List of Riverdale episodes

Riverdale is an American teen drama television series based on the characters of Archie Comics. The series was adapted for The CW by Archie Comics' chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and is produced by Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios, in association with Berlanti Productions and Archie Comics. Originally conceived as a feature film adaptation for Warner Bros. Pictures, the idea was re-imagined as a television series for Fox. In 2015, development on the project moved to The CW, where the series was ordered for a pilot. Filming takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia. The series debuted on January 26, 2017.

The series features an ensemble cast based on the characters of Archie Comics, with KJ Apa in the role of Archie Andrews; Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones, the series' narrator, Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy, Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz, Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle and Casey Cott as Kevin Keller.

On January 7, 2020, the series was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on January 20, 2021.[1][2] On February 3, 2021, the series was renewed for a sixth season.[3] As of February 3, 2021, 79 episodes of Riverdale have aired, currently in its fifth season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired		Rank	Average viewers (in millions inc. DVR)
				First aired	Last aired
	1	13		January 26, 2017	May 11, 2017	154	1.69[4]
	2	22		October 11, 2017	May 16, 2018	173	2.11[5]
	3	22		October 10, 2018	May 15, 2019	166	1.74[6]
	4	19		October 9, 2019	May 6, 2020	122	1.35[7]
	5	19[8]		January 20, 2021	TBA	TBA	TBA

Episodes

Season 1 (2017)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Chapter One: The River's Edge"	Lee Toland Krieger	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	January 26, 2017	T15.10136	1.38[9]
2	2	"Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil"	Lee Toland Krieger	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	February 2, 2017	T13.20302	1.15[10]
3	3	"Chapter Three: Body Double"	Lee Toland Krieger	Yolonda E. Lawrence	February 9, 2017	T13.20303	1.20[11]
4	4	"Chapter Four: The Last Picture Show"	Mark Piznarski	Michael Grassi	February 16, 2017	T13.20304	1.14[12]
5	5	"Chapter Five: Heart of Darkness"	Jesse Warn	Ross Maxwell	February 23, 2017	T13.20305	0.98[13]
6	6	"Chapter Six: Faster, Pussycats! Kill! Kill!"	Steven A. Adelson	Tessa Leigh Williams & Nicholas Zwart	March 2, 2017	T13.20306	1.09[14]
7	7	"Chapter Seven: In a Lonely Place"	Allison Anders	Aaron Allen	March 9, 2017	T13.20307	1.03[15]
8	8	"Chapter Eight: The Outsiders"	David Katzenberg	Julia Cohen	March 30, 2017	T13.20308	0.99[16]
9	9	"Chapter Nine: La Grande Illusion"	Lee Rose	James DeWille	April 6, 2017	T13.20309	0.91[17]
10	10	"Chapter Ten: The Lost Weekend"	Dawn Wilkinson	Britta Lundin & Brian E. Paterson	April 13, 2017	T13.20310	0.87[18]
11	11	"Chapter Eleven: To Riverdale and Back Again"	Kevin Sullivan	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	April 27, 2017	T13.20311	0.89[19]
12	12	"Chapter Twelve: Anatomy of a Murder"	Rob Seidenglanz	Michael Grassi	May 4, 2017	T13.20312	0.98[20]
13	13	"Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter"	Lee Toland Krieger	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	May 11, 2017	T13.20313	0.96[21]

