Mayor Blossom, Principal Featherhead, and Doctor Werthers have a secret meeting together. Ethel has been forced into a vow of silence. The men are aware of the gossip around town about the murder case.

The adults decide that the comic books are real murder weapons.

Mr. Fieldstone gives Jughead the task of creating four new stories for the upcoming issue. He has until the morning to submit the stories. Jughead comes up with the idea of making the stories set in high school and about teenagers since Pep Comics hasn't done it before.

Veronica asks Jughead to go see Diabolique, but Jughead excites her about his writing task. "The Key Keeper" is the framing device of the four tales. Jughead starts telling Veronica about his first story.

The scene shifts to the scary custodian who will take people through each story.

"Keep Your Head In The Game" is the first story. Dilton Doily is having trouble sinking baskets during basketball practice; the coach forces everyone to stay until Dilton gets one ball. The coach forces the team to run laps until he can sink one basket.

Julian argues with Dilton and traps him in a locker as punishment. Julian says Dilton has to pick up the weight or else they'll kill him.

The narrator reveals Dilton had a bad case of being claustrophobic. He suffered a psychotic break when the janitorial staff found him. Dilton breaks a glass case and takes the ax.

Later on, the coach finds Dilton covered in blood and throws the severed heads of his teammates into the hoop. The headless bodies are sitting nearby. Dilton is holding Archie's severed head.

Veronica loved the Dilton/basketball story. Jughead gets into the second story; this one is about sex.

The second story starts with Archie arriving at Thornhill Manor in the middle of the night during a rainstorm. Nana Blossom lets Archie stay the night.

Nana Blossom gives Archie some ground rules for him to stay over. Archie must stay in his room all night and keep his room locked all night. Nana Blossom says her granddaughter is at her place; she says her granddaughter has a ravenous hunger and can't keep her hands to herself by sneaking into rooms of men.

Nana Blossom confirms the painting nearby is of her granddaughter.

Archie kept his door unlocked; Cheryl slipped inside and said she was happy to see a man again. Cheryl refuses to let him light a candle. The two hook up in the middle of the night.

Nana Blossom reveals that Cheryl contracted some rare dangerous form of leprosy while on a trip. Nana Blossom also confirms she planted the nails that crashed Archie's car. Archie has now been infected.

Cheryl, while in a wedding dress, says she'll be with Archie forever.

Veronica thinks the story was grotesque; she's not sure what the moral of the story is. Veronica reveals she heard Cheryl and Archie broke up; that they didn't do more than make out. Veronica is disappointed her flirting attempts aren't winning over Jughead.

The third story is about Betty and her failed attempts to get attention from any of the guys. Betty decides to get a makeover to try something new; the hairdresser encourages her to get a beehive.

The hairdresser tells her that she won't ever be able to get rid of the beehive or wash her hair. Betty will need to use hairspray to keep it up.

For the next day, all the boys and girls noticed her. Cheryl and Veronica make fun of her in the bathroom.

Betty's ego starts getting too high. Julian asks her to take her to class, and Archie asks her out.

Betty continues to not wash her hair, and she continues to use hairspray everywhere. Betty sleeps in her beehive.

Archie takes Betty on a date to the diner. While on the date, Betty starts overdosing and foaming from the mouth. She dies on the dancefloor.

The coroner saws into Betty's beehive and discovers a hive of black widow spiders. The spider slipped into her beehive while sleeping and bred into her head.

Veronica critiques Jughead focusing on moral tales and girls being judged on vanity. She wants a tale focused on her.

Jughead's fourth story, "The Better Half," is a play on the classic love triangle. Archie is debating whether to be with Betty or Veronica.

Archie decides to date both of them; he takes each girl on different dates each night of the week. Sunday is his day of rest.

Betty and Veronica know that Archie was dating both of them. Both girls want Archie to break up with the other and be with them. Archie tells each of them that they're his favorite.

Archie tells the basketball team how to play the game and date the girls. The guys are impressed by him.

Valentine's Day is on a Sunday. Both Veronica and Betty think that Archie is taking them out on Valentine's Day. Veronica and Betty discover the truth that Archie has been playing with them and talking badly about the other.

Veronica and Betty confront Archie; they demand he pick one of them. Archie says he can't take them out on Valentine's Day because he's taking his mom out. Both Veronica and Betty apologize for confronting him.

On Sunday, Betty and Veronica decided to hang out together instead. They see that Archie took Cheryl out on a date. Both want to get revenge on him.

Betty and Veronica ask Archie out for a date all together. They invite him to the shop classroom since it's soundproof.

Later in the classroom, they hand Archie a canister of coffee to give him energy. Archie collapses. He wakes up groggy and tied to one of the tables.

Veronica and Betty decide to saw through Archie so that they each get half of him.

Veronica has issues with Jughead's stories because she thinks he's demonizing women and putting them down. Jughead says he judges the guys too in his stories.

Jughead asks Veronica to go see the meeting, but she turns him down. His voiceover reveals that any potential romance between them was over; Veronica was back to being the popular girl who was in a different world.

An op-ed is written by Doctor Werthers in the newspaper that blames the comic books as the real terror in town. He blames the real killers as the people who read comic books. The adults want to punish the people who created the comic books.

Mr. Fieldstone gives Jughead a byline inside the comics. Jughead "Jugular" Jones becomes his pen name.