1 00:00:05,266 --> 00:00:07,790 One distinct advantage of dating the owner of a movie theater 2 00:00:07,790 --> 00:00:10,575 is getting to see flicks with my pals for free. 3 00:00:10,575 --> 00:00:13,578 Which is why every Tuesday night, we would gather to watch 4 00:00:13,578 --> 00:00:16,886 whatever latest atomic age fright-fest was playing, 5 00:00:16,886 --> 00:00:20,324 little imagining that we would soon be walking into our very own 6 00:00:20,324 --> 00:00:23,675 real-life, science-fiction-tinged B movie. 7 00:00:27,375 --> 00:00:29,812 There, suddenly, was a melting man, 8 00:00:29,812 --> 00:00:32,293 coming towards us looking like a wax statue 9 00:00:32,293 --> 00:00:35,513 that had been left out in the sun for too long. 10 00:00:35,513 --> 00:00:37,820 At which point the cavalry suddenly arrived. 11 00:00:45,915 --> 00:00:49,136 Sheriff Keller would soon be claiming that the man was a vagrant, 12 00:00:49,136 --> 00:00:53,923 suffering from a rare case of... wait for it... leprosy. 13 00:00:53,923 --> 00:00:57,231 But that didn't jibe with what I overheard Ethel say to Ben Button. 14 00:00:57,231 --> 00:01:01,148 He's wearing the same uniform my dad did when he worked at the maple factory. 15 00:01:01,148 --> 00:01:04,586 Once again, there was something rotten in the town of Riverdale, 16 00:01:04,586 --> 00:01:07,154 and if I was going to get real answers this time, 17 00:01:07,154 --> 00:01:08,546 I'd have to hunt them down myself. 18 00:01:10,244 --> 00:01:11,506 Luckily, I knew for a fact 19 00:01:11,506 --> 00:01:13,247 that the town coroner, Dr. Curdle, 20 00:01:13,247 --> 00:01:15,423 was a fan of Pep's horror comics, 21 00:01:15,423 --> 00:01:17,207 which were hard to come by these days. 22 00:01:17,207 --> 00:01:19,383 Unless you had an inside connection like me. 23 00:01:19,383 --> 00:01:20,558 Oh, yes. 24 00:01:20,558 --> 00:01:23,170 These are quite marvelous, Mr. Jones. 25 00:01:24,910 --> 00:01:27,174 Worthy of a quid pro quo. 26 00:01:27,174 --> 00:01:31,613 Keen-o. So, clue me in on what you know about that mysterious melting man. 27 00:01:31,613 --> 00:01:32,875 How'd he end up looking that way? 28 00:01:35,182 --> 00:01:38,185 I believe he was suffering from acute radiation poisoning. 29 00:01:39,186 --> 00:01:41,449 Jeepers! 30 00:01:42,406 --> 00:01:44,234 Nuclear or atomic? 31 00:01:44,234 --> 00:01:46,193 And where would he get radiation poisoning? 32 00:01:47,063 --> 00:01:48,456 I couldn't say. 33 00:01:48,456 --> 00:01:50,806 Unfortunately, I didn't have much time with the body 34 00:01:50,806 --> 00:01:53,504 before Mayor Blossom claimed it and whisked it away. 35 00:01:53,504 --> 00:01:56,768 The melting man, as you call him, 36 00:01:56,768 --> 00:02:02,252 was an employee of the mayor's maple factory is my understanding. 37 00:02:02,252 --> 00:02:04,298 That stinks like a rotten fish. 38 00:02:08,867 --> 00:02:11,870 Ethel, are you ready to walk to school? 39 00:02:11,870 --> 00:02:14,177 Betty, are you sure you don't want your mom 40 00:02:14,177 --> 00:02:15,483 to drive you and Ethel to school? 41 00:02:16,484 --> 00:02:17,615 Under no circumstances. 42 00:02:17,615 --> 00:02:19,226 Ethel, come on. We're gonna be late. 43 00:02:19,226 --> 00:02:20,705 Don't worry, Hal. 44 00:02:20,705 --> 00:02:22,664 One day it'll be raining cats and dogs, 45 00:02:22,664 --> 00:02:24,535 and she will finally let me give her a ride. 46 00:02:24,535 --> 00:02:26,494 - You'll see. - Mm, no, I won't. 47 00:02:26,494 --> 00:02:29,192 Ethel, Veronica and I signed up for driver's education at school. 48 00:02:29,192 --> 00:02:32,630 So, pretty soon I'll be driving myself wherever I want. 49 00:02:41,378 --> 00:02:44,642 Great news from Coach Parsley over at Camp Evans. 50 00:02:45,339 --> 00:02:48,255 You are in, Reggie. 51 00:02:48,255 --> 00:02:50,257 - No foolin', Coach? - In where? 52 00:02:50,257 --> 00:02:52,737 Only the best summer basketball camp 53 00:02:52,737 --> 00:02:55,436 for high-schoolers in the country. 54 00:02:55,436 --> 00:02:57,264 That's wonderful news. 55 00:02:57,264 --> 00:02:58,395 Congratulations, Reggie. 56 00:02:58,395 --> 00:03:01,050 And what about you, Bill Shakespeare? 57 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:02,878 What are your plans? 58 00:03:02,878 --> 00:03:05,402 Guess there's no summer camp for poetry, is there? 59 00:03:09,450 --> 00:03:12,627 Well, there'll be plenty for Archie to do in town, Frank. 60 00:03:12,627 --> 00:03:14,455 He can pick up his old job at Pop's, 61 00:03:14,455 --> 00:03:16,370 or he can help me down at the dress shop. 62 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:19,677 Oh, you hear that? 63 00:03:19,677 --> 00:03:21,592 You can work in your mom's dress shop. 64 00:03:21,592 --> 00:03:25,205 I bet you wish you didn't quit the team now. 65 00:03:28,860 --> 00:03:32,473 Let's motor, sis. Train's leaving with or without you. 66 00:03:41,482 --> 00:03:44,311 And who, pray tell, was that? 67 00:03:44,311 --> 00:03:45,442 You enlisting, Dad? 68 00:03:45,442 --> 00:03:47,792 Oh, don't be asinine, the both of you. 69 00:03:47,792 --> 00:03:50,186 That was General Taylor from Washington. 70 00:03:50,186 --> 00:03:51,535 He was delivering unto me, uh... 71 00:03:52,449 --> 00:03:55,104 Well, a gift. 72 00:03:55,104 --> 00:03:56,323 Come into my study, 73 00:03:56,323 --> 00:03:57,846 I want you to see it. 74 00:04:07,464 --> 00:04:10,337 What godforsaken creature is that? 75 00:04:10,337 --> 00:04:11,860 This is Moloch, Cheryl. 76 00:04:12,556 --> 00:04:14,471 Ancient pagan deity. 77 00:04:14,471 --> 00:04:17,431 It can only be appeased through child sacrifice. 78 00:04:18,693 --> 00:04:20,651 You should both keep Moloch in mind, 79 00:04:20,651 --> 00:04:23,219 should you ever be inclined to give me any more grief. 80 00:04:33,534 --> 00:04:34,404 Ethel? 81 00:04:36,406 --> 00:04:38,626 Look, I don't mean to open old wounds, 82 00:04:38,626 --> 00:04:41,411 but that melting man outside the Babylonium... 83 00:04:41,411 --> 00:04:43,283 - What about him? - You told Ben 84 00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:46,068 that he was wearing the same uniform that your father did 85 00:04:46,068 --> 00:04:47,765 at the Blossom maple factory. 86 00:04:47,765 --> 00:04:50,986 I... I was just wondering what your father actually did there. 87 00:04:50,986 --> 00:04:52,074 He was a janitor. 