Season 2 (2017–18)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
14	1	"Chapter Fourteen: A Kiss Before Dying"	Rob Seidenglanz	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	October 11, 2017	T13.20801	2.34[22]
After being shot, Fred is rushed to the hospital by Archie, who is soon joined by his friends. Sheriff Keller gains a description of the shooter from Archie and calls him in for a lineup, but none of the men in the lineup are the shooter. When Veronica searches Fred's belongings, Archie sees that his wallet is missing. Betty and Jughead visit Pop's to look for the wallet but find nothing; instead, they learn from Pop that the shooter did not take any money from the register, meaning that it was actually a hit against Fred. Jughead asks the Southside Serpents to investigate the shooting, but to no avail. Veronica accuses Hermione of hiring a hitman to kill Fred, but she vehemently denies this and tensions develop between them when Veronica is not sure her mother is telling the truth. Meanwhile, Cheryl intimidates Penelope—who suffered severe burns due to the fire at their mansion and is hospitalized—into lying that it was an accident. Fred survives his shooting. Hiram returns to Riverdale, further escalating the tensions in the Lodge family. In the nearby town of Greendale, Ms. Grundy is strangled to death by Fred's shooter.
15	2	"Chapter Fifteen: Nighthawks"	Allison Anders	Michael Grassi	October 18, 2017	T13.20802	1.76[23]
After learning of Ms. Grundy's murder, an increasingly anxious Archie suspects that her death is connected with Fred's shooting, which pushes him to get a gun from Dilton Doiley. Following the shooting, business at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe has declined, leading Pop to consider selling the diner, but Betty convinces Pop to let her throw a retro fun night to drum up business. Jughead learns that F. P. is facing 20 years in prison and seeks help from Penny Peabody, a Serpent lawyer, who advises Jughead to ask the Blossoms to testify on F. P.'s behalf. Cheryl initially refuses, but relents when Betty extorts her with the video of Jason's murder. With Cheryl's testimony, the judge decides to revisit F. P.'s sentence. Hiram quietly buys the diner from Pop, but tells Veronica he made a "charitable donation". In the woods, Moose Mason and Midge Klump take some jingle jangle (a new drug to Riverdale), and as they do so, they are shot by Fred's shooter.
16	3	"Chapter Sixteen: The Watcher in the Woods"	Kevin Sullivan	Ross Maxwell	October 25, 2017	T13.20803	1.62[24]
Kevin, who was in the forest, hears the gunshots and rushes to find Midge crying. Moose, who shielded Midge from the gunfire, is hospitalized and survives. Following the incident, Archie founds a vigilante group called the Red Circle, to protect Riverdale High students. The Coopers receive a letter from "the Black Hood", taking responsibility for the shootings and the murder of Ms. Grundy, and detailing his intentions to target sinners. Polly leaves town, fearing for her babies. Meanwhile, Jughead begins his tenure at Southside High, befriends Toni Topaz, a Serpent, and refounds the school newspaper, the Red and Black, under the advisory of English teacher Robert Philips. Kevin keeps going out late at night, which concerns Betty. Betty follows him on one of his runs, which leads to him lashing out at her. Hiram tells Archie that he should utilize the Black Hood's main weapons for the Red Circle. Inspired by this, the Red Circle makes a video calling out the Black Hood.
17	4	"Chapter Seventeen: The Town That Dreaded Sundown"	Jason Stone	Amanda Lasher	November 1, 2017	T13.20804	1.51[25]
Archie's viral video results in negative repercussions, as Principal Waldo Weatherbee demands he disband the Red Circle. Though Archie refuses, the Red Circle disbands regardless due to the football team being suspended but later reassembles with Veronica's help. Archie runs into trouble when he vandalizes the Serpent's territory with Red Circle graffiti.Veronica finds out that Archie intends to murder the Black Hood and convinces him to discard his gun. Betty receives a letter from the Black Hood, revealing that her speech from the jubilee ball inspired his actions and gives her a cipher that only she could solve. Mayor Sierra McCoy (Josie's mother) hosts a town meeting to discuss action against the Black Hood, in which Alice blames the Serpents, but Fred argues against letting fear rule them. Betty and Jughead figure out that the Black Hood intends to attack town hall and have the meeting evacuated, before showing the letter to her parents, Sheriff Keller and Mayor McCoy. Later, Betty receives a call from the Black Hood.
18	5	"Chapter Eighteen: When a Stranger Calls"	Ellen Pressman	Aaron Allen	November 8, 2017	T13.20805	1.47[26]
The Black Hood reveals to Betty that he knows where Polly is and threatens to kill her unless she publishes a mugshot of Alice, which she does. Hiram invites the St. Clair's, friends of the Lodges from New York. On the Southside, Jughead attempts to stop Sweet Pea and the Serpents from blowing up the Riverdale Register office and joins the gang to prevent this from happening. The Black Hood forces Betty to cut ties with Veronica and Jughead and later gives her a hood. At the Lodge's open house event, Nick St. Clair drugs Cheryl and takes her back to his hotel room to rape her, but is stopped and beaten by Veronica and the Pussycats. Jughead and Toni sit in his trailer, where he tells her his relationship with Betty is over; they kiss. Back at Betty's house, the Black Hood tells her she has broken the rules and he will now kill Polly unless she gives him the name of a "sinner" to kill, to which Betty names Nick St. Clair.
19	6	"Chapter Nineteen: Death Proof"	Maggie Kiley	Tessa Leigh Williams & Arabella Anderson	November 15, 2017	T13.20806	1.43[27]
The Black Hood challenges Betty to find the identity of The Sugarman, who has been supplying the jingle jangle to Riverdale. Cheryl wants to press charges against Nick, whom the Black Hood did not attack, but Penelope agrees not to in exchange for money from the St. Clair's. Archie goes to Southside High, where he saves Jughead from a raid organized by McCoy and Sheriff Keller. Tall Boy, F. P.'s right hand man, reaches an agreement with the Ghoulies, the dealers of jingle jangle. Jughead and Archie visit F. P., who tells Jughead to challenge the Ghoulies to a race. During the race, Archie pulls the brake on Jughead's car, and reveals he called Sheriff Keller, who arrests the Ghoulies leader. Veronica convinces Hiram and Hermione to stop investing with the St. Clair's, while Cheryl does the same with Penelope. Later, the Lodges receive a call that the St. Clair's have been run off the road, but will recover in months. Penelope reveals to Cheryl that the Sugarman is Robert Philips; Cheryl later tells Betty, who exposes him in the Blue and Gold. Philips is subsequently arrested, and then was shot by the Black Hood while in jail.
20	7	"Chapter Twenty: Tales from the Darkside"	Dawn Wilkinson	James DeWille	November 29, 2017	T13.20807	1.45[28]
After killing Phillips, the Black Hood leaves a letter at Pop's challenging Riverdale to go 48 hours without sinning or he will kill again. Jughead is enlisted by Penny Peabody to deliver a crate of drugs to repay her for her earlier help, which he does with Archie. She says this is a one-time thing, but Jughead later finds she was lying. Josie begins to receive weird messages from a secret admirer, implied to be Cheryl, including a box with a pig's heart. Mayor McCoy reprimands her for coming home late, revealing she has received death threats. Betty, realizing that Phillips was killed in the sheriff's office, believes Sheriff Keller might be the Black Hood. She investigates, but Keller is able to provide proof that he is not the Black Hood. However, Betty and Veronica discover that he is having an affair with Mayor McCoy. Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, Josie, and Cheryl all gather at Pop's. After Jughead leaves to visit F. P., the Black Hood calls Pop to inform him Riverdale failed his challenge and Pop grimly announces that "The reckoning is upon us."
21	8	"Chapter Twenty-One: House of the Devil"	Kevin Sullivan	Yolonda Lawrence	December 6, 2017	T13.20808	1.48[29]
F. P. is released from jail and begins working at Pop's, intending to quit the Serpents. Jughead and Betty decide to throw F. P. a "retirement" party at the Whyte Worm, so they enlist Archie and Veronica to do the detective work. While Jughead reconnects with his dad, Betty goes to the Whyte Worm to organize the party. There, she meets Toni and tells her she wants to keep watch over Jughead. Archie and Veronica follow a lead on a past serial killer called the Riverdale Reaper, who murdered a family of four before being killed himself by a lynch mob. Their investigation leads them to discover there was a fifth member of the family, the school's janitor Joseph Svenson. Archie and Veronica confront Svenson, but decide he is not the Black Hood. At the party, F. P., who is upset that Jughead helped Peabody, decides to stay with the Serpents. Outside, Veronica breaks up with Archie following a discussion about love. Jughead, not wanting to bring Betty into the Serpents' business, also ends their relationship.
22	9	"Chapter Twenty-Two: Silent Night, Deadly Night"	Rob Seidenglanz	Shepard Boucher	December 13, 2017	T13.20809	1.43[30]
Fred receives a hospital bill of $86,000. Failing to convince her parents to help Fred, Veronica sneaks into Hiram's study and finds out that he bought Pop's. She later convinces him and Hermione to stop keeping secrets from her and help Fred. Jughead rallies the younger Serpents, who kidnap Peabody and cut out her Serpent tattoo. Betty and Archie receive a box from the Black Hood, containing Svenson's severed finger. They then receive a call from the Black Hood, who challenges them to find Svenson. They are able to find Svenson's location, but instead find an empty coffin. The Black Hood then appears and tries to force Betty into burying Archie alive, but flees when the police arrive. After a chase, Keller shoots and kills the Black Hood before he can escape. The Black Hood is then revealed to be Svenson himself. Later, with the Black Hood dead, Veronica and Archie get back together, while Betty throws away all of her findings surrounding Svenson, but keeps the hood he gave her earlier.
23	10	"Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle"	Tim Hunter	Britta Lundin & Brian E. Paterson	January 17, 2018	T13.20810	1.44[31]
The Lodges strike a land deal with Mayor McCoy which involves shutting down Southside High, causing Jughead, Toni, Sweet Pea, and the other Serpents to transfer to Riverdale High, putting them at odds with the other students. Archie is approached by FBI Agent Adams, who wants his help finding proof of Hiram's criminal dealings. Archie agrees to help in exchange for immunity for Veronica and Fred. Archie investigates Nick, who implies that Hiram was behind his car crash, which broke both of his legs. Despite Hal's objections, Betty and Alice track down Alice's son Chic whom she gave up for adoption. Chic initially refuses to come with them, but Betty returns to his residence and saves him from an assault, bringing him to the Cooper household. Jughead, following advice from F.P., gets his fellow Serpents to lay low. Archie reveals to Adams that he secretly doubts Svenson was really the Black Hood. That night, Chic lurks in Betty's room while she sleeps.
24	11	"Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler"	Gregg Araki	Greg Murray & Devon Turner	January 24, 2018	T13.20811	1.39[32]
Pickens' Day, a day in remembrance of Riverdale's founder, nears. Archie tries out for the wrestling team in order to impress Hiram, a former wrestler. Betty learns that Chic is a webcam model and attempts to reach out to him. Jughead interviews Toni's grandfather for a school project, learning that he is a member of a Native American tribe that was slaughtered by Pickens. Jughead publishes the story, escalating tensions between the two sides. At the Pickens' Day fest, the Serpents protest the event, but Hiram spins their words positively. That night, Archie meets with Hiram, who offers him his business tutelage, which Archie accepts. The next morning, Mayor McCoy, Sheriff Keller, and the Lodges meet at the statue of Pickens, which has been decapitated.
