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• YOU THK 'RIVERDALE' IS WILD? WA TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA'S GAY ARCHIE PLAY
• ‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
• CHAPTER ONE: THE RIVER’S EDGERIVERDALETRACK 1 ON SEASON 1 PRODUCED BYTHE CW (CHANNEL)JAN. 26, 20171 VIEWER26.6K VIEWS3 CONTRIBUTORSCHAPTER ONE: THE RIVER’S EDGE LYRICS[BIRD'S EYE-VIEW OF AN AMERIN SMALL TOWN.][A MALE TEENAGER’S VOICE-OVER NARRAT]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): OUR STORY IS ABOUT A TOWN. A SMALL TOWN.[WE SEE: NONSCRIPT SUBURBAN STREETS, ANONYMO, MYSTER.]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THE TOWN.[WE SEE: RIVERDALE’S MAIN DRAG. STORE-ONTS, LOL BS. PEOPLE, DIFFERENT AG, SIZ, RAC, WALKG...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): FROM A DISTANCE, PRENTS SELF LIKE SO MANY OTHER SMALL TOWNS ALL OVER THE WORLD.[WE CYCLE THROUGH IMAGES OF: CY HALL, PICKS PARK, THE BIJOU MOVIE THEATRE, THE FIRE STATN, THE COMIC BOOK SHOP, THE HIGH SCHOOL, THE 24-HOUR DER, POP’S...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): SAFE. DECENT. INNOCENT. GET CLOSER THOUGH AND YOU START SEEG THE SHADOWS UNRNEATH.[WE SEE A “WELE TO RIVERDALE” SIGN. ITS FAD MOTTO: “THE TOWN WH PEP!”]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): THE NAME OF OUR TOWN IS RIVERDALE.[EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - EARLY MORNING][A BETIFUL, SLOW-MOVG RIVER, ETERNAL, HYPNOTIC. A RED CONVERTIBLE DRIV ALONG THE ROAD RRYG TWO IMPOSSIBLY GEO TEENAGERS, BOTH RED-HAIRED, STEP OUT OF THE R...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): AND OUR STORY BEGS, I GUS, WH WHAT THE BLOSSOM TWS DID THIS SUMMER...[THEY ARE JASON AND CHERYL BLOSSOM, AND REALLY, THEY ULD BE MOLS OM AN ABERCROMBIE & FCH TALOGUE.][THEY LOOK OUT AT THE RIVER’S SHIMMERG, RIPPLG SURFACE, START WALKG TOWARDS A DOCK...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JT AFTER DAWN, JASON AND CHERYL BLOSSOM DROVE OUT TO SWEETWATER RIVER FOR AN EARLY MORNG BOAT-RI[AS THEY NEAR THE DOCK, CHERYL TURNS TO JASON]CHERYL: ARE YOU SRED, JASON?[JASON SHAK HIS HEAD AND JASON S][EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - MOMENTS LATER][JASON AND CHERYL THE ROWBOAT, SLIDG ACROSS THE WATER, TOWARDS AN OUTCROPPG OF ROCKS. THEY PASS TO -- AND OUT OF - AME...][EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - THE SHORE - THE SAME MORNING (LATER)][STORM CLOUDS ARE BREWG OVERHEAD][NERDY, GLASS-WEARG HIGH SCHOOL GEEK DILTON DOILEY GUIS A TROOP OF BOY SCOUTS ALONG THE RIVER'S EDGE. THEY ALL RRY BINOCULARS. DILTON’S POTG TO BIRDS THE TRE...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): THE NEXT THG WE KNOW HAPPENED FOR SURE IS THAT DILTON DOILEY, WHO WAS LEADG RIVERDALE’S BOY SUT TROOP ON A BIRD-WATCHG EXPEDN, ME UPON CHERYL BY THE RIVER'S EDGE.[DILTON AND THE SUTS STOP SHORT. THERE’S CHERYL, HUDDLED BY THE LAPPG WATER, KNE TUCKED UNR HER CH, ARMS AROUND HER LEGS, SHIVERG BEE SHE’S SOPPG WET.][NUMB, SHOCK, SHE TURNS TO HIM. HER FACE IS STREAKED WH TEARS.]CHERYL: [EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - DAY (LATER)][A POLICE BOAT MOV ALONG THE RIVER. CHERYL AND HER PARENTS, CLIFF AND PENELOPE, ARE ONBOARD. CHERYL IS SHOCK AND HER MASRA HAS BEEN SMUDGED.]UNSEEN MALE (V.O.): RIVERDALE POLICE, DRAGGED SWEETWATER RIVER FOR JASON’S BODY, BUT NEVER FOUND .][BLON ALICE COOPER STANDS WH HER HBAND HAL ON THE RIVERBANK]ALICE: IF HE IS AD, HOW? I HOPE THOSE LAST MOMENTS HE SUFFERED. MAY JASON BLOSSOM BURN HELL[CUT TO LOW ANGLE SHOT OF JUGHEAD JONES][WIDE ANGLE OF SWEETWATER RIVER RIVERBANK]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): SO A WEEK LATER, THE BLOSSOM FAY BURIED AN EMPTY SKET, AND JASON’S ATH WAS LED AN ACCINT.[INT. POP’S CHOCK’LIT SHOPPE DINER - EVENING][OPEN 24-HOURS. A SKNY TEENAGER WH DARK, SHAGGY HAIR STICKG OUT OM UNR A WEIRD HAT -- ’S LIKE A FELT CROWN -- SS ONE OF THE DER’S BOOTHS, SIPPG FFEE AND TAP-TAP-TAPPG AWAY ON HIS LAPTOP.]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.) [CONT]: AS THE STORY THAT CHERYL TOLD MA THE ROUNDS. THAT CHERYL DROPPED A GLOVE THE WATER, AND JASON REACHED DOWN TO GET , AND ACCINTALLY TIPPED THE BOAT, AND PANICKED, AND DROWNED. AS FOR , WE WERE STILL TALKG ABOUT THE JULY 4TH TRAGEDY ON THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER VATN. WHEN A NEW MYSTERY ROLLED TO TOWN.[EXT. THE PEMBROOKE APARTMENT BUILDING - DUSK][A TOWNCAR PULLS TO THE GOTHIC APARTMENT BUILDING'S DRIVEWAY -- THIS IS THE PEMBROOKE.][TWO DARK-HAIRED BETI -- HERMIONE LODGE (PEARLS, ALWAYS) AND HER TEENAGE DGHTER VERONICA -- CLIMB OUT OF THE R, LOOK UP AT THE PEMBROOKE’S ORNATE FA...]HERMIONE: NOW BRACE YOURSELF, THE APARTMENT IS SMALL, A PIED-à-TERRE, BUT --HERMIONE/VERONICA: -- “QUALY, ALWAYS” --HERMIONE: -- PL, WAS THE ONLY PIECE OF PROPERTY MY NAME AND NOT YOUR FATHER’S.[THEY WALK TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE][INT. THE PEMBROOKE APARTMENT BUILDING][VAR SHOTS OF THE EXTRAVAGANT YET DARK TERR ARE SHOWN. THE PEMBROOKE’S DOORMAN, SMITHERS, A UNIFORM, APPROACH THE TWO --]SMITHERS: MS. HERMNE! WELE HOME.HERMIONE: SMHERS! YOU'RE A SIGHT FOR SORE EYSMITHERS: HOW WAS THE RI?HERMIONE: NO TRAFFIC, THANK GOD. SMHERS, I'D LIKE TO TRODUCE YOU TO MY DGHTER, VERONI.SMITHERS: IT’S A PLEASURE, MISS.VERONICA: HI...SMITHERS: I’LL GET THE BAGS.(AS HE DO THAT)AND WOULD YOU LIKE SOME MEN, MA’AM, SO YOU N ORR ?HERMIONE: OH, NO, I’VE BEEN CRAVG ONE OF POP TATE’S CHEEBURGERS SCE NOON -- IS HIS CHOCK'L SHOPPE STILL OPEN?VERONICA (THKS THEY ARE TALKG ABOUT A CHOLATE SHOP): WHAT IS A CHOCK'L SHOPPE ? AND WHY DO SELL BURGERS?[EXT. ELM STREET - RIVERDALE - NIGHT (THAT SAME NIGHT)][THE CAMERA PANS ACROSS A SERI OF MODEST HOMES ALONG A TREE-LED STREET. TOWARDS ONE HOUSE PARTICULAR...A BEDROOM ON THE SEND FLOOR...][INT. THE COOPER HOUSE - BETTY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT][BLON, PRETTY BETTY COOPER (16), JEANS AND A BRA, GETTG DRSED AND PUTTG ON MAKP, WHILE BROWN-HAIRED KEVIN KELLER (16, CUTE) LOUNG ON HER BED, SCROLLG THROUGH PROFIL ON HIS IPHONE.]KEVIN: ARE YOU EXCED? NERVO?BETTY: BOTH -- I HAVEN’T SEEN HIM ALL SUMMER --KEVIN: -- WHICH IS WHY NERV ARE ACCEPTABLE, BUT WE AGREED, BETTY: IT’S TIME. YOU LIKE HIM, HE LIK YOU.BETTY: THEN WHY, KEV, HASN’T HE EVER SAID OR DONEANYTHG?KEVIN: BEE -- ARCHIE’S SWELL, BUT LIKE MOST MILLENNIAL STRAIGHT GUYS, HE NEEDS TO BE TOLD WHAT HE WANTS. SO TELL HIM, FALLY.BETTY: WE’LL SEE. IT PENDS ON --KEVIN: -- OH, MY GOD!BETTY: WHAT?[KEV IS LOOKG OUT BETTY’S WDOW, TOWARDS THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, TO THE BEDROOM OPPOSE HERS. ARCHIE ANDREWS (16, RED HAIR, FALLY ON THE RIGHT SI OF PUBERTY), IS ALSO GETTG DRSED BUT IS ON HIS PHONE. IN JEANS, SLIPPG ON A T-SHIRT --]KEVIN: GAME-CHANGER! ARCHIE GOT HOT! HE'S GOT ABS NOW! SIX MORE REASONS FOR YOU TO TAKE THAT GGER BULL BY THE HORNS TONIGHT.[BETTY LOOKS; HER MOUTH IS OPEN SHOCK --][INT. POP'S CHOCK'-LIT SHOPPE DINER - NIGHT][ARCHIE AND BETTY S A BOOTH, MID-NVERSATN --]ARCHIE: SO WHAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT?BETTY: OF MY TERNSHIP? THE JUDY BLUME BOOK RELEASE PARTY I ANIZED, BY FAR. AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, TONY MORRISON, WHO IS, AS YOU KNOW, MY LERARY HERO.ARCHIE (NODDG AND CHUCKLG): Y, YBETTY: SO HE SAYS TO ME, “DON'T SH THIS TIME, BETTY. IT GO BY SO FAST AT YOUR AGE. ONE SUMMER N CHANGE YOUR LIFE.”ARCHIE: WOW. THAT'S SO TE.BETTY: HOW WAS WORKG FOR YOUR DAD?ARCHIE: IT WAS...POURG NCRETE, EVERY DAY, ALL DAY LONG. TO PASS TIME I WOULD START POSG , MY HEAD. AND AT NIGHT, I’D GO HOME, I’D WRE THEM DOWN.BETTY: YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE READG POETRY.ARCHIE: THEY WEREN’T POEMS, THEY WERE SONG LYRICS. AND WORKG ON THEM MA ME LIKE...BETTY: WHAT, ARCHIE?ARCHIE (ALMOST ASHAMED TO ADM ): I FEEL LIKE I'VE FALLY BROKEN THROUGH TO SOMETHG REAL. ABOUT MY LIFE, AND WHAT I SHOULD BE TRYG TO DO WH . MIC! STARTG THIS YEAR, TOMORROW.BETTY: AMAZG! WILL YOU ASK MISS GNDY TO TUTOR YOU?ARCHIE: I'M NOT SURE, MAYBE.BETTY: WHAT ABOUT FOOTBALL? CAN YOU DO BOTH?ARCHIE: I’LL TRY-OUT, AT LEAST.BETTY: WELL, HAVE YOU TOLD YOUR DAD?ARCHIE: NO. UNTIL I’VE GOT THGS MORE FIGURED OUT, YOU’RE THE ONLY PERSON I’M TELLG, OKAY?BETTY: WELL, I'D LOVE TO HEAR THEM SOMETIME, YOUR SONGS.ARCHIE: YEAH?BETTY: Y!ARCHIE: YEAH, I'M FISHG A UPLE MOS TONIGHT.BETTY: GREAT. OH -- AND ALSO? I’VE BEEN THKG ABOUT , ARCHIE, AND OUR IENDSHIP, AND HOW ’S TIME WE --[-- SUDNLY BETTY'S VOICE FAS, THE BELL ABOVE POP’S ONT DOOR JGL. AND VERONI, WEARG A FETCHG CLOAK (LIKE KIM BASGER “L.A. CONFINTIAL”). SHE TURNS AND MAK EYE-NTACT WH ARCHIE. IT’S LIKE WHEN CLAIRE DA AND LEONARDO DICAPR SEE EACH OTHER THROUGH THE FISH-TANK “ROMEO AND JULIET.” ARCHIE IS SMTEN.][VERONI STARTS TO WALK TOWARDS THE MERA (WHERE THE BOOTH IS)]VERONICA: HI, I LLED AN ORR? FOR LODGE?POP TATE: TWO BURGERS, YAH, ALMOST READY, BUT YOU GOT TO WA.[VERONI LOOKS AROUND WHILE SHE WAS, BUT THEN HER EY LAND ON ARCHIE, WHO’S STARG AT HER, WHICH BETTY CLOCKS. VERONI WALKS OVER TO THEM...]VERONICA: HEY.ARCHIE: HEY.VERONICA: HOW ARE THE ONN RGS HERE?ARCHIE: SO GOOD.VERONICA (OVER HER SHOULR, TO POP): CAN WE GET SOME ONN RGS, TOO, PLEASE?POP TATE: YEAHVERONICA (BACK TO ARCHIE AND BETTY): THANKS. MY MOM AND I JT MOVED HERE, SO...ARCHIE: FROM WHERE?VERONICA: NEW YORK.ARCHIE: WOW.VERONICA: DO YOU GUYS GO TO RIVERDALE?BETTY: WE DO. BOTH OF . TOGETHER.ARCHIE (N’T TAKE HIS EY OFF HER): YEAH WE’RE SOPHOMOR.VERONICA: ME, TOO. I’M FILLED WH DREAD.ARCHIE: WHY IS THAT?VERONICA: ARE YOU FAIAR WH THE WORKS OF TMAN CAPOTE? I’M BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, BUT THIS TOWN IS STRICTLY IN COLD BLOOD.(THEY HAVE NO IA WHAT SHE’S SAYG, BUT ARCHIE LGHS; THEN, A HAND --)-- VERONI LODGE.ARCHIE (TAKG ): ARCHIE ANDREWS. THIS IS BETTY COOPER.VERONICA: WA, ARE YOU -- ?BETTY: -- SUPPOSED TO GIVE YOU YOUR TOUR TOMORROW? Y, I’M YOUR PEER MENTOR.ARCHIE: DO YOU WANT TO JO ? AND MAYBE WE N UN-FILL YOU WH DREAD?[BETTY SHOOTS DAGGERS AT ARCHIE. VERONI S, MURS.]VERONICA: MY MOM’S WAG FOR ME. BE NTUED?[VERONI WALKS AWAY][ARCHIE TURNS BACK TO BETTY]ARCHIE: WHAT WERE YOU SAYG?BETTY: NOTHG.[EXT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - MORNING][WE SEE THE FAY HOME OF THE ANDREWS. WE HEAR A DOG BARKG.][INT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - MORNING][ARCHIE JOGS DOWN THE STAIRS WHILE SCROLLG THROUGH HIS PHONE, HE IS LATE FOR SCHOOL]ARCHIE: HEY, DAD! FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AND I’M ALREADY LATE --(PETS DOG)HEY VEGAS.[ARCHIE STARTS TO GATHER HIS BOOKS FOR SCHOOL. HIS FATHER, FRED ANDREWS WALKS TO THE ROOM]FRED: HEY -- YOU STOPPG BY THE SE LATER?ARCHIE: DAD, 'S MY FIRST DAY.FRED: WE GOTTA GET YOU GOG THE OFFICE -- SO THAT NEXT SUMMER YOU'RE NOT ON THE CREW.ARCHIE (DODGG): WELL, I N’T. I’VE GOT FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS. OR IS THAT NOT OKAY?FRED (BEAT): NO, NO 'S UH -- 'S OKAY. GOOD LUCK.[ARCHIE GO. FRED IS SURPRISED]FRED (TO HIMSELF): HUH.[EXT. THE COOPER HOUSE - MORNING][WE SEE A WHE SUBURBAN DOUBLE STORY HOE WH A RED DOOR.][INT. THE COOPER HOUSE - BETTY'S ROOM - MORNING][BETTY IS GETTG READY TO HEAD-OUT TO SCHOOL. HER MOM IS HER ROOM GIVG HER A LECTURE.]ALICE: BETTY. THIS G YEAR IS CRIL FOR LLEG. GRAS ARE IMPORTANT, EXTRA-CURRICULARS -- ATHLETICS -- MATAG A CENT CHARACTER? IS HUGELY IMPORTANT, THEY DO LOOK AT THAT.BETTY: MOM, I'M A SOPHOMORE.ALICE: YOU’VE ACPLISHED SO MUCH, I JT DON’T WANT ANYTHG JEOPARDIZG THAT. I MEAN, JT THK ABOUT YOUR POOR SISTER. SHE WAS SUCH A SHG STAR BEFORE SHE LET THAT BLOSSOM BOY HER --BETTY: -- MOM, I’M NOT POLLY.ALICE: YOU MISSED CURFEW LAST NIGHT.BETTY: BY SEVEN MUT. AND I WAS WH ARCHIE. WHO HAS RED HAIR, Y, BUT IS NOTHG LIKE JASON BLOSSOM.ALICE: OH, SWEETIE. ALL BOYS ARE LIKE JASON BLOSSOM.(SHE STANDS UP AND TAK BETTY'S HANDS HERS)I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, ELIZABETH. I JT NEED YOU TO BE SMART, OKAY? AND STAY FOCED. WE REFILLED YOUR ADRALL, SEEMS YOU FOT TO PICK UP YOUR PRCRIPTN.[WH THAT, ALICE S AND GO. WE LGER ON BETTY. ALICE HAS LEFT SOMETHG HER HANDS. REVEAL: A PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE OF ADDERALL WH BETTY’S NAME FULL NAME ON (ELIZABETH COOPER). THE MSAGE IS CLEAR: BETTY. MT. STAY. FOCED.][EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - MORNING][ESTABLISHG. TEACHERS GOG ; KIDS LOERG OUT ONT, TRYG TO EXTEND THE SUMMER EVEN FOR A FEW MORE MUT...][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAY - MORNING][ARCHIE, AT HIS LOCKER, HOLDG A FOLDER, WHICH NTAS A SHEAF OF HAND-WRITTEN PAGES -- HE’S LOOKG AT THE LYRICS ON THEM -- AND WHICH HE PUTS TO HIS LOCKER, WHEN HIS BRO-IENDS, REGGIE MANTLE APPROACH AND LEANS AGAST THE LOCKER NEXT TO HIM]REGGIE: BRO, YOU ARE READY FOR FOOTBALL -- I'M NOT KIDDG YOU DU, YOU GOT RIPPED. DU, YOU'RE BEAST, LOOK AT THIS ARM (GRABS ARCHIE'S RIGHT ARM), 'S DIEL. HOW MUCH YOU BENCHG, LIKE 220? 225? YOU GOTTA GIVE ME SOME TIPS, MAN. REAL MEN NEED THEIR LOOKS, RIGHT? TAKG SOME T? [GENCG?]? [MABE?]? [?]? <--9.08 TO EPISO[THE TWO START TO WALK AWAY OM THE LOCKERS]ARCHIE: -- ’S OM WORKG NSTCTN, REG.REGGIE: AH, YEAH YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT --[REGGIE SE ANOTHER OF THEIR BRO-IENDS, MOOSE MASON]REGGIE (MOTNG TO ARCHIE): YO MOOSE! LOOK WHO GREW UP OVER THE SUMMER![MOOSE IS DISTRACTED BY A GIRL, WHOM HE GIV "LL ME" HAND GTURE AND THEN SH OFF TO FOLLOW THE TWO.]REGGIE: (TO ARCHIE) HEY, HEY,, YO BE HONT WH ME. DID YOU WORK ON ANY HO? ANY PRIVATE HOM?ARCHIE (CHUCKL): YEAH, A UPLE.REGGIE: DID YOU TAP ANY UGAR ASS THIS SUMMER?[AS ARCHIE TURNS AND BACKS AWAY OM THEM TO GO DOWN ANOTHER HALLWAY...]ARCHIE: YOU KNOW WHAT, I THK THAT’S MORE A FANTASY OM YOUR WANK-BANK, REGGIE. I'LL TCH YOU GUYS SOON.[ARCHIE WALKS AWAY]REGGIE: PEACE OUT BROTHER![MOOSE AND REGGIE TURN TO HEAD TOWARDS THEIR CLASS]REGGIE (TO MOOSE): HE TOTALLY DID, BRO. HE TOTALLY DID .