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THIS ISSUE: The Mindy Project, Zoo, Pretty Little Liars, Dead of Summer, Containment TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT The Mindy Project Deploys a Cliffhanger Hulu BECAUSE: Mindy's dudes really aren't into telling her important information. On The Mindy Project's season 4 finale, her ex Danny spends the entire episode actively not telling her he's engaged to another woman, and then has sex with her in an elevator instead. Meanwhile, Jody -- who's attempting to make up for the fact that he didn't tell her he had chlamydia -- tries to secretly build her a walk-in closet, and then just buys the apartment above as a gift to Mindy and baby Leo. With a wedding invitation waiting in the mail from the ex-fiancé she just had sex with, Mindy arrives home to an apartment that's doubled in size thanks to an inappropriate but mostly kind love interest. She's faced with a choice to which we'll hopefully get an answer next season.

Zoo CBS WHAT HAPPENED: The second phase of Zoo's apocalyptic animal mutation is in full swing, and that can only one mean one thing: electric ants! The Animal Avengers get a call from their government contact Eleanor, who says she has things to tell them in Geneva that can't be relayed over the phone. When they arrive, she's dead in a hotel room with an electrical outlet full of ants and singe marks all over her detached jaw. Naturally, Mitch finds a way to syphon out some of Eleanor's spinal fluid and discovers that there was an ant in her spine when she died. That's because all of the ants in Geneva have mutated to conduct electricity and are headed in a single-file line (actually, it's more of a multi-file river) towards Geneva's Large Particle Accelerator. It's their biological imperative to channel an electrical charge large enough to wipe out every human within 1,000 miles, but it won't happen on the Avengers watch. The group arrives at the LPA in time to trigger a manual override and use the LPA to disperse the ants' charge rather than amplify it. The only problem is that Dariela sucks down a deadly electric ant. That's what near-deadly homemade electric chair experiments with your new world-saving pals are for. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: What about that secret that Eleanor couldn't talk about over the airwaves? As it turns out, the Noah Objective -- you know, the government's plan to exterminate the world's animals and then attempt to repopulate them -- is being pushed up with the full knowledge that it will cause millions of human casualties. It's easy to get swept up in the killer ants and kitchen-raiding grizzly bears, but in an interview with Parade, star James Wolk suggests fans not forget about Reiden Global and their Noah Objective: "They're still the villain, but [in season 2] the villain starts to take more of a specific face, and it manifests in the form of a particular character that is introduced in this season, who is fantastic. I think that's going to also be a great dynamic because evil takes a specific face, and that's interesting because it's not just the animals."

Pretty Little Liars Freeform WHAT HAPPENED: Pretty Little Liars gave us an answer -- and we didn't even have to wait until the season finale! The task at hand: freeing Ali from her Welby torture prison. The unexpected avenue to doing so is a trip to Amish country. When the Liars find that Elliot has a charge on his credit card for an Amish bed and breakfast that lines up with the week Ali went to Elliot's family farm, they head there for clues. And that's where they find a little girl, Eliza, who isn't supposed to talk to them, but can't help it because they "look like my dolls." What dolls? "The ones Charlotte gave me." Yes, it's creepy. Soon after Eliza shows her the doll collection given to her by Charlotte and Elliot, they start getting SOS messages that they know must be from Ali. While Elliot is transporting her somewhere in his car (full of old torture devices, mind you), she escapes, and since the Liars were tracking the car's GPS, they're right behind her. But by the time they can pump the breaks to grab Ali, Elliot is sprinting right toward their car, and.... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Splat goes the creep! Judging by his unblinking eyes against the windshield, he is dead. This seems to tell us who the Liars were burying in the season's flash-forward scene. For Vulture, Elliot's death brought about a startling realization: "For once, the Liars will have to cover upa murder they actually committed! All this time, they've been getting accused of crimes they haven't done, scrambling to find the real perpetrators before false accusations land them all in prison, or worse. But now we will get to see these stone-cold killers, who all participated in this oops-we-killed-Elliot thing together...deal with the fallout. Rookie suggestion: First, they should probably deal with that windshield."

Dead of Summer Freeform WHAT HAPPENED: EW recapper Marc Snetiker points out two themes that dominated Dead of Summer's second installment: "Romance and Russians, proving my just-now-made-up theory that Dead of Summer is actually just R.L. Stine's version of Anna Karenina." That seems about right. The ghost of piano players past now has a name -- The Tall Man -- thanks to little Russian camper Anton, who is being mentally tortured by the ghost man. Alex connects with the little guy on account of his own tortured Russian past, which we learn via flashback has caused him to become mostly dead inside and -- kid you not -- a laundry thief. Anton tells his counselors that the Tall Man "said I have to find him or someone will die." But Alex is more concerned with not getting fired for continually losing Anton in the name of winning a bet with Blotter. He frames Blotter for drug use by, well, getting him high. While on hallucinogens, Blotter digs up the Tall Man's bones, but by the time Deb and the gang find him, the bones are gone. Then they reappear in the garage of the town's drug dealer. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Between the laundry crimes and the Tall Man whispers, Tuesday's episode of Dead of Summer offered up a whole lot of intriguing questions, a few weird backstory installments, and not a single answer about what the hell is going on at Camp Stillwater. In an interview with TVLine, actress Elizabeth Mitchell had a few tips, like keeping your eye on that mystery box Deb unearthed in the premiere: "I found out what's in there a little earlier on [before getting to the actual reveal], because the writers wanted me to know what it was...But I do know what's in there." Viewers have to wait until episode 6, in which we'll learn more about Deb's backstory, and just maybe why Camp Stillwater was shut down in the first place. As for Deb's dynamic with voyeuristic teen Joel, Mitchell simply told TVLine, "They're really interesting." They really are.

One More Thing...

Containment Shocks and (Maybe) Kills The CW THE BEGINNING OF THE END: Did Containment really just kill off its leading lady in episode 11? Is that a good thing? A very bad thing? You be the judge.