUZZING]
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[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
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Hello, Chic.
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- Synced and corrected by VitoSilans -
-- www.Addic7ed.com --
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I want to know about Charles.
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That story you told us about him.
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Is it true that you lived together
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at the Last Resort Youth Hostel?
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Yes, it is.
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When I went there,
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a neighbor told me
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about seeing bloody
sheets in the dumpster
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and Charles mysteriously vanishing.
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Does any of that ring a bell?
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Charles, your brother
and I, we were together.
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One time, we brought
a friend home with us,
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and we were doing Jingle-Jangle
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a little too much,
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and things got out of control.
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Charles snapped.
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It was like some darkness took over.
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He grabbed a pair of scissors
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and he stabbed the guy to death.
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How do I know that
you're telling the truth?
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Why would I lie at this point, Betty?
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What does Charles say happened?
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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
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Babe, what gives?
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I thought you were
going to school today.
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[SIGHS]
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I was.
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For realsies.
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But...
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I can't leave Nana and the
twins here alone with...
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[MOUTHING] you know who.
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[SIGHS] Cheryl, this has to end.
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You've missed way too much school.
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Okay, so get up,
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or I'm gonna drag you there myself.
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Okay, T.T.
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[EXHALES]
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But there's one thing
we need to do first.
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Fact, evil spirits can't
cross a circle of salt.
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It's a barrier against
all forms of malevolence.
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Okay.
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All done.
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I'll get dressed and off we go.
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[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
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Wait, you went and saw Chic about me?
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Why not just ask me, if
you're so damn curious?
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Because I don't trust you. All right?
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All I know is that you're
predisposed to being a serial killer
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and I've been burned before.
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What did he even say to you?
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Oh, he spun quite the yarn.
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Yeah. About how you stabbed a man
264
00:11:40,734 --> 00:11:42,025
with a pair of scissors
265
00:11:42,027 --> 00:11:43,786
when you were high on Jingle-Jangle.
266
00:11:43,788 --> 00:11:45,010
Oh.
267
00:11:45,013 --> 00:11:47,791
Now I take everything Chic
says with a grain of salt...
268
00:11:48,999 --> 00:11:50,760
...but do you have a polygraph machine
269
00:11:50,763 --> 00:11:52,719
we can use here?
270
00:11:52,722 --> 00:11:54,274
Yes.
271
00:11:54,277 --> 00:11:55,431
Why?
272
00:11:57,459 --> 00:11:59,501
[ARCHIE] Toby, Eddie.
273
00:11:59,503 --> 00:12:02,363
Tell me, why do you guys
keep running with Dodger?
274
00:12:02,366 --> 00:12:04,756
Well, he pays us.
275
00:12:04,758 --> 00:12:07,008
Yeah, in... in Wipeout coinage.
276
00:12:07,010 --> 00:12:08,489
So you're giving your
money right back to him?
277
00:12:08,491 --> 00:12:11,054
Plus, we get all the
free pizza that we want.
278
00:12:11,056 --> 00:12:13,557
You guys realize you're
risking everything,
279
00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,409
your entire future, your lives,
280
00:12:15,411 --> 00:12:16,973
for pizza and arcade games?
281
00:12:20,763 --> 00:12:23,574
You guys don't have any spare
arcade games lying around, do you?
282
00:12:23,577 --> 00:12:25,485
What's this now, Archiekins?
283
00:12:25,487 --> 00:12:28,422
[SIGHS] I'm trying to get these
kids away from Dodger's Arcade.
284
00:12:28,424 --> 00:12:30,448
Step one, give them another option.
285
00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:32,176
What you're doing at the El Royale
286
00:12:32,178 --> 00:12:34,169
is so inspiring, Archie,
287
00:12:34,171 --> 00:12:35,930
but not enough people know about it.
288
00:12:35,932 --> 00:12:37,339
Well, I can write about the center
289
00:12:37,341 --> 00:12:38,414
in the Blue and Gold.
290
00:12:38,417 --> 00:12:40,008
And I'll ask my vendors
291
00:12:40,010 --> 00:12:42,502
to see if they can help
rustle up some arcade games.
292
00:12:42,504 --> 00:12:44,188
[ANNOUNCER ON P.A.]
Will Cheryl Blossom
293
00:12:44,190 --> 00:12:46,774
please report to the principal's office?
294
00:12:46,776 --> 00:12:49,390
Cheryl Blossom to the principal's office.
295
00:12:52,264 --> 00:12:54,180
What for was I summoned Ms. Bell?
296
00:12:54,182 --> 00:12:55,640
Cheryl... [SIGHS]
297
00:12:55,642 --> 00:12:58,059
...there's been an
accident at Thistlehouse.
298
00:12:58,061 --> 00:13:00,362
One of the twins, Dagwood,
299
00:13:00,364 --> 00:13:02,698
[BREATH TREMBLING]
swallowed a ping-pong ball
300
00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:04,611
- and started to choke.
- What?
301
00:13:04,614 --> 00:13:06,206
He was taken to the hospital
302
00:13:06,209 --> 00:13:10,088
where Dr. Saperstein
performed a tracheotomy.
303
00:13:10,091 --> 00:13:11,190
On Dagwood?
304
00:13:11,192 --> 00:13:14,385
Oh, he's doing very well, I'm told.
305
00:13:14,387 --> 00:13:17,212
Your grandmother's at
the hospital with Juniper,
306
00:13:17,214 --> 00:13:18,881
waiting for you.
307
00:13:18,883 --> 00:13:20,366
I'll get to the hospital posthaste
308
00:13:20,368 --> 00:13:23,460
but there's one thing I
need to take care of first.
309
00:13:23,462 --> 00:13:25,304
[VERONICA] In the words
of Dame Julie Andrews,
310
00:13:25,306 --> 00:13:26,981
"Let's start at the very beginning."
311
00:13:26,983 --> 00:13:29,483
So, hostess details to track.
312
00:13:29,485 --> 00:13:31,226
Who's coming, where to seat them.
313
00:13:31,228 --> 00:13:33,395
Ms. Danbers near Bob Potter, always.
314
00:13:33,397 --> 00:13:35,322
- Mmm-hmm.
- Where not to seat them.
315
00:13:35,324 --> 00:13:38,350
Booth 11 is the worst. Enemies only.
316
00:13:38,352 --> 00:13:40,444
Okay, hold... hold on.
I'm gonna need a pen.
317
00:13:40,446 --> 00:13:42,237
- Mom...
- [SIGHS]
318
00:13:42,239 --> 00:13:43,521
...don't worry.
319
00:13:43,523 --> 00:13:45,643
I'll be right behind
the bar if you need me.
