Are we returning to ships of the past, or was that Veronica-Archie kiss truly platonic?
But okay fine, we can get into a few more details.
So, to solve that problem, Betty suggest she kiss Archie, who’s invulnerable.

Camila Mendes on ‘Riverdale’.Jack Rowand/The CW
Let’s jump to Archie, who spends the entire episode obsessed with palladium.
Percival now has a ring made out of the stuff, and Archie hates a weakness!
So, he decides to expose himself to palladium until it no longer affects him.
(No, the superpowers haven’t made him any smarter.)
But even that doesn’t work: Archie hits 135 lbs.
and starts to lose his hair.
(Not the hair!)
“Forge me now,” is a sentence Archie Andrews actually says.
So yeah, Archie is “forged” in a cave and now palladium no longer affects him.
But when he dives into her brain, all he does is remember every time they kissed?
Had he forgotten about those?
Either way, again, I’m not into this but I’ll stop saying that now.
She once helped Hal hide the body of a dead deputy under the floor boards of their dining room.
These people really are crazy.
Betty confronts her mom and Alice swears that her plan was to counteract whatever Hal did to her.
First she emails her, then she calls her and hangs up.
(Turns out Heather is a librarian in Greendale now.)
And that’s it.
That’s the episode.