Alice Smith

Alice Susanna Smith (formerly Cooper)

Alice is the former editor and co-owner of the local newspaper, the ex-wife of Hal Cooper and the mother of Betty and Polly Cooper, as well as her son Charles Smith, whom she gave up for adoption when she was in high school. She is also the grandmother of Jason and Polly's twin babies, Juniper and Dagwood. One of Alice's greatest kept secrets was that she's a former member of the Southside Serpents. Following her arrest, she severed all ties with the gang, and erased, or at least thought to have erased every article of her arrest from the system archives.

Some time after she found out that Hal Cooper was the Black Hood, she was reunited with her biological son, Charles Smith, who works as an FBI agent and is tasked with taking down Edgar Evernever and The Farm. Alice infiltrates the Farm under Charles' order with the intention of rescuing Polly and exposing the Farm's organ harvesting.

Early Life
Alice grew up on the south side of Riverdale and attended the local high school with Mary Andrews. She began dating Hal Cooper and they later went on to marry and have two daughters, Betty and Polly. During high school she became pregnant by FP Jones and Hal pushed her to have an abortion, as he did not think she was ready to be a mother. She refused an abortion and instead gave the baby up for adoption once he was born. She also seems to have had a lactose intolerance in high school, as mentioned by Hermione Lodge.

Alice has been suspected of having ties to the Southside Serpents ever since an argument that unfolded after Jughead's 16th Birthday Party, between FP Jones and herself, where he remarked that "snakes don't shed their skin so easily". In an email from the Black Hood, it was revealed that Alice, as a teenager, was once a member of the southside based gang and had been arrested during her time of affiliation with them. How the Black Hood came into possession of the archived arrest article remains unknown as Alice claims to have removed every copy from the system archive, years ago. Thus, making it one of the many secrets that she's kept hidden for many years.

Trivia

 * She owned the local newspaper known as The Register with her ex husband, Hal.
 * She was crowned homecoming queen.
 * She was actually arrested in her home in Southside, before the birth of Polly and Betty, and before the marriage of her and Hal.
 * Alice is allergic to peonies.
 * Alice's Serpent tattoo is located somewhere only Hal and FP would know.[69]
 * This was reaffirmed after a sex scene that took place,: As Above, So Below" showing Alice's Serpent tattoo on her thigh.
 * Alice revealed that she returned to her maiden surname Smith.