320
00:13:50,915 --> 00:13:51,997
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYS]
321
00:13:51,999 --> 00:13:53,502
Damn you, Demon Doll.
322
00:14:00,832 --> 00:14:02,257
Of course, you'd be here.
323
00:14:02,259 --> 00:14:04,643
How dare you go after
Dagwood to get to me?
324
00:14:06,188 --> 00:14:07,605
- [WOOD CREAKING]
- [FOOTSTEPS]
325
00:14:09,049 --> 00:14:10,701
Don't move. Either of you.
326
00:14:14,521 --> 00:14:16,864
[CHERYL] Aunt Cricket, Uncle Bedford?
327
00:14:16,866 --> 00:14:20,451
Cheryl, we let ourselves
in. Hope that's all right.
328
00:14:21,853 --> 00:14:22,985
- [MOANS]
- [THUDS]
329
00:14:25,639 --> 00:14:26,728
[HIRAM] Veronica.
330
00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,011
Oh, God.
331
00:14:32,364 --> 00:14:34,213
Daddy.
332
00:14:34,216 --> 00:14:35,492
Hermosa.
333
00:14:36,410 --> 00:14:38,827
You're not on the reservation list.
334
00:14:38,829 --> 00:14:40,629
Well, I couldn't miss your mother's
335
00:14:40,631 --> 00:14:42,656
re-entry into the workforce, could I?
336
00:14:43,467 --> 00:14:45,467
At the clubs I run in Miami,
337
00:14:45,469 --> 00:14:48,162
I always keep a table
reserved for special guests.
338
00:14:49,398 --> 00:14:50,806
Same.
339
00:14:50,808 --> 00:14:52,777
Mark them down for booth 11.
340
00:14:59,891 --> 00:15:01,137
Shall we begin?
341
00:15:03,454 --> 00:15:04,553
[CLICKS]
342
00:15:07,574 --> 00:15:10,566
You claimed you and
Chic met on the streets.
343
00:15:11,828 --> 00:15:13,202
True or false?
344
00:15:13,205 --> 00:15:14,529
True.
345
00:15:14,531 --> 00:15:16,287
When we were both at our lowest.
346
00:15:18,326 --> 00:15:19,343
Yes or no?
347
00:15:19,345 --> 00:15:20,493
Someone was murdered
348
00:15:20,495 --> 00:15:22,223
in the room you shared at the hostel?
349
00:15:24,173 --> 00:15:25,664
Yes.
350
00:15:25,667 --> 00:15:27,342
I came home from the
grocery store one day
351
00:15:27,344 --> 00:15:29,046
and found a dead man in our bed.
352
00:15:30,255 --> 00:15:33,015
Chic covered in his blood.
353
00:15:33,017 --> 00:15:34,738
Some trick that he had brought home.
354
00:15:36,428 --> 00:15:38,803
My instincts took over.
355
00:15:38,806 --> 00:15:41,625
I dissolved the body with
lime in the bathroom tub,
356
00:15:41,628 --> 00:15:43,692
threw out the sheets,
357
00:15:43,694 --> 00:15:45,826
scrubbed the room clean with bleach.
358
00:15:45,829 --> 00:15:47,204
Chic watched.
359
00:15:48,457 --> 00:15:49,751
It was the end of us.
360
00:15:51,485 --> 00:15:52,978
I left him.
361
00:15:52,981 --> 00:15:54,169
Started over.
362
00:15:56,206 --> 00:15:58,054
[BETTY] Next question.
363
00:15:58,057 --> 00:16:00,326
Are you hiding anything from us?
364
00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,554
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
365
00:16:10,084 --> 00:16:12,176
Tell me what, Charles.
366
00:16:15,801 --> 00:16:17,192
I'm a recovering addict.
367
00:16:18,689 --> 00:16:21,331
I attend weekly Narcotics
Anonymous meetings.
368
00:16:24,535 --> 00:16:26,474
Here, in Riverdale,
they're held at my gym.
369
00:16:28,664 --> 00:16:30,009
Charles I...
370
00:16:30,012 --> 00:16:32,314
- [POLYGRAPH CLICKS OFF]
- That's my big secret, Betty.
371
00:16:32,317 --> 00:16:34,043
[VELCRO RIPPING]
372
00:16:35,004 --> 00:16:36,253
Hope you're satisfied.
373
00:16:45,662 --> 00:16:46,847
[DOOR SLAMS]
374
00:16:52,058 --> 00:16:53,228
Mr. Lodge.
375
00:16:54,523 --> 00:16:56,075
What the hell are you doing here?
376
00:17:03,607 --> 00:17:06,241
I came because I never
had the chance to, er...
377
00:17:09,780 --> 00:17:12,873
...tell you that I'm sorry
for your loss, Archie.
378
00:17:12,875 --> 00:17:14,413
Your father was a good man...
379
00:17:15,402 --> 00:17:16,891
...and he'd be proud of you.
380
00:17:18,956 --> 00:17:20,229
Thank you, sir.
381
00:17:23,127 --> 00:17:25,034
And in his honor,
382
00:17:25,036 --> 00:17:27,221
I'd like to make a charitable donation.
383
00:17:28,132 --> 00:17:29,631
[CHECK TEARING]
384
00:17:29,633 --> 00:17:31,591
I hear this place could use the help.
385
00:17:31,593 --> 00:17:33,408
Oh, no, no. We're all good here.
386
00:17:33,411 --> 00:17:35,228
Thanks.
387
00:17:35,231 --> 00:17:37,714
It's a blank check, Archie.
388
00:17:37,717 --> 00:17:40,274
All your problems, your
money woes, they go away.
389
00:17:41,570 --> 00:17:43,253
Nothing's that simple with you.
390
00:17:44,389 --> 00:17:45,814
Like I said, we're all good.
391
00:17:45,816 --> 00:17:47,089
Thanks.
392
00:17:51,155 --> 00:17:52,508
Oh.
393
00:17:54,065 --> 00:17:55,356
Oh, T.T.
394
00:17:55,358 --> 00:17:58,341
I had the most horrible, phantasmagoria.
395
00:17:59,421 --> 00:18:01,830
Dagwood swallowed a ping-pong ball
396
00:18:01,832 --> 00:18:05,591
and my accursed family
came to Thistlehouse.
397
00:18:05,594 --> 00:18:07,310
Oh, good, she's up.
398
00:18:08,105 --> 00:18:09,171
Cheryl dear,
399
00:18:09,173 --> 00:18:11,339
we'd love to see you downstairs,
400
00:18:11,341 --> 00:18:12,991
once you've collected yourself.
