1 00:00:01,827 --> 00:00:04,482 [Jughead] The following isn't an imaginary story. 2 00:00:04,526 --> 00:00:06,136 It happened. 3 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:10,140 It starts with a corpse on a lonely country road. 4 00:00:13,056 --> 00:00:14,666 While in the town of Rivervale... 5 00:00:16,494 --> 00:00:20,063 Archie Andrews has somehow just come back from the dead. 6 00:00:20,107 --> 00:00:21,195 [Betty] Arch? 7 00:00:22,544 --> 00:00:23,980 Sorry I woke you, Betty. 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:27,375 No. It's okay. 9 00:00:29,072 --> 00:00:31,161 I was having a nightmare. 10 00:00:31,205 --> 00:00:32,554 What was it about? 11 00:00:39,082 --> 00:00:42,042 The whole town was sacrificing you. 12 00:00:45,828 --> 00:00:47,351 [thunder rumbling] 13 00:00:47,395 --> 00:00:49,353 [Toni] Sorry I woke you, Fangs. 14 00:00:49,397 --> 00:00:50,920 Oh, I was just... 15 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:53,444 having this crazy-ass dream. 16 00:00:54,228 --> 00:00:55,664 You were... 17 00:00:57,318 --> 00:00:59,102 drowning. 18 00:00:59,146 --> 00:01:01,931 And you came back as a ghost. 19 00:01:04,586 --> 00:01:06,414 Was I trying to hurt Baby Anthony? 20 00:01:08,546 --> 00:01:12,507 I was having the strangest dream, Reggie. 21 00:01:12,550 --> 00:01:15,075 Did I get dragged to Hell in it? 22 00:01:15,118 --> 00:01:17,686 Nana, what are you doing in my room? 23 00:01:17,729 --> 00:01:20,819 I had the most frightful dream, child. 24 00:01:21,385 --> 00:01:23,126 Same. I, um... 25 00:01:23,170 --> 00:01:25,781 You and I swapped bodies for some reason. 26 00:01:26,347 --> 00:01:28,349 [clock ticking] 27 00:01:45,975 --> 00:01:47,977 [exploding] 28 00:01:48,717 --> 00:01:50,284 [gasps] 29 00:01:51,589 --> 00:01:52,808 [sighs] 30 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,118 [thuds] 31 00:02:14,003 --> 00:02:16,266 Morning. How'd you sleep? 32 00:02:16,310 --> 00:02:19,400 Uh... I'm not sure. 33 00:02:19,443 --> 00:02:21,619 Oh, were you up late writing? 34 00:02:21,663 --> 00:02:23,621 No, I woke up in Archie's garage. 35 00:02:23,665 --> 00:02:25,449 I think I was sleepwalking. 36 00:02:25,493 --> 00:02:27,973 Oh, it's probably just nerves. 37 00:02:28,017 --> 00:02:29,671 [sighs] Yeah. 38 00:02:29,714 --> 00:02:31,803 Wait, what am I supposed to be nervous about? 39 00:02:31,847 --> 00:02:36,634 Well, it is your first day back at school teaching, isn't it? 40 00:02:36,678 --> 00:02:38,941 [Tabitha] You know, it's got to be slightly nerve-racking. 41 00:02:38,984 --> 00:02:42,901 But don't worry, it will be great. You will do great. 42 00:02:42,945 --> 00:02:45,339 ["Don't You Forget About Me" playing] 43 00:03:36,433 --> 00:03:37,695 [water running] 44 00:03:42,526 --> 00:03:43,875 Hey, Jughead! 45 00:03:45,399 --> 00:03:46,661 What's up? 46 00:03:53,668 --> 00:03:54,756 Ben? 47 00:03:56,105 --> 00:03:57,541 You're Ben Button? 48 00:03:57,585 --> 00:03:59,369 Of course I am. Who else would I be? 49 00:03:59,413 --> 00:04:01,719 Ben, you died. 50 00:04:01,763 --> 00:04:04,896 You jumped out of a window when you sacrifice yourself to the Gargoyle King. 51 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:06,942 [imperceptible] 52 00:04:08,944 --> 00:04:11,120 No, you're thinking of that dude from Stonewall Prep. 53 00:04:13,644 --> 00:04:15,733 Mr. Chipping? Yeah. 54 00:04:15,777 --> 00:04:17,387 No, no. 55 00:04:19,607 --> 00:04:20,912 You did it first. 56 00:04:20,956 --> 00:04:22,740 Maybe you hallucinated it? 57 00:04:22,784 --> 00:04:25,439 Yeah, maybe I'm just hallucinating all this... 58 00:04:25,482 --> 00:04:30,270 FYI, daytime hallucinations are a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. 59 00:04:30,313 --> 00:04:32,837 But listen, have an awesome day. 60 00:04:37,451 --> 00:04:38,974 [Archie] Jug, hey! 61 00:04:39,017 --> 00:04:41,106 You okay, bro? You look like you're about to pass out. 62 00:04:41,150 --> 00:04:42,673 Just light-headed. 63 00:04:43,631 --> 00:04:45,154 What's going on? 64 00:04:45,197 --> 00:04:47,243 Not much. Just updating everyone on the wedding plans. 65 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:49,027 Wedding? 66 00:04:49,071 --> 00:04:50,551 Who's getting married? 67 00:04:52,379 --> 00:04:54,381 [Cheryl giggles] Awkward. 68 00:04:54,424 --> 00:04:57,384 Jug, Betty and I are getting married this weekend, and you're my best man. 69 00:04:57,427 --> 00:04:59,124 [cell phone ringing] 70 00:04:59,168 --> 00:05:00,996 Impeccable timing, as always. 71 00:05:03,390 --> 00:05:04,913 Yes, Dr. Curdle? 72 00:05:04,956 --> 00:05:08,525 Miss Cooper, I have some very distressing news. 73 00:05:08,569 --> 00:05:12,399 This afternoon, I received a corpse. 74 00:05:14,009 --> 00:05:16,011 Jughead Jones's corpse. 75 00:05:16,054 --> 00:05:18,622 Is this more of your gallows humor, Doctor? 76 00:05:18,666 --> 00:05:23,061 Because I'm looking right at Jughead, who is very much alive. 77 00:05:23,714 --> 00:05:25,542 That's not possible. 78 00:05:25,586 --> 00:05:27,762 Look, if you're still upset about not being invited to my wedding, 79 00:05:27,805 --> 00:05:29,198 get over yourself. 80 00:05:29,241 --> 00:05:31,069 Goodbye and please stop harassing me. 81 00:05:32,723 --> 00:05:34,682 Hey, you okay? 82 00:05:34,725 --> 00:05:37,511 Yeah. Dr. Curdle's attempt at humor, I guess. 83 00:05:37,554 --> 00:05:39,991 He claims that your body is on his slab, 84 00:05:40,035 --> 00:05:43,343 which is obviously impossible because I'm talking to you. 85 00:05:45,388 --> 00:05:47,869 -[door opens] -[Dr. Curdle] Mr. Jones. 86 00:05:49,479 --> 00:05:51,002 It can't be. 87 00:05:51,046 --> 00:05:52,264 And yet it is. 88 00:05:54,658 --> 00:05:55,659 Well, may I? 89 00:06:07,062 --> 00:06:10,152 [ominous music playing] 90 00:06:11,153 --> 00:06:14,896 [glass breaking] 91 00:06:18,421 --> 00:06:21,032 It's a paradox. It must be. 92 00:06:21,076 --> 00:06:22,730 How did I... How did he die? 93 00:06:22,773 --> 00:06:24,427 Asphyxiation. 94 00:06:24,471 --> 00:06:27,517 His wind pipe was crushed. 95 00:06:27,561 --> 00:06:28,692 He was strangled. 96 00:06:28,736 --> 00:06:30,433 And where was he found? 97 00:06:30,477 --> 00:06:32,087 The Lonely Highway. 98 00:06:33,088 --> 00:06:36,047 At the town limits. By the sign. 99 00:06:36,744 --> 00:06:37,614 Face down. 100 00:06:39,529 --> 00:06:41,531 Where are his clothes, his personal effects? 101 00:06:45,753 --> 00:06:49,409 Keep this body on ice and under wraps, okay? 102 00:06:51,628 --> 00:06:53,282 The Lonely Highway, you said? 103 00:06:56,764 --> 00:06:58,766 [ominous music playing] 104 00:07:34,628 --> 00:07:36,934 [Jughead] It was impossible, yet happening. 