88 00:04:52,074 --> 00:04:53,118 Why? 89 00:04:53,118 --> 00:04:54,555 Did he ever get sick? 90 00:04:54,555 --> 00:04:57,166 My mom sometimes said that he started drinking 91 00:04:57,166 --> 00:05:01,431 to help deal with the chronic pain he felt in his stomach and his joints. 92 00:05:01,431 --> 00:05:03,564 And also because he was losing his hair. 93 00:05:04,956 --> 00:05:06,262 Golly. 94 00:05:06,262 --> 00:05:07,916 But, Jughead, why are you asking me about this? 95 00:05:11,615 --> 00:05:13,356 Look, I can't say for certain yet, 96 00:05:13,356 --> 00:05:16,533 but the fact that your father and the melting man, 97 00:05:16,533 --> 00:05:18,579 and Mr. Rayberry, now that I think about it, 98 00:05:18,579 --> 00:05:20,407 all worked at the Blossom maple factory 99 00:05:20,407 --> 00:05:22,583 and all bit the linoleum 100 00:05:22,583 --> 00:05:25,847 in, shall we say, bizarre circumstances, I-- 101 00:05:25,847 --> 00:05:28,110 Well, I just don't think that's a coincidence. 102 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:30,417 I think the Blossoms are hiding something. 103 00:05:30,417 --> 00:05:31,592 And I'm going to find out what. 104 00:05:31,592 --> 00:05:34,246 So I can get us, you, me, Mrs. Rayberry... 105 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:36,292 some closure. 106 00:05:37,641 --> 00:05:38,599 What? 107 00:05:39,904 --> 00:05:41,079 What is it? 108 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:43,734 Jughead, I appreciate what you're doing. 109 00:05:43,734 --> 00:05:46,955 But I'm trying to move on with my life. 110 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:49,131 I'm applying for my driver's license. 111 00:05:49,131 --> 00:05:52,352 I just got my car that I won as Miss Riverdale Teen Queen, 112 00:05:53,222 --> 00:05:54,832 I'm going steady with Ben. 113 00:05:54,832 --> 00:05:55,833 Hi. 114 00:05:58,662 --> 00:06:02,144 You're going steady with our Ben? Ben Button? 115 00:06:02,144 --> 00:06:06,104 In any case, I'm trying to put the past where it belongs, behind me. 116 00:06:06,104 --> 00:06:08,280 All right, class, please finish taking your seats. 117 00:06:11,501 --> 00:06:14,069 Mayor Blossom and Principal Featherhead have asked me to show you 118 00:06:14,069 --> 00:06:16,811 this informational film about what to do in the event 119 00:06:16,811 --> 00:06:19,204 of an atomic bomb detonating in Riverdale. 120 00:06:23,208 --> 00:06:25,515 Now, we must be ready for a new danger... 121 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:27,517 the atomic bomb. 122 00:06:27,517 --> 00:06:29,301 You will know when it comes. 123 00:06:29,301 --> 00:06:32,130 There is a bright flash brighter than the sun. 124 00:06:32,130 --> 00:06:35,438 If you are not ready, it could hurt you in different ways. 125 00:06:36,308 --> 00:06:37,832 It could knock you down hard 126 00:06:37,832 --> 00:06:40,661 or throw you against a tree or a wall. 127 00:06:40,661 --> 00:06:44,229 It is such a big explosion, it can smash in buildings, 128 00:06:44,229 --> 00:06:45,709 and knock signboards over, 129 00:06:45,709 --> 00:06:47,711 and break windows all over town. 130 00:06:47,711 --> 00:06:49,887 Jeepers, that atomic bomb movie 131 00:06:49,887 --> 00:06:51,628 really gave me the zorros. 132 00:06:52,237 --> 00:06:53,717 It should have. 133 00:06:53,717 --> 00:06:55,502 That dumb movie was telling us to "duck and cover," 134 00:06:55,502 --> 00:06:58,679 as if flying glass is going to be the biggest of our worries. 135 00:06:58,679 --> 00:07:02,552 In truth, most of us wouldn't even likely survive an atomic explosion. 136 00:07:02,552 --> 00:07:04,598 What... What are you playing at, Jug? 137 00:07:04,598 --> 00:07:08,079 Have any of you seen the newsreels from Japan? 138 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:10,778 If a bomb drops on or near Riverdale, 139 00:07:10,778 --> 00:07:13,824 all of us are vaporized in less than a nanosecond. 140 00:07:13,824 --> 00:07:16,087 Not to mention the radiation we would all be exposed to, 141 00:07:16,087 --> 00:07:18,481 even if we managed to survive the initial detonation. 142 00:07:18,481 --> 00:07:21,876 Well, I know what I'd do if a bomb were heading our way, 143 00:07:21,876 --> 00:07:25,749 I'd sequester myself in the Pembrooke sub-sub-basement. 144 00:07:25,749 --> 00:07:28,578 It's like a little underground city down there. 145 00:07:28,578 --> 00:07:30,972 You'd be invited, of course, Juggiekins. 146 00:07:30,972 --> 00:07:32,713 Ugh. 147 00:07:32,713 --> 00:07:35,455 I would seek shelter in the abandoned Blossom mines. 148 00:07:35,455 --> 00:07:38,327 They have stood strong since before the Revolutionary War. 149 00:07:38,327 --> 00:07:41,417 Isn't it dark and cold down in those mines? 150 00:07:41,417 --> 00:07:44,768 Hmm, why, yes, Toni, it is. 151 00:07:44,768 --> 00:07:49,120 I would have to find some way to stay cozy and warm. 152 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,732 I'd head back to Duck Creek. We've got a well so deep 153 00:07:51,732 --> 00:07:53,647 no bomb or radiation could reach it. 154 00:07:53,647 --> 00:07:55,649 Well, why stop at Duck Creek? 155 00:07:55,649 --> 00:07:57,564 I mean, if we hear these sirens, 156 00:07:57,564 --> 00:08:00,654 I'm hopping in my hot rod, I'm grabbin' my mom and I'm heading out West. 157 00:08:00,654 --> 00:08:04,266 There is no way these radiation clouds are gonna cross the Rockies. 158 00:08:04,266 --> 00:08:06,050 Out West sounds nice. 159 00:08:06,616 --> 00:08:07,791 Sure does. 160 00:08:07,791 --> 00:08:10,794 You can't outrun an atomic bomb, Archie. 161 00:08:10,794 --> 00:08:13,101 No matter how screamin' fast your hot rod is. 162 00:08:13,101 --> 00:08:17,192 Guys, I read somewhere that if you are inside a refrigerator, 163 00:08:17,192 --> 00:08:19,760 when the big one hits, you're safe. 164 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,413 But then you're inside a refrigerator. 165 00:08:21,413 --> 00:08:25,069 Yeah, Kev, what would you do about food and water? 166 00:08:25,069 --> 00:08:26,984 I mean, I'd be inside of a refrigerator. 167 00:08:28,464 --> 00:08:30,118 I'm not holing up anywhere. 168 00:08:30,118 --> 00:08:33,817 Come on, guys. We can't let this bomb get us down. 169 00:08:33,817 --> 00:08:35,558 In places like Nevada, where the US 170 00:08:35,558 --> 00:08:37,038 does most of its atomic testing, 171 00:08:37,038 --> 00:08:38,909 people have bomb shelters in case something goes wrong. 