iZombie is back
and so is back from the dead Blaine, newly zombied and happy to groan “brains”
at Ravi.
Because he’s Blaine, and he’s nearly always awesome
(though don’t make jokes about Ravi being attracted to him if you’re not going
to through in an actual LGBT character please). He snarks. Ravi snarks (he is
also an awesome snarker. In fact this whole show is all about the awesome snark).
But, on a more serious note, it also means that Blaine
may be about to die like the zombie rats who took the cure did… and while
no-one cares too much about Blaine dying, having all the city’s zombies lose
their source of brains would be a very very very very bad thing.
Thankfully to help that, the murder this week is a research
scientist – which both Liv and Blaine partake in and start spouting surprising
scientific insight
Ok, can I have a little side here – Liv is a doctor. Liv
was brilliant in medical school. The amount of surprise she faces because she
speaks all sciency is kind of annoying. Liv isn’t uneducated, her knowing these
things is not surprising.
Anyway the murder investigation does lead them to Max
Rager since the dead woman did work there for some time. This leads to some
clumsy undercover work, Liv terrifying Ravi by putting on make up to look human
(or, more likely, took the make up OFF and returned to the actor’s actual skin
and hair tone. And yes, it does look creepy when Ravi says it) and getting a
vision of fully rotty zombies in Vaughn’s basement lab
Unfortunately for Liv, it turns out the murderer was
someone else entirely, found by Clive doing actual police work (I appreciate
this. I like that even with Liv’s visions, we’re still seeing Clive solve these
cases with dedicated, conventional investigating despite Liv’s enthusiasms).
Blaine does get very mopey and emotional about his
potential upcoming death (as well as keeping his head down to allow Stacey Boss
to think he’s dead. Blaine’s not challenging him again). He’s also showing
signs of illness… he has a cure from Ravi, but it’s completely untested…
We also have some very dramatic changes with Max Rager –
and Vaughn another gloriously terrible villain. But we do get a hint of one
thing he cares about – Gilda. Despite her endless contempt for him and his
often dismissal of her, he’s surprisingly outraged when Gilda shows her black
eye after her little confrontation with Liv. However, that care only seems to
go so far: Vaughn is still working on
his new energy drink which he’s warned will still
make people aggressive like the previous drink AND makes people super fast
and strong at the same time.
He tests it on his pet zombie – and then taunts it. At
which point the super strong zombie gets free, eats his scientist and chases
Vaughn and Gilda. Vaughn… abandons her while he escapes in the lift.
He looks shaken, upset and horrified by what happened –
but he still abandoned his daughter to an angry raging zombie. He sits, looking
shaken, when the lift chimes and out strides… Gilda. Looking bloody, in pain
and she hammers on the door demanding to be let in. Vaughn doesn’t – again he
locks his daughter out
Did Gilda become a zombie? It seems unlikely that she got
out of that without taking any injury at all.
There’s one more little twist – Liv gets suspicious of
Drake due to his unreliable behaviour. She stalks him – and sees he works for
Stacey Boss. She plans a public confrontation – but Blaine sets Major on Drake
as his next zombie target to placate Max Rager (adding to his freezer of
inanimate zombies). Drake doesn’t show up to the meeting with Liv which is likely
going to cause all kinds of angst
And to mix it up some more – Clive and Dale have done
some more research on Blaine… and found human brains.
This episode had a lot of game changers in it – Blaine,
Drake, Gilda, Clive and Vaughn – this is going to be interesting. I also wonder
whether taking out one of Stacey Boss’s minions is going to antagonist him –
Vaugn vs Stacey? That should be interesting