105 00:07:36,978 --> 00:07:40,634 Somehow, I had in my possession a set of comic books that seemed to be about me 106 00:07:40,677 --> 00:07:41,809 and my friends. 107 00:07:41,852 --> 00:07:43,463 [imperceptible] 108 00:07:43,506 --> 00:07:45,290 Where had I gotten them? 109 00:07:45,334 --> 00:07:47,945 I couldn't remember. 110 00:07:47,989 --> 00:07:51,471 And why was my doppelganger clutching one when he died? 111 00:07:51,514 --> 00:07:54,561 For that matter, how did I even have a doppelganger? 112 00:07:54,604 --> 00:07:59,827 Hoping to find sane answers for these impossible questions, I sat down and began to read... 113 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:01,350 from the beginning. 114 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:04,832 [woman screaming] 115 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:18,628 [box thudding] 116 00:08:18,672 --> 00:08:20,412 How many more boxes of comic books do you have? 117 00:08:20,456 --> 00:08:21,588 This is just a fraction. 118 00:08:21,631 --> 00:08:22,763 [Archie] I'll be honest with you, Jug. 119 00:08:22,806 --> 00:08:24,678 I didn't know you were that into comics. 120 00:08:24,721 --> 00:08:27,028 Well, what can I say, Archie? I contain multitudes. 121 00:08:34,122 --> 00:08:36,124 [ominous music playing] 122 00:08:42,217 --> 00:08:45,176 Hey, how was your first day back? 123 00:08:45,220 --> 00:08:46,395 [Jughead] Tabitha. 124 00:08:48,049 --> 00:08:51,139 I feel like I'm living in a movie about parallel universes 125 00:08:51,182 --> 00:08:53,358 and I need your help to figure this out. 126 00:08:53,402 --> 00:08:55,360 Okay. 127 00:08:55,404 --> 00:08:58,712 I've been having these strange hallucinations. 128 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:00,017 And these comics, 129 00:09:00,583 --> 00:09:01,628 they're about us. 130 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:03,630 Our lives. 131 00:09:03,673 --> 00:09:06,676 The first 95 are called Riverdale, 132 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,200 and they're set in a town called Riverdale. 133 00:09:09,244 --> 00:09:12,856 And then there's this explosion, and suddenly it's Rivervale. 134 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:15,903 Okay, So you think Riverdale 135 00:09:15,946 --> 00:09:18,688 is a parallel universe to Rivervale? 136 00:09:18,732 --> 00:09:20,560 No, no. 137 00:09:20,603 --> 00:09:23,954 I think Rivervale is a parallel universe to Riverdale. 138 00:09:23,998 --> 00:09:25,260 It's like the comics. 139 00:09:25,303 --> 00:09:26,870 Riverdale comes first. 140 00:09:26,914 --> 00:09:29,569 And then there's Rivervale, which is a lot like Riverdale 141 00:09:29,612 --> 00:09:31,701 except it's darker, nastier. 142 00:09:31,745 --> 00:09:36,053 It's, um, it's like a warped reflection of Riverdale, 143 00:09:36,097 --> 00:09:38,752 and it just keeps getting more twisted. 144 00:09:38,795 --> 00:09:42,494 So we live in the parallel universe? 145 00:09:42,538 --> 00:09:43,800 Yeah. 146 00:09:43,844 --> 00:09:45,149 I know it's counterintuitive. 147 00:09:49,719 --> 00:09:50,720 Read them, 148 00:09:51,634 --> 00:09:52,940 then we'll talk. 149 00:09:54,115 --> 00:09:57,074 [Jughead narrating] And Tabitha did. 150 00:09:57,118 --> 00:10:00,600 And her experience reading them was very similar to my own. 151 00:10:00,643 --> 00:10:02,602 I remembered recent events clearly, 152 00:10:02,645 --> 00:10:05,082 but going back further in my memory was... 153 00:10:05,692 --> 00:10:06,736 hazier. 154 00:10:09,783 --> 00:10:12,481 Reading about events in the Riverdale comic books made me recall them, 155 00:10:12,524 --> 00:10:14,352 but as Tabitha said... 156 00:10:15,963 --> 00:10:17,747 That's so strange. 157 00:10:17,791 --> 00:10:21,838 I mean, I remember these things happening, but not in Riverdale. 158 00:10:21,882 --> 00:10:25,059 All this happened here in Rivervale, 159 00:10:25,755 --> 00:10:26,626 didn't it? 160 00:10:28,584 --> 00:10:30,673 [Jughead narrating] I went to Betty and Archie next. 161 00:10:30,717 --> 00:10:33,633 I wanted to ask them about one page in particular. 162 00:10:35,069 --> 00:10:36,636 Do you remember that explosion, Archie? 163 00:10:37,419 --> 00:10:38,289 No. 164 00:10:39,116 --> 00:10:40,944 Not at all. 165 00:10:40,988 --> 00:10:43,207 That event is the one that ended the Riverdalecomics. 166 00:10:43,251 --> 00:10:45,557 The next issue is when Rivervalestarted. 167 00:10:45,601 --> 00:10:48,430 I have a theory that that explosion is what created 168 00:10:48,473 --> 00:10:51,476 this parallel universe we currently find ourselves in. 169 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,740 Wait. I kind of remember something about this. 170 00:10:53,783 --> 00:10:58,222 Arch, didn't you have a dream about an explosion like this one 171 00:10:58,266 --> 00:10:59,528 or am I making that up? 172 00:10:59,571 --> 00:11:02,009 [imperceptible] 173 00:11:02,052 --> 00:11:06,666 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that was just a dream, Jug. 174 00:11:08,842 --> 00:11:11,148 [Jughead narrating] I went to Veronica and Reggie next. 175 00:11:11,192 --> 00:11:13,150 This is impossible. 176 00:11:13,194 --> 00:11:14,935 What is it? 177 00:11:14,978 --> 00:11:18,112 These comics depict my father terrorizing Riverdale for years, 178 00:11:18,155 --> 00:11:21,811 but my father died the night before my quinceanera. 179 00:11:21,855 --> 00:11:24,727 I was so distraught. We had to cancel the Jonas Brothers performance. 180 00:11:24,771 --> 00:11:27,338 That's a massive discrepancy. 181 00:11:27,382 --> 00:11:30,646 Because in Riverdale, Hiram is the main villain. 182 00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:32,517 He's like Darth Vader. 183 00:11:32,561 --> 00:11:35,520 So if Rivervale is the dark twin-verse then who is our Big Bad? 184 00:11:36,565 --> 00:11:37,827 How come I look different? 185 00:11:37,871 --> 00:11:39,220 What do you mean? 186 00:11:39,263 --> 00:11:41,701 I mean, I look like two different people, look. 187 00:11:43,224 --> 00:11:45,269 Both devastatingly handsome. 188 00:11:45,313 --> 00:11:47,837 But other than that... 189 00:11:47,881 --> 00:11:50,187 That might be an anomaly. 190 00:11:50,231 --> 00:11:51,885 Have you shown these to Cheryl? 191 00:11:52,755 --> 00:11:55,018 [sighs] 192 00:11:55,062 --> 00:12:00,241 So, according to this horrid pamphlet, Kevin Keller and Moose Mason 193 00:12:00,284 --> 00:12:02,678 discovered the corpse of my dead brother 194 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:05,376 whilst secretly canoodling in the woods? 195 00:12:05,420 --> 00:12:06,856 Yeah. 196 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:08,902 How's that sync up with your memory of Jason's death? 