The "Riverdale" and "Katy Keene" Crossover Finally Happened

This week on Riverdale, there are fights galore, lots of snooping, and even some important concessions. Let's cover the main plots of the evening:

Welcome to Riverdale, Katy Keene

It’s a very special crossover episode this week, as Veronica heads to New York for her interview with Barnard. She gets to town early to do some shopping at Lacy’s with her friend Katy Keene, and after a too-short shopping montage, the girls catch up at a suspiciously empty bar. Katy reveals that her mom is really sick, and while it’s a touching moment between the two (no sign of Lucy Hale’s epic cry face, though), it mostly serves to tee up Veronica’s reconciliation with her parents. After Hermione reveals that Hiram has a neuromuscular disorder, Veronica tells her parents that she will be attending Barnard and wants them there when she moves in during August — oh, and she’s changing her name back to Lodge, in what seems to be an olive branch to her father. Does this mean the rum wars are over? Let’s hope so.

The Duel Is On

At least Mr. DuPont admits that this tradition is arcane, but he proceeds: it’ll be fencing, a fistfight, and a chess match in case of a tie. Brett chooses Jonathan as his second, Jug chooses Donna. Brett wins the fencing match; Jughead wins the fistfight (HOW IS THIS HAPPENING ON SCHOOL GROUNDS). Before the tie-breaker chess match, Jughead’s classmates all (except Donna) align with Brett, resulting in a dead snake nailed on Jug’s wall, and Brett attempts to raise the stakes and wants Jug to walk away from the Baxter Bros. contract if he loses, and turn it over to Brett. Jug is like, lol no, plus you’re a terrible writer. The chess match is interrupted (see below), and when they resume, Jughead throws the match. He says he’s done playing this game, and that he doesn’t want to be a “Stonewall man” like Brett is. He leaves with Betty and Alice. How many more months until graduation?

My Latest Murder Board

Since Betty and Alice are both suspended (and Betty can’t run the Blue & Gold anymore or go to senior prom), they decide to tackle Betty’s investigation of Mr. Chipping’s apparent suicide anew. Since we’re doing crossovers now, when will the Nancy Drew crossover happen, hmm? They talk to Mrs. Chipping, who says she doesn’t believe her husband was having an affair with Donna, and describes his odd behavior before he died. She turns over a box of his belongings to the Cooper women, and the discovery of some Army pamphlets inside lead the duo to Moose. Moose reveals the Mr. Chipping had recruited him to Stonewall for football, then aggressively pushed him toward the Army, oh and Brett was also blackmailing Moose with a tape he’d secretly recorded of Moose and another student having sex in their dorm room.

Aghast, Betty and Alice snoop around Brett’s room, roll their eyes through his denials when he catches them, and then break into the Quill & Skull basement during the duel chess match. Betty finds a bunch of tapes and goes about removing the evidence from the scene, which does not seem like the correct move, but it doesn’t matter because Brett’s silent alarm gets them caught. Brett claims those tapes are just the recordings of the Quill & Skull initiation confessions, and all seems settled…until Betty and Jughead watch Donna’s tape and discover that her confession is about an affair with a different teacher, one who doesn’t appear to exist, and it’s word-for-word the same as what she told Betty about Mr. Chipping. This leads Betty to posit that they should be more worried about Donna than Brett.

The Return of Nick St. Clair

Remember that guy? Well, he’s back, and he wants to throw a “we all got into Harvard” party at The Maple Club for him and his friends. Ugh. He slimes all over Toni, and when Cheryl sees him in the establishment, she runs away, upset. Later that night, she tells Toni about the night Nick drugged and attempted to assault her, and Toni reveals that something similar happened to her before she moved to Riverdale. The couple sweetly comforts each other, and the next night, Toni invites Nick into a private room at the club. The morning after, Nick wakes up to a rumpled bed and Kevin, Fangs, and Toni show him the tickle video they made with him last night. He’s outraged, and Toni shuts him down: he better behave himself from now on, and also never come back to Riverdale, otherwise she releases the video. Toni is tough as nails, and so I believe her when she says she’ll ruin Nick, though the logistics of how she’ll make sure he behaves are a bit unclear. But no matter, later that night Kevin, Fangs, Cheryl, and Toni all watch the tickle video and toast to Toni and her revenge plot.

Rumordale dot com:

• In a plot that seems designed to get Uncle Frank out of town, Ted, a former vet friend of Frank’s, visits and tries to kill him (and later Archie). It’s all connected to a gig the men did as mercenaries, and it results in Ted getting picked up by the Feds, Archie seemingly convincing Frank to turn himself in too, and Frank leaving town without saying goodbye. Archie later admits to F.P. that he isn’t all that surprised Frank split, and affirms that he wants to be a simple man of honor, like his father was. Aside from the sweet way it ends, the highlight of this plotline is Kevin walking in on Archie and Ted—a grown, adult man—brutally fighting in the RHS bathroom and saying, “this school is crazy.” Tell me about it, Kev.

• “Breaking and entering; is this normal for you, Elizabeth?” Alice, come on. Deep down, you know the answer is a big, fat yes.

• No flash-forward this week, as we creep closer and closer to the perilous spring break.

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Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue