Tom Keller/Season 2

Investigating Fred Andrews' Shooting
Sheriff Keller arrived at Riverdale General Hospital to question Archie about his father's shooting at Pop's by a black hooded assailant. Jughead joined them in another section of the hospital as Archie recounted the moments leading up to his father being shot. According to Archie, the shooter was close to 5'10, around 160 lbs and had green eyes. Archie described him as wearing dark pants with a dark jacket. Anything on that jacket, possibly a serpent symbol, Sheriff wondered. But it was just a normal jacket by Archie's account. The Sheriff then learned of the homemade black hood that the shooting wore to conceal his identity. Pop Tate had a fairly clear memory of the incident up until the point where Mr. Andrews was shot. So, Sheriff Keller was hoping that Archie could fill in the holes. What did he do after shooting Mr. Andrews, Sheriff Keller asked. Archie claimed he ran out of the diner. While it was too early to speculate, Sheriff Keller suspected the shooter of being a Southside low life that was high off drugs and was looking to make off with some quick cash. They were still waiting to hear back from Pop Tate on just how much the shooter took. With Riverdale being a town with a dark and violent past, there was a possibility that robbery wasn't the motive, and that someone held a grudge against Fred, meaning the robbery would've merely been a staged event to throw the investigation off track.

Sheriff Keller later called Archie down for a line up at the Sheriff Station, hoping he could identify the perpetrator. They picked up several individuals from around town, each with a history of armed robbery or other violent crimes. He checked to make sure that Archie was up to the task before instructing the men in the line up to put on similar black hoods to the shooter. One by one, he instructed each suspect to step forward. Unfortunately, Archie is convinced that none of the suspects in the line up shot his father.

Sheriff Keller appeared in one of Mr. Andrews' dreams alongside Kevin. The two of them sat happily in the crowd of Archie and Veronica's Scottish themed wedding.

Sheriff Keller is approached by Archie at the station, where he informed Archie that they were doing everything in their power to catch the shooter, as was Archie, who had been talking to neighbors and handing out flyers with a detailed depiction of the shooter in a black hood. However, despite their best efforts, Archie was still concerned with the well-being of his father, as well as himself considering that they were living witnesses to the shooting. With the shooter presumably in possession of Fred's missing wallet, he had all pf their personal information, including their address. Archie wished to join Sheriff Keller's deputies as they patrolled the streets of Riverdale, but the Sheriff declined his request. He then received a report of a "53 in Greendale". Before heading off, he instructed Archie to stay out the way while they did their job.

The following day, Sheriff Keller received another surprise visit from Archie at the station, who this time came with information in relation to the on-going case. Archie believed that the man who shot his father is also responsible for killing Geraldine Grundy. He claimed that the killer was Ms. Grundy's abusive ex-husband. He learned from Archie that Ms. Grundy moved to Riverdale in order to get away from him, and that she kept a gun in her car in case he ever came back fro her. How do you know all this, Sheriff Keller asked. Archie explained that he and Ms. Grundy were close. Archie's thought the motive behind Ms. Grundy's death was jealously on the part of her ex-husband. He must've found out about Archie and Ms. Grundy, so he killed her in retaliation. Further proof of Archie's claim is provided when he noted that she was killed by a Cello bow, mostly likely the same bow he gave her before she left town. Unfortunately, Archie's theory was incorrect. Sheriff Keller's Greendale counter-parts already brought in her ex-husband. He had an air tight alibi.

To Catch a Killer
The next day, back at the mayor's office, Alice and Hal Cooper give Sheriff Keller the letter that they received earlier that morning by the the Black Hood. Sheriff Keller reads the letter and within, the Black Hood admits that he's the one who shot the "adulterer", Fred Andrews, at Pop's, killed the "child predator", Geraldine Grundy, in Greendale as well as shooting the "drug and sex-addicted" teenagers, Moose Mason and Midge Klump, retrospectively, at Lovers Lane. The letter also states that he won't and cannot be stopped. Mayor McCoy asks for his opinion about its authenticity, to which he confirms that it's real. Mayor McCoy wishes to keep peace and the Sheriff agrees, not wanting to cause panic among the masses in Riverdale. Hal and Alice immediately disagrees, as they feel that it's their responsibility to inform the public. The Mayor demands a media blackout and Sheriff Keller takes the letter, telling Alice that she can have a copy because he'll be taking the letter as evidence. She dismisses him, revealing that she already has her own copy sent to the printer for the next day's front page.