197 00:12:08,945 --> 00:12:11,818 It doesn't, you ghoul-lunatic. 198 00:12:11,861 --> 00:12:13,863 To begin with, Jay Jay's not dead. 199 00:12:13,907 --> 00:12:16,213 What're you talking about? That's impossible. 200 00:12:16,257 --> 00:12:18,607 I mean, your life was basically defined by his death. 201 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:23,394 I don't know what to tell you, but I can assure you he is still very alive. 202 00:12:23,438 --> 00:12:25,396 No, he's dead. You had a funeral for him, 203 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,095 and then you talked to his corpse for months. 204 00:12:28,138 --> 00:12:29,792 -[door opens] -[footsteps approaching] 205 00:12:37,931 --> 00:12:40,107 Oh, hey, Jughead. I didn't know you were here. 206 00:12:41,717 --> 00:12:43,327 You ready to go hit the court, Cher-Cher? 207 00:12:43,371 --> 00:12:46,243 Yeah, I just need a minute. Wait for me at the convertible? 208 00:12:46,287 --> 00:12:48,115 Sure. Don't take too long. 209 00:12:52,119 --> 00:12:56,645 Uh... We... We had an in-memoriam page for him... 210 00:12:57,254 --> 00:12:58,473 in our yearbook. 211 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,737 No, hobo, we didn't. 212 00:13:03,478 --> 00:13:05,610 Now, if you'll excuse me, 213 00:13:05,654 --> 00:13:09,658 my beloved and very much alive twin brother and I are off to play doubles. Toodles. 214 00:13:09,701 --> 00:13:12,792 And feel free to see yourself out. 215 00:13:12,835 --> 00:13:14,489 [Jughead narrating] And then, I had one of my hunches. 216 00:13:14,532 --> 00:13:15,969 [school bell rings] 217 00:13:21,452 --> 00:13:23,367 I was right. 218 00:13:23,411 --> 00:13:26,109 Though Riverdale and Rivervale diverged in ways minor and major, 219 00:13:26,153 --> 00:13:27,850 they were analogous. 220 00:13:27,894 --> 00:13:31,158 But I needed to understand the rules of these worlds. 221 00:13:31,201 --> 00:13:33,943 I needed to sharpen my knowledge of parallel universes. 222 00:13:33,987 --> 00:13:37,294 Damn, you're all knotted up, babe. 223 00:13:37,338 --> 00:13:40,080 -What gives? -Jughead. 224 00:13:40,123 --> 00:13:42,734 He triggered me with all that talk about my father. 225 00:13:42,778 --> 00:13:45,737 -Yeah, Donnie Darko is the worst. -[sighs] 226 00:13:45,781 --> 00:13:47,087 I got you, though. 227 00:13:47,130 --> 00:13:48,784 How can Reggie make it all better? 228 00:13:51,178 --> 00:13:52,614 [knocking on door] 229 00:13:55,704 --> 00:13:57,706 Hey, babe. Miss me? 230 00:14:09,544 --> 00:14:14,027 I'm sorry, Mr. Jones, but The Philosophy of Parallel Universes 231 00:14:14,070 --> 00:14:17,726 was checked out years ago and never returned. 232 00:14:17,769 --> 00:14:19,162 What? 233 00:14:19,206 --> 00:14:20,381 Who checked it out? 234 00:14:23,036 --> 00:14:24,515 Dilton Doiley. 235 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:26,866 [sighs] Great. 236 00:14:26,909 --> 00:14:28,389 Can't even ask him because he's dead. 237 00:14:30,086 --> 00:14:32,741 Mr. Doiley is alive. 238 00:14:32,784 --> 00:14:37,224 In fact, he teaches physics just down the hall. 239 00:14:42,751 --> 00:14:43,621 Dilton. 240 00:14:44,187 --> 00:14:45,841 Hey, Jughead. 241 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:48,452 I heard you were coming back to teach. We've missed you. 242 00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:50,063 [woman] Yes, we have. 243 00:14:52,065 --> 00:14:54,545 Ethel, what are you doing here? 244 00:14:54,589 --> 00:14:55,982 [Dilton] Ethel's my teaching assistant. 245 00:14:56,852 --> 00:14:57,853 Oh, yeah? 246 00:14:59,333 --> 00:15:01,378 So, I shared my wild theories with Dilton 247 00:15:01,422 --> 00:15:05,252 -who, miraculously, said... -I believe you, Jughead. 248 00:15:05,295 --> 00:15:08,081 And I know a thing or two about parallel universes. 249 00:15:08,124 --> 00:15:11,911 Okay. I think the explosion at the end of issue 95 of Riverdale 250 00:15:11,954 --> 00:15:14,826 is what created Rivervale, like the Big Bang. 251 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:17,394 -It's as valid as any theory. -Why do you think 252 00:15:17,438 --> 00:15:20,571 the events that happened in Riverdaleare playing out differently here? 253 00:15:20,615 --> 00:15:24,880 In my research, parallel universes are exact copies 254 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:27,100 or mirror images of one another. 255 00:15:27,143 --> 00:15:29,406 What you're describing is... 256 00:15:29,450 --> 00:15:33,106 -something in between. -Like a warping, right? 257 00:15:33,758 --> 00:15:34,629 And... 258 00:15:35,456 --> 00:15:37,110 I don't know, I have this... 259 00:15:38,285 --> 00:15:41,027 impending sense of doom, 260 00:15:41,070 --> 00:15:43,159 like something bad is going to happen. 261 00:15:44,421 --> 00:15:46,467 -What do we do about it? -Do? 262 00:15:47,294 --> 00:15:49,296 We do nothing. 263 00:15:49,339 --> 00:15:52,038 At any given moment, there are an infinite number 264 00:15:52,081 --> 00:15:55,606 of parallel universes in peaceful coexistence with one another. 265 00:15:55,650 --> 00:15:57,782 Just forget it, Jughead. 266 00:15:57,826 --> 00:16:00,785 -Live your life. -Dude, I'm not just gonna drop it. 267 00:16:00,829 --> 00:16:04,267 I became aware for a reason, conscious of the two universes. 268 00:16:04,311 --> 00:16:07,096 Why? What about the other Jughead? 269 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:08,445 Isn't that a paradox? 270 00:16:08,489 --> 00:16:11,013 It sounds more like an anomaly than a paradox. 271 00:16:11,057 --> 00:16:12,623 Dilton, he was murdered by someone. 272 00:16:12,667 --> 00:16:15,887 Then, have Sheriff Keller investigate, if you want. 273 00:16:15,931 --> 00:16:19,761 My advice, stop trying to figure out the secrets to the universe. 274 00:16:21,067 --> 00:16:22,938 You have a good life here, Jughead. 275 00:16:24,853 --> 00:16:25,723 Go with the flow. 276 00:16:29,205 --> 00:16:31,686 So, you're saying he's me? 277 00:16:32,556 --> 00:16:35,255 No, bro, you're me. 278 00:16:35,298 --> 00:16:37,953 -There is no you, all right? -[Veronica] There is, though. 279 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:39,868 I mean, based on Jughead's earlier visit, 280 00:16:39,911 --> 00:16:44,612 there are two parallel universes, and, apparently, two Reggies. 281 00:16:44,655 --> 00:16:47,006 But I came first. I'm Reggie Prime, baby. 282 00:16:47,049 --> 00:16:49,791 Yeah, but you've been in, like, three issues. 283 00:16:49,834 --> 00:16:52,011 -I've been in dozens. -[Veronica] Guys... 284 00:16:52,054 --> 00:16:56,841 It doesn't matter who came first or who has been in more issues. 