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
Title from: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Following FP's arrest, Jughead tries to leave town while Betty, Veronica, and Archie remain convinced that all is not as it seems. Matters are complicated by FP giving a detailed confession, and a surprise revelation about the feud between the Blossoms and the Coopers.
Tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: The mystery of who killed Jason Blossom is solved and Clifford Blossom (the killer) hangs himself. Also Hiram Lodge is being released from prison, Archie decides to stay in Riverdale with his father and Betty and Alice team up with Hal to take Polly and the twins back home. However Jughead is still alone considering that his mother doesn't want him and his father is still in jail (and will likely remain there for some time, considering he was involved in Jason's murder), Hal is not seen with Betty or Polly, which implies that he's still kicked out, Archie's mom leaves Riverdale and heads back to Chicago, Kevin finds out about his boyfriend's involvement with the Southside Serpents (who also leaves Riverdale), a Serpent named Mustang is found dead in what may or may not be a suicide (which probably will be another mystery to solve), the Coopers and the Blossoms are revealed to be related meaning that Jason and Polly are also related and Cheryl, who already lost her brother, now loses her father.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: FP does this to Jughead. However, Jughead saw right through it and knew he was hiding something and intentionally pushing him away.
- Double Standard: Cheryl attacks Jughead in the middle of lunch, in full view of a hundred people. Jughead gets dragged into the principal's office, but no one so much as says a word to Cheryl. Archie even complained about the unfairness of Jughead's situation.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Clifford Blossom hangs himself before the police can arrest him for Jason's murder.
- It's left somewhat ambiguous whether Mustang's fatal overdose was accidental or intentional.
- Insane Troll Logic: Penelope outdoes herself when she's told how the Blossoms and the Coopers are really one family and thus Polly and Jason were committing incest.Penelope: Nothing could be more purely Blossom than those babies.
Hal: What is wrong with you people?! - Jerkass Has a Point: Clifford may be a monster, but he is not wrong to point out that Jason and Polly being third cousins is not close enough a kinship to be talking about incest.
- Kissing Cousins: Polly and Jason, although neither of them knew it at the time.
- Offing the Offspring: Clifford Blossom killed his son Jason. As Jughead points out, his reasons are unclear, but Sheriff Keller found packages hidden in the maple syrup barrels.
- Put on a Bus: Joaquin literally puts himself on a bus, leaving Riverdale because of his involvement in hiding Jason's body.
- Secret Relationship: Archie and Veronica haven't progressed past handholding with everything that's going on, but they're still hiding that from their friends.
- Surprise Incest: Polly - as well as Betty and Alice - learns that she was related to Jason Blossom by blood, albeit somewhat distantly (they're third cousins).
- The Reveal:
- Clifford Blossom was responsible for Jason's murder. On a more minor note, Cliff stole the Blossom engagement ring back right before killing Jason, when in a previous episode he claimed Jason threw it at him out of spite.
- The Blossoms and the Coopers are related by blood, and not only did the Blossoms know about it, they actually encouraged the Polly/Jason relationship implicitly because of it. It's also the real reason why Hal was hellbent on keeping them apart.
- Shout-Out: Jughead books a ticket to Citrusville, Florida, the home of the Man-Thing in Marvel Comics.
- Wham Episode: The mystery of Jaso Cooper's murder is finally solved.
- Wham Line: Mr. Cooper's reveal about the Blossom-Cooper feud and its true origins.
- Wham Shot: Twice.
- The video revealing the truth about Jason's death.
- The episode's second to last shot is of Clifford Blossom's hanged body.
- Wrongful Accusation Insurance: Variant and Averted; Jughead expects his father to be released once it becomes clear that Clifford Blossom framed him by having the the murder weapon planted in his trailer and then forced him to confess. Sheriff Keller points out that FP is still guilty of obstruction of justice, tampering with a body, perjury, "and that's just off the top of my head."