[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAYS - MORNING][BETTY’S LEADG VERONI DOWN A LOCKER-LED HALL --]BETTY (PRE-LAP): SO I UALLY START OFF MY TOURS WH A LTLE HISTORY AND NTEXT. RIVERDALE HIGH FIRST OPENED S DOORS 1941, AND --VERONICA (NOT IMPRSED): -- AND HASN’T BEEN RERATED SCE, APPARENTLY. HONTLY, I FEEL LIKE I’M WANRG THROUGH THE LOST EPILOGUE OF “OUR TOWN”[VERONI CHUCKL, BETTY IS NFED, BUT FOLLOWS WH A CHUCKLE]VERONICA: -- SO WHAT’S THE SOCIAL SCENE LIKE HERE? ANY NIGHT CLUBS?BOY’S VOICE (BEHD THEM): A STRIP CLUB LLED THE HOE ZONE AND A TRAGIC GAY BAR LLED INNUENDO --[BETTY AND VERONI TURN TO -- KEVIN, WHO GETS ONT OF THEM AND FAC THEM WHILE WALKG BACKWARDS...KEVIN: FRIDAY NIGHTS, ’S FOOTBALL GAM, THEN TAILGATE PARTI AT THE MALL-MART PARKG LOT. SATURDAY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT, REGARDLS OF WHAT’S PLAYG AT THE BIJOU -- AND YOU BETTER GET THERE EARLY, BEE WE DON’T HAVE RERVED SEATG RIVERDALE.[KEV STOPS AND PUTS AN ARM AROUND BETTY'S SHOULRS]KEVIN: AND SUNDAY NIGHTS? T HANK GOD FOR HBO.BETTY: VERONI LODGE, KEV KELLER. VERONI’S NEW HERE, KEV IS --VERONICA: -- GAY, THANK GOD. LET’S BE BT IENDS.KEVIN: IS TE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT YOUR DAD?[BETTY GLAR AT KEV]VERONICA: THAT HE’S THE VIL RNATE? I STAND BY MY FATHER. DO EVERYONE HERE KNOW?[BOTH BETTY AND KEV REMA SILENT]VERONICA (SARSTILLY): WONRFUL! TEN MUT AND I'M ALREADY THE "BLUE JASME" OF RIVERDALE HIGH.[VERONI WALKS AWAY. BETTY TURNS TO KEV AND GLAR AT HIM]KEVIN (NFED): WHAT?[BETTY MOV TO FOLLOW VERONI][[INT. MUSIC ROOM- DAY][-- AND ARCHIE’S DOWN THE HALL, AROUND A RNER, AND WE HEAR A TR OF SGERS][ARCHIE, HOLDG HIS PAG OM THE LOCKER, HAS JT E TO THE ROOM, WHERE THREE GIRLS -- JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS -- WERE THE MIDDLE OF A PRACTICE JAM. VALERIE (DARK-HAIRED) AND MELODY (DARK-HAIRED) S BETWEEN THEIR LEAR: GEO, IMPER JOSIE, WH A GUAR. ALL THREE LADI WEAR THE ICONIC PUSSYCAT EARS. (YEP, GANG, WE’RE ALL .)JOSIE (NOTIC ARCHIE): UM, EXCE ME, THIS IS A CLOSED REHEARSAL.ARCHIE: I'M SORRY, I -- JOSIE, RIGHT?[THE GIRLS STARE AT HIM]ARCHIE: I WAS HOPG TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME SONGS I WROTE?JOSIE: LET ME JT STOP YOU RIGHT THERE. YOU’RE STARG AT OUR PSYT EARS, WHICH IS , BUT LET ME BREAK -- AND THEM -- DOWN FOR YOU. THE PSYTS ARE BUILDG A BRAND, WE’RE CREATG A SIGNATURE LOOK, OKAY? WE'RE TELLG A STORY. LAST YEAR, WE WON ROCKLAND COUNTY’S BATTLE-OF-THE-BANDS --MELODY: -- THAT WE DID.JOSIE: THIS YEAR, WE’D LIKE TO BUILD ON THAT SUCCS. CONTUE TELLG OUR STORY. WH SONGS WE WRE.ARCHIE (SPERATE): I GET THAT, 'S JT --JOSIE: READ MY GLOSSED LIPS, JT GGERLAKE: NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN.[JOSIE WAV GOODBYE][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAY - MORNING][BETTY IS STILL GIVG VERONI THE TOUR WH KEV TAGGG ALONG]BETTY: .. OF URSE THERE IS STILL THE BACK THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL FORMAL DANCE THIS WEEKEND.[VERONI GASPS AND SUDNLY GRABS BETTY'S ARM AND PULLS HER TO SHOW HER WHAT SHE'S LOOKG AT: ARCHIE LGERG OUTSI OF THE MIC ROOM AFTER BEG REJECTED BY JOSIE AND THE PSYTS]VERONICA (TO BETTY): THERE’S THE HOTTIE YOU WERE WH LAST NIGHT. THE RED-HEAD ANSEL ELGORT. IS HE YOUR BOYIEND?KEVIN: NO, HE’S STRAIGHT.BETTY: NO, WE’RE JT IENDS.VERONICA (CONT’D): IN THAT SE, MD PUTTG A WORD? I’VE TRIED EVERY FLAVOR OF BOY BUT ORANGE --KEVIN: -- ACTUALLY, TO CLARIFY. BETTY AND ARCHIE AREN’T DATG, BUT THEY ARE ENDGAME.VERONICA (AMED AT BETTY'S QUIETNS): YOU SHOULD ASK HIM TO THE SEMI-FORMAL THEN.KEVIN: SHE SHOULD, BUT I HEARD MIGHT BE GETTG NCELED. BEE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO JASON. THEY’RE GONNA TELL AT THE ASSEMBLY...VERONICA (OBLIV): WHO'S JASON, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?[BOTH BETTY AND KEV STOP AND STARE AT VERONI][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - MORNING]CHERYL: THANK YOU FOR THAT MOMENT OF SILENCE. MANY OF YOU WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE KNOWN MY BROTHER PERSONALLY. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU MEANT THE WORLD TO JASON. I LOVED MY BROTHER. HE WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY SOUL-MATE -- SO I SPEAK WH A NFINCE ONLY A TW ULD HAVE. JASON WOULDN’T WANT TO SPEND THE YEAR MOURNG. JASON WOULD WANT TO MOVE ON WH OUR LIV.[MEANWHILE, AT THE VERY TOP OF THE BLEACHERS: JUGHEAD, WH HIS LAPTOP OPEN HIS LAP, APART OM EVERYONE ELSE, BUT WATCHG EVERYTHG...]CHERYL (CON'T): WHICH IS WHY I'VE ASKED THE SCHOOL BOARD NOT TO NCEL THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEMI-FORMAL. BUT RATHER TO LET E AS A WAY TO HEAL, LLECTIVELY, AND CELEBRATE MY BROTHER'S TOO, TOO SHORT LIFE, THANK YOU ALL.[THE STUNT BODY STARTS APPLDG CHERYL. ARCHIE STAR DOWN AT THE ROWS WHERE TEACHERS ARE STG. A YOUNG FEMALE TEACHER, MS. GRUNDY TURNS BACK AND LOCKS EY WH ARCHIE][EXT. RIVERDALE HIGHWAY - SUNDOWN (FLASHBACK)][ARCHIE, WALKG HOME OM A JOB, PULLS UP HIS SHIRT, TO WIPE HIS FOREHEAD, WHEN A CUTE VW BUG SLOWS RIGHT BI HIM. THE DRIVER’S SI WINDOW ROLLS DOWN, REVEALG -- MS. GRUNDY A SEXY 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, SUNGLASS, SIPPG A CHERRY SLURPEE...]ARCHIE: MS. GNDY? HEY!MS. GRUNDY: ARCHIE? WHAT ARE YOU DOG, WALKG THIS HEAT?ARCHIE: UM. BUILDG CHARACTER?MS. GRUNDY (SG AT HIM): DO YOU WANT A RI?[OFF ARCHIE, BATG THIS OFFER, AS WE RESUME WITH --][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - MORNING][MS. GNDY AND ARCHIE ARE STILL LOCKG EY][CUT TO: INT. VW BEETLE - NIGHT][STEAMED UP WDOWS, WE N MAKE OUT THE SILHOUETT OF MS. GNDY AND ARCHIE MAKG OUT][EXT. VW BEETLE - NIGHT][WE NTUE TO OBSERVE MS. GNDY AND ARCHIE, NAKED THE BACK SEAT, MAKG OUT AS WE RESUME WITH --][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - MORNING][MS. GNDY BREAKS EYE-NTACT AND FAC ONT, PUTTG ON A STERN FACE AND APPLDG WH THE RT OF THE STUNT BODY. ARCHIE NTU TO STARE AT HER]ROLL "RIVERDALE" INTRO SCREEN[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAY - DAY][POST-ASSEMBLY. ARCHIE’S TRYG TO TCH-UP TO MS. GNDY, WHO WALKS AHEAD OF HIM, THROUGH THE STUNTS GOG TO CLASS --]ARCHIE: MS. GNDY --(SHE KEEPS MOVG)MS. GNDY -- GERALDE[-- MS. GNDY TURNS ON HER HEEL TO FACE ARCHIE.]MS. GRUNDY: WHAT N I DO FOR YOU, MR. ANDREWS?ARCHIE: I -- I -- N WE TALK, MS. GNDY? PLEASE?MS. GRUNDY: IT PENDS. ABOUT WHAT?ARCHIE: .., YOU’RE THE MIC TEACHER, N WE TALK ABOUT MIC?MS. GRUNDY: .. URSE. MAKE AN APPOTMENT. DURGMY OFFICE HOURS. MY OFFICIAL OFFICE HOURS.[SHE TURNS, STARTS TO WALK AWAY OM HIM AGA.][EXT. ANDREWS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - DAY]FRED (CHUCKL SOFTLY): HERMNE LODGE.[INT. ANDREWS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - LOBBY - DAY][VERONI’S MOM, HERMNE, SS THE WAG AREA. ARCHIE’S DAD, FRED, HAS E OUT OF HIS OFFICE.]FRED: MY DAY JT GOT A LOT MORE TERTG.HERMIONE (S): HELLO FRED, HOW ARE YOU?FRED: SURPRISED. CAN I GET YOU ANYTHG, LIKE A WATER?HERMIONE (RIGHT TO ): A JOB. I SAW ON YOUR WEBSE LAST NIGHT, THAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR A SEASONAL HIRE, SOMEONE TO HELP WH THE BOOKS?FRED: YEAH UH, MY GUY’S ON PATERNY LEAVE --HERMIONE: -- I THK MY DGHTER’S GOG TO SCHOOL WH YOUR SON, ISN’T THAT FUNNY? WE’LL HAVE TO TELL THEM WE KNEW EACH OTHER, THAT WE EVEN DATED FOR A LTLE WHILE, UNTIL I --FRED: -- CHOSE THE RICH KID.HERMIONE: AND NOW, A REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. HOW'S MARY DOG?FRED: SHE'S CHIGO. WE SPL UP, WE'RE CIVIL. HOW ABOUT YOU? HOW ARE YOU HOLDG UP, REALLY?HERMIONE: I HAVE A LTLE MONEY SAVED. I WAS PRAYG THAT SOMEONE RIVERDALE -- MAYBE AN OLD IEND -- BE WILLG TO GIVE ME THE BENEF OF THE DOUBT.FRED: IF WERE UP TO ME --HERMIONE: ISN’T , UP TO YOU? IT’S YOUR PANY --FRED: -- WELL, I HAVE CLIENTS. I N’T VERY WELL HAVE HERMNE LODGE, THE WIFE OF HIRAM LODGE, ON TRIAL FOR D AND EMBEZZLEMENT, BALANCG MY BOOKS. CAN I?HERMIONE (A BEAT; STGS): .., I SUPPOSE YOU N'T.[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - COURTYARD - DAY][LUNCH-TIME. KIDS AT PIIC TABL. VERONI’S MOVG ACROSS THE URTYARD, SEARCHG FOR THE PERFECT PLACE TO LAND... THERE ARE THE PSYTS, NOPE... THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS, CLUDG REGGIE AND MOOSE, NOT A GOOD IA... THERE’S BETTY... DILTON, WH THE NERDS, UH-UH... CHERYL, WH HER FELLOW CHEERLEARS, CLUDG LADI--WAG, NANCY WOODS AND GINGER LOPEZ, CLEARLY THE QUEEN BE... VERONI SIGHS, LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE, SHE HEADS TOWARDS CHERYL, BUT THEN -- A DOUBLE-TAKE -- SHE NOTIC THAT BETTY ISN’T STG ALONE, SHE’S WH KEV AND THAT HOTTIE, ARCHIE; IMMEDIATELY, VERONI TOURS...][...ARRIV AT THE TABLE WHERE BETTY, KEV, AND ARCHIE ARE, STG WH ARCHIE’S OPEN LAPTOP. ITUN IS OPEN WH ONE OF ARCHIE'S SONGS PLAYG]VERONICA: CAN I JO?BETTY (DISAPPOTED): YEAH.[THEY NOD -- SHE SS --]VERONICA: WHAT ARE WE DOG?BETTY (S AT ARCHIE): LISTENG TO ONE OF ARCHIE'S SONGS.KEVIN: I THOUGHT WE WERE GOG TO HAVE TO PRETEND TO LIKE , BUT 'S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD.VERONICA (GENUELY IMPRSED): WA, THAT WAS YOU SGG? SOMETHG YOU WROTE?ARCHIE: IT'S ROUGH.BETTY: NO, 'S GREAT.VERONICA: IT'S CREDIBLE ACTUALLY, THE LTLE SNIPPET I HEARD. IS THAT YOUR THG? MIC? ARE YOU DOG SOMETHG WH THAT?ARCHIE: YEAH, THAT'S THE PLAN.(CHANGG THE SUBJECT)SO HOW'S YOUR FIRST DAY GOG? GOOD?VERONICA: WE-ELL, NOT TO BE A PLETE NARCISSIST, BUT I THOUGHT PEOPLE WOULD BE MORE...KEVIN: OBSSED WH YOU? ANY OTHER YEAR, YOU’D BE TRENDG NUMBER ONE, FOR SURE. THIS YEAR, THOUGH, ’S ALL ABOUT CHERYL TRYG TO W THE BT SUPPORTG PSYCHO OSR FOR HER ROLE AS RIVERDALE'S BEREAVED RED WIDOW.[CUT TO CHERYL, WHO IS WALKG TOWARDS THEM. WHICH, FOR SOME REASON, PROMPTS ARCHIE TO --]ARCHIE: HEY, I SHOULD GO. I'VE GOT THAT MEETG WH GNDY AND THEN FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS, SO --VERONICA: -- YOU PLAY FOOTBALL, TOO? WHAT DON'T YOU DO?[VERONI LOOKS AT BETTY, WHO’S LOOKG AT ARCHIE, AS HE GO...]KEVIN: BEFORE YOU ASK, BLUE JASME, NO, SHE HAS NOT VED HIM TO THE DANCE YET.BETTY: NO, NOT YET --(LOWERG HER VOICE)-- DON'T TALK ABOUT ARCHIECHERYL (ARRIVG, GRANDLY): -- VERONI LODGE, I’D HEARD WHISPERGS. I'M CHERYL BLOSSOM, MAY I S? BETTY, WOULD YOU MD?[BETTY SLIS OVER SO CHERYL N S RIGHT ONT OF VERONI.]CHERYL (CONT’D): SO, WHAT ARE YOU THREE HENS GOSSIPG ABOUT? ARCHIE’S EON-QUE EMERGENCE OM THE CHRYSALIS OF PUBERTY?[BETTY LOOKS AT VERONI, PLEADGLY.]VERONICA: -- EXTRACURRICULARS. WEATHERBEE WANTS ME TO SIGN UP FOR A FEW.CHERYL: -- CHEERLEADG. YOU MT. I AM SENR PTA OF THE RIVER VIXENS![CHERYL PUTS A HAND THREW HER HAIR TO STRAIGHTEN , AND GIV A DAZZLG SE]KEVIN: IS CHEERLEADG STILL A THG?CHERYL: IS BEG THE GAY BT IEND STILL A THG?[THIS SHUTS KEV UP. HE DON'T WANT TO START A SCENE]CHERYL: SOME PEOPLE SAY ’S RETRO, I SAY ’S ETERNAL AND INIC --VERONICA: -- AT SPENCE, I SAT AT THE TOP OF THE EL’ PYRAMID, I’M .(THEN, NOT A QUTN:)BETTY, YOU’RE TRYG OUT, TOO.CHERYL (ABSO-FUCKG-LUTELY NOT): . URSE, ANYONE’S WELE TO TRY-OUT, BUT BETTY’S ALREADY GOT SO MUCH ON HER PLATE RIGHT NOW, AND BEG A VIXEN IS KD OF A FULL-TIME THG. BUT, OPEN TO ALL.(SHE STANDS; TO VERONI:)FOLLOW ME ON TWTER AND I’LL DO THE SAME -- MY HANDLE'S @CHERRYBOMBSHELL.[AND AS QUICKLY AS SHE APPEARED, CHERYL VANISH, OFF TO TERRORIZE GOD-KNOWS-WHO NEXT. VERONI TURNS BACK TO BETTY]VERONICA: GO AHEAD AND HATE ON CHEERLEADG, BUT IF HIPSTER PRCE HARRY IS PLAYG --BETTY: -- I’D LOVE TO BE A CHEERLEAR. IT WOULD ROUND-OUT MY LLEGE APPLITNS -- BUT LAST YEAR WHEN I TRIED OUT, CHERYL SAID I WAS TOO FAT.KEVIN: TOO “SEASON FIVE BETTY DRAPER.” IT WAS A GREAT LE. BUT, NOT AT ALL TE.VERONICA: WELL? YOU’RE A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW NOW. I MEAN . AS HOT AND AS SMART AS YOU ARE, YOU SHOULD BE THE QUEEN BEY OF THIS DRAB HIVE.(MAK A CISN)LOOK, IF YOU WANT TO BE A RIVER VIXEN, I'LL HELP YOU PREP, I HAVE MOV.BETTY: HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? SHOW ME YOUR MOV.[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - MUSIC CLASSROOM - AFTERNOON][GNDY, EARBUDS EARS, LISTENG TO SOMETHG ON ARCHIE’S IPHONE. MS. GNDY TAK OUT THE BUDS. ARCHIE, ON A CHAIR, OPPOSE HER, WAS FOR THE VERDICT...]MS. GRUNDY: THEY'RE VERY REAL, VERY PERSONAL.ARCHIE: I TOOK YOUR ADVICE AND WROTE THEM DOWN AND POLISHED THEM. BUT I WAS WONRG WHETHER YOU ULD HELP ME?MS. GRUNDY (A BEAT, THEN): WH WHAT, ARCHIE?ARCHIE: YOU WENT TO JUILLIARD, MS. GNDY. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE RIVERDALE I N TAKE LSONS OM, BELIEVE ME, I'VE LOOKED.MS. GRUNDY: WELL I DON’ THAT'S A GOOD IA. I DON’T SHOULD BE ALONE TOGETHER.(ARCHIE CHURNS, SILENT)IF THIS IS YOU TRYG TO RTART SOMETHG THAT NEVER SHOULD’VE STARTED THE FIRST PLACE --ARCHIE: -- NO ’S NOT, IS ABOUT MIC, BUT ’S ALSO... C'MON, I NEED TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WH SOMEONE. WE HEARD WHAT WE HEARD -- AND AFTERWARDS, WE DIDN’T DO ANYTHG, WE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHG.[EXT. WOODS NEAR SWEETWATER RIVER - DAY (FLASHBACK)][ARCHIE AND MS. GNDY ARE MAKG OUT ON A PIIC TOWEL. THE VW BEETLE PARKED A FEW METERS AWAY][A GUN SHOT RGS OUT. ARCHIE AND MS. GNDY STOP AND LOOK AT EACH OTHER PANIC][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - MUSIC CLASSROOM - AFTERNOON (PRESENT)]MS. GRUNDY: WE HEARD, FIREWORK --ARCHIE: -- WHO’S LIGHTG FIREWORKS AT SIX THE MORNG?MS. GRUNDY: HOW WOULD WE HAVE EXPLA WHY WE WERE TOGETHER AT SWEETWATER RIVER AT SIX AM ON THE FOURTH OF JULY?(ARCHIE HAS NO ANSWER)AND YOU’RE RIGHT, WE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHG, WE'RE BOTH GOG TO HAVE TO LIVE WH THAT CHOICE -- YOU UNRSTAND? I THK YOU SHOULD PURSUE YOUR MIC, BUT NOT WH ME.[EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - DAY]ON THE GYM STAGE, VERONI AND BETTY, DOG SHARP CHEER-OGRAPHY, AS -- CHERYL, NANCY, AND GGER (BEHD A TABLE), OBSERVE.]VERONICA/BETTY: “WE'RE BLUE & GOLD/WE'RE DYNAME/WE'LL TAKE YOU DOWN/AND FIGHT THE FIGHT!”VERONICA: WOOO! GO BULLDOGS![B & V END ON A HIGH-NOTE, BUT CHERYL’S STONE-FACED.]CHERYL: HMM. LADI, WHERE'S THE HEAT? WHERE'S THE SIZZLE?VERONICA: WELL, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN OUR BIG FISH YET.