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THIS ISSUE: Person of Interest, Pretty Little Liars, The Mindy Project, Animal Kingdom TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Person of Interest Saves the World CBS BECAUSE: Much like Person of Interest's time on the airwaves, the war against Samaritan has come to an end, and the air was thick with attempted martyrdom in Tuesday's series finale. When Finch realizes that destroying the last bit of Samaritan will require either Reese or himself being blown up on a rooftop, he naturally locks Reese in a golden vault and tells him, "When I hired you, I suspected you were going to be a great employee, but I couldn't have anticipated that you would become such a good friend." But no, he's not the only one to make us cry. It turns out that Reese made a "previous arrangement" with The Machine to put Finch first. The Machine sends Finch to the wrong place, and Reese escapes to the roof, sacrifices himself, and saves the world. The end.

Person of Interest CBS WHAT HAPPENED: The Person of Interest series finale picked up just days after Finch launched the Ice-9 virus that destroyed Samaritan. Well, it mostlydestroyed Samaritan -- the evil A.I. stored a copy of itself in a server, protected by a golden vault in the Federal Reserve. No problem for Team Machine, though: Shaw and Fusco stay behind to protect the Machine, while Finch and Reese break into the Federal Reserve using a Fitbit, as one does. Both Shaw and Finch catch bullets in the process, but Finch figures out that the Samaritan copy has routed itself to servers in a Midtown building, where it plans to use the antenna to upload itself to a Russian satellite. The only way to stop Samaritan is for someone to use the antenna to send The Machine to the same satellite -- and we already know how that goes (see above). In the final moments, with Reese dead, Samaritan destroyed, and The Machine back at home in the subway car, reconstituting the 44th iteration of itself, she recalls what she's learned about death: "Sure, everybody dies alone, but if you mean something to someone, or helped someone or loved someone or even if a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die at all." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: As the episode comes to an end, we catch a glimpse of each character in the future: The Machine teaches itself how to be The Machine again via a voicemail; Finch reunites with Grace in Italy; and Shaw gets a call on a payphone, answers it, and flashes the camera a knowing smile. That had many fans hopefully crying, "SPINOFF!" But as co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan told TVLine, "I think [the smile] is much about hearing Root's voice [on the phone]. And one of the few regrets I have about the way the finale cuts together is that's not totally clear." Nolan said that he and co-showrunner Greg Plageman had spin-off openings, but they simply wanted to do one great show: "The idea is just that The Machine keeps going, the mission keeps going. Shaw is like Reese, there's the sense that this mission has given them meaning in their lives. And she leaves with a relationship with a dog anda god."

Pretty Little Liars Freeform WHAT HAPPENED: The prettiest little liars around got back to their lies in Tuesday's season 7 premiere, and naturally the episode started with a flash-forward to three of them digging a shallow grave. This is probably a good time to mention that Hanna is the missing lil' liar. She was kidnapped by A.D., who texted her friends the following four days earlier: "You've got 24 hours to get me Charlotte's real killer or Hanna dies. Tick tock, bitches. " And do Hanna's pals go to the police? Of course not. They split off into potential romantic pairs for some sleuthing. The suspect list is narrowed down to evil twin Mary and drugged-up Ali. Spencer gets some intel from Mary directly -- she was once close with the Hastings family, but Jessica turned everyone against her: "I was born first, and she was born jealous." Emily, on the other hand, goes to see Ali at the psychiatric hospital, where she seems to be trapped by her creepy husband and highly drugged, making her semi-confession to having killed Charlotte a little suspect. Luckily, Hanna manages to escape A.D. on her own, only to be picked up on the side of the road by Mary. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So the gang's all here, continuing to avoid seeking help from anyone but themselves and digging around in the dirt because they maybe/probably killed someone that -- let's be honest -- maybe/probably wasn't Hanna. In Vulture's character rankings, they're wishing their No. 1 girl would step out on her own: "The only thing wrong with Mona is that she keeps slumming it with this off-brand Scooby Gang instead of splitting for the more glamorous, devious life she deserves. She knows exactly what you need to cover up a murder -- 'Charcoal absorbs the smell of death' -- and she can use her headset thingy to hear other people's cell phone conversations, and also her hair looks great." And way on down at the bottom of those power rankings is our newly named baddie: "Just because you are 'Freeform' now doesn't mean you can change the name of the villain. Names are not changing. A is A, period. A.D. is annoying to say and also to type and also no."

The Mindy Project Hulu WHAT HAPPENED: "Watch out, DiCaprio: There's a new Leo in town," says EW recapper Ariana Bacle. It was really only a matter of time before Mindy attempted to make her kid a star, and when there's a casting call for Mindy's favorite soap opera Tides of Tomorrow, Leo scores the role of the "hero baby,"a.k.a. the baby that gets to be in all the main shots. Mindy thinks she has what it takes to be an on-set mom -- "Okay, so just fade into the background and be ignored. I do that at nightclubs all the time" -- but in her hed, she's a hero mom. When Mindy notices a repeating storyline, she lets the head writer know. Dreaming of her future in show business, Mindy gathers the entire office to watch her/Leo's Tides of Tomorrow debut, during which she finds out he's been cut and replaced by the background baby. Worse, Drew didn't make it to the party or watch at home like he said he would, but you know who did? Jody, on his home computer, and he even noticed the baby switch. And that's all it takes to get those two to finally make out. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: We'll always accept any ounce of precious baby Leo we can get, but we can admit that he wasn't the star. No, the main purpose of Tuesday's episode was slotting a love triangle into place. The A.V. Club points out that while Drew was never meant to go the distance, "Jody's investment in Leo seems out of nowhere, as near as I can figure: Have we even seen the two of them together before?" We think not. But it makes sense that Leo would be Mindy's motivating factor. Plus, says the A.V. Club, "Mindy is now involved with Jody, which means that Danny is likely just around the corner. This episode helped set up all these proper pieces into place, and had a pretty good time doing so." But we somehow doubt Danny is going to have a pretty good time seeing the new office romance in town.

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Animal Kingdom Keeps It in the Family TNT MAMA SMURF: Animal Kingdom returned for its second episode on Tuesday, and the connection between the Cody boys continues to be tenuous, while the lines from their matriarch (still named Smurf) continue with the creep-tastic incestuous vibes.