Assassin and new zombie Sebastien makes his way to the
road – where he is run over by a group of stoned kids who have stolen a car.
They freak out at the corpse they now have on their hands and worry about what
to do – they decide to bury him. And then swear not to tell anyone about it –
ever again. I’m sure this is a Horror movie plot.
Sebastian, of course, isn’t dead (or not entirely) and he
rises up and eats one of them – the blonde girl. Yup, definitely a horror movie
trope. Actually I take back the sarcasm, this was a pure homage.
Two weeks later her body is found by a man walking a dog
(honestly between crime drama and true crime shows I am convinced never ever to
own a dog. You take it out walking and you find bodies. EVERYWHERE. It’s almost
as bad as being an early morning jogger! Can you even complete a lap without
finding bodies everywhere?)
The dead girl was called Kimber and has been scattered
about in little pieces when the crime solving gang arrive. Ravi quickly derails
Liv’s examination and explanation to Clive when he realises a cracked skull
points to a zombie murder. This is when Liv decides to tell Ravi about Major
stealing brains and swearing death on all zombies. In addition to not
volunteering to be number one on the killing spree – it gives Liv a new motive
to kill Blaine before Major gets himself killed hunting him
To the morgue with Ravi having some creepy high school
reminiscences and Liv giving him the due suspicious gaze in between
contemplating her next brainy meal. Liv I also pretty dubious about how
drinking “cheerleader brains” will help her tackle Blaine – which Ravi rightly
calls her on, just because Kimber was a cheerleader doesn’t mean she wasn’t
serious or intelligent.
Also cured zombie rat is now called Hope and Ravi bought
her a toy (aww). And she’s dead (aww poor Ravi’s sad face). And, of course,
bitter disappointment over the cure. Still Liv doesn’t let it get her down
because she is riding on perky cheerbrains – and Ravi is enjoying this far too
much
And on those brains she joins Clive in interviewing Kimber’s friend and Clive has to endure perky Liv. But it does work very well on Kimber’s friend Tate. Clive finds it all quite bemusing and Liv desperately reaches for an excuse for why she’s acting so odd. Still they follow a lead to a highschool band that was playing in a message Kimber left
The band are the three other teenagers in the car that
day. Through the sarcasm and excuses they manage to be super suspicious with
their rehearsed alibis – and Liv has a vision of Kimber in the car with them
and Kimber and Nate (one of the band) were “fooling around”.
Liv goes home and Peyton is there! She hasn’t been
banished to the plot box! And they talk and are all friendly (albeit with a
heavy amount of cheerleader brain ruling).
Back at work Clive has put some clues together and
guessed the teenagers stole a car – so they go back to the band only to find
the place wrecked and one of the members, Nate, dead inside. Though when they
get him to the slab none of his brains have been removed. Liv finds it doubtful
that a zombie, especially in full-on zombie mode, would pass up perfectly good
brains.
Clearly more brain eating is involved – on a pizza she
shares with Ravi (not the brains. And yes he can eat pizza around brainy bits,
he’s a pathologist). Ravi has also created another zombie rate to experiment on.
Clive arrives and is upset they’re having a pizza party without him – and eats
a slice of pizza with brains. Uckies uckies. He puts the odd texture down to
mushrooms. Anyway Clive has new clues including Nate being lured to his death
and Cameron, another band member, becoming the next suspect.
Nate is a stoner which carries over to Liv along with her
having a vision of Cameron and Nate arguing over going to the cops. Now Clive
has to deal with a whole new personality Liv. Stoner Liv does amuse me when the
band’s drummer, Teresa comes to the police station. She’s worried she’s going
to be targeted next and tells them all about running over Sebastian. She’s also
watched I know What you did Last Summer.
The sketch artist also has a beef with Liv which is hilarious
because stoner Liv makes just about everything hilarious. But Ravi brings the
bad news that another body sans brain has been found and the police are calling
it a serial killer. Liv has to eat more cheerleader so she can actually think
past the stoner brain. After chugging (well, so Ravi encouraged) cheerleader
brain she also gets the sketch – and recognises Sebastian. Liv realises she
made a zombie and that zombie is killing people
Sebastian has snuck into Liv’s flat – and knocked Peyton
unconscious! Liv is not even slightly happy but he’s even more furious –
because Liv turning him into a zombie led to him eating his beloved Aunt Edna.
For a guy we’re supposed to hate his emotion is really powerful. Liv isn’t
impressed “I haven’t eaten anyone I didn’t want to eat” (not entirely true but
still).
They fight and Liv gets several horrible looking knife
wounds and she seems to be losing before she pulls out Full On Zombie Mode as
well, beats him repeatedly – and stabs him in the head. I think that’s a zombie
killer.
And Peyton saw it all. Including Liv removing a knife
blade from her hand. Peyton is truly horrified and Liv has to try and gently
explain zombiehood to her. She tells her the massive news then gives her space
to get her peroxide for her cut head. When she comes back, Peyton is gone.
When Clive and Ravi arrive, Clive identifies Sebastian as the man Teresa sketched and decides he’s the killer and that’s why he attacked Liv and trying to reassure her for killing him which is lovely – him and Ravi both. She also tells Ravi about Peyton
Back to Teresa gets a text from Cameron asking her to
sneak out – and she does (also ominously mentioning how he scared her). She
goes to the motel – and the door closes behind her (did I see blood spatter?).
We later see her, blood stained and injured, desperately call for help
To Blaine and he’s giving his now vocal-chord-damaged
minion grief over not finding the missing brains – afterall he didn’t kill a
national hero without some expectation of pay off.
Major goes zombie hunting – first by making a terrible
vlog then by posing as a health inspector (because it’s not like Julian would
recognise you, right, Major? Aaaie every choice this man makes! EVERY CHOICE!).
When Julian hears about it later he’s very suspicious and suspects that impossibly
good looking health inspector may be impossibly good looking Major – but Blaine
is too focused on his missing astronaut brains to care.
Ravi and Major actually have a fun moment reminding us
they are friends as Ravi asks advice about a date with Peyton. And Major is
watching zombie killing videos. Oh Major. He also buys some more illegal
weapons. Maybe even a grenade… oh Major
Julian kidnaps Major and gives him to Blaine. And he
guesses Major has the astronaut brains. To top up the number of endangered
characters, Peyton’s brother leaves a job application with Blaine – and he
notices his emergency contact and employs him straight away
Well we ended in a whole lot of peril there
The main one I care about is Peyton – this show has
desperately needed another female character to be in Liv’s life and with Peyton
finally learning the truth she stands to see her character grow a lot. However,
a background (and marginalised) character getting a sudden in to the main plot
line, having more lines and generally being more involved is generally TV speak
for “this person is going to die now.”
As to Major – he frustrates me but at the same time I have
a sneaking suspicion he’s not unrealistic – how many average people ARE
actually that good at investigating or under these circumstances? Still, his
endless poor decision making makes me kind of hope someone eats him
I’m also impressed iZombie
made a point of making Sebastian care – of not just making a cookie-cutter
villain but having him genuinely tormented by what becoming a zombie did to
him.
I’m really impressed with how the actress really works
those brain personalities – yet at the same time don’t want to give the show
points for Ravi and Liv both poking at judgemental stereotyping when the brains
nearly always produce blatant stereotypes.