(WHISPERG TO BETTY)DON’T EAK OUT -- TST ME --[THEN VERONI PLANTS A BIG, WET KISS ON BETTY’S LIPS -- AND THE HEADS OF EVERY ARCHIE FAN ON THE PLA EXPLO! IT’S THE WATER- OLER MOMENT OF THE 2016/17 TELEVISN SEASON! ? THE GIRLS TURN BACK TO CHERYL, WHO STIFL A YAWN.]CHERYL: CHECK YOUR SELL-BY DATE, LADI. FX LBIAN KISSG HASN’T BEEN TABOO SCE 1994. SO, LET’S SEE IF YOU DO BETTER WH THE TERVIEW PORTN OF OUR DN.CHERYL: BETTY, HOW’S YOUR SISTER DOG?BETTY: UM, POLLY’S -- FE, THANKS FOR ASKG.CHERYL: VERONI, HAS BETTY TOLD YOU ABOUT HER SISTER YET?VERONICA: UH, NO?CHERYL: GO AHEAD, BETTY. TELL VERONI ABOUT YOUR SISTER AND MY AR BROTHER.BETTY: POLLY AND JASON DATED --CHERYL (LGHS): -- I WOULDN’T SAY “DATED.”BETTY: DIDN’T END WELL.CHERYL: IN FACT, JASON’S PROBABLY WHY YOUR SISTER HAD A NERVO BREAKDOWN AND NOW LIV A GROUP HOME, ISN'T ?BETTY: THAT’S -- WHAT MY PARENTS THK.CHERYL: WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT, BETTY? GO AHEAD, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. WHATEVER YOU’VE BEEN DYG TO SPEW ABOUT JASON AND HOW HE TREATED POLLY, UNLEASH . DTROY ME. TEAR ME A NEW ONE -- RIP ME TO SHREDS -- ANNIHILATE ME --BETTY (GIVG ): -- I JT.CHERYL (SATISFACTN): -- FALLY.BETTY: I JT WANT TO SAY...I’M SORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO JASON. I N’T EVEN IMAGE WHAT YOU AND YOUR FAY MT BE GOG THROUGH.[NEEDLS TO SAY, THAT’S NOT WHAT CHERYL WAS HOPG]CHERYL: .. VERONI, WELE TO THE RIVER VIXENS. BETTY, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.VERONICA: -- WA, WHAT? WHY? BEE YOU ULDN’T BULLY BETTY TO BEG A BCH?CHERYL: I NEED GIRLS WH FIRE ON MY SQUAD.VERONICA (CHILLGLY MATTER-OF-FACT): I KNOW WHAT YOU NEED, CHERYL, BEE I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU WOULD RATHER PEOPLE FEAR THAN LIKE YOU. SO, YOU TRAFFIC TERROR AND TIMIDATN. YOU’RE RICH, SO YOU’VE NEVER BEEN HELD ACUNTABLE, BUT I’M LIVG PROOF: THAT CERTATY -- THAT ENTLEMENT -- YOU WEAR ON YOUR HEAD LIKE A CROWN? IT WON’T LAST. EVENTUALLY, THERE WILL BE A RECKONG...(BEAT)OR RECKONG IS NOW. AND MAYBE, THAT ME. BETTY AND I E AS A MATCHG SET. YOU WANT ONE, YOU TAKE BOTH. YOU WANTED FIRE? SORRY, CHERYL-BOMBSHELL, MY SPECIALTY’S ICE. [THE ONLE () CLOSED PTNG HAD "CHERRYBOMBSHELL"][AND WH THAT, A GNTLET'S BEEN THROWN. OFF CHERYL, MULLG...][EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - FOOTBALL FIELD - AFTERNOON][FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS ARE FULL SWG. COACH CLAYTON IS OBSERVG]COACH CLAYTON (TO THE PLAYERS): GO! GET AROUND HIM, GET AROUND HIM![COACH CLAYTON SPS ON THE GROUND]COACH CLAYTON (TO THE PLAYERS): LET'S MOVE![COACH CLAYTON TURNS AND NOTIC ARCHIE BY HIMSELF ON ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD]COACH CLAYTON: ANDREWS![COACH CLAYTON WAV ARCHIE OVER. ARCHIE JOGS OVER TO HIM]COACH CLAYTON (TO THE PLAYERS): THERE WE GO, LOOKG GOOD!ARCHIE (TO COACH CLAYTON): WHAT'S UP, ACH?COACH CLAYTON (TOSS JERSEY TO ARCHIE): HERE.[ARCHIE LOOKS AT THE JERSEY AND NOTIC S NUMBER. 9. HE LOOKS UP AND REALIS.]ARCHIE: THIS IS JASON'S NUMBER.COACH CLAYTON: IT'S YOURS NOW. USUALLY SOPHOMOR ONLY PLAY JV, BUT THIS YEAR WE HAVE AN OPEN SPOT ON VARSY. AND OM WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SHOWG , WELL, I WANT YOU TO FILL .ARCHIE: VARSY'S -- WHAT, LONGER PRACTIC? MORE AWAY GAM?COACH CLAYTON: YEAH, BIGGER MMENT, YEP.ARCHIE: WELL, I NEED TO THK ABOUT , COACH. I --COACH CLAYTON (UNAMED): OH? YOU'VE GOT SOMETHG BETTER TO DO?ARCHIE (VAMPG): MY DAD’S PANY. IT’S -- 'S OUR FAY BS AND HE’S SORT OF UNTG ON ME TO HELP OUT AFTER SCHOOL, ON THE WEEKENDS --COACH CLAYTON (NOTIC A PLAYER DOG SOMETHG WRONG): -- HOLD UP. JACKSON, HOLD THE BALL!COACH CLAYTON (TURNS BACK TO ARCHIE): YOU KNOW WHAT? WHY DON'T YOU, UH, SLEEP ON ?[COACH CLAYTON MOV AWAY TO BRG TRY-OUTS TO AN END]COACH CLAYTON: LET'S GO, BRG , GUYS! C'MON![INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GIRLS’ LOCKER ROOM - AFTERNOON][POST-TRY-OUTS, BETTY AND VERONI, WEARG THE INIC BLUE-AND-GOLD RIVERDALE HIGH CHEERLEADG OUTFS. VERONI ZIPS UP BETTY'S UNIFORM]VERONICA: PERFECT![THEY GIGGLE TOGETHER JUBILATN]VERONICA: VERY "BETTY DRAPER SEASON ONE".[VERONI THEN ADMIR HERSELF MIRROR. BETTY IS HANT FOR A SEND, THEN TAPS VERONI'S SHOULR AND MOV TO START A PRIVATE NVERSATN]BETTY: .. -- WHY DID YOU FEND ME? I KNOW THE CROWD YOU RAN WH NEW YORK. WHY ARE YOU BEG SO NICE?[EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - ATHLETICS TRACK - AFTERNOON]VERONICA: WHEN MY DAD GOT ARRTED -- WAS THEWORST THG EVER. ALL STARTED WRG HORRIBLE THGS ABOUT . WE’D GET LETTERS AND E-MAILS, SAYG DAD WAS A THIEF, MY MOM WAS A CLUELS SOCIALE, AND THAT I WAS THIS SPOILED RICH-BCH ICE-PRCS, HURT MOST ABOUT WAS...(IS SHE GOG THERE?)THE THGS THE TROLLS WERE TE. I WAS LIKE CHERYL -- I WAS WORSE THAN CHERYL. SO, WHEN MY MOM SAID WE WERE MOVG TO RIVERDALE, I MA A PACT WH MYSELF: TO E THIS AS AN OPPORTUNY TO BEE -- MAYBE, HOPEFULLY -- A BETTER VERSN OF MYSELF...BETTY: THAT'S A LOT OF PRSURE.[THIS UNEXPECTED ADMISSN PROMPTS BETTY TO LOWER HER OWN GUARD...]BETTY: WHEN POLLY AND JASON GOT TOGETHER, MEANT EVERYTHG TO HER AND NOTHG TO HIM, AND, AND THGS GOT SUPER-TENSE, AND WEIRD AND TOXIC. AND MY MOM TURNED ON POLLY. SAID POLLY WASN’T HER DGHTER ANYMORE, SAID ALL THE AWFUL THGS TO HER...(THEN)JASON HURT POLLY, BUT ’S MY MOM WHO BROKE HER...[JT THEN, VERONI NOTIC ARCHIE GOG FOR A LAP AROUND THE TRACK]VERONICA: ARCHIE!(TURNS TO BETTY)-- YOU'RE SO DOG THIS.BETTY: WHAT?VERONICA (GRABS HER) : SLAYG YOUR DRAGONS, BETTY COOPER, ONE BY ONE.[ARCHIE JOGS UP TO THEM]VERONICA: HI, TEEN OUTLANR.ARCHIE: HEY, NICE OUTFS!BETTY (FLABERGASTED): HEHVERONICA: BETTY HERE HAS SOMETHG SHE WANTS TO ASK YOU. ABOUT THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL DANCE. GO ON, BETTY, ASK.[BETTY REALLY DON'T WANT TO]BETTY (HANTLY): I WAS WONRG IF YOU WANTED TO E WH BOTH OF .ARCHIE (NFED): HUH?VERONICA (EXTREMELY NFED): WHAT?BETTY: IT'S YOUR FIRST DANCE AT RIVERDALE, YOU SHOULD HAVE SOMEONE TO GO WH, EVEN IF 'S JT A IEND.VERONICA (SURPRISED, BUT TRYG TO GET ARCHIE TO JO): I MEAN, I'D LOVE TO.ARCHIE: I’M NOT REALLY , THE HEAD-SPACE FOR A DANCE.BETTY (DISAPPOTED): OH, THAT'S OKAY.VERONICA (UNFIVG): TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, ARCHIEKS. WE NEED AN RT. TAKE A BREAK OM BEG A TORTURED MIL GENI AND E SPEND A BLISSFUL EVENG WH NOT ONE, BUT TWO NEWLY MTED RIVER VIXENS. WE'LL TEXT YOU A TIME AND PLACE.ARCHIE (WON OVER AND S): HEH. OKAY. YEAH, OKAY. BYEBETTY (DREAY): BYE.[ARCHIE WALKS AWAY AND BETTY FOLLOWS HIM WH HER EY, S][INT. COOPER FAMILY HOUSE - BETTY'S BEDROOM - AFTERNOON][BETTY IS OVERJOYED AT ARCHIE AGREEG TO GO TO THE DANCE WH HER AND VERONI. SHE'S DANCG HER ROOM HER RIVER VIXEN UNIFORM AND GETTG READY, WHILST LIP-SYNCG TO TOVE STYRKE'S "NUMBER ONE"][SUDNLY THE MIC STOPS]ALICE: WHAT IS THAT?BETTY (NERVOLY): I MA THE CHEERLEADG SQUAD.ALICE: CHERYL BLOSSOM'S CHEERLEADG SQUAD? AFTER WHAT JASON DID TO POLLY? NO, I'M SORRY. I WON'T ALLOW . TAKE THAT OFF RIGHT NOW.BETTY (FIANT): NO.ALICE: WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?BETTY: I DO EVERYTHG, FOR EVERYONE -- EVERYTHG, TO BE PERFECT! THE PERFECT DGHTER -- THE PERFECT SISTER -- THE PERFECT STUNT. CAN'T I DO THIS ONE THG JT FOR ME?(SHE GRABS HER PURSE AND STARTS TO WALK AWAY)OUT OF MY WAYALICE: WHERE ARE YOU GOG?BETTY: TO BUY A DRS. BEE, GUS WHAT? I'M ALSO GOG TO THE DANCE WH ARCHIE – AND WH VERONI.ALICE: WA, HERMNE LODGE'S DGHTER?BETTY: SHE'S ACTUALLY REALLY NICE AND TRYG TO BE A GOOD PERSON.ALICE: YOU THK SO? YOU THK SHE'S GOG TO BE YOUR IEND? LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHG, GIRLS LIKE CHERYL AND VERONI LODGE, THEY DON'T LIKE GIRLS LIKE --BETTY (CUTTG HER MOM OFF): I DON'T WANT TO HEAR , MOM! IT'S HAPPENG, I'M GOG.[INT. THE PEMBROOKE APARTMENT BUILDING - DUSK][HERMNE ARRIV HOME, SPENT. SMHERS IS THERE TO HELP RRY BAGS AND OPEN DOOR.]HERMIONE: THANK YOU, SMHERS. AS ALWAYS YOU'RE A GOD-SEND.SMITHERS: HAPPY TO HELP, MS. HERMNE.HERMIONE (GMBL): WELL, UNLIKE THE RT OF RIVERDALE.[HERMNE NOTIC A BAG ON A SK]HERMIONE (TO SMHERS): WHAT'S THAT?SMITHERS: OH! A SPOT OF GOOD NEWS. THE R SERVICE PHONED AND DROPPED OFF A MISSG BAG.[SMHERS WALKS DOWN THE STAIRS AND AWAY]HERMIONE (NFED): MISSG BAG?[SHE OPENS THE BAG, WHICH IS FILLED WH MONEY]HERMIONE: OH, HAVE YOU DONE?[EXT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - THE BACK PORCH - LATE AFTERNOON]ARCHIE, WH HIS GUAR, EXPERIMENTG WH A NEW SONG. HE PLAYS SOME, THEN MAK NOT A NOTEBOOK BY HIS SI. FRED OUT, DRKG A BEER. NOT ANGRY, BUT SOMETHG’S WEIGHG ON HIM.FRED: I, UH, GOT A LL OM YOUR COACH TODAY. HE’S UNR THE IMPRSN THAT YOU N’T PLAY VARSY FOOTBALL BEE I’M MAKG YOU WORK FOR ME...(ARCHIE’S BTED!)WHICH IS ODD, BEE YOU MA SEEM THAT YOU ULDN'T WORK FOR ME BEE YOU WERE PLAYG FOOTBALL... SO MY FIRST QUTN IS: WHO ARE YOU LYG TO? ME OR YOUR COACH?ARCHIE: NEHER -- BOTH(EP END OF THE SWIMMG POOL)DAD, I WANT TO STUDY MIC, I WANT TO WRE MIC.FRED: FOOTBALL TAK YOU TO LLEGE, LLEGE TAK YOU TO BS SCHOOL, BS SCHOOL TAK --ARCHIE: -- TAK ME BACK HERE, TO WORK FOR YOU RIVERDALE.FRED: NOT FOR ME, WH ME. AND EVENTUALLY FOR YOURSELF. SON, THE PANY WOULD BE YOURS.ARCHIE: NO DISRPECT, DAD, BUT I DON’T WANT .FRED: THREE MONTHS AGO, YOU DID -- WHAT HAPPENED?ARCHIE: I'VE CHANGED, EVERYTHG'S CHANGED. THIS SUMMER --[ARCHIE HAT]FRED: -- THIS SUMMER WHAT?[ARCHIE N’T. WHAT WOULD HE SAY TO HIS DAD?]FRED: ..’S ? WE DON’T TALK TO EACH OTHER ANYMORE.ARCHIE: DAD --FRED: I WOULD NEVER FORCE YOU TO PLAY FOOTBALL -- I DON’T RE IF YOU PLAY FOOTBALL. AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK WH ME OR FOR ME, EVER AGA. BUT SOME ADVICE, MAN-TO-MAN? THE CISNS THAT YOU’RE MAKG NOW, SON -- THEY HAVE NSEQUENC, THEY GO ON TO FORM WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU'LL BEE. WHATEVER YOU CI, BE NFINT ENOUGH . THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIE.[FRED TURNS OM ARCHIE, AND GO BACK TO THE HOE; NOTHG ROLVED BETWEEN FATHER AND SON...][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - NIGHT][DERATED FOR THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL DANCE. STREAMERS, LIGHTS, AND... GIANT PHOTO-PORTRAITS OF JASON BLOSSOM, HOVERG OVER EVERYTHG. ARCHIE, BETTY, AND VERONI ARRIVE, ARM--ARM, AND THE MOMENT IS LIKE CRELLA ARRIVG AT THE BALL, CARRIE ARRIVG AT THE PROM (BEFORE THE BUCKET OF BLOOD). VERONI TAK , SIGHS...]VERONICA: WELL, ’S NOT THE MET BALL.BETTY (TO ARCHIE, WHO IS BEG STRANGELY QUIET): HEY, WHEN DO YOU HAVE TO LET COACH CLAYTON KNOW ABOUT FOOTBALL?ARCHIE: THIS WEEKEND.VERONICA: GUYS, N'T WE JT LIBERATE OURSELV OM THE TIRED DICHOTOMY OF JOCK/ARTIST? CAN'T WE THIS POST-JAM FRAN WORLD BE ALL THGS, AT ONCE?ARCHIE: I'M WORKG ON , VERONI.VERONICA (EXCG HERSELF): WORK FASTER. I’M GETTG PUNCH. (SOTTO, TO BETTY)YOU GOT THIS.[VERONI GO. ARCHIE AND BETTY MOVE FURTHER TO THE CROWD...]BETTY: IT'S ABOUT FOLLOWG YOUR HEART, RIGHT? WHAT DO YOUR HEART SAY?[BETTY AND ARCHIE STOP SO SHE N TIDY UP HIS BOWTIE.]BETTY: MIC OR FOOTBALL?[ARCHIE SPOTS MS. GNDY, OFF TO THE SI, CHAPERONG --]ARCHIE: BETTY, WILL YOU GIVE ME ONE MUTE?(OFF HER “YOU’RE KIDDG” LOOK)AND I PROMISE, WHEN I GET BACK, I’LL BE A MUCH BETTER DATE, OKAY? I HAVE A PLAN --[ARCHIE’S OFF, MAKG HIS WAY TOWARDS MS. GNDY. BEFORE BETTY N GET TOO UPSET, SHE’S RCUED BY -- KEV]KEV: BETTY, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHO JT PROPOSNED ME THE BATHROOM. GIVE YOU A HT: HIS NAME MAY BE MOOSE, BUT I'D SCRIBE A CERTA APPENDAGE OF HIS AS HORSE-LIKE.[BETTY IS SHOCKED AND NFED][BUT WE’RE WITH: ARCHIE, STOPPG OFF TO GET SOME PUNCH, BEFORE MOVG TO TALK WH MS. GNDY, WHO OBSERV HIM DISCREETLY]ARCHIE: DON’T PANIC, I’M NOT STALKG YOU.MS. GRUNDY: ARCHIE? DIDN’T WE HAVE A AL?ARCHIE: NO GERALDE, WE HAVE A SECRET. MULTIPLE SECRETS, ACTUALLY. AND MAYBE WE ULD’VE DONE SOMETHG TO HELP JASON THAT MORNG, OR MAYBE WE ULDN’T HAVE -- AND I WON’T TELL ANYONE, ANYTHG -- BUT, YOU NEED TO HELP ME. THIS SUMMER, THE ONLY THAT KEPT ME SANE WAS WRG THE SONGS. SO, HERE’S MY NOT-SO-CENT PROPOSAL. I WANT TO DO AN INPENNT STUDY WH YOU, AS MANY MORNGS A WEEK AS YOU N SPARE, AND I SWEAR: THAT’S ALL WILL BE. AND I WON’T TELL ANYONE ABOUT JULY FOURTH, EVER -- AL?[FUCK, IS ARCHIE BLACKMAILG MS. GNDY? IS THAT THE KD OF SHOW WE’RE DOG?]MS. GRUNDY: .., WEDNDAY, FRIDAY, 7:30AM, BEFORE FIRST PERD, I’LL SET UP. AND SEE ABOUT GETTG YOU CRED.[MS. GNDY THEN STANDS UP AND STRIS AWAY][CUT TO MOOSE AND REGGIE SPIKG THE PUNCH. VERONI WALKS BY DRAGGG KEV, WHO STAR AT MOOSE.]CHERYL (O.S.): GOOD EVENG, IENDS. ARE YOU ALL HAVG A GOOD TIME?[CUT TO CHERYL EMCEEG ON STAGE A EXTRAVAGANT CRIMSON GOWN. THE CROWD APPLDS AND CHEERS]CHERYL: AS HONORARY CHAIR-PERSON, AND -FACTO QUEEN OF TONIGHT'S SEMI-FORMAL, IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO TRODUCE THIS EVENG'S MA ENTERTAMENT. TO KNOW THEM IS TO BE OBSSED WH THEM. ALTHOUGH THEY UALLY PERFORM THEIR OWN MATERIAL, TONIGHT THEY'RE MAKG AN EXCEPTN AND BUTG A VER OF THE SONG MY PARENTS CLAIM THEY WERE LISTENG TO THE NIGHT JASON AND I WERE NCEIVED. THIS ONE'S FOR YOU JAY-JAY.[WE SEE ARCHIE MAKG HIS WAY OVER TO BETTY]ARCHIE: SORRY ABOUT THAT.CHERYL: (GTUR TO THEM) -- I GIVE YOU JOSIE AND THE PSYTS.[CROWD CHEERS AND APPLDS AS CHERYL CES THE STAGE TO JOSIE, MELODY, AND VALERIE.]ARCHIE: WANT TO DANCE?BETTY (SG): YEAH![THEY START TO SLOW DANCE]BETTY: DID THAT GO OKAY?ARCHIE: YEAH, Y, SO I'LL STUDY WH MS. GNDY BEFORE SCHOOL, FOOTBALL PRACTICE AFTER SCHOOL, AND WORKG AT MY DAD’S ON WEEKENDS, ’LL GONNA BE NUTS --BETTY: -- SO LONG AS YOU DON’T GIVE UP YOUR PASSN...[WE CUT TO JOSIE AND THE PSYTS PLAYG AS WELL AS A WI VIEW OF ALL THE UPL DANCG][BETTY LOOKS OVER AT VERONI AND KEV, WHO ARE BOTH MOUTHG "DO !" TO HER]BETTY: UHM. NOW THAT I’M A RIVER VIXEN AND YOU’RE GONNA BE ON VARSY FOOTBALL, I HAVE THIS FANTASY OF AS A POWER-UPLE, OR MAYBE EVEN JT AS A UPLE.ARCHIE: BETTY?BETTY: IS THAT SO IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGE?