When Betty seems drawn to the Southside Serpents in order to feel closer to Jughead, Alice freaks out at the thought of Betty following in her footsteps and goes to FP, who assuages her, but not before alluding to their implied romantic past, which rattles Alice.īriefly, Alice relives her old days, dresses up as a Serpent would, drinking at the White Wyrm and making herself at home, until she sees Betty pole dancing and realises things are taking a turn for her daughter. She questions FP's bid at rehabilitation and he matches her repartee as no one else usually can. When FP gets released from jail, Alice decides to join her daughter and Jughead in picking him up, making not so subtle flirtatious comments 'disguised' as menace. An article published by Betty in the Blue & Gold reveals that Alice was arrested when she was young and confirms that she is from the Southside. The two are very spiteful to one another and seem to have a deeper history. Īs adults, Alice shows disdain for the Southside and has, according to FP, changed her social self-perception through her marriage to Hal. They broke up as the group parted ways following the sudden death of Principal Featherhead and even switched roles as FP joined the Serpents at his father's behest, while Alice left the gang and started pretending to be a Northsider as well as dating Hal Cooper, where Alice and Hal were voted homecoming King and Queen their senior year. FP got Alice pregnant in their junior year but they only became a couple later, having been brought closer by the Midnight Club (club formed by all the parents in high school to play Gryphons and Gargoyles). As teens they were in different social groups, Alice as a rebel outcast and FP a BMOC, although they both hailed from the Southside. I get in there and get as deep as I can with it."Īnd as only Alice Cooper could say, Amick quips, "I think it’s just a really good collaboration between the two of us to make Alice as f-cked up and complicated as you possibly can.Alice and FP both hail from the Southside of Riverdale and went to high school together. Roberto honors his word and is not just invested in the younger characters, but the older characters as well. I immediately realized what kind of relationships he was trying to build, and I was immediately excited. And then I went in and sat with Roberto, and he pitched me Annette Bening’s character from American Beauty as the inspiration for Alice Cooper. "In the beginning when the project was first being cast, there was a definite knee-jerk reaction of ‘Oh, it’s going to be a parent on a kids' show.’ That was my first reaction to it. Regardless, Amick is just grateful to inhabit a role that is way more nuanced and complex than the typical parent on a teen drama. "The ramifications of that are going to linger for a long time, so just when we think we understand and we know what's going on, there's a whole other layer that's revealed toward the end of season two." "It gets out there for all to see in season two," Amick cryptically says. " are in cahoots on that one!" Fortunately, viewers won't be kept in the dark for too long.
While Amick obviously can't reveal that crucial plot point, she will admit that she does know for certain if Hal is the father of Alice's three children or not.
Imagine how tormented Betty will be, though, if she finds out that Jughead's dad, F.P., is the father of one of Alice's children-and not Hal.