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THIS ISSUE: Bachelor in Paradise, Animal Kingdom, Pretty Little Liars, Zoo, The Olympics TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Bachelor in Paradise Has a BOGO special ABC BECAUSE: You know that "twin thing" that mostly only happens in the movies in which two identical twins switch places to cheat on a test or dupe their estranged parents into getting remarried? Well, the Ferguson twins onBachelor in Paradise actually pulled it off, and on a date that could presumably turn into the next ABC wedding special, no less! Brandon -- a person that not even Chris Harrison remembers -- shows up in Paradise and asks Haley on a date, and Haley decides a date would be the perfect opportunity to see if a stranger can really tell her and her twin sister Emily apart. So she excuses herself to the ladies room, takes all her clothes off, puts them on her sister, and guess what? Brandon cannot tell the twins apart. And they never tell him they tricked him! Animal Kingdom TNT WHAT HAPPENED: "You play your cards right, you can do well with us." Ah yes, just what every young boy who's been dragged into his family's criminal lifestyle by his maternal grandmother named Smurf wants to hear. But indeed, in Tuesday night's Animal Kingdom finale, J chooses criminals over cops when Alexa freely admits to sleeping with him just to get information on his family under Yates orders. (Ick.) Thanks to J's tip-off, the cops find nothing, and it's a good thing Smurf has a new Cody boy on her team, because just as she's gaining young J, she's losing her eldest. Triggered by Catherine's death and Smurf's favoritism toward Baz, Pope not only lets Vin go after assuring Baz he would "take care of it." He also informed Smurf that she was "sicker than [he'll] ever be," and that he wanted his full cut of the cash, because he was getting his own place. Good luck, Pope, you're gonna need it. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So what made Pope finally cut the criminal umbilical cord? According to actor Shawn Hatosy, "Pope comes to the realization that Smurf uses him and he doesn't like how it feels." He told EW, "She needs Pope for [the things] nobody else can do, including herself." So basically, following Catherine's death, Pope's broken as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. And Pope's telling off of Smurf is bound to cause a major shift in her familial operation: "I think [that final scene is] beautifully written because of the contrast of now that Catherine is gone, we have these other characters: We have J, we have Lena, and we have Nicky," Hatosy told EW. "There's these three new characters that are going to be brought into this world, the Cody family empire, and to watch the corruption take place and to see where they go and how they're affected going forward." As for Pope and all his big boy decisions in the finale, including the one to let Vin live, Hatosy says, "It just feels like they're heading into a huge explosion, and I hope that Pope survives." Pretty Little Liars Freeform WHAT HAPPENED: The brother's back in town! That's right, Jason DiLaurentis is back as Ali's court-appointed caretaker. He kind of looks like Jesus, doesn't trust Mary Drake for a day, and he's pretty peeved that that guy Elliot stole all of his family's money. In between the return of creepy Noel Kahn and the Lil' Liars finding a lockbox that contains Mary Drake's DNA sequence in dead Sara's room, the DiLaurentis / Drake clan decides to have a lovely dinner where Jason's goal is to out Mary as a creep, but Mary kind of steals the main course when she serves up a heaping course of DRAMA. Mary tells the sad story of how Jessica kept Charles' death from her -- "You gave birth, but he was my son. Don't ever forget that" -- a story that leads to the discovery that "Aunt Carol," a.k.a. Jessica, had a storm cellar... a storm cellar that the Liars of course break into and leads them to discover that Mary had a second child, who would be the Liars' age now... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Ah, the intrigue! And the Liars are dealing with yet another one of Ali's family members who probably wants to kill them all while managing their tumultuous love lives. It was almost more than TVLine could take, saying of Toby's confession that he had really started building hisNotebook -style house for Spencer, "When he announced that he and Yvonne are moving to Maine to start a family, I swear I actually heard Spencer's heart break in half. (It might have been mine, but I'm pretty sure it was hers.)" As for the enfianced Aria and Ezra, they're planning a potential elopement since, as TVLine sums it up, "It's really hard to plan a wedding around Aria's busy schedule of committing and/or solving murders." But a silly little thing like getting married won't stop people in Rosewood from rising from the dead, so we'll give you one guess as to which "presumed dead" girlfriend is knocking at Ezra's door just before they're about to hit the road... Zoo CBS WHAT HAPPENED: Nothing like dropping the fact that a main characters' mom has turned into a human-killing mutant in the last 10 seconds to save an episode in which all of the other main characters were acting like uncharacteristically murderous maniacs. When Davies and his men raid the team's super-jet, Jamie finds out Logan has been feeding Davies this information this whole time; consequently, she decides to shoot him with a tranquilizer gun and throw him out of the moving plane. Which is murder. Once the team gets the upper hand on their invaders by secretly releasing the earthquake-sloth at their disposal, Abe tortures Davies until he ever-so-accidentally kills him, but then brings him back to life when Jamie makes a defibrillator out of two beakers and a few electricity-conducting mutant ants. What the woman lacks in toes she makes up for in animal apocalypse ingenuity. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: It all boils down to a few huge parental bombshells: Davies tells Abe that the entire Noah Objective was all Jackson's father's idea, and when Jackson finally makes it to the camp of his mother who's been missing for three days, he finds out her traveling team only had one survivor, and that survivor said it was his mother who'd gone crazy, horrifically killed everyone, and then run into the woods. Not easy for a son who's slowly turning into a mutant because of a ghost gene his dad injected him with as a child to hear. Now that things have turned full-tilt bonkers and everyone seems to be just on the edge of their remaining sanity, it might be a good time to revisit the interview EW did with executive producer Josh Appelbaum about the journey toward Jackson's mutant-status becoming "a bullet train": "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." One More Thing... Simone Biles' Gold Medal and Golden Boy NBC TEENAGE DREAM: Simone Biles may have a gold medal from the 2016 Olympics and an entire signature tumbling pass named after her, but she is still just a teenager, as the life-size cutout of Zac Efron in NBC News' tour of her childhood -- a.k.a., current -- bedroom reminded.