We open on a group (including Dick Casablancas from Veronica Mars!) sharing a toast before jumping out of a plane. (On purpose. With parachutes.) This doesn’t end well for one of them, who ends up shishkebobbed on a tree. For some reason Ravi and Liv are at the scene instead of waiting for the body at the morgue, and they make inappropriate banter about food on a stick while waiting to do whatever they’re out there for. Roomie Peyton brings down the mood when she calls to tell Liv that one of their former sorority sisters was in an accident. A skydiving accident. Uh-oh, Livvie knows our brain of the week.
A CSI-type wanders up and tells our dynamic duo that there
are no signs of foul play – the chute deployed as it should, so it seems Liv’s
sorority sister (Holly) was just a victim of bad luck. Right then one of her non-Dick Casablancas friends runs
up to dispute that theory, saying that Holly was a veteran diver and someone
has to have sabotaged her. His prime
suspect? Another of the skydivers, who
switched jump order with Holly and was missing for half an hour after the
landing. Suspect guy and Liv exchange a
Meaningful Look.
An increasingly frustrated Major visits Detective Clive at
the police station, trying to get someone to look into the missing kids from the
shelter. Detective Clive pulls a “not my
department” routine, but promises to make a call. He also warns Major not to do anything
stupid. Any guesses how that one turns
out?
Time for Holly’s autopsy.
Ravi tells Liv that she doesn’t need to eat Holly’s brain, but Liv is
bothered that Holly’s friend is so certain it wasn’t an accident. She
feels she owes it to Holly to find out if that’s really the case.
At home, Roomie Peyton is flipping through Holly’s Facebook
pictures, which document quite the adventurous life led. They debate whether Holly was living life to
the fullest or taking unnecessary risks.
Ends up Holly has never been much for rules, and was kicked out of the
sorority for it (with both Liv and Roomie Peyton voting against her staying), which is part of why Liv feels guilty and wants to find out if
the accident really was an accident. As
they continue to reminisce and flip through photos and videos, Liv has her
first flashback. In it, Lowell (the
skydiver who was missing for 30 minutes) is in the plane freaking out on
Holly. This is enough to convince Liv
that something’s up, and the next morning she drops by the police station to ask
Detective Clive to open a case.
Detective Clive is getting increasingly annoyed at having to
explain to people that, being in homicide, he works murder cases, not missing
persons or parachuting accidents. Liv
plays the “I knew the victim” card, and poor Detective Clive is totally a
sucker for it. He agrees to bring Lowell
in for questioning and review the Go Pro footage of the accident.
Liv then takes Holly’s “suck the marrow out of life” advice (and eating her brain) to heart by riding her bike to work in the rain with no helmet, but with a
terribly goofy smile on her face. I
believe I am on the record as finding Rose McIver adorable, but this is not her
best look.
Detective Clive is interviewing Lowell. He explains that the members of the jump group are sponsored by Max Rager, an energy drink company for which they “are contractually obligated to look good doing pointless and or dangerous crap on camera.” Tell us how you really feel. He explains that he freaked out at the last minute and asked Holly to jump ahead of him. As such, he jumped later than planned and landed away from the drop zone, so he spent the missing half hour wandering back. He tells Detective Clive that whatever the helmet cams recorded will back up his story. Detective Clive goes to check that out, leaving Lowell and Liv alone to continue giving each other Meaningful Looks while she interrogates him about what she saw in her vision.
Detective Clive comes back with the news that Max Rager has destroyed all of the footage from the helmet cams. He decides to bring in the rest of the jump crew to learn more. We cut between interviews with Carson (who will continue to be known in this recap as Dick Casablancas), Eliza (a PR person for Max Rager who destroyed the helmet cam footage), and Wren (who does not do anything special enough to warrant a parenthetical).
It comes out that Lowell has been acting weird for a few months. At a party the night before the dive, he was acting mopey and Holly was trying to figure out why. It also comes out that while Eliza refers to Dick Casablancas as her boyfriend, he was also occasionally sleeping with both Holly and Wren. Liv has a flashback to Dick begging Holly not to make him reveal some secret. So Dick Casablancas’s motive is not wanting to be outed, Eliza’s is jealousy, and Wren is still boring.
