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THIS ISSUE: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Night Manager, The Flash, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Voice TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Brooklyn Nine-Nine Makes a Huge Move Fox BECAUSE: In the season 3 finale of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake and Holt not only crushed "Funky Cold Medina" -- "zero rehearsal" -- but along with the rest of the Nine-Nine, they finally took down the criminal enterprise run by Jimmy "The Butcher" Figgis. But The Butcher himself was still on the loose, threatening to kill Jake and Holt. Cut to a nice little Goodfellas nod, in which Jake steps outside his house in Coral Palms, Florida, to pick up the newspaper and calls out, "Morning, Greg," to his lawn-watering neighbor Holt, who responds, "Morning, Larry." To quote Jake (probably): Witness Protection, SAY WHAAAAAT?! READ OUR RECAP The Night Manager AMC WHAT HAPPENED: AMC's new six-part British import comes from the mind of acclaimed espionage writer John le Carré's 1993 novel, The Night Manager. EW recapper Kevin Sullivan remarks that the titular character, Jonathan Pine is, "a man so tall, fair, and eloquent that he couldn't possibly be just the night manager of the Nefertiti Hotel. He's the kind of guy you'd see working the front desk during a social uprising and wonder, 'Is that dude a spy?'" Played by Tom Hiddleston, Pine is new to the espionage game, having been recruited by British Agent Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) to infiltrate the arms-dealing operation of the ever-so-evil Richard Roper, played ever-so-evilly by Hugh Laurie. In the premiere episode, Pine's mission is laid out: in between being the actual night manager at a Cairo hotel, he has to prove that Roper is selling weapons in the Middle East without falling susceptible to his high-rolling billionaire lifestyle. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: You'll have to look far and wide for a review ofThe Night Manager that doesn't compare it to the James Bond franchise, but that's not a bad thing; a James Bond TV show sounds pretty good. And as USA Today adds in their review, "Still, for all the comparisons, Pine is not Bond. He's a man drawn into a dangerous sting by an urge for revenge and a strong sense of right and wrong" -- though they also add that, "should the need arise," Hiddleston proves he would make a fine Bond in the pilot episode. And ultimately, The Night Manager makes a name for itself not in the twists and turns of espionage, but in the performances of the spies themselves: "Together, they prove that action TV can be made at a high level of quality, and quality TV can be entertaining." READ OUR RECAP The Flash The CW WHAT HAPPENED: They're not so very different, Barry Allen and Hunter Zolomon. Throughout the episode, as the S.T.A.R. Labs team successfully opens another portal to Earth Two to bring Zoom into their world, we learn that, like Barry, Hunter suffered the traumatic childhood experience ofwitnessing his mother's own death (by his father, yeesh), but unlike Barry, Hunter wasn't raised by the loving West family -- he was sent to a lonely orphanage, where Zoom was born. Barry is able to briefly stop Zoom, but Zoom escapes, heads to the West household, and takes Wally captive (Joe is dealing with his own family drama this episode). He demands Barry's speed in exchange for Wally, and Barry only sees one solution -- give it to him. But just as Zoom gets Barry's speed and is about to vanquish him, Caitlin reaches out to the humanity in Hunter (Jay???) to make him stop. So, instead of killing Barry, he grabs Caitlin and scrams, leaving S.T.A.R. Labs short one member and with a speed-less speedster. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Wait a second -- did the bad guy just win? At least temporarily, it seems that he has. Of Zoom's big escape, actor Teddy Sears told EW, "There's that smug satisfaction that comes with seeing yourlong, multi-month plan come to fruition ... He's satisfied on a number of counts. Of course, he gets the girl by any means necessary. She's not a trophy; she really is someone he believes that he loves and wants to have with him." But sorry, pal, that is not a feeling that's mutual: "Caitlin is repulsed by him. She wants nothing to do with him. Shockingly, Hunter doesn't quite understand why ... He's a bit misguided, and he's very broken." Yeah... we're starting to pick up on that. READ OUR RECAP Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Secret Warriors, ASSEMBLE! Okay, now Secret Warriors... DISASSEMBLE! Because, as it turns out, one of those Secret Warriors was revealed to be working for Hive in Tuesday's episode. After Daisy and her ragtag team broke into the Hydra base to save Coulson, Malick hollered to remind him that Hive can infect other Inhumans to be loyal to him,and Malick had his suspicions that was going down with one of Coulson's agents. Of course, we're talking Malick here, but considering that shortly after, Malick was mysteriously blown to smithereens while in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, the intel seemed pretty good. When Coulson found the mysterious Kree orb in Lincoln's locker, he became the culprit, but as it turned out, it was all a frame-job -- BY DAISY! It was the lead inhuman extraordinaire who had been infected by Hive during the rescue mission. Fully loyal to Hive and "super-charged" by his sway, Daisy grabs the Kree orb on her way out, locks the doors behind her, and kicks up an earthquake on her way out, destroying the S.H.I.E.L.D. base with all of her coworkers inside. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: No, Daisy, no! In advance of this episode, Chloe Bennet teased that there was some crazy stuff ahead, so the literal destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. at Daisy's own hand must be it... right? Wrong, she told EW: "Oh girl, I wish this was as crazy as it gets. Oh my God, it gets even worse!" Bennet said that this big baddie shift in her character that she loves so much was "a big challenge for me as an actress," likely not made any easier by the extremely confusing dynamic of Daisy being devoted to Hive, who happens to look like Ward... "Who isn't Ward and I'm not Skye, but it's SkyeWard and I know fans are going to love it a little bit, but also be very confused," Bennet elaborated. But this is the Marvel world, and there's always hope for a turnaround, Bennet told EW: "I think anything is possible. We brought Clark [Gregg] back to life, so I think yes, I'm sure they can find a way." READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... The Voice Puts Another Out of Its Misery NBC AND THEN THERE WERE 11: We weren't at all surprised to hear Gwen Stefani give a kick-ass performance of "Misery" on Tuesday night's The Voice,so color us shocked that Emily Keener and Owen Danoff ended up being the two contestants on bottom. It was Team Pharrell that took the hit, losing Emily Keener even after her emotional cover of Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."