401
00:18:14,270 --> 00:18:15,960
My attorney tells me
you're here to discuss
402
00:18:15,962 --> 00:18:17,437
our maple syrup business?
403
00:18:17,439 --> 00:18:19,681
Yes. We want to sell it.
404
00:18:19,683 --> 00:18:21,516
The rest of the family is in agreement.
405
00:18:21,518 --> 00:18:23,593
With your father dead
and Penelope in the wind,
406
00:18:23,595 --> 00:18:28,264
we need your participation
and signature to move forward.
407
00:18:28,266 --> 00:18:30,859
And why, pray tell, do
you vipers want to sell
408
00:18:30,861 --> 00:18:32,977
what's left of our family's legacy?
409
00:18:32,979 --> 00:18:35,146
The business hasn't
been profitable in years.
410
00:18:35,148 --> 00:18:36,778
It's bleeding us dry.
411
00:18:36,781 --> 00:18:37,833
[SCOFFS]
412
00:18:39,295 --> 00:18:42,204
Babe, it's up to you.
413
00:18:42,206 --> 00:18:44,763
This house has caused
you nothing but pain.
414
00:18:44,766 --> 00:18:46,373
If you sold it,
415
00:18:46,376 --> 00:18:49,895
we could start somewhere
new, somewhere fresh.
416
00:18:54,310 --> 00:18:56,441
Your proposal makes a modicum of sense.
417
00:18:58,463 --> 00:18:59,587
I'll consider it.
418
00:18:59,589 --> 00:19:01,723
That's wonderful news.
419
00:19:01,725 --> 00:19:04,133
Now, would you mind if
we went down to the chapel
420
00:19:04,135 --> 00:19:07,154
to light a votive candle of
thanksgiving to celebrate?
421
00:19:07,156 --> 00:19:08,346
Excuse you?
422
00:19:08,348 --> 00:19:09,865
[STAMMERS] Go where?
423
00:19:09,867 --> 00:19:11,325
To the chapel.
424
00:19:11,327 --> 00:19:13,017
We always visit with the ancestors
425
00:19:13,019 --> 00:19:14,786
whenever we come to Thistlehouse.
426
00:19:14,789 --> 00:19:17,314
Absolutely not. You're
not going down there.
427
00:19:17,317 --> 00:19:18,873
Now be gone!
428
00:19:18,876 --> 00:19:19,983
All of you.
429
00:19:19,985 --> 00:19:21,409
You won't be getting my signature,
430
00:19:21,411 --> 00:19:24,028
nor will you ever
visit that chapel again.
431
00:19:24,030 --> 00:19:25,948
It is off limits to anyone but me.
432
00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:27,983
[CLEARS THROAT]
433
00:19:44,606 --> 00:19:45,734
Mi amor.
434
00:19:47,369 --> 00:19:48,445
Hiram?
435
00:19:49,619 --> 00:19:51,126
What the hell are you doing here?
436
00:19:52,058 --> 00:19:53,533
I want to come home.
437
00:19:53,535 --> 00:19:55,976
But you don't live here anymore.
438
00:19:55,979 --> 00:19:57,624
Now just... stop.
439
00:19:59,116 --> 00:20:01,449
Veronica and I are finally free of you.
440
00:20:01,451 --> 00:20:03,163
Is that what freedom looks like?
441
00:20:04,404 --> 00:20:07,623
Playing hostess at a
teenager's gin joint.
442
00:20:11,962 --> 00:20:13,720
Let me back in.
443
00:20:13,722 --> 00:20:15,868
You don't have to work
another day ever again.
444
00:20:17,751 --> 00:20:19,650
You'd be my wife again.
445
00:20:19,653 --> 00:20:20,727
[SCOFFS]
446
00:20:20,729 --> 00:20:22,279
Over my dead body.
447
00:20:23,473 --> 00:20:25,029
That can be arranged.
448
00:20:30,180 --> 00:20:32,721
Was that foreplay or punishment?
449
00:20:32,724 --> 00:20:34,316
Punishment.
450
00:20:34,318 --> 00:20:36,683
For having Tall Boy take potshots at me.
451
00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,243
Like you do with Minetta?
452
00:20:41,008 --> 00:20:42,124
Now you know.
453
00:20:43,068 --> 00:20:45,160
Some couples, they...
454
00:20:45,162 --> 00:20:47,464
...tie each other up to spice things up.
455
00:20:49,574 --> 00:20:51,675
[WHISPERS] But you and me, we oder hits.
456
00:20:52,702 --> 00:20:54,836
That's why we keep
doing this little dance.
457
00:20:54,838 --> 00:20:56,138
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
458
00:20:58,091 --> 00:20:59,182
Now...
459
00:21:00,844 --> 00:21:02,116
...I need you.
460
00:21:04,798 --> 00:21:06,517
I need you by my side.
461
00:21:08,322 --> 00:21:10,010
I need you in my bed.
462
00:21:10,013 --> 00:21:11,361
[HERMIONE GASPS]
463
00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:14,981
[WHISPERS] So say yes
and we'll start over.
464
00:21:14,983 --> 00:21:16,641
We'll always be married.
465
00:21:16,643 --> 00:21:18,855
- We'll always be man and wife.
- [EXHALES SHARPLY]
466
00:21:20,271 --> 00:21:21,955
I already regret this.
467
00:21:24,450 --> 00:21:25,767
[INHALES]
468
00:21:29,631 --> 00:21:31,539
[JUGHEAD] So, I've been
doing some digging.
469
00:21:31,541 --> 00:21:34,158
I pulled copies of Stonewall
Prep's literary magazine
470
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,494
from the year that my grandpa
and Mr. DuPont attended.
471
00:21:36,496 --> 00:21:38,713
In the table of contents, it lists,
472
00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:41,499
"A story written by Forsythe the First,"
473
00:21:41,501 --> 00:21:43,000
but it was torn out.
474
00:21:43,002 --> 00:21:44,836
It's like every trace of his writing
475
00:21:44,838 --> 00:21:46,462
at Stonewall Prep is just gone.
476
00:21:46,464 --> 00:21:47,889
Jug, where did your grandpa go to school
477
00:21:47,891 --> 00:21:49,173
after Stonewall Prep?
478
00:21:49,175 --> 00:21:50,357
Riverdale High.
479
00:21:53,012 --> 00:21:54,637
Wasn't there a literary magazine
480
00:21:54,639 --> 00:21:56,730
here, too, back in the day?
481
00:21:56,733 --> 00:21:58,223
I'll be on the next train.
482
00:21:58,226 --> 00:22:00,401
[VERONICA] I see you got my arcade games
483
00:22:00,404 --> 00:22:02,703
but where are the kids?