25	12	"Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine"	Rachel Talalay	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	January 31, 2018	T13.20812	1.34[33]
Veronica's confirmation nears, bringing many Lodge family members and business associates to Riverdale. While serving at a poker game with Hiram and his associates, Archie learns that Hiram is a mobster and his associates are planning his 'removal' after Veronica's confirmation. Archie alerts Hiram to this and Hiram later arranges that mobster's death. Meanwhile, Mayor McCoy orchestrates the eviction of all the Serpents from their trailer park. Jughead and Betty are alerted to the location of the Pickens head by a scrapyard owner who gives them evidence that Tall Boy decapitated the statue. Jughead and F. P. put Tall Boy on trial, where he reveals that Hiram assisted him in launching a mutiny so that Tall Boy could remove F. P. and Jughead from the Serpents. Betty and Jughead get back together. A strange man comes to the Cooper house asking for Chic. Later, Betty returns home to find Alice cleaning up the man's blood.
26	13	"Chapter Twenty-Six: The Tell-Tale Heart"	Julie Plec	Michael Grassi	February 7, 2018	T13.20813	1.28[34]
Betty and Alice clean up the man's body and dispose of it with help from F.P. and Jughead. Jughead sends the Pickens statue's head to the Lodges, which Hiram believes may be a declaration of war. Mayor McCoy attempts to take control of her deal with the Lodges and the Lodges prepare to expose her affair with Sheriff Keller. Veronica, however, warns her of this and McCoy resigns from office. Agent Adams tries to strong-arm Archie into giving him information, including blackmailing Archie to plant a bug in Hiram's office. Archie instead reveals this to Hiram. Hiram's driver takes Archie to a private location to meet with "the boss," revealed to be Hermione. Hermione tells Archie that Adams is actually one of the Lodges' capos and it was a test, which Archie has passed. Hermione welcomes him to the family.
27	14	"Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Hills Have Eyes"	David Katzenberg	Ross Maxwell	March 7, 2018	T13.20814	1.26[35]
Hiram suggests Archie, Veronica, Betty, and Jughead go to the Lodges' lake house for a romantic getaway. Cheryl, upset over not being invited, calls Jughead and informs him of Betty's kiss with Archie, causing tension within the group. Veronica and Jughead kiss to "level the playing field." Later, the girls go into town while the guys have a discussion over the close mutual bonds between the four. Back in Riverdale, Josie informs Kevin of their parents' affair. Cheryl reveals to Toni that she had a friendship-turned-lesbian-relationship broken up by Penelope. At the lake house, tensions return when Jughead and Betty learn that Hiram bought the trailer park and the Riverdale Register. A group of men with whom Veronica interacted in town break into the house, but Veronica activates a silent alarm. One of Hiram's men arrives and kills one of the intruders before the four return to Riverdale.
28	15	"Chapter Twenty-Eight: There Will Be Blood"	Mark Piznarski	Aaron Allen	March 14, 2018	T13.20815	1.19[36]
Jughead keeps investigating the Lodges' plans, but he cannot use what he finds. Hiram and Hermione want Fred to run for mayor and offer to finance his run. Hal asks Alice for a divorce and Polly comes back to Riverdale. Clifford's secret will is read, which entitles money to anyone of Blossom blood. Clifford's twin brother Claudius returns. When Chic refuses the DNA test, Betty steals his dental floss to do her own test and discovers that Chic is not who he says he is. After Smithers points Jughead to Shankshaw Prison, F. P.'s inside contact allows them to learn the truth about the Lodges' plans: they want to turn Southside High into a private prison and the housing Fred is building will be for the employees of the prison. After the Lodges are forced to tell Fred, he refuses to run for Mayor, so Hermione announces her run instead. Archie undergoes a blood ritual with Hiram, pledging loyalty. Meanwhile, Claudius and Penelope plot to get their house "in order," including Nana and Cheryl, who overhears the plan.
29	16	"Chapter Twenty-Nine: Primary Colors"	Sherwin Shilati	James DeWille	March 21, 2018	T13.20816	1.16[37]
Jughead learns Southside High will be turned into a prison and goes on a hunger strike to protest. Hiram accelerates the timeline for demolition, but the high school Serpents chain themselves to the school. Fred attempts to end his contract with the Lodges, leading to a legal dispute. Hiram asks Archie to cut the Serpents' chains, which Archie does in exchange for Fred being released from his contract. Betty learns Hal is not Chic's father. Penelope and Claudius attempt to kill Nana Rose, but she survives. Veronica runs for student president, but everyone seems to be against her. Jughead also considers running with Betty. Betty moves in with Jughead to avoid Chic. Cheryl tells Penelope she knows what she did, leading Penelope to get Cheryl committed. Free of his contract with the Lodges, Fred announces he is running for mayor against Hermione.
30	17	"Chapter Thirty: The Noose Tightens"	Alexis Ostrander	Britta Lundin & Brian E. Paterson	March 28, 2018	T13.20817	0.96[38]
Hermione's run for mayor is considered risky by fellow mobsters Kowalski and Martin, who believe it may lead to unwanted investigation. They demand a 25% cut of the prison's profits, which Hiram refuses. Kowalski and Martin, however, convince Hiram's capo Adams to hospitalize Andre, leaving the Lodges shorthanded on security. Archie scares the two into abandoning the deal with the help of Reggie and other Riverdale athletes. Meanwhile, the car belonging to the man Chic killed is found. The owner of the car demands $10,000 from the Coopers to prevent her from going to the police, but Jughead and the Serpents scare her away. Alice sends Chic away and apologizes to the Serpents for her years of badmouthing them. Toni and Veronica discover that Cheryl has been admitted into conversion therapy and, with help from Nana Rose, they find out that she is at the Sisters of Quiet Mercy. Toni, Veronica, and Kevin rescue Cheryl and Toni and Cheryl kiss. Cheryl soon returns to Riverdale High, which she declares 'will burn.'
31	18	"Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember"	Jason Stone	Arabella Anderson & Tessa Leigh Williams	April 18, 2018	T13.20818	1.10[39]
During a rehearsal of Riverdale High's musical production of Carrie, Cheryl calls out those who question her ability to play the lead role of Carrie White by demonstrating her singing ability. After rehearsal, Kevin confides in Jughead that he received several threats demanding that the role of Carrie be recast, supposedly from the Black Hood. Kevin gives in and Midge replaces Cheryl as Carrie. Tensions arise between Archie and Fred after he finds out that Hiram bought Archie his first car, resulting in Archie warning Hiram not to get between him and his father. Cheryl, doused in blood, confronts her mother for her actions against the family and demands that she be emancipated. During the performance, a set wall is moved up to reveal Midge hung up to the wall with knives, murdered by the Black Hood with a warning of his return.
32	19	"Chapter Thirty-Two: Prisoners"	Jennifer Phang	Cristine Chambers	April 25, 2018	T13.20819	1.17[40]
Following Midge's funeral, her mother, Cheryl, and the River Vixens blame Sheriff Keller for her death, causing him to consider resigning. Archie is abducted by Nick St. Clair, who demands a ransom from the Lodges. With her parents unwilling to pay and lacking the money herself, Veronica pretends to surrender herself to Nick, but drugs him. Archie manages to escape and they hold Nick for ransom instead. Meanwhile, Betty and Jughead investigate Chic and learn from the Sisters of the Quiet Mercy that he is an impostor, resulting in his imprisonment. Betty is secretly contacted by the Black Hood, who offers to get rid of Chic. Betty gets Chic to confess that he murdered her real brother, Charles, by accident and then hands him over to the Black Hood, leaving him to die. Betty lies to Alice and says that Chic left town of his own accord, then learns that Hal was absent at the time of the exchange, leading her to suspect him of being the Black Hood.
33	20	"Chapter Thirty-Three: Shadow of a Doubt"	Gregory Smith	Yolanda E. Lawrence	May 2, 2018	T13.20820	1.11[41]
Betty tells Cheryl that she believes Hal is the Black Hood. Hiram restarts The Red Circle in hopes of causing unrest and to help Hermione's campaign. Moose reveals that Midge was having an affair with Fangs. A body, first thought to be Chic's, is found and Betty reveals she feels guilty for his presumed death. Fangs is arrested at school. Members of The Red Circle damage The Whyte Worm and Reggie later reveals that Hiram is playing them against each other. Betty and Cheryl visit a room being paid for by Hal and find the same book used as a cipher previously. After the Black Hood attacks the Mayoral debate, Veronica wants her mother to stop running, but she insists on continuing. Betty confronts her father and arranges a meeting with him later. The Black Hood then appears at Cheryl's door. Fangs is released from prison, but is shot amidst the protesters outside.
34	21	"Chapter Thirty-Four: Judgment Night"	Cherie Nowlan	Shepard Boucher	May 9, 2018	T13.20821	1.00[42]
The Black Hood attacks Cheryl, but she wounds him with a bow and arrow. Reggie is accused of being Fangs' shooter, but it is later revealed to be Midge's mother. Veronica finds out that Hiram planned to reveal Hermione's affair with Fred, but Hermione reveals her involvement, as it would destroy Fred's campaign. The son of the mobster whose death Hiram arranged attacks the Lodges, killing Andre, but Hermione shoots him dead. The Ghoulies are released from prison and attack Pop's. Meanwhile, Hal reveals himself as the Black Hood to Betty and Alice. After admitting he did not attack the debate, he is subdued by Betty and arrested. Fred, who is wearing a bullet proof vest, is shot by a man in a black hood and Betty and Archie realize the man was not Hal. Penny Peabody resurfaces and holds Toni captive, but Jughead and Cheryl help her escape. F. P. alerts the Serpents of Fangs' death and the Serpents decide to fight the Ghoulies. Jughead turns himself over to avoid bloodshed, but Penny breaks her promise and the Ghoulies attack Jughead. Learning of this, F. P. goes to save him. Later, Archie, Cheryl, Betty, and the Serpents find F. P. carrying Jughead's bloodied, unconscious body.
35	22	"Chapter Thirty-Five: Brave New World"	Steven A. Adelson	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	May 16, 2018	T13.20822	1.28[43]
Jughead survives his assault and F. P. reveals Fangs is alive. Sheriff Minetta reveals the second Black Hood to be Tall Boy, who was killed by an officer. Cheryl discovers Penelope and Claudius meeting with Hiram and informs Veronica, who reveals this to Hermione. Hermione, believing it to be conceivable that Hiram planned the attack at the debate, reveals to Veronica that Hiram plans to consolidate the entire Southside, and needs the Whyte Wyrm to set his plan fully into motion. Jughead, Archie, and Cheryl lead the Serpents to the Northside, where they are offered asylum. Veronica buys the Wyrm, and trades it with Hiram for Pop's. F. P. retires from the Serpents, naming Jughead the new King, with Cheryl joining the Serpents. Hermione wins the mayoral election. Later, Hiram meets with Penny, Penelope, Claudius, Sheriff Minetta, and Malachi, to discuss joining forces. Archie is elected student body president, but is wrongfully arrested by Sheriff Minetta during his inauguration for the murder of one of the intruders from the lake house that one of Hiram's thugs killed.

