1 00:00:12,190 --> 00:00:15,058 ♪ One, two, three o'clock Four o'clock, rock ♪ 2 00:00:15,101 --> 00:00:17,669 ♪ Five, six, seven o'clock Eight o'clock, rock ♪ 3 00:00:17,712 --> 00:00:19,975 ♪ Nine, ten, eleven o'clock Twelve o'clock, rock ♪ 4 00:00:20,019 --> 00:00:22,717 ♪ We're gonna rock around the clock tonight ♪ 5 00:00:22,761 --> 00:00:25,372 ♪ Put your glad rags on And join me, hon ♪ 6 00:00:25,416 --> 00:00:28,114 ♪ We'll have some fun When the clock strikes one ♪ 7 00:00:28,158 --> 00:00:30,638 ♪ We're gonna rock Around the clock tonight ♪ 8 00:00:30,682 --> 00:00:33,250 ♪ We're gonna rock, rock, rock Till broad daylight ♪ 9 00:00:33,293 --> 00:00:38,168 ♪ We're gonna rock, gonna rock Around the clock tonight ♪ 10 00:00:38,211 --> 00:00:40,039 ♪ When the clock strikes two Three and four ♪ 11 00:00:40,083 --> 00:00:43,173 The year is 1955. 12 00:00:43,216 --> 00:00:46,393 Number one on the Billboard charts is "Rock Around The Clock," 13 00:00:46,437 --> 00:00:48,091 an earworm if I've ever heard one. 14 00:00:49,657 --> 00:00:51,355 Now, some random fun facts. 15 00:00:51,398 --> 00:00:53,835 In 1955, a hamburger with a side of fries 16 00:00:53,879 --> 00:00:55,794 set you back 30 cents. 17 00:00:55,837 --> 00:00:59,798 A comic book, a dime. A pulp novel, a quarter. 18 00:01:02,148 --> 00:01:04,257 It's been two days since Bailey's Comet almost decimated us, 19 00:01:04,281 --> 00:01:07,545 and we were somehow zapped back to the 1950s. 20 00:01:07,588 --> 00:01:09,721 I'm not sure how that happened exactly. 21 00:01:09,764 --> 00:01:11,679 I'm not sure if we're merely in the past, 22 00:01:11,723 --> 00:01:13,551 or in the past of an alternate universe. 23 00:01:13,594 --> 00:01:16,814 But things are different here in Riverdale. 24 00:01:16,858 --> 00:01:20,340 For starters, I live in an abandoned train car with Hot Dog, 25 00:01:20,384 --> 00:01:23,430 which actually tracks. 26 00:01:23,474 --> 00:01:26,390 And at Riverdale High, we're all juniors again. 27 00:01:26,433 --> 00:01:28,218 Betty and Kevin aren't merely friends, 28 00:01:28,261 --> 00:01:29,957 they're dating. 29 00:01:30,002 --> 00:01:33,005 Cheryl's twin brother is alive, but he's not Jason. 30 00:01:33,048 --> 00:01:34,048 He's Julian. 31 00:01:35,268 --> 00:01:37,705 No sign of a Reggie yet. 32 00:01:37,749 --> 00:01:42,796 But Archie exists, and he's still pretty much a teen Charles Atlas. 33 00:01:42,841 --> 00:01:44,364 None of them remember our lives 34 00:01:44,408 --> 00:01:46,018 from before we became teenagers again, 35 00:01:46,061 --> 00:01:48,151 and I haven't tried to remind them yet. 36 00:01:48,194 --> 00:01:50,501 I've been waiting to reconnect with the one person 37 00:01:50,544 --> 00:01:52,305 who might be able to shed light on our predicament, 38 00:01:52,329 --> 00:01:54,157 because she was both chronokinetic 39 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,508 and the town's guardian angel, my girlfriend, Tabitha Tate. 40 00:01:57,551 --> 00:01:59,423 Bus from Mississippi's pulling in. 41 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,383 Wonder if it was as bad down there 42 00:02:03,427 --> 00:02:05,255 as they're saying on the radio. 43 00:02:05,298 --> 00:02:07,866 I already knew what Pop would soon find out. 44 00:02:07,909 --> 00:02:10,216 It was much, much worse. 45 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:13,785 Tabitha, Toni and some of Riverdale High's other students of color 46 00:02:13,828 --> 00:02:15,743 were in Mississippi for the trial 47 00:02:15,787 --> 00:02:18,659 of the two men who murdered Black teenager Emmett Till, 48 00:02:18,703 --> 00:02:21,923 for supposedly whistling at a white woman. 49 00:02:21,967 --> 00:02:24,187 The jury deliberated for all of 67 minutes 50 00:02:24,230 --> 00:02:26,319 and then acquitted the killers. 51 00:02:26,363 --> 00:02:28,146 It was one of the single most shameful 52 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:31,324 and appalling events of this or any era. 53 00:02:37,765 --> 00:02:38,810 Uh, Tabitha? 54 00:02:42,727 --> 00:02:44,336 Uh, they 55 00:02:44,381 --> 00:02:46,339 announced the verdict on... on the radio. 56 00:02:46,383 --> 00:02:49,124 It made me sick in my stomach. 57 00:02:49,168 --> 00:02:53,824 - If you need anything... - That's what we're trying to figure out now, 58 00:02:53,868 --> 00:02:58,351 what our next move should be... but I appreciate the offer. 59 00:03:00,614 --> 00:03:03,269 It's Jughead, right? 60 00:03:03,313 --> 00:03:04,575 Uh, yeah. Yes. 61 00:03:06,751 --> 00:03:07,795 I'll let you know. 62 00:03:13,148 --> 00:03:14,280 It's overwhelming. 63 00:03:15,368 --> 00:03:17,501 Heartbreaking. 64 00:03:17,544 --> 00:03:19,285 Whichever genius said that the '50s 65 00:03:19,329 --> 00:03:20,939 were the greatest decade of all time 66 00:03:20,982 --> 00:03:22,680 should seriously have their head examined. 67 00:03:24,334 --> 00:03:26,858 Archie? Can I speak to you for a minute? 68 00:03:34,605 --> 00:03:36,433 What's wrong, Mom? 69 00:03:36,476 --> 00:03:40,045 They printed more pictures from James Dean's car accident. 70 00:03:40,088 --> 00:03:41,370 Oh, I can't even show them to you. 71 00:03:41,394 --> 00:03:42,850 You shouldn't look at that stuff, Mom, 72 00:03:42,874 --> 00:03:44,702 - it upsets you. - No, what upsets me 73 00:03:44,745 --> 00:03:47,835 - is the idea of you on the road being reckless. - Oh. 74 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:49,881 And that's why I... 75 00:03:49,924 --> 00:03:52,187 I'm going to need your keys, Archie. 76 00:03:52,231 --> 00:03:54,233 You're not going to drive that hot rod anymore. 77 00:03:54,277 --> 00:03:57,018 Mom. Whoa! Now, Mom, I'm a safe driver. 78 00:03:57,062 --> 00:03:58,368 It's not a hot rod. 79 00:03:58,411 --> 00:03:59,804 It's barely a cut above a jalopy... 80 00:03:59,847 --> 00:04:02,067 It's got fire painted on its doors. 81 00:04:02,110 --> 00:04:04,417 - Mom. - Keys. Now. 82 00:04:15,298 --> 00:04:17,865 ♪ Well, that's All right, Mama ♪ 83 00:04:17,909 --> 00:04:20,172 ♪ That's all right for you ♪ 84 00:04:20,215 --> 00:04:24,089 ♪ That's all right, mama Just anyway you do ♪ 85 00:04:24,132 --> 00:04:27,440 ♪ That's all right That's all right ♪ 86 00:04:29,268 --> 00:04:34,534 ♪ That's all right now, Mama Anyway you do ♪ 87 00:04:36,101 --> 00:04:38,582 ♪ Well, Mama she done told me ♪ 88 00:04:38,625 --> 00:04:40,932 ♪ Papa done told me too ♪ 89 00:04:40,975 --> 00:04:43,195 ♪ Son, that gal Your foolin' with ♪ 90 00:04:43,238 --> 00:04:44,892 ♪ She ain't no good for you ♪ 91 00:04:44,936 --> 00:04:48,505 ♪ But that's all right That's all right ♪ 92 00:04:52,247 --> 00:04:53,814 What do you think, Betty? 93 00:04:53,858 --> 00:04:57,122 Toni, your writing is remarkable. 94 00:04:57,165 --> 00:05:02,301 This is the most important piece of reporting that I've read in my two years 95 00:05:02,345 --> 00:05:03,955 as editor-in-chief at the Blue and Gold. 96 00:05:03,998 --> 00:05:06,827 But we've tried covering Emmett Till before. 