Liv can’t bring
herself to carry out Isobel’s last wish - to eat her brains. She just can’t
face the body. Which also gives Ravi more time to experiment at least
And they have another tragic drama brewing - Curtis their captured coyote, is due to be executed by Chase Graves unless “Renegade” gives herself up.
Liv, naturally, is
all for this. Ravi and Levorn are very insistent that she better not. I get it
form the whole personal connection but the idea that Liv is utterly central to
the organisation given how recently she joined them is a little dubious
Chase is also seeming
increasingly disillusioned with Chase with Captain Hobb from admin dropping in
to basically sound Major out on a coup - preferably with Major in charge. Which
Major is willing to listen to after the killing of Captain Seattle last week
(and Jordan, camping with Major while recovering, is all in favour of this).
Unfortunately it seems Hobb is secretly working for Chase in his paranoia who
is feeling out whether Major is still the loyal golden boy
Just because he’s
right doesn’t mean Chase isn’t paranoid.
As Liv begins to
sneak out to give herself up, Major is there to stop her: declaring that she’s
right
And can I just say a resounding “fuck you” to Major here? Sure it’s easy to be outraged by injustice and death when it’s someone you care for who is being hurt - but he was right there while Mama Leone was being executed. You were there firing guns to intimidate journalists. So, yes, Major is in my shit box.
He can’t talk Liv out
of it so he drugs her and kidnaps her
Yes, he’s definitely
in my shit box. He even leaves a message with Jordan to tell Ravi and Levorn
not to worry but he’s kidnapped Liv until after Curtis is executed (never mind
him or his pregnant wife).
Major then makes
himself even worse by giving him and Liv the brains of an ancient happily
married couple, turning her into a 1950s housewife. Oh but don’t worry, Liv
Cleaver does make it clear that this only works because she likes Major anyway.
Yes, we know she likes Major, they were betrothed. But she’s also ragingly
pissed with him and we know exactly how much brains control Liv’s behaviour.
Major, you are the worst for this attempt at mind control Stockholm Syndrome.
The utter worst
But there’s a bright
side! As Don E hears from one of his unhappy customers, while the brains are
labelled as devoted loving couple who died at the end of a long life together;
what wasn’t known is that car crash was caused by the wife who was SO
THOROUGHLY SICK OF HIM!
So Liv restrains him
in the cage in the basement (Liv has taken them to a Fillmoregraves safehouse -
a safehouse that has been long abandoned since the previous residents have been
reduced to Romero zombies from hunger) and tells him how little she appreciates
being kidnapped and how she’s off to save Curtis now.
She leaves but
doesn’t have much transport - thankfully Rus the fugitive from last episode
hits the safehouse looking for brains and puts some bullets in Major. Liv comes
up behind him and kills him properly dead - and steals his car. And leaves
Major locked up.
Back in town there’s a murder - of a social media/instagram star/socialite/influencer who goes by “White Girl” on account of being a zombie but then taking the cure and then stealing Zombie’s look and fashions (ok, zombies has been a thing for like, a year. Other than being really pale, they don’t have a culture to “appropriate”. Please stop stealing social justice issues you know nothing about).
Clive also adamantly
refuses to call her “White Girl”
And Ravi has to tell
Clive everything about Liv to explain why she isn’t available to eat brains.
Clive is actually pretty ok with all this, not having been on the Fillmore
Graves train for a while.
Also, Ravi is having
a zombie mode as well so he can eat that brain for them. Oh
Oh… well… well I
think we can praise the acting here.
It seems that other
zombies who follow Brother Love hate her as an “apostate”. More, Brother Love -
Angus - has called on his minions to kill her, even waving his classic hammer
around while doing. She was killed by a hammer blow
They bring in Angus
for questioning which means a lot of his minions show up - and the french
detective from Fillmore Graves. Which allows Clive to make a nifty Pink Panther
burn - but mainly because he has become a true convert to Angus’s church. And
when Tucker, Angus’s loyal congregant, confesses to the murder to free Angus,
the detective lets the zombie go rather than deliver him to be frozen.
Chase is losing
control on all sides.
Now for the storyline
which makes no sense: Blaine is worried about zombie extinction. He’s worried
about increasing tensions between Seattle and the rest of the US. He’s worried
about the brain supply being cut off. He’s worried that this will cause zombies
and humans in New Seattle to fight each other - if humans win, zombies will be
wiped out. If zombies win the US government will nuke the city and zombies will
be wiped out.
All very true
His plan - to lead
Angus’ flock out into US, past all the bombs and traps, and infect a gazillion
people until half the population is infected.
Which… will fail.
Utterly utterly fail. There’s not enough brains there to feed the population,
not even close. Why are they so confused about their food source?!
Angus wants a sign
from god for this - so Blaine arranges for it to rain pureed brains. Of course
this pleases Angus and the apocalypse is on
That’s ominous and
cliffhangery
And Liv returns to
the city to turn herself in to Chase to be executed...
This is also ominous
and cliffhangery
And Ravi studying
Isobel’s brain, White Girl’s cured zombie brain, applies science and creates: A
CURE FOR ZOMBIENESS
Which is also ominous
and cliffhangery. We must be near a season finale