484
00:22:02,706 --> 00:22:04,053
A good question.
485
00:22:04,908 --> 00:22:06,134
Toby. Eddie.
486
00:22:07,474 --> 00:22:08,791
Where are your boys?
487
00:22:08,794 --> 00:22:10,361
Didn't you tell them
we've got arcade games?
488
00:22:10,363 --> 00:22:11,380
They can play for free.
489
00:22:11,383 --> 00:22:14,684
Yeah, but Dodger's still
giving them free pizza.
490
00:22:16,202 --> 00:22:18,661
All right, well, you can tell your boys
491
00:22:18,663 --> 00:22:20,872
that, tonight, it's not just video games
492
00:22:20,874 --> 00:22:22,498
that are free at El Royale.
493
00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:26,497
It's burgers, and fries,
and milkshakes from Pop's.
494
00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:27,883
We'll get the word out.
495
00:22:27,886 --> 00:22:29,224
Come on.
496
00:22:30,632 --> 00:22:31,733
Voila.
497
00:22:33,436 --> 00:22:35,218
I love you, Ronnie.
498
00:22:35,221 --> 00:22:37,890
Same, Archiekins. Same.
499
00:22:40,810 --> 00:22:42,035
T.T... [SIGHS]
500
00:22:42,037 --> 00:22:43,778
...this doll has conspired to bring
501
00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:47,305
my extended family upon
us for some devilish work.
502
00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:50,252
We'll stop Julian...
503
00:22:51,547 --> 00:22:52,939
...and my hated family.
504
00:23:08,379 --> 00:23:09,880
There.
505
00:23:09,883 --> 00:23:11,564
Drown, spirit.
506
00:23:11,567 --> 00:23:13,086
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
507
00:23:13,927 --> 00:23:16,232
[CREAKING]
508
00:23:16,235 --> 00:23:17,362
Mom?
509
00:23:18,389 --> 00:23:20,094
I have a surprise for you.
510
00:23:24,854 --> 00:23:25,912
Are those...
511
00:23:27,732 --> 00:23:28,748
[HIRAM] Mine.
512
00:23:30,235 --> 00:23:31,622
I am moving back in.
513
00:23:34,456 --> 00:23:36,256
- Your mother and I...
- No.
514
00:23:39,761 --> 00:23:41,052
I wanna hear it from her.
515
00:23:44,007 --> 00:23:45,173
Veronica...
516
00:23:45,175 --> 00:23:46,850
Mom.
517
00:23:46,852 --> 00:23:49,005
...I have invited your father back.
518
00:23:49,846 --> 00:23:50,961
Why?
519
00:23:52,849 --> 00:23:54,814
He's a murderer.
520
00:23:54,817 --> 00:23:56,109
And what am I?
521
00:23:57,345 --> 00:23:58,866
I can't believe you.
522
00:24:00,430 --> 00:24:01,906
We were done with him.
523
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:04,858
Mija, can we talk about
what this is really about?
524
00:24:04,861 --> 00:24:06,027
[SIGHS]
525
00:24:06,030 --> 00:24:08,862
Your sister. But you
don't need to worry.
526
00:24:08,865 --> 00:24:10,171
You're still my favorite.
527
00:24:11,651 --> 00:24:13,034
The apple of my eye.
528
00:24:13,036 --> 00:24:14,652
My special little girl.
529
00:24:14,654 --> 00:24:16,445
So, rest assured, there is no reason
530
00:24:16,447 --> 00:24:17,973
for you to be jealous of her.
531
00:24:18,583 --> 00:24:19,975
Are you deranged?
532
00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:22,710
I'm not...
533
00:24:22,712 --> 00:24:24,596
- ...jealous of her.
- Yes, you are.
534
00:24:25,974 --> 00:24:27,294
And it's natural.
535
00:24:30,220 --> 00:24:32,982
You are unbelievable. Both of you.
536
00:24:32,985 --> 00:24:34,064
[DOOR SLAMS]
537
00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:37,559
[JUGHEAD] Wait, hold on.
538
00:24:37,561 --> 00:24:41,187
The story in this one
written by Frosty Pajamas.
539
00:24:41,189 --> 00:24:43,064
What? That sounds like a joke.
540
00:24:43,066 --> 00:24:44,850
Or it's a pen name.
541
00:24:44,853 --> 00:24:46,308
Think about it.
542
00:24:46,311 --> 00:24:49,019
Frosty is almost an
anagram for Forsythe.
543
00:24:49,022 --> 00:24:50,905
And pajamas for PJs.
544
00:24:50,907 --> 00:24:53,248
P and J, Pendleton and Jones?
545
00:24:54,235 --> 00:24:56,169
Betty, this is totally the same writing.
546
00:24:56,171 --> 00:24:59,080
The syntax, the word choice,
even the character names.
547
00:24:59,082 --> 00:25:01,249
There's a character in
here named Bitsy Bane.
548
00:25:01,251 --> 00:25:02,917
Wait, that sounds vaguely familiar.
549
00:25:02,919 --> 00:25:05,778
Bitsy Bane is the next door
neighbor of the Baxter Brothers.
550
00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:12,485
This was written years before
the first Baxter Brothers book.
551
00:25:13,096 --> 00:25:14,724
Is that enough proof for you?
552
00:25:16,834 --> 00:25:18,349
I would say so.
553
00:25:25,183 --> 00:25:27,143
How could you, Betty?
554
00:25:27,146 --> 00:25:28,526
How could I what?
555
00:25:28,528 --> 00:25:31,980
You visited that
miscreant imposter, Chic.
556
00:25:31,983 --> 00:25:33,730
Well, that's my business, isn't it?
557
00:25:33,733 --> 00:25:35,783
Yes, except afterwards,
he used his lawyer
558
00:25:35,785 --> 00:25:37,860
to contact the FBI, to report a murder
559
00:25:37,862 --> 00:25:40,099
that happened in The Black Hood's house.
560
00:25:40,102 --> 00:25:41,661
Not committed by him
561
00:25:41,664 --> 00:25:43,604
but by a woman named Alice Cooper.
562
00:25:44,886 --> 00:25:47,235
He said the man was bludgeoned
to death in the kitchen.
563
00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:50,286
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
564
00:25:50,289 --> 00:25:51,695
A shady man?
565
00:25:51,698 --> 00:25:53,494
Yes.
566
00:25:53,497 --> 00:25:55,210
He also claims to know the location
567
00:25:55,213 --> 00:25:57,050
of the murder victim's burial site.
568
00:26:04,648 --> 00:26:07,556
All that evidence is still out there.
