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THIS ISSUE: UnREAL, The Bachelorette, The Real Housewives of Orange County, Republican National Convention TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Rachel Takes a Tumble Lifetime BECAUSE: Rachel has been headed down a bad path for weeks on UnREAL-- or, when you think about it, for most of the show's run -- and the return of Adam seems to be her tipping point. When he finally demands to know why she's still at Everlasting, she gives her delusional speech (with an extra helping of eye-roll this time) about how she's changing the world and breaking down preconceived notions about race. Then she calls the police on two black men, Darius and Romeo, who take the show's Bentley for an innocent joy ride. And you know what happens? Romeo gets shot. UnREAL Lifetime WHAT HAPPENED: Quinn's plan to get Rachel away from Coleman lines up perfectly with Adam's plan to get Rachel back and off the show, but it doesn't take long for Coleman to crack that code. He informs Quinn that Rachel's problem isn't him, but rather working for a "controlling, manipulative bitch" -- but we get the distinct feeling that Rachel's problem can't be boiled down to just one thing. After Darius' date with Chantal ends with her dead fiancé's ashes being blown in his face, he's had it. A drunk Tiffany and Yael (who is 100 percent an undercover reporter) convince Darius and Romeo it's time to take the Bentley for a spin. And Rachel decides to call the cops on them, thinking it will both be her world-changing "race story" and that Darius' celebrity will keep them safe. It doesn't. One of the officers gets spooked by Rachel and shoots Romeo, and in the aftermath, Jay finally tells her what's needed to be said all season: "If Romeo dies, this is all on you -- and this is not your story to tell." Rachel ends up curled up in her crew truck again, telling Adam that he's too late to "save" her, and calling her mother, who immediately loads her up with meds and sends her to a psych ward. However, we do not yet know what happens to Romeo. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Ariana Jackson, one of the series' two black writers, reflected on Monday's episode in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "It would have been great for this episode to have been irrelevant by now," said Jackson, referring to the recent police shooting deaths of black men. "It's hard to think about these real life events in the context of what we want for our show. I wish it was last year's problem and it felt dated by now." Series creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, who directed the episode, pointed out how the episode was written before the recent series of shootings. "I definitely was like, 'Oh shit' ... And I hope we got it right because it's such a crucial issue right now and I feel really scared to be on the frontlines of it," she explained. The Bachelorette ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Hometown dates have arrived on The Bachelorette, which EW recapper Samantha Highfill describes as "JoJo's chance to see where her suitors were born and raised, along with just how uncomfortable their poor families get around cameras." These are the things you have to know about your future fiancé! To summarize: Chase comes from a family of divorce, so he's hesitant to throw the word "love" around with, arguably, a stranger, but the date goes so well that Chase just has to tell fair JoJo he's "falling in love" with her before they part. Jordan tells JoJo that they don't really talk about the "Aaron Rodgers is our famous missing brother" thing around his house, so she immediately brings it up with his brother. All is well, though -- JoJo is only worried that Jordan's definition of love is different than hers and that he'll break her heart. Robby seems to be leading the ranks when JoJo confesses to his mom that she's falling in love with her son. Then the mother informs her son that there are a lot of rumors about him and his ex floating around Florida, and things kind of go downhill from there. Thank goodness Luke's date goes so well. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Why is JoJo telling Chris Harrison that Luke is the one who has to go at the rose ceremony?! Well, that would be because he was the only fella who didn't drop the L-bomb on his hometown date, buthold up -- now Luke needs to pull JoJo aside for a quick chat before the rose ceremony to tell her he loves her. We get a big ol' "To Be Continued" as JoJo sobs into the abyss about the four men who love her. In his blog for YahooTV, Harrison has an explanation: "Hometown rose ceremonies are very very tough and JoJo is so caring and so sensitive, there is no way that this night was going to be anything short of tearful," he says. "[Luke] took this moment to express his feelings for JoJo. And it threw her whole world upside down. In no way did Luke mean to upset her, but he really sent her for a tailspin, and that tailspin took so long, we'll have to continue it next week!" We'll be waiting. The Real Housewives of Orange County Bravo WHAT HAPPENED: The Vicki Gunvalson apology tour took a while to get started, but here we are, picking back up at the tail end of Tamra's forgiveness and starting in on Shannon, who is feeling a lot less empathetic. The hits just keep on coming. In a truly terrifying scene, we see Vicki rush her daughter Briana to the hospital as she struggles to breathe, but luckily Tamra is there to take on babysitting duties. Tamra is also there to step in when Shannon wants to open a party initiation email to Vicki by writing, "Although I have made it clear that I am not interested in pursuing the friendship we once had..." Tamra convinces Shannon to change it to something that EW recapper Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal has translated for us: "Although I will not let you ever forget about the bad decision you made dating Brooks for as long as you did, I'll throw you this bone so the next fight we have, I can always hang on to the fact that I did the right thing in the midst of hating your guts..." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Vulture's assessment of the current RHOCdynamic is rather poetic: "This season seems less like a constellation -- a collection of stars that form their own picture -- and more like a bunch of moons traveling their own orbits without a planet's gravity to draw them all together," they say. "Well, that's not entirely true. The gravity that connects all of them is that they hate Vicki." What a simple universe it is! One More Thing... The RNC Heats Up News Outlets YOU'RE HIRED?: The Republican National Convention hit the airwaves on Monday night, and we've already got plagiarism accusations, music problems,and Omarosa.