She transforms into La Llorona and steps into Sweetwater River to take her place in its depths. Toni asks Betty to take care of Baby Anthony and then lets the spirit past through her. In exchange for leaving her baby alone, she tells the ghost that she’ll take her place and adopt the role of La Lllorona. She called La Llorona so that Toni could feel the pain that she does.Īs there is no way to call the ghost off once she’s been summoned, Toni decides to protect her son by giving up her life. She also reveals that she was summoned by Darla.ĭaniel was Darla’s last son. Toni, Cheryl, Betty, and Nana Rose summon La Llorona’s spirit who explains through Nana that she was a nurse in Rivervale who was drowned along with her children when the town’s hospital was unable to save kids that had fallen fatally ill. In fact, they’ve only seemed to have gotten worse, but I digress. Interestingly, with exception to Baby Anthony’s colic, none of the problems she promised to fix were resolved. Before the incident, she and Nana Rose had been toasting to Archie’s sacrifice which brought the sap back to their maple trees. The budding witch had her own run in with the ghost when it attempted to drown her niece, Juniper, in the bathtub.
It’s not until the Victorian age specter visits Betty and lays a hand on her non-existent baby bump that Betty comes to that belief as well especially because now she’s mysteriously not pregnant. The two decide to work together to get to the bottom of what happened though Betty’s skeptical about Lucinda’s story that La Llorona did it.īetty’s line of questioning with Lucinda ends up going nowhere while Toni’s dive into the mythology surrounding La Llorona leads her to believe the ghost is real. It’s shocking news to Toni who knows Lucinda personally. When Betty comes to see Toni, she informs her that Sandra’s mother drowned her. It’s a very puzzling situation, but one this episode basically requires you to suspend disbelief for so that’s what we did.
Now Toni’s in therapy and somehow not brought up on charges or being questioned by the local authorities or the FBI since she killed a minor. The knife lodged in his heart and killed him. She’d been aiming to disarm the woman not kill her, but Daniel threw himself in front of his mother to protect her. Things go fatally sideways when Toni throws a knife at Darla Dickerson ( yes, that Darla). The reveal of their romance triggered an all out brawl between the two factions West Side Story style but without any dance routines this time. Sandra, a Serpent princess we’ve never heard of, had been in a relationship with Daniel, a Ghoulie prince. The rival gangs have clashed for decades but at the heart of this fight are two teens in love. He leads us to a chaotic tussle between the South Side Serpents and the Ghoulies. The episode opens with Jughead adopting his 60 Minutes persona as he did in “Welcome to Rivervale” though he’s in his waiter’s uniform not a suit. What happened to Toni in Riverdale season 6, episode 2?
No, the episode focuses primarily on Toni’s fight against La Llorona, Veggie’s deteriorating relationship, and Jabitha’s haunted apartment. It’s as if she’s unaware that he’s “missing.” Talk about weirdness!īut “Ghost Stories” isn’t about Archie or his absence though it’s certainly felt. Betty tells Kevin that she plans on naming her baby after Archie or her sister, Polly. Our sole glimpse of Archie comes in the form of a missing notice found on the side of a milk carton in Jabitha’s apartment. In fact, he’s not even there spiritually as an apparition or a disembodied voice haunting Betty Cooper.
It’s a rather curious plot element that’s made even more curious by the lone appearance of our redheaded jack-of-all trades.Īrchie’s not in the episode physically. It seems there will be no grieving period as the people of Rivervale move on as if he didn’t die at all. Given last episode’s shocking death, you’d think that the show would drop viewers into the immediate aftermath of Archie’s ritual sacrifice but nope.