97 00:05:06,871 --> 00:05:11,092 Both times Principal Featherhead has vetoed the stories. 98 00:05:11,136 --> 00:05:16,097 Betty, I heard Mamie Till give the most incredible, inspiring speech 99 00:05:16,141 --> 00:05:18,796 after the verdict was delivered. 100 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,319 And I got a chance to interview people 101 00:05:20,363 --> 00:05:22,234 that knew Emmett personally, 102 00:05:22,277 --> 00:05:25,977 his friends, his neighbors. 103 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:28,196 And I made them a promise I would help tell his story. 104 00:05:29,937 --> 00:05:31,939 I agree wholeheartedly. 105 00:05:34,159 --> 00:05:36,079 I'll make an appointment for us with Featherhead. 106 00:05:37,641 --> 00:05:40,077 This is a squirrel mill. 107 00:05:40,121 --> 00:05:42,820 A mill is a hot rod or souped-up jalopy which was once just a car. 108 00:05:44,648 --> 00:05:46,258 Well, it should happen to all... 109 00:05:46,301 --> 00:05:48,782 Mrs. Thornton, I'm sorry to interrupt your class, 110 00:05:48,826 --> 00:05:53,918 but I did want to personally introduce a new student to our Riverdale High family. 111 00:05:53,961 --> 00:05:56,616 She's just moved here from sunny Los Angeles. 112 00:06:11,239 --> 00:06:12,719 Damn. 113 00:06:12,763 --> 00:06:14,678 Even in 1955, Veronica Lodge knew 114 00:06:14,721 --> 00:06:16,201 how to make an entrance. 115 00:06:16,244 --> 00:06:18,464 Enchante, I'm sure. 116 00:06:18,508 --> 00:06:20,466 Thank you, Principal Featherhead. 117 00:06:20,510 --> 00:06:22,076 Now, before you ask, 118 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,818 yes, I am that Veronica Lodge, 119 00:06:24,862 --> 00:06:27,691 the daughter of Hiram and Hermione Lodge, 120 00:06:27,734 --> 00:06:32,304 the married stars of America's number-one rated television program, Oh Mija! 121 00:06:32,347 --> 00:06:33,871 For the foreseeable future, 122 00:06:33,914 --> 00:06:36,003 I will be staying with my auntie and uncle 123 00:06:36,047 --> 00:06:37,788 at the Pembrooke in downtown Riverdale. 124 00:06:38,528 --> 00:06:40,791 Why? Well, 125 00:06:40,834 --> 00:06:44,969 you may have heard about MGM's upcoming film adaptation of Our Town. 126 00:06:45,012 --> 00:06:49,800 Though I can't confirm that the lead role of innocent ingenue Emily Webb 127 00:06:49,843 --> 00:06:51,541 has already been cast 128 00:06:51,584 --> 00:06:54,369 with a certain raven-haired starlet, namely moi, 129 00:06:54,413 --> 00:06:57,155 I did feel it was an opportune time 130 00:06:57,198 --> 00:06:59,070 to take a sabbatical from Hollywood 131 00:06:59,113 --> 00:07:03,466 and get a feel for small-town life. 132 00:07:03,509 --> 00:07:05,859 But please, I beg of you treat me as one of your own, 133 00:07:05,903 --> 00:07:08,862 not as a scion of Tinseltown royalty. 134 00:07:11,212 --> 00:07:12,692 Thank you. 135 00:07:36,411 --> 00:07:38,413 Mind if I join you? 136 00:07:38,457 --> 00:07:39,806 - Actually... - Yeah, sure. 137 00:07:42,156 --> 00:07:43,680 I believe I caught on your names 138 00:07:43,723 --> 00:07:45,725 in Mrs. Thornton's class. 139 00:07:45,769 --> 00:07:47,988 Archie. Betty. 140 00:07:48,032 --> 00:07:49,990 Kevin. Julian. 141 00:07:52,645 --> 00:07:54,299 Hmm. 142 00:07:54,342 --> 00:07:55,542 Remind me, what's yours again? 143 00:07:56,606 --> 00:07:58,346 - Cheryl. - That's right, Cheryl. 144 00:07:59,478 --> 00:08:01,785 So, what are we dishing about? 145 00:08:01,828 --> 00:08:05,092 - Clue me in. - James Dean's untimely passing, of course. 146 00:08:05,136 --> 00:08:07,486 I am the president of his fan club here at Riverdale High. 147 00:08:07,530 --> 00:08:09,836 Your parents' show is hilarious. 148 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,446 We tune in every week. 149 00:08:11,490 --> 00:08:12,752 You and everyone else, 150 00:08:12,796 --> 00:08:14,624 if Mr. Nielsen is to be believed. 151 00:08:14,667 --> 00:08:16,234 Where in Los Angeles did you live? 152 00:08:16,277 --> 00:08:17,844 Bel Air. 153 00:08:17,888 --> 00:08:20,238 In a ghastly old mansion Vincent Price used to own. 154 00:08:20,281 --> 00:08:22,370 Is that close to where James Dean lived? 155 00:08:22,414 --> 00:08:24,329 Wait, you didn't know James Dean, did you? 156 00:08:24,372 --> 00:08:25,828 Kevin, don't be so provincial. 157 00:08:25,852 --> 00:08:27,637 James Dean was a movie star. 158 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,030 He was friends with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. 159 00:08:30,074 --> 00:08:32,293 Actually, Jimmy and I were quite friendly. 160 00:08:32,337 --> 00:08:34,533 We went skinny-dipping in the pool at the Chateau Marmaduke. 161 00:08:37,995 --> 00:08:40,214 - You went skinny-dipping? - With James Dean? 162 00:08:40,258 --> 00:08:41,912 Once or was it a regular thing? 163 00:08:41,955 --> 00:08:44,610 I suppose next you'll be saying you and Jimmy dated. 164 00:08:44,654 --> 00:08:48,309 No, but he did enjoy playing both sides of the net. 165 00:08:48,353 --> 00:08:50,703 Girls and boys. 166 00:08:50,747 --> 00:08:55,186 Wait. Hang on! Are you suggesting that James Dean was... 167 00:08:55,229 --> 00:08:56,708 What? I mean, he seemed like 168 00:08:56,753 --> 00:08:59,146 such a regular guy. Like a cowboy, almost. 169 00:08:59,190 --> 00:09:01,627 How dare you besmirch his memory like that? 170 00:09:01,671 --> 00:09:03,542 Don't you be so provincial. 171 00:09:03,586 --> 00:09:05,892 I don't know why I'm so surprised to hear such filthy lies 172 00:09:05,936 --> 00:09:08,025 coming out of the mouth of some wild child 173 00:09:08,068 --> 00:09:09,388 who grew up surrounded by perverts 174 00:09:09,417 --> 00:09:12,333 going to sex parties and orgies! 175 00:09:12,377 --> 00:09:15,032 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have lost my appetite. 176 00:09:19,384 --> 00:09:20,385 What about Sal Mineo? 177 00:09:24,128 --> 00:09:25,758 Remember, the astronomy club is meeting after school today. 178 00:09:25,782 --> 00:09:27,107 We will be bringing something ideas to fundraise 179 00:09:27,131 --> 00:09:28,369 so we can purchase new telescope 180 00:09:28,393 --> 00:09:29,593 before Bailey's Comet arrives. 181 00:09:31,004 --> 00:09:32,615 B-Bailey's Comet is coming again? 182 00:09:34,051 --> 00:09:35,443 Guys! 183 00:09:35,487 --> 00:09:36,793 When? 184 00:09:36,836 --> 00:09:38,316 Oh, not for two years, Mr. Jones. 185 00:09:38,359 --> 00:09:39,946 But it's an extremely expensive telescope, 186 00:09:39,970 --> 00:09:41,580 and this will be the only opportunity 187 00:09:41,624 --> 00:09:43,756 we'll have to see the comet in our lifetime. 188 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:44,800 We mustn't miss it. 189 00:09:47,064 --> 00:09:49,544 Hey, Veronica, can I walk you home? 190 00:09:49,588 --> 00:09:51,851 Walk? 191 00:09:51,895 --> 00:09:53,853 Do I look like the kind of girl who walks home? 192 00:09:53,897 --> 00:09:54,941 Ready, Ronnie? 