Three kids find a gun
This can never ever end well.
And Liv catches up with Peyton with lots of hugging and
sentiment and awwwwwww so much awwwww. Lots of awwww. So much awwwww. Immense
amounts of awwwww. The best possible awwwwww.
Major wakes up in bed with Gilda. Alas he sleeps in
underwear even after having sex. He goes home to greet his dog with “that’s the
smell of sex and self-loathing”. Can we spare an “aww” for Major? The dog, btw,
is one he took from one of his zombie victims. Ravi has named him, of course.
And stuff is still awkward with Liv and Major
Anyway, crime scene – and they notice a lack of piolice
at this scene because the rest have been called out to a cashier who was shot
in a ritzy area. Liv points out that a lot of cashiers are shot but only those
in posh shops get lots of police attention. This victim is a Texan waitress
from a country music place called Lacy. She’s also sending a lot of letters to
a guy called Matt who is in prison – and Matt sends the letters back unopened
Liv is experimenting with her brainy cooking to the cost
of actually making it smell amazing, poor Ravi. They also check out all the
unopened letters – turns out Matt was her boyfriend who dumped her after she
cheated on him. Mat was also released recently. As a bonus Clive is super
awkward and embarrassed reading allowed the sexy letters, much to Ravi and Liv’s
amusement. It’s also clear that Matt has violent anger issues.
Liv is now embracing her southern clichés. And the
ability to play guitar and singing country music.
They go to see Matt with Liv happily chewing him out for
being so judgemental about Lacy.
Also at the police station we’re introduced to FBI Agent
Dell who is in the city to investigate a string of rich people going missing
(these were people Blaine targeted for brain experiences for his clients) who
wants – and gets – Clive’s help since one of his cases may be connected (he
thinks not – it’s actually one of Major’s victims).
Dell does a nifty job of breaking the ice by being kind
of fun and not all hostile as these shows usually demand federal agents be.
Rick turns up at the police station with his heavily
pregnant wife claiming Lacy was in love with him. Liv and Clive are not
impressed and Liv calls him on his lies while his pregnant wife smacks him (Liv
cheering her on). Rick’s alibi dissolves since his wife won’t lie for him. Less
helpfully, she will lie to try and incriminate him.
Under brainy influence, Liv goes to open Mic night at the
bar, joined by Ravi the cowboy (of course) and she does extremely well and now
decides to address her issues with Major. As she leaves, Matt follows her out
for a whole lot of regret about Lacy
Liv then goes to Major to pour her heart out and realise
that she has to let Major go. He kind of takes her epic speech and just closes
the door. Liv snaps and pushes in, he just dismisses whatever she’s feeling or
even who she is based on who her last meal was. Liv reminds him that zombieness
was never her choice and her bad decisions stem from doing the very best she
could in a terrible situation. He just repeats he needs space.
Later, he has to be dragged out of his apathy by Ravi
when his dog escapes. Ravi finds the dog and calls Major out on how much he is
failing lately. To further complete his spiral to rock bottom, Major goes to
buy drugs from a guy he used to help at the shelter – when he tried to keep him
away from drugs.
Peyton is her own investigation trying to take down
organised crime, Stacy Boss, and finding absolutely no-one willing to talk.
Except Blaine – who is very very willing to spill ALL his secrets in exchange
for immunity. His testimony is very useful
Peyton and Liv spend awesome time together discussing how
Liv can’t live in the dog house forever, how something is off about Major and
how neither of them are that keen with Gilda.
Ravi’s personal life gets awkward with Ravi bringing his
new girlfriend Steph home for geeky flirting and a Peyton, his ex-girlfriend,
arrives. Because she’s moving in (Major invited her to stay until she gets a
new place). Awkward. He is wise enough not to accept Steph’s congratulations
that he used to date Peyton who is very attractive (but major points for
de-awkwarding).
On to Blaine who is starting to notice his disappearing
client base due to Major’s murders. One of his minions have also found the guy
who created the zombie-creating utopian, Gabriel. He’s found god and is now
preaching. Blaine is not amused:
“Jesus saves”
“Do you know where he shops?”
There follows brutal violence. And Blaine’s minions
discussing zombie Jesus and continually tormenting Gabriel until he shares his recipe.
Step two is turning him into a zombie – and offering him brains and cure for
the cure. Gabriel still refuses, so Blaine kicks him out to fend on his own
until he’s willing to ask help.
The case of Lacy is tidied up – by it being the robber
from the robbery mentioned at the beginning of the episode, just hiding in her
closet. Lacy was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Liv reflects on the
randomness of life – and Major, hitting bottom, goes to Liv and asks for help.
They kiss…
iZombie so
often baffles me. They will do some really bizarrely offensive things sometimes
– and then other times they will insert lines like Clive’s
driving Miss Daisy comment, or Liv’s observations over which crimes are
taken seriously, or Liv’s excellent take down of Matt’s judging Lacy for
cheating after he nearly beat someone to death.
I am glad Liv and Major had it out – yes Liv made some
terrible decisions that hurt Major and yes he is going to take a long time recovering
from that – but equally he has utterly failed to acknowledge the position Liv
was in, her experiences or her general lack of good choices. Yes she has a lot
to apologise for, but she also has some major extenuating experiences that need
acknowledging
We’re also seeing a pretty well depicted devolution from
Major – he does seem to be beginning a slow spiral. It’s utterly terribly sad
to watch really – but well done. And him asking for help was ideal
Them kissing not – the whole episode has basically
depicted Major collapsing and falling a apart – he is way too vulnerable for
any kind of relationship to begin or reignite here.
I actually kind of like the case in this episode. On most
crime shows, by necessity, the murder is about the victim or the murderer.
Either a long convoluted plan to kill the victim or because the murderer is a
serial killer. Clues are put together and answers found – but how often do we
see the random murder? The armed robber, the opportunist, the mugging gone
wrong, the wrong-place-wrong-time? Crimes which aren’t solved with deduction
and subtle clues, but so often look and coincidence?