[ARCHIE LOOKS OM BETTY, TO MS. GNDY, STANDG OFF TO THE SI.][THE SONG FISH AND BETTY AND ARCHIE SEPARATE, CLEARLY FEELG AWKWARD TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER. CHERYL, OFF TO THE SI STANDG WH TWO MNS, ALSO NOTIC THIS.]CHERYL (TO THE MNS): MAKE SURE THOSE TWO TURTLEDOV E TO MY AFTERPARTY. VERONI TOO.(S)I'M THE MOOD FOR CHAOS.[INT. BLOSSOM HOME - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT]CHERYL: IT'S GAME TIME AT CHE BLOSSOM'S, KIDDI. WE'RE GOG OLD-SCHOOL TONIGHT. SEVEN MUT HEAVEN.[BOTH VERONI AND BETTY SE AT EACH OTHER, ASSURG ONE ANOTHER THAT THEY HAVE EACH OTHER'S BACK]CHERYL: WHO WANTS TO TRYST THE CLOSET OF LOVE FIRST? MY VOTE IS “A” FOR ARCHIE. ANYONE RE TO SEND ?[BOTH VERONI AND BETTY LOOK AT ARCHIE, WHO IS STANDG OFF TO THE SI, NOT THE MOOD]ARCHIE: UH, ACTUALLY --REGGIE (RAISG HIS HAND): Y -- ANDREWS -- YES(CLEARLY DNK)HUH HAH, OL!CHERYL: ALL RIGHT, GATHER ROUND, KIDS, LET'S SEE WHO'S RIDG THE GGER STALLN TONIGHT.[CHERYL SPS A BOTTLE. ALL EY ARE ON THE BOTTLE OF CHERRY AS SPS AROUND. CHERYL MOV AROUND SLYLY, OBSERVG THE BOTTLE AND HER TWO TARGETS: VERONI AND BETTY][THE BOTTLE EVENTUALLY LANDS BETWEEN VERONI AND BETTY]REGGIE: OHH, NO! NO WAY![VERONI AND BETTY LOOK AT EACH OTHER]CHERYL: IT'S CLEARLY POTG TO, THE NEW GIRL. THIS SHOULD BE FUN.VERONICA: I’M NOT DOG THIS.CHERYL: THAT’S UP TO YOU. BUT, IF YOU DON’T, HOE RUL CREE THE HOST GETS TO TAKE YOUR TURN.[BETTY LOOKS AT ARCHIE PLEADFULLY][INT. BLOSSOM HOUSE - BASEMENT CLOSET - NIGHT (MOMENTS LATER)][DARKNESS. THEN -- ONE IPHONE LIGHTS UP. THEN -- A SEND IPHONE LIGHTS UP. ARCHIE AND VERONI, L ONLY BY THEIR CELL PHON, HUDDLE THE DARK...]VERONICA: I KNOW HER BROTHER DIED AND EVERYTHG, BUT CHERYL BLOSSOM TLY IS THE ANTI-CHRIST.[THEY BOTH CHUCKLE]ARCHIE: SO, DO YOU MISS NEW YORK?VERONICA: IT’S BEEN LS THAN A WEEK. BUT Y.ARCHIE: SIX MUT, TWENTY SENDS. OKAY, YOUR TURN. ASK ME A EP, PROBG QUTN. TO, UHM. KILL TIME.VERONICA: IT LOOKED LIKE YOU AND BETTY WERE HAVG FUN AT THE DANCE.ARCHIE: DEFELY. WE’VE BEEN IENDS FOREVER. MY TURN.VERONICA: I DIDN’T ASK MY QUTN YET. IS THAT ALL IS? JT IENDS?ARCHIE: WE'RE NOT JT IENDS, WE'RE BT IENDS. MY TURN: DID YOU HAVE A BOYIEND BACK NEW YORK?VERONICA: NO. MY TURN: COULD EVER POSSIBLY BEE SOMETHG MORE?ARCHIE: ARE YOU ASKG FOR BETTY OR FOR YOURSELF?VERONICA: FOR BETTY -- AND YOU DIDN’T ANSWER MY QUTN.ARCHIE: I’VE NEVER FELT -- WHATEVER IS I’M SUPPOSED TO FEEL -- WH BETTY.VERONICA: HAVE YOU FELT , THOUGH? WH ANYONE?ARCHIE: -- YEAH -- THIS SUMMER -- HAVE YOU?VERONICA: MAYBE ONCE.(THEN, REALIZG)YOU’RE A LTLE MORE DANGERO THAN YOU LOOK, AREN’T YOU? ALL BOY-NEXT-DOOR-ISH?ARCHIE: YOU HAVE NO IA...VERONICA: YOUR TURN. ASK ME A QUTN, ARCHIE...(PUTTG OUT THERE)ASK ME ANYTHG YOU WANT...[THE AIR -- THE SPACE -- BETWEEN THEM IS THICK WH SEXUAL TENSN.]VEORNICA: WE SHOULDN'T DO THIS.ARCHIE: WE FELY SHOULDN'T DO THIS.[SO ARCHIE AND VERONI START TO KISS... TENTATIVELY AT FIRST, THEN MORE AND MORE PASSNATELY...][INT. BLOSSOM HOME - BASEMENT - NIGHT (6.5 MINUTES LATER)][SHEEPISHLY, ARCHIE AND VERONI EMERGE OM THE CLOSET...]REGGIE: NAILED . Y!VERONICA: WHERE'S BETTY?CHERYL: SHE SPIRALED AND FLED. BETWEEN , SHE'S A LOT MORE HIGH-STNG THAN SHE LOOKS.VERONICA: YOU SHADY BCH.[ARCHIE AND VERONI TRA A LOOK. AND THEN BOTH STRI AWAY TO LOOK FOR BETTY][CHERYL LOOKS AT THEM, NOT THE LEAST B NCERNED]ARCHIE: CRAP! BETTY'S CELL IS OFF.VERONICA: I’LL GETTG AN UBER.ARCHIE: CAN I E WH YOU? WE SHOULD PROBABLY TRY TO FD HER.VERONICA: BELIEVE ME, THE LAST THG BETTY WANTS IS TRACKG HER DOWN, TOGETHER. WE MSED UP.[FROM THE LOOK ON VERONI’S FACE, WE N TELL: SHE'S ALREADY REGRETTG THOSE SEVEN MUT...][INT. THE LODGE APARTMENT - NIGHT][VERONI HOME OM CHERYL’S, TO FD HERMNE, HAVG A GLASS OF WE.]HERMIONE: HEY, YOU'RE HOME EARLY. HOW WAS THE DANCE?VERONICA (VERG): IT WAS FE. I MEAN, 'S NOT THE MET BALL OR ANYTHG...HERMIONE: TELL ME ABOUT .VERONICA: I’M SUPER-TIRED, MOM.[VERONI LAYS DOWN, LAYG HER HEAD DOWN HER MOTHER'S LAP]HERMIONE: IS EVERYTHG OKAY? RONI, HEY, WHAT IS ?[VERONI DON'T ANSWER][EXT. POP'S CHOCK’LIT SHOPPE DINER - NIGHT]WALKG HOME OM THE AFTER-PARTY, REELG OM THE NIGHT, ARCHIE PASS THE ONE PLACE TOWN THAT'S OPEN. POP’S DER.]JUGHEAD: IT WAS MIDNIGHT, WHEN MY OLD IEND, ARCHIE ANDREWS, ARRIVED AT THE ONE PLACE TOWN THAT'S STILL OPEN. HE WAS LOOKG FOR THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. INSTEAD, HE FOUND ME.[INT. POP'S DINER - NIGHT][ARCHIE WALKS TO THE DER, NOTIC JUGHEAD AT A BOOTH. THE TWO LOCK EY, THEN ARCHIE WALKS OVER TO POP TATE AT THE UNTER]ARCHIE: HEY, POP. BETTY HASN'T E TONIGHT, HAS SHE?POP: NO. JT THE NIGHTHAWK'S TONIGHT.[POP NODS TOWARDS JUGHEAD]ARCHIE (TO POP): THANKS.[ARCHIE THEN PROCEEDS TO MOVE OVER TO WHERE JUGHEAD IS STG]ARCHIE: OH, N I S, JUGHEAD?JUGHEAD (SHGS): IF YOU WANT.[ARCHIE DO SO]ARCHIE: WHAT ARE YOU WORKG ON?JUGHEAD: MY NOVEL. IT'S ABOUT THIS SUMMER -- AND JASON BLOSSOM.[WE SEE THE SCREEN, WHICH HAS APPLE PAG OPEN WH A PAGE OPEN OF THE NOVEL]ARCHIE: SEVENTEEN YEARS HOW WILL HE BE REMEMBERED? AS CAPTA OF THE WATER POLO TEAM?JUGHEAD: THE AQUAHOLICS? CONSIRG HOW HE DIED, PROBABLY NOT.ARCHIE: NO, WHAT I MEAN IS, WAS HE DOG EVERYTHG HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO? EVERYTHG HE WANTED -- I MEAN, DID HE EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT WAS?[NEHER SAY ANYTHG, UNTIL JUGHEAD CHANG THE SUBJECT]JUGHEAD: COACH CLAYTON WAS HERE TALKG TO POP TATE. VARSY? DO THAT MAKE YOU, WHAT, MR. POPULAR FOOTBALL GOD NOW?ARCHIE: NO. IN FACT, I'M KD OF TERRIFIED I LOST MY BT IEND TONIGHT.JUGHEAD: IF YOU MEAN BETTY, WHATEVER HAPPENED, JT TALK TO HER, MAN. THAT WOULD GO A LONG WAY.(THEN)WOULD’VE GONE A LONG WAY WH ME.[EXT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - NIGHT][THIS LATE, ARCHIE'S EXHSTED, BUT WIRED. AS HE STARTS UP THE WALK TO HIS HOE, BETTY STEPS OUT OF THE ONT DOOR. SHE'D BEEN WAG FOR HIM]BETTY: ...I'M NOT GOG TO ASK WHAT YOU DID WHVERONI AT CHERYL'S -- BUT I’M ASKG YOU NOW, RIGHT NOW, IF YOU LOVE ME, ARCHIE? OR EVEN LIKE ME?ARCHIE: OF URSE I LOVE YOU, BETTY, BUT...I N'T GIVE YOU THE ANSWER YOU WANT...BETTY: WHY?ARCHIE: YOU’RE SO PERFECT, I’VE NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU...I’LL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU...[THE TWO LIFE-LONG IENDS LOOK AT EACH OTHER -- HEARTS BREAKG -- A TTH BETWEEN THEM FALLY SPOKEN , WH TEARS STARTG TO TO STREAM DOWN HER FACE, TURNS AND WALKS TO HER HOME, AND CLOS THE DOOR]JUGHEAD (V.O.): AND SO, WASN'T ONE HEART THAT BROKE THAT NIGHT. IT WAS TWO. AND THE NIGHT WAS FAR OM OVER.[EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - NIGHT][MOOSE AND KEV EX MOOSE'S R AT THE EDGE OF THE SWEETWATER RIVER]MOOSE: FOR THE RERD, I'M NOT GAY.KEVIN: OBVLY NOT MOOSE, YOU'RE ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM. BUT IF YOU WERE GAY, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?MOOSE: EVERYTHG BUT KISS.KEVIN (LGHS): I LOVE A GOOD CLOSET SE.[THE TWO WALK DOWN TO THE RIVER, WHILE EACH STARTG TO REMOVE THEIR OUTER LAYERS]KEVIN: SO, LET'S START WH SKNY-DIPPG. AND THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS?[KEV TRIPS OVER HIMSELF WHEN WALKG BACKWARDS]MOOSE: DU! ARE YOU OKAY?[KEV STAR, MOUTH WI-OPEN AT SOMETHG THE RIVER. MOOSE NOTIC THIS AND STAR AS WELL][A BODY, A WHE SU, IS LYG FACE UP THE WATER. THE MERA THEN REPOSNS TO PAN TOWARDS THE HEAD OF THE BODY, WHICH WE SEE IS JASON – WHO HAS A GUNSHOT WOUND JT ABOVE THE EY. HIS MOUTH IS OPEN]KEVIN: OH MY GOD, JASON -- HE WAS SHOT.[INT. POP'S DINER - NIGHT][JUGHEAD, TYPG AWAY AT HIS KEYBOARD, RUMG WH HIS V-O]JUGHEAD (V.O.): .. MORNG, EVERYONE WOULD BE TALKG,TEXTG, AND POSTG ABOUT ... WE’D ALL BE FEELG . THAT THE WORLD AROUND HAD CHANGED, MAYBE FOREVER...[EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - EARLY MORNING][THE ENTIRE TOWN, ALL OUR CHARACTERS, HAVE GATHERED. AS RIVERDALE POLICE, HELP PARAMEDICS LOAD JASON’S BODY TO AN AMBULANCE... BETTY’S THERE, WH HER FOLKS. VERONI, HERMNE. ARCHIE’S WH HIS PARENTS. MS. GNDY’S THERE WH WEATHERBEE, OTHER TEACHERS AND STUNTS. THEY ALL LOOK...TRANSFORMED. SRED. ESPECIALLY CHERYL.]JUGHEAD (V.O.): .. RIVERDALE WASN'T THE SAME TOWNANYMORE. THAT WAS A TOWN OF SHADOWS AND SECRETS NOW. ON MONDAY, THE TOPSY WOULD TAKE PLACE. AND ON TUDAY, HALFWAY THROUGH FIFTH-PERD, THE FIRST ARRT WOULD BE MA.["RIVERDALE" TLE IS DISPLAYED S NEON BLUE LIGHTS][END OF EPISODE]3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER
• ARCHIE GO GAYBY BRETT BERKAPRIL 26, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE GANG AT ARCHIE COMICS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LONGT-NNG AND MOST POPULAR IC BOOKS EVER, HAS FALLY CID TO QUEER THGS UP A LTLE. THIS FALL, AN OPENLY GAY TEENAGER, KEV KELLER—A HUNKY YOUNG TRANSFER STUNT WH A SQUARE JAW AND A FURROWED BLOND HAIRDO THAT LOOKS NOT UNLIKE A GILD RO MIRROR AME—WILL ENROLL AT RIVERDALE HIGH, IMMEDIATELY DRAWG THE ATTENTN OF BOYS AND GIRLS ALIKE. I SEE THIS AS FURTHER EVINCE OF GLEE’S FLUENCE AS THE GAYT THG TO H THE MASTREAM SCE MANSPG (AND THE PENULTIMATE STEP THE HOMOSEXUAL TAKEOVER OF AMERI). NOW THAT CHRIS COLFER (“KURT”) IS THE NATN’S SWEETHEART, EVERY NOCENT BASTN OF TEENAGER-DOM IS STGGLG TO GET S OWN LTLE HOMO. OBVLY, I SUPPORT THIS ENAVOR. GAY KIDS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND THEY SERVE TO SEE THEMSELV STEREOTYPILLY PORTRAYED AS HOT, POPULAR, BODY-OBSSED, VAPID, AND TWO-DIMENSNAL JT LIKE EVERY OTHER PICTN OF YOUNG PEOPLE POPULAR CULTURE. BUT THIS KEV CHARACTER BEGS A FEW QUTNS ABOUT THE ARCHIE-VERSE.1) IS HE REALLY FIRST? THE LAST TIME I READ AN ARCHIE IC, I WAS PROBABLY ABOUT EIGHT. THEY HAD THEM THE WAG AREA OF THIS WEIRD FAY RTRANT WE ED TO GO TO SUBURBAN DETRO LLED BILL KNAPP'S, WHERE THEY SERVED THIS TENDON-Y CHICKEN AND BISCUS, AND WHERE YOU ULD GET A EE CHOLATE KE IF YOU ME ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. ANYWAY, AS FAR AS I N REMEMBER, THE ENTIRE PLOT OF NEARLY EVERY STORYLE REVOLVED AROUND AN IMPLIED THREE-WAY BETWEEN THE EPONYMO ARCHIE, BTE HEIRS VERONI, AND FLAXEN-HAIRED GIRL-NEXT-DOOR BETTY. MAYBE GIRL-ON-GIRL ACTN LIKE THIS DON’T UNT AS "GAY." OR MAYBE, SCE THE LADI NEVER OFFICIALLY CLARED THEMSELV TO BE LBIANS, KEV IS THE FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER.WHEN’S THE MOVIE G OUT? ARCHIE HAS BEEN LEFT LANGUISHG WHILE LERALLY EVERY OTHER IC BOOK EVER WRTEN—AND SOME THAT AREN’T EVEN FISHED YET—HAS BEEN MA TO A MAJOR MOTN PICTURE. WHY? BEE THE SERI IS ENTIRELY LACKG BLOOD-SPLATTERG VLENCE, BROODG AND PRSIVE PROTAGONISTS, SK-TIGHT STUM, ERSATZ SUPERPOWERS, HTS AT SEXUAL ISSN, OR NE YEAR-OLDS NSTANTLY SAYG CUNT AND MOTHER-FUCKER LIKE THEY HAVE A TOURETTIAN TIC. INSTEAD, ’S ABOUT A BUNCH OF SIPID, AVERAGE FOOLS WHO DON’T DO ANYTHG BUT DRIVE AROUND, DRK ICE CREAM SODAS, AND OTHERWISE ACT LIKE THEY JT PED OM A DULLED-DOWN VERSN OF BETTY DRAPER’S ADOLCENCE, OR SOME SORT OF VTAGE MCTEEN VENDG MACHE. NOW THAT THEY’VE GOT A GAY, THEY HAVE AN EDGY, -URANT “PROBLEM” AROUND WHICH THEY N BUILD SOMETHG THAT ULD POTENTIALLY REMBLE A PLOT. (ATTENTN STG DIRECTORS: KELLAN LUTZ WOULD MAKE A GREAT KEV, PECIALLY IF HE TAK LOTS OF SHOWERS.)WHO’S HE GOG TO GET WH? IN KEV'S GURAL ISSUE, VERONI GO ALL BONKERS FOR THE SUPER-CREAMY NEWER, AND HE HAS TO LET HER DOWN EASY BY EXPLAG THAT, WHEN TO BREAKFAST, HE PREFERS LKS OVER PATTI. SPEAKG OF MEAT, THIS LEAV KEV SURVEYG THE BUFFET THE BOYS’ LOCKER ROOM FOR A LIKELY SNACK. LET’S EXAME THE OFFERGS AND TRY TO TERME WHERE THE FOOD PYRAMID HE SHOULD SK HIS TEETH.ARCHIE. IS THE WHOLE MENAGE-A-TROIS ANY REALLY JT AN OVER-PENSATORY SMOKCREEN? EVEN IF, AS MOR HAS , ARCHIE JT LIKE TO WATCH, GIVEN HIS BRAH-TASTIC FAD-JEANS-AND-UNTUCKED-SHIRT ENSEMBLE, MY GAYDAR SAYS,“NO.”JUGHEAD. HIS DORKY CROWN READS AS MORE "PRCE" THAN "QUEEN," AND I THK WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE KIDS WERE REALLY REFERRG TO WHEN THEY NICKNAMED HIM NEEDLE NOSE. KEV SAYS, "PASS."REGGIE. HE’S HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND HAS THE BIEBER-QUE “HOT BOVER." ALSO, HE LOV TO PULL PRANKS, LIKE OTHER FAMOLY EFFETE TRICKSTERS (BUGS BUNNY, PK PANTHER, JACK SPARROW, TYLER PERRY). BUT WOULD NEARLY 70 YEARS OF ONE-NOTE PLOTL IF HE SUDNLY WASN’T PETG FOR VERONI’S AMORO ATTENTNS, AND THEN WHAT WOULD THE IC BE ABOUT?MOOSE. AN ALL-STAR ATHLETE WHO’S AS SWEET AS A KTEN: TOTAL THREE-BEER-QUEER. I SEE A SENR YEAR FILLED WH DNKEN TANGL THE BACK OF A TCK. BUT MOOSE’S BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTATN AND SHAMEFUL MONDAY MORNG IGNOMY ISN’T THE LOVE KEV SEEKS OR SERV.DILTON. HE’S A BPECTACLED BRAIAC WHO IS ALWAYS READY TO HELP “TUTOR” OTHER STUNTS—PECIALLY MOOSE. A NTERED PEOPLE PLEASER, HE SEEMS LIKE HE’D BE WILLG TO DO WHATEVER TAK TO GA SOCIAL PAL. KEV MIGHT PLUCK A FEW ELEMENTS OM HIS PERDIC TABLE, BUT WOULD PROBABLY QUICKLY TIRE OF HIS SPERATE BOTTOM ACT.CHUCK. HE’S BLACK, HE’S SHAPE, HE’S AN ARTIST, AND—ACRDG TO HIS ONLE B—HIS GIRLIEND NANCY OFTEN GETS PISSED AT “TAKG A BACK SEAT TO HIS OTHER TERTS.” SISTER, I HATE TO BE THE ONE TO BREAK TO YOU, BUT YOUR MAN IS ON THE DL. GAY AND TERRACIAL! THIS IS JT THE KD OF HEAT THE ARCHIE BRAND NEEDS TO MAKE RELEVANT FOR GENERATN G (GAGA, GLEE, AND GOSSIP GIRL). CHUCKY GETS LUCKY![IMAG: ARCHIE COMIC PUBLITNS INC.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDBRETT BERK
• WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?

YOU THK 'RIVERDALE' IS WILD? WA TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA'S GAY ARCHIE PLAY

Well, at the time the theater's artistic director Sean Daniels said "Archie Comics thought if Archie was portrayed as beg gay, that would dilute and tarnish his image. And was bee he ma Archie gay?

It reimaged Archie as a gay teen and llege stunt makg his way through the world. Related: Archie Comics’ gay pal Kev Keller is gettg married. In 2010, Archie Comics troduced the first-ever gay character s seri’ 70 year history, Kev Keller.

‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today. gay clubs but, wh a strg of hs, expand to natnal tours and TV.