Season 3 (2018–19)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
36	1	"Chapter Thirty-Six: Labor Day"	Kevin Sullivan	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	October 10, 2018	T13.21251	1.50[44]
Archie's friends and family spend the summer at his trial. The judge orders the jury to deliberate over Labor Day weekend. Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead decide to spend the weekend together. A furious Veronica confronts Hiram, while Hiram explains that he did this because of her betrayal. Meanwhile, Betty has trouble with Alice and Polly as the two of them try to persuade her to join their cult, the Farm. Jughead faces off with Penny Peabody and the Ghoulies over Hot Dog and after taking over the Southside, the Ghoulies declare the Northside fair game. Later, Archie accepts a plea deal to serve two years in juvenile detention after a hung jury causes a mistrial. Betty arrives home and sees Alice and Polly carrying out a strange ceremony involving the twins and fire, triggering Betty to faint and convulse. Meanwhile, Dilton's strange actions lead Jughead to discover him and Ben in Fox Forest, unconscious in front of a dark skeletal totem Dilton had referred to as the Gargoyle King.
37	2	"Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes"	Jeff Woolnough	Michael Grassi	October 17, 2018	T13.21252	1.28[45]
Archie is processed in jail, but without protection due to his refusal to stab a Ghoulie, he faces abuse from Ghoulies he previously helped lock up. Archie then tries to bring the prisoners together but his attempt is ambushed by Hiram, who orders the guards to beat the prisoners and start a riot. Dilton dies, and Betty and Jughead investigate what happened to him and Ben and discover three symbols etched into Dilton's back. They later search for Dilton's bunker where they find Ben and Dilton were participating in a board game turned lethal. They then question Ethel about the game, who after refusing to talk about it, begins to have a seizure. Later, at the hospital, Betty and Jughead witness Ben commit suicide, after claiming he will ascend to the Kingdom and be reunited with Dilton. Elsewhere, Fred, Hermione, Alice, F. P., Hiram, Sierra McCoy, Tom Keller, and Penelope Blossom gather to discuss an incident that occurred in their youth, one they swore not to speak of ever again. Hermione claims it is happening again with their children.
38	3	"Chapter Thirty-Eight: As Above, So Below"	Jeff Hunt	Aaron Allen	October 24, 2018	T13.21253	1.40[46]
After spending time in solitary confinement, Archie accepts the Warden's offer to participate in a trial by combat beneath the prison. Veronica opens a speakeasy under Pop's but is shaken down by Sherriff Mineta and Penny. With Cheryl and Toni's help she gets evidence of the Whyte Worm being used to make jingle jangle, and blackmails Hiram. Betty befriends Evelyn to try learn more about the Farm and is taken aback when she learns Alice has told them all their family secrets. Meanwhile, Ethel plays Gryphons and Gargoyles with Jughead, and after giving Jughead the scripture, Ethel drinks from a poisoned chalice and is placed on suicide watch. Later, F. P. burns the scripture; however, a copy is placed in each student's locker at Riverdale High, with Ethel proclaiming to the Gargoyle King that everyone will soon join them.
39	4	"Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club"	Dawn Wilkinson	Tessa Leigh Williams	November 7, 2018	T13.21254	1.37[47]
With the Riverdale kids playing Gryphons and Gargoyles, Alice opens up to Betty about her past and her involvement with the game. In 1992, Alice, a rebellious teenager pregnant with F. P.'s child, is forced to spend detention along with Penelope, Sierra, Hermione, Fred, and F. P. Initially strangers, they soon find the Gryphons and Gargoyles game and play it as a group, gradually becoming addicted to it. However, after receiving strange invitations from the Gargoyle King, Alice soon finds the bathroom graffitied with messages and so finds chalices, she encounters the creature. Principal Featherhead encounters the Gargoyle King and is found dead with the same symbols from Dilton's back etched into the door. The group vow to never talk about the incident. After explaining, Alice tells Betty that they do not know who was trying to kill one of them, but it was a member of their group. Later on, Betty finds Jughead in the cellar playing the game as he reveals he is about to ascend to the third level.
40	5	"Chapter Forty: The Great Escape"	Pamela Romanowsky	Greg Murray & Ace Hasan	November 14, 2018	T13.21255	1.25[48]
Betty asks Jughead to investigate their parents as she believes one of them is a murderer. Jughead finds out the game is a metaphor for Riverdale itself, and claims he will eventually be able to confront the Gargoyle King. After a failed prison escape, Archie is branded by the Warden and finds out Hiram paid the witnesses to lie and frame him. Jughead tells F. P. whomever killed the principal when their parents were at school was the game master. Before the fight club, Joaquin stabs Archie, claiming the Warden told him if he did he would ascend. Joaquin is later seen by Kevin escaping to a "new gang". Veronica, Betty, Josie, Reggie, and Kevin hatch a plan and manage to help Archie escape and they hide him in Dilton's bunker. Jughead realizes Archie's brand is the same symbol that was on Dilton's back. Kevin, Josie, and Reggie begin to play the game. The Warden, set to meet with Hermione, commits suicide by cyanide poisoning after failing to ascend in the game by killing Archie. Jughead comes face to face with the Gargoyle King.
41	6	"Chapter Forty-One: Manhunter"	Rachel Talalay	Cristine Chambers	November 28, 2018	T13.21256	1.27[49]
The students are questioned about their whereabouts during Archie's escape when Josie has a seizure. Betty gathers the Midnight Club at Veronica's speakeasy and questions them about the murder of Principal Featherhead, where Penelope confesses Dilton's father, Darryl, poisoned the chalices so they could all ascend together, and later killed himself out of guilt, but Betty is not convinced. Veronica, determined to clear Archie's name finds the full interview footage on Hermione's computer proving Archie's innocence and emails it to the prosecution. Archie is cleared of all charges, but he refuses to return to Riverdale and breaks up with Veronica before leaving town with Jughead. Joaquin proclaims the symbol branded on Archie means sacrifices, and he is later found dead with the same symbol carved into his forehead. Meanwhile, Betty and Alice are horrified to find the Gargoyle King in their house. They retreat to Betty's room but find a gravestone on Betty's bed before F. P. arrives and comforts them. Later, Alice has Betty forcibly taken to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy where she discovers all the patients are painting pictures of The Gargoyle King.
42	7	"Chapter Forty-Two: The Man in Black"	Alex Pillai	Janine Salinas Schoenberg	December 5, 2018	T13.21257	1.09[50]
Archie and Jughead plan to take a break at a farm, where they meet Laurie and Gracie. Laurie, during a meeting with Archie, kisses him and he reciprocates, but later thinks of Veronica and stops. Jughead finds children taking Fizzle Rocks and playing Gryphons and Gargoyles and the common symbols regarding the Gargoyle King appear. When Jughead finds that the entire town is owned by Hiram and Laurie is helping him trace Archie, he and Archie flee. Veronica moves out, and opens a Casino in her speakeasy, later learning about Minneta's brutal killing. Betty finds Ethel at the Sisters of Quiet Mercy, where she tries to make her life seem insignificant. She finds the Sisters feeding the patients with Fizzle Rocks and finds Hiram helping them to do so. Now with solid evidence of who the Sisters really are, she tries to flee, but the Sisters and Ethel catch her. They then make her meet the Gargoyle King and then forcefully feed her Fizzle Rocks. Later while being interrogated, Betty hallucinates and finds the Gargoyle King approaching her.
43	8	"Chapter Forty-Three: Outbreak"	John T. Kretchmer	James DeWille	December 12, 2018	T13.21258	1.20[51]
The Riverdale Vixens squad suffer from a mass seizure with the exception of Cheryl who soon asks for Toni to move in. Veronica learns that Hiram intends to shut down Riverdale High. Reggie informs Veronica that the drugs are coming from the prison Hiram is constructing. Elsewhere, Jughead and Archie meet his mother Gladys and sister Jellybean, and learn that Hiram intends to take over the town. Archie leaves to prevent danger. Betty learns that the Gargoyle King is a hallucination from the drugs and along with Ethel, tie up Sister Woodhouse. They set free the patients afterwards. Cheryl and Veronica interrogate Penelope and learn that she was helping Hiram. However, as they both, along with Kevin and the RROTC decide to stop Riverdale from closing down, they are too late as the town is shut down, quarantined and blocked off. Alice takes Betty and the patients home. Hiram calls the Governor and thanks him for sealing the town off. They hang up and Hiram is raises his drink to the Gargoyle King, who stands in front of him.
44	9	"Chapter Forty-Four: No Exit"	Jeff Hunt	Arabella Anderson	January 16, 2019	T13.21259	1.32[52]
A month after Riverdale's shutdown, Archie has now fled town and staying in a cabin with Vegas. Betty has taken in the freed patients from the SOQM while Veronica is being forced by Hiram to pay for protection for the speakeasy. However, Reggie is beaten up by Gargoyle-dressed men sent by Hiram while on a run for supplies and eventually she hires the Serpents to protect her club. Cheryl and Toni are both kicked out of the Serpents after stealing from Hiram and Reggie and Veronica kiss. Meanwhile, Archie is attacked and mauled by a bear and experiences strange hallucinations before being found bloodied and unresponsive by park rangers while Betty tries to convince the nuns to testify against Hiram. After a meeting with Attorney McCoy, Betty realises that the nun's argument may be useless but soon discovers that the Sisters have all committed suicide to avoid testifying against Hiram. Betty is shocked when she learns that Alice kicked out the patients from their house and shipped them off to the Farm.
45	10	"Chapter Forty-Five: The Stranger"	Maggie Kiley	Brian E. Paterson	January 23, 2019	T13.21260	1.12[53]
Archie, having survived his attack, returns to Riverdale to face his demons and to overcome his problems. Alice liquidates Betty's college funds to provide for the escaped SOQM patients who have been living at the Farm. A furious Betty then seeks help from attorney McCoy, who informs Betty that she must go visit Hal, as Alice forged his signature. Betty does so and finds Hal is impressed with the Gargoyle King's kill count and wants to see one of the game's manuals in return for him signing an affidavit for Betty so she can pursue legal action. Betty learns Penelope visits him and Hal wants Betty to return for visits. The Serpents find Fangs and the Gargoyle Gang in a clearing in Fox Forest having a ceremony. They crash the ceremony and Jughead and F.P. unmask the Gargoyle King, revealing Tall Boy, who faked his death and has been working for Hiram. However, he is killed during an escape attempt. Hiram is shot and critically injured in the Pembrooke. Believing Archie may have been responsible, Veronica breaks up with Archie and reconciles with Reggie. Hermione appoints F.P. as the new sheriff of Riverdale after Claudius is found dead.
46	11	"Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia"	Greg Smith	Devon Turner & Will Ewing	January 30, 2019	T13.21261	1.26[54]
Veronica sets Jughead out on a mission to find who shot her father. Betty investigates Penelope, learning that she killed Claudius and Clifford, and stumbles upon her brothel "The Maple Club". Meanwhile, Archie is still spiraling, and Josie tries to help him face his demons. Veronica and Reggie set out to find the truth about the quarantine and the series of seizures that occurred in the town. Jughead comes face-to-face with Mrs. Mulwray, and later finds that Sweet Pea, who had been tracking Hermione for him, spots her and the believed-to-be dead Sheriff Minetta conspiring against F.P. in a secluded cabin. Jughead goes and warns F.P. that Hermione put him up to shooting Hiram in the first place. Archie considers murdering Hiram, but ends up saving his life instead. After this, Veronica and Archie share their apologies and Hiram, now awake, calls a truce with Archie. Hermione, after meeting with Jughead, is called out on her mission to kill Hiram, and kills Minetta to tie up loose ends.
47	12	"Chapter Forty-Seven: Bizarrodale"	Harry Jierjian	Britta Lundin	February 6, 2019	T13.21262	0.96[55]