The following morning Detective Clive gets busted by his supervisor for looking into Holly’s death since it isn’t a homicide. Luckily for him, Liv comes in right at that moment with news that Holly had GHB in her system, making the investigation official. Because the drug works quickly, someone else in the dive group has to have been the person who dosed Holly’s shot with the GHB. Detective Clive encourages Liv to use Holly’s memorial that evening as an excuse to poke around Dick Casablancas’s house for evidence.
Liv, Roomie Peyton, and Major are at the memorial. They acknowledge that the three of them are the only ones acting like they're at any kind of funeral, as everyone else is embracing Holly's "dying is a consequence of living" attitude, up to and including a planned streaking later in the evening. Major leads Roomie Peyton towards the bar, while Liv gets intercepted by the rest of the skydiving crew. They are (understandably) pissed that someone from the police investigation is "crashing" the memorial. Liv neglects to explain that she actually knew Holly, but does choose to tell them that she knows one of them drugged Holly. Interesting investigative strategy, Livvie. I hope Detective Clive wasn't planning to keep that detail under wraps.
Liv, whom the hosts of the memorial are already suspicious of, now wanders away to investigate Dick Casablancas's residence. Dick's room is hilariously decorated in posters that all basically feature close-ups of his face. In his bedside drawer, Liv finds a prescription pad full of blank scripts that have been pre-signed by Dick's doctor father. She has a flashback to Dick handing out prescriptions like candy to the rest of the dive crew. She calls Ravi and explains that any of the crew could have had access to the pad and used it to write a prescription for the GHB that drugged Holly. He agrees to check pharmacy records for any scripts for GHB recently written by Daddy Casablancas.
Detective Clive comes back with the news that Max Rager has destroyed all of the footage from the helmet cams. He decides to bring in the rest of the jump crew to learn more. We cut between interviews with Carson (who will continue to be known in this recap as Dick Casablancas), Eliza (a PR person for Max Rager who destroyed the helmet cam footage), and Wren (who does not do anything special enough to warrant a parenthetical).
It comes out that Lowell has been acting weird for a few months. At a party the night before the dive, he was acting mopey and Holly was trying to figure out why. It also comes out that while Eliza refers to Dick Casablancas as her boyfriend, he was also occasionally sleeping with both Holly and Wren. Liv has a flashback to Dick begging Holly not to make him reveal some secret. So Dick Casablancas’s motive is not wanting to be outed, Eliza’s is jealousy, and Wren is still boring.
The following morning Detective Clive gets busted by his supervisor for looking into Holly’s death since it isn’t a homicide. Luckily for him, Liv comes in right at that moment with news that Holly had GHB in her system, making the investigation official. Because the drug works quickly, someone else in the dive group has to have been the person who dosed Holly’s shot with the GHB. Detective Clive encourages Liv to use Holly’s memorial that evening as an excuse to poke around Dick Casablancas’s house for evidence.
Liv, Roomie Peyton, and Major are at the memorial. They acknowledge that the three of them are the only ones acting like they're at any kind of funeral, as everyone else is embracing Holly's "dying is a consequence of living" attitude, up to and including a planned streaking later in the evening. Major leads Roomie Peyton towards the bar, while Liv gets intercepted by the rest of the skydiving crew. They are (understandably) pissed that someone from the police investigation is "crashing" the memorial. Liv neglects to explain that she actually knew Holly, but does choose to tell them that she knows one of them drugged Holly. Interesting investigative strategy, Livvie. I hope Detective Clive wasn't planning to keep that detail under wraps.
Liv, whom the hosts of the memorial are already suspicious of, now wanders away to investigate Dick Casablancas's residence. Dick's room is hilariously decorated in posters that all basically feature close-ups of his face. In his bedside drawer, Liv finds a prescription pad full of blank scripts that have been pre-signed by Dick's doctor father. She has a flashback to Dick handing out prescriptions like candy to the rest of the dive crew. She calls Ravi and explains that any of the crew could have had access to the pad and used it to write a prescription for the GHB that drugged Holly. He agrees to check pharmacy records for any scripts for GHB recently written by Daddy Casablancas.