Meanwhile, back at Riverdale High School, Archie is approached by Sheriff Keller looking at Archie seriously upon his discovery of him forming a militia. He confronts Archie, telling him if he thought he was going to allow that to happen with a group of teenagers, holding the flier up to the lockers for Archie to see. Archie later informs the Sheriff that they're only trying to help. Telling him that people are scared. As Sheriff Keller tells Archie that a lynch mob won't help with the situation. They're later approached by Mr. Weatherbee, as he greets the Sheriff. He notifies Mr. Weatherbee that they have a big problem, pointing out that one of his students, Archie, had formed a private army of his own. Mr. Weatherbee then informs Sheriff Keller that The Red Circle was a school social club. As the Sheriff later questioned Mr. Weatherbee as to him endorsing Archie's club. Mr. Weatherbee later tells Sheriff Keller that Archie has shown tremendous initiative, stating to him that he can't fault students for wanting to protect each other. Sheriff Keller later smiles at Mr. Weatherbee's response to him, as he looks towards him, giving him a warning.

Sometime later that night, Tom learns from Betty about his son's dangerous actions, jogging though Fox Forest in the guise to meet other boys. Upon his son's arrival home, Tom confronts Kevin, asking him where he's been though he's only given more lies. He reveals that Betty has told him everything and, given recent events from the Black Hood, Tom is extremely worried about his son's safety. Tom approaches his son and expresses to him that he needs to know he's safe, making it completely clear in the process. Looking his son in the eyes, expressing guilt, he explains that there are things that as a father and son, they don't talk about, implying Kevin's sexuality. He tells Kevin, that now, maybe it's time that they start trying. Kevin, silently taking in his father's words, simply nods yes and smiles. Tom embraces his son in a tight, heartfelt hug as Kevin's emotions gets the better of him. Tom tells him it's okay as Kevin cries into his shoulder.

Sheriff Keller received a coded cipher from Alice, by the Black Hood, who initially addressed the code to Betty. Sheriff Keller wondered why the killer gave them a code rather than a note. He also questioned why the Black Hood sent the envelope to Betty instead of Alice, as he did before. Alice concluded that while the Black Hood needed a platform to grandstand on, he was terrified of her, so he contacted Betty. There was a cryptologist over in Centerville, Sheriff Keller planned to send the code to him in hope that he could decode the cipher. In the meantime, he presumably needed Alice to keep the code a secret. However, as she explained, it had already been published. She believed that having the entire town trying to crack the code could increase their success rate.

A couple days had past when Sheriff Keller and Mr. Weatherbee interrupted Dr. Phylum's class to pull Archie out in the hallway after receiving a tip from a bodega owner on the south side that a Riverdale High School student with red hair was waving a gun around in front of his shop. Archie claimed that he was writing songs in his garage. Nevertheless, the Sheriff believed that a look in Archie's locker for any weapons or contraband was warranted, given his behavior over the last several days. Don't you need a warrant for that, Archie asked. Sheriff Keller replied that a warrant was not required for a locker search and that Archie's father had already been informed. Inside the locker, the Sheriff found a black hood, similar to the one Archie previously described.

That night, Sheriff Keller attended the Town Hall meeting, where he explained to the concerned residents that their current budget was low, forcing them to put together a helpline that can be called in order to report any suspicious activity. Alice interjected to say that his helpline sounded more like the Red Circle's hotline. Along with the helpline, Sheriff Keller was instating a town-wide curfew, though Alice questioned this call, believing that it was the coward's way. As a show of force, she suggested that they close down Southside High, and use the money to hire more deputies, who could then protect their children. This led to a huge debate between her and Fred, who didn't believe that the south side was the issue, and accused Alice of dividing the town. The discourse only came to an end after Betty and Jughead interrupted the meeting to announce the supposed arrival of the Black Hood.

