DILTON
...Cheryl? Are you okay?
Numb, in shock, she turns to him. Her face is streaked with tears.
CHERYL
...Ja...Jason...
Then, one of the SCOUTS, pointing out at the river, yells --
BOY SCOUT
-- look! Out on the water!
The ROWBOAT’s upside-down, banging lazily against those rocks, in
the middle of the river...
EXT. SWEETWATER RIVER - DAY (LATER)
A POLICE BOAT anchored by the rocks. DETECTIVE SAM HILL, drinking
from a mug, is in charge. SCUBA DIVERS jump into the water.
UNSEEN MALE (V.O.)
Riverdale Police, led by Detective Sam
Hill, dragged the river for Jason’s body,
but hours later, still nothing...
The ENTIRE TOWN is watching from the riverbank. Parents holding
their kids. Blonde ALICE COOPER stands with her husband HAL and
their daughter POLLY (18), pretty but tweaked-out and damaged.
HAL
(staring out)
They’ll never find him. Not with that
undercurrent.
ALICE
Awful to say, but I hope he suffered. In
those last moments.
POLLY
(simmering rage)
Jason Blossom burns in hell.
UNSEEN MALE TEEN Needless to say, there were no
fireworks in Riverdale that night...
EXT. RIVERDALE’S CEMETERY - DAY
The BLOSSOM FAMILY -- dad CLIFFORD, mom PENELOPE, and CHERYL (all
with red-hair, all in black) -- standing at a freshly dug grave,
as a MINISTER says a few words (we don’t hear)...