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THIS ISSUE: Wayward Pines, Mr. Robot, Kingdom, Suits, DNC TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Wayward Pines Hits Reset Button Fox BECAUSE: In its season finale, instead of war, Wayward Pines gave us peace in what could certainly function as a series finale if a season 3 never comes. With Jason dead, Theo takes over, and his first act as leader is to pack everyone (well, the good ones) back into their cryostasis pods. Humanity needs a redo. But in the end, it's really Kerry who saves mankind by shooting herself up with a bunch of viruses and plagues and exposing herself to the Abbies. Rather than wiping them out, though, an epilogue shows us that the exposure turned the Abbies into something much closer to humans, perhaps even something a bunch of other thawed-out humans could cohabitate with. Mr. Robot USA Network WHAT HAPPENED: It's our lucky day: in Wednesday's episode of Mr.Robot,we get the origin story on fsociety and Mr. Robot, and Elliot is finally back in front of a computer. The hour opens with a flashback to Darlene showing up at Elliot's door in what we know as the fsociety mask, but what a younger Darlene and Elliot knew as a mask from their favorite film as adolescents, The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie. As the brother and sister reconnect, Elliot dons his dad's old Mr. Robot jacket, and suddenly he's rolling out big ideas to Darlene about taking down Evil Corp. And so it began. In the present, Darlene is paying another visit to her brother, but this time she's telling him she needs some of that post-hack "follow through" they talked about in the flashback. Elliot tells her that wasn't him talking about follow through but, y'know, him. Darlene responds, "Well, then maybe I need 'him' right now." Ask and you shall receive, sister -- sort of. After Elliot finds out the FBI is at their doorstep, he hops on a computer, and with Mr. Robot standing directly over his shoulder, Elliot says he's hacking the FBI database. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Wednesday's episode starts in the past and ends looking toward the future, and Vulture is loving the narrative symmetry. "The opening sequence is very heavy-handed, as is the majority of this episode. (Extended chess metaphor ahoy!) But Mr. Robot has never been one for subtlety, and for all its extremely pointed dialogue... the scene between Darlene and Elliot functions beautifully as an origin story for Mr. Robot and fsociety," they say. "Combined with last week's opening of Romero and Mobley at the arcade, Mr. Robot is studiously filling in the backstory that it obscured in season one to maintain the mystery of Mr. Robot's true nature. Now that we know the score, it's pretty satisfying to go back and see the pieces fall into place from a more objective viewpoint, outside of Elliot's skewed perception of things." Indeed, it makes plenty of space in our brains to wonder what comes after Elliot newest declaration: "I'm hacking the FBI." Kingdom DirecTV WHAT HAPPENED: After Wednesday night's tragic episode of Kingdom, EW recapper Samantha Highfill says, "If this season kicked off with Jay at his best, it's ending with Jay at his very worst." No, the season isn't over yet, but it's hard to imagine things getting much worse for Jay than they are now. To Jay's credit, he spends the first part of Wednesday night's hour opening up about his downward spiral -- how winning his two fights didn't really do anything to change his life, so he turned to alternatives. A large part of Jay's descent into drugs and alcohol was, of course, Ava and the little hotel hidey-hole they carved out for themselves. So when Jay has to go back to training for his rematch against Ryan and Ava is left alone, she gets desperate for drugs and goes to their sketchy neighbor, who kills her. In the episode's devastating final scene, Jay finds Ava's body at the bottom of the hotel pool. And so goes their blissful, drugged-out bubble. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: If you can believe it, that scene is matched by another of equal heartbreak. Lisa drunkenly stumbles into Alvey's date, and after Roxanne leaves, she wants to know why he didn't come get her when their baby died. As things escalate, Lisa gets physical and Alvey pins her against a wall as she tells him tearfully, "You killed me. I f---ing hate you." Oh, it is tough stuff. Actress Kiele Sanchez spoke to EW about how she used her art to tackle the late-term miscarriage that she personally experienced in between the front and back halves of Kingdom's second season. But even before her own miscarriage, Sanchez told show creator Byron Balasco she wanted it to be a storyline they considered for Lisa: "I said, 'I don't know that I've seen that on television,'" Sanchez explained. "And I also thought it was interesting that Lisa really didn't want this baby. What would happen to somebody who loses something they never really recognized they wanted in the first place?" Suits USA Network WHAT HAPPENED: On Wednesday's episode of Suits, everyone is doing things they don't want to: On the suit-and-tie side of things, Louis is forced to find a tenant for the empty offices while Harvey has to jump through hoops to please a big-ticket potential client he can't stand in order to save the firm. And on the prison-blues side of the story, things are very lowkey. Just kidding, everything is terrible. Harvey is unable to get Gallo transferred to another prison because he's an FBI informant, and one day while Mike is working in the kitchen, Gallo and his dudes give Kevin a beatdown. Mike gets them back on Gallo's good -- or at least not-so-bad -- side by telling him that Harvey wanted him to tell the entire prison about his FBI involvement, but he refused. Mike and Kevin might be safe for now, but not necessarily from each other: Harvey has worked out a deal to get Mike out of prison if he informs on his roommate. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Mike sure is making a lot of pals in prison. Among them is his prison counselor Julius, played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The actor chatted with YahooTV about his character and just how long he's been hoping to get a part on Suits. Apparently, he originally auditioned for one of the lead roles, though he can't remember which one (we've got him down as a Harvey). Now, Warner told YahooTV, he's thrilled to come on at a time when the show is exploring another side of Mike: "Mike is in a position that he hasn't been in in such a long time -- he's helpless. Julius is the guy who is there to help him, but he's also the guy, even if Mike doesn't want to listen to his s---, he has to listen to it." Warner added that he "was only supposed to be in it for a couple episodes, but [creator Aaron Korsh] keeps bringing the character back." One More Thing... Presidential Mic Drop News Networks ROCK THE VOTE: President Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night to offer his impassioned endorsement of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and when Donald Trump's name was met with boos by the crowd, POTUS quickly responded with a singular message: "Don't boo -- vote."