Even Goku himself is confused by this course of action, but it makes sense. As Beerus notes, Zamasu's an upcoming supreme kai, they can't just kill him without physical proof of his nefarious scheme. True, both Beerus and Whis note his ill intent is palpable (to them anyway,) but that's not enough.
As such, they decide to watch to see what Zamasu is going to do. It's a tough situation, as Goku repeatedly says that he wants to go help and stop the murder from happening, but Whis is playing the long game.
Sure enough, Zamasu does kill Gowasu, though surprisingly, it isn't by poisoned tea. The show did a good job of making you think that the tea was going to be the means of murder. The ending of the last episode heavily implied it and even here, Gowasu notes that the tea has a strange odor before he takes a sip. When Gowasu offers Zamasu some, the latter declines, further suggesting that something is up.
It turns out that the tea is fine and Zamasu kills Gowasu by chopping off his head with the ki blade. It's lacking in subtlety, but it does give hard proof that Zamasu has fallen to the dark side.
With the proof they need, Whis uses his rewind time ability and the group jumps in to play the big damn heroes. You'd think that someone would have grabbed Zamasu's arm before he could begin the swing or that they would have yelled, but instead, Whis just puts an oven mit on Zamasu's hand. As a strategy, it's a bit on the sillier side, but it does manage to save Gowasu's life.
It's here where the aforementioned dramatic confrontation goes down as Gowasu learns of Zamasu's plan, not only to murder him, but to kill all mortals. Suffice it to say, he's mortfied.
Where the past couple of episodes showed Zamasu as completely unhinged, he seems to have regained his composure here. It's actually much creepier in my opinion, especially in the early scenes where he's still putting up an affable front despite the fact that we know how far gone he is.
Even when he's exposed, Zamasu never loses his cool. On the contrary, he's impressed when the heroes reveal his intent and even takes comfort when he learns that they made a trip to the future, as it supports the idea that he's going to succeed.
Time being linear and all, you can't fault Zamasu for thinking that his future success ensures his present day survival. It isn't long, though, before Beerus puts an end to that notion.
It was nice to see Beerus jump into the fray, something he normally doesn't do. It isn't so much a fight between the two divine beings, as Beerus destroys Zamasu with a killing word. It's no less awesome or satisfying because of it, though.
With that settled, the group returns to Earth, where Beerus announces that the matter is taken care of. Bulma isn't so sure and even Future Trunks notes that changes in this time line don't necessarily mean that his timeline will be free of Black and the iteration of Zamasu that they confronted there.
Beerus is surprisingly dismissive, saying that when it comes to gods, time line changes work differently than it does with mortals and it's all done. To be fair, even Whis confirms this.
That being said, as a viewer, you can tell that it's not quite done yet. For one thing, there's a scene that takes place in the future (I really rather liked the episode's transition by the way) where Black and future Zamasu discuss the next step in their plan, namely making Black immortal the same way Zamasu is and then implementing the "Zero-Humanity plan" which, for whatever reason requires a human to implement.
If that alone weren't enough, the teaser for the next episode shows that the characters return to the future to check, only to see that Black is still very real. "Goku"s dialogue suggests that the next episode will reveal Black's identity. We've heard that before, though. At the very least, it seems that there is more to it besides just being an evil copy of Goku that Zamasu wished into being, so that will be interesting to see.
The episode isn't without its lighter moments. We see (future) Mai interacting with the two children as they bring her some food. She vows to keep fighting to ensure their happiness.
Speaking of Mai, the present iteration of her is intent on cheering future Trunks up when he starts brooding over their retreat from the fight with Black.
Once again, Pilaf and Shu try to aid her in her efforts by telling her to go comfort him so that he'll instantly fall in love. It's cute and funny, but it shows Pilaf as being rather manipulative. His efforts to help Mai are genuine, I'm sure, but the way he talks about it sounds more like a chessmaster giving another player advice on what moves to make in order to win. It's played for laughs, but I still got that vibe as that scene played out.
It's moot as young Trunks beats her to the punch. Following in the footsteps of his father, the kid takes a more drill sergeant approach to comfort and challenges his older self to a fight. That would have been interesting to see, but it's probably a good thing that the future iteration didn't really fight back. Given how much more powerful he is, that probably would have been quite short. Oddly, it does "cheer him up". Saiyans are weird, but it was still kind of a nice moment between the two.
Overall, it was a strong episode. There was a nice emotional balance between drama and levity. If there was a weak spot, it was the attempts at humor, which fell flat quite a bit. Oddly, Pilaf wasn't the problem. On the contrary, his scene was fine, but the aforementioned oven mit wasn't exactly hilarious and the bit where Whis says that Zamasu's ill will smells like Beerus' fart (and the ensuing argument about how bad his farts smell) was forced and unnecessary. Still, that was a minor quibble in the grand scheme of things.
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