Hey, all you loyal "Riverdale" fans! Still hanging in there? While we have to wait just a little bit longer – one more day – for the show to come back with the second half of the fourth season, let me share some things that you should to keep in mind once Season 4B premieres, all of which are boiled down simply to the statement I made in this article's headline…

It may basically be a stretched-out, rehashed version of the listicle I did on the subject late last year (see link below), but with enough time and gathered info from another somewhat related source that had dealt with similar things, I knew I just needed to voice out exactly what I think would be the fate of Jughead by the end of this season before this half of the season finally starts.

See Also: 4 Reasons Why Jughead Will NOT Die In 'Riverdale'

So just to recap my main points in my listicle, I noted that the main reasons why Jughead won't die is that 1) he's the narrator (not to mention one of the main characters), 2) he's the brains that solves most of the problems that need solving, 3) the show's already done something similar to only then fake us out, and 4) the show's constantly messing with us and making us wary to put our full trust in everything that happens, as well as everyone (mostly new) we come in contact with. And for the most part, I still agree with these points. I just have more to add to them!

First off, my initial reaction to the flash-forward scene of the season three finale – yes, the one showing Betty, Archie, and Veronica in the woods, bloodied and in their bathing suits, burning Jughead's beanie – was like, No, no, this can't be happening. I can't believe they're trying to do this again, before landing on something like, Yeah, I know they won't actually do it. I need to get ahold of myself. However, when season four started up and we saw more and more flash-forward scenes, mainly surrounded his – ahem – "murder," I was still unsure about what will happen…

At least until it came to a certain point in the season, when I realized, Wait, there has to be some other side to this that we're just not seeing. I guarantee that we're about to get the rug pulled out from under us on this one too if we really buy into what they're selling, reminding myself of my fourth and final point: to not fully trust what we're seeing… Or simply, to expect the unexpected.

Think about it. Why else are we getting so many flash-forwards leading up to their senior break? Leading up to Jughead's supposed death? Of course, when paired with what we're seeing these characters are facing in present-time, the flash-forwards make better sense than without all the current-time context.

This proves to be especially the case when it comes to Betty's battle in overcoming and eventually eradicating her inner Dark Betty, as this turns out to be what "kills" Jughead: a blow to the head with a rock as per the way she put an end to her childhood cat Caramel, a memory she specifically fished out of her mind when she decided to hypnotize herself by saying "Tangerine" three times, with Charles's aid.

Also, given Jughead's most recent induction into the Quill & Skull at Stonewall Prep, which includes the ever-so-shady Brett and Donna, who according to a flash-forward points out the rest of the gang to be Jughead's murderers at a police line-up, I got the very strong feeling that they specifically have something to do with Jughead's "murder" and are just framing them for being the closest to him and simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, more or less.

And I wouldn't be too surprised (as in that I'm willing to believe) if this "society" had some kind of potion – not poison, per say – but something that would knock out Jughead for the time being, while Brett and Donna (and possibly others) somehow staged the "death" scene and just planted that blood-smeared rock into Betty's hands while she's under hypnosis. And the fact that Archie and Veronica were surprised to see Jughead "dead" at the hands of Betty (his girlfriend, no less) proves that they weren't actually there to witness the alleged murder.

Also, let me for a moment bring in another teen drama that did a similar thing to this but not as often as "Riverdale" tried to pull over us: "Teen Wolf." Now, over the holidays, around the time when I was initially thinking of expressing my thoughts over Jughead's true fate in an Odyssey article, I decided to get into "Teen Wolf" (a show that made me ever so glad I did get into and ever so pissed at myself for not getting into it much sooner).

Anyway, by the time I got at Season 5, I noticed a parallel: that show also did the flash-forward technique; however, there was only one flash-forward scene, not several scenes, each of which was at the end of every episode in "Riverdale's" case. And sure enough, the things that were depicted in said scene turned out to be… well, about half-true, but the point is that the things that Dr. Valick told Lydia would come of her friends did not turn out exactly the way they turned out to be: not completely true.

So, the main takeaway from this article: don't take everything in exactly the way you see everything!

And sure, that may be at the heart of every conspiracy theory out there, but that's what makes those theories so popular: because of how intriguing, not to mention eye-opening they are…

Now of course, that also means that you shouldn't take everything you read here at face-value, since these predictions would just be based off my own predictions for what will or won't happen, simply my attempt to fill in the gaps of how the expected will not come to fruition, so take this all with a grain of salt. I'm only human… and so is Jughead, so he deserves some justice in having some fans believe that he will pull through – somehow, in some way, if there's a will, there's a way…

That's all from me! Be sure to catch the Season 4B premiere of "Riverdale" on the CW at 8 this Wednesday, January 21, 2020! Trust me when I say that Jughead's life will depend on it…