CHAPTER ONE: THE RIVER’S EDGERIVERDALETRACK 1 ON SEASON 1 PRODUCED BYTHE CW (CHANNEL)JAN. 26, 20171 VIEWER26.6K VIEWS3 CONTRIBUTORSCHAPTER ONE: THE RIVER’S EDGE LYRICS[BIRD'S EYE-VIEW OF AN AMERIN SMALL TOWN.][A MALE TEENAGER’S VOICE-OVER NARRAT]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): OUR STORY IS ABOUT A TOWN. A SMALL TOWN.[WE SEE: NONSCRIPT SUBURBAN STREETS, ANONYMO, MYSTER.]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THE TOWN.[WE SEE: RIVERDALE’S MAIN DRAG. STORE-ONTS, LOL BS. PEOPLE, DIFFERENT AG, SIZ, RAC, WALKG...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): FROM A DISTANCE, PRENTS SELF LIKE SO MANY OTHER SMALL TOWNS ALL OVER THE WORLD.[WE CYCLE THROUGH IMAGES OF: CY HALL, PICKS PARK, THE BIJOU MOVIE THEATRE, THE FIRE STATN, THE COMIC BOOK SHOP, THE HIGH SCHOOL, THE 24-HOUR DER, POP’S...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): SAFE. DECENT. INNOCENT. GET CLOSER THOUGH AND YOU START SEEG THE SHADOWS UNRNEATH.[WE SEE A “WELE TO RIVERDALE” SIGN. ITS FAD MOTTO: “THE TOWN WH PEP!”]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): THE NAME OF OUR TOWN IS RIVERDALE.[EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - EARLY MORNING][A BETIFUL, SLOW-MOVG RIVER, ETERNAL, HYPNOTIC. A RED CONVERTIBLE DRIV ALONG THE ROAD RRYG TWO IMPOSSIBLY GEO TEENAGERS, BOTH RED-HAIRED, STEP OUT OF THE R...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): AND OUR STORY BEGS, I GUS, WH WHAT THE BLOSSOM TWS DID THIS SUMMER...[THEY ARE JASON AND CHERYL BLOSSOM, AND REALLY, THEY ULD BE MOLS OM AN ABERCROMBIE & FCH TALOGUE.][THEY LOOK OUT AT THE RIVER’S SHIMMERG, RIPPLG SURFACE, START WALKG TOWARDS A DOCK...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JT AFTER DAWN, JASON AND CHERYL BLOSSOM DROVE OUT TO SWEETWATER RIVER FOR AN EARLY MORNG BOAT-RI[AS THEY NEAR THE DOCK, CHERYL TURNS TO JASON]CHERYL: ARE YOU SRED, JASON?[JASON SHAK HIS HEAD AND JASON S][EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - MOMENTS LATER][JASON AND CHERYL THE ROWBOAT, SLIDG ACROSS THE WATER, TOWARDS AN OUTCROPPG OF ROCKS. THEY PASS TO -- AND OUT OF - AME...][EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - THE SHORE - THE SAME MORNING (LATER)][STORM CLOUDS ARE BREWG OVERHEAD][NERDY, GLASS-WEARG HIGH SCHOOL GEEK DILTON DOILEY GUIS A TROOP OF BOY SCOUTS ALONG THE RIVER'S EDGE. THEY ALL RRY BINOCULARS. DILTON’S POTG TO BIRDS THE TRE...]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): THE NEXT THG WE KNOW HAPPENED FOR SURE IS THAT DILTON DOILEY, WHO WAS LEADG RIVERDALE’S BOY SUT TROOP ON A BIRD-WATCHG EXPEDN, ME UPON CHERYL BY THE RIVER'S EDGE.[DILTON AND THE SUTS STOP SHORT. THERE’S CHERYL, HUDDLED BY THE LAPPG WATER, KNE TUCKED UNR HER CH, ARMS AROUND HER LEGS, SHIVERG BEE SHE’S SOPPG WET.][NUMB, SHOCK, SHE TURNS TO HIM. HER FACE IS STREAKED WH TEARS.]CHERYL: [EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - DAY (LATER)][A POLICE BOAT MOV ALONG THE RIVER. CHERYL AND HER PARENTS, CLIFF AND PENELOPE, ARE ONBOARD. CHERYL IS SHOCK AND HER MASRA HAS BEEN SMUDGED.]UNSEEN MALE (V.O.): RIVERDALE POLICE, DRAGGED SWEETWATER RIVER FOR JASON’S BODY, BUT NEVER FOUND .][BLON ALICE COOPER STANDS WH HER HBAND HAL ON THE RIVERBANK]ALICE: IF HE IS AD, HOW? I HOPE THOSE LAST MOMENTS HE SUFFERED. MAY JASON BLOSSOM BURN HELL[CUT TO LOW ANGLE SHOT OF JUGHEAD JONES][WIDE ANGLE OF SWEETWATER RIVER RIVERBANK]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.): SO A WEEK LATER, THE BLOSSOM FAY BURIED AN EMPTY SKET, AND JASON’S ATH WAS LED AN ACCINT.[INT. POP’S CHOCK’LIT SHOPPE DINER - EVENING][OPEN 24-HOURS. A SKNY TEENAGER WH DARK, SHAGGY HAIR STICKG OUT OM UNR A WEIRD HAT -- ’S LIKE A FELT CROWN -- SS ONE OF THE DER’S BOOTHS, SIPPG FFEE AND TAP-TAP-TAPPG AWAY ON HIS LAPTOP.]UNSEEN MALE TEEN (V.O.) [CONT]: AS THE STORY THAT CHERYL TOLD MA THE ROUNDS. THAT CHERYL DROPPED A GLOVE THE WATER, AND JASON REACHED DOWN TO GET , AND ACCINTALLY TIPPED THE BOAT, AND PANICKED, AND DROWNED. AS FOR , WE WERE STILL TALKG ABOUT THE JULY 4TH TRAGEDY ON THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER VATN. WHEN A NEW MYSTERY ROLLED TO TOWN.[EXT. THE PEMBROOKE APARTMENT BUILDING - DUSK][A TOWNCAR PULLS TO THE GOTHIC APARTMENT BUILDING'S DRIVEWAY -- THIS IS THE PEMBROOKE.][TWO DARK-HAIRED BETI -- HERMIONE LODGE (PEARLS, ALWAYS) AND HER TEENAGE DGHTER VERONICA -- CLIMB OUT OF THE R, LOOK UP AT THE PEMBROOKE’S ORNATE FA...]HERMIONE: NOW BRACE YOURSELF, THE APARTMENT IS SMALL, A PIED-à-TERRE, BUT --HERMIONE/VERONICA: -- “QUALY, ALWAYS” --HERMIONE: -- PL, WAS THE ONLY PIECE OF PROPERTY MY NAME AND NOT YOUR FATHER’S.[THEY WALK TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE][INT. THE PEMBROOKE APARTMENT BUILDING][VAR SHOTS OF THE EXTRAVAGANT YET DARK TERR ARE SHOWN. THE PEMBROOKE’S DOORMAN, SMITHERS, A UNIFORM, APPROACH THE TWO --]SMITHERS: MS. HERMNE! WELE HOME.HERMIONE: SMHERS! YOU'RE A SIGHT FOR SORE EYSMITHERS: HOW WAS THE RI?HERMIONE: NO TRAFFIC, THANK GOD. SMHERS, I'D LIKE TO TRODUCE YOU TO MY DGHTER, VERONI.SMITHERS: IT’S A PLEASURE, MISS.VERONICA: HI...SMITHERS: I’LL GET THE BAGS.(AS HE DO THAT)AND WOULD YOU LIKE SOME MEN, MA’AM, SO YOU N ORR ?HERMIONE: OH, NO, I’VE BEEN CRAVG ONE OF POP TATE’S CHEEBURGERS SCE NOON -- IS HIS CHOCK'L SHOPPE STILL OPEN?VERONICA (THKS THEY ARE TALKG ABOUT A CHOLATE SHOP): WHAT IS A CHOCK'L SHOPPE ? AND WHY DO SELL BURGERS?[EXT. ELM STREET - RIVERDALE - NIGHT (THAT SAME NIGHT)][THE CAMERA PANS ACROSS A SERI OF MODEST HOMES ALONG A TREE-LED STREET. TOWARDS ONE HOUSE PARTICULAR...A BEDROOM ON THE SEND FLOOR...][INT. THE COOPER HOUSE - BETTY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT][BLON, PRETTY BETTY COOPER (16), JEANS AND A BRA, GETTG DRSED AND PUTTG ON MAKP, WHILE BROWN-HAIRED KEVIN KELLER (16, CUTE) LOUNG ON HER BED, SCROLLG THROUGH PROFIL ON HIS IPHONE.]KEVIN: ARE YOU EXCED? NERVO?BETTY: BOTH -- I HAVEN’T SEEN HIM ALL SUMMER --KEVIN: -- WHICH IS WHY NERV ARE ACCEPTABLE, BUT WE AGREED, BETTY: IT’S TIME. YOU LIKE HIM, HE LIK YOU.BETTY: THEN WHY, KEV, HASN’T HE EVER SAID OR DONEANYTHG?KEVIN: BEE -- ARCHIE’S SWELL, BUT LIKE MOST MILLENNIAL STRAIGHT GUYS, HE NEEDS TO BE TOLD WHAT HE WANTS. SO TELL HIM, FALLY.BETTY: WE’LL SEE. IT PENDS ON --KEVIN: -- OH, MY GOD!BETTY: WHAT?[KEV IS LOOKG OUT BETTY’S WDOW, TOWARDS THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, TO THE BEDROOM OPPOSE HERS. ARCHIE ANDREWS (16, RED HAIR, FALLY ON THE RIGHT SI OF PUBERTY), IS ALSO GETTG DRSED BUT IS ON HIS PHONE. IN JEANS, SLIPPG ON A T-SHIRT --]KEVIN: GAME-CHANGER! ARCHIE GOT HOT! HE'S GOT ABS NOW! SIX MORE REASONS FOR YOU TO TAKE THAT GGER BULL BY THE HORNS TONIGHT.[BETTY LOOKS; HER MOUTH IS OPEN SHOCK --][INT. POP'S CHOCK'-LIT SHOPPE DINER - NIGHT][ARCHIE AND BETTY S A BOOTH, MID-NVERSATN --]ARCHIE: SO WHAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT?BETTY: OF MY TERNSHIP? THE JUDY BLUME BOOK RELEASE PARTY I ANIZED, BY FAR. AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, TONY MORRISON, WHO IS, AS YOU KNOW, MY LERARY HERO.ARCHIE (NODDG AND CHUCKLG): Y, YBETTY: SO HE SAYS TO ME, “DON'T SH THIS TIME, BETTY. IT GO BY SO FAST AT YOUR AGE. ONE SUMMER N CHANGE YOUR LIFE.”ARCHIE: WOW. THAT'S SO TE.BETTY: HOW WAS WORKG FOR YOUR DAD?ARCHIE: IT WAS...POURG NCRETE, EVERY DAY, ALL DAY LONG. TO PASS TIME I WOULD START POSG , MY HEAD. AND AT NIGHT, I’D GO HOME, I’D WRE THEM DOWN.BETTY: YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE READG POETRY.ARCHIE: THEY WEREN’T POEMS, THEY WERE SONG LYRICS. AND WORKG ON THEM MA ME LIKE...BETTY: WHAT, ARCHIE?ARCHIE (ALMOST ASHAMED TO ADM ): I FEEL LIKE I'VE FALLY BROKEN THROUGH TO SOMETHG REAL. ABOUT MY LIFE, AND WHAT I SHOULD BE TRYG TO DO WH . MIC! STARTG THIS YEAR, TOMORROW.BETTY: AMAZG! WILL YOU ASK MISS GNDY TO TUTOR YOU?ARCHIE: I'M NOT SURE, MAYBE.BETTY: WHAT ABOUT FOOTBALL? CAN YOU DO BOTH?ARCHIE: I’LL TRY-OUT, AT LEAST.BETTY: WELL, HAVE YOU TOLD YOUR DAD?ARCHIE: NO. UNTIL I’VE GOT THGS MORE FIGURED OUT, YOU’RE THE ONLY PERSON I’M TELLG, OKAY?BETTY: WELL, I'D LOVE TO HEAR THEM SOMETIME, YOUR SONGS.ARCHIE: YEAH?BETTY: Y!ARCHIE: YEAH, I'M FISHG A UPLE MOS TONIGHT.BETTY: GREAT. OH -- AND ALSO? I’VE BEEN THKG ABOUT , ARCHIE, AND OUR IENDSHIP, AND HOW ’S TIME WE --[-- SUDNLY BETTY'S VOICE FAS, THE BELL ABOVE POP’S ONT DOOR JGL. AND VERONI, WEARG A FETCHG CLOAK (LIKE KIM BASGER “L.A. CONFINTIAL”). SHE TURNS AND MAK EYE-NTACT WH ARCHIE. IT’S LIKE WHEN CLAIRE DA AND LEONARDO DICAPR SEE EACH OTHER THROUGH THE FISH-TANK “ROMEO AND JULIET.” ARCHIE IS SMTEN.][VERONI STARTS TO WALK TOWARDS THE MERA (WHERE THE BOOTH IS)]VERONICA: HI, I LLED AN ORR? FOR LODGE?POP TATE: TWO BURGERS, YAH, ALMOST READY, BUT YOU GOT TO WA.[VERONI LOOKS AROUND WHILE SHE WAS, BUT THEN HER EY LAND ON ARCHIE, WHO’S STARG AT HER, WHICH BETTY CLOCKS. VERONI WALKS OVER TO THEM...]VERONICA: HEY.ARCHIE: HEY.VERONICA: HOW ARE THE ONN RGS HERE?ARCHIE: SO GOOD.VERONICA (OVER HER SHOULR, TO POP): CAN WE GET SOME ONN RGS, TOO, PLEASE?POP TATE: YEAHVERONICA (BACK TO ARCHIE AND BETTY): THANKS. MY MOM AND I JT MOVED HERE, SO...ARCHIE: FROM WHERE?VERONICA: NEW YORK.ARCHIE: WOW.VERONICA: DO YOU GUYS GO TO RIVERDALE?BETTY: WE DO. BOTH OF . TOGETHER.ARCHIE (N’T TAKE HIS EY OFF HER): YEAH WE’RE SOPHOMOR.VERONICA: ME, TOO. I’M FILLED WH DREAD.ARCHIE: WHY IS THAT?VERONICA: ARE YOU FAIAR WH THE WORKS OF TMAN CAPOTE? I’M BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, BUT THIS TOWN IS STRICTLY IN COLD BLOOD.(THEY HAVE NO IA WHAT SHE’S SAYG, BUT ARCHIE LGHS; THEN, A HAND --)-- VERONI LODGE.ARCHIE (TAKG ): ARCHIE ANDREWS. THIS IS BETTY COOPER.VERONICA: WA, ARE YOU -- ?BETTY: -- SUPPOSED TO GIVE YOU YOUR TOUR TOMORROW? Y, I’M YOUR PEER MENTOR.ARCHIE: DO YOU WANT TO JO ? AND MAYBE WE N UN-FILL YOU WH DREAD?[BETTY SHOOTS DAGGERS AT ARCHIE. VERONI S, MURS.]VERONICA: MY MOM’S WAG FOR ME. BE NTUED?[VERONI WALKS AWAY][ARCHIE TURNS BACK TO BETTY]ARCHIE: WHAT WERE YOU SAYG?BETTY: NOTHG.[EXT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - MORNING][WE SEE THE FAY HOME OF THE ANDREWS. WE HEAR A DOG BARKG.][INT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - MORNING][ARCHIE JOGS DOWN THE STAIRS WHILE SCROLLG THROUGH HIS PHONE, HE IS LATE FOR SCHOOL]ARCHIE: HEY, DAD! FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AND I’M ALREADY LATE --(PETS DOG)HEY VEGAS.[ARCHIE STARTS TO GATHER HIS BOOKS FOR SCHOOL. HIS FATHER, FRED ANDREWS WALKS TO THE ROOM]FRED: HEY -- YOU STOPPG BY THE SE LATER?ARCHIE: DAD, 'S MY FIRST DAY.FRED: WE GOTTA GET YOU GOG THE OFFICE -- SO THAT NEXT SUMMER YOU'RE NOT ON THE CREW.ARCHIE (DODGG): WELL, I N’T. I’VE GOT FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS. OR IS THAT NOT OKAY?FRED (BEAT): NO, NO 'S UH -- 'S OKAY. GOOD LUCK.[ARCHIE GO. FRED IS SURPRISED]FRED (TO HIMSELF): HUH.[EXT. THE COOPER HOUSE - MORNING][WE SEE A WHE SUBURBAN DOUBLE STORY HOE WH A RED DOOR.][INT. THE COOPER HOUSE - BETTY'S ROOM - MORNING][BETTY IS GETTG READY TO HEAD-OUT TO SCHOOL. HER MOM IS HER ROOM GIVG HER A LECTURE.]ALICE: BETTY. THIS G YEAR IS CRIL FOR LLEG. GRAS ARE IMPORTANT, EXTRA-CURRICULARS -- ATHLETICS -- MATAG A CENT CHARACTER? IS HUGELY IMPORTANT, THEY DO LOOK AT THAT.BETTY: MOM, I'M A SOPHOMORE.ALICE: YOU’VE ACPLISHED SO MUCH, I JT DON’T WANT ANYTHG JEOPARDIZG THAT. I MEAN, JT THK ABOUT YOUR POOR SISTER. SHE WAS SUCH A SHG STAR BEFORE SHE LET THAT BLOSSOM BOY HER --BETTY: -- MOM, I’M NOT POLLY.ALICE: YOU MISSED CURFEW LAST NIGHT.BETTY: BY SEVEN MUT. AND I WAS WH ARCHIE. WHO HAS RED HAIR, Y, BUT IS NOTHG LIKE JASON BLOSSOM.ALICE: OH, SWEETIE. ALL BOYS ARE LIKE JASON BLOSSOM.(SHE STANDS UP AND TAK BETTY'S HANDS HERS)I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, ELIZABETH. I JT NEED YOU TO BE SMART, OKAY? AND STAY FOCED. WE REFILLED YOUR ADRALL, SEEMS YOU FOT TO PICK UP YOUR PRCRIPTN.[WH THAT, ALICE S AND GO. WE LGER ON BETTY. ALICE HAS LEFT SOMETHG HER HANDS. REVEAL: A PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE OF ADDERALL WH BETTY’S NAME FULL NAME ON (ELIZABETH COOPER). THE MSAGE IS CLEAR: BETTY. MT. STAY. FOCED.][EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - MORNING][ESTABLISHG. TEACHERS GOG ; KIDS LOERG OUT ONT, TRYG TO EXTEND THE SUMMER EVEN FOR A FEW MORE MUT...][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAY - MORNING][ARCHIE, AT HIS LOCKER, HOLDG A FOLDER, WHICH NTAS A SHEAF OF HAND-WRITTEN PAGES -- HE’S LOOKG AT THE LYRICS ON THEM -- AND WHICH HE PUTS TO HIS LOCKER, WHEN HIS BRO-IENDS, REGGIE MANTLE APPROACH AND LEANS AGAST THE LOCKER NEXT TO HIM]REGGIE: BRO, YOU ARE READY FOR FOOTBALL -- I'M NOT KIDDG YOU DU, YOU GOT RIPPED. DU, YOU'RE BEAST, LOOK AT THIS ARM (GRABS ARCHIE'S RIGHT ARM), 'S DIEL. HOW MUCH YOU BENCHG, LIKE 220? 225? YOU GOTTA GIVE ME SOME TIPS, MAN. REAL MEN NEED THEIR LOOKS, RIGHT? TAKG SOME T? [GENCG?]? [MABE?]? [?]? <--9.08 TO EPISO[THE TWO START TO WALK AWAY OM THE LOCKERS]ARCHIE: -- ’S OM WORKG NSTCTN, REG.REGGIE: AH, YEAH YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT --[REGGIE SE ANOTHER OF THEIR BRO-IENDS, MOOSE MASON]REGGIE (MOTNG TO ARCHIE): YO MOOSE! LOOK WHO GREW UP OVER THE SUMMER![MOOSE IS DISTRACTED BY A GIRL, WHOM HE GIV "LL ME" HAND GTURE AND THEN SH OFF TO FOLLOW THE TWO.]REGGIE: (TO ARCHIE) HEY, HEY,, YO BE HONT WH ME. DID YOU WORK ON ANY HO? ANY PRIVATE HOM?ARCHIE (CHUCKL): YEAH, A UPLE.REGGIE: DID YOU TAP ANY UGAR ASS THIS SUMMER?[AS ARCHIE TURNS AND BACKS AWAY OM THEM TO GO DOWN ANOTHER HALLWAY...]ARCHIE: YOU KNOW WHAT, I THK THAT’S MORE A FANTASY OM YOUR WANK-BANK, REGGIE. I'LL TCH YOU GUYS SOON.[ARCHIE WALKS AWAY]REGGIE: PEACE OUT BROTHER![MOOSE AND REGGIE TURN TO HEAD TOWARDS THEIR CLASS]REGGIE (TO MOOSE): HE TOTALLY DID, BRO. HE TOTALLY DID .