With the Town Hall meeting forced into an abrupt end after Betty pulled the fire alarm, Sheriff Keller, and Mayor McCoy reconvened at the Cooper's house with Alice, Hal Betty, and Jughead, where they were hoping to gain a better understand of how Betty and Jughead knew where the Black Hood would strike next. Betty handed them a letter, which was sent to her by the Black Hood, along with the code that she had earlier turned over to Alice, revealing that she had withheld evidence from them in an attempt to solve the cipher herself.

Sheriff Keller stopped by the Cooper house to inform Alice and Betty that after sending Betty's letter that was supposedly from the Black Hood, to two different specialists, they discovered that the hand writing wasn't a match, meaning, whoever wrote Betty the letter, was either a copy cat or an anonymous prankster. However, Alice suggested a much more banal third option; that Betty wrote the letter in an attempt to gain attention. With the cipher being cribbed from a Nancy Drew book, Alice had her suspicions, though she had yet to uncover a motive, as Betty pointed out. Alice wondered if maybe Betty and Jughead came up with the idea out of boredom. On that note, Sheriff Keller decided it was time to intervene by telling Alice and Betty that nothing was being ruled out, at least not until they knew what they were dealing with.

Finding the Sugarman
Sheriff Keller headed down to the Five Seasons hotel to bring out of town teen, Nick St. Clair into custody after Cheryl Blossom made a complaint against him, in which she accused him of roofieing her and subsequently trying to rape her at the Lodge's SoDale Gala Opening. After instructing Nick to get dressed, the Sheriff looked over to Betty, wondering what she was doing at the hotel. Betty explained that she was there to ensure that Nick got what was coming to him.

Afterward, Sheriff Keller stopped by the Cooper house after Alice called over him, Mayor McCoy, Fred Andrews, the Lodges, and Melinda Mantle, as well as all of their children, after learning that they all attended a party at the Five Seasons, where Jingle Jangle was in use. After Reggie Mantle admitted to bringing the Jingle Jangle to the party, he revealed that he acquired it from a Southside teen, who he suspected of being a Serpent, as well as a student at Southside High. While they admittedly shouldn't have taken the Jingle Jangle, Veronica pointed out that Nick asked Reggie to bring it, and later pressured everyone to partake in the night's drug-fueled festivities. Furthermore, he roofied Cheryl, and tried to assault her. Given all that had occurred, if anyone should be under interrogation, they believed it to be Nick. However, as Sheriff Keller explained, prosecuting him would prove difficult considering that Jingle Jangle remained in the users' system for up to three days, meaning they were all high, making them unreliable witnesses. After Mayor McCoy learned that Josie experimented with the drugs as well, she declared that her number one priority as Mayor was to take over the Southside, even if it meant arresting every Serpent in sight.

Following through on her promise to retake the Southside, Mayor McCoy and Sheriff Keller raided Southside High, kicking in its doors, searching and seizing students, and taking Southside Serpents into custody, including Toni Topaz and Sweet Pea.

Later that night, Sheriff Keller was joined by Betty at the bar of Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe. While he was off the clock, she was hoping to ask him a few questions for a Blue and Gold story on Jingle Jangle. Betty asked him if he had ever heard of a dealer known as "The Sugarman". Not only had the Sheriff heard of him, he knew him, as did Betty. The Sugarman went by many names, the Maple Man, and the Delivery Man, to name a couple, but at the end of the day, it was all just one man; Clifford Blossom. However, he was dead, which left Betty questioning how Jingle Jangle was still being supplied. Sheriff Keller informed her that Jingle Jangle didn't his the streets until after Clifford died. The truth is that anyone could be the current supplier.

The next day, Sheriff Keller was tipped off by Archie of an upcoming street race that was taking place between Herk Harvey bridge and Dead Man's curve. He and his men waited on the opposite side of the bridge as the race commenced. As planned, they intercepted the drivers, during which time they arrested two members of the Southside street gang, the Ghoulies.

The following day, Betty notified the Sheriff's office of the identity of the Sugarman. From her, they learned that the supplier was Robert Phillips, a teacher a Southside High, as well as the adviser of the school's newspaper, the Red and Black. Sheriff Keller placed the suspect in handcuffs and escorted him out of the school.