193 00:09:54,985 --> 00:09:56,943 Thanks for the offer, Archie, 194 00:09:56,987 --> 00:09:59,147 but as you can see, I've already secured an escort home. 195 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,427 Um, excuse me. 196 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:04,777 And how do you expect me to get home, dear brother? 197 00:10:04,821 --> 00:10:05,941 You got two feet, don't you? 198 00:10:07,084 --> 00:10:08,084 Use them or lose them. 199 00:10:19,923 --> 00:10:21,272 I'm sorry. 200 00:10:21,315 --> 00:10:24,667 Miss Topaz, Miss Cooper, 201 00:10:24,710 --> 00:10:26,930 but I gave your article to Dr. Werthers for review, 202 00:10:26,973 --> 00:10:28,888 and we both agree, 203 00:10:28,932 --> 00:10:31,717 it's not suitable for publication. 204 00:10:31,761 --> 00:10:37,810 Toni's reporting is, it's thorough, insightful, balanced. 205 00:10:37,854 --> 00:10:42,119 Be that as it may, as a child psychologist, 206 00:10:42,162 --> 00:10:45,470 it's my expert opinion that the details of the Emmett Till case 207 00:10:45,513 --> 00:10:48,081 are far too violent and disturbing 208 00:10:48,125 --> 00:10:50,780 for young, impressionable minds. 209 00:10:50,823 --> 00:10:54,305 People, your students, need to understand 210 00:10:54,348 --> 00:10:56,588 the gravity of what happens so it doesn't happen again... 211 00:10:57,264 --> 00:10:58,962 here. 212 00:10:59,005 --> 00:11:01,834 These sorts of things don't happen in Riverdale. 213 00:11:03,401 --> 00:11:05,185 And may I remind you that we were 214 00:11:05,229 --> 00:11:07,622 one of the first high schools in the country to integrate. 215 00:11:08,798 --> 00:11:11,278 - Isn't that enough? - Hardly. 216 00:11:11,322 --> 00:11:13,498 We don't have any Black teachers. 217 00:11:13,541 --> 00:11:16,196 We don't study or learn about Black authors. 218 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,591 Change doesn't happen overnight, Miss Topaz. 219 00:11:19,634 --> 00:11:22,812 Your article's very well-written. 220 00:11:22,855 --> 00:11:24,814 Surely you can find some satisfaction in that. 221 00:11:30,036 --> 00:11:33,387 Mom, Dad, you haven't said anything. 222 00:11:33,431 --> 00:11:35,520 Did you read the article my friend Toni wrote? 223 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:39,132 Yes, we did, honey. 224 00:11:43,833 --> 00:11:44,833 And? 225 00:11:46,096 --> 00:11:49,577 And it was very well-written. 226 00:11:49,621 --> 00:11:51,579 - Extremely well-written. - Mm-hmm. 227 00:11:51,623 --> 00:11:52,943 So you'll read it on the air, Dad? 228 00:11:55,148 --> 00:11:59,631 Jeez, hon, we only get 15 minutes of airtime a night. 229 00:11:59,674 --> 00:12:05,202 Do we really need to spend one minute on a story that... 230 00:12:05,245 --> 00:12:07,857 well, has nothing to do with us? 231 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,816 Dad, everyone watches your nightly broadcast. 232 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:13,036 Imagine the impact it would have 233 00:12:13,079 --> 00:12:16,474 if you, the face of RIVW, talked about Emmett Till. 234 00:12:16,517 --> 00:12:20,347 Elizabeth, it's not that simple, honey. 235 00:12:20,391 --> 00:12:22,610 I mean, you know very well that we have to run 236 00:12:22,654 --> 00:12:24,177 every single one of our stories 237 00:12:24,221 --> 00:12:26,310 past our sponsors for approval. 238 00:12:26,353 --> 00:12:29,617 And I'm sorry, this is just not in their bailiwick. 239 00:12:29,661 --> 00:12:30,943 Your sponsors, you're talking about 240 00:12:30,967 --> 00:12:33,186 The Blossoms, Blossom Maple Syrup. 241 00:12:33,230 --> 00:12:34,840 But if we lose their support, 242 00:12:34,884 --> 00:12:38,844 RIVW won't be able to expand its programming. 243 00:12:38,888 --> 00:12:42,674 Hmm. You won't be able to give yourself a raise, you mean. 244 00:12:42,717 --> 00:12:46,983 Betty. Darling, why is this so important to you? 245 00:12:47,026 --> 00:12:51,639 Because what happened to Emmett Till was a complete injustice. 246 00:12:51,683 --> 00:12:53,598 A crime emblematic of everything 247 00:12:53,641 --> 00:12:55,905 that's wrong with this country. 248 00:12:55,948 --> 00:12:57,558 And nobody except my friend Toni 249 00:12:57,602 --> 00:12:59,212 and her friends seem to care about it. 250 00:13:03,608 --> 00:13:05,566 You know, this might sound crazy, Jug. 251 00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:08,047 The first time that I saw her, 252 00:13:08,091 --> 00:13:10,745 I felt like I was hit by a thunderbolt or something. 253 00:13:10,789 --> 00:13:13,270 Shazam! 254 00:13:13,313 --> 00:13:15,402 But how is a guy like me going to get anywhere 255 00:13:15,446 --> 00:13:17,511 with a girl like Veronica Lodge if I'm riding a damn bicycle? 256 00:13:19,972 --> 00:13:22,192 That's why I'm sneaking this baby out tonight. 257 00:13:22,235 --> 00:13:24,431 I admit, while Archie poured his heart out to me, 258 00:13:24,455 --> 00:13:26,326 I was racking my brains. 259 00:13:26,370 --> 00:13:28,633 If Bailey's Comet was what sent us all to the past, 260 00:13:28,676 --> 00:13:31,027 Bailey's Comet might be able to send us back to the future. 261 00:13:31,070 --> 00:13:32,724 But I needed help. 262 00:13:32,767 --> 00:13:34,484 But with my friends unaware of their former lives, 263 00:13:34,508 --> 00:13:37,033 how can I make them remember? 264 00:13:37,076 --> 00:13:39,446 It would take some kind of tangible proof to jolt them awake, but what? 265 00:13:39,470 --> 00:13:42,342 Jug, have you seen my dad's hammer? I need to smack this dent out. 266 00:13:42,386 --> 00:13:43,996 Your dad's hammer? 267 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,955 Did everyone bring an item? 268 00:13:45,998 --> 00:13:49,654 Putting in a guitar pick and a hammer from my dad's toolbox. 269 00:13:51,395 --> 00:13:52,744 It was a long shot. 270 00:13:52,787 --> 00:13:54,311 But could that time capsule we buried 271 00:13:54,354 --> 00:13:56,139 graduation weekend, possibly have survived 272 00:13:56,182 --> 00:13:58,924 whatever cosmic event sent us back to 1955? 273 00:13:58,968 --> 00:14:01,753 The items in that capsule might trigger their memories. 274 00:14:01,796 --> 00:14:03,396 Do you have a shovel that I could borrow? 275 00:14:30,825 --> 00:14:31,825 Thank God! 276 00:14:52,586 --> 00:14:54,240 Well, well, well. 277 00:14:54,284 --> 00:14:55,981 Color me curious. 278 00:14:56,025 --> 00:14:58,375 The all-American boy is secretly a hot-rodder. 279 00:14:58,418 --> 00:15:00,538 I was hoping I could maybe give you a ride home today. 280 00:15:02,161 --> 00:15:03,293 Consider it a date. 281 00:15:03,336 --> 00:15:05,251 Archie. Veronica. 282 00:15:05,295 --> 00:15:07,535 I'm holding an emergency meeting in the music room. Hurry! 283 00:15:09,125 --> 00:15:10,343 Who is that person again? 284 00:15:18,003 --> 00:15:19,415 What is all this junk, Jughead? 285 00:15:19,439 --> 00:15:22,051 These headlines are like Dr. Seuss. 286 00:15:22,094 --> 00:15:23,974 Just take a moment. Look at what you're holding. 