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I was really expecting some good stuff from this week’s episode after the last minute reveal — finally — of Edgar Evernever in the audience of the high school production of Heathers the Musical. But somehow, even with some really juicy stuff sprinkled throughout the episode, it still managed to come off as fairly forgettable in the end. So let’s hit the more interesting parts of the story.
The Lodges
Veronica is doing everything she can to guilt her parents into staying together after the announcement of their impending divorce. She’s been piling on the whole ‘family is the most important thing’ that Hiram has drilled into her, but now that all seems like a lie to her. And to make matters worse, the ex-wife of a mob kingpin is always targeted by their enemies and Hermione is certain she’s going to end up dead. Especially after someone leaves two dead fish on her desk as a warning. Ronnie again begs her father to not go through with the divorce, which falls on deaf ears so she asks him to at least not shut Hermione out entirely, let her stand next to him at the opening of his new prison (an event from which she had been shunned). He agrees and they appear before the town as a solid family unit, but it turns out Hiram has had the marriage annulled to avoid the messy divorce process, almost as if the marriage never happened but at least to their enemies, it sends a message that Hermione is still under Hiram’s protection and that will have to do.
Archie
With Hiram’s prison set to open, Archie learns from his former cellmate at Leopold & Loeb that all the inmates there are being moved to the new prison, even though they are juveniles (apparently there is a juvie wing), to have bodies in beds (which equals $$$$). TO make matters worse, all of the L&L guards and their secret Fight Club will also be moving. With Ronnie’s help, they blackmail the governor into pardoning Mad Dog, Baby Teeth and some others, and Archie puts them up in his new gym. But Mad Dog’s family is stuck in a drug den apartment building where Gladys’ ‘cook’ is prepping fresh batches of Fizzle Rocks. Archie, his friends and Jugheads Serpents lay siege to the building to take out the Gargoyles and shut down another of Gladys’ operations. But even with his family now safe, Mad Dog still accepts an offer from Elio, who had visited the gym earlier, to box for him with the promise of a new house for his family.
Jughead and Gladys
There is some real crackle on the screen whenever Gina Gershon appears and now she’s in full ‘bad girl’ mode as Gladys is now knocking heads with Jughead over his attempts to take her operation down and drive her out of Riverdale. Before the apartment raid, he had the Serpents going after all the town’s Gargoyles dealing drugs, but interrupts a sting operation being conducted by the sheriff, aka his father. Furious, he tells Juggie that if they keep this up, they’ll all be thrown out of the deputy program and possibly behind bars. It all culminated in the apartment building showdown, but the cook Kurtz got away (after throwing himself and Jughead through a window several floors above the ground) and Jughead warned Gladys that even though she caught them off guard this time, there will be a next time and she won’t be so lucky.
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The Farm
After attending an open house event at The Farm with Veronica and feigning interest in joining by submitting to an interview conducted by Evelyn — which was cut short with a ‘we’ll call you’ dismissal — Betty ropes Cheryl into a scheme to find out more information by putting on an act of interest herself in the hopes of scoring the same interview. And of course Betty will be listening with a specially outfitted brooch. Evelyn again conducts the interview but Cheryl — and Betty — is surprised when Edgar himself takes over the interview. Cheryl begins asking some rather nosy questions like where they keep the tapes of these interviews, but after Edgar digs deep into Cheryl’s psyche and learns about how her brother’s death changed her, he offers to show her something. Later, Betty learns that what Cheryl saw and interacted with was … Jason. And according to Cheryl, he was quite real and enough of a selling popint for her to quit Betty’s scheme and return to The Farm. When she was at The Farm earlier, Betty had run into Alice who basically gave her the cold shoulder, telling Betty that she was the one who shunned Alice. Armed with this new info from Cheryl, Betty arranges to meet Alice at Pop’s to see if Alice had experienced something similar — has Alice seen her son Charles? She has and he’s very real. So what and how exactly is Edgar managing to bring back the dead, or reasonable facsimiles? Betty arranges a sit down with Edgar to get to the bottom of things.
The Gargoyle King
At the gym, someone has left a G&G goblet with a quest card that read ‘Defang the Wolf Cub’. In the goblet was a tooth and Archie put the two together as Baby Teeth. Alerting FP, he made his way to the clearing in the forest where the Gargoyles have held their ceremonies. Prone on the ground with runic symbols carved in his back, no teeth and blue lips was Baby Teeth.
Riverdale returns Wednesday, April 17 at 8:00 PM.
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