Luckily Liv's snooping is discovered by Lowell, versus any of the other members of the dive crew. She (finally) explains that she knew Holly through college and the sorority and admits how guilty she feels for voting to kick her out. Lowell spends this time mixing them bloody mary's with extra, extra, extra hot sauce and peppers. Perfect for Livvie's dulled taste buds. He explains that's one of the "perks of dating a zombie." Say what now?
He explains how he knew she was a zombie right away, hence the Meaningful Looks. One of the reasons he knew is the "obsessively trimmed nails." I mentioned last week that I didn't get how ZUSD's manicures fit into the zombie maintenance routine, but it comes up a few times again this week and I finally got it - they don't want to accidentally scratch someone. (Livvie was originally infected because ZUSD scratched her.) I can be a little slow.
Lowell explains the real story about what happened on the plane. He freaked out about not wanting to jump (in a way that makes me wonder if his last jump is somehow related to his zombie-ism). He started to go into "full-on zombie mode" and basically pushed Holly out of the plane so she wouldn't see and he wouldn't scratch her. Then he had to get away from the pilot, so he jumped as well. The missing 30 minutes was the time it took him to calm down enough to be presentable again (in contrast to Liv's ability to immediately get her zombie self under control last week).
Major interrupts the zombie bonding moment (how did he know where to find them?) to tell Liv he's heading out. Between his depression about the shelter kids and the streaking tone of the party, he feels he's "really bringing down this wake."
He explains how he knew she was a zombie right away, hence the Meaningful Looks. One of the reasons he knew is the "obsessively trimmed nails." I mentioned last week that I didn't get how ZUSD's manicures fit into the zombie maintenance routine, but it comes up a few times again this week and I finally got it - they don't want to accidentally scratch someone. (Livvie was originally infected because ZUSD scratched her.) I can be a little slow.
Lowell explains the real story about what happened on the plane. He freaked out about not wanting to jump (in a way that makes me wonder if his last jump is somehow related to his zombie-ism). He started to go into "full-on zombie mode" and basically pushed Holly out of the plane so she wouldn't see and he wouldn't scratch her. Then he had to get away from the pilot, so he jumped as well. The missing 30 minutes was the time it took him to calm down enough to be presentable again (in contrast to Liv's ability to immediately get her zombie self under control last week).
Major interrupts the zombie bonding moment (how did he know where to find them?) to tell Liv he's heading out. Between his depression about the shelter kids and the streaking tone of the party, he feels he's "really bringing down this wake."
Detective Clive has been guilted by a photo of Jerome that Major left at the station into checking out the skate park. Most of the kids clear out as soon as they see him, but he catches one whom he knows by name. Detective Clive shows the kid Jerome's picture. The kid doesn't know Jerome specifically, but says he probably disappeared "just like everybody else." He leads Detective Clive over to a board with dozens and dozens of missing persons flyers posted. Detective Clive's guilt has evolved into piqued curiosity.
Liv shows up to the morgue giddy. She's pretty sure the prescription pad evidence will lead them to Holly's killer, and she's giggly excited about meeting another zombie. Ravi, continuing to be the most observant person on this show, realizes our girl has a little crush. His worries that Lowell may be the killer are assuaged when a fax comes in showing that Dick Casablancas was the one who picked up the deadly prescription.
So they bring Dick back in for questioning. Wouldn't your sponsors drop you if they found out you were sleeping with a guy? And wasn't Holly going to call you out on it? Well, no. It was kind of an open secret that Dick and Wren were sleeping together (and yet Eliza was jealous of Holly?). The secret Holly wanted Dick to reveal came from an email he was accidentally copied on. One in one thousand or so people who drink Max Rager "freak out", in a very zombie sounding description. So did Lowell get scratched, or was he one in a thousand? How are Max Rager and Utopium related? Do we have multiple zombie strains?
Anyway, Holly was with Dick when he got the email. She had some good witch tendencies and tried to convince him he needed to go public. So the argument they had earlier wasn't her trying to out him, but her trying to get him to share what he knew about the dark side of the energy drink. But we do learn that Dick told Eliza about Holly's good witch tendencies.
