"Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia" is a noir-inspired turning point for , peeling back the layers of a town built on secrets and "Fizzle Rocks". The Investigation: Who Shot Hiram Lodge?
: Betty connects the deaths of Claudius and Clifford Blossom, along with others like the Sisters of Quiet Mercy. [S3E2] Chapter Forty-Six
The episode concludes with Veronica and Reggie burning Hiram’s drug operation to the ground, though they remain unaware of the financial and legal fallout that will soon follow. Riverdale – Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia "Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia" is a noir-inspired
While Jughead hunts a shooter, Betty investigates a string of "suicides" that she correctly identifies as murders by poison. The episode concludes with Veronica and Reggie burning
: Jughead tracks down Mrs. Mulwray (played by Kelly Ripa), Hiram's alleged mistress, who was helping him falsify water safety reports to cover up drug runoff in the Sweetwater River.
: Jughead discovers that Mayor Hermione Lodge has been having an affair with the supposedly dead Sheriff Minetta. The two were plotting to finish Hiram off and frame FP Jones for the crime.