Riverie's Archie makes a big decision: what's next?

Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) is officially on the run.

Of course, he was exonerated and no longer on the run, but he is still leaving the city, fearing Hiram (Mark Consuelos) and his various projects to bring down this poor redhead teenager. With Jughead (Cole Sprouse) at his side, he called and broke with Veronica (Camila Mendes) and then went down the railway. Do you remember when these kids were at school trying to choose between music and football? These were the days!

Of course, Archie's decision to leave is for the safety of all the others, because that is how Archie makes his decisions. So, it's not like he and Veronica were really finished. KJ Apa said so much when E! News visited the Vancouver Plateau.

"I think Archie being in Riverdale puts [Veronica] in danger because of all kind of, with Hiram and things like that. I think Archie in Riverdale endangers a lot of people; but above all, puts Veronica in danger, "he said. But that's the reason they have to separate means that there is still something in this place. You know what I mean? They did not separate because someone was doing something. "

Part of this danger could be very justified because Consuelos says that he really liked Archie where he was, and that this new development is not good.

"I think he does not like the fact that Archie is on the run and does not know exactly where he is. It's something he needs to get himself back on track."

Archie and Jughead, friends forever

For Archie and Jugead, it's kind of a return to a friendship that has not been so important for a long time (for a lot of reasons), and Sprouse says it leads to a "very entertaining episode" reminiscent of the three part episode of season two, "Tales from the Darkside."

"It's the same kind of heading for this one," Sprouse says. "It's really an Archie-Jughead story, which is pretty rare, so you get it for a lot of the episodes, it's really just a little Archie and Jughead and it's a lot of fun and they're on the lam and they run away, kind of Support me. It's really fun. "

"Eventually, they end up finding themselves a little bit, as at a crossroads, they have to separate at some point," said Apa. Sprouse could not explain what separated them, but it looks like it has something to do with Jughead's father.

"There is a definitive reaction and it provokes a meeting," Skeet Ulrich says of FP's reaction to the flight of Jughead and Archie.

Archie In Trouble

With this in mind, Apa says that he also spent a lot of scenes alone, on the road, snaking and "somehow chilling" while being angry at the world for putting himself in this situation.

"A lot of his solo, which was great, that was really cool," he says. "It was fun, it's really fun because when you're alone, you get a lot of strange things because you do not have anyone to talk to, it's fun but at the same time I miss scenes with guys and stuff, but you know, it does not last, it can not be isolated forever, but it makes me happy. "

When he comes back, Apa says that Archie will have the impression that the school is a bit "ridiculous" compared to what he's just been living, and "we see him turning to other options, which are not good ".

This creates a "huge gap" within the group, where Archie "is sinking into a dark place, but is saved by a person and by music".

Betty locked up

Meanwhile, Betty (Lili Reinhart) spent the entire episode seriously investigating what was happening in that city and discovering things like the fact that Dilton's father had had an affair with Penelope and ended up being murdered, but that the Gargoyle King was shown at his home. It was a great tribute to Yell With Jiffypop warming up on the stove and Skeet Ulrich coming in through the window, it scared Alice so much that she and Polly went to the Farm to stay.

She knew Betty would not join them. She has therefore engaged with the Sisters of Quiet Mercy to make her "safe". Unfortunately, "safe" is not exactly a word we would use regularly for this place, and especially not when the entire class of art paints images of Gargoyle King.

When Jughead left on the road with Archie, it does not seem like he's playing an important role in getting Betty out of the convent.

"We talk about it a bit, but a little later in the season," said Sprouse. "It's pretty bad."

Gryphons & Gargoyles & Seizures

It was just the last episode where Jughead could barely function normally because he was so engrossed in Gryphons and Gargoyles, but it seems that thanks to the fact that his father chained him to the fridge , the spell could have been broken.

"I think FP has chained him in the fridge," he said. "I think he's breaking it a bit … By the time he goes with Archie, [the obsession] is about gone. "

Gryphons and Gargoyles and the Gargoyle King and possibly related seizures have been ubiquitous tonight. Joaquin (Rob Raco) was found dead with the symbol of "sacrifice" (the same on Archie) engraved on his forehead. Josie (Ashleigh Murray) had a crisis while the sheriff threatened his class to give up the place where Archie is, and of course, there is Betty stuck in a convent filled with players.

Ashleigh Murray says that crises remain a mystery to her. This means that we will have to wait a long time before this part of the G & G website is explained.

"I still do not really understand how crises happen or why," Murray said. "I do not know if the seriousness of her crisis could have disturbed her in her memory, I have no idea, but the scary thing that I still do not understand, and I do not really know if that's the case. is something that she is going to solve. "It's not something we've talked about yet, so I do not know."

So this is what we know: Archie and Jughead are going to have fun before Archie's departure, Archie and Veronica still have a chance, Betty's difficult situation remains a mystery that will never be addressed the show understands what's going on passes with the seizures. And that covers just the 40,000 events of the episode tonight! Is someone else very tired?

Riverdale Wednesdays at 8 pm on the CW.