This episode’s murder
is a rich lady who is the worst ever, killed by a golf ball launched from a
golf ball gun. Honestly absolutely no-one mourns this worst woman ever
Of course Liv eats
her brains and becomes equally terrible, constantly insulting people and
treating everyone like servants, especially Clive. The good side is Clive
resolutely refuses to be treated that way - and underscores the racial
implications of her behaviour. He also snarks her excellently.
The investigation has
several servants all declare the dead woman to be a truly nice lady with no
enemies. Clive has been with Liv on this woman’s brain for a hot minute and
knows this is a terrible, awful lie and anyone who met her would clearly want
her dead. Especially when they discard her gems as a motive.
A surprise comes when
they find this very very terrible woman actually left $1,000,000 each to her
servants and many of them have major motives to want that money. One of which
is her chef - whose son is dying from a heart disease. He needs an operation,
one he can’t get in the zombie city of New Seattle. She needs the money to
bribe a coyote to smuggle him out of the city - and agrees to confess to the murder
if they’ll get her son out
But that means going
to a part of the city on lockdown (due to anti-zombie terrorists) and smuggling
someone out of the city. Something Clive, a cop, can’t agree to - and Liv on
terrible brains has zero inclination to do.
It wasn’t the most
insightful brain to eat but it was definitely amusing.
Major is having his
own dilemma struggles - he’s taking Captain Seattle (who needs an actual name)
out on the street with guns and no training because Chase Graves, despite being
a soldier, thinks this is a good idea. Showing either a) he is a fool or b) he
is absolutely desperate. Major reminds them just how important it is to keep
their helmet on since, beyond brain damage, zombies are pretty much immortal
Their first encounter
is a group of people harassing a zombie business: Major tries to calm
everything down and does a very good job (though I don’t see how it will stick
after Major leaves) but Jordan is provoked by the humans and one of them grabs
her helmet. After underscoring how important that is so we know why she freaks
out she chases him down and attacks him - and goes full on Zombie
Major stops her, and
they manage to stop one of his friends killing him as he begs them to when he
screams that he’s been scratched. But all of this is recorded on a phone and is
going to be really really really bad PR. This is going to be a trainwreck.
For more trainwreck -
the “Prophet” Angus and his hammer is gathering his worshipful congregation and
using them to attack the illicit brain dealers (and the soldiers who supply
them) and is now handing them out for free to all zombies - all with the
address of his congregation in the wrappers. And some of those dealers got
smashed with the hammer as well… another powder keg
And there’s a
personal one for Liv. when she comes down off evil brains she feels for the ill
child and is horrified. She convinces Ravi to help smuggle him to the forbidden
zone and runs into Major, guarding it. He doesn’t like it but grudgingly covers
for them and she takes him to Mama Leone, the Revolutionary - and clear
resistance leader of some kind.
But when she gets
home she and Major have a huge fight, him furious that she put them at risk
while he is very much unpleased by her clear disapproval of his work and “life
choices” (Liv blames Fillmoregraves for the zombie outbreak and the walled city
in the first place). He also accuses her of basically thinking of herself
as the only good zombie
Both are now on the
outs with each other. Both are trying to do the best they can but with very
different methods: with Major very much invested in a system Liv clearly is not
a big fan of
We also see Dale and
Clive have… issues. Her being a zombie and him not means they can’t have sex
and this is causing a lot of sexual tension. So much so that Clive asks Ravi to
write him a prescription for SRI’s (which have a side effect of killing
libido). Dale finds out before he takes them but clearly they have issues to
work through
My strongest
impression of iZombie shown by this episode is that New Seattle is
falling apart. It is walled and lacking in expertise and resources that the
city may need leading
It’s a violent,
fragmented city with parts of it officially off limits because Fillmoregraves
has basically given up on the city. Armed zombie soldiers walk the street (and
not enough of them), zombie businesses are harassed and into all that we have
the Prophet Angus walking around with his hammer, clearly building a cult army,
shortages of brains, corruption of the supply and generally everything not
going well. Even though it wasn’t the focus of the episode, I think it did a
good job of laying out the conditions of New Seattle, the powder keg they
represent and even Liv and Major’s fractured relationship nicely underscores
this