Sheriff Keller stood beside Pop Tate and Mayor McCoy at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe as he read aloud the contents of the Black Hood's letter that he'd placed at the diner's door. Black Hood warned the people of Riverdale to consider the next 48 hours a test; If they were to sin, he’d kill again.

At Pop's, Sheriff Keller and Sierra stormed into the diner as Sierra reprimanded her daughter, Josie for not returning her calls, leaving her worried as Josie was busy dancing with Chuck Clayton. After demanding that Chuck never see her daughter again, she dragged Josie out of the diner with Sheriff Keller following close behind. At the Five Seasons hotel, Sierra revealed that although she's been getting hate letters through her post, it has steadily increased to a point where she was now getting death threats. Not only that, but in the most recent letter she received, Josie was mentioned. Understanding the danger that Black Hood had enhanced in Riverdale, Josie's demeanor changed. When Sheriff Keller asked Josie if she'd received any letters or packages that posed a threat, Josie replied that she hadn't.

Per Kevin, Sheriff Keller had been affected by the Black Hood case; he wouldn't eat or sleep. He would also leave the house late at night, only to return at dawn. His late night rendezvous raised an alarm for Betty and Veronica; whilst Betty suspected him of being the Black Hood, Veronica's instincts told her he was having an affair. As they had conflicting theories about Sheriff Keller, they decided to investigate further to prove which of the theories were correct.

Underway with her investigation, Betty met the Sheriff at his office down at the station to interview him for an article she was writing at the Blue and Gold pertaining his whereabouts surrounding Mr. Phillips' death. Happy to oblige, the Sheriff answered Betty's questions. The Black Hood got inside the station by forced entry, the Sheriff revealed. He was out on patrol, leaving the overnight deputy to guard the station. Unfortunately, he fell asleep, allowing the Black Hood to easily slip past him and into Mr. Phillip's cell. Betty was skeptical that the police station's security was vulnerable enough to let a serial killer slip in and out of the station undetected. Keller then brought forward pictures of the door that the Black Hood pried open from the outside and then led her down to the holding cells, where Mr. Phillips was shot. They had managed to accumulate the Black Hood's shoeprints and video surveillance so that it'd increase their chances of finding him, but what enraged the Sheriff the most was that all of this happened in his department, under his watch.

Meanwhile, Veronica devised a plan to invite herself over to the Keller house for an information-hunting sleepover with Kevin to pry information about Sheriff Keller. When she received a call from Betty, she excused herself from a game they were playing to snoop around the house. Finding the basement door unlocked, Veronica descended the stairs, as she heard man grunts coming from the bottom of the stairs. To her surprise, she only caught Keller in the middle of his work out session. Keller was also shocked by her appearance. Intrigued by Keller's physique, Veronica teased that Archie better watch out, but Keller claimed that he only worked out for discipline and to exert his limits but not for vanity. However, Veronica's plan came to action as she tried to gain information by appealing to his emotions, showing empathy towards how he must be coping with the mystery of the Black Hood consuming his thoughts and also with his wife's absence. The Sheriff revealed that his wife was stationed at a naval base in Bahrain. Unfortunately, before he could confide in Veronica, Kevin descended the stairs and was aghast to find Veronica in the basement with Tom. Later in the night, Keller left the house and came back at 4 am, Veronica observed.

