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THIS ISSUE: Zoo, Pretty Little Liars, Containment, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Zoo Kills Off Its Leader CBS BECAUSE: Let this be a lesson: Never trust the "next week on" segment of a show that brings you earthquake sloths and glass snakes. Last week it seemed almost certain that Chloe would survive her exposure to the Noah Objective's poisonous gas, but on Tuesday night's episode, the Animal Avenger's resident intel operative was revived only long enough to choke out her last breaths while trying to lead the team to Jamie in Caraquet. Our tears may not have been oily and traced with Phase 2 mutation like Jackson's, but they were there. Zoo CBS WHAT HAPPENED: Chloe's death only accounted for the first seven minutes of Tuesday's Zoo! As the team mourned the loss of their leader, they finally found out who'd been funding that fancy plane of theirs: Allison Shaw, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and apparently, Mitch's step-mom. She has a vested interest in finding a cure because she wants to save the world and all that, but mostly because her family's huge orchard has been infested with some glass-like substance that's killing the trees. That glass is coming from molted mutant snake skin, as we learn when a snake crawls out of a man's mouth. The snake leads Mitch to a feasible plan for a cure to the animal apocalypse. The plan entails finding the remaining three animals with genomic fossils present in the triple helix DNA strand. Meanwhile, Chloe's tip about Caraquet finally reunited the rest of the team with Jamie, and just in the nick of time because girlfriend was about to get eaten by polar bears. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: As we reeled from the loss of everyone's favorite Parisian, Zoo executive producer Josh Appelbaum broke down the logic behind Chloe's death to EW. "In many ways, on a sort of procedural level for our team, she was the glue," said Appelbaum. "Chloe was at the center of so many stories, so to do it this way allows us to shift the entire dynamic of the show, and to go a level deeper with all of these characters." What should we expect from those deeper characters moving forward? Jackson is on a bit of a time crunch to not mutate into a monster-man, Applebaum reminded us: "We're definitely putting that stuff front and center this season. We're not doing some slow burn where, oh, maybe if we get to a third season, we'll see what happens with Jackson. It is on. He's in trouble, and he needs to be healed and fixed quickly. It's a pretty rollicking ride from this point on." Pretty Little Liars Freeform WHAT HAPPENED: On Tuesday's Pretty Little Liars, Ali finally escaped Welby for good, found out Elliot had drained all of her accounts, and Aunt Mary had some explaining to do about being his former accomplice. Go ahead and add Jenna to that list. She shows up to Elliot's house, finds Ali instead, and receives this doozy from the former Welby resident: "The next time you call Archer, tell him I said go to hell." But rather than scaring Jenna off, she ends up meeting her new BFF for life, Sara Harvey, while Ali receives her own tip about Elliot: Detective Furey calls to say they've tracked him down via credit card in Baltimore, even though the lil' Liars deliberately pointed the cops toward Philly. Speaking of deliberate, we're left on a major cliffhanger when Aria arrives at Ezra's apartment to find a hazardous amount of candles. Yes, he pops the big question. Just pretend like Nicole never called him from the dead on his cell phone. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: If you're keeping count, two people who have been presumed dead pop up in Tuesday's episode. Then there's Elliot's creepy "burner apartment," for which Vulture also has some sass: "I get that the show wants these girls in cute outfits with their luscious locks a'flowing, but seriously, they must know by now that they leave trails of evidence everywhere they go. They should be in, like, Jesse and Walt's old-schoolBreaking Bad get-ups. At the very least, they should be wearing gloves." Containment The CW WHAT HAPPENED: Tuesday's episode of Containment served as the series finale rather than the season finale following its cancellation, and the hour proved to provide some closure. (Though, following "two previous episodes that bordered on wonderful," EW recapper Price Peterson would still put Tuesday's finale in "not with a bang, but a whimper" territory.) No, they didn't find a cure or escape the cordon, and the government still hasn't really come up with a plan to evacuate the non-infected folks, but there were still interesting developments: Xander and Teresa got engaged, Jake spread ashes in memory of Katie, Dr. Cannert finally found those antibodies he needed, and Lex just up and decided to move in to the cordon. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Of course, that was never meant to be where the story ended. Showrunner Julie Plec told TVLine that she was satisfied with the way they wrapped things up but that she would have finished the storyhad she known Containment would be limited to one season. "I would have found a way to find a cure and see a sense of hope that the quarantine would be lifted," she said. As Plec told EW, the series made up for its short life with its legacy. "Honestly, I might be more proud of this show than anything I've ever done," said Plec. "Because for a limited amount of money and in a limited amount of time and with a terrific piece of source material and full creative support from everyone involved, we told a story that was dark and sad and mysterious and tense and romantic and painful and beautiful all at the same time, which is the kind of TV I love the most." One More Thing... RNC Imitations Abound on Late Night TV CBS THE BEST FORM OF FLATTERY: Jimmy Fallon as Donald Trump and Laura Benanti as Melania are two acts you can't miss. The Tonight Show and The Late Show might want to team up, write a few songs, and take that show on the road.