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She cant tell Archie whats happened between them, she explains it would hurt him.

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Archie is horrified to hear from his friends that the SATs are this Saturday.

And there are multiple SAT test dates throughout the academic year!

Theres no reason Archie needs to take this particular SAT!

Speaking of: Principal Weatherbee advises Archie to repeat his junior year, given how much school he missed.

But its no use: Tortured with dark visions of Hiram, Archie storms out mid-song.

You know its over, right?

Ruh-roh: Archie was talking about SATs.

Ha(nniba)l is standing up in his glass-fronted cell waiting for Betty when she stops by.

Hell trade her a signed affidavit for a copy of the G & G manual, quid pro quo.

Im sorry, what?

Her aunt indeed admits to enjoying conjugal visits with Hal and to telling him about Ascension Night.

On a tip from Fangs, F.P.

and Jughead ambush their undercover allys Gargoyle inner-circle branding ceremony (very NXIVM of them).

Kind of anticlimactic, but whatever.

The Serpents take their prisoner to the bunker.

Jughead demands Tallboy arrange a meeting with Hiram to hand over Archie, who agrees to serve as bait.

FP, hiding under the Gargoyle King get-up, makes a citizens arrest.

Making citizens arrests seems like a hobby I should get into.

Archie finds Veronica crying in his bedroom; she knows he knows.

This, plus packing emergency granola bars, was my exact standardized-testtaking strategy in high school.

Over at the Pembroke, an unseen shooter nails Hiram in the chest.

At the hospital, Veronica is not unsuspicious of Archie, to his great offense.

Its over, isnt it?

Hiram is stable, but still very much out of commission.

I think its time, she says.

Reggie, clutching flowers and an adorably idiotic baby-blue Its a Boy!

balloon, shows up at Hirams hotel room and wraps Veronica up in a big hug.

(Justice for Choni, yall.)

Theres a new sheriff in town, literally.