287 00:15:26,490 --> 00:15:30,102 Do you remember anything? Do you... Do you feel anything? 288 00:15:30,146 --> 00:15:33,714 I mean, I like the jacket, but I've never seen this before in my life. 289 00:15:33,758 --> 00:15:35,716 I've been to a lot of movie sets, 290 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,633 so I know a good prop when I see one, and these are okay. 291 00:15:39,677 --> 00:15:41,984 - They're not props. - Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 292 00:15:42,027 --> 00:15:43,420 I don't get it. An "inch" of what? 293 00:15:43,463 --> 00:15:44,725 When did you even get a chance 294 00:15:44,769 --> 00:15:46,597 to bury my dad's hammer in a cooler? 295 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,381 I didn't. You did. 296 00:15:48,425 --> 00:15:51,819 We all buried something of emotional significance 297 00:15:51,863 --> 00:15:55,736 in that time capsule 67 years ago. 298 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:58,043 - But in the future. - The future? 299 00:15:58,087 --> 00:16:00,480 Yeah. Yes. 300 00:16:00,524 --> 00:16:01,960 This is gonna sound nuts, okay? 301 00:16:02,004 --> 00:16:03,396 Just hear me out. 302 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,355 Thanks to a cataclysmic event, 303 00:16:05,398 --> 00:16:08,445 all of us, we were all sent back in time... 304 00:16:10,099 --> 00:16:12,536 to maybe an alternate parallel universe. 305 00:16:16,105 --> 00:16:20,196 And we need to get back to our future. 306 00:16:20,239 --> 00:16:22,807 Our present. I... I was hoping that by showing 307 00:16:22,850 --> 00:16:25,592 you guys these objects, it would help jog your memory. 308 00:16:25,636 --> 00:16:27,464 Okay. What's your object? What did you bury? 309 00:16:27,507 --> 00:16:29,161 It was a yarn beanie. 310 00:16:29,205 --> 00:16:31,381 But for whatever reason, it wasn't in the time capsule. 311 00:16:31,424 --> 00:16:32,424 Oh. 312 00:16:33,992 --> 00:16:35,472 All right. I'll play along. 313 00:16:35,515 --> 00:16:37,169 Yeah. Okay. 314 00:16:37,213 --> 00:16:39,519 In the future, who's more famous? 315 00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:40,868 Me or Elizabeth Taylor? 316 00:16:40,912 --> 00:16:42,232 Never mind her. She just got here. 317 00:16:42,261 --> 00:16:43,828 Bird's-eye view. What's the future like? 318 00:16:44,785 --> 00:16:45,785 Um... 319 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:48,006 Where do I start? Uh... 320 00:16:49,529 --> 00:16:50,922 Okay. 321 00:16:50,965 --> 00:16:53,011 We don't use regular phones anymore. 322 00:16:53,055 --> 00:16:54,665 We use something called smartphones, 323 00:16:54,708 --> 00:16:56,971 which we can carry around everywhere with us. 324 00:16:57,015 --> 00:16:59,670 And, ironically, we don't even call people on them. 325 00:16:59,713 --> 00:17:03,152 We just send texts, which are like messages 326 00:17:03,195 --> 00:17:05,284 and listen to music on Spotify 327 00:17:05,328 --> 00:17:06,894 and, oh, the Internet. 328 00:17:06,938 --> 00:17:08,722 The Internet is like, um, 329 00:17:08,766 --> 00:17:10,898 having an entire encyclopedia at your fingertips. 330 00:17:10,941 --> 00:17:12,204 Well, maybe tell us about us. 331 00:17:12,247 --> 00:17:13,858 What were we like in the future? 332 00:17:13,901 --> 00:17:16,513 Okay. Archie joins the Army and fought in a war. 333 00:17:16,555 --> 00:17:18,689 Betty, you were in the FBI 334 00:17:18,732 --> 00:17:20,952 and you were hunting down serial killers, 335 00:17:20,995 --> 00:17:23,563 which I guess is a term that doesn't exist yet. 336 00:17:23,607 --> 00:17:25,609 Veronica, you owned a casino. 337 00:17:25,651 --> 00:17:27,132 But before that, a speakeasy, 338 00:17:27,176 --> 00:17:29,613 which Toni bought and turned into a biker bar. 339 00:17:29,656 --> 00:17:35,227 Kevin, you directed, uh, some musicals, 340 00:17:35,271 --> 00:17:39,144 and were in an organ-harvesting cult. 341 00:17:39,188 --> 00:17:40,841 Huh! Oh! 342 00:17:40,885 --> 00:17:42,930 Okay. What about me? 343 00:17:42,974 --> 00:17:47,500 Uh, you were possessed by your ancestor and... and became a witch. 344 00:17:48,719 --> 00:17:50,242 Oh. 345 00:17:50,286 --> 00:17:52,636 If that's what we were doing in the future, 346 00:17:52,679 --> 00:17:54,725 why would we want to go back? We sound miserable. 347 00:17:54,768 --> 00:17:56,901 Yeah, and how would that even happen? 348 00:17:56,944 --> 00:17:58,337 Okay, I... I have an idea. 349 00:17:58,381 --> 00:18:00,209 Now, it's a crazy one, but it might work. 350 00:18:00,252 --> 00:18:02,820 So, short of waiting for Bailey's Comet to return, 351 00:18:02,863 --> 00:18:06,780 the other way that we could break through the space-time barrier 352 00:18:06,824 --> 00:18:09,131 is by getting Archie and Betty 353 00:18:09,174 --> 00:18:13,352 to make out on top of Archie's bed, 354 00:18:13,396 --> 00:18:16,312 and then we blow up a bomb underneath them. 355 00:18:18,444 --> 00:18:20,490 All right, Jug. That's enough, man. 356 00:18:20,533 --> 00:18:22,207 - Let's go for a walk. - You're not going to beat me up, are you? 357 00:18:22,231 --> 00:18:23,730 Because you're really violent in the future. 358 00:18:23,754 --> 00:18:25,408 What? No, we're gonna talk. 359 00:18:25,451 --> 00:18:27,801 - Come on. - Just... Just look at that. 360 00:18:27,845 --> 00:18:30,891 - You don't understand! - No, Jug, you don't understand. 361 00:18:30,935 --> 00:18:32,632 We are not from the future. 362 00:18:32,676 --> 00:18:35,505 Jughead, it's 1955. 363 00:18:35,548 --> 00:18:37,004 And things are hard enough to figure out 364 00:18:37,028 --> 00:18:38,943 without your crazy stories 365 00:18:38,986 --> 00:18:40,814 about time traveling 366 00:18:40,858 --> 00:18:44,601 and other universes. And setting off bombs? 367 00:18:44,644 --> 00:18:47,473 I mean, for Pete's sake, Jughead. If you're not careful, 368 00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:50,597 people might start thinking you belong in the loony bin with the other nutjobs. 369 00:18:51,260 --> 00:18:52,260 You think I'm crazy? 370 00:18:52,826 --> 00:18:55,525 No, I, uh... 371 00:18:55,568 --> 00:18:58,789 I just, I think you have an overactive imagination, is all. 372 00:19:00,399 --> 00:19:01,835 And look, you should keep writing 373 00:19:01,879 --> 00:19:03,117 your comic books and your stories 374 00:19:03,141 --> 00:19:04,795 instead of trying to convince us 375 00:19:04,838 --> 00:19:06,158 that we're trapped in some kind of 376 00:19:06,188 --> 00:19:08,190 science-fiction picture show. 377 00:19:08,233 --> 00:19:10,453 Jug, life's good. 378 00:19:10,496 --> 00:19:14,152 It's not perfect, but... but what is? 379 00:19:14,196 --> 00:19:16,763 Well, just trust me on this one, will you, bud, please? 380 00:19:16,807 --> 00:19:17,982 Yeah. 381 00:19:19,549 --> 00:19:20,854 - Yeah, no... - Yeah? 382 00:19:22,378 --> 00:19:23,378 Attaboy. 