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THIS ISSUE: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, The Flash, iZombie, Heartbeat TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Bids Farewell ABC BECAUSE: We hate goodbyes! Especially a heartbreaking, shocking, oh-so-noble "spy's goodbye." After getting stuck in Siberia during Tuesday's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Bobbi and Lance found themselves protecting the Russian Prime Minister from Malick's sneaky ways, and were ultimately disavowed from S.H.I.E.L.D. in a heroic and sacrificial bid to protect the organization. Tears abounded as their fellow agents bid them adieu in secret, but -- wait -- what's that? Do we smell... a spinoff?! READ OUR RECAP The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story FX WHAT HAPPENED: The jury is out... of their minds... maybe. About the time a trial the jury thought was going to last two months reached its eightsequestered month, and at the exact moment that the guards to whom many had grown close were rotated out, the 12 jurors and 12 alternates reached a breaking point on Tuesday's episode of The People vs. O.J. Simpson. As one juror runs screaming from the dining hall during a mental break, Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran are busy drumming up previously unfound dirt to get jurors dismissed they feel certain will cast O.J. votes not in their favor. It's a circus that includes an incredible -- and incredibly, 100 percent true -- scene of half the jury wearing all-black in protest while Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" plays in the background. In the end, four jury members were replaced, while the alternates dwindled to two, nearly leading Judge Ito to declare a mistrial. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: A mistrial that the prosecution might have been fine with, considering the pummeling they took on one of their last sure-thing pieces of evidence ("DNA... whatever that is") in the form of the disastrous cross-examination by Barry Scheck of supposed forensic evidence expert Dennis Fung. It's a moment that was just as crippling in the real O.J. Simpson trial, and is considered one of the Dream Team's greatest non-Cochran-related successes. In fact, many of Tuesday's most shocking tidbits are ripped from the real-life transcript, including all of the juror dismissals, save the most dramatic one, as Rolling Stone points out regarding the juror who ran screaming from the dining room: "While it's true that she begged Judge Ito several times to let her go home, she didn't have a nervous breakdown at the hotel. Eventually Ito just caved, and allowed her to quit ... She did, however, appear in Playboy a few months later, so it seems she got over some of her fears by then." And there ya have it. READ OUR RECAP The Flash The CW WHAT HAPPENED: After he found himself not fast enough to save Jay, Barry is running a few extra calisthenics about the time another speedster decides to blow through Central City. "Trajectory" is a real piece of work, which makes it all the more shocking that she's actually an alternate personality of the gentle scientist Caitlin turned to for help while creating Velocity-9. It turns out that Trajectory got addicted to the stuff, and she breaks into S.T.A.R. Labs, holding Jesse at gunpoint and demanding another batch from Caitlin and Harry. They cave, but Caitlin puts micro-trackers in the Velocity-9, so Barry shows off a fancy new jump while catching up to her, but his attempts to reason are unsuccessful. She still pays for her crimes though: Her overuse of Velocity-9 causes her lightning to turn blue and her cells to degenerate, turning her to dust right in front of Barry. Hey -- blue lightning! That rings a bell: Zoom has blue lightning... Zoom is dying... Jay was also dying... Cisco has been getting Zoom vibes when he's near Jay's helmet... what gives? Cisco grabs the helmet and knows for certain: Zoom is Jay Garrick. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Theory time! Even though we know it to be true -- the vibes don't lie -- it's still hard to make the connection between the Jay Garrick we came to know as part of the gang, and the Jay Garrick that is evil, awful Zoom. If you're in the same boat, IGN has some thoughts to run by you: "I'm starting to wonder in the Hunter Zolomon reveal from earlier in the season was a red herring, and that Zoom is simply an older version of the same Jay Garrick that's been hanging around STAR Labs all season. How ironic would it be if Jay started taking Velocity-9 to battle Zoom, only to wind up creating Zoom in the first place? But that still leaves the question of just who the heck that guy in the metal helmet is." Yes. Those who-and-what-the-hecks are really gathering, which means it must be time for answers soon. READ OUR RECAP iZombie The CW WHAT HAPPENED: Twins, you guys -- it really came down to twins. Fittingly, Tuesday's episode of iZombie had about twice the amount of plot of an average hour, so we'll get right down to it: Blaine is a zombie again, and maybe dying, but pending mortality apparently makes him a bona fide softie; the case-of-the-week gives Liv super-smart scientist brains (which are helpful in the cure Ravi is working on for Blaine), and brings the Super Max experiments at Max Rager back to the forefront; one of the Super Max test subjects gets loose and attacks Vaughn and Rita, and Vaughn -- ever the sweetheart -- sacrifices his daughter to the uber-zombie to get away. But the most important development is Liv using her zombie-scientist brains to try and understand Drake's deal, and we watch her go from hoping he's a good guy, to thinking he might be a mobster who just stood her up on a date. Of course weknow she's missing a few key points, like how he's actually an undercover FBI Agent -- oh, and how her ex-boyfriend Major just ABDUCTED him. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So... Vaughn is back. And that's great because as the A.V. Club points out, "Vaughn is a ridiculous, preening villain, but in such a snarky way that his over-the-top treachery is mostly good for a laugh and an eye roll." But the laughs came to a screeching halt on Tuesday night didn't they? "The sequence where he allows the elevator doors to close on [his daughter] and then won't open his office doors when she's pounding on them, bloody and beaten and likely scratched, is a brutal and chilling end to what has been up to now a fairly light story of a power hungry narcissist who thinks he can free himself of the consequences of any situation," says the A.V. Club. Thatseems like something to keep an eye on. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Doctor Reviews Doctor Show About Doctor Stuff NBC THE DOCTOR IS IN: NBC's new series Heartbeat premiered on Tuesday, so who better to review it than an actual heart surgeon? Dr. Joseph Turek isn't so sure about that AmEx black card trick, but other than that... yeah, the show'sheart is in the right place. (Sorry.)