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THIS ISSUE: Person of Interest, Bates Motel, Dancing With the Stars, Jane the Virgin, Mike & Molly, Castle TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Person of Interest Goes Mental CBS BECAUSE: We'll tell you a little story about Monday night's dark, twisty, trippy Person of Interest: Shaw returns to the series; Shaw finally consummates all that unresolved sexual tension with Root; Shaw realizes she's being controlled and manipulated by Samaritan to kill her friends; indeed, Shaw shoots and kills Reese; and finally turns her gun on herself to keep Samaritan from forcing her to murder anyone else... And, in the end, it was all a simulation -- Samaritan's 6,741st attempt to use Shaw's mind to find The Machine's location. Now onto the 6,742nd... Bates Motel A&E WHAT HAPPENED: Now we know: Norma Bates is dead, killed by her own son Norman. But while we may know that as fact -- what with the gas poisoning and lack of pulse, and all -- the police first read Norma's death as a suicide. And Norman, as you could guess, will not take Mother's death and his hand in it easily. Alex Romero, however, knows exactly what happened; and he's seeking justice for Norma. The table is set for a face-off between Norman and Romero (and for knockout performance after knockout performance from Freddie Highmore and Nestor Carbonell), and while the season 4 finale sees Romero give his former step-son a brutal beat down for removing Norma's wedding ring before her secret funeral, the DEA stepping into arrest Romero for perjury pushes the real showdown to season 5. After having "enough of this," Norman digs up Norma's body, brings her to their home, screams at her to look at him, and glues her eyes open to ensure it. And in the finale's final moments we see Norma -- and Norman sees Norma -- in a red dress, playing "I'll Be Home for Christmas" at the piano... just a boy and his mother in their home. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: What. A. Doozy. In this series that's always had Psycho as its influential but distant source material, the Bates Motel finale has sent us barreling toward highly familiar territory in season 5. And in an interview with TVLine, executive producer Carlton Cuse confirmed that Janet Leigh's Psycho character Marion Crane will appear in multiple episodes in season 5. But as Bates Motel fully intersects Psycho in season 5, Cuse assures it won't become the solitary life of Norman Bates -- Emma and Dylan will still be a part of this story, and certainly, so will Norma; he told TVLine, "She's existing now in Norman's brain. In the original Psycho you don't really know anything about Norma Bates. You just know that she's a corpse, and you imagine that she was this shrew of a woman who berated her son into becoming crazy. But we re-imagined their relationship as this complex, intense, co-dependent love story. And that relationship continues very much in Season 5. It just has a different dimension, which is that she's dead. [Laughs] But it's not the end of the story." Dancing With the Stars ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Trios of dancers, double eliminations, and one single blindfold -- it was an exciting night on Dancing With the Stars. And a night that suddenly, almost unexpectedly (how are we already here?!), determined season 22's top 3 semifinalists: Paige VanZant danced with tabloid-rumored love interest Alan and her ol' buddy-partner Mark for the trios, then took on a racy, clothes-be-damned Argentine tango to remind us that this once lesser known fighter is basically a pro dancer at this point; Nyle thought he'd up his already inspirational ante by adding a blindfold to his and Peta's dark and twisty Argentine tango, relying on nothing but timing and touch for a portion of the dance; and Ginger's personality shined through once more, even wedged between two hunks of man meat, partner Val, and guest dancer Artem. Which means... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: It was announced in the final 17 seconds of the episode that it was most improved footballer, Antonio Brown, and totally natural twinkle toes, Wanyá Morris, who had to hit the bricks before making it to the season 22 semi-finals. As Yahoo TV says of their departure, "The big-hearted DWTS superfan's elimination was somewhat of a surprise, whereas most of us had a feeling the footballer was on his way out. Antonio rarely captivated us like we wanted, but damn if he didn't know exactly how to lift Sharna up where she belongs." And if there are two things we're looking for from our two sparkliest Monday hours, it is surely big lifts and big heart. We'll miss Antonio and Wanyá, but between Ginger, Nyle, and Paige, next week's decision is going to be tough enough as it is. Jane the Virgin The CW WHAT HAPPENED: As every bit of telenovela, romance, and family drama met its explosive climax, Jane was trying to marry Michael and, as instructed by the church choir, "to go have sex" already in Monday's season 2 finale ofJane the Virgin. Indeed, those two crazy kids did finally get married, and even the Rafael lovers out there must have felt a little moved by Michael saying his vows in Spanish. And that father/daughter dance! Speaking of, Rogelio and Xo finally got all those feelings out, only to be reminded that he still wants kids, and share one beautiful last dance together, instead of a beautiful life. But it wouldn't be Jane the Virgin if it was all happy tears; for the shock and awe quota, the finale saw Michael shoot Susanna once he realized she was the mole, as well as Rose in disguise. And in a telenovela-sized twist, Anezka went full Petra-impostor after her sister had a mini-stroke and slept with Rafael! So... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Yeah, were totally down with Vulture's idea that this whole insane, wonderful finale cold have just been recapped in all the best emojis. As they put it, "Jane the Virgin's season finale is a narrative fireworks display, a shock-and-awe storytelling spectacular that short-circuits emotional processing centers with blazing confidence. It drops jaws and crushes hearts and brings tears and also includes a pun so joyously dumb that I sat up on my sofa and started slow clapping." For the record, that was the #Petrafied pun, and the emojis they would have used? "Several varieties of hearts, the running man, the dancing woman, and lots and lots of fires and heart-eyed faces. Those creepy dancing twin girls would also make an appearance. And there'd be a gun." It's a telenovela -- there's always a gun. One More Thing... So Hard To Say Goodbye CBS, ABC THE END OF THE ROAD: Two series came to an end on Monday night, and we won't try to convince you that Mike & Molly and Castle had anything in common, but as for their finales... well, they were both extra sweet and nobody died in either of them. We repeat -- nobody died in either of them.