Sierra McCoy and Tom Keller are preparing to get married where Kevin invites Moose to be his date and Moose decides to come out to his strict father Marcus. However, Moose is not ready yet and is almost outed by Cheryl during a school morning announcement but Moose decides to come out anyway after Kevin gives him an ultimatum and they consummate their love in Dilton's bunker. However, Sierra and Tom both receive a message from the "Gargoyle King" calling the Midnight Club to reassemble and complete their ascension that failed when they were teenagers. The parents assemble at the school to sip from the chalices; however, it is revealed to be a hoax. Marcus dresses up as the Gargoyle King and captures Kevin and Moose, hoping to scare his son straight. Moose leaves Riverdale afterwards. Archie and Josie get close to one another and kiss, starting a relationship while Veronica and Reggie discover that Jughead's mother Gladys is Hermione's buyer of the Fizzle Rocks lab which was burned. Gladys and Jellybean return to Riverdale, intending to stay for good with a plan.
48	13	"Chapter Forty-Eight: Requiem for a Welterweight"	Tawnia McKiernan	Michael Grassi	February 27, 2019	T13.21263	0.86[56]
The Serpents' numbers have decreased due to the Pretty Poisons, leading Jughead to go after the Ghoulies. Archie has been getting into boxing and must throw his first fight. Hiram wants Veronica to take control of his drugs, but she starts working for Gladys. Alice is preparing to be rebaptized by the Farm, and only Betty realizes that she is doing something dangerous. The Ghoulies (now the Gargoyles) are led by Kurtz, who has been keeping G&G going. Kurtz tells Jughead that only the worthy will ascend, while promising the Gargoyle King is alive. Hiram and Gladys meet and when Gladys threatens Hermione, Veronica is forced to join Hiram. Betty meets with an ex-Farm member, who left the farm after her sister's death. Betty learns they believe in reaching near-death to reach ascension. Archie fights in the match but loses. Alice takes place in the rebirth. Almost dying, Polly and the Farm refuse to help her until Betty intervenes. Veronica covers for Hermione and now owes debt to Hiram. Gladys takes control of the Gargoyles. Alice claims she is reborn and sees her purpose. She says she will sell the house and she, Betty, and the Farm will be one forever.
49	14	"Chapter Forty-Nine: Fire Walk with Me"	Marisol Adler	Aaron Allen	March 6, 2019	T13.21264	0.92[57]
Alice attempts to sell the house, only to be sabotaged by Betty. Archie finds a boy named Ricky branded with the Sacrifice Symbol in the boxing gym. He starts taking care of him, until Ricky runs away to hide from the Gargoyles. The Serpents, Gargoyles, and Pretty Poisons begin clashing at school, and chemistry equipment is stolen to make drugs. Betty finds Kevin going deep into the Farm, and stumbles across a ceremony where he walks across fire. She threatens to expose the Farm, but Evelyn and Kevin respond by threatening to expose all of Alice's secrets. Veronica opens a casino and uses it to lower her debt, leading to Hiram's associates clashing at a showcase. Veronica recruits the Pretty Poisons to work at the speakeasy, who ban Hiram and Gladys from entering. The Gargoyles and the Serpents begin working with the police, causing Kurtz to walk out. Archie finds out Ricky is Joaquain's little brother. Ricky reveals he is working with the Gargoyles and faked everything and tries to kill Archie to complete the Red Paladin quest. Jughead tells Archie that it is time for them to end it (along with Betty). Alice sells the house and comes home to find it in flames.
50	15	"Chapter Fifty: American Dreams"	Gabriel Correa	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	March 13, 2019	T13.21265	0.95[58]
Archie, Betty, and Jughead set out on a journey to eliminate the "Red Paladin" quest from the realm of Gryphons and Gargoyles that was initially spread about by Hiram. Meanwhile, Betty finds out about Gladys' criminal intentions from Veronica after she learns that the Jones family has bought her house. After Betty informs Jughead of his mother's business in town, he becomes angered and plans to drive his mom out of town after giving a speech at F.P.'s 50th birthday party. Archie defeats all players that set out to kill him, lifting his brand for sacrifice. Cheryl and Toni continue to experience tension in their relationship, up to the point that Cheryl asks Toni to move out. Consequently, she summons Kevin to inform him that she must channel her anger into the school musical, which she demands to be Heathers.
51	16	"Chapter Fifty-One: Big Fun"	Maggie Kiley	Tessa Leigh Williams	March 20, 2019	T13.21266	0.81[59]
While preparing the Riverdale High production of Heathers, Cheryl discovers that Toni has been assigned as choreographer while Kevin makes Evelyn co-director due to the Farm financially backing the musical. Veronica learns that her parents are breaking up and turns to Reggie for comfort. Jughead learns that the old trailer is being used as a Fizzle Rock lab by Gladys and with the help of Betty, sets fire to it. Betty becomes angered at Evelyn's involvement and attempts to involve Principal Weatherby who turns out to be a follower of the Farm. Evelyn throws a pre-show party where Kevin has a frightening drug induced hallucination driving him closer to Evelyn and the Farm. Toni and Cheryl soon decide to repair their relationship after a fight. Veronica divulges the state of her parents marriage and Reggie realizing this is why she slept with him decides to end their relationship. On the night of the show, the cast performs and is followed by the appearance of Edgar Evernever, Evelyn's father who starts clapping while those audience members dressed in white follow suit giving a standing ovation to the musical.
52	17	"Chapter Fifty-Two: The Raid"	Pamela Romanowsky	Greg Murray & Ace Hasan	March 27, 2019	T13.21267	0.81[60]
While on a tour of the Farm, Betty enlists Cheryl to help her infiltrate the farm. Archie is given word by his old cell mate, Mad Dog, that Leopold and Loeb is being closed, and that all juvenile prisoners are to be transferred to Hiram's prison. They persuade the governor to pardon Archie's prison friends. When they get out, they jump right into action helping Jughead take down the Gargoyles after Mad Dog learns his family is in danger. Veronica tries to get her parents together, but her plans do not work, when their marriage is annulled. While Cheryl is at the Farm, she gets in with Edgar, and they discuss Jason's death and the location of the testimonies that Betty wants Cheryl to get her hands on. Cheryl decides to join the cult, after she tells Betty that the Farm has allowed her to see Jason. Betty goes asks Alice if the reason she has joined the Farm is that she can see Charles, and Alice says yes. Jughead and Archie, receive a single baby tooth as a message. They learn that Archie's prison mate, Baby Teeth, has fallen victim to the Gargoyle King, after F.P. finds him dead in a clearing in the forest.
53	18	"Chapter Fifty-Three: Jawbreaker"	Gabriel Correa	Brian E. Paterson & Arabella Anderson	April 17, 2019	T13.21268	0.80[61]
F.P. and Jughead investigate Baby Teeth's death; the coroner tells them that a matchbook from the Maple Club had been lodged in his throat at the time of his death. At Penelope's brothel, they find a client foaming at the mouth and gripping a knife after consuming a bad batch of Fizzle Rocks, known as "G". Kurtz is the one dealing “G”. Betty sends Toni the video of Clifford murdering Jason, but it does not convince Cheryl that Jason is dead. Betty tries the same tactic, as she takes Alice to a fake grave of Charles, she is not convinced. Betty chloroforms her and holds her in Dilton's bunker to force her to remember her past. She threatens both Edgar and Evelyn—but decides that she must let her mother heal. She hires Toni to join the Farm to try and free Cheryl and Alice. Archie, while participating in a boxing tournament, must rematch Randy Ronson, who has just taken "G" and collapses after the fight. F.P. and Jughead capture Kurtz making a drug deal at Archie's gym, he informs them that Jellybean has been "summoned". She is led into the woods with Ricky, who reveals the Gargoyle King standing behind her.
54	19	"Chapter Fifty-Four: Fear the Reaper"	Alexandra La Roche	Janine Salinas Schoenberg & Will Ewing	April 24, 2019	T13.21269	0.71[62]
After the death of Randy Ronson, Elio tries to frame Archie for dealing him drugs to use for the fight. Veronica reveals that Archie and Mad Dog passed a drug test and helps Archie raise money for the Ronson family. The Jones family and Kurtz play a game of Gryphons and Gargoyles to bring Jellybean home. F.P. is shot while they rob Pop's, Gladys is severely stabbed while in a fight with an undead Penny Peabody; Jughead is nearly killed after Kurtz locks him in a freezer—emerging to find Kurtz has been killed by the Gargoyle King. Jughead returns home to Jellybean and Gladys makes the decision to leave town. Betty learns of Edgar's plans to adopt Polly's babies as his own after his marriage to Alice. Betty continues an investigation on the Farm, discovering that Evelyn is 26 years old, recruits, and is Edgar's wife. Josie leaves town. After this, she enters the Farm to save the babies, but is led into a room of several cult members by Toni, who is now in the cult. They try to capture her. Later, Veronica tells Betty that her father has died in an accident while being transported to her father's prison.
55	20	"Chapter Fifty-Five: Prom Night"	David Katzenberg	Britta Lundin & Devon Turner	May 1, 2019	T13.21270	0.70[63]
Betty is dubious that her father actually has died after seeing the crash scene with Veronica. At the same moment, Archie's mom returns to town and makes plans for Archie to meet with a recruiter at the naval academy so Archie can go to college on a boxing scholarship. While Cheryl and Toni campaign for prom queens, Edgar and Evelyn both remind them that doing so is against the rules of the Farm. Meanwhile, while Jughead speaks with Jellybean, she informs him about the Gargoyle King's gospel, which Jughead finds on an abandoned bus with F.P., so he can bring the serial killer down. When Betty wins prom queen, she is summoned by the Gargoyle King, who plans for her to ascend, placing chalices in the girl's bathroom. When Betty rejects and is about to shoot the Gargoyle King, the Black Hood attacks her, revealing to Betty that her dad did indeed survive the crash and is now working with the Gargoyle King. Afterwards, Betty goes to warn her mom that Hal is likely going to prey on the Farm next. In doing so, Betty is asked by Edgar if she will stay at the Farm for her safety, and she accepts.
56	21	"Chapter Fifty-Six: The Dark Secret of Harvest House"	Rob Seidenglanz	Cristine Chambers & James DeWille	May 8, 2019	T13.21271	0.74[64]
Edgar has Betty come face-to-face with her "dark side", that he is faking, while she learns that Kevin and Fangs have undergone massive surgeries; Toni is next. Betty realizes Edgar hypnotizes and creates pain which makes everyone follow him; turning crazy. Jughead finds Ricky trying to ascend who sends a group of Boy Scouts to attack him; he hides in the bunker where he finds Ethel. Jughead and Ethel search for a young scout that has gone to the abandoned bus at the junkyard, leading them into the arms of the Black Hood. Archie, Molly, and Veronica plan to get Hiram arrested when he makes a move at the town. During a boxing match Archie set up, the FBI arrests him for illegal activity at his businesses, which includes La Bonne Nuit. Betty realizes that the Farm has been performing surgery to harvest organs, she informs Cheryl, who saves Toni from receiving her procedure. Toni escapes, but Cheryl is taken away by guards. When Betty warns Kevin and Fangs, they send her to the operating room so she can undergo her organ harvest next. At the police station, Ethel tells Jughead the Gargoyle King's identity—Jason Blossom. He digs up Jason's grave to reveal an empty casket.
57	22	"Chapter Fifty-Seven: Survive the Night"	Rachel Talalay	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Michael Grassi	May 15, 2019	T13.21272	0.86[65]
Penelope buys Betty from Edgar before receiving surgery, and she wakes at the Thorn Hill Hunting Lodge where she finds the gang having dinner with Penelope. Penelope reveals herself as the mastermind of the game; Chic as the Gargoyle King. She sends them on a final quest. Alice learns of Edgar's plans for ascension and Cheryl attempts to break Kevin and Fangs out. Cheryl stumbles upon Jason, grave robbed by Edgar. Alice frees Juniper and Cheryl, staying back to save Polly. In the woods, the four are nearly killed and Betty shoots Hal to receive the antidote to Cyanide. Penelope then kills Hal. The Pretty Poisons and the Serpents save the four before raiding the Farm, finding only Kevin. Hermione is arrested for attempting to kill Hiram, who plots revenge; Cheryl brings Jason's body home. Betty and Jughead are greeted at home by their brother, Charles, alive and an FBI agent, who reveals that Alice had been undercover at the Farm. The gang vows to enjoy their senior year. An flash-forward shows Archie, Betty, and Veronica out in the woods and covered with blood, as they burn Jughead's beanie in a fire and promise never to speak of that day to anyone, so they will not get caught.

