Liv and Clive are
still hunting down the coyote who is smuggling people into the city and killing
people, which involves tasteless jokes about skulls, of course and figuring out
exactly how he gets in touch with his victims. Ravi has found a website he uses
to connect to rich, desperate people looking to get in and out of Seattle
They also find Liv’s
missed connection post trying to find the elusive Tim - Ravi and Clive are duly
mocking of her eternal desperation and this very annoying desperate romantic
brain.
Ravi sets up a fake
account as a rich Englishman stuck in Seattle desperate to leave, complete with
over the top accent (which Clive apparently can’t differentiate from Ravi’s
actual accent).
Liv also checks in on
Renegade to see how the best way to lure in the coyotes are - and she doesn’t
tell them anything new (desperate and rich). But it is a good chance to get her
story. She was turned into a zombie before Fillmore Graves, she doesn’t know
how. But a man helped her with her brain needs, though the visions made it
clear he was killing homeless kids
Which sounds a lot
like Blaine’s old operation
She went to the
police, who naturally did nothing since they didn’t believe in zombies - and in
retaliation the bad guy (Blaine I presume) killed her husband. She shut down
and went quiet - which led to more guilt when Fillmore Graves and the mass
infection happened. She did see Liv though, working, trying to make a
difference, trying to be useful - which is what she’s trying to do
Which is all the more
poignant when we catch up with Blaine. He is trying to get Renegade’s location
from the Brain which also comes with an unfortunate and rather hilarious loose
lips effect - which has Blaine being radically honest with everyone: employees,
customers, pretty much everyone. Of course, he’s such an awful person no-one
believes the terrible things he’s saying
But he does get a
vision leading him to Renegade (after realising there’s more than one
Laundromat in the city since he’s rich and never had to deal with them before).
His goons capture her and deliver her to Chase Graves…
Which isn’t going to
make them very popular - what’s also not making the popular is how the Fillmore
Graves soldiers act with impunity, beating up even zombie destitutes who don’t
fit their standards
We also have Major,
Captain Seattle and Jordan off to find the missing phone with the video - after
Chase Graves finally seems to care and emphasises just how worrisome the whole
PR disaster of the video would be. They head to a bar in a very zombie hostile
part of town
Tucker, the newly
scratched man, finds the bar, clearly a place where he’s usually a regular.
People who once welcomed him are now hostile. His friends seem willing to
accept him - until one childhood friend gives him a gun. His idea of watching
his back is to give him the means to commit suicide… and he can’t bring himself
to do it
In some ways it’s
rather a shame that this story has more of Liv’s love life than it does
Tucker’s rejection because this is a powerful, painful look at what Seattle is
becoming. And also shows how vulnerable people can be preyed upon as he goes
looking for somewhere to belong and finds the Prophet’s church: with it’s
message of zombie superiority and humanity as good. He becomes a fanatical
adherent
Major eventually
tracks down the phone, through the hostile bar (he tries to offer money but
after lots and lots of hostility and provocation he resorts to threats and
gunfire which will probably not help PR at all). They arrive at the zombie
church and the worshippers are super hostile to them and really really creepy
chanting hostility and ominous promises of revenge for Fillmore Graves, who
feasts while they starve. They gather around Major, CS and Jordan and it all
looks very ominous
Only the Prophet
intervening saves them - and Major recognises Angus. The Prophet is willing to
let them go because Major did so much to rescue and help suffering zombies -
but has ominous threats for him wearing Fillmore Grave’s uniform. Tucker does
give them his phone - because more ominous scary things are coming
Ravi’s plan of
becoming bait does work and they successfully capture the murdering coyote so
they can focus more on romantic issues
Ravi and Peyton are
definitely getting closer together though Peyton denies it - she Ravi and Liv
are an excellent group together. When Liv openly tells Clive to split up with
Dale his temper finally snaps: he’s not tolerating that kind of invasion or
interference and he’s really not accepting “brains” as an excuse for Liv
ignoring such a blatant boundary. I think I like this - brains is used a lot on
iZombie to justify a lot of poor behaviour - I do like that lines are
being drawn to ensure that it isn’t an excuse for everything. There are still
roads, there are still lines that shouldn’t be crossed.
Liv does reveal that
Dale is cheating on Clive and it turns out I’m right - they have an open
relationship to get past the whole can’t have sex thing. And Clive hates it but
considers it necessary - which is exactly how not to do a polyamorous or open
relationship.
Liv also chases down
Tim - only to find out he’s a really awful zombie supremist who thinks humans
are food. She dumps him. And Major makes nice - even if they do have their
differences, they’re still friends. He shouts. On weird wrestler brain. Because
iZombie. Which ends with a whole zombie human dance in the Scratching
Post
The lesson of this
episode; the lesson of this series so far, is how everything is pretty much
falling apart: there are groups of zombies who loathe humans. There are groups
of humans who hate zombies and whole sections of the city where it’s not safe
for zombies to go. We have the Prophet adding fuel to the fire and Coyotes good
and evil causing more problems. But one thing that seems to unify
everyone is that absolutely no-one likes Fillmore Graves - even Liv - so pretty much everything is
going to eventually fall apart.
The flip side is the
Scratching Post - the zombie human nights Liv, Major et al thought would be an
utter disaster which they’re now attending because they’re great fun and they
do show zombies and humans working together and getting along. It’s a nice
balance of ominous ominous ominous - here hope! A shred of hope!