285 00:16:56,885 --> 00:17:00,019 You're both here now and whatever else, 286 00:17:00,062 --> 00:17:01,672 we obviously can't have the two of you 287 00:17:01,716 --> 00:17:04,675 running around town freaking everybody the hell out. 288 00:17:04,719 --> 00:17:09,854 So, you're both staying here incommunicado until further notice. 289 00:17:09,898 --> 00:17:11,204 I have to get the casino ready 290 00:17:11,247 --> 00:17:13,162 for the bachelor and bachelorette parties tonight. 291 00:17:13,206 --> 00:17:16,035 -What? No. I'm coming. -Yeah, I want to go. 292 00:17:16,078 --> 00:17:18,428 It's Archie's bachelor party, and I can't miss it. 293 00:17:18,472 --> 00:17:21,040 I would much rather crash the bachelorette party. 294 00:17:22,563 --> 00:17:25,000 -[people screaming and cheering] -[hip hop music playing] 295 00:17:44,976 --> 00:17:45,977 Yeah! 296 00:17:50,895 --> 00:17:53,246 -How're you hanging in there? -Yeah, good. 297 00:17:56,162 --> 00:17:58,773 You know, I'm not going to lie, I've been thinking about my dad a lot recently. 298 00:17:58,816 --> 00:18:01,080 He would've loved this. 299 00:18:01,123 --> 00:18:04,213 Me marrying Betty? Come on. He would have been beside himself. [chuckles] 300 00:18:07,347 --> 00:18:09,088 This is stupid, but I keep... 301 00:18:10,437 --> 00:18:13,004 I keep imagining... 302 00:18:13,048 --> 00:18:15,268 that, somehow, he'll show up for the wedding... 303 00:18:17,618 --> 00:18:20,099 He'd be standing next to us, smiling. 304 00:18:20,142 --> 00:18:21,970 [Jughead] It's not stupid, Arch. 305 00:18:26,627 --> 00:18:28,629 [mellow music playing] 306 00:18:32,067 --> 00:18:37,159 Come on, the night is young. Let's dance. 307 00:18:37,203 --> 00:18:38,639 Who wants to dance with me? 308 00:18:44,601 --> 00:18:47,778 Excellent. Thank you, other Reggie. 309 00:18:47,822 --> 00:18:50,955 -I knew I could count on you. -Mm-hmm. 310 00:18:50,999 --> 00:18:54,176 Come on, Reginald. Don't be shy. 311 00:18:57,179 --> 00:19:01,401 You know, we could have a sweet thing here, the three of us. 312 00:19:02,576 --> 00:19:04,099 Nobody has to know. 313 00:19:08,408 --> 00:19:09,539 Sorry, Ronnie. 314 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:14,979 I'm not used to sharing. 315 00:19:15,937 --> 00:19:18,069 Yeah, well, me neither. 316 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:21,986 You know what, guys? 317 00:19:22,030 --> 00:19:25,207 The irony is, Veronica Lodge is more woman 318 00:19:25,251 --> 00:19:27,688 than either of you can handle alone. 319 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:40,744 Thank you. 320 00:19:40,788 --> 00:19:42,093 Oh-ho-ho! 321 00:19:44,270 --> 00:19:46,533 Do you guys remember when we were in high school, 322 00:19:46,576 --> 00:19:50,798 we'd party too hard and be hung over, and we could just skip class? 323 00:19:50,841 --> 00:19:52,626 Yeah, the good old days. 324 00:19:52,669 --> 00:19:56,195 [chuckles] Being a teacher sucks. 325 00:19:56,238 --> 00:19:59,807 -[Cheryl] Oh, my God. -Babe, what's wrong? 326 00:19:59,850 --> 00:20:01,200 My brother has been kidnapped 327 00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:03,202 by some lunatic calling himself the Black Hood. 328 00:20:07,554 --> 00:20:09,164 What? Who's the Black Hood? 329 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:10,644 How the hell should I know, Cousin? 330 00:20:10,687 --> 00:20:12,472 But he's demanding some insane ransom and saying, 331 00:20:12,515 --> 00:20:14,343 if I don't pay, he's going to kill my brother. 332 00:20:16,258 --> 00:20:19,348 Listen, Archie, I know this is gonna sound nuts. 333 00:20:19,392 --> 00:20:21,916 I think I know where Jason Blossom is being held. 334 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:24,048 Is this another one of those parallel universe things? 335 00:20:24,092 --> 00:20:26,877 Well, yeah. But if the events of Riverdale 336 00:20:26,921 --> 00:20:29,489 are repeating here in Rivervale, then... 337 00:20:29,532 --> 00:20:31,404 I think Jason Blossom is being held at the Whyte Wyrm. 338 00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:34,668 What do you want to do? 339 00:20:34,711 --> 00:20:37,192 Let's get Sheriff Keller to back us up... 340 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:38,237 and let's go save him. 341 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,113 Jason, Jason... 342 00:20:46,941 --> 00:20:48,508 What the hell is going on here? 343 00:20:59,823 --> 00:21:01,956 [Jughead narrating] It occurred to me that whoever was under the mask 344 00:21:01,999 --> 00:21:04,785 was most likely the same person who killed my double. 345 00:21:06,743 --> 00:21:09,224 Rivervale's big bad. 346 00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:11,444 Not Hiram Lodge, but... 347 00:21:12,662 --> 00:21:13,924 Clifford Blossom. 348 00:21:22,977 --> 00:21:25,414 [men grunting] 349 00:21:27,634 --> 00:21:30,419 Excuse me. Are you kidding? 350 00:21:31,812 --> 00:21:33,596 Why aren't you dressed for the rehearsal dinner? 351 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,859 -Either of you? -[both] He started it. 352 00:21:35,903 --> 00:21:38,079 I don't care who started it. 353 00:21:38,122 --> 00:21:43,345 I am so done with this macho, toxic, competitive bull crap. 354 00:21:43,389 --> 00:21:47,131 We're all adults here. So, we should be able to act like we're adults. 355 00:21:47,175 --> 00:21:49,786 But until that happens, you're both grounded. 356 00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:51,919 -What? -No fair! 357 00:21:51,962 --> 00:21:55,444 You two need to work out whatever it is you need to work out in order to co-exist. 358 00:21:55,488 --> 00:21:57,925 You're out of the Pembrooke and out of my life. 359 00:22:00,928 --> 00:22:02,016 [door opens] 360 00:22:02,059 --> 00:22:04,148 -[both] Idiot. -[door closes] 361 00:22:04,192 --> 00:22:07,456 -[chattering indistinctly] -[glass clinking] 362 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:14,333 I want to thank everyone for being here on this very special occasion. 363 00:22:14,376 --> 00:22:19,120 It's not every night that a mom gets to host the rehearsal dinner 364 00:22:19,163 --> 00:22:23,646 for her daughter's wedding to the finest young gentleman 365 00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:28,042 in this town, Archie Andrews. 366 00:22:28,085 --> 00:22:31,175 Now, I think my husband, Hal, would like to say a few words. 367 00:22:31,219 --> 00:22:32,351 Just a few, though. 368 00:22:32,394 --> 00:22:33,830 [both chuckle] 369 00:22:33,874 --> 00:22:35,702 Thank you, Alice. Uh... 370 00:22:37,051 --> 00:22:40,141 I remember when Betty was born, she... 371 00:22:40,184 --> 00:22:41,011 [door opens] 372 00:22:43,405 --> 00:22:47,278 Toni? What is it? What's happened? 