Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
Seven years after graduation, the gang reunites with different lives and in a different Riverdale.
Tropes
- Bait-and-Switch: It appears Pops has died, but he retired.
- Big Bad: Hiram, again. Even more so than Season 2, as he’s managed to destroy almost all of Riverdale.
- Character Development: Archie’s time in the Army has made him more levelheaded and emotionally mature than he was in the past season.
- Face–Heel Turn: Reggie now serves under Hiram as right-hand man.
- Ghost Town: With everyone who could have stopped Hiram from leaving town, Hiram’s power goes unchecked, and he goes ahead with his plans. By the time Archie returns, the town is a borderline ghost town and ruined.
- Noodle Incident:
- During her time at the FBI, Betty encountered a serial killer known as the Trashbag killer.
- Chad mentions he and Veronica were in a near-fatal helicopter accident.
- Put on a Bus: The time skip is the excuse for several characters such as F.P. and Penelope to have all left town.
- Hermione has a brief cameo in New York, now a reality TV star.
- Shout-Out: Betty's opening training in the woods at the FBI Academy is like the beginning of The Silence of the Lambs.
- Soiled City on a Hill: What Riverdale has become. The place is so crime-filled that buses don't stop there, and it's called "The Lonely Highway." There is no fire department as Hiram is building a highway to his pricey SoDale suburb division. The Ghoulies have taken over Archie's home, and he openly calls it a "Hellscape", as Hiram's ultimate goal is to kill the town off to build his fortune.
- Time Skip: Moves the series into the future seven years.
- Wham Episode: Archie returns from his time in the army to find Riverdale in ruins.
- Wham Line: Veronica introduces Chad as "her husband."
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Post-timeskip Veronica states the current year to be 2021, which creates several problems.
- In season one, FP's mug shot revealed his birthday to be January 20, 1970 (which is also that of his actor, Skeet Ulrich), then in season three (aired in 2019), he announced he was celebrating his fiftieth birthday. This would either retcon the previous seasons as having taken place earlier than they did, or imply FP's mug shot was counterfeit.
- Early in season one, an episode features a cameo by Mike Posner's song "I Took a Pill in Ibiza." Assuming the episode took place in the present day when it aired in 2017, this would've been fine...but the song was released in 2015, which does not equal seven years when subtracted from 2021.
- Jughead was also stated to be born in 2001. He would be twenty years old in 2021, but he’s closer to 23-24 here.
- In Season 3’s Musical Episode, they did Heathers: The Musical. The musical first debuted in LA in 2014 (which would be the year their senior year would be taking place according to the skip, but they did it during their junior year), but the high school version the show uses was not created and approved until 2018.
- Hal was killed in 2019, which would be during the time skip instead of a significant plot point. Made worse by the fact that his tombstone seen in the fourth season premiere explicitly stated him to have died in 2019 and his birthdate to have been February 12, 1970 note .
- Perhaps most egregiously, Fred Andrews' tombstone also lists his year of death as 2019 and is shown in detail just a few episodes before the time skip.
- So, really, by all means, this episode should take place in 2026 to fit within the timeline.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: The way Betty usually behaves when it comes to dealing with serial killers gets her into trouble here with the FBI; not only does she end up in danger, but she is also benched and is stuck doing cold cases as punishment.
