It’s time for everyone to think about their feelings this week on iZombie. When a mindfulness teacher is killed, Liv channels his inner enlightenment but everyone else deals with feelings in their own minds. Major contemplates what it will mean to forget everyone while Blaine deals with the aftermath of doing just that. Ravi and Peyton talk it out and it doesn’t exactly go as well as either one hoped. “Eat, Pray, Liv” was written by Graham Norris and directed by Mairzee Almas. Here is what went down.
CORPSE POSE | Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) and Liv (Rose McIver) catch a new case of a murdered mindfulness teacher, Topher, who was killed mid-meditation. Their only lead is a homeless man who tells them he saw a tall dark-haired stranger run out of the building and down the alley before depositing a trash bag in a nearby dumpster. Clive takes one for the team and fishes the bag out of the dumpster and in it they find a pair of large bloody shoes. Clive discovers that before he was a mindfulness teacher, Topher was a hotshot venture capitalist who was busted, along with his business partners, for trying to move a large amount of cocaine (as you do). One of the business partners only recently got out of jail but when they interview him, despite him being irritating and full of himself, he doesn’t match the physical description the homeless man gave. They resort to staking out the alley way to find the homeless man again but it leads them to the token neighborhood nosey woman who informs them that the homeless man was the one she saw dump the trash bag and run away, not some tall stranger. They realize the ‘homeless man’ was playing them the whole time and was in fact the business partner who killed Topher for revenge. They get their guy without a single zombie vision from Liv though the mindfulness brain definitely helps her channel her inner chill.
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HAUNTED BY THE PAST | Blaine (David Anders) and Peyton (Aly Michalka) are still close much to Ravi’s (Rahul Kohli) displeasure. She helps Blaine with a ‘complication’ with his father’s will seeing as he is still lacking any of his memories. That ‘complication’ turns out to be his father (guest star Robert Knepper) revealing to him that he’s still alive (ish) and wants his money back. Blaine, not realizing the relationship he and his father had, happily returns it and hopes they can catch up. His father drops the bomb on him that not only do they not get along, the very sight of Blaine makes him sick. He leaves and takes his newly returned money to Don E. (guest star Bryce Hodgson) where they start work on their zombies-only club. Ravi goes to Peyton to apologize for not being there for her but it backfires when he makes it more about his insecurities than an actual apology. To make matters worse, he has come up with an experimental cure for the memory loss and when Blaine says he would rather not take it and remember the bad things he’s done, Ravi takes out all his frustrations on him in the moment in front of everyone. It ends with him telling Peyton he is in love with her and Blaine agreeing to take the memory serum but it isn’t the happy moment it could have been. Later, Peyton shows up at Ravi’s to talk to him about his love confession and tells him that the only thing stopping them from being together is him and his behavior. He apologizes and promises to do better and just when everything seems to be coming together for them, a crash in the other room alerts Peyton to the fact that she was not his only female caller of the evening. His former boss (guest star Christina Cox), back in town on the Max Rager case, is in his kitchen in just a shirt with a now-broken wine glass and Peyton storms out, leaving Ravi to contemplate exactly how badly he messed up.
NO-GURT | Time is running out for Major (Robert Buckley) before he will be forced to take the cure and lose his memories just like Blaine did. In the meantime, he continues his training at Filmore Graves with the other zombie mercenaries but he is ‘last kid picked in gym’ bad compared to the career mercenaries turned zombies. His only friend is a guy named Justin (guest star Tongayi Chirisa) who, just like Major, wasn’t a mercenary before becoming a zombie but rather, was the DJ at the company retreat that turned everyone to Team Z. They bond over trying to fit in and the grossness of the brain Go-Gurts and Major invites Justin over to his place for “the real stuff”. They partake in Zumba instructor brain and are getting their Just Dance on when Liv shows up and joins the fun. Major realizes the gravity of forgetting everyone he loves and when Blaine initially refuses to take the memory serum as a guinee pig, Major tells Ravi that he will take it regardless because he wants to remember his old life and the people in it.
OTHER THOUGHTS:
• I may be wrong but I think this is the first episode of the series where a case had not one zombie vision from anybody.
• I would not be upset if they had weekly Just Dance parties featuring varying levels of dance skills. I need Clive to play at least once.
• I have a sneaking suspicion that Don E. is fast outliving his usefulness to Blaine’s father and is not long for this world.
So what did you think? Will the memory serum work on Blaine? How long until Major takes the cure? What will that mean for his zombie mercenary job? Are Ravi and Peyton done for good this time? Let us know your theories in the comments below!
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