569
00:26:07,558 --> 00:26:09,909
Why, Betty? Why kick this hornet's nest?
570
00:26:09,911 --> 00:26:12,395
I'll take the lead
on this investigation.
571
00:26:12,397 --> 00:26:14,513
Maybe with assist from
the local town sheriff.
572
00:26:16,442 --> 00:26:18,299
See if the remains
are where Chic claims.
573
00:26:20,631 --> 00:26:22,029
Don't wait up for us.
574
00:26:28,764 --> 00:26:29,884
[DOOR SLAMS]
575
00:26:35,655 --> 00:26:37,964
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [MUSIC BLARING]
576
00:26:45,947 --> 00:26:47,237
Hey, jump in, jump in.
577
00:26:48,945 --> 00:26:49,991
[EXCLAIMS]
578
00:26:53,363 --> 00:26:56,006
Well, what do you think, Archie?
579
00:26:56,009 --> 00:26:57,532
I think you're amazing.
580
00:26:57,534 --> 00:26:58,449
[VERONICA CHUCKLES]
581
00:26:58,451 --> 00:26:59,542
It's a good cause.
582
00:26:59,545 --> 00:27:01,803
Archie. Archie.
583
00:27:01,806 --> 00:27:05,038
There's some guy named Dodger
outside who wants to see you.
584
00:27:05,590 --> 00:27:08,455
All right, let me see what this
clown wants. I'll be back.
585
00:27:08,458 --> 00:27:10,513
Reg, make sure everyone stays inside.
586
00:27:16,502 --> 00:27:18,886
What the hell did I tell
you last time, Dodger?
587
00:27:18,888 --> 00:27:20,325
You're not welcome here.
588
00:27:21,007 --> 00:27:23,289
You're costing me my work force.
589
00:27:23,292 --> 00:27:24,901
They're kids.
590
00:27:24,903 --> 00:27:26,633
They're happy to work for me.
591
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:29,852
Or they were...
592
00:27:31,067 --> 00:27:32,482
...till you showed up.
593
00:27:35,188 --> 00:27:37,329
All right, what do you want?
594
00:27:37,332 --> 00:27:38,573
Huh?
595
00:27:38,575 --> 00:27:40,045
You want to fight me?
596
00:27:40,048 --> 00:27:41,251
Sure.
597
00:27:42,838 --> 00:27:45,327
But don't you need to
put your mask on first?
598
00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:49,413
What are you talk... What
are you talking about?
599
00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:51,867
See, I told you.
600
00:27:53,923 --> 00:27:56,832
I told you he's that guy in the mask.
601
00:27:56,834 --> 00:27:58,667
The one making trouble for us.
602
00:27:58,669 --> 00:27:59,761
Aren't you?
603
00:27:59,763 --> 00:28:00,928
I don't know what you're talking about.
604
00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:02,263
I think you do.
605
00:28:02,265 --> 00:28:05,341
I think you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
606
00:28:05,343 --> 00:28:07,589
Cops are on their way, asshat.
607
00:28:13,580 --> 00:28:15,217
No need for them to come.
608
00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:18,746
I got the confirmation I need.
609
00:28:19,690 --> 00:28:21,040
[WHISTLES]
610
00:28:23,361 --> 00:28:24,790
I'll be seeing you, friend.
611
00:28:30,201 --> 00:28:31,468
[DOOR OPENS]
612
00:28:33,013 --> 00:28:34,053
[DOOR CLOSES]
613
00:28:34,055 --> 00:28:35,230
[ALICE] So?
614
00:28:35,891 --> 00:28:37,390
How... How'd it go?
615
00:28:37,392 --> 00:28:38,791
[FP] We're okay, Alice.
616
00:28:38,793 --> 00:28:40,018
We're gonna be okay.
617
00:28:40,579 --> 00:28:41,786
We, uh...
618
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,680
Charles and I took care of that.
619
00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:46,215
[SIGHS IN RELIEF]
620
00:28:46,217 --> 00:28:47,695
Thank you.
621
00:28:47,698 --> 00:28:49,276
Thank you, Charles.
622
00:28:55,911 --> 00:28:57,410
Well...
623
00:28:57,412 --> 00:28:59,183
...we should go file the report then.
624
00:29:00,398 --> 00:29:01,901
Wait, Charles.
625
00:29:03,084 --> 00:29:04,292
You don't have to go.
626
00:29:06,571 --> 00:29:09,393
If you're willing to go
out on a limb for my...
627
00:29:10,783 --> 00:29:13,200
For our family,
628
00:29:13,202 --> 00:29:15,336
then I should be able
to do that for you.
629
00:29:16,381 --> 00:29:19,247
And I'm sorry. Okay?
630
00:29:19,250 --> 00:29:20,636
Okay.
631
00:29:21,792 --> 00:29:23,845
[SIGHS] Thank you for
meeting with me, Mr. DuPont.
632
00:29:23,847 --> 00:29:26,180
Like I said, I wanted to have this
conversation with you in person.
633
00:29:26,182 --> 00:29:27,941
Oh, not at all, Mr. Jones, son.
634
00:29:27,943 --> 00:29:29,108
How can I help you?
635
00:29:29,110 --> 00:29:30,426
I wanted to talk to you about
636
00:29:30,428 --> 00:29:32,720
the first book in the
Baxter Brothers series.
637
00:29:32,723 --> 00:29:33,988
What about it?
638
00:29:35,191 --> 00:29:36,383
You didn't write it.
639
00:29:37,577 --> 00:29:39,402
Pardon me?
640
00:29:39,404 --> 00:29:42,530
I found a short story that
my grandfather had written
641
00:29:42,532 --> 00:29:44,999
in an old Riverdale
High literary magazine.
642
00:29:45,001 --> 00:29:46,483
It has a lot,
643
00:29:46,485 --> 00:29:48,628
actually, the same elements,
644
00:29:48,630 --> 00:29:52,674
and it was published years before
the first Baxter Brothers book.
645
00:29:54,135 --> 00:29:56,302
I assure you, Mr. Jones,
646
00:29:56,304 --> 00:29:59,371
I wrote the first five books myself.
647
00:29:59,373 --> 00:30:02,124
No, sir, you wrote
books two through five.
648
00:30:02,126 --> 00:30:04,644
The first one was
written by my grandfather.
649
00:30:04,646 --> 00:30:07,630
That book has the same
tone as his short story.
650
00:30:07,632 --> 00:30:10,132
It has the syntax, it has his voice...
651
00:30:10,134 --> 00:30:12,985
Let me stop you right there.
652
00:30:12,988 --> 00:30:15,012
Do you know what the worst thing
653
00:30:15,014 --> 00:30:17,397
you can accuse a writer of being?
