Is Jughead Going to Die in "Riverdale" Season 4?
Warning: Riverdale season 3 finale spoilers ahead.
The Riverdale season three finale was WILD. It sent our four favorite high schoolers on a wild goose chase around the forest, drinking poison, fighting large hairy men, and shooting bad guys. In the end, though, we got a lot of closure, like the death of the Black Hood (finally!), the arrest of Chic AKA the Gargoyle King (double finally!), and the rekindling of Varchie.
Still, though, the finale left us with a ton of questions, but none are more pressing than one: Is Jughead going to die in season 4??
It sure seems like it. At the end of the episode, we see a flash forward to the gang on spring break senior year. Betty, Archie, and Veronica are standing around a fire, basically naked and covered in blood.
"We have to burn all of our clothes, including Jughead's beanie," Betty tells the other two. "We'll wash off the blood in the swimming hole. After tonight, we never speak of this ever. Not to each other. Not to our parents. No one. We finish our senior year, we graduate, and we go our separate ways. That is the only way that we don't get caught."
Ummmmmm WHAT?! What's going on? Why are they covered in blood and burning their clothes and, most importantly, where is Jughead? Obviously, after seeing this scene, many fans jumped to the conclusion that the beanie-wearing teen dies in season four, possibly even getting killed by his friends.
The good news? That's probably not the case. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the show's creator, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa hinted at the fact that the season 4 scene we saw is taken straight from horror classics like the iconic I Know What You Did Last Summer, which tells the story of four friends who must deal with a crime they committed a year before when it comes back to haunt them.
"So we thought, 'Oh, what if what binds our group together isn't just the camaraderie of senior year but a crime that has them at the absolute center of it?'" said Roberto. "That’s kind of where we started with that idea."
Still though, is the crime that binds them together the murder of their best friend? Roberto didn't fully answer this question, but he did hint that Jug could be in danger next season. "We felt like one of the things that had never happened on the show was that something extremely terrible hadn't happened to one of our core four," he explained. "It was always peripheral characters. It’s true that Archie has been beaten every episode this season, [Laughs] but in terms of something that would really strike at the heart of the core four, it felt like one of them had to be at the bleeding heart of this crime."
In another interview, when asked if fans should be worried about Jughead, Roberto responded saying, "You know, I would be. I think of all the murders and stuff that’s happened in our town, blessedly our core four have been spared the worst of it. It also felt like in this last go-around, again we would put them at the very center of the mystery."
OK, so that's not saying he's dead, but it's not saying he's not dead. Still, I'm going to assume that Riverdale isn't going to kill off one of their major characters. Instead, the four teens probably did something very bad, and they had to get rid of the evidence, but Jughead was just off dealing with something else during that scene, right? Right?!
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