Season 4 (2019–20)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
58	1	"Chapter Fifty-Eight: In Memoriam"	Gabriel Correa	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	October 9, 2019	T13.21851	1.14[66]
As Riverdale prepares for the first Independence Day parade since Jason Blossom‘s death, Archie learns that his father has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in the town of Cherry Creek. The funeral home notifies Archie and his mom that they'll be unable to transport Fred's body home until after the holiday, which Archie finds unsettling. So, he asks Veronica, Betty, and Jughead to come with him to bring his dad home. While retrieving Fred's truck, the gang meets a woman (Shannen Doherty) and learns that Fred died saving her life by pushing her out of the way of the speeding car that killed him. They share a prayer and leave flowers at the edge of the road. F.P. calls Archie to inform him that the man responsible for his father's death has turned himself in. Archie abandons the others and runs to the man's home. He learns that the man was protecting his own son by taking the blame for the accident and forgives the man and his son. Arriving back in Riverdale, the friends are greeted with a parade in Fred's honor. Fred's funeral takes place and Archie and his friends set off fireworks in his backyard in remembrance of his father.
59	2	"Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fast Times at Riverdale High"	Pamela Romanowsky	Michael Grassi & Will Ewing	October 16, 2019	T13.21852	0.80[67]
On the first day of senior year, the gang encounters some surprises. Veronica struggles with the paparazzi, Betty deals with trusting Kevin after his affiliation with the Farm, and Jughead is offered a position at the prestigious Stonewall Prep, which he declines. Meanwhile, the school's new principal, Mr. Honey, cancels the dance due to the murders that occurred at the junior prom. Upset, Cheryl throws a party at Thistle House instead. Betty learns that Kevin is still talking to Fangs, who is feeding him information about the Farm and how Kevin can prove his loyalty. Learning that Kevin is still brainwashed, Betty and Charles help him recover, which actually allows Kevin to trick Fangs into telling him where the Farm has been relocated. Archie witnesses Reggie's father's abuse towards Reggie—which causes him to speak out to Mr. Mantle. Reggie and Archie then decide to break Mr. Mantle's car for payback for the abuse he has inflicted on Reggie. Betty encourages Jughead to go to Stonewall Prep; and when he obliges, F.P. speaks on his pride for Jughead's acceptance to the school. An ominous closing flash-forward shows a desperate search party looking for Jughead during Spring Break.
60	3	"Chapter Sixty: Dog Day Afternoon"	Gregory Smith	Ace Hasan & Greg Murray	October 23, 2019	T13.21853	0.87[68]
As Jughead settles in at Stonewall Prep, he develops a hostile relationship with his roommate, Bret. Jughead also reconciles with Moose, who is another roommate of his, now going by "Marmaduke". Cheryl deals with having to conceal Jason's body when Toni hires a live-in assistant to help Nana Rose. When Cheryl is talking with Jason in the basement, Toni stumbles upon them. Archie wrestles with coming up with $40,000 to help renovate the gym so it can be turned into a community center. Veronica pulls together some money to help him, while in the process of changing her name to ditch the Lodge label. Betty and Charles work on safely retrieving the members of the Farm. Edgar asks for money, food, passports, and a bus, which Betty can receive for her to infiltrate the motel where the cult has relocated. While there, Evelyn knocks Betty unconscious. Betty later wakes up tied to a chair next to Alice in a motel room, and they escape—knocking Evelyn unconscious. Alice follows Edgar to the roof of the motel, where he "ascends" after Alice fatally shoots him. At home, Betty and Jughead are met with a ring of the doorbell, to reveal a videotape at the doorstep.
61	4	"Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween"	Erin Feeley	Janine Salinas Schoenberg	October 30, 2019	T13.21854	0.74[69]
On the eve of Halloween, Riverdale families receive videotapes of their houses being watched. As Halloween approaches, Cheryl and Toni re-bury Jason's body, but Cheryl is worried that Jason's ghost will now haunt Thistlehouse. After a seance in the Blossom chapel, Nana Rose reveals that Cheryl was supposed to have a second brother named Julian, but she absorbed him before birth. Meanwhile, at Stonewall Prep, Jughead's classmates haze him and lock him inside a coffin in Mr. Chipping's office for Halloween night. Elsewhere, Archie and Munroe throw a Halloween party for the kids of the community in order to keep Dodger away, but the party ends in Dodger shooting one of the kids who attended the party. Veronica wards off an escaped patient from Shady Grove, as he poses as another man and tries to murder her. Betty and Jellybean, while home alone, receive phone calls by someone claiming to be the Black Hood. When Charles tracks the phone calls, Betty learns that they are coming from Polly. Later, it's revealed Charles is secretly listening to Betty's calls. An ominous closing flash-forward shows F.P. and Betty at the coroner's office identifying what appears to be Jughead's dead body.
62	5	"Chapter Sixty-Two: Witness for the Prosecution"	Harry Jierjian	Devon Turner	November 6, 2019	T13.21855	0.76[70]
The trials of Hermione and Hiram begin, and Veronica is working hardest on proving her mother's innocence. When some revelations come to the surface, Veronica is forced to have her mother plead guilty to her crimes and bribe the governor to pardon her. Veronica meets her sister, Hermosa, who has helped Hiram get released—-much to her dismay. At Hiram's release, he says he will be running for mayor. Meanwhile, Archie and Munroe continue to ward off Dodger from the community center. Elsewhere, Betty and Kevin join the Junior FBI Training Program where Betty is incredibly successful. Betty is also haunted by her past when it is confirmed that she has the "serial killer genes". Jughead, while at Stonewall Prep, learns more about the Baxter Brothers novels that he loved when he was a kid, and enters a contest to become the next ghost writer for the series. A flash forward reveals Archie, Veronica, and Betty being arrested in biology class for the murder of Jughead.
63	6	"Chapter Sixty-Three: Hereditary"	Gabriel Correa	James DeWille	November 13, 2019	T13.21856	0.82[71]
Archie continues to get kids off the streets, despite Dodger's threats. With Veronica's parents out of jail, she wants nothing to do with Hermosa and Hiram. Hiram and Hermione sleep together, leading them to renew their vows, which Veronica is reluctant to attend. Jughead finds proof that his grandfather wrote the first Baxter Brothers Book, which the original writer denies. After asking for Mr. Chipping's help with the investigation, Mr. Chipping apologizes to Jughead and dives out of a window in his office. Cheryl and Toni try to expel Julian's spirit from Thistlehouse with an interruption from Cheryl's Aunt Cricket and Uncle Bedford who want her to sign away the family business. Later, Uncle Bedford gains access to the chapel to find Jason's body, and declares Cheryl sick and pins her against the wall. Toni then kills him with a candlestick. Betty deals with proving Charles's trust to her family. She visits Chic, and Chic lies and tells her that Charles killed someone. Chic tells the authorities that Alice murdered a man, leading F.P. and Charles to remove any proof, proving his trust to Betty. Charles visits Chic, and it becomes clear that they are lovers and are working on the demise of the Cooper family.
64	7	"Chapter Sixty-Four: The Ice Storm"	Alex Pillai	Arabella Anderson	November 20, 2019	T13.21857	0.74[72]
Betty and Jughead look into Mr. Chipping's death while staying on Stonewall Prep's campus during an ice storm. With Thanksgiving on the way, Archie and Veronica make plans to host a Thanksgiving dinner at the community center, which Hiram derails as the new mayor of Riverdale. While preparing for the Thanksgiving dinner, Dodger's family preys on the community center to kill Archie for revenge, believing that he had hurt Dodger. Things escalate quickly, but just as Archie is about to be killed, an explosion occurs with one of the dishes, prompting Mary to order them to leave. Alice and F.P. decide that they want to have turkey dinner at Pop's for Thanksgiving and joined by Hiram and Hermione, which ends in an altercation between Hiram and F.P. in La Bonne Nuit. While Cheryl and Toni are trying to cover up Bedford's murder, Cheryl's Aunt Cricket will not stop stalking them. They invite her over to dinner and lead her to believe that the meat she is eating is Bedford's body, when really it was just a distraction so they could dump Bedford's body in Sweetwater River before it froze over. Archie dedicates the community center to Fred's legacy while the town watches.
65	8	"Chapter Sixty-Five: In Treatment"	Michael Goi	Tessa Leigh Williams	December 4, 2019	T13.21858	0.69[73]
More videotapes appear at Riverdale doorsteps. Betty learns that she does not get into Yale and Alice claims it is because of her sexual activity. After a session with Ms. Burble, the guidance counselor, Betty and her mother argue and Alice reveals that Betty is her favorite child. Archie and Ms. Burble discuss Archie's business as a vigilante, and she urges him to take discretion. Archie then decides to move out, so his mother is no longer in danger. Cheryl loses the leadership of the Vixens due to her delicate mental state. After meeting with Ms. Burble, they discuss how Cheryl can find better outlets to deal with her trauma and that Julian's ghost has not truly been haunting Thistle House. Veronica receives an acceptance to Harvard but learns that Hiram had influence in the acceptance. Ms. Burble advises her to no longer associate with Hiram. Jughead is advised to receive recommendations from Riverdale staff to better supplement his applications. Betty and Jughead deduce the murders disguised as suicides that happened to members of the secret society that Mr. Chipping was a part of. A flashforward shows Archie, Betty, and Veronica being taken into custody at the police station for Jughead's murder.
66	9	"Chapter Sixty-Six: Tangerine"	Gabriel Correa	Brian E. Paterson	December 11, 2019	T13.21859	0.73[74]
After receiving a phone call, Polly attacks a Shady Grove nurse. Alice attempts to stab Betty with a knife, also after receiving a phone call. Betty learns that Evelyn had been making calls using a trigger word to initiate attacks on Dark Betty. FP is shot by Dodger at Pop's, and Archie fights Dodger in an alley, despite the family being in the process of fleeing. Archie then meets his uncle. Veronica invites her Abuelita to town to tell her how her father's been treating her and to get the family rum recipe, although Hiram claims to have patented it. Jughead is awarded the Baxter Brothers contract, which causes him to track down his grandfather. His grandfather tells him that Dupont legally took over writing the book after he left Stonewall Prep. Jughead goes back later to find that his grandfather is gone. He is inducted into the Quill & Skull Society. Cheryl lures Penelope out of the walls of Thistlehouse where she has been staying. She then banishes Penelope to Dilton's bunker and decides to give Jason a final farewell by way of a Norse funeral on Sweetwater River. A flash forward is then shown indicating that Betty had killed Jughead with a rock.
67	10	"Chapter Sixty-Seven: Varsity Blues"	Roxanne Benjamin	Aaron Allen	January 22, 2020	T13.21860	0.79[75]
The Riverdale Bulldogs make it to the state finals against the Stonewall Stallions, who have been reported to play unfairly. Betty attempts to find the truth. The Vixens receive a new cheer coach Mrs. Appleyard, much to Cheryl's dismay. Veronica continues to pursue her rum-making endeavors until her father comes after her for copying his recipe. Archie learns that his uncle Frank has a troubled past, and Jughead gets in deeper with the Quill & Skull Society after discovering that he has earned an interview with Yale. Tension builds up between Riverdale High and Stonewall Prep before game day, as after Munroe is attacked outside the community center, Archie and the Bulldogs get into a fight with Stonewall's team. On game day, Frank gives Munroe drugs so that he can play and Cheryl locks Appleyard in a classroom so she can have the squad to herself. The Stonewall Stallions won, prompting Betty to form a quiz team so that Riverdale High still has a chance to get an edge over Stonewall Prep in something. Jughead is accepted to Yale and a flash-forward shows Betty packing up Jughead's dorm room with Bret telling her that she "got what she wanted."
68	11	"Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show"	Chell Stephen	Ted Sullivan	January 29, 2020	T13.21861	0.73[76]
Betty, Veronica, Cheryl, and Toni win in the Quiz Show semifinals and earn a spot in the finals against Stonewall Prep. Jughead and Bret tell Betty that they got into Yale, and Betty learns out that Bret's father bought his way in. Cheryl and Veronica turn the speakeasy into a club in to cover up serving rum. Hiram finds them and they must relocate. Cheryl and Veronica decide to set up in the Maple Club. They make a deal with Penelope to keep watch on the Maple Club. Archie lands in hot water with Tom as Frank takes over Andrews construction and makes risky moves. Kevin earns money by making videos where he is tickled by men. Charles tells Betty that the reason she was denied to Yale was because she was the daughter of the Black Hood. Betty smashes Hal's gravestone. At the Quiz Finals, the Yale recruiter says Betty is in if Riverdale wins against Stonewall Prep. Alice leaves Betty the answers, but Betty tears them up. Bret plants the evidence in Betty's room, which leads Alice to be suspended from work and Betty to be suspended from school. A flash-forward then reveals Archie comforting Betty in a booth at Pop's as she mourns the loss of Jughead.
69	12	"Chapter Sixty-Nine: Men of Honor"	Catriona McKenzie	Ariana Jackson	February 5, 2020	T13.21862	0.65[77]
Betty decides to spend suspension time with Alice to look more into Mr. Chipping's murder. They meet with Mr. Chipping's wife, who says Donna was lying about the affair she had with him, and Moose, who says that Bret videotaped him having sex. Betty and Alice go to find Bret's videotapes while he is preoccupied with Jughead and the duel, but he finds them. Archie meets Frank's friend from the Army, who turns out to be a mercenary out for blood. F.P. locks him up, but he escapes and attacks Archie at school. Frank was also a mercenary, so he is forced to leave town before capture. Veronica catches up with her friend Katy Keene in New York, and after she returns learns that her father is ill. Nick St. Clair appears, and Toni, Kevin, and Fangs turn the tables on him, forcing him to leave Riverdale from Cheryl. Jughead gives Bret the win in their duel, and Betty reveals that she was able to sneak a tape labeled "Donna" from Stonewall Prep. The tape shows Donna giving the same speech she gave to Betty about her affair with Mr. Chipping, only this time she is incriminating a man who does not exist, pushing Betty to investigate Donna. This episode is a crossover with Katy Keene.[78]
70	13	"Chapter Seventy: The Ides of March"	Claudia Yarmy	Chrissy Maroon & Evan Kyle	February 12, 2020	T13.21863	0.65[79]
Jughead learns that his Baxter Brothers contract is being terminated and he has been removed from the Quill & Skull Society. Archie tries to make decisions about his future, which includes almost selling Andrews Construction. Veronica struggles with Hiram's diseased state. Cheryl and Toni discover Hermosa in disguise trying to gain knowledge on Cheryl and Veronica's business. Jughead is accused of plagiarizing the story that got him into Yale. He plans to fight these accusations until Bret informs Jughead that he must accept his punishment and leave Stonewall Prep or he will release a video of him and Betty having sex. Bret still invites him and Betty into the woods for a party to celebrate the Ides of March. Betty invites Veronica and Archie so they can all spend some time together. Jughead goes to the party seeking revenge on Bret, luring him into the woods. Betty follows Donna into the woods, where Donna reveals that she met with Evelyn in prison and Evelyn revealed to Donna that there is a special word that will hypnotize Betty into hurting people she loves. Donna and Bret are then seen walking out of the woods, with Archie and Veronica stumbling upon Betty, who has bludgeoned Jughead to a death with a rock.
71	14	"Chapter Seventy-One: How to Get Away with Murder"	James DeWille	Arabella Anderson	February 26, 2020	T13.21864	0.67[80]
After Jughead’s death, Betty, Archie, and Veronica burn his beanie and their clothes in the woods. When arriving home late that night, they all provide different explanations to their parents. Meanwhile, Betty decides to plant a bug at Stonewall Prep to determine the events of the night Jughead died because she doesn't remember anything after her conversation with Donna in the woods. However, it is soon found by Bret and Donna and destroyed. Back in Riverdale, Alice and F.P. discover Jughead's cellphone is in Betty’s jacket, having been planted by Joan. While continuing the investigation, F.P. takes a bloody rock into evidence which is replaced by Charles with a decoy with fake blood. Charles helps Betty come to terms with what happened the night of the murder. She remembers that Donna blew a powder in her face called “devil’s breath”, which would've made her incapable of murdering Jughead. This means that the Stonewall kids murdered Jughead and planted the evidence on her. Jughead’s body is found when a search party goes out for him, and Betty and F.P. identify it at the morgue. After, Betty, Archie, and Veronica go back to Pop’s to discuss their next moves.
72	15	"Chapter Seventy-Two: To Die For"	Shannon Kohli	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	March 4, 2020	T13.21865	0.66[81]
Alice begins to make a documentary about Jughead’s alleged death as investigation is under way. At Stonewall Prep, F.P. is in Donna’s room looking for evidence for the case when Donna tells him that the Core Three killed Jughead. F.P. then goes to Riverdale High and arrests them but lets them go when the test results on the rock reveal that the blood was fake. Betty plans a funeral for Jughead and Donna, Bret, and Joan attend. Donna, believing that Jughead is alive, orders Bret to open the casket, which gets them kicked out. Donna, believing that they are being fooled decides to dig a little deeper into the death of Jughead. At school, Cheryl creates a locker memorial for Jughead which makes Betty emotional. She runs to the music room, followed by Archie and they kiss. Cheryl tells Veronica; who angrily confronts them in the lounge. Donna follows Betty into Dilton’s bunker that night to find her and Archie kissing. Knowing that Donna was following her, she hid a very alive Jughead under the cot as a diversion so Bret and Donna would crack under pressure. At home, Betty and Archie flirtatiously text and Hermosa finds evidence about Donna’s identity to help take-down the Stonewall kids.
73	16	"Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room"	Tessa Blake	Aaron Allen	March 11, 2020	T13.21866	0.66[82]
Jughead and Betty hold a locked room with the Stonewall kids and Mr. DuPont, explaining all. Mr. Chipping killed himself out of guilt as he orchestrated each student to commit the perfect murder. Whoever was assigned the ghostwriter job, would write their murder. Moose was supposed to be the murdered student. Betty and Jughead deduce that all four students had a hand in killing Jughead. Charles ordered the trio to burn their clothes and all evidence while he took Jughead in for injuries. Betty brings in Charles, FP, and Forsythe. Forsythe has been living in hiding, trying to prove Mr. DuPont murdered his original literary circle. Jughead was bait to lure out Forsythe so Mr. DuPont could finish the murder. DuPont kills himself to avoid jail, Joan leaves the country. Brett reveals the location of the tapes, while he faces charges. Betty blackmails Donna into disappearing, figuring out Donna's grandmother was murdered by DuPont, making her the mastermind behind everything. Betty starts to realize she might have feelings for Archie. FP and Forsythe begin talking. Veronica and Betty promise to tutor the guys so they can graduate together.
74	17	"Chapter Seventy-Four: Wicked Little Town"	Antonio Negret	Tessa Leigh Williams	April 15, 2020	T13.21867	0.54[83]
Residents of Riverdale receive more videotapes of their houses. Kevin wants to sing a song from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the school's variety show. Archie and the gang decide to sing as a band; however, Principal Honey believes the show to be too inappropriate. Hiram has been skipping his doctor appointments which leads to him collapsing. Betty tutors Jughead, who is not taking it seriously and investigating the videotapes. Cheryl and Toni devise a plan to try to get Honey to accept the show, but he denies, threatening to ban students from senior prom. After a peaceful protest, Honey cancels the variety show. Veronica and Archie fight over Hiram going to the gym, just as Betty and Jughead fight over him taking school seriously. Only Archie and Betty show up to rehearsal, and they end up kissing. Later, Veronica and Jughead apologize for their blowup, as Betty and Archie look at each other nervously from their windows. Veronica hosts the variety show at La Bonne Nuit and the Archies perform there. Watching the tapes, Jughead sees a person tied up wearing a Jughead face mask who is brutally murdered by another person in a Betty face mask.
75	18	"Chapter Seventy-Five: Lynchian"	Steven A. Adelson	Ariana Jackson & Brian E. Paterson	April 29, 2020	T13.21868	0.66[84]
Charles, investigating the videotapes, learns that a video store has a video of Clifford killing Jason. Kevin brings Toni, Fangs, and Reggie into the tickle videos to earn some cash; they decide to start their own website. Afterwards, Kevin is threatened by Terry who demands a share of his profits. Betty reminisces about her relationship with Archie as a child and their long and complicated love story. Archie is conflicted over his feelings about Betty while working on a song for her. Cheryl and Veronica's rum business is attacked by Jinx Malloy's clan, who then Hiram threatens. In return, Hunter Malloy severely beats him. Reggie and the Bulldogs threaten Terry so they can continue making videos. After Cheryl quits the business, Veronica partners with Hiram, feeling he has changed. However, Hiram murders Jinx, the head of the gang. Mr. Honey, a secret visitor to the store, finds out about the tickling website and demands that it be shut down. Archie wants to act on his feelings for Betty, but she tells him she will not hurt anyone, so they decide not to. In return, Archie plans to leave for the Naval Academy. Cheryl receives a videotape, this time with someone wearing a Clifford mask murdering someone in a Jason mask.
76	19	"Chapter Seventy-Six: Killing Mr. Honey"	Mädchen Amick	Ted Sullivan & James DeWille	May 6, 2020	T13.21869	0.65[85]
When Mr. Honey threatens to cancel prom, the gang is frustrated. Jughead must write a story for the University of Iowa, so he writes a tale about the group killing Honey for ruining their senior year. In this story, Archie, Veronica, Betty, Jughead, Reggie, and Cheryl murder Honey and later begin to give into darkness inside of them when covering up the murder. When the school receives a suspicious tape, Honey believes there is danger and cancels prom. In Jughead's story, Reggie dies in a car accident and foul play is suspected. Betty watches the full tape and catches a reflection of Honey in it. Filming the tape as an excuse to cancel prom, Charles and Betty have him fired and prom reinstated. Ms. Bell tells the gang that Honey was good for the school and gives Jughead his letter of recommendation for college. Jughead, moved, changes his story so Veronica and Archie are taking Honey to the hospital and saving his life; not wanting to become evil. Betty and Jughead are left another videotape inviting them to a cabin. They find another videotape, this time with a group of people wearing masks of the gang who stab Mr. Honey to death.

