Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
“We didn't really use this word back then, but the truth is... she groomed you, Arch. And that does have an effect on people”
—Betty comforts Archie
Pickens uses witchcraft to torture Archie, Betty, Reggie, Cheryl, and Kevin with their respective traumas. Veronica is loathe to face her personal issues. Pickens and Kevin kiss.
Tropes
- Artistic License – Law:
- In Real Life, the late fees for the gang's overdue library books would be waved and they wouldn’t demand the exact copies. This is justified because Percival is just doing it to get personal possessions so that he can use Sympathetic Magic against the heroes.
- Libraries are funded by the county, so Percival would have to convince the county library system and go through meetings instead of just closing it on a whim. Although between Hiram turning the town into a Soiled City on a Hill and Percival’s Mind Control ability, he could have gotten around the county.
- Candlelit Ritual: Percival casts a spell.
- Contrived Coincidence:
- Every single one of the protagonists had one overdue library book.
- Because of Doc, almost everyone’s books ended up at Barney’s Book Barn in Pennsylvania.
- Corrupt the Cutie: Pickens does this with Kevin.
- Evil Is Petty: Pickens doesn't just torment the protagonists with witchcraft that picks at old wounds, he starts off going after all of them for overdue library books, taking away their possessions as collateral with the help of armed men. He also takes great pleasure in shutting down Riverdale Public Library.
- Exact Words: The reason why that one old man is still in the homeless camp when Percival used his powers to make the others leave? Because Percival had told them "start walking and don't stop until you reach the ocean." As the man points out to Jughead, that compulsion is useless when you're in a wheelchair.
- Face–Heel Turn: Kevin and Reggie both join up with Percival by the end of the episode.
- Kiss of Death: Veronica is venomous, and accidentally kills her grandmother's security guy Heraldo by kissing him while they have sex.
- The Murder After: After having sex, Veronica wakes up the next morning to find Heraldo dead next to her. This is what leads her to discover that she is venomous to others.
- The Reveal:
- Veronica's superpower is to kill people with venom that she secretes by kissing them.
- Betty’s pregnancy test from the previous episode comes back negative. While she and Archie are relieved, they also hope to become parents.
- Reggie had dyslexia as a child, and his overdue book was a book on how to read with the condition.
- Shout-Out: Cheryl’s book is Flowers in the Attic.
- Veronica’s book is Kiss of the Spider Woman.
- Jughead’s book is The Metamorphosis.
- Kevin owes a copy of Lord of the Flies.
- Ultimate Authority Mayor: Percival wastes no time in acting more like a king than a mayor.
- Wham Episode:
- Reggie sides with Pickens, wanting to learn magic from him.
- Veronica accidentally kills a man by kissing him, revealing her superpower.
- Betty realizes that her father had been a serial killer for years, long before the events of the second season.
- Written-In Absence: Unlike Toni and Fangs, Tabitha’s absence is mentioned by Jughead, who tells the others that Tabitha’s in Albany trying to get Pop’s declared a landmark.
