But then sort of around halfway through the season, when we were thinking about the show and what the show was — and the show is on some level a deconstruction of the Archie myth that everything is safe, that everyone is good, that parents protect their children, that fundamentally the world is a good place — it felt like the ultimate subversion to that, the darkest, most taboo thing we could do, is a parent killing a child.
Once we landed on that being the point of no return, about halfway through the season, we started to build to Clifford.
As we were working on the season, Hal Cooper [Lochlyn Munro] also became a possible suspect.
One was FP Jones [Skeet Ulrich], one was Hiram Lodge and one was Clifford Blossom.