Dick argues that the name on the prescription is his, but says the handwriting is Eliza's. They go to her place and find it "deserted" in a way that seems that wasn't expected - her shower curtain is gone and she still has food in the oven, But they also get evidence that Eliza was the one who picked up the drugs that killed Holly.
Detective Clive's supervisor is clipping his nails. (I told you, I should have gotten this earlier.) Detective Clive explains the crazy high number of missing kids in the skate park lately (60 in six months, triple the previous six months). Supervisor reminds Detective Clive about that whole "you work in homicide, not missing persons" thing and basically tells him to f off. After Detective Clive is gone, supervisor (who was obsessively trimming his nails earlier) loads up his drink with hot sauce. As one of my friends said, is there anyone who's NOT a zombie after this episode?
Well, Major. Who checks out the skate park, still in his quest to find Jerome. It doesn't go well. He sees a guy with Jerome's distinctive shoes (if that is Princess Bride Albino from last week, he has totally hooked up with ZUSD's stylists). Said guy is not a fan of random guys asking him where he got his kicks, and (literally) kicks Major around the skate park. We close on an bloodied Major with kids just skating around his (possibly) lifeless body.
Oblivious to her former fiance's fate, Liv's at work. Continuing the "police morgue has no security" theme, Lowell wanders in (hilariously wearing a 27 club shirt). Ravi gets it and teases Liv, but gives the zombies a minute to bond. Lowell brought Livvie a super hot hot sauce and asks her out. Girlfriend is in. I am curious to see where this goes and if Perfect Zombie Boy ends up having any secrets. But I like the development.
We close on Livvie, yet again riding her bike with no helmet and now no hands. Liv, I get that Holly took risks, but try to calculate them please. We want you around for a second season.
So they bring Dick back in for questioning. Wouldn't your sponsors drop you if they found out you were sleeping with a guy? And wasn't Holly going to call you out on it? Well, no. It was kind of an open secret that Dick and Wren were sleeping together (and yet Eliza was jealous of Holly?). The secret Holly wanted Dick to reveal came from an email he was accidentally copied on. One in one thousand or so people who drink Max Rager "freak out", in a very zombie sounding description. So did Lowell get scratched, or was he one in a thousand? How are Max Rager and Utopium related? Do we have multiple zombie strains?
Anyway, Holly was with Dick when he got the email. She had some good witch tendencies and tried to convince him he needed to go public. So the argument they had earlier wasn't her trying to out him, but her trying to get him to share what he knew about the dark side of the energy drink. But we do learn that Dick told Eliza about Holly's good witch tendencies.
Dick argues that the name on the prescription is his, but says the handwriting is Eliza's. They go to her place and find it "deserted" in a way that seems that wasn't expected - her shower curtain is gone and she still has food in the oven, But they also get evidence that Eliza was the one who picked up the drugs that killed Holly.
Detective Clive's supervisor is clipping his nails. (I told you, I should have gotten this earlier.) Detective Clive explains the crazy high number of missing kids in the skate park lately (60 in six months, triple the previous six months). Supervisor reminds Detective Clive about that whole "you work in homicide, not missing persons" thing and basically tells him to f off. After Detective Clive is gone, supervisor (who was obsessively trimming his nails earlier) loads up his drink with hot sauce. As one of my friends said, is there anyone who's NOT a zombie after this episode?
Well, Major. Who checks out the skate park, still in his quest to find Jerome. It doesn't go well. He sees a guy with Jerome's distinctive shoes (if that is Princess Bride Albino from last week, he has totally hooked up with ZUSD's stylists). Said guy is not a fan of random guys asking him where he got his kicks, and (literally) kicks Major around the skate park. We close on an bloodied Major with kids just skating around his (possibly) lifeless body.
Oblivious to her former fiance's fate, Liv's at work. Continuing the "police morgue has no security" theme, Lowell wanders in (hilariously wearing a 27 club shirt). Ravi gets it and teases Liv, but gives the zombies a minute to bond. Lowell brought Livvie a super hot hot sauce and asks her out. Girlfriend is in. I am curious to see where this goes and if Perfect Zombie Boy ends up having any secrets. But I like the development.
We close on Livvie, yet again riding her bike with no helmet and now no hands. Liv, I get that Holly took risks, but try to calculate them please. We want you around for a second season.
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