172 00:08:38,909 --> 00:08:41,782 That's what it would take to be truly safe, 173 00:08:41,782 --> 00:08:43,958 a lead-lined underground bunker. 174 00:08:43,958 --> 00:08:45,829 If Russia wanted to bomb us, 175 00:08:45,829 --> 00:08:48,440 wouldn't they target larger cities 176 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,704 like Los Angeles or New York? 177 00:08:50,704 --> 00:08:52,096 People who live in the sticks like us, 178 00:08:52,096 --> 00:08:54,577 we don't actually have to worry about 179 00:08:54,577 --> 00:08:57,101 nuclear attacks, do we? 180 00:08:57,101 --> 00:08:59,190 Mm. I wouldn't bet the farm on it. 181 00:09:00,278 --> 00:09:02,629 An atomic bomb could drop anywhere. 182 00:09:02,629 --> 00:09:04,718 Even here, in Riverdale. 183 00:09:14,031 --> 00:09:16,599 It says, "Make rope end wrap around the rope." 184 00:09:17,469 --> 00:09:18,688 Whatever that means. 185 00:09:18,688 --> 00:09:20,603 Hey, what are you fellas up to? 186 00:09:20,603 --> 00:09:24,128 We're trying to tie a sailor's knot and failing miserably. 187 00:09:24,128 --> 00:09:26,870 A sailor's knot? I can show you how. 188 00:09:26,870 --> 00:09:28,437 Don't you remember your Adventure Scouts training? 189 00:09:30,134 --> 00:09:32,397 "The rabbit goes out the hole, 190 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:33,834 around the tree, 191 00:09:35,749 --> 00:09:36,706 back through the hole again." 192 00:09:37,838 --> 00:09:38,839 You should get a nice loop. 193 00:09:40,144 --> 00:09:41,755 What are you guys practicing this for anyways? 194 00:09:41,755 --> 00:09:43,583 You do realize if the bomb hits, 195 00:09:43,583 --> 00:09:45,846 there's not much a sailor's knot can do for you. 196 00:09:47,543 --> 00:09:50,502 Kevin and I are considering joining the Merchant Marines. 197 00:09:51,242 --> 00:09:53,070 Merchant Marines? Wow. 198 00:09:53,070 --> 00:09:55,246 What is that? Part of the Navy or something? 199 00:09:55,246 --> 00:09:57,074 No, it's a civilian job. 200 00:09:57,074 --> 00:09:59,555 They pay you to work on a cargo ship and travel around the world. 201 00:10:01,209 --> 00:10:03,385 You know, Archie, you might be keen on this too. 202 00:10:03,385 --> 00:10:05,082 A lot of great writers were Merchant Marines. 203 00:10:05,082 --> 00:10:07,041 A lot of the Beats have served too. 204 00:10:07,041 --> 00:10:10,740 Ginsberg and Kerouac both did their time on the seven seas. 205 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:12,873 "Adventure awaits you on the open water." 206 00:10:14,788 --> 00:10:17,704 I'll say this much, I wouldn't hate getting away from my uncle. 207 00:10:17,704 --> 00:10:21,098 Seeing the world, having adventures, it would enrich my writing. 208 00:10:21,098 --> 00:10:22,970 I mean, that sounds super swell to me. 209 00:10:24,362 --> 00:10:25,886 And I do love tying knots. 210 00:10:25,886 --> 00:10:27,452 If you're serious, there's a recruiter coming tomorrow. 211 00:10:27,452 --> 00:10:31,282 You can ask him questions and hear what he has to say. 212 00:10:31,282 --> 00:10:36,070 Ladies, you are the drivers of tomorrow. 213 00:10:36,070 --> 00:10:40,465 As such, it is important to learn to be alert, 214 00:10:40,465 --> 00:10:45,383 confident, conscientious motor vehicle operators. 215 00:10:45,383 --> 00:10:46,602 Stop sign. 216 00:10:48,212 --> 00:10:51,955 Driving is not a right, as many young men believe. 217 00:10:52,608 --> 00:10:53,696 It is a privilege... 218 00:10:54,479 --> 00:10:55,872 and a responsibility. 219 00:10:55,872 --> 00:10:58,005 Upcoming left turn. 220 00:11:00,007 --> 00:11:01,748 That's wonderful, girls. 221 00:11:01,748 --> 00:11:03,358 Now, let's bring our cars into park. 222 00:11:04,359 --> 00:11:05,969 And shake it out. 223 00:11:05,969 --> 00:11:07,841 Very good. Excellent. 224 00:11:07,841 --> 00:11:11,540 Now, your homework for tonight is to rest, 225 00:11:11,540 --> 00:11:15,849 because tomorrow, your true test of skills begins. 226 00:11:15,849 --> 00:11:19,679 We will be getting into a real, working automobile 227 00:11:20,897 --> 00:11:22,943 to practice parallel parking. 228 00:11:26,990 --> 00:11:28,992 How was school today, boys? 229 00:11:28,992 --> 00:11:30,211 Anything interesting happen? 230 00:11:30,211 --> 00:11:31,734 We watched a movie that taught us what to do 231 00:11:31,734 --> 00:11:33,170 if the Russians drop a bomb on us. 232 00:11:34,650 --> 00:11:36,565 I'm thinking of joining the Merchant Marines. 233 00:11:36,565 --> 00:11:39,350 Well, as long as you finish high school first, 234 00:11:39,350 --> 00:11:43,093 and when that day comes, I hope you'll still consider going to college. 235 00:11:43,093 --> 00:11:44,834 Well, now, wait a minute, Mary. 236 00:11:44,834 --> 00:11:48,142 Merchant Marines sounds like a solid, sensible idea. 237 00:11:48,142 --> 00:11:51,493 Much better than going to some college to pursue poetry. 238 00:11:54,104 --> 00:11:55,976 Actually, the Merchant Marines would be a way 239 00:11:55,976 --> 00:11:57,847 for me to pursue my poetry, Uncle Frank. 240 00:11:57,847 --> 00:11:59,501 A lot of Beats would join the Merchant Marines 241 00:11:59,501 --> 00:12:00,763 to learn more about themselves 242 00:12:00,763 --> 00:12:03,157 and the world and then to write about it. 243 00:12:03,157 --> 00:12:04,811 You'd know that if you ever cracked open a book. 244 00:12:04,811 --> 00:12:05,986 What was that? 245 00:12:05,986 --> 00:12:08,205 Well, no one is joining anything tonight. 246 00:12:08,205 --> 00:12:11,295 So can we please just finish our supper in peace? 247 00:12:13,036 --> 00:12:14,995 Well, Dilton, what's the occasion? 248 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:19,477 I... I just came by because... 249 00:12:19,477 --> 00:12:22,480 after the melting man and that movie my dad showed in class, 250 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,352 I know you're unsettled. 251 00:12:24,352 --> 00:12:27,311 Sue me. I don't wanna die in an atomic attack. 252 00:12:27,311 --> 00:12:31,402 Yeah, except, you don't have to worry, Jughead. 253 00:12:31,402 --> 00:12:33,056 You, you're one of my best pals. 254 00:12:33,056 --> 00:12:34,405 You're my comic book buddy. 