654
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:18,933
A plagiarist.
655
00:30:18,935 --> 00:30:21,151
And based on what?
656
00:30:21,154 --> 00:30:23,236
A story written by some
657
00:30:23,239 --> 00:30:27,408
bottom-feeding dropout
in a third rate school's
658
00:30:27,410 --> 00:30:29,777
so-called literary magazine?
659
00:30:29,779 --> 00:30:31,028
The text doesn't lie.
660
00:30:31,030 --> 00:30:32,507
I'm not a thief.
661
00:30:35,084 --> 00:30:36,824
But your father,
662
00:30:36,827 --> 00:30:38,951
the Sheriff,
663
00:30:38,954 --> 00:30:40,704
he's a thief.
664
00:30:40,706 --> 00:30:41,756
Oh, yes.
665
00:30:41,758 --> 00:30:43,499
And much, much worse.
666
00:30:43,501 --> 00:30:45,376
A vagabond.
667
00:30:45,378 --> 00:30:47,339
What is it with you people?
668
00:30:48,431 --> 00:30:51,255
You're given an inch and
you want the whole field.
669
00:30:52,342 --> 00:30:53,633
For God's sake,
670
00:30:53,636 --> 00:30:55,780
do you know who the hell I am?
671
00:30:55,783 --> 00:30:57,840
Do you know what the Baxter Brothers
672
00:30:57,843 --> 00:31:00,348
franchise means to Stonewall Prep?
673
00:31:00,351 --> 00:31:02,201
It built Stonewall Prep.
674
00:31:02,203 --> 00:31:04,362
I built Stonewall Prep.
675
00:31:04,365 --> 00:31:06,340
The record deserves to be set straight.
676
00:31:06,343 --> 00:31:08,857
Get out of my sight now,
677
00:31:08,859 --> 00:31:11,619
while I'm still willing
to forget that you had...
678
00:31:12,455 --> 00:31:14,423
...the audacity to summon me.
679
00:31:18,577 --> 00:31:20,577
You're very lucky
680
00:31:20,579 --> 00:31:22,246
I don't take you to the Headmaster
681
00:31:22,248 --> 00:31:23,464
and get you expelled
682
00:31:23,466 --> 00:31:26,069
for this vicious and slanderous attack.
683
00:31:27,062 --> 00:31:28,747
Now get out.
684
00:31:38,573 --> 00:31:40,350
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
685
00:31:46,063 --> 00:31:47,080
[BELL CHIMES]
686
00:31:50,443 --> 00:31:51,826
It's open seating.
687
00:31:51,828 --> 00:31:53,321
Specials are on the board.
688
00:31:55,081 --> 00:31:58,151
Actually, I came to have a little chat.
689
00:31:59,752 --> 00:32:01,252
Sister to sister.
690
00:32:01,254 --> 00:32:02,785
Let me guess.
691
00:32:02,788 --> 00:32:04,763
Daddy sent you.
692
00:32:04,766 --> 00:32:06,957
One last valiant tactic
693
00:32:06,959 --> 00:32:09,144
to get me back into the family fold.
694
00:32:13,016 --> 00:32:14,899
You're very smart, Veronica.
695
00:32:16,669 --> 00:32:18,802
You don't know our father
as well as you think you do.
696
00:32:18,804 --> 00:32:21,355
There is literally
nothing you could tell me
697
00:32:21,357 --> 00:32:24,237
about Hiram Lodge
that would surprise me.
698
00:32:27,646 --> 00:32:29,876
My mommy was a singer
699
00:32:29,879 --> 00:32:32,181
at one of Papi's Miami clubs,
700
00:32:33,128 --> 00:32:34,293
Sala de Oro...
701
00:32:35,687 --> 00:32:36,921
...where they met.
702
00:32:39,042 --> 00:32:40,707
They had a fling.
703
00:32:40,710 --> 00:32:42,209
Mmm-hmm.
704
00:32:42,211 --> 00:32:44,038
Tale as old as time.
705
00:32:44,041 --> 00:32:46,380
He took advantage of
her, she got pregnant,
706
00:32:46,382 --> 00:32:47,915
he left her high and dry.
707
00:32:47,917 --> 00:32:49,923
Actually, he took care of her,
708
00:32:49,926 --> 00:32:51,759
until she died.
709
00:32:51,762 --> 00:32:54,213
And then he took care of me.
710
00:32:56,842 --> 00:32:58,467
Papi and your mother
711
00:32:58,469 --> 00:33:00,153
are renewing their vows tomorrow,
712
00:33:00,155 --> 00:33:01,654
and they'd like for you to come.
713
00:33:03,015 --> 00:33:04,306
You're kidding.
714
00:33:04,308 --> 00:33:06,350
Come, or don't.
715
00:33:06,352 --> 00:33:08,284
I'm just the messenger.
716
00:33:14,985 --> 00:33:16,819
Look,
717
00:33:16,821 --> 00:33:18,691
you're entitled to your opinion of him,
718
00:33:19,824 --> 00:33:21,951
but the father I know...
719
00:33:21,954 --> 00:33:23,384
...there's good in him.
720
00:33:26,013 --> 00:33:27,495
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
721
00:33:27,498 --> 00:33:28,751
Okay?
722
00:33:32,545 --> 00:33:35,188
[CHERYL] Clearly I'm going to
have to get the locks changed.
723
00:33:35,190 --> 00:33:36,931
Explain to us, Cheryl,
724
00:33:36,933 --> 00:33:39,600
why is there a chain
on the chapel's gate?
725
00:33:39,602 --> 00:33:41,051
I told you, Uncle Bedford,
726
00:33:41,053 --> 00:33:42,719
no one is allowed in there but me.
727
00:33:42,721 --> 00:33:43,846
As we suspected,
728
00:33:43,848 --> 00:33:45,848
you're clearly having a psychotic break.
729
00:33:45,850 --> 00:33:46,924
What?
730
00:33:46,926 --> 00:33:48,609
As soon as we have you declared unfit,
731
00:33:48,611 --> 00:33:51,946
we're selling the factory,
the grounds, everything.
732
00:33:51,948 --> 00:33:53,522
Get out.
733
00:33:53,524 --> 00:33:55,797
Get out, you parasites!
734
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:56,876
We're going.
735
00:33:56,878 --> 00:33:58,119
Oh, and we will find out
736
00:33:58,121 --> 00:34:00,437
whatever it is you're
hiding in our chapel.
737
00:34:08,103 --> 00:34:09,919
[JUGHEAD] You see it, don't you?
738
00:34:09,922 --> 00:34:11,188
[SIGHS]
739
00:34:11,191 --> 00:34:15,602
Certainly appears to be
your grandfather's writing.