373 00:22:47,322 --> 00:22:49,150 [Jughead narrating] I knew it even before Toni said it. 374 00:22:49,716 --> 00:22:50,804 She's dead. 375 00:22:53,894 --> 00:22:54,982 Who's dead, Toni? 376 00:22:55,548 --> 00:22:56,549 Cheryl. 377 00:22:57,419 --> 00:22:58,551 She was strangled. 378 00:23:00,944 --> 00:23:04,208 [Jughead] Betty and I went to Thornhill straight from the rehearsal dinner. 379 00:23:04,252 --> 00:23:06,254 The scene there was a gruesome one. 380 00:23:06,297 --> 00:23:09,649 The rules of this universe were making less sense every day. 381 00:23:09,692 --> 00:23:13,043 It was as if Riverdale's reality was trying to reassert itself on Rivervale, 382 00:23:13,087 --> 00:23:15,219 and innocent people like Cheryl were dying. 383 00:23:15,263 --> 00:23:17,265 How could I take Dilton's advice to do nothing? 384 00:23:17,918 --> 00:23:19,920 Wait a minute. 385 00:23:19,963 --> 00:23:23,532 Dilton. I've been wondering who this universe's big bad is. 386 00:23:23,576 --> 00:23:27,884 Could it be meek Dilton Doiley hiding in plain sight? 387 00:23:27,928 --> 00:23:31,061 Well, considering you're here in the middle of the night, I think it's time we talk. 388 00:23:31,105 --> 00:23:33,194 -A little busy right now, Jughead. -No. 389 00:23:33,237 --> 00:23:35,457 Dilton, you asked me to sit down and do nothing. 390 00:23:35,501 --> 00:23:37,285 But it's happening again. 391 00:23:37,328 --> 00:23:39,766 The same events that took place in Riverdale are happening here! 392 00:23:40,941 --> 00:23:41,942 People are dying. 393 00:23:41,985 --> 00:23:44,074 Yes. Isn't it glorious? 394 00:23:44,118 --> 00:23:45,728 -What? -[grunts] 395 00:23:47,948 --> 00:23:50,777 -Oh, you know what's going on, don't you? -He does. 396 00:23:53,127 --> 00:23:54,345 [Dilton] I'm sorry, Jughead. 397 00:23:54,389 --> 00:23:56,043 But I had to see what would happen 398 00:23:56,086 --> 00:23:58,001 if the universes remained conjoined. 399 00:23:58,045 --> 00:24:00,526 And now, we know. 400 00:24:00,569 --> 00:24:02,571 They've become dangerously unstable, 401 00:24:02,615 --> 00:24:05,574 and eventually, they're both going to implode. 402 00:24:05,618 --> 00:24:06,923 Why are they going to implode? 403 00:24:06,967 --> 00:24:08,577 [Ethel] Riverdale and Rivervale, 404 00:24:08,621 --> 00:24:10,274 the two universes are expanding, 405 00:24:10,318 --> 00:24:11,624 as universes do. 406 00:24:11,667 --> 00:24:13,582 But they're still linked at the point of creation. 407 00:24:13,626 --> 00:24:15,932 So, what? They're bleeding into each other? 408 00:24:15,976 --> 00:24:17,934 They're just going to expand into each other? 409 00:24:17,978 --> 00:24:20,241 And I, Dilton Doiley, 410 00:24:20,284 --> 00:24:22,635 will have a front row seat to their destruction. 411 00:24:22,678 --> 00:24:24,941 I'll be the first scientist to document 412 00:24:24,985 --> 00:24:28,336 a prime and pocket universe collapsing in real time. 413 00:24:30,338 --> 00:24:31,992 How do we stop it? 414 00:24:32,035 --> 00:24:34,473 We don't. We can't. 415 00:24:35,691 --> 00:24:36,953 It's too late. 416 00:24:36,997 --> 00:24:38,564 [laughs] 417 00:24:38,607 --> 00:24:40,914 [coughing] 418 00:24:40,957 --> 00:24:42,829 [choking] 419 00:24:48,182 --> 00:24:50,053 [gasping] 420 00:24:54,318 --> 00:24:55,406 [Jughead] Ethel? 421 00:24:55,450 --> 00:24:57,539 I snuck poison into his grape juice. 422 00:24:57,583 --> 00:24:59,280 Why? 423 00:24:59,323 --> 00:25:01,151 Because he was willing to let everyone in two universes die, 424 00:25:01,195 --> 00:25:03,066 just so he could study 425 00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:05,547 what happens when the twin-versus implode. 426 00:25:05,591 --> 00:25:07,767 Ethel, do you know how to save these universes? 427 00:25:09,943 --> 00:25:12,206 Of course I do, Jughead. 428 00:25:12,249 --> 00:25:15,731 Well, one of them, the prime one, 429 00:25:17,864 --> 00:25:19,300 I can save Riverdale. 430 00:25:21,302 --> 00:25:22,564 Reggie? 431 00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:27,351 Reggies? 432 00:25:34,663 --> 00:25:35,664 [gasps] 433 00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:40,843 You dim, egotistical, 434 00:25:40,887 --> 00:25:43,019 narcissistic morons. 435 00:25:48,764 --> 00:25:51,593 When I said "Settle this," I didn't mean with a duel. 436 00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:00,471 That's the moment in time the pocket universe, 437 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:02,430 this universe, was created. 438 00:26:02,473 --> 00:26:04,475 If we could recreate the circumstances of its birth, 439 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:05,868 then theoretically, the same energy 440 00:26:05,912 --> 00:26:09,089 that conjoined them could also separate them. 441 00:26:09,132 --> 00:26:11,570 We just need to figure out what that moment was and where? 442 00:26:11,613 --> 00:26:13,615 I think I know. 443 00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:15,878 Archie's bedroom, when that bomb exploded. 444 00:26:15,922 --> 00:26:18,620 No, I think it would have to be a more significant event than just an explosion. 445 00:26:18,664 --> 00:26:19,926 That might not sound like a lot, 446 00:26:19,969 --> 00:26:22,929 but it was a confluence of good and evil. 447 00:26:22,972 --> 00:26:25,496 Archie and Betty's love, Hiram's, hate. 448 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:27,629 There was creation. I was in the garage, writing, 449 00:26:27,673 --> 00:26:29,718 and destruction, the explosion. 450 00:26:29,762 --> 00:26:32,199 There was science. Archie had this... 451 00:26:32,242 --> 00:26:33,592 chunk of palladium on his desk, 452 00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:34,897 and magic. 453 00:26:34,941 --> 00:26:36,769 Cheryl's curse on the town. 454 00:26:36,812 --> 00:26:38,771 That might definitely do it. 455 00:26:38,814 --> 00:26:42,078 Okay, so by your logic, 456 00:26:42,122 --> 00:26:45,342 we just have to accurately recreate the events in Archie's bedroom. 457 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,084 As closely as we can. 458 00:26:48,128 --> 00:26:50,783 And the universes should separate, yes, 459 00:26:50,826 --> 00:26:52,262 The prime universe will stabilize, 460 00:26:52,306 --> 00:26:53,916 and our universe will... 461 00:26:56,136 --> 00:26:57,180 Cease to exist. 462 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,708 Everyone in Rivervale will die? 463 00:27:02,751 --> 00:27:07,408 Jughead, Rivervale wasn't ever meant to exist. 464 00:27:08,844 --> 00:27:11,978 You, me, all of us, our town, we're just... 465 00:27:13,719 --> 00:27:16,156 Aberrations. 466 00:27:16,199 --> 00:27:21,640 One, big, messy anomaly that will simply stop being. 