At Pop's, Veronica and Betty sat as Veronica filled Betty in on what she'd found out. Betty found evidence to support her suspicion that Sheriff is, in fact, Riverdale's serial killer. A drug addict from the Southside was found dead on the railroad tracks, which Betty assumed was the Sheriff's doing, as he did leave the house the prior night. Veronica dismissed this as a weak evidence because it was stated that the Jingle Jangle addict was hit and killed by the train, but Betty insisted that the Sheriff could have pushed him in front of the tracks. Unconvinced by Betty's conspiracy theories, she told Betty that they shouldn't confuse wanting a solution to this mystery to actually having one.After Sheriff Keller left his home that morning, Betty entered the house with a key hidden under a potted plant. She used her bobby-pin to get inside the Sheriff's locked home office, where she found a big murder board regarding Black Hood's case. Snooping around the drawers, she then found a black hood, giving her further confirmation that Sheriff was the Black Hood. Unfortunately, the Sheriff walked through the front door to catch Betty in his office. At the station, Betty and Hal Cooper sat opposite the Sheriff as he explained Betty's situation. With an overactive imagination, he could understand how it could look a certain way. He then gave them his log book to flip through as Sheriff Keller listed the official police business alibis explaining his whereabouts during all the murder attempts thus far and also explained that the hood he retained was the same one he recovered from Archie's locker. He then assured Betty that seeing that she has been a really good friend to his son, Kevin, he wasn't going to tell him about this.

Betty still wasn't convinced though. She and Veronica tailed him on one of his late-night mystery drives to a local motel called Shady Palm Motel. As he walked toward the motel with a black duffel bag in hand, that they assumed was his "kill kit", Betty got out of the car in fear that what if his next victim was in the motel? Veronica trailed behind her. Keller knocked on the motel door to be greeted by Mayor McCoy and made out passionately. Upon their discovery, Veronica and Betty decided it best to keep this a secret from Kevin.

Sheriff Keller stopped by the Pembrooke after learning that the Lodges supposedly received a threatening letter from the Black Hood.

The next day, Sheriff Keller was approached at the Sheriff Station by Archie and Veronica, who wanted to talk to him about a cold case from 40 years ago that involved the massacre of a family of four in their home just off Fox Forest. His receptionist told Archie and Veronica that the files were missing, leading the teens to conclude that they were stolen as part of a cover up. However, as the Sheriff explained, it wasn't out of the ordinary for the leading officer to some times takes evidence from cold cases home with them to further investigate. As for the lead officer in this particular case, that would've been Sheriff Howard. Unfortunately, he died two years prior. Though, his daughter, Margaret, still lived in town, and Sheriff Keller had her contact information if they wished to speak with her.

Killing the Black Hood
After receiving a call from Archie and Betty, who informed him of Joseph Svenson's kidnapping and his pre-death burial at Pickens Park, Sheriff Keller rushed over to save him. Upon his arrival, he shot the Black Hood as he attempted to jump over the edge of the bridge to escape from Archie, who had the killer's own gun pointed at him. After killing the Black Hood with a single shot, Sheriff Keller slowly approached the suspect and removed his hood. Much to his surprise, the man under the hood was Joseph Svenson. He then took the killer's gun away from Archie as back up arrived.

Afterward, he took Archie and Betty to Pop's, where he discussed the incident with their parents.

During a meeting at the Andrews house, Sheriff Keller, Mayor McCoy, Fred Andrews and the Lodges discussed the Southside students who had transferred to Riverdale High School and how their parents were in the Mayor's office everyday to demand that she reopen Southside High. Fortunately, Fred, Hiram and Hermione had discussed how their new neighborhood could use something positive to focus on. With Mayor McCoy's blessing, they wanted to make Pickens Day a celebratory event. Sponsored by Lodge Industries with Andrews Construction co-sponsoring. Mayor McCoy surmised that they wanted to make Pickens Day a commercial event, similar to their open house, though Veronica disagreed. The open house, by her account was for investors while Pickens Day would be for North and Southsiders alike. Two halves of a whole coming together. Mayor McCoy worried that trying to distract people with a party would backfire, resulting in violence. Furthermore, the Southside Serpents were reason for concern given that they were wild cards. Having prepared for just that scenario, Fred, Hiram and Hermione had offered to hire the Serpents as security for the event since FP had told Fred that the Serpents were looking for work. The party was an opportunity to let the Southside know that they hadn't been abandoned. The meeting was then brought to an abrupt end as Archie returned home.

A couple days later, alongside Hiram, Tom stood in on Kevin's first day of tryouts for the wrestling team. He watched proudly as Kevin bested Archie twice in an exercise of "ups and downs".