[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAYS - MORNING][BETTY’S LEADG VERONI DOWN A LOCKER-LED HALL --]BETTY (PRE-LAP): SO I UALLY START OFF MY TOURS WH A LTLE HISTORY AND NTEXT. RIVERDALE HIGH FIRST OPENED S DOORS 1941, AND --VERONICA (NOT IMPRSED): -- AND HASN’T BEEN RERATED SCE, APPARENTLY. HONTLY, I FEEL LIKE I’M WANRG THROUGH THE LOST EPILOGUE OF “OUR TOWN”[VERONI CHUCKL, BETTY IS NFED, BUT FOLLOWS WH A CHUCKLE]VERONICA: -- SO WHAT’S THE SOCIAL SCENE LIKE HERE? ANY NIGHT CLUBS?BOY’S VOICE (BEHD THEM): A STRIP CLUB LLED THE HOE ZONE AND A TRAGIC GAY BAR LLED INNUENDO --[BETTY AND VERONI TURN TO -- KEVIN, WHO GETS ONT OF THEM AND FAC THEM WHILE WALKG BACKWARDS...KEVIN: FRIDAY NIGHTS, ’S FOOTBALL GAM, THEN TAILGATE PARTI AT THE MALL-MART PARKG LOT. SATURDAY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT, REGARDLS OF WHAT’S PLAYG AT THE BIJOU -- AND YOU BETTER GET THERE EARLY, BEE WE DON’T HAVE RERVED SEATG RIVERDALE.[KEV STOPS AND PUTS AN ARM AROUND BETTY'S SHOULRS]KEVIN: AND SUNDAY NIGHTS? T HANK GOD FOR HBO.BETTY: VERONI LODGE, KEV KELLER. VERONI’S NEW HERE, KEV IS --VERONICA: -- GAY, THANK GOD. LET’S BE BT IENDS.KEVIN: IS TE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT YOUR DAD?[BETTY GLAR AT KEV]VERONICA: THAT HE’S THE VIL RNATE? I STAND BY MY FATHER. DO EVERYONE HERE KNOW?[BOTH BETTY AND KEV REMA SILENT]VERONICA (SARSTILLY): WONRFUL! TEN MUT AND I'M ALREADY THE "BLUE JASME" OF RIVERDALE HIGH.[VERONI WALKS AWAY. BETTY TURNS TO KEV AND GLAR AT HIM]KEVIN (NFED): WHAT?[BETTY MOV TO FOLLOW VERONI][[INT. MUSIC ROOM- DAY][-- AND ARCHIE’S DOWN THE HALL, AROUND A RNER, AND WE HEAR A TR OF SGERS][ARCHIE, HOLDG HIS PAG OM THE LOCKER, HAS JT E TO THE ROOM, WHERE THREE GIRLS -- JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS -- WERE THE MIDDLE OF A PRACTICE JAM. VALERIE (DARK-HAIRED) AND MELODY (DARK-HAIRED) S BETWEEN THEIR LEAR: GEO, IMPER JOSIE, WH A GUAR. ALL THREE LADI WEAR THE ICONIC PUSSYCAT EARS. (YEP, GANG, WE’RE ALL .)JOSIE (NOTIC ARCHIE): UM, EXCE ME, THIS IS A CLOSED REHEARSAL.ARCHIE: I'M SORRY, I -- JOSIE, RIGHT?[THE GIRLS STARE AT HIM]ARCHIE: I WAS HOPG TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME SONGS I WROTE?JOSIE: LET ME JT STOP YOU RIGHT THERE. YOU’RE STARG AT OUR PSYT EARS, WHICH IS , BUT LET ME BREAK -- AND THEM -- DOWN FOR YOU. THE PSYTS ARE BUILDG A BRAND, WE’RE CREATG A SIGNATURE LOOK, OKAY? WE'RE TELLG A STORY. LAST YEAR, WE WON ROCKLAND COUNTY’S BATTLE-OF-THE-BANDS --MELODY: -- THAT WE DID.JOSIE: THIS YEAR, WE’D LIKE TO BUILD ON THAT SUCCS. CONTUE TELLG OUR STORY. WH SONGS WE WRE.ARCHIE (SPERATE): I GET THAT, 'S JT --JOSIE: READ MY GLOSSED LIPS, JT GGERLAKE: NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN.[JOSIE WAV GOODBYE][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAY - MORNING][BETTY IS STILL GIVG VERONI THE TOUR WH KEV TAGGG ALONG]BETTY: .. OF URSE THERE IS STILL THE BACK THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL FORMAL DANCE THIS WEEKEND.[VERONI GASPS AND SUDNLY GRABS BETTY'S ARM AND PULLS HER TO SHOW HER WHAT SHE'S LOOKG AT: ARCHIE LGERG OUTSI OF THE MIC ROOM AFTER BEG REJECTED BY JOSIE AND THE PSYTS]VERONICA (TO BETTY): THERE’S THE HOTTIE YOU WERE WH LAST NIGHT. THE RED-HEAD ANSEL ELGORT. IS HE YOUR BOYIEND?KEVIN: NO, HE’S STRAIGHT.BETTY: NO, WE’RE JT IENDS.VERONICA (CONT’D): IN THAT SE, MD PUTTG A WORD? I’VE TRIED EVERY FLAVOR OF BOY BUT ORANGE --KEVIN: -- ACTUALLY, TO CLARIFY. BETTY AND ARCHIE AREN’T DATG, BUT THEY ARE ENDGAME.VERONICA (AMED AT BETTY'S QUIETNS): YOU SHOULD ASK HIM TO THE SEMI-FORMAL THEN.KEVIN: SHE SHOULD, BUT I HEARD MIGHT BE GETTG NCELED. BEE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO JASON. THEY’RE GONNA TELL AT THE ASSEMBLY...VERONICA (OBLIV): WHO'S JASON, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?[BOTH BETTY AND KEV STOP AND STARE AT VERONI][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - MORNING]CHERYL: THANK YOU FOR THAT MOMENT OF SILENCE. MANY OF YOU WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE KNOWN MY BROTHER PERSONALLY. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU MEANT THE WORLD TO JASON. I LOVED MY BROTHER. HE WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY SOUL-MATE -- SO I SPEAK WH A NFINCE ONLY A TW ULD HAVE. JASON WOULDN’T WANT TO SPEND THE YEAR MOURNG. JASON WOULD WANT TO MOVE ON WH OUR LIV.[MEANWHILE, AT THE VERY TOP OF THE BLEACHERS: JUGHEAD, WH HIS LAPTOP OPEN HIS LAP, APART OM EVERYONE ELSE, BUT WATCHG EVERYTHG...]CHERYL (CON'T): WHICH IS WHY I'VE ASKED THE SCHOOL BOARD NOT TO NCEL THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEMI-FORMAL. BUT RATHER TO LET E AS A WAY TO HEAL, LLECTIVELY, AND CELEBRATE MY BROTHER'S TOO, TOO SHORT LIFE, THANK YOU ALL.[THE STUNT BODY STARTS APPLDG CHERYL. ARCHIE STAR DOWN AT THE ROWS WHERE TEACHERS ARE STG. A YOUNG FEMALE TEACHER, MS. GRUNDY TURNS BACK AND LOCKS EY WH ARCHIE][EXT. RIVERDALE HIGHWAY - SUNDOWN (FLASHBACK)][ARCHIE, WALKG HOME OM A JOB, PULLS UP HIS SHIRT, TO WIPE HIS FOREHEAD, WHEN A CUTE VW BUG SLOWS RIGHT BI HIM. THE DRIVER’S SI WINDOW ROLLS DOWN, REVEALG -- MS. GRUNDY A SEXY 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, SUNGLASS, SIPPG A CHERRY SLURPEE...]ARCHIE: MS. GNDY? HEY!MS. GRUNDY: ARCHIE? WHAT ARE YOU DOG, WALKG THIS HEAT?ARCHIE: UM. BUILDG CHARACTER?MS. GRUNDY (SG AT HIM): DO YOU WANT A RI?[OFF ARCHIE, BATG THIS OFFER, AS WE RESUME WITH --][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - MORNING][MS. GNDY AND ARCHIE ARE STILL LOCKG EY][CUT TO: INT. VW BEETLE - NIGHT][STEAMED UP WDOWS, WE N MAKE OUT THE SILHOUETT OF MS. GNDY AND ARCHIE MAKG OUT][EXT. VW BEETLE - NIGHT][WE NTUE TO OBSERVE MS. GNDY AND ARCHIE, NAKED THE BACK SEAT, MAKG OUT AS WE RESUME WITH --][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - MORNING][MS. GNDY BREAKS EYE-NTACT AND FAC ONT, PUTTG ON A STERN FACE AND APPLDG WH THE RT OF THE STUNT BODY. ARCHIE NTU TO STARE AT HER]ROLL "RIVERDALE" INTRO SCREEN[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - HALLWAY - DAY][POST-ASSEMBLY. ARCHIE’S TRYG TO TCH-UP TO MS. GNDY, WHO WALKS AHEAD OF HIM, THROUGH THE STUNTS GOG TO CLASS --]ARCHIE: MS. GNDY --(SHE KEEPS MOVG)MS. GNDY -- GERALDE[-- MS. GNDY TURNS ON HER HEEL TO FACE ARCHIE.]MS. GRUNDY: WHAT N I DO FOR YOU, MR. ANDREWS?ARCHIE: I -- I -- N WE TALK, MS. GNDY? PLEASE?MS. GRUNDY: IT PENDS. ABOUT WHAT?ARCHIE: .., YOU’RE THE MIC TEACHER, N WE TALK ABOUT MIC?MS. GRUNDY: .. URSE. MAKE AN APPOTMENT. DURGMY OFFICE HOURS. MY OFFICIAL OFFICE HOURS.[SHE TURNS, STARTS TO WALK AWAY OM HIM AGA.][EXT. ANDREWS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - DAY]FRED (CHUCKL SOFTLY): HERMNE LODGE.[INT. ANDREWS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - LOBBY - DAY][VERONI’S MOM, HERMNE, SS THE WAG AREA. ARCHIE’S DAD, FRED, HAS E OUT OF HIS OFFICE.]FRED: MY DAY JT GOT A LOT MORE TERTG.HERMIONE (S): HELLO FRED, HOW ARE YOU?FRED: SURPRISED. CAN I GET YOU ANYTHG, LIKE A WATER?HERMIONE (RIGHT TO ): A JOB. I SAW ON YOUR WEBSE LAST NIGHT, THAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR A SEASONAL HIRE, SOMEONE TO HELP WH THE BOOKS?FRED: YEAH UH, MY GUY’S ON PATERNY LEAVE --HERMIONE: -- I THK MY DGHTER’S GOG TO SCHOOL WH YOUR SON, ISN’T THAT FUNNY? WE’LL HAVE TO TELL THEM WE KNEW EACH OTHER, THAT WE EVEN DATED FOR A LTLE WHILE, UNTIL I --FRED: -- CHOSE THE RICH KID.HERMIONE: AND NOW, A REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. HOW'S MARY DOG?FRED: SHE'S CHIGO. WE SPL UP, WE'RE CIVIL. HOW ABOUT YOU? HOW ARE YOU HOLDG UP, REALLY?HERMIONE: I HAVE A LTLE MONEY SAVED. I WAS PRAYG THAT SOMEONE RIVERDALE -- MAYBE AN OLD IEND -- BE WILLG TO GIVE ME THE BENEF OF THE DOUBT.FRED: IF WERE UP TO ME --HERMIONE: ISN’T , UP TO YOU? IT’S YOUR PANY --FRED: -- WELL, I HAVE CLIENTS. I N’T VERY WELL HAVE HERMNE LODGE, THE WIFE OF HIRAM LODGE, ON TRIAL FOR D AND EMBEZZLEMENT, BALANCG MY BOOKS. CAN I?HERMIONE (A BEAT; STGS): .., I SUPPOSE YOU N'T.[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - COURTYARD - DAY][LUNCH-TIME. KIDS AT PIIC TABL. VERONI’S MOVG ACROSS THE URTYARD, SEARCHG FOR THE PERFECT PLACE TO LAND... THERE ARE THE PSYTS, NOPE... THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS, CLUDG REGGIE AND MOOSE, NOT A GOOD IA... THERE’S BETTY... DILTON, WH THE NERDS, UH-UH... CHERYL, WH HER FELLOW CHEERLEARS, CLUDG LADI--WAG, NANCY WOODS AND GINGER LOPEZ, CLEARLY THE QUEEN BE... VERONI SIGHS, LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE, SHE HEADS TOWARDS CHERYL, BUT THEN -- A DOUBLE-TAKE -- SHE NOTIC THAT BETTY ISN’T STG ALONE, SHE’S WH KEV AND THAT HOTTIE, ARCHIE; IMMEDIATELY, VERONI TOURS...][...ARRIV AT THE TABLE WHERE BETTY, KEV, AND ARCHIE ARE, STG WH ARCHIE’S OPEN LAPTOP. ITUN IS OPEN WH ONE OF ARCHIE'S SONGS PLAYG]VERONICA: CAN I JO?BETTY (DISAPPOTED): YEAH.[THEY NOD -- SHE SS --]VERONICA: WHAT ARE WE DOG?BETTY (S AT ARCHIE): LISTENG TO ONE OF ARCHIE'S SONGS.KEVIN: I THOUGHT WE WERE GOG TO HAVE TO PRETEND TO LIKE , BUT 'S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD.VERONICA (GENUELY IMPRSED): WA, THAT WAS YOU SGG? SOMETHG YOU WROTE?ARCHIE: IT'S ROUGH.BETTY: NO, 'S GREAT.VERONICA: IT'S CREDIBLE ACTUALLY, THE LTLE SNIPPET I HEARD. IS THAT YOUR THG? MIC? ARE YOU DOG SOMETHG WH THAT?ARCHIE: YEAH, THAT'S THE PLAN.(CHANGG THE SUBJECT)SO HOW'S YOUR FIRST DAY GOG? GOOD?VERONICA: WE-ELL, NOT TO BE A PLETE NARCISSIST, BUT I THOUGHT PEOPLE WOULD BE MORE...KEVIN: OBSSED WH YOU? ANY OTHER YEAR, YOU’D BE TRENDG NUMBER ONE, FOR SURE. THIS YEAR, THOUGH, ’S ALL ABOUT CHERYL TRYG TO W THE BT SUPPORTG PSYCHO OSR FOR HER ROLE AS RIVERDALE'S BEREAVED RED WIDOW.[CUT TO CHERYL, WHO IS WALKG TOWARDS THEM. WHICH, FOR SOME REASON, PROMPTS ARCHIE TO --]ARCHIE: HEY, I SHOULD GO. I'VE GOT THAT MEETG WH GNDY AND THEN FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS, SO --VERONICA: -- YOU PLAY FOOTBALL, TOO? WHAT DON'T YOU DO?[VERONI LOOKS AT BETTY, WHO’S LOOKG AT ARCHIE, AS HE GO...]KEVIN: BEFORE YOU ASK, BLUE JASME, NO, SHE HAS NOT VED HIM TO THE DANCE YET.BETTY: NO, NOT YET --(LOWERG HER VOICE)-- DON'T TALK ABOUT ARCHIECHERYL (ARRIVG, GRANDLY): -- VERONI LODGE, I’D HEARD WHISPERGS. I'M CHERYL BLOSSOM, MAY I S? BETTY, WOULD YOU MD?[BETTY SLIS OVER SO CHERYL N S RIGHT ONT OF VERONI.]CHERYL (CONT’D): SO, WHAT ARE YOU THREE HENS GOSSIPG ABOUT? ARCHIE’S EON-QUE EMERGENCE OM THE CHRYSALIS OF PUBERTY?[BETTY LOOKS AT VERONI, PLEADGLY.]VERONICA: -- EXTRACURRICULARS. WEATHERBEE WANTS ME TO SIGN UP FOR A FEW.CHERYL: -- CHEERLEADG. YOU MT. I AM SENR PTA OF THE RIVER VIXENS![CHERYL PUTS A HAND THREW HER HAIR TO STRAIGHTEN , AND GIV A DAZZLG SE]KEVIN: IS CHEERLEADG STILL A THG?CHERYL: IS BEG THE GAY BT IEND STILL A THG?[THIS SHUTS KEV UP. HE DON'T WANT TO START A SCENE]CHERYL: SOME PEOPLE SAY ’S RETRO, I SAY ’S ETERNAL AND INIC --VERONICA: -- AT SPENCE, I SAT AT THE TOP OF THE EL’ PYRAMID, I’M .(THEN, NOT A QUTN:)BETTY, YOU’RE TRYG OUT, TOO.CHERYL (ABSO-FUCKG-LUTELY NOT): . URSE, ANYONE’S WELE TO TRY-OUT, BUT BETTY’S ALREADY GOT SO MUCH ON HER PLATE RIGHT NOW, AND BEG A VIXEN IS KD OF A FULL-TIME THG. BUT, OPEN TO ALL.(SHE STANDS; TO VERONI:)FOLLOW ME ON TWTER AND I’LL DO THE SAME -- MY HANDLE'S @CHERRYBOMBSHELL.[AND AS QUICKLY AS SHE APPEARED, CHERYL VANISH, OFF TO TERRORIZE GOD-KNOWS-WHO NEXT. VERONI TURNS BACK TO BETTY]VERONICA: GO AHEAD AND HATE ON CHEERLEADG, BUT IF HIPSTER PRCE HARRY IS PLAYG --BETTY: -- I’D LOVE TO BE A CHEERLEAR. IT WOULD ROUND-OUT MY LLEGE APPLITNS -- BUT LAST YEAR WHEN I TRIED OUT, CHERYL SAID I WAS TOO FAT.KEVIN: TOO “SEASON FIVE BETTY DRAPER.” IT WAS A GREAT LE. BUT, NOT AT ALL TE.VERONICA: WELL? YOU’RE A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW NOW. I MEAN . AS HOT AND AS SMART AS YOU ARE, YOU SHOULD BE THE QUEEN BEY OF THIS DRAB HIVE.(MAK A CISN)LOOK, IF YOU WANT TO BE A RIVER VIXEN, I'LL HELP YOU PREP, I HAVE MOV.BETTY: HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? SHOW ME YOUR MOV.[INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - MUSIC CLASSROOM - AFTERNOON][GNDY, EARBUDS EARS, LISTENG TO SOMETHG ON ARCHIE’S IPHONE. MS. GNDY TAK OUT THE BUDS. ARCHIE, ON A CHAIR, OPPOSE HER, WAS FOR THE VERDICT...]MS. GRUNDY: THEY'RE VERY REAL, VERY PERSONAL.ARCHIE: I TOOK YOUR ADVICE AND WROTE THEM DOWN AND POLISHED THEM. BUT I WAS WONRG WHETHER YOU ULD HELP ME?MS. GRUNDY (A BEAT, THEN): WH WHAT, ARCHIE?ARCHIE: YOU WENT TO JUILLIARD, MS. GNDY. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE RIVERDALE I N TAKE LSONS OM, BELIEVE ME, I'VE LOOKED.MS. GRUNDY: WELL I DON’ THAT'S A GOOD IA. I DON’T SHOULD BE ALONE TOGETHER.(ARCHIE CHURNS, SILENT)IF THIS IS YOU TRYG TO RTART SOMETHG THAT NEVER SHOULD’VE STARTED THE FIRST PLACE --ARCHIE: -- NO ’S NOT, IS ABOUT MIC, BUT ’S ALSO... C'MON, I NEED TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WH SOMEONE. WE HEARD WHAT WE HEARD -- AND AFTERWARDS, WE DIDN’T DO ANYTHG, WE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHG.[EXT. WOODS NEAR SWEETWATER RIVER - DAY (FLASHBACK)][ARCHIE AND MS. GNDY ARE MAKG OUT ON A PIIC TOWEL. THE VW BEETLE PARKED A FEW METERS AWAY][A GUN SHOT RGS OUT. ARCHIE AND MS. GNDY STOP AND LOOK AT EACH OTHER PANIC][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - MUSIC CLASSROOM - AFTERNOON (PRESENT)]MS. GRUNDY: WE HEARD, FIREWORK --ARCHIE: -- WHO’S LIGHTG FIREWORKS AT SIX THE MORNG?MS. GRUNDY: HOW WOULD WE HAVE EXPLA WHY WE WERE TOGETHER AT SWEETWATER RIVER AT SIX AM ON THE FOURTH OF JULY?(ARCHIE HAS NO ANSWER)AND YOU’RE RIGHT, WE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHG, WE'RE BOTH GOG TO HAVE TO LIVE WH THAT CHOICE -- YOU UNRSTAND? I THK YOU SHOULD PURSUE YOUR MIC, BUT NOT WH ME.[EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - DAY]ON THE GYM STAGE, VERONI AND BETTY, DOG SHARP CHEER-OGRAPHY, AS -- CHERYL, NANCY, AND GGER (BEHD A TABLE), OBSERVE.]VERONICA/BETTY: “WE'RE BLUE & GOLD/WE'RE DYNAME/WE'LL TAKE YOU DOWN/AND FIGHT THE FIGHT!”VERONICA: WOOO! GO BULLDOGS![B & V END ON A HIGH-NOTE, BUT CHERYL’S STONE-FACED.]CHERYL: HMM. LADI, WHERE'S THE HEAT? WHERE'S THE SIZZLE?VERONICA: WELL, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN OUR BIG FISH YET.