255 00:12:34,405 --> 00:12:36,930 If anything bad were to actually happen, 256 00:12:36,930 --> 00:12:39,802 I'd take care of you. You'd be safe. 257 00:12:39,802 --> 00:12:44,372 Well, that's swell of you to say, Dilton, but how would I be safe? 258 00:12:45,808 --> 00:12:47,201 It's... 259 00:12:47,201 --> 00:12:49,899 It would probably be easier if I just showed you. 260 00:12:55,078 --> 00:12:58,125 Ho-ho-holy crapola, Dilton. 261 00:13:00,127 --> 00:13:02,912 How does your family have a bunker? 262 00:13:02,912 --> 00:13:04,479 My dad built it. 263 00:13:04,479 --> 00:13:07,177 He says we're deep enough to survive an atomic blast 264 00:13:07,177 --> 00:13:10,050 and any radiation after the blast. 265 00:13:10,050 --> 00:13:12,617 Am I missing something? 266 00:13:12,617 --> 00:13:15,055 Does your dad think that Riverdale could be a target? 267 00:13:18,754 --> 00:13:19,799 Dilton? 268 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:24,151 What does your dad know that we don't? 269 00:13:26,022 --> 00:13:28,155 Nothing for certain. 270 00:13:28,155 --> 00:13:30,766 But about a year before Ethel's folks were killed, 271 00:13:31,941 --> 00:13:33,769 her dad showed up to our house... 272 00:13:35,553 --> 00:13:36,946 with this. 273 00:13:40,689 --> 00:13:43,866 Mr. Muggs wanted to see if it was worth anything. 274 00:13:43,866 --> 00:13:46,826 He figured since my dad was a science teacher, he'd know. 275 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:48,828 What is it? 276 00:13:49,306 --> 00:13:50,264 Palladium. 277 00:13:51,439 --> 00:13:54,834 Mr. Muggs said he swiped it from work. 278 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:56,270 The maple factory? 279 00:13:56,270 --> 00:13:57,706 I guess so. 280 00:13:57,706 --> 00:14:00,622 He said Clifford Blossom was sitting on a pile of it 281 00:14:00,622 --> 00:14:03,712 and doing something with it. 282 00:14:03,712 --> 00:14:06,062 That's when my dad started building this bunker. 283 00:14:07,107 --> 00:14:09,283 Because Clifford Blossom was, 284 00:14:09,283 --> 00:14:11,938 or is, doing something with palladium? 285 00:14:13,113 --> 00:14:16,246 A secret something? Worth killing for? 286 00:14:16,246 --> 00:14:20,468 In its inert state, palladium is basically harmless. 287 00:14:20,468 --> 00:14:24,776 But in its purest state, concentrated and compressed, 288 00:14:25,734 --> 00:14:26,953 some scientists speculate 289 00:14:26,953 --> 00:14:29,999 it could be more volatile than plutonium, 290 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:32,132 and if detonated, 291 00:14:32,132 --> 00:14:35,004 more destructive than a hydrogen bomb. 292 00:14:37,354 --> 00:14:39,226 This is starting to ring a bell for me. 293 00:14:39,226 --> 00:14:42,272 Not just a bell, in fact, a four-alarm siren. 294 00:14:42,272 --> 00:14:44,535 Sure enough, I'd recently had my nose in a story 295 00:14:44,535 --> 00:14:47,103 about a palladium bomb destroying a small town 296 00:14:47,103 --> 00:14:50,193 by my former, deceased mentor Brad Rayberry, 297 00:14:50,193 --> 00:14:52,979 who, at one point, worked at the Blossom factory. 298 00:14:52,979 --> 00:14:54,632 Had he seen or heard something there 299 00:14:54,632 --> 00:14:57,635 about palladium that had inspired his story? 300 00:14:59,202 --> 00:15:00,551 That's the emergency siren! 301 00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:02,031 As we were warned! 302 00:15:02,031 --> 00:15:04,947 This is it! This is the big one! 303 00:15:11,954 --> 00:15:14,304 Jughead! Duck and cover! 304 00:15:14,304 --> 00:15:16,089 Jughead? Jughead? What are you doing? 305 00:15:16,089 --> 00:15:17,699 Get under your desk! 306 00:15:17,699 --> 00:15:19,135 No! Jughead! 307 00:15:19,135 --> 00:15:21,921 Get away from the-- 308 00:15:35,847 --> 00:15:38,938 Damn you and your fearmongering, Jughead Jones. 309 00:16:30,250 --> 00:16:32,078 As a Merchant Marine, you'll be traveling the globe 310 00:16:32,078 --> 00:16:35,081 on the world's most technologically advanced ships. 311 00:16:35,081 --> 00:16:36,604 You will work and train alongside 312 00:16:36,604 --> 00:16:38,606 this country's best and brightest young men, 313 00:16:38,606 --> 00:16:42,392 all eager to experience life to the fullest. 314 00:16:42,392 --> 00:16:45,091 - Yes, son. - Would we have time to explore, 315 00:16:45,091 --> 00:16:48,181 places we'd be visiting, you know, really get to soak them up? 316 00:16:48,181 --> 00:16:49,617 This isn't a pleasure cruise. 317 00:16:49,617 --> 00:16:51,271 It's something you should all know right now, 318 00:16:51,271 --> 00:16:53,447 no one here is guaranteed a spot. 319 00:16:57,016 --> 00:16:58,843 Cheryl, hi-ho. 320 00:17:01,150 --> 00:17:03,326 Has anything strange been happening at your house lately? 321 00:17:03,326 --> 00:17:06,242 Mayhaps. Why do you care? 322 00:17:06,242 --> 00:17:08,766 Well, I heard you mention those abandoned mines yesterday. 323 00:17:08,766 --> 00:17:11,465 And I was just wondering if they're close to your family's maple factory. 324 00:17:11,465 --> 00:17:13,858 The factory is practically right on top of them, yes. 325 00:17:14,511 --> 00:17:16,209 Okay... 326 00:17:16,209 --> 00:17:18,994 Look, Cheryl, this is gonna sound like gobbledygook. 327 00:17:18,994 --> 00:17:21,170 But I have reason to believe that your father is up to no good. 328 00:17:21,170 --> 00:17:24,173 I think he is involved in the milkman murders, 329 00:17:24,173 --> 00:17:25,348 not to mention the melting man, 330 00:17:25,348 --> 00:17:27,220 and I think that those mines 331 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:29,004 are actually palladium mines, 332 00:17:29,004 --> 00:17:30,788 and that they're not as abandoned as you think. 333 00:17:30,788 --> 00:17:33,400 Jughead, there's no love lost between my father and I. 334 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,576 In fact, I'm fairly certain if he had the chance, 335 00:17:35,576 --> 00:17:38,535 he would sacrifice me to a pagan god he worships named Moloch. 336 00:17:38,535 --> 00:17:41,973 But to your point, he has been meeting with an Army general 337 00:17:41,973 --> 00:17:43,584 in his study recently, 338 00:17:43,584 --> 00:17:47,066 and I did overhear him and my mother last night 339 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:49,590 speaking what I believe was Russian. 