740
00:34:15,605 --> 00:34:17,471
It's undeniable.
741
00:34:17,473 --> 00:34:18,922
Mr. Chipping, you have to help me
742
00:34:18,924 --> 00:34:20,207
bring this to light.
743
00:34:20,210 --> 00:34:22,718
We have to prove to everyone
that Mr. DuPont's a fraud.
744
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:25,179
Look, I understand that your
reputation is on the line,
745
00:34:25,181 --> 00:34:27,648
and maybe even your
position here at Stonewall.
746
00:34:27,650 --> 00:34:30,651
But it's the truth, Mr. Chipping.
747
00:34:30,653 --> 00:34:32,088
Yes, I'll help you.
748
00:34:33,790 --> 00:34:35,414
How could I look myself in the mirror
749
00:34:35,416 --> 00:34:38,093
as a teacher, as a
writer, if I didn't...
750
00:34:38,096 --> 00:34:39,771
[EXHALES]
751
00:34:45,668 --> 00:34:47,051
What the hell?
752
00:34:54,627 --> 00:34:56,188
Mom, we got to go.
753
00:34:56,191 --> 00:34:57,886
What do you mean? Go where?
754
00:35:00,132 --> 00:35:01,666
I don't know, the Five seasons, maybe.
755
00:35:01,668 --> 00:35:03,634
But you got to pack your bag
and we got to get out of here.
756
00:35:03,636 --> 00:35:04,927
At least until things cool down.
757
00:35:04,929 --> 00:35:06,803
What things, Archie? You're scaring me.
758
00:35:06,805 --> 00:35:07,945
It's the Rec center.
759
00:35:07,948 --> 00:35:09,690
Mom, not everyone's happy
about what we are doing there,
760
00:35:09,692 --> 00:35:11,440
and I've made some enemies.
761
00:35:11,443 --> 00:35:13,435
- [BRAKES SCREECH]
- [ARCHIE] Get down!
762
00:35:13,437 --> 00:35:14,704
[GUN FIRING]
763
00:35:18,776 --> 00:35:20,150
[GUN FIRING]
764
00:35:20,152 --> 00:35:21,794
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
765
00:35:21,796 --> 00:35:23,724
- [TIRES SCREECH]
- [CAR PULLING AWAY]
766
00:35:36,971 --> 00:35:38,193
Hermosa?
767
00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:44,572
What the hell is that?
768
00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:49,304
A painting Papi had commissioned for me.
769
00:35:49,306 --> 00:35:52,554
Papi said to put it in a place of honor.
770
00:35:52,557 --> 00:35:54,181
He said,
771
00:35:54,184 --> 00:35:57,100
"Only the best for the apple of my eye."
772
00:35:58,936 --> 00:36:00,208
Of course, he did.
773
00:36:02,411 --> 00:36:03,806
I should have known.
774
00:36:06,657 --> 00:36:07,715
You know what?
775
00:36:09,084 --> 00:36:11,584
I was going to tell
Papi, as you call him,
776
00:36:11,587 --> 00:36:14,337
that I'd be attending
his bogus vow renewal,
777
00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:16,182
but instead...
778
00:36:16,184 --> 00:36:18,333
...tell him I'll be skipping it.
779
00:36:18,335 --> 00:36:20,669
My mom can roll out the welcome mat
780
00:36:20,671 --> 00:36:23,255
for you two rum-sucking
leeches, if she wants.
781
00:36:23,257 --> 00:36:26,383
But I'm not giving up my space
nor my place in this family.
782
00:36:26,386 --> 00:36:28,027
I'm not giving an inch.
783
00:36:28,029 --> 00:36:29,792
Not to you.
784
00:36:29,795 --> 00:36:31,175
Not ever.
785
00:36:34,999 --> 00:36:36,282
[HIRAM] I have to admit,
786
00:36:36,285 --> 00:36:39,199
I'm surprised you called, Archie.
787
00:36:41,117 --> 00:36:42,190
There is this criminal
788
00:36:42,192 --> 00:36:44,006
working out of the Wipeout Arcade
789
00:36:44,009 --> 00:36:45,396
named Dodger.
790
00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:49,504
He's a loose cannon.
He needs to be stopped.
791
00:36:50,743 --> 00:36:53,627
And what did this Dodger do, exactly?
792
00:36:53,629 --> 00:36:56,413
He shot at my house and my mom.
793
00:36:56,415 --> 00:36:58,332
Well, that sounds like a job for FP.
794
00:36:58,334 --> 00:36:59,976
I reported what happened, Mr. Lodge,
795
00:36:59,978 --> 00:37:01,335
but Dodger's slippery.
796
00:37:01,337 --> 00:37:03,170
And you know as well as I do,
797
00:37:03,172 --> 00:37:05,639
some things have to
be handled another way.
798
00:37:05,641 --> 00:37:08,309
This is about protecting
what's left of my family.
799
00:37:08,311 --> 00:37:09,605
Of course.
800
00:37:11,314 --> 00:37:13,435
[SIGHS] But...
801
00:37:13,438 --> 00:37:14,890
I hope you're not suggesting
802
00:37:14,892 --> 00:37:16,511
that I commit an act of violence
803
00:37:16,514 --> 00:37:17,923
against this thug.
804
00:37:19,104 --> 00:37:20,154
I'm really sorry
805
00:37:20,156 --> 00:37:22,322
about what happened to your mother.
806
00:37:22,325 --> 00:37:24,417
But... [SIGHS]
807
00:37:24,419 --> 00:37:26,710
Yeah, there's nothing I
can do for you, Archie.
808
00:37:31,075 --> 00:37:32,091
[DOOR CLOSES]
809
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,669
Scholars, uh, as you know,
810
00:37:35,671 --> 00:37:37,596
today, we will be discussing
811
00:37:37,598 --> 00:37:40,290
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
812
00:37:40,292 --> 00:37:42,290
About the loss of a man's moral...
813
00:37:45,631 --> 00:37:46,922
[SIGHS]
814
00:37:46,924 --> 00:37:48,105
Mr. Chipping?
815
00:37:48,943 --> 00:37:50,187
Are you okay?
816
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,511
I'm sorry, Jughead.
817
00:37:53,514 --> 00:37:54,922
I couldn't help you.
818
00:37:56,025 --> 00:37:57,199
[INHALES DEEPLY]
819
00:37:59,573 --> 00:38:00,875
Mr. Chipping!
820
00:38:01,814 --> 00:38:03,480
My God, he's...
821
00:38:03,482 --> 00:38:05,138
Call 911. Call an ambulance.