(WHISPERG TO BETTY)DON’T EAK OUT -- TST ME --[THEN VERONI PLANTS A BIG, WET KISS ON BETTY’S LIPS -- AND THE HEADS OF EVERY ARCHIE FAN ON THE PLA EXPLO! IT’S THE WATER- OLER MOMENT OF THE 2016/17 TELEVISN SEASON! ? THE GIRLS TURN BACK TO CHERYL, WHO STIFL A YAWN.]CHERYL: CHECK YOUR SELL-BY DATE, LADI. FX LBIAN KISSG HASN’T BEEN TABOO SCE 1994. SO, LET’S SEE IF YOU DO BETTER WH THE TERVIEW PORTN OF OUR DN.CHERYL: BETTY, HOW’S YOUR SISTER DOG?BETTY: UM, POLLY’S -- FE, THANKS FOR ASKG.CHERYL: VERONI, HAS BETTY TOLD YOU ABOUT HER SISTER YET?VERONICA: UH, NO?CHERYL: GO AHEAD, BETTY. TELL VERONI ABOUT YOUR SISTER AND MY AR BROTHER.BETTY: POLLY AND JASON DATED --CHERYL (LGHS): -- I WOULDN’T SAY “DATED.”BETTY: DIDN’T END WELL.CHERYL: IN FACT, JASON’S PROBABLY WHY YOUR SISTER HAD A NERVO BREAKDOWN AND NOW LIV A GROUP HOME, ISN'T ?BETTY: THAT’S -- WHAT MY PARENTS THK.CHERYL: WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT, BETTY? GO AHEAD, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. WHATEVER YOU’VE BEEN DYG TO SPEW ABOUT JASON AND HOW HE TREATED POLLY, UNLEASH . DTROY ME. TEAR ME A NEW ONE -- RIP ME TO SHREDS -- ANNIHILATE ME --BETTY (GIVG ): -- I JT.CHERYL (SATISFACTN): -- FALLY.BETTY: I JT WANT TO SAY...I’M SORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO JASON. I N’T EVEN IMAGE WHAT YOU AND YOUR FAY MT BE GOG THROUGH.[NEEDLS TO SAY, THAT’S NOT WHAT CHERYL WAS HOPG]CHERYL: .. VERONI, WELE TO THE RIVER VIXENS. BETTY, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.VERONICA: -- WA, WHAT? WHY? BEE YOU ULDN’T BULLY BETTY TO BEG A BCH?CHERYL: I NEED GIRLS WH FIRE ON MY SQUAD.VERONICA (CHILLGLY MATTER-OF-FACT): I KNOW WHAT YOU NEED, CHERYL, BEE I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU WOULD RATHER PEOPLE FEAR THAN LIKE YOU. SO, YOU TRAFFIC TERROR AND TIMIDATN. YOU’RE RICH, SO YOU’VE NEVER BEEN HELD ACUNTABLE, BUT I’M LIVG PROOF: THAT CERTATY -- THAT ENTLEMENT -- YOU WEAR ON YOUR HEAD LIKE A CROWN? IT WON’T LAST. EVENTUALLY, THERE WILL BE A RECKONG...(BEAT)OR RECKONG IS NOW. AND MAYBE, THAT ME. BETTY AND I E AS A MATCHG SET. YOU WANT ONE, YOU TAKE BOTH. YOU WANTED FIRE? SORRY, CHERYL-BOMBSHELL, MY SPECIALTY’S ICE. [THE ONLE () CLOSED PTNG HAD "CHERRYBOMBSHELL"][AND WH THAT, A GNTLET'S BEEN THROWN. OFF CHERYL, MULLG...][EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - FOOTBALL FIELD - AFTERNOON][FOOTBALL TRY-OUTS ARE FULL SWG. COACH CLAYTON IS OBSERVG]COACH CLAYTON (TO THE PLAYERS): GO! GET AROUND HIM, GET AROUND HIM![COACH CLAYTON SPS ON THE GROUND]COACH CLAYTON (TO THE PLAYERS): LET'S MOVE![COACH CLAYTON TURNS AND NOTIC ARCHIE BY HIMSELF ON ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD]COACH CLAYTON: ANDREWS![COACH CLAYTON WAV ARCHIE OVER. ARCHIE JOGS OVER TO HIM]COACH CLAYTON (TO THE PLAYERS): THERE WE GO, LOOKG GOOD!ARCHIE (TO COACH CLAYTON): WHAT'S UP, ACH?COACH CLAYTON (TOSS JERSEY TO ARCHIE): HERE.[ARCHIE LOOKS AT THE JERSEY AND NOTIC S NUMBER. 9. HE LOOKS UP AND REALIS.]ARCHIE: THIS IS JASON'S NUMBER.COACH CLAYTON: IT'S YOURS NOW. USUALLY SOPHOMOR ONLY PLAY JV, BUT THIS YEAR WE HAVE AN OPEN SPOT ON VARSY. AND OM WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SHOWG , WELL, I WANT YOU TO FILL .ARCHIE: VARSY'S -- WHAT, LONGER PRACTIC? MORE AWAY GAM?COACH CLAYTON: YEAH, BIGGER MMENT, YEP.ARCHIE: WELL, I NEED TO THK ABOUT , COACH. I --COACH CLAYTON (UNAMED): OH? YOU'VE GOT SOMETHG BETTER TO DO?ARCHIE (VAMPG): MY DAD’S PANY. IT’S -- 'S OUR FAY BS AND HE’S SORT OF UNTG ON ME TO HELP OUT AFTER SCHOOL, ON THE WEEKENDS --COACH CLAYTON (NOTIC A PLAYER DOG SOMETHG WRONG): -- HOLD UP. JACKSON, HOLD THE BALL!COACH CLAYTON (TURNS BACK TO ARCHIE): YOU KNOW WHAT? WHY DON'T YOU, UH, SLEEP ON ?[COACH CLAYTON MOV AWAY TO BRG TRY-OUTS TO AN END]COACH CLAYTON: LET'S GO, BRG , GUYS! C'MON![INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GIRLS’ LOCKER ROOM - AFTERNOON][POST-TRY-OUTS, BETTY AND VERONI, WEARG THE INIC BLUE-AND-GOLD RIVERDALE HIGH CHEERLEADG OUTFS. VERONI ZIPS UP BETTY'S UNIFORM]VERONICA: PERFECT![THEY GIGGLE TOGETHER JUBILATN]VERONICA: VERY "BETTY DRAPER SEASON ONE".[VERONI THEN ADMIR HERSELF MIRROR. BETTY IS HANT FOR A SEND, THEN TAPS VERONI'S SHOULR AND MOV TO START A PRIVATE NVERSATN]BETTY: .. -- WHY DID YOU FEND ME? I KNOW THE CROWD YOU RAN WH NEW YORK. WHY ARE YOU BEG SO NICE?[EXT. RIVERDALE HIGH - ATHLETICS TRACK - AFTERNOON]VERONICA: WHEN MY DAD GOT ARRTED -- WAS THEWORST THG EVER. ALL STARTED WRG HORRIBLE THGS ABOUT . WE’D GET LETTERS AND E-MAILS, SAYG DAD WAS A THIEF, MY MOM WAS A CLUELS SOCIALE, AND THAT I WAS THIS SPOILED RICH-BCH ICE-PRCS, HURT MOST ABOUT WAS...(IS SHE GOG THERE?)THE THGS THE TROLLS WERE TE. I WAS LIKE CHERYL -- I WAS WORSE THAN CHERYL. SO, WHEN MY MOM SAID WE WERE MOVG TO RIVERDALE, I MA A PACT WH MYSELF: TO E THIS AS AN OPPORTUNY TO BEE -- MAYBE, HOPEFULLY -- A BETTER VERSN OF MYSELF...BETTY: THAT'S A LOT OF PRSURE.[THIS UNEXPECTED ADMISSN PROMPTS BETTY TO LOWER HER OWN GUARD...]BETTY: WHEN POLLY AND JASON GOT TOGETHER, MEANT EVERYTHG TO HER AND NOTHG TO HIM, AND, AND THGS GOT SUPER-TENSE, AND WEIRD AND TOXIC. AND MY MOM TURNED ON POLLY. SAID POLLY WASN’T HER DGHTER ANYMORE, SAID ALL THE AWFUL THGS TO HER...(THEN)JASON HURT POLLY, BUT ’S MY MOM WHO BROKE HER...[JT THEN, VERONI NOTIC ARCHIE GOG FOR A LAP AROUND THE TRACK]VERONICA: ARCHIE!(TURNS TO BETTY)-- YOU'RE SO DOG THIS.BETTY: WHAT?VERONICA (GRABS HER) : SLAYG YOUR DRAGONS, BETTY COOPER, ONE BY ONE.[ARCHIE JOGS UP TO THEM]VERONICA: HI, TEEN OUTLANR.ARCHIE: HEY, NICE OUTFS!BETTY (FLABERGASTED): HEHVERONICA: BETTY HERE HAS SOMETHG SHE WANTS TO ASK YOU. ABOUT THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL DANCE. GO ON, BETTY, ASK.[BETTY REALLY DON'T WANT TO]BETTY (HANTLY): I WAS WONRG IF YOU WANTED TO E WH BOTH OF .ARCHIE (NFED): HUH?VERONICA (EXTREMELY NFED): WHAT?BETTY: IT'S YOUR FIRST DANCE AT RIVERDALE, YOU SHOULD HAVE SOMEONE TO GO WH, EVEN IF 'S JT A IEND.VERONICA (SURPRISED, BUT TRYG TO GET ARCHIE TO JO): I MEAN, I'D LOVE TO.ARCHIE: I’M NOT REALLY , THE HEAD-SPACE FOR A DANCE.BETTY (DISAPPOTED): OH, THAT'S OKAY.VERONICA (UNFIVG): TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, ARCHIEKS. WE NEED AN RT. TAKE A BREAK OM BEG A TORTURED MIL GENI AND E SPEND A BLISSFUL EVENG WH NOT ONE, BUT TWO NEWLY MTED RIVER VIXENS. WE'LL TEXT YOU A TIME AND PLACE.ARCHIE (WON OVER AND S): HEH. OKAY. YEAH, OKAY. BYEBETTY (DREAY): BYE.[ARCHIE WALKS AWAY AND BETTY FOLLOWS HIM WH HER EY, S][INT. COOPER FAMILY HOUSE - BETTY'S BEDROOM - AFTERNOON][BETTY IS OVERJOYED AT ARCHIE AGREEG TO GO TO THE DANCE WH HER AND VERONI. SHE'S DANCG HER ROOM HER RIVER VIXEN UNIFORM AND GETTG READY, WHILST LIP-SYNCG TO TOVE STYRKE'S "NUMBER ONE"][SUDNLY THE MIC STOPS]ALICE: WHAT IS THAT?BETTY (NERVOLY): I MA THE CHEERLEADG SQUAD.ALICE: CHERYL BLOSSOM'S CHEERLEADG SQUAD? AFTER WHAT JASON DID TO POLLY? NO, I'M SORRY. I WON'T ALLOW . TAKE THAT OFF RIGHT NOW.BETTY (FIANT): NO.ALICE: WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?BETTY: I DO EVERYTHG, FOR EVERYONE -- EVERYTHG, TO BE PERFECT! THE PERFECT DGHTER -- THE PERFECT SISTER -- THE PERFECT STUNT. CAN'T I DO THIS ONE THG JT FOR ME?(SHE GRABS HER PURSE AND STARTS TO WALK AWAY)OUT OF MY WAYALICE: WHERE ARE YOU GOG?BETTY: TO BUY A DRS. BEE, GUS WHAT? I'M ALSO GOG TO THE DANCE WH ARCHIE – AND WH VERONI.ALICE: WA, HERMNE LODGE'S DGHTER?BETTY: SHE'S ACTUALLY REALLY NICE AND TRYG TO BE A GOOD PERSON.ALICE: YOU THK SO? YOU THK SHE'S GOG TO BE YOUR IEND? LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHG, GIRLS LIKE CHERYL AND VERONI LODGE, THEY DON'T LIKE GIRLS LIKE --BETTY (CUTTG HER MOM OFF): I DON'T WANT TO HEAR , MOM! IT'S HAPPENG, I'M GOG.[INT. THE PEMBROOKE APARTMENT BUILDING - DUSK][HERMNE ARRIV HOME, SPENT. SMHERS IS THERE TO HELP RRY BAGS AND OPEN DOOR.]HERMIONE: THANK YOU, SMHERS. AS ALWAYS YOU'RE A GOD-SEND.SMITHERS: HAPPY TO HELP, MS. HERMNE.HERMIONE (GMBL): WELL, UNLIKE THE RT OF RIVERDALE.[HERMNE NOTIC A BAG ON A SK]HERMIONE (TO SMHERS): WHAT'S THAT?SMITHERS: OH! A SPOT OF GOOD NEWS. THE R SERVICE PHONED AND DROPPED OFF A MISSG BAG.[SMHERS WALKS DOWN THE STAIRS AND AWAY]HERMIONE (NFED): MISSG BAG?[SHE OPENS THE BAG, WHICH IS FILLED WH MONEY]HERMIONE: OH, HAVE YOU DONE?[EXT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - THE BACK PORCH - LATE AFTERNOON]ARCHIE, WH HIS GUAR, EXPERIMENTG WH A NEW SONG. HE PLAYS SOME, THEN MAK NOT A NOTEBOOK BY HIS SI. FRED OUT, DRKG A BEER. NOT ANGRY, BUT SOMETHG’S WEIGHG ON HIM.FRED: I, UH, GOT A LL OM YOUR COACH TODAY. HE’S UNR THE IMPRSN THAT YOU N’T PLAY VARSY FOOTBALL BEE I’M MAKG YOU WORK FOR ME...(ARCHIE’S BTED!)WHICH IS ODD, BEE YOU MA SEEM THAT YOU ULDN'T WORK FOR ME BEE YOU WERE PLAYG FOOTBALL... SO MY FIRST QUTN IS: WHO ARE YOU LYG TO? ME OR YOUR COACH?ARCHIE: NEHER -- BOTH(EP END OF THE SWIMMG POOL)DAD, I WANT TO STUDY MIC, I WANT TO WRE MIC.FRED: FOOTBALL TAK YOU TO LLEGE, LLEGE TAK YOU TO BS SCHOOL, BS SCHOOL TAK --ARCHIE: -- TAK ME BACK HERE, TO WORK FOR YOU RIVERDALE.FRED: NOT FOR ME, WH ME. AND EVENTUALLY FOR YOURSELF. SON, THE PANY WOULD BE YOURS.ARCHIE: NO DISRPECT, DAD, BUT I DON’T WANT .FRED: THREE MONTHS AGO, YOU DID -- WHAT HAPPENED?ARCHIE: I'VE CHANGED, EVERYTHG'S CHANGED. THIS SUMMER --[ARCHIE HAT]FRED: -- THIS SUMMER WHAT?[ARCHIE N’T. WHAT WOULD HE SAY TO HIS DAD?]FRED: ..’S ? WE DON’T TALK TO EACH OTHER ANYMORE.ARCHIE: DAD --FRED: I WOULD NEVER FORCE YOU TO PLAY FOOTBALL -- I DON’T RE IF YOU PLAY FOOTBALL. AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK WH ME OR FOR ME, EVER AGA. BUT SOME ADVICE, MAN-TO-MAN? THE CISNS THAT YOU’RE MAKG NOW, SON -- THEY HAVE NSEQUENC, THEY GO ON TO FORM WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU'LL BEE. WHATEVER YOU CI, BE NFINT ENOUGH . THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIE.[FRED TURNS OM ARCHIE, AND GO BACK TO THE HOE; NOTHG ROLVED BETWEEN FATHER AND SON...][INT. RIVERDALE HIGH - GYMNASIUM - NIGHT][DERATED FOR THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL DANCE. STREAMERS, LIGHTS, AND... GIANT PHOTO-PORTRAITS OF JASON BLOSSOM, HOVERG OVER EVERYTHG. ARCHIE, BETTY, AND VERONI ARRIVE, ARM--ARM, AND THE MOMENT IS LIKE CRELLA ARRIVG AT THE BALL, CARRIE ARRIVG AT THE PROM (BEFORE THE BUCKET OF BLOOD). VERONI TAK , SIGHS...]VERONICA: WELL, ’S NOT THE MET BALL.BETTY (TO ARCHIE, WHO IS BEG STRANGELY QUIET): HEY, WHEN DO YOU HAVE TO LET COACH CLAYTON KNOW ABOUT FOOTBALL?ARCHIE: THIS WEEKEND.VERONICA: GUYS, N'T WE JT LIBERATE OURSELV OM THE TIRED DICHOTOMY OF JOCK/ARTIST? CAN'T WE THIS POST-JAM FRAN WORLD BE ALL THGS, AT ONCE?ARCHIE: I'M WORKG ON , VERONI.VERONICA (EXCG HERSELF): WORK FASTER. I’M GETTG PUNCH. (SOTTO, TO BETTY)YOU GOT THIS.[VERONI GO. ARCHIE AND BETTY MOVE FURTHER TO THE CROWD...]BETTY: IT'S ABOUT FOLLOWG YOUR HEART, RIGHT? WHAT DO YOUR HEART SAY?[BETTY AND ARCHIE STOP SO SHE N TIDY UP HIS BOWTIE.]BETTY: MIC OR FOOTBALL?[ARCHIE SPOTS MS. GNDY, OFF TO THE SI, CHAPERONG --]ARCHIE: BETTY, WILL YOU GIVE ME ONE MUTE?(OFF HER “YOU’RE KIDDG” LOOK)AND I PROMISE, WHEN I GET BACK, I’LL BE A MUCH BETTER DATE, OKAY? I HAVE A PLAN --[ARCHIE’S OFF, MAKG HIS WAY TOWARDS MS. GNDY. BEFORE BETTY N GET TOO UPSET, SHE’S RCUED BY -- KEV]KEV: BETTY, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHO JT PROPOSNED ME THE BATHROOM. GIVE YOU A HT: HIS NAME MAY BE MOOSE, BUT I'D SCRIBE A CERTA APPENDAGE OF HIS AS HORSE-LIKE.[BETTY IS SHOCKED AND NFED][BUT WE’RE WITH: ARCHIE, STOPPG OFF TO GET SOME PUNCH, BEFORE MOVG TO TALK WH MS. GNDY, WHO OBSERV HIM DISCREETLY]ARCHIE: DON’T PANIC, I’M NOT STALKG YOU.MS. GRUNDY: ARCHIE? DIDN’T WE HAVE A AL?ARCHIE: NO GERALDE, WE HAVE A SECRET. MULTIPLE SECRETS, ACTUALLY. AND MAYBE WE ULD’VE DONE SOMETHG TO HELP JASON THAT MORNG, OR MAYBE WE ULDN’T HAVE -- AND I WON’T TELL ANYONE, ANYTHG -- BUT, YOU NEED TO HELP ME. THIS SUMMER, THE ONLY THAT KEPT ME SANE WAS WRG THE SONGS. SO, HERE’S MY NOT-SO-CENT PROPOSAL. I WANT TO DO AN INPENNT STUDY WH YOU, AS MANY MORNGS A WEEK AS YOU N SPARE, AND I SWEAR: THAT’S ALL WILL BE. AND I WON’T TELL ANYONE ABOUT JULY FOURTH, EVER -- AL?[FUCK, IS ARCHIE BLACKMAILG MS. GNDY? IS THAT THE KD OF SHOW WE’RE DOG?]MS. GRUNDY: .., WEDNDAY, FRIDAY, 7:30AM, BEFORE FIRST PERD, I’LL SET UP. AND SEE ABOUT GETTG YOU CRED.[MS. GNDY THEN STANDS UP AND STRIS AWAY][CUT TO MOOSE AND REGGIE SPIKG THE PUNCH. VERONI WALKS BY DRAGGG KEV, WHO STAR AT MOOSE.]CHERYL (O.S.): GOOD EVENG, IENDS. ARE YOU ALL HAVG A GOOD TIME?[CUT TO CHERYL EMCEEG ON STAGE A EXTRAVAGANT CRIMSON GOWN. THE CROWD APPLDS AND CHEERS]CHERYL: AS HONORARY CHAIR-PERSON, AND -FACTO QUEEN OF TONIGHT'S SEMI-FORMAL, IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO TRODUCE THIS EVENG'S MA ENTERTAMENT. TO KNOW THEM IS TO BE OBSSED WH THEM. ALTHOUGH THEY UALLY PERFORM THEIR OWN MATERIAL, TONIGHT THEY'RE MAKG AN EXCEPTN AND BUTG A VER OF THE SONG MY PARENTS CLAIM THEY WERE LISTENG TO THE NIGHT JASON AND I WERE NCEIVED. THIS ONE'S FOR YOU JAY-JAY.[WE SEE ARCHIE MAKG HIS WAY OVER TO BETTY]ARCHIE: SORRY ABOUT THAT.CHERYL: (GTUR TO THEM) -- I GIVE YOU JOSIE AND THE PSYTS.[CROWD CHEERS AND APPLDS AS CHERYL CES THE STAGE TO JOSIE, MELODY, AND VALERIE.]ARCHIE: WANT TO DANCE?BETTY (SG): YEAH![THEY START TO SLOW DANCE]BETTY: DID THAT GO OKAY?ARCHIE: YEAH, Y, SO I'LL STUDY WH MS. GNDY BEFORE SCHOOL, FOOTBALL PRACTICE AFTER SCHOOL, AND WORKG AT MY DAD’S ON WEEKENDS, ’LL GONNA BE NUTS --BETTY: -- SO LONG AS YOU DON’T GIVE UP YOUR PASSN...[WE CUT TO JOSIE AND THE PSYTS PLAYG AS WELL AS A WI VIEW OF ALL THE UPL DANCG][BETTY LOOKS OVER AT VERONI AND KEV, WHO ARE BOTH MOUTHG "DO !" TO HER]BETTY: UHM. NOW THAT I’M A RIVER VIXEN AND YOU’RE GONNA BE ON VARSY FOOTBALL, I HAVE THIS FANTASY OF AS A POWER-UPLE, OR MAYBE EVEN JT AS A UPLE.ARCHIE: BETTY?BETTY: IS THAT SO IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGE?[ARCHIE LOOKS OM BETTY, TO MS. GNDY, STANDG OFF TO THE SI.][THE SONG FISH AND BETTY AND ARCHIE SEPARATE, CLEARLY FEELG AWKWARD TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER. CHERYL, OFF TO THE SI STANDG WH TWO MNS, ALSO NOTIC THIS.]CHERYL (TO THE MNS): MAKE SURE THOSE TWO TURTLEDOV E TO MY AFTERPARTY. VERONI TOO.(S)I'M THE MOOD FOR CHAOS.[INT. BLOSSOM HOME - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT]CHERYL: IT'S GAME TIME AT CHE BLOSSOM'S, KIDDI. WE'RE GOG OLD-SCHOOL TONIGHT. SEVEN MUT HEAVEN.[BOTH VERONI AND BETTY SE AT EACH OTHER, ASSURG ONE ANOTHER THAT THEY HAVE EACH OTHER'S BACK]CHERYL: WHO WANTS TO TRYST THE CLOSET OF LOVE FIRST? MY VOTE IS “A” FOR ARCHIE. ANYONE RE TO SEND ?