

Not only was Grundy engaging in a relationship with an underage student, her name isn't even Ms. The beans are spilled after Archie Andrews, ever the conscientious type, tells the sheriff about the gunshot they both heard on the morning of July 4 - the morning of Jason Blossom's suspected murder - after spending the night together.


Riverdale Grundy is very different: a slim, mid-30s blonde who has developed a relationship with the underage Archie that the two of them initially try to keep hidden over the course of the Jason Blossom investigation. Grundy is a gray-haired matron of a schoolteacher, but Riverdale remixes her a little bit - well, a lot. Grundy's underage relationship with Archie Once Jason told his father he wanted no part in the real family business, Clifford Blossom did what he had to do. The show cycles through every possible suspect and reason for the murder before dropping the bomb: The Blossom patriarch, Clifford, killed his own son to keep him from revealing that the Blossom family’s maple syrup empire was in fact a sticky cover-up for Cliff’s real business: dealing drugs with the help of the Southside Serpents. Jughead Jones' father, FP, at first attempts to take the fall for Jason's murder, but our heroes soon learn that FP is being blackmailed. Cheryl reveals that Jason had been making plans to run away with his flame, Betty Cooper's sister, Polly, and that the story about him drowning in the river was a lie. Originally believed to have drowned, Jason is discovered days later washed up onshore with a gunshot wound to his head. The show kicks off with the murder of a key character, Cheryl Blossom's twin brother, Jason, who is lost in the Sweetwater River on July 4.