467 00:27:23,337 --> 00:27:24,730 And if we do nothing... 468 00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:27,907 both universes will collapse? 469 00:27:29,691 --> 00:27:30,736 Billions will die? 470 00:27:37,003 --> 00:27:39,658 So we just need to detonate a bomb under Archie's bed. 471 00:27:39,701 --> 00:27:41,790 -With Betty and Archie in it. -What? 472 00:27:41,834 --> 00:27:45,272 No, no, no. 473 00:27:45,315 --> 00:27:47,796 We're not blowing up Archie and Betty. 474 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,103 They're about to get married. 475 00:27:50,146 --> 00:27:53,759 We have to recreate the circumstances as closely as possible. 476 00:27:53,802 --> 00:27:55,891 I mean, if not Betty and Archie, then maybe it could be... 477 00:27:59,199 --> 00:28:01,331 Me and Veronica. 478 00:28:01,375 --> 00:28:03,725 What are we, if we're not counterparts to Archie and Betty? 479 00:28:05,118 --> 00:28:06,032 Ethel... 480 00:28:06,641 --> 00:28:07,642 you're brilliant. 481 00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:12,691 [Veronica] So if, what you're saying is true, 482 00:28:13,256 --> 00:28:15,694 and we do this... 483 00:28:17,217 --> 00:28:19,219 we won't die? 484 00:28:20,568 --> 00:28:21,700 No. 485 00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:26,226 We'll... cease to exist painlessly. 486 00:28:26,269 --> 00:28:27,880 All so Riverdale, 487 00:28:29,142 --> 00:28:33,015 a universe we don't even know for sure exists, 488 00:28:33,059 --> 00:28:36,366 -can be spared. -It does exist, Veronica. 489 00:28:36,410 --> 00:28:40,762 It's a universe of high school dances, 490 00:28:40,806 --> 00:28:44,200 and masked serial killers, of football, and milkshakes 491 00:28:44,244 --> 00:28:45,854 and musicals, and cults, 492 00:28:45,898 --> 00:28:48,727 diabolical board games and murderous nuns. 493 00:28:49,771 --> 00:28:51,077 [sighs] 494 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,209 It's a world where billions of people will die 495 00:28:53,253 --> 00:28:55,603 if we don't split the universes. 496 00:29:01,130 --> 00:29:02,044 All right. 497 00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:05,308 Let's do it. 498 00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:09,182 Let's make out to save the universe. 499 00:29:09,225 --> 00:29:10,183 One thing. 500 00:29:11,358 --> 00:29:13,839 Can we do it during the wedding? 501 00:29:13,882 --> 00:29:15,928 Because I'm not really in the mood? 502 00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:17,973 Yeah, I hear that. Same. 503 00:29:19,496 --> 00:29:21,716 Here's to Vughead becoming cannon. 504 00:29:29,550 --> 00:29:31,421 [Jughead narrating] Is it possible to be nostalgic for a life 505 00:29:31,465 --> 00:29:32,858 that you're not even sure is yours. 506 00:29:34,685 --> 00:29:36,296 Flipping through the yearbook, I remembered things 507 00:29:36,339 --> 00:29:38,341 as if I'd seen them in a movie of my life. 508 00:29:38,385 --> 00:29:39,299 [door opening] 509 00:29:40,474 --> 00:29:41,823 All right, Lodge. 510 00:29:41,867 --> 00:29:43,129 We doing this or what? 511 00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:51,572 Archie, what are you doing here? 512 00:29:51,615 --> 00:29:53,792 You know, when you didn't show up to my wedding, 513 00:29:53,835 --> 00:29:56,229 I knew, you'd be doing something stupid 514 00:29:56,272 --> 00:29:58,797 like trying to separate the two universes. 515 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,799 Well, I can't let you do that. 516 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,279 Before you do anything final, 517 00:30:03,323 --> 00:30:04,933 know that Veronica is on her way here right now. 518 00:30:04,977 --> 00:30:06,500 No, Jug, she's not. 519 00:30:07,980 --> 00:30:08,981 Ronnie's dead. 520 00:30:10,678 --> 00:30:11,853 -I killed her. -[choking] 521 00:30:15,683 --> 00:30:16,684 What? 522 00:30:17,685 --> 00:30:19,078 Why would you do that? 523 00:30:19,121 --> 00:30:22,516 Because you told her the truth about the universe, 524 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:23,822 and she was gonna help you destroy it. 525 00:30:26,128 --> 00:30:27,129 You killed Cheryl... 526 00:30:29,523 --> 00:30:30,785 and the other Jughead? 527 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:35,834 Not Hiram or Clifford or Hal, 528 00:30:35,877 --> 00:30:36,965 you're Rivervale's Big Bad-- 529 00:30:37,009 --> 00:30:38,924 I'm not a villain, Jug. 530 00:30:40,708 --> 00:30:41,840 No one stays dead here. 531 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,800 Cheryl and Ronnie. They'll be back. 532 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:47,454 All the people we've lost... 533 00:30:50,196 --> 00:30:52,938 Everyone comes back to life in this universe. 534 00:30:55,723 --> 00:30:57,029 Everyone comes back. 535 00:30:58,944 --> 00:31:00,032 Is this about your dad? 536 00:31:00,075 --> 00:31:01,381 Don't you get it? 537 00:31:04,340 --> 00:31:05,820 He's coming home. 538 00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:07,039 He has to. 539 00:31:08,562 --> 00:31:09,868 He would never miss my wedding. 540 00:31:09,911 --> 00:31:11,695 Especially not to Betty, he loved Betty. 541 00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:14,350 Archie, how do you know all this? 542 00:31:14,394 --> 00:31:16,048 The rules of this world? 543 00:31:16,091 --> 00:31:17,658 How did you know to kill the other Jughead 544 00:31:17,701 --> 00:31:18,964 before I even showed you the comics? 545 00:31:19,007 --> 00:31:21,880 Bro, I know all the secrets of this universe. 546 00:31:23,751 --> 00:31:27,146 I was at ground zero for the birth of Rivervale. 547 00:31:27,189 --> 00:31:30,845 The moment of creation and destruction. 548 00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:32,716 The threshold of revelation. 549 00:31:33,935 --> 00:31:36,024 I saw everything. 550 00:31:36,068 --> 00:31:39,767 The other Jughead, the dead, coming back to life, 551 00:31:40,942 --> 00:31:42,683 the distortions. 552 00:31:42,726 --> 00:31:45,860 It's not a copy or a mistake 553 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:47,166 like you think it is. 554 00:31:47,209 --> 00:31:49,690 It's another chance for me to be with my dad. 555 00:31:50,604 --> 00:31:51,648 Archie... 556 00:31:51,692 --> 00:31:53,172 If we don't separate these universes, 557 00:31:53,215 --> 00:31:56,740 and soon, everyone's going to die in both of them. 558 00:31:56,784 --> 00:31:58,568 And you don't know that Fred can come back. 559 00:31:58,612 --> 00:32:03,225 -Not everybody does-- -If there's a 0.001% chance 560 00:32:03,269 --> 00:32:04,357 that he will, 561 00:32:05,271 --> 00:32:07,447 I want to be here waiting for him. 562 00:32:10,276 --> 00:32:11,755 I'm sorry. 