BY MARISSA CASTANOS<\/p>\n
Welcome to another week of the Riverdale Rundown. This week, we will hopefully get more insight as to who attempted to murder Archie\u2019s father, and who successfully killed Ms. Grundy.<\/p>\n
This was a sad episode for Pop, as his entire crew quit on him since the accident. It sounds as though they are too scared to be at Pop\u2019s because of the shooting, as are all of Betty\u2019s friends. But Betty has an idea to bring life back into Pop\u2019s Shoppe, she wants to throw an event for community members so they feel like the establishment is safe again.<\/p>\n
F.P., Jughead\u2019s father, was charged with arson, obstruction of evidence, the list goes on – and he now faces 20 years in prison if he accepts a plea deal from his less than an impressive lawyer. Jughead goes to the Southside Serpents with a plan that could get him in a lot of trouble. He wants to break his father out of jail and smuggle him into Canada.<\/p>\n
This is also the episode where the students – Archie in particular – are told of Ms. Grundy\u2019s death. I can only imagine the flashbacks that Archie is having while being told of this news while in the middle of a lecture. Before the commercial break, we see Archie\u2019s intimate memories with Ms. Grundy flash through his mind before he gets up and walks out of class. This even leads Archie to think that the killer is targeting him, and going after the people he cares about.<\/p>\n
We now find the person that Jughead was looking for – a Southside Serpent who is also a woman, and? A lawyer. She has agreed to help Jughead\u2019s father if Jughead one day returns the favor by doing something for her. She tells Jughead that he needs to get the victim\u2019s family to forgive his father in order for F.P. to receive a lesser sentence.<\/p>\n
Betty comes home and comes to find that Pop his selling his shoppe to an \u201canonymous buyer.\u201d If you do not recall from season one – Veronica\u2019s parents bought the drive-in anonymously, so it would only make sense that they did the same thing here. But surprise – her parents were not the buyers.<\/p>\n
Betty and Jughead go to the Blossom\u2019s new home, asking them to give his father mercy to reduce his sentence. Cheryl immediately becomes defensive and says she will not have a reminder of the darkest part of her life walking the streets of Riverdale. So, Jughead now has to come up with a new plan – blackmail.<\/p>\n
We now know what Ms. Grundy was killed with. It was – dun dun dun – a cello bow. What was the gift Archie gave Ms. Grundy the night they were found together? That\u2019s right. A cello bow. We also know that Ms. Grundy\u2019s murder was a crime of passion, thanks to Betty\u2019s mother paying off the examiner for such information.<\/p>\n
Change scenes and we\u2019re now sitting at Pop\u2019s with Betty, Jughead, and Pop. Jughead asks Pop to cook F.P.\u2019s favorite meal for the town to eat. Meanwhile, Betty comes up with an insidious plan, to expose the video of Clifford Blossom shooting his own son. Betty tells Cheryl she is giving her the chance to put \u201ca nice ending to a sad story,\u201d unless of course, Cheryl wants the entire town to see what her father did.<\/p>\n
Archie goes to the sheriff, and tells him that he believes that Ms. Grundy\u2019s ex-husband is responsible for shooting his father, and killing Ms. Grundy. We do not know much about Ms. Grundy\u2019s ex besides the fact that he was abusive, and Ms. Grundy changed her name and moved to try and get away from him.<\/p>\n
After a commercial break, we see Cheryl sitting in a courtroom, asking the judge to be more lenient on F.P.\u2019s sentence, but the judge doesn\u2019t budge. One eyebrow raise from Betty to Cheryl and Cheryl immediately tells a lie to the judge – that her father threatened F.P. into covering up her brother\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n
At the end of the episode, we join Riverdale students and community members at Pop\u2019s for a celebration that Betty put on in hopes of saving the establishment. I can\u2019t help but feel like something dark is going to happen while everyone is gathered here – and that\u2019s when the Southside Serpents walk in. Don\u2019t be alarmed, they were just there to sit in a booth and enjoy a milkshake like everyone else, or were they?<\/p>\n
The end of this episode was a sweet one, everyone was sitting in Pop\u2019s enjoying their milkshakes. But the camera did focus on one character that might have a lead on who the masked murderer is – Dilton Doiley. He was the last person we saw before the presumed last commercial break.<\/p>\n
But wait, there\u2019s more. After the last commercial break, we see Cheryl sit down with her mother to watch the video of her father committing the heinous crime – the crime of killing his own flesh and blood, Jason Blossom. We then see a couple of teenagers in a car near Sweetwater River, and during a \u201cmake out sesh\u201d they stop because they hear something in the woods around them, so we all know what this means, death is upon us.<\/p>\n
A large man walks up the car, points a gun in, and both teenagers are shot in cold blood.<\/p>\n
This week did answer some questions. But I\u2019m still left with a few: Who will Archie accidentally shoot with the gun Doiley gave him- because we all know that that is something that is very probable, considering Archie is having hallucinations and already attacked a teammate that was wearing a ski mask outside his home. Why did the Lodge\u2019s get rid of Smithers, what did he know? Is the killer still targeting Archie? I mean he just killed two innocent teenagers in the woods. For now, all I know is that the Lodge\u2019s are up to no good, and Archie is in serious need of some sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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