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1	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E1Chapter1TheRiversEdge Chapter 1]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E2Chapter2ATouchOfEvil Chapter 2]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E3Chapter3BodyDouble Chapter 3]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E4Chapter4TheLastPictureShow Chapter 4]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E5Chapter5HeartOfDarkness Chapter 5]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E6Chapter6FasterPussycatsKillKill Chapter 6]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E7Chapter7InALonelyPlace Chapter 7]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E8Chapter8TheOutsiders Chapter 8]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E9Chapter9LaGrandeIllusion Chapter 9]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E10Chapter10TheLostWeekend Chapter 10]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E11Chapter11ToRiverdaleAndBackAgain Chapter 11]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E12Chapter12AnatomyOfAMurder Chapter 12]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E13Chapter13TheSweetHereafter Chapter 13]] -]
2	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E1Chapter14AKissBeforeDying Chapter 14]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E2Chapter15Nighthawks Chapter 15]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E3Chapter16TheWatcherInTheWoods Chapter 16]] \| '''Chapter 17''' \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E5Chapter18WhenAStrangerCalls Chapter 18]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E6Chapter19DeathProof Chapter 19]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E7Chapter20TalesFromTheDarkside Chapter 20]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E8Chapter21HouseOfTheDevil Chapter 21]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E9Chapter22SilentNightDeadlyNight Chapter 22]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E10Chapter23TheBlackboardJungle Chapter 23]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E11Chapter24TheWrestler Chapter 24]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E12Chapter25TheWickedAndTheDivine Chapter 25]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E13Chapter26TheTellTaleHeart Chapter 26]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E14Chapter27TheHillsHaveEyes Chapter 27]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E15Chapter28ThereWillBeBlood Chapter 28]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E16Chapter29PrimaryColors Chapter 29]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E17Chapter30TheNooseTightens Chapter 30]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E18Chapter31ANightToRemember Chapter 31]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E19Chapter32Prisoners Chapter 32]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E20Chapter33ShadowOfADoubt Chapter 33]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E21Chapter34JudgmentNight Chapter 34]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E22Chapter35BraveNewWorld Chapter 35]] -]
3	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E01Chapter36LaborDay Chapter 36]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E02Chapter37FortuneAndMensEyes Chapter 37]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E03Chapter38AsAboveSoBelow Chapter 38]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E04Chapter39TheMidnightClub Chapter 39]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E05Chapter40TheGreatEscape Chapter 40]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E06Chapter41Manhunter Chapter 41]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E07Chapter42TheManInBlack Chapter 42]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E08Chapter43Outbreak Chapter 43]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E09Chapter44NoExit Chapter 44]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E10Chapter45TheStranger Chapter 45]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E11Chapter46TheRedDahlia Chapter 46]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E12Chapter47Bizarrodale Chapter 47]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E13Chapter48RequiemForAWelterweight Chapter 48]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E14Chapter49FireWalkWithMe Chapter 49]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E15Chapter50AmericanDreams Chapter 50]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E16Chapter51BigFun Chapter 51]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E17Chapter52TheRaid Chapter 52]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E18Chapter53Jawbreaker Chapter 53]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E19Chapter54FearTheReaper Chapter 54]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E20Chapter55PromNight Chapter 55]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E21Chapter56TheDarkSecretOfHarvestHouse Chapter 56]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E22Chapter57SurviveTheNight Chapter 57]] -]
4	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E01Chapter58InMemoriam Chapter 58]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E02Chapter59FastTimesAtRiverdaleHigh Chapter 59]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E03Chapter60DogDayAfternoon Chapter 60]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E04Chapter61Halloween Chapter 61]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E05Chapter62WitnessForTheProsecution Chapter 62]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E06Chapter63Hereditary Chapter 63]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E07Chapter64TheIceStorm Chapter 64]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E08Chapter65InTreatment Chapter 65]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E09Chapter66Tangerine Chapter 66]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E10Chapter67VarsityBlues Chapter 67]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E11Chapter68QuizShow Chapter 68]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E12Chapter69MenOfHonor Chapter 69]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E13Chapter70TheIdesOfMarch Chapter 70]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E14Chapter71HowToGetAwayWithMurder Chapter 71]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E15Chapter72ToDieFor Chapter 72]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E16Chapter73TheLockedRoom Chapter 73]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E17Chapter74WickedLittleTown Chapter 74]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E18Chapter75Lynchian Chapter 75]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E19Chapter76KillingMrHoney Chapter 76]] -]
5	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E01Chapter77Climax Chapter 77]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E02Chapter78ThePreppyMurders Chapter 78]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E03Chapter79Graduation Chapter 79]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E04Chapter80Purgatory Chapter 80]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E05Chapter81TheHomecoming Chapter 81]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E06Chapter82BackToSchool Chapter 82]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E07Chapter83FireInTheSky Chapter 83]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E08Chapter84LockAndKey Chapter 84]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E09Chapter85Destroyer Chapter 85]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E10Chapter86ThePincushionmen Chapter 86]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E11Chapter87StrangeBedfellows Chapter 87]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E12Chapter88CitizenLodge Chapter 88]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E13Chapter89ReservoirDogs Chapter 89]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E14Chapter90TheNightGallery Chapter 90]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E15Chapter91TheReturnOfThePussycats Chapter 91]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E16Chapter92BandofBrothers Chapter 92]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E17Chapter93DanceOfDeath Chapter 93]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E18Chapter94NextToNormal Chapter 94]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E19Chapter95RiverdaleRIP Chapter 95]] -]
6	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E01Chapter96WelcomeToRivervale Chapter 96]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E02Chapter97GhostStories Chapter 97]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E03Chapter98MrCypher Chapter 98]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E04Chapter99TheWitchingHours Chapter 99]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E05Chapter100TheJugheadParadox Chapter 100]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E06Chapter101Unbelievable Chapter 101]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E07Chapter102DeathAtAFuneral Chapter 102]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E08Chapter103TheTown Chapter 103]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E09Chapter104TheSerpentQueensGambit Chapter 104]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E10Chapter105FolkHeroes Chapter 105]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E11Chapter106AngelsInAmerica Chapter 106]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E12Chapter107InTheFog Chapter 107]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E13Chapter108ExLibris Chapter 108]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E14Chapter109Venomous Chapter 109]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E15Chapter110ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Chapter 110]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E16Chapter111BlueCollar Chapter 111]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E17Chapter112AmericanPsychos Chapter 112]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E18Chapter113Biblical Chapter 113]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E19Chapter114TheWitchesOfRiverdale Chapter 114]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E20Chapter115ReturnToRivervale Chapter 115]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E21Chapter116TheStand Chapter 116]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E22Chapter117NightOfTheComet Chapter 117]] -]
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8	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/riverdale204.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:]]
9	-> '''Title From:''' ''Film/TheTownThatDreadedSundown'' (1976)
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11	Archie's video addressed to the Black Hood has unexpected repercussions, further spreading panic within Riverdale, putting Archie at odds with his father, and prompting Principal Weatherbee to disband the football team.