822
00:38:05,609 --> 00:38:06,968
Call an ambulance!
823
00:38:08,406 --> 00:38:10,006
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
824
00:38:16,624 --> 00:38:18,425
[CREAKING]
825
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,882
[WHISPERS] T.T., T.T., awaken.
826
00:38:21,884 --> 00:38:22,958
[TONI MOANS]
827
00:38:22,961 --> 00:38:24,385
Do you hear that?
828
00:38:24,387 --> 00:38:25,386
I...
829
00:38:25,388 --> 00:38:26,553
I think it's Julian
830
00:38:26,555 --> 00:38:27,998
trying to escape from the chapel.
831
00:38:29,225 --> 00:38:31,150
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
832
00:38:33,887 --> 00:38:34,945
He's escaped.
833
00:38:41,019 --> 00:38:42,187
Uncle Bedford?
834
00:38:44,231 --> 00:38:45,739
[BREATH TREMBLING]
835
00:38:45,741 --> 00:38:48,834
I... I always knew that there was a...
836
00:38:48,836 --> 00:38:51,653
A certain sickness in our bloodline.
837
00:38:51,655 --> 00:38:53,261
But this...
838
00:38:53,264 --> 00:38:54,883
...this is monstrous.
839
00:38:54,886 --> 00:38:56,177
- You...
- [WHIMPERS]
840
00:38:56,180 --> 00:38:58,993
...are going away for a
long, long time, Cheryl.
841
00:38:58,996 --> 00:39:00,662
[TONI] Let go of her, you monster.
842
00:39:00,664 --> 00:39:01,847
[GRUNTING]
843
00:39:03,926 --> 00:39:05,500
You are a sick girl, Cheryl,
844
00:39:05,502 --> 00:39:07,997
and I'm taking you to the
authorities this instant.
845
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,263
[YELPS]
846
00:39:09,265 --> 00:39:10,431
- Maybe...
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
847
00:39:10,433 --> 00:39:11,965
...I'll save them the trouble.
848
00:39:11,967 --> 00:39:13,400
- [YELLS]
- [GROANS]
849
00:39:13,403 --> 00:39:14,777
[GASPS]
850
00:39:18,107 --> 00:39:20,274
[PANTING] T.T?
851
00:39:20,276 --> 00:39:22,076
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
852
00:39:31,954 --> 00:39:33,435
Hi.
853
00:39:33,438 --> 00:39:35,246
How did it all go?
854
00:39:35,249 --> 00:39:37,740
Smooth as cream, babe.
855
00:39:37,743 --> 00:39:39,951
FP led me right to
where he buried the body,
856
00:39:39,953 --> 00:39:41,128
we moved what was left,
857
00:39:41,130 --> 00:39:43,452
and everyone was appropriately grateful.
858
00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:45,757
Even Betty?
859
00:39:45,759 --> 00:39:47,003
Even Betty.
860
00:39:47,812 --> 00:39:48,936
That's great.
861
00:39:52,883 --> 00:39:54,265
I love you, babe.
862
00:39:55,561 --> 00:39:56,831
I love you, too.
863
00:39:57,813 --> 00:39:59,095
[CHERYL] Why, Aunt Cricket,
864
00:39:59,097 --> 00:40:00,406
whatever can we do to you?
865
00:40:00,408 --> 00:40:02,224
It's Bedford, Cheryl dear.
866
00:40:02,226 --> 00:40:03,725
He didn't come home last night,
867
00:40:03,727 --> 00:40:05,393
and I was wondering if you'd seen him.
868
00:40:05,395 --> 00:40:07,413
He said he might come
around Thistlehouse.
869
00:40:08,774 --> 00:40:11,399
Why, no. We didn't see him.
870
00:40:11,401 --> 00:40:14,319
Oh, well, you wouldn't mind if I
had a peek around then, would you?
871
00:40:14,321 --> 00:40:16,226
Actually, Auntie,
872
00:40:16,229 --> 00:40:18,207
I would mind.
873
00:40:18,209 --> 00:40:19,500
Unless you have a search warrant
874
00:40:19,502 --> 00:40:21,222
from the local constable in hand.
875
00:40:21,225 --> 00:40:22,868
I don't.
876
00:40:22,871 --> 00:40:25,011
But I'll get one.
877
00:40:25,014 --> 00:40:26,931
Good luck with that.
878
00:40:26,934 --> 00:40:29,310
Now, you remember
where the door is, yes?
879
00:40:33,632 --> 00:40:34,648
[DOOR OPENS]
880
00:40:36,227 --> 00:40:38,277
[SIGHS] When's Monroe back?
881
00:40:38,279 --> 00:40:39,853
Next week.
882
00:40:39,856 --> 00:40:41,037
Cool.
883
00:40:42,140 --> 00:40:44,115
Crap, Andrews.
884
00:40:44,118 --> 00:40:45,559
What's that?
885
00:40:45,561 --> 00:40:47,411
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYS]
886
00:41:01,368 --> 00:41:02,709
Holy hell!
887
00:41:02,711 --> 00:41:04,069
Is he dead?
888
00:41:07,350 --> 00:41:09,313
We got to get him to
a hospital, right now.
889
00:41:10,252 --> 00:41:11,913
- [MOANS]
- [CELL PHONE DIALS]
890
00:41:13,681 --> 00:41:15,564
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
891
00:41:17,476 --> 00:41:19,226
What's going on?
892
00:41:19,228 --> 00:41:21,011
Well, I heard that
seminar's been canceled
893
00:41:21,013 --> 00:41:22,137
for the rest of the semester
894
00:41:22,139 --> 00:41:24,231
and we're all getting automatic 4.0s
895
00:41:24,233 --> 00:41:27,267
on account of Chipping's
fall from grace.
896
00:41:27,269 --> 00:41:29,735
Well, I heard we're
getting a new teacher,
897
00:41:29,738 --> 00:41:31,121
Celeste Ang.
898
00:41:31,123 --> 00:41:32,522
I heard Ian McEwan
899
00:41:32,524 --> 00:41:33,907
Be still, my heart.
900
00:41:33,909 --> 00:41:35,070
[DOOR OPENS]
901
00:41:36,862 --> 00:41:38,912
Hello, students.
902
00:41:38,914 --> 00:41:41,248
I will be taking over
Mr. Chipping's seminar
903
00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:42,749
this semester.
904
00:41:42,751 --> 00:41:45,869
I've been told you're the
best and the brightest.
905
00:41:45,871 --> 00:41:48,409
I look forward to
putting that to the test.
906
00:41:49,166 --> 00:41:51,600
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
907
00:41:55,549 --> 00:41:58,978
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