Season 5 (2021)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date [86]	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
77	1	"Chapter Seventy-Seven: Climax"	Pamela Romanowsky	Ace Hasan & Greg Murray	January 20, 2021	T13.22701	0.63[87]
Betty and Jughead call Charles in to investigate the tape and Bret leads them to secret underground red band screenings led by the Blue Velvet owner, David. Betty and Kevin deliver a homemade snuff film to gain her ticket to the screening. David spots it as a fake and Betty has to give him the snuff film of her father as a child to buy her way in. KO Kelly comes to town to go up against Archie in a boxing match for one of them to be admitted into the Naval Academy. Archie loses and Hiram recruits him to be deputy mayor of Riverdale. Toni tells Cheryl amid their prom queen campaign that her nana is not accepting of her dating a Blossom. Betty sneaks Jughead in an underground rave. They find several snuff films being shown containing the gang and Jellybean in attendance. At prom, Archie tells Veronica about his and Betty’s kiss and they breakup. During prom, a livestream of the masked gang is played killing a masked owl at the video store, later revealed to be David. Betty and Jughead then find an eerily empty store. Cheryl and Toni don’t go home together following prom. Veronica returns home and tells her parents of Archie’s unfaithfulness, and Hiram decides what he must do. Archie returns home to find a videotape that shows a recreation of his encounter with the Black Hood in Pop’s.
78	2	"Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Preppy Murders"	Gabriel Correa	Janine Salinas Schoenberg & Devon Turner	January 27, 2021	T13.22702	0.52[88]
Archie wrestles with a lot of emotions after he watches the videotape and is told by Mary that George Augustine and his son are asking Archie to write a letter to negotiate for a lesser sentence for killing Fred. Meanwhile, Jughead and Betty discover that Bret has been brutally murdered in prison. They suspect David had a hand in killing Bret, but later find that he had been hanged in the Lodge’s cabin. Cheryl devises a plan to persuade the Blossom Maple Board to construct a sanctuary for the Uktena tribe so that she can be with Toni, but they refuse. So, Penelope kills them while Cheryl and Toni are out of town. The Molloy family attacks Veronica, but Hermosa steps in to kill them. Hermosa and Veronica, along with Hermione, devise a plan to force Hiram into retirement. Hermione later decides to divorce Hiram. Betty gets a phone call from Donna, who is scared she will be murdered after Bret and Joan. Another tape arrives at Betty’s house showing the auteur making their way inside. Alice and FP decide to move the kids into the Five Seasons. Betty and Jughead conspire to figure out that Charles is behind the recent murders of Bret, Joan, and David and confront him. They suspect that he is the auteur, but, after questioning Jellybean, Betty and Jughead realize that she and her friends had been making the videotapes because she was upset that she was not getting enough time with Jughead, forcing her to make a mystery to keep him in town.
79	3	"Chapter Seventy-Nine: Graduation"	Gabriel Correa	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	February 3, 2021	T13.22703	0.54[89]
80	4	"Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio"[90]	Steven A. Adelson	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	February 10, 2021	TBA	TBD
81	5	"Chapter Eighty-One: The Homecoming"[91]	Steven A. Adelson	Michael Grassi	February 17, 2021	TBA	TBD
82	6	"Chapter Eighty-Two: Back to School"[92]	Gabriel Correa	Ariana Jackson	February 24, 2021	TBA	TBD
83	7	"Chapter Eighty-Three: Fire in the Sky"[8]	TBA	Ted Sullivan	TBA	TBA	TBD