On Pickens Day, Tom and Kevin attended the celebratory event in Pickens Park. They joined Archie and Fred in the crowd as Veronica and the Pussycats performed on stage. However, their performance was interrupted by the Serpents, who covered their mouths with duct-tape and held signs that read 'honor this land' and 'sacred land'. Toni, who seemingly lead the charge, stood in front of the stage with Sweet Pea and Fogarty to announce that they represented the dead and the silenced. Pickens Day was a lie. General Pickens slaughtered the Uktena tribe, Toni's grandfather's family. And the land in which they were standing on, would soon give way to a new Southside, which was stolen from them. While the Serpents couldn't bring them back, they could at the very least honor them. Hoping to prevent any further conflict, Hiram got on stage to applaud the Serpents for standing up for justice, as well as the honor and legacy of the Uktena, who contribute to the rich tapestry that is Riverdale, that is the Southside and that will be SoDale.

First thing the next morning, Sheriff Keller gathered Mayor McCoy and the Lodges to alert them of the desecration of the General Pickens' statue. Its head had been removed and red paint covered the statue to simulate blood. Hiram and Hermione demanded that the investigation of the missing head be handled swiftly and with extreme prejudice given that the Serpents were the most likely suspects.

Sheriff Keller entered the Jones' trailer at Sunnyside Trailer Park to question them on the whereabouts of General Pickens' head. Jughead and FP told him that they didn't have General Pickens' head nor did they know who stole it, which is the same thing they told him the last four times he came by to ask them and their neighbors. With the visits from the Sheriff increasing at an alarming rate, Jughead noted that there were starting to feel a lot like harassment since there wasn't an ounce of evidence to indicate that the Southside Serpents had any involvement in the desecration of General Pickens' statue. Though the Sheriff recalled Jughead's rather scathing article about the General's legacy, which promoted the Serpents to stop by Pickens Day with an ax to grind. Countering his argument, Jughead told the Sheriff how he was writing a new article about how he seemed to cared more about catching a vandal than he did the Black Hood.

That night, Sheriff Keller stopped by the trailer park once more to hand out eviction notices to the residents of Sunnyside. Since FP was working a shift at Pop's, the Sheriff told Jughead that they all had to clear out. Jughead suspected that the evictions were a result of General Pickens' statue being decapitated. Just as before, he assured the Sheriff that they had no hand in the matter. Furthermore, he couldn't used that as a trumped-up excuse to evict them. Sheriff Keller explained that he was merely the messenger as the order came down from the Mayor's office. Apparently, there was a lot of back rent owed at the trailer park. They had all of fourteen days to vacate. While they were packing, Sheriff Keller suspected that they might come across General Pickens' head in the process to calm the waters.

As Tom and Sierra supposedly discussed installing a security system at the law firm, Josie returned home, to the

Five Seasons.Later that day, Sheriff Keller was confronted by Kevin while working at the Sheriff Station. Kevin had learned of the affair between him and Sierra from Josie. So he demanded to know if it was true. When Tom revealed that it was, Kevin expressed his disappointment and anger before leaving the station.

Later that night, Tom and Sierra were called down to Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe by Kevin and Josie. They were assured that it wasn't a trap, but when Kevin and Josie were talking after the movie at the Bijou, they realized that the conversation was bigger than all of them and that it was probably going to be a long one. So they believed it was best if they started talking about it.

Sheriff Keller headed down to Southside High as crowd control in response to Jughead Jones' protest of the demolition of Southside High which was garnering attention. Unfortunately, their peaceful protest was interrupted by the wrestling team, who led by Archie, came to end the protest with bolt cutters. Although the Serpents had no intentions of fighting, all around them were residents of Riverdale with their phones out, recording the display. While it may have taken a couple days, people now knew what Hiram Lodge was doing. So no matter what happened, the Serpents would continue to fight. With that being said, Archie and the wrestling team cut their chains off of them one-by-one, and escorted them of the premises.

Sheriff Keller entered Pop's after discovering a car that had been submerged in the nearby swamp though he did not notice Jughead, Betty, FP and Alice sitting in a nearby booth.

Sheriff Keller makes a couple minor appearances. He first appears backstage, entering the dressing room as Jughead record Archie, Betty, Veronica, Kevin, Midge, Moose, Alice, Chuck, Toni and Ethel singing "A Night We'll Never Forget". He appears again as Kevin begins looking for Fangs Fogarty.