383 00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:30,386 I feel like all I'm doing lately 384 00:19:30,429 --> 00:19:32,692 is apologizing to you, Toni. 385 00:19:32,736 --> 00:19:35,478 But... my parents say they wouldn't be able 386 00:19:35,521 --> 00:19:37,523 to get your story past The Blossoms, 387 00:19:37,567 --> 00:19:40,222 and they sponsor the nightly news, so... 388 00:19:40,265 --> 00:19:42,615 Well, I'm not surprised. 389 00:19:42,659 --> 00:19:45,183 When Emmett was murdered, nobody wanted to talk about it 390 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:47,620 and nobody wanted to hear about it. 391 00:19:47,664 --> 00:19:51,581 It took Mrs. Till publishing her son's funeral pictures 392 00:19:51,624 --> 00:19:54,061 for people to finally wake up. 393 00:19:54,105 --> 00:19:55,889 I don't think I know about that. 394 00:19:55,933 --> 00:19:57,326 Before Emmett was buried, 395 00:19:57,369 --> 00:19:59,371 his mother asked for an open casket 396 00:19:59,415 --> 00:20:01,678 so people could see what was done to her son. 397 00:20:03,201 --> 00:20:07,684 How he'd been beaten, tortured and disfigured. 398 00:20:11,122 --> 00:20:15,648 Toni, do you have copies of those pictures? 399 00:20:16,562 --> 00:20:18,260 At home. 400 00:20:18,303 --> 00:20:19,783 From when they were in a newsletter. 401 00:20:21,785 --> 00:20:23,177 Are you sure you want to see them? 402 00:20:34,188 --> 00:20:37,583 Why on God's earth are you two in such sullen, sulking moods? 403 00:20:37,627 --> 00:20:39,455 It's not like you're poor. 404 00:20:39,498 --> 00:20:41,718 Julian's mad because that fake stuck-up Veronica Lodge 405 00:20:41,761 --> 00:20:43,957 - ditched him for a date with Archie Andrews. - Mm. 406 00:20:43,981 --> 00:20:46,636 Cheryl's mad because suddenly she's not the most beautiful, 407 00:20:46,679 --> 00:20:49,073 most interesting girl at Riverdale High anymore. 408 00:20:49,116 --> 00:20:51,118 As if she ever was. 409 00:20:51,162 --> 00:20:54,948 Anyway, these inane movie magazines came in the mail for you. 410 00:20:54,992 --> 00:20:56,428 Perhaps they'll cheer you up. 411 00:21:09,746 --> 00:21:11,530 ♪ Well, I saw my baby walking ♪ 412 00:21:12,836 --> 00:21:14,968 ♪ With another man today... ♪ 413 00:21:15,012 --> 00:21:17,536 - They're good, right? - Delicious. 414 00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:19,799 Honestly, I think these onion rings might be 415 00:21:19,843 --> 00:21:21,410 better than the ones at the Brown Derby. 416 00:21:22,628 --> 00:21:25,152 Wow. What's the Brown Derby? 417 00:21:25,196 --> 00:21:28,982 It's a chain of restaurants that Gloria Swanson's husband started in Los Angeles. 418 00:21:30,070 --> 00:21:31,333 Who's Gloria Swanson? 419 00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,554 You know what? Let's skip it. 420 00:21:35,598 --> 00:21:38,862 Enough Hollywood talk. I want to hear about you. 421 00:21:38,905 --> 00:21:41,343 Tell me everything there is to know about Archie Andrews. 422 00:21:41,386 --> 00:21:44,215 The hot-rodder next door. What do you do for fun? 423 00:21:44,258 --> 00:21:46,260 Well, I work on my car. 424 00:21:46,304 --> 00:21:47,827 I like sports. 425 00:21:47,871 --> 00:21:51,178 Um... I come here to Pop's. 426 00:21:51,222 --> 00:21:53,398 And I hang out at Sweetwater River. 427 00:21:53,442 --> 00:21:54,442 Yeah. 428 00:21:55,313 --> 00:21:56,445 To skinny dip, I hope. 429 00:21:57,968 --> 00:21:59,796 Mostly to fish. 430 00:21:59,839 --> 00:22:01,841 My dad and I used to go there together. 431 00:22:01,885 --> 00:22:03,756 You used to? 432 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,758 Yeah, he's not around anymore. 433 00:22:05,802 --> 00:22:08,761 He served in the Korean War and he didn't make it back. 434 00:22:08,805 --> 00:22:11,677 -Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean... -No, it's okay. 435 00:22:11,721 --> 00:22:12,852 It's okay. You didn't know. 436 00:22:14,724 --> 00:22:16,421 Anyway, it's just me and my mom now. 437 00:22:16,465 --> 00:22:19,293 And she works part-time at the dress shop downtown. 438 00:22:19,337 --> 00:22:22,253 Oh. Well, I will have to pay her a visit. 439 00:22:22,296 --> 00:22:23,856 I'll make sure she gives you a discount. 440 00:22:27,432 --> 00:22:28,520 What about girls? 441 00:22:29,869 --> 00:22:31,828 I mean, as handsome as you are, 442 00:22:31,871 --> 00:22:33,743 I assume you're beating them off with a stick. 443 00:22:34,744 --> 00:22:36,876 Uh... 444 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,750 Well, I'm probably digging myself into a hole here, but, uh... 445 00:22:40,793 --> 00:22:44,144 You know, I've never had a serious girlfriend before. 446 00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:46,494 Really? 447 00:22:46,973 --> 00:22:48,975 Why's that? 448 00:22:49,019 --> 00:22:51,259 I don't know. Maybe I just haven't met the right girl yet. 449 00:22:53,153 --> 00:22:54,198 Until now. 450 00:23:02,685 --> 00:23:04,077 J'accuse! 451 00:23:04,121 --> 00:23:05,122 Excuse me? 452 00:23:06,732 --> 00:23:08,255 Cheryl, what is your problem? 453 00:23:08,299 --> 00:23:09,866 She is my problem, Archie. 454 00:23:09,909 --> 00:23:12,085 Veronica Lodge is nothing but a liar and a fraud. 455 00:23:12,129 --> 00:23:15,828 And I'm going to make sure the entire world knows it. 456 00:23:15,872 --> 00:23:17,656 You're not starring in Our Town. 457 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,180 Natalie Wood is. It says so right there. 458 00:23:20,224 --> 00:23:22,139 You've been lying to us ever since you got here. 459 00:23:22,182 --> 00:23:25,447 Which makes me wonder, why are you actually in Riverdale? 460 00:23:25,490 --> 00:23:27,405 Was it really your choice or 461 00:23:27,449 --> 00:23:29,494 did your parents banish you because they were fed up 462 00:23:29,538 --> 00:23:32,279 with their lying liar of a spoiled brat daughter? 463 00:23:39,722 --> 00:23:41,680 Hey, it's... It's okay. 464 00:23:41,724 --> 00:23:44,161 That's just... It's sort of what Cheryl's like. 465 00:23:44,204 --> 00:23:45,902 But don't worry, no one takes her seriously. 466 00:23:45,945 --> 00:23:47,643 In this case, she's right, though. 467 00:23:49,427 --> 00:23:53,692 I haven't been entirely honest with you guys. 468 00:23:53,736 --> 00:23:57,479 The truth is, my parents did banish me. 469 00:23:58,436 --> 00:23:59,916 Why would they do that? 470 00:23:59,959 --> 00:24:03,006 Because I am a problem, 471 00:24:03,049 --> 00:24:05,835 and when problems interfere with their lives, 472 00:24:05,878 --> 00:24:08,185 they make them go away. 473 00:24:08,228 --> 00:24:11,188 In a way, it feels like they've been 474 00:24:11,231 --> 00:24:14,626 making me go away since I was born. 475 00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:16,846 Ignoring me and sidelining me 476 00:24:16,889 --> 00:24:21,677 since they... started that damn show of theirs. 477 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,115 So I began acting out 478 00:24:25,158 --> 00:24:28,466 like some spoiled little rich girl to get their attention. 