'Riverdale' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Who Is the Sugar Man?

She starts with talking to Cheryl, whose father was Riverdale's biggest drug smuggler. Maybe he knows the head of the operation? But Cheryl says the Sugar Man was just an elaborate character her mother came up with to scare her and Jason into being good. What? (Cheryl looks bomb in this scene, BTW.) Cheryl then confronts her mother about the Sugar Man, but, surprise, she just denies the whole thing. Penelope's terrifying.

In a plot point I don't care about, Jughead meets with the head of the Ghoulies and the Serpents; they tell Jughead they're joining forces, and he has to endorse their treaty, which he's pissed about because the Ghoulies are why the mayor raided South Side High in the first place. (They deal Jingle Jangle.)

Jughead visits F.P. in jail, and he says the Serpents should challenge the Ghoulies to a street race (???) in order to get them to back off. If the Serpents win, they control the South Side and get rid of Jingle Jangle. If they lose, the Ghoulies can keep dealing Jingle Jangle and also get control of the White Worm and F.P.'s trailer park. It's honestly shocking how much this painfully bro-y nonsense bores me.

Thank God: Betty finally tells Veronica everything—that the Black Hood is calling her, which is why she said those awful things to her in the last episode. Veronica agrees to help Betty track down the Sugar Man, and just like that B and V are back. The only couple that matters on this whole damn show.

The crew has to do community service for getting busted at the Jingle Jangle hotel party, and their outfits remind me of the time Rory Gilmore picked up trash by the highway. (Remember that glorious plot point on Gilmore Girls?)

After their manual labor, Betty and Veronica go on a South Side mission to catch the Sugar Man. But they're caught and taken to the head of the Ghoulies, Malakai, who was just setting terms with Jughead and Archie about that street race. Yes, Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica are all randomly at this South Side hot bed, and they're shook.

Also shook is Cheryl, who runs into Nick St. Clair at Pop's. He disgustingly claims she "wanted" to sleep with him that night. And that's what it takes for Cheryl to threaten charges against Nick. He sneers at this, though, and says his parents made a "hush money" deal with Penelope to keep quiet about what happened that night. My heart's honestly breaking for Cheryl, and I want the Black Hood to wipe Riverdale clean of Nick. A literal monster.

Cheryl steals her mother's check from the St. Clairs and tearfully tells her she won't give it back until she learns the truth about the Sugar Man. She demands Penelope care about her more for once in her life, which is honestly just devastating. Cheryl deserves better. Always.

This is also when Veronica learns her parents are still accepting money from the St. Clairs, too. So she tells them about Nick assaulting her, and Hiram starts seeing red. It's then implied Hiram orders a goon to run the St. Clairs off the road, leaving Nick injured for weeks. Bless up.