Riverdale 2.2 Chapter 15 Night Hawkes

• Riverdale does not fail to deliver in the second episode of the second season! NuReggie’s side job is revealed, Hiram and Hermoine continue to be the sketchiest couple of all time, the Blackhood strikes again and more!
• The episode begins as we are shown Pop’s has been vandalized and because of the shooting, Riverdale peeps are afraid to eat there. I’m not certain how much time has passed, but Pop’s is now in danger of closing.
  
• Archie has become obsessed with trying to find the shooter, so much so that he hasn’t been sleeping in his bed . . . or at all it seems. We know this because Betty’s been trying to reenact Taylor Swift’s you belong with me video and he hasn’t been there.
  
  
• Archie has no time for anyone’s concern, but pays a visit to NuReggie who is this season, the resident drug dealer. NuReggie mentions the newest and hottest drug of Riverdale: Jingle Jangle!
  
• Archie’s day becomes worse with the announcement of of Grundy’s death, which he just can’t handle, but he does hypothesize that the killer aka Blackhood, is targeting people he loves. Maybe, Archie, maybe . . .
  
  
  
• Archie turns to Alice for details about Grundy’s death and we learn that she was killed with a bow, most likely the one that Archie gave her.
• Out other major stories this episode was Betty’s campaign to save Pop’s from closing down, Juggy’s campaign to save FP from a life time in jail and Veronica’s disdain of her parents.
  
• When all else was failing to save Pop’s and FP, Betty turned to the one person who could help her save both. Enter Cheryl Blossom, who has taken Vixens back as her own and now lives in the Enchanted Forest Thistle House. Betty wants the Vixens to help out at Pop’s and for the remaining Blossom women to testify on FP’s behalf, asking the court for leniency because the forgive him. Of course Cheryl isn’t having any of that, but the traits of Dark Betty re-emerge and Betty blackmails our favorite resident Kool-Aid hair colored Queen to get both things she wants or she’d release the tape of Clifford shooting Jason!
  
• Speaking of shady decisions, Juggy continues to fall in deeper with the Serpents by seeking advice from Serpent lawyer, Penny Peabody!
  
• LOL J/K
  
• FP flips once he learns this and advises Juggy to never, ever talk to her again!
• Finally, the campaign to save Pop’s is underway. Alice, circa season 1 Crazy pants want it to fail and is delighted to get the scoop on NuReggie delivering Jingle Jangle to half the town. The Lodges show up and win V’s trust back with a sizable donation to Pop’s, that was secretly their way of purchasing it! Sketchy, sketchy . . .
  
• Betty also got her way when she advertised a free Josie and the Pussycat’s performance, much to Josie’s shagrin. They performed Val-less, with Cheryl stepping in and sang Kelise’s Milkshake.
  
• Archie received a gun from Dilton Doyly for “protection”
  
• And then at the very end, we see Moose and his tomboyish looking female companion parked in the woods, enjoying some Jingle Jangle freshly scored from NuReggie, when they hear a noise and in typical horror movie fashion, instead of driving away, the sat and pondered what it could be. The Blackhood emerges from the dark and fires a gun into the car!!! End! Moose :(
  

Extra Tidbits!

• Josie joined the Vixens and expects to be the star! She’s going to be sorely disappointed!
  
  
• Mayor McCoy was happy to see Betty and disgusted to see Juggy!
• Hermoine lied about the note V received last season from Hiram threatening herself and all I want is for those 2 be the next Blackhood victims!
  
• I’m also pretty sure Smither’s was fired or floating down Sweetwater River
• The look on Kevin’s face when Veronica called Hiram Daddy was one of my favorite things about this episode. I’m also still waiting for him to get a story!
  
• Maybe Kevin and Mosse will-oh wait . . . Le Sigh I want Moose to survive!

It appears there’s a serial killer on the loose and the story Riverdale is weaving is keeping me on the edge of my seat? Who is the Blackhood? When will the Blackhood strike again? Who’s next? I can’t wait! Until next time, stay RiverdaleStrong!!!

I think Archie may be getting in over his head. I think this episode showed us how Betty and Jughead tried to take matters into their hands and solve their problems, and by the end of it they had both bitten off a bit more than they could chew. Now Archie is trying really hard to find his dad’s shooter, Miss Grundy’s killer, and I am really interested in seeing how this works out for him.

It’s always nice to see dark Betty and we definitely got to see her this Wednesday. She spent much of the episode trying to save Pops from being closed since everyone is afraid to eat there now that Fred Andrews almost lost his life in the happy little chocolate shop. She organized a gathering at Pop’s to include the River Vixens and other supporters from the town to come out and listen to Josie’s band while enjoying a meal. The Lodge’s were there and in the last few minutes of the episode we find out that they actually bought the chocolate shop from Pop Tate, and in exchange for his silence on the deal they make him manager. I anticipate a huge falling out between Veronica and her parents when she finds out they did this.

We already know there is tension between the recently released prisoner, Mr. Lodge and his daughter Veronica. Riverdale has changed V and she does not trust her parents anymore. Much of this episode we saw her struggling with the idea of trying to rebuild her relationship with them. During one scene we see Veronica asking Jughead for advice on how to deal with Hiram and Hermione. These two characters don’t always have a reason to interact, so seeing them be able to in this episode was nice.  At this point I think all of the kids of Riverdale should be able to bond over their horrendous childhoods and terrible parents.

As bad as the Riverdale parents are, Jughead really wants to help his dad out. He was desperate to find a way to keep him from serving several years in prison. FP was offered a plea deal, but Jug wasn’t happy with it. After brainstorming and initially proposing an idea to literally break his father out of his cell, a serpent sends Jughead to someone that might be able to help FP out. It’s a lady serpent that is also a lawyer. She offers her legal counsel to the young man in exchange for him owing her a favor. Yikes.

Lady Serpent Lawyer’s advice was to get the Blossom’s to publicly and in court forgive FP for his involvement in disposing of Jason’s body. Betty and Jug reach out to Cheryl and Momma Blossom to ask if they will participate in this act. They have a pleasant little tea party in the middle of the night where mother and daughter turn Bughead down. They should have known the Blossom’s wouldn’t respond to them in such a civil and mature atmosphere. The Blossoms practically invented blackmail and corruption and any other kinds of shady shit you can think of. It takes dark Betty to get Cheryl to come around.

Dark Betty stops Cheryl at her locker to threaten her. If Cheryl doesn’t forgive FP, Betty releases the video of Pappa Blossom shooting his son in the head. Whoa! Cheryl gives Betty what she wants. FP is now on his way to freedom. We’ll see how that plays out.

After we watched the kids of Riverdale take serious matters into their own hands for 40 something minutes, we saw almost all of it come back to nip them in the bum too. Sure, Betty got the support she wanted for Pop Tate’s shop so that it wouldn’t be closed, but she also unintentionally got the Lodges so deeply involved that they now own it and Alice warns her that the serpents now have their hooks sunk into the north side of their region. Riverdale is now infected with gangsters. Sure, Jughead got the court to reevaluate his dad’s sentence, but it cost him a favor to Lady Serpent Lawyer and it seems her price is high. Juggy might be in a world of trouble with that one.

Archie doesn’t really know what has been going on with his friends, and I don’t think he realizes that he may be making the same mistakes as them. Archie sits up all night paranoid and tired guarding his home, waiting on the hooded killer. He traded in his baseball bat for a gun, which he couldn’t have obtained legally, and I don’t think he knows what he’s doing.

See you next week!