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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tropes
- Actor Allusion: 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.
- Alliterative Name: Wilbur Wilkins, the name on Archie's fake ID.
- Battle in the Rain: 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.
- Cliffhanger: Betty receives a phone call from an unknown number, and answers only to find that it is the Black Hood himself.
- Disproportionate Retribution: 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.
- His Story Repeats Itself: Implied by Hermione, when she talks to Veronica about being blindly loyal.
- 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.
- It's All My Fault: Betty feels this way after learning that the Black Hood was inspired by her speech to the town.
- Jerkass Has a Point: 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.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: 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.
- Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: When Sweet Pea pulls a switch blade on Archie, he is very surprised to find a loaded pistol pointed at his face.
- Shout-Out: 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 Nancy Drew and Girl With The Dragon Tatoo. His words inadvertently inspire her to put the final puzzle piece together and solve the Black Hood's cipher.
- Significant Birth Date: The alias on Archie's fake ID card lists his birthday as June 16, which is that of KJ Apa, his actor.
- Title Drop:Jughead: Riverdale would no longer be "The town with pep". From now on, it would be known as "The town that dreaded sundown".
- Wham Line: Betty's phone call at the end. "I'm the Black Hood."
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- Archie gets this from the whole town! Veronica, Principal Weatherbee and Fred are especially on him about his actions.
- 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.
