People are dropping like flies in Rivervale.
The second installment ofRiverdale’s five-episode event is all about ghost stories.
So, to quote our creepily cheerful narrator, Jughead, “Gather round kiddies!”
Vanessa Morgan, Barbara Wallace, Madelaine Petsch and Lili Reinhart on ‘Riverdale’.Shane Harvey/The CW
hidden in the visor.
Soprano, the school’s former driver’s ed teacher.
It seems she was fired following allegations of inappropriate relations with students.
Her first name was Isabella.
Only, Veronica was wrong about pretty much everything.
Reggie tells her that Ms.
Soprano was just a confidant for him, the only adult he told about his troubled home life.
Speaking of that troubled home life?
Reggie’s father just died.
Way to go, Veronica.)
Sam and Diane
Yes, you read that right.
More specifically, Diane killed Sam with a hammer and then hanged herself.
Almost immediately, Tabitha starts to grow sick of Jughead’s excuses (and probably his robe).
Every day that she goes to work, he claims that he’s going to start writing.
And every day, she comes home and he’s still in that stupid robe, having done nothing.
Then, one night, Tabitha has a dream about taking a hammer to Jug’s head.
But when Tabitha finds out that Jughead used to let Betty read his vomit drafts, she loses it.
She heads home, breaks into his desk, and reads his book.
With a kiss, they get rid of the ghost.
(Ghosts hate PDA.)
Then, in a truly weird moment, they finally say, “I love you.”
Because nothing brings a couple together like an almost murder.
THAT is what haunts you, Toni?!
Only, this ghost is wearing a black lace veil over her face.
The ghost’s first stop?
Thornhill, where she nearly drowns Juniper in the bathtub.
Betty then asks Toni for her help with a case.
It seems a Serpent named Lucinda is being accused of drowning her own daughter.
But Lucinda informs Toni that La Llorona, a vengeful spirit that drowns children, killed her child.
Then, someone files a complaint with child services about Toni.
(Can ghosts use phones?!)
And when social services show up at the apartment, La Llorona attacks baby Anthony.
My favorite part of this episode?
Or, you know, the fact that the spirit literally just tried to kill Anthony?!
So, they drowned her and her children in Sweetwater River.
As for who summoned her now, well, that’s Darla Dickinson.
With three episodes left, there’s no telling who else we might lose.