The town gathers for Midge's funeral to pay respect. Cheryl sings a song in Midge's honor. She and the rest of the River Vixens are dressed in all-black cheerleader uniform. Midge's death has seemingly taken a great toll on Riverdale, Mrs. Klump and Moose especially. Sheriff Keller stands alongside Kevin as the service commences. After the service, when Sheriff Keller approaches to offer his condolences, Mrs. Klump slaps him as he was supposed to be protecting them all from danger. Before walking off, Cheryl tells the Sheriff that his days of failing the town are numbered. Kevin runs then over to check on his father.

Afterwards, Sheriff Keller begins his investigation into Midge's murder, starting with interrogating everyone involved in the play. He questions Jughead first about the behind the scenes documentary that he was shooting. Though, Jughead has already given the Sheriff all his footage so he has no more to offer. He tells the Sheriff that everything was completely fine until Kevin got those threatening letters that were supposedly written by the Black Hood to recast the role of Carrie White. After learning more about the letter from Jughead, the Sheriff turns his attentions towards Ethel, who cries during interrogation. She admits that she was jealous as Cheryl often gets her way, but she never hurt anyone. Sheriff Keller then asks Moose if he remembers the last thing he said to Midge, but Moose claims to have no recollection, stating that his last words to her were probably something casual or stupid. Now onto Archie, who has a question of his own to ask the Sheriff. Archie asks if the Sheriff ever found any evidence that linked Joseph Svenson to any of the Black Hood attacks because he suspects that they got it wrong. He has ever since that night on the bridge. But the Sheriff recalls Svenson nearly burying Archie alive while wearing a black hood. Whoever the killer is, the Sheriff guarantees Archie that they will catch him and that Svenson was the Black Hood.

Sheriff Keller arrives at the Cooper house to question Chic as he has been talking to everyone who was at Riverdale High School the night of the musical. A couple people claim they saw Chic backstage just before the show. Hal tells the Sheriff that Chic no longer lives with them, but that they can bring him down to the station tomorrow. Sheriff agrees and then leaves. Once he is gone, Alice wonders why Hal threw Chic under the bus. Hal questions what Alice is worried that Chic will say. Remembering that Hal has no idea about the murder that took place within the house, Betty interjects that Alice is just overprotective of Chic.

Later that week, Tom reads an article from Hermione Lodge and Cheryl Blossom, calling for his resignation. Kevin returns home to tell him that he can't take Cheryl's article attacking him to heart. As the Sheriff, Tom begs to differ. He shot Svenson on the bridge. He wanted them done with the Black Hood as much as anyone. So maybe he cut a few corners. Maybe he didn't have enough evidence to close the case. Just outside the house, a loud crash can be heard. When Kevin and Tom go out to investigate, they see that the front window of the Sheriff's vehicle has been smashed and that "Sheriff Killer" has been spray-painted onto the car.

Tom is now in jeopardy of losing his job. The deputy mayor asked that he step down as Sheriff and turn in his badge. And if Fred Andrews gets elected mayor, he lives to fight another day. But if Hermione Lodge is elected then he's out of a job. Kevin plans to campaign for Fred Andrews. But in the mean time, Tom can't desert his post in the middle of a crisis. Tom explains that if he resigns, they'll likely bring in somebody from outside, somebody who can hopefully catch the Black Hood.

Tom, Fred, and FP arrive with a shotgun at Pop's to fend off Malachai and the Ghoulies after learning they were attacking the diner. Afterward, the entire diner applauds Tom, Fred, and FP for their heroic actions in sending the Ghoulies running. Reggie thought that Tom had resigned, which he did, but he didn't turn in the cruiser yet. Regarding how they knew the Ghoulies were attacking the shoppe, Jughead called FP, who then called Fred. Kevin pulls out his phone and says "hot Riverdale dads to the recuse" as he takes a photo.

Later that night, Tom arrives at the Cooper house after learning from Betty and Alice that Hal Cooper is the Black Hood. He puts Hal in handcuffs and places him in the squad car.