479 00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:31,687 And the straw that finally broke the camel's back 480 00:24:31,730 --> 00:24:36,300 and made my parents ship me across the country was... 481 00:24:38,041 --> 00:24:39,346 the accident. 482 00:24:39,390 --> 00:24:41,871 With James Dean? You were in the car? 483 00:24:41,914 --> 00:24:47,224 No, I was part of a convoy of some other good-time girls. 484 00:24:47,267 --> 00:24:51,228 We were going to cheer Jimmy on at a race in Salinas. 485 00:24:51,271 --> 00:24:53,796 Anyway, to keep my name out of the papers, 486 00:24:53,839 --> 00:24:57,103 my parents spirited me away 487 00:24:57,147 --> 00:24:59,279 and put me on a private plane to Riverdale. 488 00:24:59,323 --> 00:25:01,412 To live with your aunt and uncle. 489 00:25:01,455 --> 00:25:03,675 They don't exist, Archie. 490 00:25:03,719 --> 00:25:06,809 This is my parent's place. 491 00:25:06,852 --> 00:25:11,857 I can't... believe they would do that. 492 00:25:11,901 --> 00:25:15,208 I mean, exile you to live alone. 493 00:25:15,252 --> 00:25:17,210 Like a fairy tale princess, I guess. 494 00:25:19,561 --> 00:25:22,564 The show is their real baby, Archie. Not me. 495 00:25:33,139 --> 00:25:34,139 Archie. 496 00:25:35,968 --> 00:25:36,968 Mom. 497 00:25:39,232 --> 00:25:41,887 - What are you doing up? - Waiting for you. 498 00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:44,977 I went into the garage to get a screwdriver, 499 00:25:45,021 --> 00:25:47,371 and I saw that you'd taken your car out. 500 00:25:47,414 --> 00:25:49,939 - Mom, I can explain. - You're grounded, Archie. 501 00:25:51,941 --> 00:25:55,161 Because I took my car out without your permission? 502 00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:58,077 Why is that all of a sudden a criminal offense? 503 00:25:58,121 --> 00:26:00,253 The pictures of James Dean's car crash. 504 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:07,173 I can't lose you... like I lost your father. 505 00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:14,224 And I can't get a call in the middle of the night 506 00:26:14,267 --> 00:26:17,880 telling me that you wrapped your car around some telephone pole. 507 00:26:17,923 --> 00:26:19,795 Come on, Mom. You won't. 508 00:26:19,838 --> 00:26:21,884 You won't. 509 00:26:21,927 --> 00:26:23,799 And I promise I won't speed. 510 00:26:23,842 --> 00:26:26,236 I won't go drag racing. 511 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:29,326 In fact, I'll ask Betty to un-soup my car 512 00:26:29,369 --> 00:26:33,547 so that it doesn't go faster than... than... 513 00:26:33,591 --> 00:26:35,288 - Twenty-five miles an hour. - Fifteen. 514 00:26:35,332 --> 00:26:36,725 Twenty. 515 00:26:36,768 --> 00:26:40,076 - Deal. - Deal. 516 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,860 - Twenty. Sounds great. - Yeah. Okay. 517 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,526 Oh Mija! Starring Hiram Lodge, Hermione Lodge 518 00:26:55,569 --> 00:26:57,963 and Tillie Temple as Little Ronnie. 519 00:26:58,007 --> 00:26:59,356 Bitch. 520 00:27:06,450 --> 00:27:08,191 Hello? 521 00:27:08,234 --> 00:27:09,603 Veronica? Veronica, can you hear me? 522 00:27:09,627 --> 00:27:10,802 Mom? 523 00:27:10,846 --> 00:27:13,152 Yes. Yes, I can. How are you? 524 00:27:13,196 --> 00:27:15,764 - Where are you? - Listen, darling, I only have a minute. 525 00:27:15,807 --> 00:27:19,245 But, um, what's this I'm hearing about a boy at the apartment? 526 00:27:19,289 --> 00:27:22,249 You know we didn't send you to Riverdale to get into more trouble, Veronica. 527 00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:24,642 Mom, please. It was nothing. 528 00:27:24,686 --> 00:27:26,557 He's just a friend from school. 529 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,126 Good, good. That's music to my ears. 530 00:27:30,169 --> 00:27:32,694 Mom, have you decided on Thanksgiving yet? 531 00:27:32,737 --> 00:27:35,218 -I can fly back. -Oh, honey, I'm sorry. I have to go. 532 00:27:35,261 --> 00:27:38,656 Your Uncle Orson just arrived. But please, mija, fly right, 533 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,354 no boys, and we'll see about the holidays. 534 00:27:41,398 --> 00:27:43,879 Talk soon. Kisses. 535 00:28:05,639 --> 00:28:08,599 Thank you for letting me borrow the newsletter, Toni. 536 00:28:12,124 --> 00:28:13,256 I had no idea. 537 00:28:16,215 --> 00:28:19,958 The pictures make it so much more real, don't they? 538 00:28:20,002 --> 00:28:21,960 Can you imagine the strength and courage 539 00:28:22,004 --> 00:28:24,397 it took Mrs. Till to let them be published? 540 00:28:25,834 --> 00:28:26,922 I truly can't. 541 00:28:29,533 --> 00:28:31,883 But it did help me decide that 542 00:28:31,927 --> 00:28:35,278 I'm going to publish your article in the next edition of The Blue and Gold. 543 00:28:35,321 --> 00:28:37,149 Consequences be damned. 544 00:28:37,193 --> 00:28:39,456 I may have a different idea. 545 00:28:39,499 --> 00:28:40,781 Nobody wanted to see these pictures 546 00:28:40,805 --> 00:28:43,155 and Featherhead and The Blossoms 547 00:28:43,199 --> 00:28:46,245 don't want anybody to read my article, fine. 548 00:28:46,289 --> 00:28:48,813 But what about a poem about Emmett Till 549 00:28:48,857 --> 00:28:50,772 read during the morning announcements? 550 00:28:50,815 --> 00:28:54,166 - But Cheryl does the morning announcements. - Exactly. Look, 551 00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:58,823 I don't know her well, but she's going to make up for her parents' cowardice. 552 00:28:58,867 --> 00:29:00,520 You want to help me with an ambush? 553 00:29:05,395 --> 00:29:07,353 Hey, Jughead. 554 00:29:08,093 --> 00:29:11,009 Tabitha. Hi. 555 00:29:11,053 --> 00:29:13,577 You remember that offer you made me before 556 00:29:13,620 --> 00:29:15,971 to help out in any way that you can? 557 00:29:16,014 --> 00:29:18,582 Oh, yeah. Yes, uh, of course. 558 00:29:18,625 --> 00:29:23,195 Well, the NAACP asked Emmett Till's mother to travel around the country 559 00:29:23,239 --> 00:29:25,937 to speak about what happened to her son, 560 00:29:25,981 --> 00:29:29,462 and my folks are joining the tour to pitch in. 561 00:29:31,508 --> 00:29:35,207 I've decided that I want to go with them. 562 00:29:36,905 --> 00:29:39,472 After I help Toni with a little something. 563 00:29:39,516 --> 00:29:42,127 Wow. That's incredible. 564 00:29:42,171 --> 00:29:45,000 - They're going to let you drop out of school? - No. 565 00:29:45,043 --> 00:29:48,003 But I got special permission from Featherhead. 566 00:29:48,046 --> 00:29:49,482 I'll have my books with me, 567 00:29:49,526 --> 00:29:51,963 but I would love to have a friend help me 568 00:29:52,007 --> 00:29:53,486 stay on top of everything. 569 00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:55,924 Okay. Yeah, I'll do it. 570 00:29:55,967 --> 00:29:58,143 Thank you. 571 00:29:58,187 --> 00:30:00,015 I so appreciate it. 572 00:30:00,058 --> 00:30:02,278 - I'll be in touch, okay? - Awesome. 