The Riverdale Musical Episode Just Left a Major Character for Dead

She's been through so much already!

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After a short hiatus, Riverdale is back with its long-awaited musical episode, and it doesn't disappoint. While the kitschy music and '70s outfits won't be to everyone's tastes, the plot of Carrie is the perfect backdrop for Archie and his friends.

Plus, with Chic mysteriously returning to town, a reunion between Alice and Hal, and that harrowing final scene, there's a lot of unexpected drama in this week's episode. Here's everything that happened in "A Night to Remember."

1) Riverdale High is putting on Carrie: The Musical.

Almost the entire Riverdale cast is taking part in the school musical, which Kevin is directing. The singing starts right at the beginning of the episode, as Betty, Veronica, and Archie all sing about their daily lives while getting ready for school. It's scary just how closely their world mirrors that of Carrie's.

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2) Jughead is documenting the making of the musical.

Maybe Cole Sprouse doesn't sing? Jughead is on hand with a vintage camcorder to shoot a "making of" documentary, which means he sees (or spies on) everything happening backstage.

3) Betty's mom is playing Carrie's mom.

Kevin thinks there's nothing worse than age-inappropriate casting. Cue Alice Cooper, whom Kevin cast to play Carrie's mom. As one of the biggest divas in Riverdale, Alice is more than ready for this role.

4) Cheryl takes on her haters and almost gets killed.

Before production gets underway, Cheryl says she knows not everyone approves of her taking the lead role, and performs one of Carrie's musical numbers to prove them wrong. But following rapturous applause, a sandbag falls from the ceiling onto the stage, narrowly missing Cheryl. Someone is still out to harm Riverdale students, and maybe even kill them. Is the Black Hood back?

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5) Kevin starts getting letters from the Black Hood.

After Cheryl's near-death experience, Kevin finds a letter in his locker which claims to be from the Black Hood. The letter demands Kevin recast the role of Carrie, ominously stating, "Next time the sandbag won't miss." Made from cut-up magazines, the letters don't match the ones the Black Hood sent during his previous spell of terror, but it's clear Riverdale isn't as safe as everyone hoped.

6) Betty and Veronica play rivals in the musical.

Betty is playing Sue, a good girl character who tries to help Carrie White, while Veronica plays Carrie's arch nemesis. The tensions between Betty and Veronica are only magnified onstage—it's clear their friendship is in serious trouble. But later on, Archie convinces Betty to forgive Veronica and give their friendship another chance. They seem to make up, but is their friendship really repaired so easily?

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7) Archie asks if Veronica will help hide the car her dad gave him.

He doesn't want his Fred to find out about the Firebird, so Veronica agrees to hide the car at her place.

8) Ethel thinks she was born to play Carrie.

Betty suspects Ethel sent the Black Hood letters because she's jealous Cheryl got the lead role. Ethel admits she wanted to audition for the part. Jughead secretly films Betty and Ethel's conversation, but Ethel realizes he's filming and gets defensive, claiming she'd never threaten anyone. Still, she's clearly upset she wasn't given a chance to try out as Carrie.

9) Alice flirts with FP while he's working, and he's not having it.

Alice turns up at Pop's and tries to flirt with FP, but he ignores her, claiming he's working. Alice is offended by his reticence and tells him, "I was afraid our kids would make the same mistakes we did. Turns out, we're the ones making them all over again."

10) Betty and Archie perform a love ballad.

Betty and Archie play love interests in the musical, reminding everyone, once again, that they recently kissed. Jughead is obviously pretty jealous of their chemistry as Sue and Tommy.

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11) Hiram tells Fred he bought Archie a car.

Fred is upset Archie didn't tell him about the expensive gif and calls Archie spoiled. He also reveals that he wanted to help Archie renovate his first car, and they could go to the scrap yard and pick out a classic together. Hiram is trying to drive a wedge between Archie and Fred, and it appears to be working.

12) Alice reaches out to Chic.

Alice is feeling lonely, especially since FP ignored her latest advances. She calls Chic to make amends, but he won't return her phone calls. She's devastated.

13) Cheryl loses the lead role.

After the threatening letters and lack of support from her mom, who doesn't want her partaking in a "matricidal fantasy," Cheryl loses the lead role in the musical. Ethel seems happy when the news is announced—until Kevin reveals Cheryl's secret understudy, Midge, is taking over.

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14) During rehearsal, Alice starts singing to Betty before breaking down onstage.

After her performance, Alice sobs, "Don't leave me, Betty. Don't leave me like all the others." Backstage, she tells her daughter she's driven everyone away. Playing the role of Carrie's mother has sent her over the edge.

15) Archie gives Hiram his car back.

Fred continues to build the sets for the musical despite his disagreement with his son. Archie realizes how fiercely loyal his father is, and visits Hiram to give the car back. He tells Veronica's dad to stop trying to come between him and his father, because he'll never succeed in driving them apart.

Later, Archie buys a wreck from the junkyard, and tells his dad they will work on it together.

16) Hal asks if he can move back home.

He brings Betty and Alice bouquets and begs to move home. Alice tells him, "If we do this, Hal, there can't be anymore secrets between us." He agrees.

17) Alice tells Hal Chic isn't his son.

Starting their "no secrets" rule immediately, Alice reveals to Hal that Chic isn't his son. Hal replies, "To be honest, I always suspected that Chic wasn't mine." It looks like Alice and Hal are giving their marriage another chance, despite her connection with FP.

18) Cheryl covers herself in blood, so she looks just like Carrie on prom night.

To terrify her mother, Cheryl covers herself in blood and tells Penelope that it's Jason's and her father's. Cheryl tells Penelope, "You shipped me off to a ghoulish nunnery... I want to be emancipated." Cheryl is finally breaking away from her mother, and she also kicks her strange uncle, who happens to be her dad's long lost twin, out of the house in order to protect Nana Blossom.

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19) FP sees Alice with Hal at opening night.

He leaves the show before it starts. I'm not crying, you're crying.

20) Jughead finds magazines in Ethel's room that link her to the Black Hood letters.

In Ether's dressing room, there are cut-up magazines in her trash. She appears to have cut out letters to make the Black Hood's message. Was it Ethel who threatened Cheryl's role in the musical?

21) Chic comes to watch.

He shows up backstage to tell Betty, "Break a leg, sis," in a pretty menacing way. Why has he decided to come back to town at this exact moment?

22) Midge appears to have been murdered onstage.

Following Alice's opening number, the curtain pulls back to reveal Midge. Her body has been stabbed with scissors and there messages written on the wall in blood. It looks as though Midge is dead. (The poor girl already survived a Black Hood attack in Episode 2, but those wounds sure look fatal.)

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The audience starts screaming for help, and the episode ends with Jughead's shaky camera footage of the auditorium, filled with shouts and running feet. Surely he'll have captured some clues during his filming?

It's worth noting that two of the original Black Hood suspects, Chic and Sheriff Keller, were both spotted backstage right before the show. Plus, Hal Cooper has wormed his way back into everyone's lives. But the real question is, is Midge really dead?!

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