Ratings

Season 2

Viewership and ratings per episode of List of Riverdale episodes

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Chapter Fourteen: A Kiss Before Dying"	October 11, 2017	0.8/3	2.34[22]	0.6	1.40	1.4	3.74[93]
2	"Chapter Fifteen: Nighthawks"	October 18, 2017	0.6/2	1.76[23]	0.6	1.34	1.2	3.10[94]
3	"Chapter Sixteen: The Watcher in the Woods"	October 25, 2017	0.6/2	1.62[24]	0.6	1.32	1.2	2.94[95]
4	"Chapter Seventeen: The Town That Dreaded Sundown"	November 1, 2017	0.6/2	1.51[25]	0.5	1.30	1.1	2.80[96]
5	"Chapter Eighteen: When a Stranger Calls"	November 8, 2017	0.5/2	1.47[26]	0.5	1.23	1.0	2.70[97]
6	"Chapter Nineteen: Death Proof"	November 15, 2017	0.5/2	1.43[27]	0.5	1.23	1.0	2.66[98]
7	"Chapter Twenty: Tales from the Darkside"	November 29, 2017	0.5/2	1.45[28]	0.5	1.19	1.0	2.64[99]
8	"Chapter Twenty-One: House of the Devil"	December 6, 2017	0.5/2	1.48[29]	0.6	1.20	1.1	2.68[100]
9	"Chapter Twenty-Two: Silent Night, Deadly Night"	December 13, 2017	0.5/2	1.43[30]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
10	"Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle"	January 17, 2018	0.5/2	1.44[31]	0.5	1.14	1.0	2.59[101]
11	"Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler"	January 24, 2018	0.5/2	1.39[32]	0.5	1.15	1.0	2.54[102]
12	"Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine"	January 31, 2018	0.5/2	1.34[33]	0.5	1.06	1.0	2.40[103]
13	"Chapter Twenty-Six: The Tell-Tale Heart"	February 7, 2018	0.5/2	1.28[34]	0.4	0.96	0.9	2.24[104]
14	"Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Hills Have Eyes"	March 7, 2018	0.5/2	1.26[35]	0.4	0.95	0.9	2.22[105]
15	"Chapter Twenty-Eight: There Will Be Blood"	March 14, 2018	0.4/2	1.19[36]	0.4	0.91	0.8	2.10[106]
16	"Chapter Twenty-Nine: Primary Colors"	March 21, 2018	0.4/2	1.16[37]	0.4	0.94	0.8	2.10[107]
17	"Chapter Thirty: The Noose Tightens"	March 28, 2018	0.3/1	0.96[38]	0.4	0.91	0.7	1.87[108]
18	"Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember"	April 18, 2018	0.4/2	1.10[39]	0.3	0.83	0.7	1.93[109]
19	"Chapter Thirty-Two: Prisoners"	April 25, 2018	0.4/2	1.17[40]	0.4	0.81	0.8	1.97[110]
20	"Chapter Thirty-Three: Shadow of a Doubt"	May 2, 2018	0.4/2	1.11[41]	0.4	0.93	0.8	2.04[111]
21	"Chapter Thirty-Four: Judgment Night"	May 9, 2018	0.4/2	1.00[42]	0.3	0.90	0.7	1.91[112]
22	"Chapter Thirty-Five: Brave New World"	May 16, 2018	0.4/2	1.28[43]	0.4	0.76	0.8	2.04[113]

Season 3

Viewership and ratings per episode of List of Riverdale episodes

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Chapter Thirty-Six: Labor Day"	October 10, 2018	0.5/2	1.50[44]	0.7	1.34	1.2	2.84[114]
2	"Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes"	October 17, 2018	0.4/2	1.28[45]	0.6	1.27	1.0	2.55[115]
3	"Chapter Thirty-Eight: As Above, So Below"	October 24, 2018	0.5/2	1.40[46]	0.4	1.03	0.9	2.43[116]
4	"Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club"	November 7, 2018	0.4/2	1.37[47]	0.5	1.15	0.9	2.52[117]
5	"Chapter Forty: The Great Escape"	November 14, 2018	0.4/2	1.25[48]	0.5	1.01	0.9	2.26[118]
6	"Chapter Forty-One: Manhunter"	November 28, 2018	0.4/2	1.27[49]	0.5	1.01	0.9	2.28[119]
7	"Chapter Forty-Two: The Man in Black"	December 5, 2018	0.4/2	1.09[50]	0.5	1.05	0.9	2.14[120]
8	"Chapter Forty-Three: Outbreak"	December 12, 2018	0.4/2	1.20[51]	0.5	1.08	0.9	2.28[121]
9	"Chapter Forty-Four: No Exit"	January 16, 2019	0.5/2	1.32[52]	0.4	1.00	0.9	2.32[122]
10	"Chapter Forty-Five: The Stranger"	January 23, 2019	0.4/2	1.12[53]	0.4	0.95	0.8	2.07[123]
11	"Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia"	January 30, 2019	0.4/2	1.26[54]	0.4	0.91	0.8	2.18[124]
12	"Chapter Forty-Seven: Bizarrodale"	February 6, 2019	0.3/2	0.96[55]	0.4	0.93	0.7	1.89[125]
13	"Chapter Forty-Eight: Requiem for a Welterweight"	February 27, 2019	0.3/2	0.86[56]	0.4	0.87	0.7	1.73[126]
14	"Chapter Forty-Nine: Fire Walk with Me"	March 6, 2019	0.3/2	0.92[57]	0.3	0.80	0.6	1.72[127]
15	"Chapter Fifty: American Dreams"	March 13, 2019	0.3/2	0.95[58]	0.3	0.78	0.6	1.73[128]
16	"Chapter Fifty-One: Big Fun"	March 20, 2019	0.3/2	0.81[59]	0.3	0.66	0.6	1.47[129]
17	"Chapter Fifty-Two: The Raid"	March 27, 2019	0.3/2	0.81[60]	0.3	0.76	0.6	1.57[130]
18	"Chapter Fifty-Three: Jawbreaker"	April 17, 2019	0.2/2	0.80[61]	0.3	0.64	0.5	1.44[131]
19	"Chapter Fifty-Four: Fear the Reaper"	April 24, 2019	0.2/1	0.71[62]	0.3	0.70	0.5	1.41[132]
20	"Chapter Fifty-Five: Prom Night"	May 1, 2019	0.2/1	0.70[63]	0.3	0.66	0.5	1.36[133]
21	"Chapter Fifty-Six: The Dark Secret of Harvest House"	May 8, 2019	0.3/1	0.74[64]	0.2	0.70	0.5	1.44[134]
22	"Chapter Fifty-Seven: Survive the Night"	May 15, 2019	0.3/2	0.86[65]	0.2	0.61	0.5	1.47[135]

Season 4

Viewership and ratings per episode of List of Riverdale episodes

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Chapter Fifty-Eight: In Memoriam"	October 9, 2019	0.4/2	1.14[66]	0.4	0.85	0.8	1.99[136]
2	"Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fast Times at Riverdale High"	October 16, 2019	0.2/2	0.80[67]	0.4	0.73	0.6	1.53[137]
3	"Chapter Sixty: Dog Day Afternoon"	October 23, 2019	0.3/2	0.87[68]	0.3	0.66	0.6	1.53[138]
4	"Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween"	October 30, 2019	0.2/1	0.74[69]	0.4	0.75	0.6	1.49[139]
5	"Chapter Sixty-Two: Witness for the Prosecution"	November 6, 2019	0.2/1	0.76[70]	0.4	0.73	0.6	1.48[140]
6	"Chapter Sixty-Three: Hereditary"	November 13, 2019	0.3/1	0.82[71]	0.3	0.68	0.6	1.50[141]
7	"Chapter Sixty-Four: The Ice Storm"	November 20, 2019	0.2/1	0.74[72]	0.3	0.63	0.5	1.37[142]
8	"Chapter Sixty-Five: In Treatment"	December 4, 2019	0.2/1	0.69[73]	0.3	0.65	0.5	1.34[143]
9	"Chapter Sixty-Six: Tangerine"	December 11, 2019	0.2/1	0.73[74]	0.3	0.59	0.5	1.32[144]
10	"Chapter Sixty-Seven: Varsity Blues"	January 22, 2020	0.2/1	0.79[75]	0.3	0.60	0.5	1.39[145]
11	"Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show"	January 29, 2020	0.2/1	0.73[76]	0.3	0.59	0.5	1.32[146]
12	"Chapter Sixty-Nine: Men of Honor"	February 5, 2020	0.2	0.65[77]	0.3	0.64	0.5	1.29[147]
13	"Chapter Seventy: The Ides of March"	February 12, 2020	0.2	0.65[79]	0.2	0.55	0.4	1.20[148]
14	"Chapter Seventy-One: How to Get Away with Murder"	February 26, 2020	0.2	0.67[80]	0.2	0.51	0.4	1.18[149]
15	"Chapter Seventy-Two: To Die For"	March 4, 2020	0.2	0.66[81]	0.2	0.51	0.4	1.17[150]
16	"Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room"	March 11, 2020	0.2	0.66[82]	0.2	0.55	0.4	1.21[151]
17	"Chapter Seventy-Four: Wicked Little Town"	April 15, 2020	0.2	0.54[83]	0.2	0.51	0.4	1.05[152]
18	"Chapter Seventy-Five: Lynchian"	April 29, 2020	0.2	0.66[84]	0.2	0.49	0.4	1.15[153]
19	"Chapter Seventy-Six: Killing Mr. Honey"	May 6, 2020	0.2	0.65[85]	0.2	0.47	0.4	1.12[154]

Season 5

Viewership and ratings per episode of List of Riverdale episodes

No.	Title	Air date	Rating (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Chapter Seventy-Seven: Climax"	January 20, 2021	0.1	0.63[87]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	"Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Preppy Murders"	January 27, 2021	0.1	0.52[88]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
3	"Chapter Seventy-Nine: Graduation"	February 3, 2021	0.1	0.54[89]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Summary

Riverdale : U.S. viewers per episode (millions)

Audience measurement performed by Nielsen Media Research.[155]

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     • For the third season, see "Riverdale: Season Three Ratings". TV Series Finale. May 16, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
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External links

• Riverdale – list of episodes at IMDb