We rejoin Team Z exactly 2.8 seconds after we last left them in the iZombie finale last season and their problems are just beginning. They must determine if Vivian Stolls and her zombie posse are true allies or just using them and figure out her grand zombie plan in the process. Blaine is still memory free and trying to stay in Peyton’s good graces but Don E. isn’t about to let go what happened to him and Chief by Mr. Boss’s hand. Major just wants to put his Chaos Killer days behind him but that is easier said than done. “Heaven Just Got a Little Bit Smoother” was written by Rob Thomas and directed by Dan Etheridge. Here’s what went down in the season three premiere.
BY OUR ZOMBIES COMBINED | After the massacre at the Max Rager party, Liv (Rose McIver) has to protect her friends, zombie and human alike and the best option appears to be teaming up with Vivian Stoll (Andrea Savage) and her team of zombie mercenaries. As a newly minted member of Team Z, Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) struggles to wrap his head around all the information being thrown at him but keeps his cool for the time being. The two of them and Major (Robert Buckley) leave Vivian to her cover up business and head back to Liv’s apartment to meet up with Ravi (Rahul Kohli) and Peyton (Aly Michalka) and get everyone up to speed. They make a no secrets pact between the five of them and agree to get more information from Vivian about what exactly she meant by “zombie homeland”. Liv, Major, and Clive meet with Vivian at her company where she gives them the lowdown on their plan for when the humans inevitably discover that zombies exist (aka D-Day). They have an island they are working on making the ultimate zombie sanctuary complete with school house for zombie children. She turned all her employees into zombies after a deadly virus spread through a company retreat including the children that are now being schooled in house. One of the children knows Clive (which is the first sign he is not long for this world) and that seems to give Clive something to wrap his mind around. He still isn’t feeling great about the highly trained zombie hopped up on Max Rager and ready to kill but he understands where they are coming from. He can’t dwell long on that however because he and Liv have to stop a witness from the massacre from revealing what he saw on live radio to a host who is already looking for conspiracies. They are too late and have to hope that the public will just assume it is another crack pot theory. Liv’s soldier brain wears off and it hits her all at once what happened and Clive is the one to remind her that she did what she had to do to save all of them. At the morgue, Ravi and Liv are paid a visit by Ravi’s old boss, Dr. Kupps (guest star Christina Cox), with a body from the massacre that is full of clues about zombies. But before they can steer her in another direction, they get a call to a crime scene where they find the little boy, Wally, from before who has been killed along with both his parents in a style that suggests it was done solely because they were zombies. Because of Clive’s connection to the boy he is taken off the case but they vow to solve it on their own both to get justice for Wally and to keep the public unaware of the zombie nature of the crime.
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FUZZY MEMORIES | Blaine (David Anders) still has no memory of his former self (or so he claims) but Don E. (Bryce Hodgson) isn’t so sure. He believes Blaine is faking it and blames him for everything he went through at the hands of Mr. Boss’s men. He quits and storms out but not before checking Chief’s perma-dead body and finding a thawed, but still undead, body of Blaine’s father (guest star Robert Knepper). Blaine gets a visit from Peyton who tells him Mr. Boss has fled the country and while she doubts he will come after them again, she still gets nervous alone. He tells her he can always call her if she needs someone and while she knows old Blaine was a horrible person, she isn’t quite sure if new Blaine is or not. That is why when she receives some particularly nasty messages online and Ravi doesn’t answer her call, she turns to Blaine for comfort. At the morgue, Ravi continues to work on a cure but the current formula only has seventeen doses left and leaves the former zombie with amnesia so it isn’t exactly ideal. To counter that, Ravi has started work on a cure for the amnesia and claims to be getting close. Elsewhere, Don E. has finally managed to thaw out Blaine’s dad using the teeniest hair dryer and has a proposition for him. He suggests they team up against Blaine in their own brain business and not only is Blaine’s dad in, he wants to go bigger.
JOB SEARCH | Even though he has been exonerated as The Chaos Killer after Vivian successfully steered the blame to Max Rager, Major is still having trouble being seen as anything else. His and Ravi’s house was vandalized and Major can’t even get a cup of coffee without having “Chaos Killer” written on the cup (incredibly unprofessional but I digress). He struggles to find even a part time job that will hire him with all that negative publicity. Lucky for him, there is a company that doesn’t care if he is a zombie or if he was The Chaos Killer and that is Vivian and her team of zombie mercenaries. He joins the zombie protection task force who will be expected to down Super Max in order to protect the cause by any means necessary.
OTHER THOUGHTS:
• The continued Rob Thomas jokes are the gift that keeps on giving.
• I am here for Peyton ‘has the mayor on speed dial’ Charles and her refusal to take anyone’s nonsense.
• Line of the Night goes to the team of zombie mercenaries and their chant of “You can’t kill me, I can’t die. Unless you shoot me in the eye.”
So what did you think? Will Major joining Vivian’s task force lead to him being on the wrong side? Who killed Wally and his parents? Is Blaine lying about the memory loss? Let us know your theories in the comments below!
iZombie airs Tuesdays at 9pm on The CW.