340 00:17:49,590 --> 00:17:52,636 Holy moly! 341 00:17:52,636 --> 00:17:54,725 Do you think you can get in there and play gumshoe? 342 00:17:54,725 --> 00:17:56,162 Just poke around, snoop a little, 343 00:17:56,162 --> 00:17:57,815 see if you find anything incriminating? 344 00:18:26,105 --> 00:18:30,152 I am very pleased to announce that since all of you passed 345 00:18:30,152 --> 00:18:31,719 both the written and practical portions 346 00:18:31,719 --> 00:18:34,113 of your driver's education exam, 347 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:35,679 we will all be taking a field trip 348 00:18:35,679 --> 00:18:38,508 to the Riverdale Department of Motor Vehicles 349 00:18:38,508 --> 00:18:40,249 at the end of the week. 350 00:18:41,294 --> 00:18:44,514 But girls, this is very important. 351 00:18:44,514 --> 00:18:46,734 In order to obtain your legal license, 352 00:18:46,734 --> 00:18:50,085 you must bring a copy of your birth certificate with you. 353 00:18:50,085 --> 00:18:51,304 The DMV needs to make sure 354 00:18:51,304 --> 00:18:53,393 that none of you are Russian spies. 355 00:19:04,012 --> 00:19:06,145 I was wondering why the light was on out here. 356 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,669 Let me guess, 357 00:19:08,669 --> 00:19:10,410 this is for the Merchant Marines. 358 00:19:10,410 --> 00:19:12,194 Well, the recruiter said 359 00:19:12,194 --> 00:19:15,545 everyone rows at least an hour a day when they're out at sea 360 00:19:15,545 --> 00:19:19,158 to stay in shape, so... I'm just getting a head start. 361 00:19:20,376 --> 00:19:21,812 Listen, about that... 362 00:19:22,639 --> 00:19:24,250 Can we talk? 363 00:19:24,250 --> 00:19:25,338 Man-to-man for a minute. 364 00:19:28,384 --> 00:19:29,516 I know I'm not your father. 365 00:19:30,995 --> 00:19:32,171 But just so you know, 366 00:19:33,259 --> 00:19:34,434 I want what's best for you, Archie, 367 00:19:34,434 --> 00:19:35,957 just the same as he would want. 368 00:19:41,267 --> 00:19:42,224 What is that? 369 00:19:43,573 --> 00:19:45,227 Your old man's dog tags. 370 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:47,186 I know he'd want you to have them, 371 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:50,189 just like I'll bet he'd want you to quit this Merchant Marines business, 372 00:19:51,494 --> 00:19:55,019 join the Army, enlist, just like he did. 373 00:19:57,457 --> 00:19:58,414 Oh, you didn't know? 374 00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:02,505 Your father wasn't drafted, Archie. 375 00:20:02,505 --> 00:20:04,377 He volunteered for the Army 376 00:20:04,377 --> 00:20:09,033 because he knew what being a real man and a good American meant. 377 00:20:09,033 --> 00:20:12,515 He believed there was no greater duty than serving this country 378 00:20:12,515 --> 00:20:15,475 and fighting for democracy and freedom. 379 00:20:15,475 --> 00:20:17,433 And you wanna be like your father, don't you? 380 00:20:20,567 --> 00:20:21,655 Well, yeah, I... 381 00:20:21,655 --> 00:20:23,613 try to be like him every day. 382 00:20:23,613 --> 00:20:26,790 Well, then drop this poetry nonsense and join the Army. 383 00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:29,358 Become the kind of man he'd be proud of. 384 00:20:29,358 --> 00:20:31,360 The man I know is inside you, 385 00:20:32,013 --> 00:20:33,188 fighting to get out. 386 00:20:34,929 --> 00:20:36,931 And the best part about joining the Army... 387 00:20:38,889 --> 00:20:40,674 you don't have to wait until graduation. 388 00:21:07,483 --> 00:21:09,529 Let's see what you're hiding, Daddy. 389 00:21:46,653 --> 00:21:47,654 A draft? 390 00:22:40,533 --> 00:22:42,230 Good morning, honey. 391 00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:43,449 One waffle or two? 392 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:44,754 Uh... 393 00:22:46,060 --> 00:22:47,235 Are those your dad's... 394 00:22:48,149 --> 00:22:49,977 Dog tags. Yeah. 395 00:22:50,891 --> 00:22:52,849 Uncle Frank gave 'em to me. 396 00:22:52,849 --> 00:22:54,460 Well, why would he have done that? 397 00:22:57,071 --> 00:22:58,115 Oh, I think I know. 398 00:22:59,639 --> 00:23:01,902 But maybe you should sit down so we can talk about it. 399 00:23:11,085 --> 00:23:13,479 Betty, can we talk for a second? 400 00:23:14,131 --> 00:23:15,002 Sure. 401 00:23:16,351 --> 00:23:18,571 Are things not hunky-dory? 402 00:23:18,571 --> 00:23:21,791 No, there is a problem, um... 403 00:23:21,791 --> 00:23:23,924 I don't have my birth certificate. 404 00:23:24,533 --> 00:23:25,752 It's at my house. 405 00:23:27,275 --> 00:23:29,103 Where my parents... 406 00:23:29,103 --> 00:23:31,061 Don't worry about it. I'll grab it for you. 407 00:23:31,061 --> 00:23:32,628 Really, Betty? 408 00:23:32,628 --> 00:23:34,587 Sure. Yeah. I'll book it there after school 409 00:23:34,587 --> 00:23:36,415 before we go to the DMV. 410 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:37,764 Do you have any idea 411 00:23:37,764 --> 00:23:39,505 where your birth certificate would be? 412 00:23:39,505 --> 00:23:40,984 My mom had a crafting desk 413 00:23:40,984 --> 00:23:43,726 where she kept important papers and things. 414 00:23:43,726 --> 00:23:44,814 I bet you it's in there. 415 00:23:56,696 --> 00:23:58,175 Did you find something? 416 00:23:58,175 --> 00:24:00,656 Did I ever? You were right on the beam, Jughead. 417 00:24:00,656 --> 00:24:02,223 - About what part? - Everything. 418 00:24:02,223 --> 00:24:03,790 Last night whilst snooping through Daddy's study, 419 00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:05,313 I stumbled upon a secret panel 420 00:24:05,313 --> 00:24:06,749 and found a bunch of these... 421 00:24:10,927 --> 00:24:12,538 and matching uniforms to boot! 422 00:24:12,538 --> 00:24:14,844 Holy Toledo! 423 00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:18,892 That milkman must've been working for your father. 424 00:24:19,588 --> 00:24:21,808 Doing his bidding? 425 00:24:21,808 --> 00:24:23,505 Cheryl, are you in danger? 426 00:24:23,505 --> 00:24:25,028 No more than usual. 427 00:24:25,028 --> 00:24:26,552 I also went to the mines last night 428 00:24:26,552 --> 00:24:27,727 and you were right about those too. 429 00:24:27,727 --> 00:24:29,468 They are palladium mines... 430 00:24:30,338 --> 00:24:33,341 Very much not abandoned. 