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13	Meanwhile, Betty receives a letter from the Black Hood claiming her Jubilee speech was what inspired his killing spree, along with a cipher pinpointing his next target. She gets Alice to print the cipher in the newspaper in hopes of solving it quicker, but keeps the letter to herself out of guilt and fear.
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15	Veronica finds out that Hiram was behind Archie's recent string of bad decisions, and decides to support The Red Circle partly to spite him and Hermione.
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17	In a bid to get the Black Hood to go after him, Archie ventures to the Southside and spray paints Red Circle symbols on buildings as a message. This leads to a tense confrontation with Sweet Pea and the Serpents, which temporarily ends when Archie pulls a gun on them, but later resurfaces when the Serpents make their way directly to Archie's house and challenge the Bulldogs to a showdown.
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19	Jughead and Betty figure out the message hidden in the cipher, which claims his next target is the town hall, where an emergency meeting is being held, and rush there to warn everyone. At the meeting, the town is clearly divided between Alice's more radical ideals and Fred's more reconciliatory measures of dealing with the Black Hood problem.
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21	To prevent further escalation, Veronica fires a gunshot into the air, effectively ending the fight between Serpents and Bulldogs. Deciding to end the cycle of violence, Archie and Veronica dispose of the gun at Sweetwater river. Finally, the night ends with Betty receiving a phone call from the Black Hood himself.
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23	!!Tropes
24	* ActorAllusion: Archie's fake ID has his birthday listed as June 16, 1995. KJ Apa, who plays the character, was also born on June 16, although two years after that listed on the card.
25	* AlliterativeName: Wilbur Wilkins, the name on Archie's fake ID.
26	* BattleInTheRain: Near the end of the episode, the Southside Serpents (led by Sweet Pea) and the Riverdale High Bulldogs (led by Archie) start a full-blown fistfight in the rain, arguably the first major physical confrontation in Riverdale's North-South civil war.
27	* CliffHanger: Betty receives a phone call from an unknown number, and answers only to find that it is the Black Hood himself.
28	* DisproportionateRetribution: Alice's suggested solution to the Black Hood, when they suspect he might be a South Sider trying to get back at the North Side for their classism: Shut down the South Side's local school, to allocate the funding to an increased police presence there. Ignoring the idiocy of it (if the Black Hood is angry at the South Side's disadvantages, what sense is there in making the South even ''more'' disadvantaged?), but it's just plain cruel to punish the ''children'' of the South Side for the crimes of ''one man'' who they don't even know has any actual connection to the South side.
29	* HisStoryRepeatsItself: Implied by Hermione, when she talks to Veronica about being blindly loyal.
30	* {{Hypocrite}}: Toni blows up at Betty for saying the Black Hood is only going after North siders, yet noticeably had no problem when other Serpents had pointed out the same thing earlier in the episode.
31	* ItsAllMyFault: Betty feels this way after learning that the Black Hood was inspired by her speech to the town.
32	* JerkassHasAPoint: At the town hall meeting, while Alice is being her usual judgemental, bigoted self, she does at least have a good point about how Archie is actually trying to do something about the town's problems.
33	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Archie. Big Time. He apparently buys an arsenal, points a gun at a gang member, and hides it at school. That's nothing compared to his real plan, which is to find the Black Hood and kill him.
34	* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: When Sweet Pea pulls a switch blade on Archie, he is ''very'' surprised to find a loaded pistol pointed at his face.
35	* ShoutOut: When Betty all but breaks down over the knowledge that she's indirectly responsible for the Black Hood's crime spree, Jughead comforts her, comparing her to Literature/NancyDrew and [[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Girl With The Dragon Tatoo]]. His words inadvertently inspire her to put the final puzzle piece together and solve the Black Hood's cipher.
36	* SignificantBirthDate: The alias on Archie's fake ID card lists his birthday as June 16, which is that of KJ Apa, his actor.
37	* TitleDrop:
38	-->'''Jughead:''' Riverdale would no longer be "The town with pep". From now on, it would be known as "The town that dreaded sundown".
39	* WhamLine: Betty's phone call at the end. "I'm the Black Hood."
40	* WhatTheHellHero:
41	** Archie gets this from the whole town! Veronica, Principal Weatherbee and Fred are especially on him about his actions.
42	** Betty gets this from Jughead and Kevin about hiding the letter from the Black Hood. She also gets this from Toni, but it is debateable how accurate this is.

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