She has to stop indulging in her delusions that her father is still alive. He claims he was there for it even though he wasn’t a member of the Midnight Club. And he enlists in Betty’s help.At the Jones house, formerly known as the Cooper house, Jughead shares with Betty that he had a dream of him searching for a needle in a haystack. Jughead gets a call from the admissions coordinator at the University of Iowa, which has one of the best writing programs in the country. Betty just barely makes it to her car and pulls off. Hal explains to Betty that he didn’t kill Chic because he recognized a kinship in him and spared him. Betty and Jughead arrive at the Lodge cabin, which is or at least was clearly being used as refuge as food containers are littered all along the floor. Which brings them to a couple months ago when Jughead was awarded the contract. Betty takes an uneasy Jughead’s hand. One thing seen in a lot of serial killers are instances of animal cruelty in their youth. It wouldn't make any sense to him at the time, but everything around them was imploding, so she broke up with him to protect him. Alice counters that now she’s a reporter thanks to the Farm. Betty claims that she just feels a lot better about things.With moving boxes in hand, Betty exits the house with her mother to find Jughead just outside, along with FP, Gladys, and Betty and Jughead discuss his family moving into her family's houseBetty and Jughead take a seat on the front steps, where they further discuss their current dilemma. He shares the good news with Betty, Archie, Veronica, Cheryl, Kevin, and Reggie. Betty calls him back, reminding Archie that they have to act like everything is normal.
Betty tells Charles to tell the mercenaries to stand down as there’s a bus load of civilians headed their way. Jughead tells Betty his theory that his grandfather wrote the first Baxter Brothers novelJughead believes there’s a real life mystery hidden within the Baxter Brothers books. Jughead returns home and informs Betty and his dad how he’s being framed and that DuPont wants him expelled. Betty asks where his grandfather went to school after Stonewall Prep.
Hal explains that he and Penelope are products of their environment. When he started cutting people’s fingers off, Alice admitted it was her.
After getting off the phone with the Black Hood, Betty and Jughead informing Archie and Veronica of FP's releaseThe following day, Betty, Jughead, and her mother greeted FP as he exited the prison. Betty is hoping that Evelyn’s dad could help, which Evelyn is thrilled to hear. He suspects that it may be because she’s already Betty. Her mother told her that people go missing everyday and that he didn't strike her as being a family man.
They have gotten away with it and are free to go back to talking about prom. Josie hasn't told her mother or Kevin's father, but she admits that over the last week, she had heard Kevin sneaking out at night. She wasn't sure if he was going to call again. Her younger self emerges from the house and asks if Betty is there to kill her as she killed her cat, Caramel. Betty stated that the article was the best thing that Jughead had ever written and that they needed Later that day, Betty confronted Chic with the DNA test results from the Blossoms' lab. Kevin claims that they’re gone, along with everyone else from the Farm, and they’ll never be seen again.
Betty starts to sing "Seventeen", suggesting that they just be normal, like seeing bad movies, sneaking beers, and watching TV. They sing and lock eyes before sharing a kiss.