Riverdale (TV Series)

Chapter Eighteen: When a Stranger Calls (2017)

Camila Mendes: Veronica Lodge

Quotes 

• Veronica Lodge : I'm glad you two are getting the chance to meet,

  [to Nick:] 

  Veronica Lodge : although your brown-nosing at dinner was over the top.

  Nick St. Clair : How dare you? I love your mother's flan.

  [chuckles] 

  Nick St. Clair : Although, I still have room for more dessert.

  [offers them speed] 

  Nick St. Clair : Here.

  [Archie looks at him disapprovingly] 

  Veronica Lodge : [ignores outstretched arm]  No, thank you, I'm full.

  Nick St. Clair : Veronica Lodge turning down a bump. What a brave new world it is.

  [smirks] 

  Nick St. Clair : How about it, Big Red?

  [Archie shakes his head] 

  Nick St. Clair : So, what is it that you country mice do for fun up here? Catch... lightning bugs with Mason jars?

  Archie Andrews : No, we...

  Veronica Lodge : Basically.

  Nick St. Clair : [finds her 'leopard ears']  Ronnie. What kind of kink is this?

  Veronica Lodge : I wear them when I'm playing with Josie and the Pussycats.

  Nick St. Clair : You're in a band...

  Veronica Lodge : Mm-hmm.

  Nick St. Clair : ...called the Pussycats? Just when I thought you couldn't possibly get any sexier.

• Veronica Lodge : [at party, where Betty has refused to do drugs]  Come on, Betty, don't be such a wallflower. You're boyfriend-less for a night. Have some fun.

  Betty Cooper : Like you, you mean? I was gonna say you're making a fool out of yourself, just acting like some privileged, shallow, airhead party girl.

  Veronica Lodge : [scoffs]  Excuse me?

  Betty Cooper : Yeah.

  [gets up] 

  Betty Cooper : I mean, it's all just recycled banter...

  [looks at the Pussycats:] 

  Betty Cooper : and plunging necklines, and throwing shade to distract us all from the fact that there's really nothing going on underneath.

  Archie Andrews : Betty, what the hell are you saying...?

  Betty Cooper : What we're all thinking. That the only reason Veronica hangs out with us is circumstance. She's not our friend. The *minute* someone from her trashy past shows up, she starts using us for drugs, or music, or distraction. And why should we be surprised? Like father, like daughter, right?

  Veronica Lodge : You better shut it down, Betty.

  Betty Cooper : Or what, Veronica? You'll have your Dad put a hit on me? Or maybe you'll do it yourself. Because you may have fooled all of them, but not me.

  [shakes her head] 

  Betty Cooper : Try to reform all you want, but you're a bad person, Veronica.

  [shrugs] 

  Betty Cooper : You'll always be a bad person.

  Veronica Lodge : Why don't you just go then, if I'm such a monster?

  Archie Andrews : [as Betty leaves]  Veronica...

  Veronica Lodge : I'm fine. Obviously, she's not. Wait, you wanna go after her? Be my guest. I'll be damned if I'm chasing Betty down after that - Whatever it was.