431 00:24:33,341 --> 00:24:35,778 Meet me on the Thornhill grounds tonight after dark 432 00:24:35,778 --> 00:24:37,998 and bring your camera, and pray an atomic disaster 433 00:24:37,998 --> 00:24:39,434 doesn't befall us all before then. 434 00:25:39,712 --> 00:25:41,061 What? Wha-- 435 00:25:45,805 --> 00:25:48,329 What was my dad paying the Muggs' for? 436 00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:04,214 So Frank, Archie told me 437 00:26:04,214 --> 00:26:06,608 about your little talk in the garage last night. 438 00:26:08,741 --> 00:26:10,394 Did he now? 439 00:26:10,394 --> 00:26:12,658 - And what did he say? - A few things. 440 00:26:12,658 --> 00:26:13,789 But it sounded to me 441 00:26:13,789 --> 00:26:16,400 like you used his father, your brother, 442 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,490 to try to manipulate my son into joining the Army. 443 00:26:20,230 --> 00:26:21,449 How dare you, Frank? 444 00:26:21,449 --> 00:26:23,712 Especially when you yourself never served. 445 00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:28,804 The Army is the best place for him, Mary. 446 00:26:28,804 --> 00:26:29,675 It'll set him straight. 447 00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:31,328 Let's not mince words, Frank. 448 00:26:31,328 --> 00:26:33,330 We all know what this is really about. 449 00:26:33,330 --> 00:26:36,464 It's about you not wanting Archie to write poetry. 450 00:26:36,464 --> 00:26:38,509 He's on the road to ruin. 451 00:26:38,509 --> 00:26:40,860 He's... Well, he's lost. 452 00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:43,863 He's not lost. He's 17. 453 00:26:43,863 --> 00:26:45,691 He's got his whole life ahead of him. 454 00:26:45,691 --> 00:26:48,737 Whether that's joining the Merchant Marines, or the Army, 455 00:26:48,737 --> 00:26:51,914 or going to college to study literature and poetry, 456 00:26:51,914 --> 00:26:53,786 after he finishes high school. 457 00:26:53,786 --> 00:26:57,485 But he'll be the one who decides his path, not his bullying uncle. 458 00:26:59,792 --> 00:27:02,403 I can't have you here anymore, Frank. 459 00:27:02,403 --> 00:27:03,665 It's time for you to move out. 460 00:27:04,971 --> 00:27:07,234 Mary, you called me here to help. 461 00:27:07,234 --> 00:27:09,062 And now she's telling you to hit the road. 462 00:27:09,062 --> 00:27:11,673 And who's gonna be the man of the house when I'm gone? 463 00:27:11,673 --> 00:27:14,850 - I am. - Not that I need one. 464 00:27:14,850 --> 00:27:17,461 I am the woman of this house, after all. 465 00:27:17,461 --> 00:27:20,247 I'm the one who pays the mortgage around here. 466 00:27:20,247 --> 00:27:24,120 Well, I suppose I could shack up with my old pal Tom Keller. 467 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,471 I hear he's been handed a similar set of marching orders recently. 468 00:27:27,471 --> 00:27:28,647 Wonderful. 469 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,561 That works out for everyone then. 470 00:27:41,007 --> 00:27:42,878 Betty. How you doing, kiddo? 471 00:27:42,878 --> 00:27:46,795 Why were you two writing checks once a month, 472 00:27:46,795 --> 00:27:48,971 year after year, to the Muggs'? 473 00:27:53,062 --> 00:27:57,066 Because, Betty, Mrs. Muggs was our housekeeper. 474 00:27:57,066 --> 00:28:00,766 Those must have been payments for those services. 475 00:28:00,766 --> 00:28:02,811 That doesn't make any sense. 476 00:28:02,811 --> 00:28:04,900 Some of these checks are from two years ago. 477 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,468 If Mrs. Muggs were ever our housekeeper, 478 00:28:07,468 --> 00:28:10,993 she hadn't been for as long as I can remember. 479 00:28:10,993 --> 00:28:13,996 Oh, and... and what's the story behind this photo? 480 00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:17,870 Who's that baby? 481 00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:20,263 Because it's not me and it's not Polly. 482 00:28:21,047 --> 00:28:22,744 That's Ethel. 483 00:28:22,744 --> 00:28:28,184 Why did the Muggs' have a photo of you holding Ethel as a baby? 484 00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:31,927 Because the Muggs' asked 485 00:28:31,927 --> 00:28:34,321 if I would be Ethel's godfather. 486 00:28:34,887 --> 00:28:36,236 And I agreed. 487 00:28:36,236 --> 00:28:37,933 So why haven't I heard about this? 488 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:39,761 Why hasn't anyone? 489 00:28:39,761 --> 00:28:41,284 I don't know... 490 00:28:41,937 --> 00:28:43,417 Stop, Hal. 491 00:28:44,853 --> 00:28:46,246 Just stop. 492 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:48,901 It's over. 493 00:28:49,989 --> 00:28:51,077 Can't you see that? 494 00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:57,866 You're Ethel's father, aren't you? 495 00:28:59,215 --> 00:29:01,827 Why don't you go for a walk, dear? Hmm? 496 00:29:03,089 --> 00:29:05,482 So that Betty and I can have a little chat. 497 00:29:13,099 --> 00:29:16,015 Mildred Muggs did clean our house 498 00:29:16,015 --> 00:29:19,583 before you were born. That part is true. 499 00:29:19,583 --> 00:29:23,196 And at some point, she and your father started having an affair. 500 00:29:24,719 --> 00:29:26,895 And I suspected it for a long time, 501 00:29:26,895 --> 00:29:28,984 but it was finally confirmed when... 502 00:29:28,984 --> 00:29:30,899 Mrs. Muggs got pregnant. 503 00:29:30,899 --> 00:29:33,902 Your father admitted everything. 504 00:29:33,902 --> 00:29:36,122 He was crying, 505 00:29:36,122 --> 00:29:38,951 apologizing. He didn't know what to do. 506 00:29:38,951 --> 00:29:42,128 I mean, if any whiff of the scandal got out, 507 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:44,957 the consequences, 508 00:29:44,957 --> 00:29:49,178 for the station, for... for us, for our family... 509 00:29:49,178 --> 00:29:51,093 So you stayed with him? 510 00:29:51,093 --> 00:29:52,965 I had no other choice. 511 00:29:52,965 --> 00:29:54,662 Yes, I stayed. 512 00:29:54,662 --> 00:29:55,968 But I... I handled it. 513 00:29:57,099 --> 00:29:58,448 I made a deal with the Muggs' 514 00:29:58,448 --> 00:30:01,712 that if they agreed to raise the baby as their own 515 00:30:01,712 --> 00:30:02,975 and keep our secret 516 00:30:02,975 --> 00:30:06,065 that we would financially support the child 517 00:30:06,065 --> 00:30:08,067 until she turned 16. 