563 00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:13,627 [both grunting] 564 00:32:23,289 --> 00:32:24,507 [coughing] 565 00:32:28,468 --> 00:32:29,425 [gasping] 566 00:32:29,469 --> 00:32:30,644 [gun fires] 567 00:32:31,471 --> 00:32:32,951 [Jughead gasping] 568 00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:39,305 [panting] Hey. 569 00:32:41,829 --> 00:32:44,745 Never leave a Cooper woman standing at the altar. 570 00:32:44,788 --> 00:32:47,226 Hey. Hey, are you okay? 571 00:32:47,269 --> 00:32:49,271 How did you know to come here? 572 00:32:49,315 --> 00:32:50,969 When Archie stood me up at the altar, 573 00:32:51,012 --> 00:32:53,058 something clicked. 574 00:32:53,101 --> 00:32:55,408 I don't know, like, my life flashed before my eyes. 575 00:32:55,451 --> 00:32:56,757 I knew to come here. 576 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,454 You also know that Rivervale should not exist. 577 00:33:00,804 --> 00:33:03,198 That bomb needs to be detonated. 578 00:33:03,242 --> 00:33:04,504 By us? 579 00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:07,159 If you're willing. 580 00:33:08,899 --> 00:33:10,336 [clock ticking] 581 00:33:12,077 --> 00:33:13,513 What we do now. We just wait? 582 00:33:13,556 --> 00:33:15,645 No. We need to recreate the moments before 583 00:33:15,689 --> 00:33:17,691 the original explosions closely as possible. 584 00:33:17,734 --> 00:33:19,475 Oh, well, Archie and I... 585 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:22,130 I know, I read it in the comics. 586 00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:37,885 [knocking at door] 587 00:33:38,494 --> 00:33:40,018 Hey. Whoa. 588 00:33:40,061 --> 00:33:41,671 Hey, sorry. Look... 589 00:33:41,715 --> 00:33:43,543 There may be a way to separate the two universes 590 00:33:43,586 --> 00:33:44,848 without erasing this one. 591 00:33:44,892 --> 00:33:46,850 Okay? 592 00:33:46,894 --> 00:33:48,287 Well, we should probably stop the bomb. Betty, could you please disarm it? 593 00:33:48,330 --> 00:33:49,505 What I'm... What? 594 00:33:49,549 --> 00:33:50,985 I don't know how to disarm a bomb. 595 00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:53,031 Yes, you do. You went to the FBI Academy. 596 00:33:53,074 --> 00:33:54,293 You've actually done it before, 597 00:33:54,336 --> 00:33:55,859 when Polly had a bomb strapped to her body 598 00:33:57,339 --> 00:33:58,732 [timer ticking] 599 00:34:00,734 --> 00:34:02,518 You came back from the dead too. 600 00:34:02,562 --> 00:34:03,867 Where were you 601 00:34:03,911 --> 00:34:07,088 after Archie strangled you? 602 00:34:07,132 --> 00:34:10,004 The great Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe in the sky. 603 00:34:11,092 --> 00:34:12,528 [bell jingles] 604 00:34:12,572 --> 00:34:14,574 [50's rock and roll music playing] 605 00:34:18,926 --> 00:34:20,319 From the second I walked through that door, 606 00:34:20,362 --> 00:34:22,712 I immediately felt at peace. 607 00:34:22,756 --> 00:34:25,019 The sweet Hereafter Pops is a lot like ours, 608 00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:26,977 except it also sells comics. 609 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:32,157 It's like one of those old fashioned soda shops. 610 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,420 Everything about this Pops is old-fashioned. 611 00:34:34,463 --> 00:34:36,900 Grab something to read, and have a seat. 612 00:34:36,944 --> 00:34:39,773 It's all you can eat. On the house, of course. 613 00:34:47,215 --> 00:34:48,434 And that's when I found it. 614 00:34:49,391 --> 00:34:50,871 A special comic book 615 00:34:50,914 --> 00:34:54,744 that came in between issues 95 and 96, 616 00:34:54,788 --> 00:34:58,096 and it bridged the gap between Riverdale and Rivervale. 617 00:34:58,139 --> 00:35:01,011 It told the tale of two linked universes 618 00:35:01,055 --> 00:35:02,796 and how, if that second universe 619 00:35:02,839 --> 00:35:05,581 were to become separated from the first, it would die. 620 00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:08,367 Unless a new power source could be found and maintained. 621 00:35:12,893 --> 00:35:14,851 I was looking around at all these comic books. 622 00:35:14,895 --> 00:35:16,592 All these wonderful stories 623 00:35:16,636 --> 00:35:18,681 made me realize what that power source could be. 624 00:35:21,206 --> 00:35:23,033 And so I resurrected, and I came right here. 625 00:35:23,077 --> 00:35:24,470 What is the other power source 626 00:35:24,513 --> 00:35:26,124 that's going to fuel Rivervale after it separates? 627 00:35:30,476 --> 00:35:31,520 Imagination. 628 00:35:33,043 --> 00:35:34,610 It's limitless and all powerful, 629 00:35:34,654 --> 00:35:36,786 it's boundless and ever replenishing. 630 00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:39,180 There's no fuel more potent, 631 00:35:39,224 --> 00:35:40,790 no generator more awesome. 632 00:35:40,834 --> 00:35:42,270 I don't understand. 633 00:35:42,314 --> 00:35:43,967 I think I do. 634 00:35:44,011 --> 00:35:46,448 The explosion is destruction, right? 635 00:35:46,492 --> 00:35:48,494 What's the opposite of destruction? 636 00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:51,105 -Creation. -Exactly. 637 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:52,237 I mean, it's all the comics, 638 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,326 how Jughead here is gonna save Rivervale 639 00:35:54,369 --> 00:35:55,849 by becoming a living battery. 640 00:35:56,676 --> 00:36:00,375 -A, um-- -Story generator? 641 00:36:00,419 --> 00:36:04,162 That powers Rivervale by writing the stories that fuel the universe? 642 00:36:04,205 --> 00:36:06,207 So it doesn't have to keep leeching off of Riverdale. 643 00:36:07,556 --> 00:36:11,473 It's an over-simplification, but, yeah, you write, 644 00:36:11,517 --> 00:36:12,735 and Rivervale lives. 645 00:36:14,084 --> 00:36:16,652 One thing though, once you start producing, 646 00:36:16,696 --> 00:36:18,524 you will have to be in complete isolation. 647 00:36:21,266 --> 00:36:24,573 I mean, think about if someone saw two Jugheads 648 00:36:24,617 --> 00:36:29,317 just walking and talking, it could actually break down reality, so... 649 00:36:29,361 --> 00:36:31,058 Well, no. No! 650 00:36:31,101 --> 00:36:32,190 Then why can't you do it? 651 00:36:34,409 --> 00:36:35,497 I'm the narrator. 652 00:36:35,541 --> 00:36:36,585 He's the writer. 653 00:36:36,629 --> 00:36:38,326 What does that mean? This isn't fair! 654 00:36:38,370 --> 00:36:39,588 No! It's... 655 00:36:40,894 --> 00:36:42,722 [sighs] It's how it has to be... 656 00:36:44,245 --> 00:36:47,030 if everyone is going to live, our family, our friends. 