[BOTH VERONI AND BETTY LOOK AT ARCHIE, WHO IS STANDG OFF TO THE SI, NOT THE MOOD]ARCHIE: UH, ACTUALLY --REGGIE (RAISG HIS HAND): Y -- ANDREWS -- YES(CLEARLY DNK)HUH HAH, OL!CHERYL: ALL RIGHT, GATHER ROUND, KIDS, LET'S SEE WHO'S RIDG THE GGER STALLN TONIGHT.[CHERYL SPS A BOTTLE. ALL EY ARE ON THE BOTTLE OF CHERRY AS SPS AROUND. CHERYL MOV AROUND SLYLY, OBSERVG THE BOTTLE AND HER TWO TARGETS: VERONI AND BETTY][THE BOTTLE EVENTUALLY LANDS BETWEEN VERONI AND BETTY]REGGIE: OHH, NO! NO WAY![VERONI AND BETTY LOOK AT EACH OTHER]CHERYL: IT'S CLEARLY POTG TO, THE NEW GIRL. THIS SHOULD BE FUN.VERONICA: I’M NOT DOG THIS.CHERYL: THAT’S UP TO YOU. BUT, IF YOU DON’T, HOE RUL CREE THE HOST GETS TO TAKE YOUR TURN.[BETTY LOOKS AT ARCHIE PLEADFULLY][INT. BLOSSOM HOUSE - BASEMENT CLOSET - NIGHT (MOMENTS LATER)][DARKNESS. THEN -- ONE IPHONE LIGHTS UP. THEN -- A SEND IPHONE LIGHTS UP. ARCHIE AND VERONI, L ONLY BY THEIR CELL PHON, HUDDLE THE DARK...]VERONICA: I KNOW HER BROTHER DIED AND EVERYTHG, BUT CHERYL BLOSSOM TLY IS THE ANTI-CHRIST.[THEY BOTH CHUCKLE]ARCHIE: SO, DO YOU MISS NEW YORK?VERONICA: IT’S BEEN LS THAN A WEEK. BUT Y.ARCHIE: SIX MUT, TWENTY SENDS. OKAY, YOUR TURN. ASK ME A EP, PROBG QUTN. TO, UHM. KILL TIME.VERONICA: IT LOOKED LIKE YOU AND BETTY WERE HAVG FUN AT THE DANCE.ARCHIE: DEFELY. WE’VE BEEN IENDS FOREVER. MY TURN.VERONICA: I DIDN’T ASK MY QUTN YET. IS THAT ALL IS? JT IENDS?ARCHIE: WE'RE NOT JT IENDS, WE'RE BT IENDS. MY TURN: DID YOU HAVE A BOYIEND BACK NEW YORK?VERONICA: NO. MY TURN: COULD EVER POSSIBLY BEE SOMETHG MORE?ARCHIE: ARE YOU ASKG FOR BETTY OR FOR YOURSELF?VERONICA: FOR BETTY -- AND YOU DIDN’T ANSWER MY QUTN.ARCHIE: I’VE NEVER FELT -- WHATEVER IS I’M SUPPOSED TO FEEL -- WH BETTY.VERONICA: HAVE YOU FELT , THOUGH? WH ANYONE?ARCHIE: -- YEAH -- THIS SUMMER -- HAVE YOU?VERONICA: MAYBE ONCE.(THEN, REALIZG)YOU’RE A LTLE MORE DANGERO THAN YOU LOOK, AREN’T YOU? ALL BOY-NEXT-DOOR-ISH?ARCHIE: YOU HAVE NO IA...VERONICA: YOUR TURN. ASK ME A QUTN, ARCHIE...(PUTTG OUT THERE)ASK ME ANYTHG YOU WANT...[THE AIR -- THE SPACE -- BETWEEN THEM IS THICK WH SEXUAL TENSN.]VEORNICA: WE SHOULDN'T DO THIS.ARCHIE: WE FELY SHOULDN'T DO THIS.[SO ARCHIE AND VERONI START TO KISS... TENTATIVELY AT FIRST, THEN MORE AND MORE PASSNATELY...][INT. BLOSSOM HOME - BASEMENT - NIGHT (6.5 MINUTES LATER)][SHEEPISHLY, ARCHIE AND VERONI EMERGE OM THE CLOSET...]REGGIE: NAILED . Y!VERONICA: WHERE'S BETTY?CHERYL: SHE SPIRALED AND FLED. BETWEEN , SHE'S A LOT MORE HIGH-STNG THAN SHE LOOKS.VERONICA: YOU SHADY BCH.[ARCHIE AND VERONI TRA A LOOK. AND THEN BOTH STRI AWAY TO LOOK FOR BETTY][CHERYL LOOKS AT THEM, NOT THE LEAST B NCERNED]ARCHIE: CRAP! BETTY'S CELL IS OFF.VERONICA: I’LL GETTG AN UBER.ARCHIE: CAN I E WH YOU? WE SHOULD PROBABLY TRY TO FD HER.VERONICA: BELIEVE ME, THE LAST THG BETTY WANTS IS TRACKG HER DOWN, TOGETHER. WE MSED UP.[FROM THE LOOK ON VERONI’S FACE, WE N TELL: SHE'S ALREADY REGRETTG THOSE SEVEN MUT...][INT. THE LODGE APARTMENT - NIGHT][VERONI HOME OM CHERYL’S, TO FD HERMNE, HAVG A GLASS OF WE.]HERMIONE: HEY, YOU'RE HOME EARLY. HOW WAS THE DANCE?VERONICA (VERG): IT WAS FE. I MEAN, 'S NOT THE MET BALL OR ANYTHG...HERMIONE: TELL ME ABOUT .VERONICA: I’M SUPER-TIRED, MOM.[VERONI LAYS DOWN, LAYG HER HEAD DOWN HER MOTHER'S LAP]HERMIONE: IS EVERYTHG OKAY? RONI, HEY, WHAT IS ?[VERONI DON'T ANSWER][EXT. POP'S CHOCK’LIT SHOPPE DINER - NIGHT]WALKG HOME OM THE AFTER-PARTY, REELG OM THE NIGHT, ARCHIE PASS THE ONE PLACE TOWN THAT'S OPEN. POP’S DER.]JUGHEAD: IT WAS MIDNIGHT, WHEN MY OLD IEND, ARCHIE ANDREWS, ARRIVED AT THE ONE PLACE TOWN THAT'S STILL OPEN. HE WAS LOOKG FOR THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. INSTEAD, HE FOUND ME.[INT. POP'S DINER - NIGHT][ARCHIE WALKS TO THE DER, NOTIC JUGHEAD AT A BOOTH. THE TWO LOCK EY, THEN ARCHIE WALKS OVER TO POP TATE AT THE UNTER]ARCHIE: HEY, POP. BETTY HASN'T E TONIGHT, HAS SHE?POP: NO. JT THE NIGHTHAWK'S TONIGHT.[POP NODS TOWARDS JUGHEAD]ARCHIE (TO POP): THANKS.[ARCHIE THEN PROCEEDS TO MOVE OVER TO WHERE JUGHEAD IS STG]ARCHIE: OH, N I S, JUGHEAD?JUGHEAD (SHGS): IF YOU WANT.[ARCHIE DO SO]ARCHIE: WHAT ARE YOU WORKG ON?JUGHEAD: MY NOVEL. IT'S ABOUT THIS SUMMER -- AND JASON BLOSSOM.[WE SEE THE SCREEN, WHICH HAS APPLE PAG OPEN WH A PAGE OPEN OF THE NOVEL]ARCHIE: SEVENTEEN YEARS HOW WILL HE BE REMEMBERED? AS CAPTA OF THE WATER POLO TEAM?JUGHEAD: THE AQUAHOLICS? CONSIRG HOW HE DIED, PROBABLY NOT.ARCHIE: NO, WHAT I MEAN IS, WAS HE DOG EVERYTHG HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO? EVERYTHG HE WANTED -- I MEAN, DID HE EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT WAS?[NEHER SAY ANYTHG, UNTIL JUGHEAD CHANG THE SUBJECT]JUGHEAD: COACH CLAYTON WAS HERE TALKG TO POP TATE. VARSY? DO THAT MAKE YOU, WHAT, MR. POPULAR FOOTBALL GOD NOW?ARCHIE: NO. IN FACT, I'M KD OF TERRIFIED I LOST MY BT IEND TONIGHT.JUGHEAD: IF YOU MEAN BETTY, WHATEVER HAPPENED, JT TALK TO HER, MAN. THAT WOULD GO A LONG WAY.(THEN)WOULD’VE GONE A LONG WAY WH ME.[EXT. THE ANDREWS HOUSE - NIGHT][THIS LATE, ARCHIE'S EXHSTED, BUT WIRED. AS HE STARTS UP THE WALK TO HIS HOE, BETTY STEPS OUT OF THE ONT DOOR. SHE'D BEEN WAG FOR HIM]BETTY: ...I'M NOT GOG TO ASK WHAT YOU DID WHVERONI AT CHERYL'S -- BUT I’M ASKG YOU NOW, RIGHT NOW, IF YOU LOVE ME, ARCHIE? OR EVEN LIKE ME?ARCHIE: OF URSE I LOVE YOU, BETTY, BUT...I N'T GIVE YOU THE ANSWER YOU WANT...BETTY: WHY?ARCHIE: YOU’RE SO PERFECT, I’VE NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU...I’LL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU...[THE TWO LIFE-LONG IENDS LOOK AT EACH OTHER -- HEARTS BREAKG -- A TTH BETWEEN THEM FALLY SPOKEN , WH TEARS STARTG TO TO STREAM DOWN HER FACE, TURNS AND WALKS TO HER HOME, AND CLOS THE DOOR]JUGHEAD (V.O.): AND SO, WASN'T ONE HEART THAT BROKE THAT NIGHT. IT WAS TWO. AND THE NIGHT WAS FAR OM OVER.[EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - NIGHT][MOOSE AND KEV EX MOOSE'S R AT THE EDGE OF THE SWEETWATER RIVER]MOOSE: FOR THE RERD, I'M NOT GAY.KEVIN: OBVLY NOT MOOSE, YOU'RE ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM. BUT IF YOU WERE GAY, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?MOOSE: EVERYTHG BUT KISS.KEVIN (LGHS): I LOVE A GOOD CLOSET SE.[THE TWO WALK DOWN TO THE RIVER, WHILE EACH STARTG TO REMOVE THEIR OUTER LAYERS]KEVIN: SO, LET'S START WH SKNY-DIPPG. AND THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS?[KEV TRIPS OVER HIMSELF WHEN WALKG BACKWARDS]MOOSE: DU! ARE YOU OKAY?[KEV STAR, MOUTH WI-OPEN AT SOMETHG THE RIVER. MOOSE NOTIC THIS AND STAR AS WELL][A BODY, A WHE SU, IS LYG FACE UP THE WATER. THE MERA THEN REPOSNS TO PAN TOWARDS THE HEAD OF THE BODY, WHICH WE SEE IS JASON – WHO HAS A GUNSHOT WOUND JT ABOVE THE EY. HIS MOUTH IS OPEN]KEVIN: OH MY GOD, JASON -- HE WAS SHOT.[INT. POP'S DINER - NIGHT][JUGHEAD, TYPG AWAY AT HIS KEYBOARD, RUMG WH HIS V-O]JUGHEAD (V.O.): .. MORNG, EVERYONE WOULD BE TALKG,TEXTG, AND POSTG ABOUT ... WE’D ALL BE FEELG . THAT THE WORLD AROUND HAD CHANGED, MAYBE FOREVER...[EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - EARLY MORNING][THE ENTIRE TOWN, ALL OUR CHARACTERS, HAVE GATHERED. AS RIVERDALE POLICE, HELP PARAMEDICS LOAD JASON’S BODY TO AN AMBULANCE... BETTY’S THERE, WH HER FOLKS. VERONI, HERMNE. ARCHIE’S WH HIS PARENTS. MS. GNDY’S THERE WH WEATHERBEE, OTHER TEACHERS AND STUNTS. THEY ALL LOOK...TRANSFORMED. SRED. ESPECIALLY CHERYL.]JUGHEAD (V.O.): .. RIVERDALE WASN'T THE SAME TOWNANYMORE. THAT WAS A TOWN OF SHADOWS AND SECRETS NOW. ON MONDAY, THE TOPSY WOULD TAKE PLACE. AND ON TUDAY, HALFWAY THROUGH FIFTH-PERD, THE FIRST ARRT WOULD BE MA.["RIVERDALE" TLE IS DISPLAYED S NEON BLUE LIGHTS][END OF EPISODE]3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

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GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER

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ARCHIE GO GAYBY BRETT BERKAPRIL 26, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE GANG AT ARCHIE COMICS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LONGT-NNG AND MOST POPULAR IC BOOKS EVER, HAS FALLY CID TO QUEER THGS UP A LTLE. THIS FALL, AN OPENLY GAY TEENAGER, KEV KELLER—A HUNKY YOUNG TRANSFER STUNT WH A SQUARE JAW AND A FURROWED BLOND HAIRDO THAT LOOKS NOT UNLIKE A GILD RO MIRROR AME—WILL ENROLL AT RIVERDALE HIGH, IMMEDIATELY DRAWG THE ATTENTN OF BOYS AND GIRLS ALIKE. I SEE THIS AS FURTHER EVINCE OF GLEE’S FLUENCE AS THE GAYT THG TO H THE MASTREAM SCE MANSPG (AND THE PENULTIMATE STEP THE HOMOSEXUAL TAKEOVER OF AMERI). NOW THAT CHRIS COLFER (“KURT”) IS THE NATN’S SWEETHEART, EVERY NOCENT BASTN OF TEENAGER-DOM IS STGGLG TO GET S OWN LTLE HOMO. OBVLY, I SUPPORT THIS ENAVOR. GAY KIDS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND THEY SERVE TO SEE THEMSELV STEREOTYPILLY PORTRAYED AS HOT, POPULAR, BODY-OBSSED, VAPID, AND TWO-DIMENSNAL JT LIKE EVERY OTHER PICTN OF YOUNG PEOPLE POPULAR CULTURE. BUT THIS KEV CHARACTER BEGS A FEW QUTNS ABOUT THE ARCHIE-VERSE.1) IS HE REALLY FIRST? THE LAST TIME I READ AN ARCHIE IC, I WAS PROBABLY ABOUT EIGHT. THEY HAD THEM THE WAG AREA OF THIS WEIRD FAY RTRANT WE ED TO GO TO SUBURBAN DETRO LLED BILL KNAPP'S, WHERE THEY SERVED THIS TENDON-Y CHICKEN AND BISCUS, AND WHERE YOU ULD GET A EE CHOLATE KE IF YOU ME ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. ANYWAY, AS FAR AS I N REMEMBER, THE ENTIRE PLOT OF NEARLY EVERY STORYLE REVOLVED AROUND AN IMPLIED THREE-WAY BETWEEN THE EPONYMO ARCHIE, BTE HEIRS VERONI, AND FLAXEN-HAIRED GIRL-NEXT-DOOR BETTY. MAYBE GIRL-ON-GIRL ACTN LIKE THIS DON’T UNT AS "GAY." OR MAYBE, SCE THE LADI NEVER OFFICIALLY CLARED THEMSELV TO BE LBIANS, KEV IS THE FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER.WHEN’S THE MOVIE G OUT? ARCHIE HAS BEEN LEFT LANGUISHG WHILE LERALLY EVERY OTHER IC BOOK EVER WRTEN—AND SOME THAT AREN’T EVEN FISHED YET—HAS BEEN MA TO A MAJOR MOTN PICTURE. WHY? BEE THE SERI IS ENTIRELY LACKG BLOOD-SPLATTERG VLENCE, BROODG AND PRSIVE PROTAGONISTS, SK-TIGHT STUM, ERSATZ SUPERPOWERS, HTS AT SEXUAL ISSN, OR NE YEAR-OLDS NSTANTLY SAYG CUNT AND MOTHER-FUCKER LIKE THEY HAVE A TOURETTIAN TIC. INSTEAD, ’S ABOUT A BUNCH OF SIPID, AVERAGE FOOLS WHO DON’T DO ANYTHG BUT DRIVE AROUND, DRK ICE CREAM SODAS, AND OTHERWISE ACT LIKE THEY JT PED OM A DULLED-DOWN VERSN OF BETTY DRAPER’S ADOLCENCE, OR SOME SORT OF VTAGE MCTEEN VENDG MACHE. NOW THAT THEY’VE GOT A GAY, THEY HAVE AN EDGY, -URANT “PROBLEM” AROUND WHICH THEY N BUILD SOMETHG THAT ULD POTENTIALLY REMBLE A PLOT. (ATTENTN STG DIRECTORS: KELLAN LUTZ WOULD MAKE A GREAT KEV, PECIALLY IF HE TAK LOTS OF SHOWERS.)WHO’S HE GOG TO GET WH? IN KEV'S GURAL ISSUE, VERONI GO ALL BONKERS FOR THE SUPER-CREAMY NEWER, AND HE HAS TO LET HER DOWN EASY BY EXPLAG THAT, WHEN TO BREAKFAST, HE PREFERS LKS OVER PATTI. SPEAKG OF MEAT, THIS LEAV KEV SURVEYG THE BUFFET THE BOYS’ LOCKER ROOM FOR A LIKELY SNACK. LET’S EXAME THE OFFERGS AND TRY TO TERME WHERE THE FOOD PYRAMID HE SHOULD SK HIS TEETH.ARCHIE. IS THE WHOLE MENAGE-A-TROIS ANY REALLY JT AN OVER-PENSATORY SMOKCREEN? EVEN IF, AS MOR HAS , ARCHIE JT LIKE TO WATCH, GIVEN HIS BRAH-TASTIC FAD-JEANS-AND-UNTUCKED-SHIRT ENSEMBLE, MY GAYDAR SAYS,“NO.”JUGHEAD. HIS DORKY CROWN READS AS MORE "PRCE" THAN "QUEEN," AND I THK WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE KIDS WERE REALLY REFERRG TO WHEN THEY NICKNAMED HIM NEEDLE NOSE. KEV SAYS, "PASS."REGGIE. HE’S HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND HAS THE BIEBER-QUE “HOT BOVER." ALSO, HE LOV TO PULL PRANKS, LIKE OTHER FAMOLY EFFETE TRICKSTERS (BUGS BUNNY, PK PANTHER, JACK SPARROW, TYLER PERRY). BUT WOULD NEARLY 70 YEARS OF ONE-NOTE PLOTL IF HE SUDNLY WASN’T PETG FOR VERONI’S AMORO ATTENTNS, AND THEN WHAT WOULD THE IC BE ABOUT?MOOSE. AN ALL-STAR ATHLETE WHO’S AS SWEET AS A KTEN: TOTAL THREE-BEER-QUEER. I SEE A SENR YEAR FILLED WH DNKEN TANGL THE BACK OF A TCK. BUT MOOSE’S BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTATN AND SHAMEFUL MONDAY MORNG IGNOMY ISN’T THE LOVE KEV SEEKS OR SERV.DILTON. HE’S A BPECTACLED BRAIAC WHO IS ALWAYS READY TO HELP “TUTOR” OTHER STUNTS—PECIALLY MOOSE. A NTERED PEOPLE PLEASER, HE SEEMS LIKE HE’D BE WILLG TO DO WHATEVER TAK TO GA SOCIAL PAL. KEV MIGHT PLUCK A FEW ELEMENTS OM HIS PERDIC TABLE, BUT WOULD PROBABLY QUICKLY TIRE OF HIS SPERATE BOTTOM ACT.CHUCK. HE’S BLACK, HE’S SHAPE, HE’S AN ARTIST, AND—ACRDG TO HIS ONLE B—HIS GIRLIEND NANCY OFTEN GETS PISSED AT “TAKG A BACK SEAT TO HIS OTHER TERTS.” SISTER, I HATE TO BE THE ONE TO BREAK TO YOU, BUT YOUR MAN IS ON THE DL. GAY AND TERRACIAL! THIS IS JT THE KD OF HEAT THE ARCHIE BRAND NEEDS TO MAKE RELEVANT FOR GENERATN G (GAGA, GLEE, AND GOSSIP GIRL). CHUCKY GETS LUCKY![IMAG: ARCHIE COMIC PUBLITNS INC.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDBRETT BERK

So when out Brish duo Andy Bell and Vce Clarke’s plative yet buoyant sgle beme a worldwi h gay-uniendly 1988, felt quietly revolutnary to anyone the know. The gay teens and tweens, most of them closeted, fely did. “Beg gay and open about is my substance.

Ontman had long been a whe-hot sex symbol, role mol and trendsetter for gay men and other LGBTQ dividuals across the world. The Bay Area gay punk pneers found a ht of mastream fame when they toured wh Green Day on their Dookie n 1994, but was their sexy lyrics and who-giv-a-fuck attu that enared them to a generatn of queer kids – before that term was even fashnable.

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WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?

“One thg that we have is that we’ve always sung about beg gay.

We’re not jt gay and micians, ” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

“We have sung about beg gay as a part of the topic wh our songs. I thk, over time, some of them are ls specifilly gay than they were at first bee seemed like, when we had the chance that was really what we wanted to sg about and that was really unique. Ltle did she know that her wgirl blu would not only w her the Grammy for Bt Female Rock Vol Performance but would also yield an empowerg theme for the gay muny.