518 00:30:08,067 --> 00:30:12,636 Support... Ethel, my sister? 519 00:30:12,636 --> 00:30:13,724 Your half-sister. 520 00:30:15,161 --> 00:30:19,165 This is why you "adopted" Ethel. 521 00:30:21,994 --> 00:30:25,258 This is why you've been the way that you've been... 522 00:30:26,346 --> 00:30:27,390 with me. 523 00:30:30,132 --> 00:30:32,352 Wanting Kevin to pin me over Archie. 524 00:30:34,136 --> 00:30:36,965 Why you were scared of me reading Dr. Kingsley's book. 525 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:43,319 You were afraid of something like what happened to you happening to me? 526 00:30:44,973 --> 00:30:47,062 I just wanted to give you 527 00:30:47,933 --> 00:30:50,631 a good, happy life. 528 00:30:51,501 --> 00:30:52,502 Unburdened. 529 00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:55,984 Safe, free of shame. 530 00:30:55,984 --> 00:31:01,729 You've been obsessed with presenting as the perfect family 531 00:31:01,729 --> 00:31:02,904 when all along... 532 00:31:05,733 --> 00:31:07,387 this is what's been wrong. 533 00:31:07,387 --> 00:31:10,869 This... secret. 534 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:13,175 This... shame, 535 00:31:13,175 --> 00:31:14,960 not what I've been doing. 536 00:31:16,135 --> 00:31:17,614 Or what Polly did. 537 00:31:20,008 --> 00:31:21,357 It was Dad's affair... 538 00:31:24,056 --> 00:31:25,927 and your decision to stay with him 539 00:31:25,927 --> 00:31:28,060 and pretend that everything was fine. 540 00:31:29,017 --> 00:31:30,976 And for all my efforts, 541 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:34,109 I failed you. 542 00:31:37,286 --> 00:31:39,201 As a mother... 543 00:31:40,289 --> 00:31:42,596 I failed you, and I'm sorry. 544 00:31:47,427 --> 00:31:48,428 You didn't. 545 00:31:51,083 --> 00:31:52,911 You did the best that you could. 546 00:31:56,218 --> 00:31:58,133 You did what you thought was right. 547 00:32:01,745 --> 00:32:02,746 But now... 548 00:32:05,488 --> 00:32:07,316 we need to get Dad back here, 549 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:12,669 and we need to tell Ethel everything. 550 00:32:50,490 --> 00:32:53,101 What you say is here is really here? 551 00:32:53,101 --> 00:32:54,885 It is. You will see for yourself. 552 00:32:54,885 --> 00:32:56,583 Well, wouldn't there be more guards? 553 00:32:56,583 --> 00:33:00,108 I imagine my father is trying to avoid undue attention. 554 00:33:00,108 --> 00:33:02,502 That's a good point. 555 00:33:02,502 --> 00:33:04,243 And as Cheryl and I were on the cusp 556 00:33:04,243 --> 00:33:06,245 of uncovering one explosive truth, 557 00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:08,421 Ethel was experiencing emotional shock waves 558 00:33:08,421 --> 00:33:10,814 after learning the truth about her life. 559 00:33:10,814 --> 00:33:11,990 It explains things. 560 00:33:14,340 --> 00:33:16,385 Why my parents were so sad, 561 00:33:16,385 --> 00:33:17,952 why they fought all the time. 562 00:33:20,737 --> 00:33:21,825 Why I always felt... 563 00:33:23,479 --> 00:33:26,308 I don't know, like it was somehow my fault. 564 00:33:26,308 --> 00:33:28,267 Oh, it was never your fault, Ethel. 565 00:33:29,703 --> 00:33:30,704 Ethel... 566 00:33:32,140 --> 00:33:36,014 Mrs. Cooper and I, were discussing and... 567 00:33:37,189 --> 00:33:38,842 Well, we'd like to... 568 00:33:38,842 --> 00:33:40,322 We'd like to make things right. 569 00:33:41,802 --> 00:33:44,326 And formally adopt you. 570 00:33:44,326 --> 00:33:47,112 Show you that we could be a... a true family. 571 00:33:52,291 --> 00:33:54,684 I appreciate that. 572 00:33:54,684 --> 00:33:58,514 Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, it's kind of you to offer. 573 00:34:00,777 --> 00:34:02,692 But I don't think that's what I want. 574 00:34:04,651 --> 00:34:05,652 What do you want? 575 00:34:07,306 --> 00:34:08,263 To be happy. 576 00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:12,746 To move on with my life. 577 00:34:14,922 --> 00:34:15,923 To start over. 578 00:34:23,278 --> 00:34:25,367 Well, you enjoy my room. 579 00:34:25,367 --> 00:34:26,890 Don't get into too much trouble. 580 00:34:26,890 --> 00:34:28,196 I won't. 581 00:34:28,196 --> 00:34:30,329 And, uh, I'll see you at practice, Coach. 582 00:34:33,375 --> 00:34:38,076 Mary, I don't know how I'm going to survive without your chicken pot pie. 583 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:39,599 Oh, come on, Frank. 584 00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:41,818 You know you'll always be welcome at Sunday dinner. 585 00:34:47,128 --> 00:34:48,477 In that case, I will see you Sunday. 586 00:34:50,653 --> 00:34:51,654 You... 587 00:34:51,654 --> 00:34:53,047 So you're the man of the house now. 588 00:34:53,047 --> 00:34:55,397 I hope you're up for the task 589 00:34:55,397 --> 00:34:59,097 and, uh, I hope you don't hold anything against me. 590 00:35:01,316 --> 00:35:02,665 Of course not, Uncle Frank. 591 00:35:04,450 --> 00:35:06,408 But just to be clear, 592 00:35:06,408 --> 00:35:09,542 writing poetry doesn't make you any less of a man. 593 00:35:09,542 --> 00:35:11,283 Some of the most beautiful poems I've ever read 594 00:35:11,283 --> 00:35:13,328 were written by soldiers in trenches, 595 00:35:13,328 --> 00:35:15,678 covered in mud and the blood of their brothers. 596 00:35:17,245 --> 00:35:18,638 Well, maybe that's my path. 597 00:35:21,380 --> 00:35:23,382 Well, maybe not. 598 00:35:23,382 --> 00:35:24,818 Guess we'll have to wait and see. 599 00:35:43,402 --> 00:35:45,795 We have to show these photos to Sheriff Keller. 600 00:35:45,795 --> 00:35:48,537 Maybe, maybe not. 601 00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:50,322 For all we know, Sheriff Keller is in on it. 602 00:35:50,322 --> 00:35:52,150 Kevin's father? 603 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,935 No, he's just a dimwitted small-town sheriff that's in over his head. 604 00:35:54,935 --> 00:35:58,156 Well, still, now that we have hard proof, it's better to be careful. 605 00:35:58,156 --> 00:35:59,592 Veronica has some contacts in the FBI 606 00:35:59,592 --> 00:36:01,115 from when they investigated her father. 