657 00:36:47,074 --> 00:36:49,163 This is why I became aware, isn't it? 658 00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:51,165 Because I'm both inside and outside of the story. 659 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:53,733 In the end, the universe knew I'd be the only one capable of saving it. 660 00:36:55,387 --> 00:36:56,214 All right. 661 00:36:58,128 --> 00:36:59,391 Where do I set up shop? 662 00:36:59,434 --> 00:37:00,827 Dilton's bunker? 663 00:37:00,870 --> 00:37:03,177 Your typewriter is already down there. 664 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:05,310 You'll have plenty of paper and tons of food. 665 00:37:05,353 --> 00:37:09,052 And once you're settled, we'll, uh, seal you in. 666 00:37:09,096 --> 00:37:12,969 This is insane. I will not be able to live with myself, Jug. 667 00:37:13,013 --> 00:37:15,537 Actually, you will, in time. 668 00:37:15,581 --> 00:37:18,932 Well, very quickly, actually. 669 00:37:18,975 --> 00:37:23,458 Soon you will forget all about Jughead's sacrifice for you and for us, 670 00:37:23,502 --> 00:37:25,155 and he will fade from memory. 671 00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:28,724 [whispers] Oh, my gosh! 672 00:37:28,768 --> 00:37:30,944 -This is-- -Hey, Hey! Look at me. 673 00:37:33,425 --> 00:37:34,730 I need you to be strong. 674 00:37:34,774 --> 00:37:36,471 Please. 675 00:37:36,515 --> 00:37:38,647 I need you in my corner for this one. 676 00:37:38,691 --> 00:37:40,127 Make sure that bomb goes off. 677 00:37:41,128 --> 00:37:42,260 Jughead. 678 00:37:43,304 --> 00:37:44,740 It's gonna be okay. 679 00:37:45,741 --> 00:37:46,568 Really. 680 00:37:48,831 --> 00:37:51,269 We got this. You and me. 681 00:37:53,662 --> 00:37:54,924 Saving the universes. 682 00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:11,811 [narrator Jughead] It was at this moment, that Jughead and Betty began, yet again, 683 00:38:11,854 --> 00:38:13,943 the doomsday clock's countdown. 684 00:38:13,987 --> 00:38:15,945 [clock ticking] 685 00:38:15,989 --> 00:38:18,165 While in the living room, 686 00:38:18,208 --> 00:38:21,342 Archie Andrews reanimated and resumed his mission to stop Jughead. 687 00:38:25,346 --> 00:38:28,523 Hey, Cooper, whatever happens... 688 00:38:29,655 --> 00:38:31,221 We'll face it together. 689 00:38:31,265 --> 00:38:33,093 [doorknob rattling] 690 00:38:37,489 --> 00:38:39,099 [pounding on door] 691 00:38:39,142 --> 00:38:40,622 [narrator Jughead] There was nothing to do but wait. 692 00:38:40,666 --> 00:38:41,971 Betty and Jughead held each other tightly, 693 00:38:42,015 --> 00:38:44,844 like children terrified of the dark. 694 00:38:47,368 --> 00:38:49,631 As the bomb's counter finally reached zero, 695 00:38:49,675 --> 00:38:52,460 Betty and Jughead braced themselves for an explosion that should have 696 00:38:52,504 --> 00:38:54,419 obliterated one or more universes. 697 00:38:54,462 --> 00:38:55,637 But instead... 698 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,336 never happened. 699 00:39:07,562 --> 00:39:09,347 The bomb was gone. 700 00:39:09,390 --> 00:39:11,653 The pounding on the door had ceased. 701 00:39:11,697 --> 00:39:15,135 And Betty and Jughead realized that the storm had passed them by. 702 00:39:16,789 --> 00:39:18,399 They survived. 703 00:39:18,443 --> 00:39:19,879 They could resume their lives. 704 00:39:22,577 --> 00:39:24,579 [people chattering indistinctly] 705 00:39:25,537 --> 00:39:27,234 There you guys are. 706 00:39:27,277 --> 00:39:29,018 We were just about to send a search party. 707 00:39:29,062 --> 00:39:32,413 Seriously! What were you guys doing up there? 708 00:39:32,457 --> 00:39:36,504 -Um... [chuckles nervously] -I actually can't remember. 709 00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:38,419 Don't mind him. 710 00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:40,856 He always turns into a space cadet when he's working on a new novel. 711 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:42,336 [chuckles] 712 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,688 No, seriously, what were we... What were we doing? 713 00:39:46,732 --> 00:39:48,473 Oh, come on, Betty. Your spaghetti's gonna get cold. 714 00:39:50,953 --> 00:39:53,173 -Hi. -Hey. Thank you. 715 00:39:53,826 --> 00:39:55,610 [kisses] 716 00:39:55,654 --> 00:39:57,003 [narrator Jughead] After dinner, Jughead and Tabitha 717 00:39:57,046 --> 00:39:58,700 will start moving his belongings 718 00:39:58,744 --> 00:40:01,094 out of Archie's garage and into their new apartment. 719 00:40:04,053 --> 00:40:05,664 Including a comic book collection, 720 00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:08,188 Jughead had forgotten that he had. 721 00:40:08,231 --> 00:40:11,713 And though he will not know it in the moment, this collection of comic books 722 00:40:11,757 --> 00:40:14,368 and the secrets contained within its pages 723 00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:18,720 will one day save his and countless others' lives. 724 00:40:18,764 --> 00:40:21,070 [Ethel] So it worked. 725 00:40:21,114 --> 00:40:24,726 Rivervale will continue to exist in an endless time loop you created, 726 00:40:24,770 --> 00:40:26,554 as long as you keep typing. 727 00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:28,077 Luckily, I've got a lot of stories. 728 00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:32,908 One question, though. 729 00:40:34,127 --> 00:40:36,303 What happens in the prime Riverdale universe? 730 00:40:37,739 --> 00:40:38,740 [sighs] 731 00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:43,266 Guess we'll never know if someone did something 732 00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:45,704 to change the course of events in Riverdale. 733 00:40:51,797 --> 00:40:53,799 [romantic music playing] 734 00:41:08,814 --> 00:41:11,599 -[cell phone ringing] -[clock ticking faintly] 735 00:41:11,643 --> 00:41:12,470 Can you hear that? 736 00:41:14,994 --> 00:41:16,386 [sighs] It's my phone. 737 00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:21,348 -Hello. -[man] Get out of that house, Betty! 738 00:41:22,349 --> 00:41:23,872 Who is this? 739 00:41:23,916 --> 00:41:25,613 Listen to me, there's a bomb under the bed. 740 00:41:25,657 --> 00:41:27,659 You have to go now, right now! 741 00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:30,662 We have to go. 742 00:41:31,576 --> 00:41:32,533 Now. 743 00:41:35,362 --> 00:41:37,190 -[explosion] -[glass shatters] 744 00:41:41,629 --> 00:41:44,023 [ears ringing] 745 00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:52,858 [imperceptible]