573 00:30:02,321 --> 00:30:04,671 I mean, um, swell. 574 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:13,767 Hey, Cheryl. 575 00:30:13,811 --> 00:30:15,900 Can we talk to you for a second? 576 00:30:15,944 --> 00:30:20,818 What can I do for you... Toni, is it? And Betty. 577 00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:24,909 Your family controls our RIVW, which means they control 578 00:30:24,953 --> 00:30:27,085 what Riverdale watches, 579 00:30:27,129 --> 00:30:29,218 and Principal Featherhead 580 00:30:29,261 --> 00:30:31,196 decides what I can and cannot publish in the Blue and Gold. 581 00:30:31,220 --> 00:30:33,439 The powers that be have silenced my article 582 00:30:33,483 --> 00:30:37,704 on Emmett Till's murder trial, but you can fix this. 583 00:30:37,748 --> 00:30:40,751 During the morning announcements. 584 00:30:40,794 --> 00:30:43,754 As junior class president, I can't read an article 585 00:30:43,797 --> 00:30:45,677 that Principal Featherhead has already rejected. 586 00:30:45,712 --> 00:30:48,367 Not an article. Something else. 587 00:30:48,411 --> 00:30:50,282 He'd pull the plug. He's done it before. 588 00:30:50,326 --> 00:30:52,502 We'll take care of Featherhead. 589 00:30:52,545 --> 00:30:55,145 All you have to do is let us borrow your soapbox for a few minutes. 590 00:30:57,899 --> 00:30:59,248 What would I be reading? 591 00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:08,213 Good morning, Miss Bell. 592 00:31:08,257 --> 00:31:10,085 Are you ready for the morning announcements? 593 00:31:10,128 --> 00:31:12,348 Apparently, one of your classmates, Tabatha Tate, 594 00:31:12,391 --> 00:31:14,219 has passed out on the football field. 595 00:31:14,263 --> 00:31:16,656 Principal Featherhead is tending to her now. 596 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:19,485 I'm to bring both him and her some smelling salts. 597 00:31:19,529 --> 00:31:21,183 Ugh, you don't say. 598 00:31:21,226 --> 00:31:22,856 You know how to use a microphone, don't you? 599 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,403 Indeed, I do. 600 00:31:24,447 --> 00:31:26,407 Don't worry, Miss Bell. All will be well. 601 00:31:26,971 --> 00:31:27,971 Toodles. 602 00:31:36,459 --> 00:31:38,504 Good morning, Riverdaleans. 603 00:31:38,548 --> 00:31:42,508 In lieu of our usual morning announcements, I, Cheryl Blossom, 604 00:31:42,552 --> 00:31:44,467 will be turning over my microphone 605 00:31:44,510 --> 00:31:47,818 to one of our classmates, Toni Topaz. 606 00:31:47,861 --> 00:31:50,516 Please give her your undivided attention. 607 00:31:54,781 --> 00:31:58,916 Some of you may have heard what's happening in Mississippi right now. 608 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,788 How a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, 609 00:32:01,832 --> 00:32:05,357 was murdered for maybe whistling at a white woman 610 00:32:05,401 --> 00:32:07,881 and how his killers were just acquitted. 611 00:32:07,925 --> 00:32:10,232 I wrote an article about the trial, 612 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:14,584 and nobody wants you to read it because it is "too upsetting." 613 00:32:14,627 --> 00:32:18,457 So, instead, I'm going to read you a poem that the great American writer 614 00:32:18,501 --> 00:32:22,244 Langston Hughes wrote about Emmett Till. 615 00:32:22,287 --> 00:32:25,116 It's titled Mississippi-1955. 616 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:31,688 And I hope you hear his words and reflect on them 617 00:32:31,731 --> 00:32:33,429 and talk to each other about them. 618 00:32:38,912 --> 00:32:41,872 "Oh, what sorrow! Oh, what pity! 619 00:32:42,655 --> 00:32:44,657 Oh, what pain! 620 00:32:44,701 --> 00:32:48,139 That tears and blood Should mix like rain 621 00:32:48,183 --> 00:32:50,446 And terror come again To Mississippi. 622 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,014 Come again? 623 00:32:53,057 --> 00:32:54,319 Where has terror been? 624 00:32:55,364 --> 00:32:58,106 On vacation? Up North? 625 00:32:58,149 --> 00:33:01,065 In some other section Of the nation, 626 00:33:01,109 --> 00:33:04,242 Lying low, unpublicized? 627 00:33:04,286 --> 00:33:06,766 Masked-with only Jaundiced eyes 628 00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:08,377 Showing through the mask? 629 00:33:10,031 --> 00:33:13,686 Oh, what sorrow, Pity, pain, 630 00:33:13,730 --> 00:33:17,081 That tears and blood Should mix like rain 631 00:33:17,125 --> 00:33:19,040 In Mississippi! 632 00:33:19,083 --> 00:33:21,564 And terror, fetid hot, 633 00:33:21,607 --> 00:33:24,219 Yet clammy cold remain." 634 00:33:29,398 --> 00:33:31,506 I don't think any of the students at Riverdale High 635 00:33:31,530 --> 00:33:34,142 had ever heard a poem like that. 636 00:33:34,185 --> 00:33:38,059 Hopefully, it was worth whatever blowback the girls were certain to get. 637 00:33:38,102 --> 00:33:42,324 The lies, the insubordination, the trickery. 638 00:33:42,367 --> 00:33:44,761 I did feel sick. 639 00:33:44,804 --> 00:33:47,285 Then I felt better. 640 00:33:47,329 --> 00:33:49,548 Surely you aren't saying that we can't read poems 641 00:33:49,592 --> 00:33:51,463 during the morning announcements. 642 00:33:51,507 --> 00:33:53,683 A poem written by one of our greatest living authors. 643 00:33:53,726 --> 00:33:57,600 All poems read during morning announcements must be approved by me. 644 00:33:57,643 --> 00:33:59,515 This is the first I've heard of any such rule, 645 00:33:59,558 --> 00:34:01,821 but I assure you, moving forward, 646 00:34:01,865 --> 00:34:04,172 all poems will be submitted for your approval. 647 00:34:04,215 --> 00:34:05,477 Cross my heart and hope to die. 648 00:34:08,785 --> 00:34:13,094 I'm not sure what you ladies think you've accomplished. 649 00:34:13,137 --> 00:34:15,008 But something had been accomplished. 650 00:34:15,052 --> 00:34:19,012 Given recent events, it might be fruitful for us to discuss 651 00:34:19,056 --> 00:34:22,320 the poem Langston Hughes wrote about Emmett Till. 652 00:34:27,891 --> 00:34:29,414 How did it make you feel? 653 00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:37,074 Angry. 654 00:34:40,469 --> 00:34:41,557 Upset. 655 00:34:42,123 --> 00:34:43,124 Hopeless. 656 00:34:46,387 --> 00:34:48,390 Was he really just 14 years old? 657 00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:51,393 He was. 658 00:34:51,436 --> 00:34:54,961 He was younger than all of us in this room. 659 00:34:55,005 --> 00:34:57,312 Taken out of his home in the middle of the night, 660 00:34:58,574 --> 00:35:01,664 beaten, tortured. 661 00:35:01,707 --> 00:35:04,188 His body thrown into the river. 662 00:35:04,232 --> 00:35:05,752 That's just wrong. 663 00:35:07,104 --> 00:35:09,672 Miss Topaz, Miss Tate, Mr. Walker, 664 00:35:09,715 --> 00:35:12,849 I understand that you were in Mississippi for the trial. 665 00:35:12,892 --> 00:35:16,069 If you're comfortable sharing your experience, 666 00:35:16,113 --> 00:35:19,290 I believe it would be valuable for the rest of us 667 00:35:19,334 --> 00:35:21,858 to hear about what you saw. 668 00:35:21,901 --> 00:35:22,989 Miss Topaz. 