607 00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:02,551 I'll reach out to her and see if she can get me 608 00:36:02,551 --> 00:36:03,639 the names of some of those agents. 609 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:05,772 Good thinking, Sherlock Jones. 610 00:36:05,772 --> 00:36:09,950 By the way, are you and Veronica officially an item now? 611 00:36:12,431 --> 00:36:13,432 Shucks, I don't know. 612 00:36:13,432 --> 00:36:16,217 Talk about being in over your crown. 613 00:36:16,217 --> 00:36:18,698 - Oh, I'm holding my own. - Mm-hmm. 614 00:36:28,751 --> 00:36:30,927 I'll get it. 615 00:36:34,322 --> 00:36:36,455 Gentlemen, you're right on time. 616 00:36:36,455 --> 00:36:37,934 They're having breakfast in the grand hall. 617 00:36:42,765 --> 00:36:46,813 Clifford Marion Blossom, Penelope Pavlina Novikov Blossom, 618 00:36:46,813 --> 00:36:48,467 you're under arrest for treason, 619 00:36:48,467 --> 00:36:51,165 conspiracy and advocating for the violent overthrow 620 00:36:51,165 --> 00:36:52,949 of the American government. 621 00:36:52,949 --> 00:36:55,909 The FBI is shutting down your so-called Project Moloch. 622 00:37:01,654 --> 00:37:03,699 You did a bad thing, Daddy. 623 00:37:03,699 --> 00:37:05,571 Over the coming days, the world would learn 624 00:37:05,571 --> 00:37:07,355 about the American capitalist 625 00:37:07,355 --> 00:37:09,357 seduced by the Soviet sleeper agent. 626 00:37:12,534 --> 00:37:14,623 Operation Project Moloch 627 00:37:14,623 --> 00:37:17,409 was to have been the next leg of the arms race, 628 00:37:17,409 --> 00:37:20,934 from the A-bomb to the H-bomb to the P-bomb, 629 00:37:20,934 --> 00:37:22,979 the palladium bomb. 630 00:37:22,979 --> 00:37:25,895 The US believed Clifford Blossom was developing it for them, 631 00:37:25,895 --> 00:37:27,593 when, in fact, his plan had been 632 00:37:27,593 --> 00:37:29,377 to develop the P-bomb in Riverdale 633 00:37:29,377 --> 00:37:31,553 and deliver it to Mother Russia. 634 00:37:31,553 --> 00:37:33,425 The FBI and the US Army were credited 635 00:37:33,425 --> 00:37:35,427 with foiling the plot against America, 636 00:37:35,427 --> 00:37:37,603 which is fine by me, because I was busy 637 00:37:37,603 --> 00:37:39,866 putting the rest of the pieces together. 638 00:37:39,866 --> 00:37:42,912 Mr. Rayberry must have glimpsed just enough during his job 639 00:37:42,912 --> 00:37:45,741 at the Blossom factory to grow concerned. 640 00:37:45,741 --> 00:37:47,700 He warned us, as he always did, 641 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:50,006 with his brilliant, terrifying stories. 642 00:37:50,006 --> 00:37:52,052 He might have continued flying under the radar, 643 00:37:52,052 --> 00:37:54,489 but then he started agitating at Riverdale High 644 00:37:54,489 --> 00:37:57,753 invoking the Supreme Court, spooking the powers that be, 645 00:37:57,753 --> 00:38:00,452 prompting Mayor Blossom to have his hit man, 646 00:38:00,452 --> 00:38:02,323 aka the milkman, kill him. 647 00:38:04,107 --> 00:38:07,372 Ethel's folks also paid the ultimate price. 648 00:38:07,372 --> 00:38:09,461 Mr. Muggs had discovered that the Blossoms were sitting 649 00:38:09,461 --> 00:38:11,463 on a stockpile of palladium. 650 00:38:11,463 --> 00:38:13,334 That made him a threat. 651 00:38:13,334 --> 00:38:15,945 One that, for whatever reason, needed to be eliminated. 652 00:38:15,945 --> 00:38:18,165 Ethel didn't care so much about the details. 653 00:38:18,165 --> 00:38:20,472 But now that she knew the complete truth of her life, 654 00:38:20,472 --> 00:38:22,125 she was ready, she said, 655 00:38:23,431 --> 00:38:25,215 to finally start to hope again 656 00:38:25,215 --> 00:38:26,304 for a better tomorrow. 657 00:38:27,653 --> 00:38:29,959 Hey, love bug, you ready to peel out? 658 00:38:34,442 --> 00:38:38,098 ♪ The clock is smiling Like a long-lost prayer ♪ 659 00:38:38,098 --> 00:38:42,320 ♪ Another minute And the class will end... ♪ 660 00:38:44,713 --> 00:38:46,672 Are you sure about this, Ethel? 661 00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:49,762 Moving to Hollywood? 662 00:38:49,762 --> 00:38:51,590 Don't you worry, Mrs. Cooper. 663 00:38:51,590 --> 00:38:53,766 I called ahead to my friend Peter Roth. 664 00:38:53,766 --> 00:38:56,377 He saw some of Ethel's artwork and got her a job 665 00:38:56,377 --> 00:38:58,248 as a storyboard artist on the lot. 666 00:38:58,248 --> 00:38:59,554 And I've already arranged for Ethel 667 00:38:59,554 --> 00:39:00,990 to live with one of my girlfriends 668 00:39:00,990 --> 00:39:03,297 at the most glamorous of buildings, 669 00:39:03,297 --> 00:39:04,472 the El Royale. 670 00:39:04,472 --> 00:39:05,517 Thanks again, Veronica. 671 00:39:06,169 --> 00:39:07,170 My pleasure. 672 00:39:08,607 --> 00:39:09,608 Give 'em hell, Ethel. 673 00:39:13,089 --> 00:39:15,440 Don't forget to send us your address once you're settled, 674 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,919 so I can come visit you this summer. 675 00:39:16,919 --> 00:39:17,964 I won't forget. 676 00:39:20,749 --> 00:39:22,142 Thank you for everything, Betty. 677 00:39:23,491 --> 00:39:24,710 Of course. 678 00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:38,680 I'll miss you. 679 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,074 You always were the best partner in crime. 680 00:39:42,075 --> 00:39:43,206 Thanks, Jughead. 681 00:39:45,208 --> 00:39:46,209 Don't be too sad. 682 00:39:47,515 --> 00:39:49,256 We'll always have Pep Comics. 683 00:39:49,256 --> 00:39:50,866 Well, hopefully. We'll see. 684 00:39:55,262 --> 00:39:57,525 You're going to be just fine. 685 00:39:58,308 --> 00:40:00,572 I truly feel that. 686 00:40:00,572 --> 00:40:01,834 I hope so, Mrs. Cooper. 687 00:40:21,549 --> 00:40:24,204 Ethel was the first of us to go, 688 00:40:24,204 --> 00:40:25,423 to leave Riverdale behind. 689 00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:28,034 There would be others soon. 690 00:40:29,209 --> 00:40:31,429 All the pieces were falling into place. 691 00:40:32,604 --> 00:40:34,562 Project Moloch had failed, 692 00:40:34,562 --> 00:40:36,259 and it was just about time to find out 693 00:40:36,259 --> 00:40:38,218 if our little town would be avoiding 694 00:40:38,218 --> 00:40:40,089 an even greater cataclysm. 695 00:40:42,483 --> 00:40:46,966 ♪ Nothing can stop me ♪ 696 00:40:48,576 --> 00:40:51,971 ♪ Now ♪