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THIS ISSUE: The Olympics, The Night Of, BrainDead, Power, Big Brother TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Michael Phelps' Last Olympic Gold NBC BECAUSE: At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on Sunday, Michael Phelps took to the Olympic podium one last time. Along with Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, and Nathan Adrian, Phelps made winning gold in the men's 4x100-meter medley relay look easy. Though many Phelps fans might hope that the most decorated Olympian of all time will be back one day to add on to his 28-medal count, Phelps has been adamant that he's retiring following Rio. "I'm just ready for something different," he told NBC in Sunday's post-race interview. "My swimming career might be over, but I have the future ahead of me. It's not the end of a career, [it's] the beginning of a new journey."

The Night Of HBO WHAT HAPPENED: Finally, we're presented with some plausible alternative murder suspects to Naz on Sunday's The Night Of. The non-silver-lining aspect of the looming dark cloud that is this show, of course, is that Naz is also tattooing the word "SINBAD" on his knuckles, swapping drugs with Freddy in his cell, and seeming more and more like he might have been capable of killing Andrea. As Naz's case finally goes to trial, Chandra looks into Mr. Day, the funeral director who seems awfully bitter toward Andrea, while Stone scopes out Andrea's step-father -- you know, the guy who cozies up to old ladies as a trainer to get their cash. Detective Box, on the other hand, is finding out that Naz pushed a classmate down the stairs in high school, but felt no particular guilt about it. All of these developments must be taken into consideration as Chandra begins selecting the jury, so Stone gives her a few tips, including no golfers, bowlers, or sailors, but a big thumbs up to "urban young women." Why? Because they don't care about anyone else's opinion but their own. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The saga of Stone's eczema also got a major update on Sunday night, with the lawyer finally finding a Chinese medicine remedy that works well enough to get him back in a pair of dress shoes. Chandra may not have noticed, but his support group and HitFix sure have; the latter says that even though the repeated focus on Stone's eczema "has easily been the show's most divisive element," the payoff comes on Sunday night in the form of a huge shift for our two main characters in the wake of Stone's cured feet. "[Stone's] relative triumph and slicker new look contrast not only what's become of Naz's family, but of Naz himself," says HitFix. Calling on the shirt-swapping Stone and Naz did just before trial, HitFix notes, "When they first met, Naz was in big trouble, but also the wide-eyed, well-dressed kid who would seemingly never require the services of such a sketchy-looking attorney as John Stone. Now, Stone seems quasi-legit, while Naz is embracing his inner thug."

BrainDead CBS WHAT HAPPENED: Could the brain-eating, occasionally cranium-exploding, green-smoothie-drinking, Cars-loving alien ants of BrainDead possibly bemaking the world a better place? Laurel's dad thinks so. Last week's cliffhanger showing that Dean Healy's brain seemed to have been taken by the bugs was further explored on Sunday night, but things are a little complicated. Fully recovered from her FBI torture, Laurel's sleuthing reveals that her father might not be infected, but his medicine cabinet indicates that he definitely has Parkinson's disease. Luke confirms that he was diagnosed a year ago, and that's why he was so insistent that Laurel come back to D.C. But after a little more snooping, that conversation that every daughter dreams of having with her father's mistress -- so how's your sex life with my dad? -- and walking in on Dean faking a Parkinson's tremor, Laurel realizes that her father has indeed been infected by the space bugs (bad), but he's also been cured of his Parkinson's completely (...good?). WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Laurel knows. Her dad knows she knows. And he wants to convince her -- seemingly as a loving father -- that being infected is inevitable: "This is happening, and people are going to be better for it," Dean tells her. With the infection of Laurel's father, Vulture points out, "It's not just stressing the abstract 'people will be better for it' angle -- he's actually better for it. The Parkinson's is gone. He's not staring down the barrel of a shortened lifespan and a final year of life in which his wife has to care for him. He wants Laurel to accept not just this inevitable reality, but to accept him." That's some heavy stuff for a fun show about space bugs. To decompress, might we recommend a repeat viewing of Sunday's pharmaceutically-themed "Previously on" segment...

Power Starz WHAT HAPPENED: Power showrunner Courtney A. Kemp promised EW she was going to "pump more octane" into the series' third season, and Sunday's episode proves she wasn't messing around. Angela travels further down the path of protecting Ghost over upholding the law -- yes, the Lobos case is basically finished and Ghost is nearly murdered -- but none of that compares to the fact that Tommy killed his pregnant girlfriend Holly in an anger-rage blackout on Sunday night. After finding out that it was the Koreans who attempted to kill him, and figuring that it was Ghost who saved him, Tommy decides to go pay his thanks to his former BFF. That's when Holly fesses up that it's too late -- she's already put the hit on Ghost since she knew Tommy was never going to. And that's when they get in a monster of a fight that escalates to Holly taunting, "Now that Ghost is dead, you don't exist!" Tommy blacks out and chokes her to death. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: And with the murderous end of one relationship comes the dangerous return to another: Ghost and Tommy agree to team up and take Lobos down together. Actor Joseph Sikora spoke to EW about what it was like finding out that Tommy would kill Holly, saying, "Courtney has always told us that this is the world that you live in -- your life is not a guarantee. You're always prepared, at least in some capacity, that something crazy could happen at any time." This time, that something crazy was Tommy killing his girlfriend to make her "just shut up," but of Holly's portrayer, Lucy Walters, Sikora said, "I've never, ever seen any actor in all of my 25 years of acting be as gracious with a death scene as Lucy. She gave 110 percent in every single take. The hardest day of work of my life was that day, because we've become very close friends."

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Big Brother's Biggest Eviction Yet CBS TEARS FOR PAULIE: Backs are stabbed, tears are shed, and the evictions are buy one, get one free on Sunday's Big Brother. (Pro tip: If you're a Jersey girl -- watch with care.)