669 00:35:24,165 --> 00:35:25,296 Would you like to start? 670 00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:33,957 Fitfully, but also necessarily, 671 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,134 a conversation that might not have happened for decades 672 00:35:37,178 --> 00:35:39,441 began at Riverdale High that afternoon. 673 00:35:44,881 --> 00:35:47,753 ♪ Please ♪ 674 00:35:47,797 --> 00:35:49,842 ♪ Don't leave me ♪ 675 00:35:51,931 --> 00:35:53,846 ♪ Don't leave me all... ♪ 676 00:35:53,890 --> 00:35:54,978 Hey, doll face. 677 00:35:55,761 --> 00:35:57,154 What do you say? 678 00:35:57,198 --> 00:35:58,590 You want a ride to Pop's, Ronnie? 679 00:36:01,506 --> 00:36:03,160 Hmm. 680 00:36:03,204 --> 00:36:05,641 I see two paths before me. 681 00:36:05,684 --> 00:36:09,340 Light and dark, fast and slow, 682 00:36:10,428 --> 00:36:12,256 shallow and earnest. 683 00:36:14,171 --> 00:36:15,520 But today... 684 00:36:16,826 --> 00:36:18,741 I believe I'll walk home, fellas. 685 00:36:25,269 --> 00:36:29,142 ♪ 'Cause you know Know... ♪ 686 00:36:29,186 --> 00:36:30,506 Had it finally happened? 687 00:36:31,319 --> 00:36:33,495 Had I lost my mind? 688 00:36:33,538 --> 00:36:36,193 Maybe 1955 wasn't the dream. Maybe... Maybe the future, 689 00:36:36,237 --> 00:36:37,629 maybe that was the dream, 690 00:36:37,673 --> 00:36:39,233 and I finally woke up. 691 00:36:40,415 --> 00:36:42,112 Hi, stranger. 692 00:36:42,155 --> 00:36:43,331 Mind if I join you? 693 00:36:44,506 --> 00:36:45,942 Yeah. 694 00:36:45,985 --> 00:36:47,545 I thought... I thought you were leaving. 695 00:36:48,379 --> 00:36:52,992 I'm not the Tabitha from 1955. 696 00:36:53,036 --> 00:36:56,387 She's with her parents heading to Memphis. 697 00:36:56,431 --> 00:36:58,998 - I'm... - Riverdale's guardian angel. 698 00:36:59,042 --> 00:37:01,392 The Tabitha who remembers and loves you. 699 00:37:02,219 --> 00:37:04,090 Oh, my God! 700 00:37:04,134 --> 00:37:05,614 You need to use your chronokinesis 701 00:37:05,657 --> 00:37:07,746 and get us the hell out of 1955. 702 00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:11,272 Archie is trying to get me committed to The Sisters of Quiet Mercy. 703 00:37:11,315 --> 00:37:14,710 God, it's so... I'm so happy to see you. 704 00:37:14,753 --> 00:37:17,365 I am happy to see you too. 705 00:37:17,408 --> 00:37:19,845 But I can't take us home. 706 00:37:21,107 --> 00:37:22,107 Not yet. 707 00:37:23,196 --> 00:37:24,720 Why? Well, why not? 708 00:37:24,763 --> 00:37:27,679 Our last-minute gambit to stop Bailey's Comet 709 00:37:27,723 --> 00:37:30,639 from destroying Riverdale didn't work. 710 00:37:31,814 --> 00:37:34,295 So the comet hit? 711 00:37:34,338 --> 00:37:37,254 And it triggered an extinction level event. 712 00:37:39,996 --> 00:37:42,346 Are... Are we all dead? 713 00:37:42,390 --> 00:37:45,044 Is that... Is that what this is? 714 00:37:45,088 --> 00:37:48,483 - The sweet hereafter? - No, we are alive. 715 00:37:48,526 --> 00:37:52,356 In the past, I had a plan B. 716 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,055 At the moment of impact, I used what was left of my life-force 717 00:37:56,099 --> 00:37:58,406 to send everyone back to the past 718 00:37:58,449 --> 00:38:01,278 to a point far enough back that might give us the necessary runway 719 00:38:01,322 --> 00:38:03,212 to make it back to the present, a present in which 720 00:38:03,236 --> 00:38:05,761 Riverdale isn't destroyed. By Bailey's Comet. 721 00:38:05,804 --> 00:38:07,763 Is that even possible? 722 00:38:07,806 --> 00:38:08,981 Hopefully. 723 00:38:10,374 --> 00:38:12,898 But if it is, I have to do it alone. 724 00:38:12,942 --> 00:38:15,466 By exploring and untangling the various timelines 725 00:38:15,510 --> 00:38:18,251 that became knotted and entwined when the comet struck. 726 00:38:18,295 --> 00:38:21,385 Well, what about the rest of us? 727 00:38:21,429 --> 00:38:24,257 You all have to make a go of it here in the '50s 728 00:38:24,301 --> 00:38:25,998 by doing what you can to ensure, 729 00:38:26,042 --> 00:38:28,566 to paraphrase one of my heroes, 730 00:38:28,610 --> 00:38:33,092 that the moral arc of this universe bends towards justice. 731 00:38:33,136 --> 00:38:36,444 That way, when I finally do untangle the various timelines, 732 00:38:36,487 --> 00:38:39,011 we can make it back to a Riverdale that 733 00:38:39,055 --> 00:38:42,319 isn't on the verge of moral and societal collapse. 734 00:38:44,408 --> 00:38:46,367 But fair warning. 735 00:38:46,410 --> 00:38:49,021 Given the near infinite number of timelines and universes, 736 00:38:49,065 --> 00:38:53,504 it could take a while, so you better get comfortable. 737 00:38:54,070 --> 00:38:55,550 Oh. 738 00:38:55,593 --> 00:38:57,073 I mean, how... How can I? 739 00:38:57,116 --> 00:38:59,641 I remember everything about our old lives? 740 00:38:59,684 --> 00:39:02,339 You asking questions, creating ripples... 741 00:39:04,385 --> 00:39:06,561 that's what drew me here. 742 00:39:07,953 --> 00:39:09,215 Jughead. 743 00:39:09,259 --> 00:39:12,001 You remembering is an anomaly, 744 00:39:12,044 --> 00:39:14,656 a dangerous one that I'm here to fix 745 00:39:14,699 --> 00:39:17,223 by making you forget. 746 00:39:17,267 --> 00:39:19,574 Otherwise, your knowledge could drive you insane, 747 00:39:19,617 --> 00:39:22,925 or it could drive you to do something that further corrupts this timeline. 748 00:39:27,190 --> 00:39:28,887 Will I... I'll forget everything? 749 00:39:30,106 --> 00:39:32,151 Yes. 750 00:39:32,195 --> 00:39:35,677 You'd be just like everyone else, able to live in the present. 751 00:39:36,721 --> 00:39:37,766 In the moment. 752 00:39:41,639 --> 00:39:44,903 I don't... I mean, I don't want to forget about you or about us. 753 00:39:45,817 --> 00:39:46,817 I know. 754 00:39:48,385 --> 00:39:49,473 But you have to. 755 00:39:50,866 --> 00:39:52,128 It's for the best. 756 00:40:50,621 --> 00:40:53,208 In those first few seconds after Angel Tabitha disappeared, 757 00:40:53,232 --> 00:40:55,974 I could feel the effects of her kiss taking hold. 758 00:40:56,018 --> 00:40:58,281 But for the moment, I still remembered. 759 00:40:58,324 --> 00:41:00,413 I needed to write down everything, our stories, 760 00:41:00,457 --> 00:41:02,241 our lives, before it was too late. 761 00:41:13,339 --> 00:41:17,213 But then, like mist evaporating in the sun, 762 00:41:17,256 --> 00:41:18,910 it was all gone. 763 00:41:18,954 --> 00:41:21,173 I had only managed to get down three words. 764 00:41:21,217 --> 00:41:23,872 Bend. Towards. Justice. 765 00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:25,961 Meaning what, exactly? 766 00:41:26,004 --> 00:41:28,050 And that wasn't even the weirdest thing. 767 00:41:28,093 --> 00:41:30,269 That would be the sudden, inexplicable appearance 768 00:41:30,313 --> 00:41:33,011 of something I've never seen before.