Remember Major's new asylum friend Scott E.? If you thought he would stick around for a bit and be key to Major learning the truth about zombies, you'd be half right. We open at said asylum, with Major waiting for Scott E. to join him for a chess game. Scott E. is late, so Major goes to look for him. And finds him bleeding out in a bathtub from slit wrists in what appears to be a suicide.
The death brings Liv, Ravi, and Detective Clive to the scene. Ravi, in professional mode again, is quick to dismiss the suicide theory - the amount of blood that came from the wounds indicates that poor Scott E. was already deceased before they were made. They learn from one of the doctors that Scott E. was a highly intelligent small-time drug dealer who checked himself into the asylum after witnessing the boat massacre that zombified Liv. Major also tells Liv that Scott E. says he not only saw zombies at the party, but recorded them on his phone. Liv freaks out that the recording may incriminate her and/or go public.
Considering Major's involvement and the potential zombie ties, Liv wants to eat the brain. Ravi, having experienced first-hand the effects of Liv on sociopathic, drunk, and just plain bitchy brains, strongly cautions her not to voluntarily submit herself to Scott E.'s paranoid schizophrenia. Especially not now since he has a date with Roomie Peyton that night. (Unclear if this is the first, but they act chummy enough that we seem to have missed some off screen courting.) And since Scott E.'s delusions included frequent, animated conversations with a devil who is invisible to everyone in the room not currently in need of antipsychotics, Ravi would really rather Liv lay off.
Ravi and Roomie Peyton's date night is set to be them eating take-out and watching a movie. There's some banter where Peyton wants Liv to join them while Ravi and Liv do not, but everything is settled when Major shows up at the front door. He checked himself out of the hospital and can't get into the house since Ravi wisely changed the locks after Julian's attack on Major. They invite him in to join movie night, which gets only slightly awkward when Roomie Peyton seems physically incapable of suggesting anything that doesn't have to do with crazy people or zombies. Okay, she doesn't know about the zombie thing, but she is well aware Major was just being medically treated for doubting his sanity. Things only get more exciting for Liv when Scott E.'s brain kicks in and she hallucinates the devil on her bag of chips yelling at her.
At the end of the evening, Liv invites Major to stay (on the couch), but he is ready to get home and face his fears. He leaves. Less than a minute later he is back and taking Liv up on her offer.
This week in Zombie Uncle Snark Daddy news, Captain Secret Zombie fills him in on Liv and Lowell's relationship. Since ZUSD is (sadly) the smartest zombie on this show, he realizes that this means Liv might have been involved in Lowell attacking him and decides to check up on her. He "casually" drops by the lab to give Ravi some more blood samples and check on the progress of the cure. Liv skips a chance to poison him, which ends up being a good call when he tests her by having her drink the same drink. She also later points out to Ravi that they don't know what, if any, effect poison would have on a zombie, so it's best not to show their hand yet. But by the end of the episode, Ravi's zombie rat is sporting his original brown fur, suggesting he might have finally suceeded in creating a cure. I worry for Ravi's safety when ZUSD finds out his Brains on Wheels clients have another option.
We see in several background news reports throughout the episode that astronaut Alan York, whose brain was requested by one of ZUSD's clients last week, is missing. Not coincidentally, ZUSD's lastest entree for his "platinum level" clients is sealed with an astronaut sticker. During the course of the murder investigation, we also learn that ZUSD (aka, "John Deaux") visited Scott E. at the hospital. We don't learn why this episode, but it's enough to make Liv even more suspicious. Proving that she is not the smartest zombie on this show, Liv mentions Scott E.'s video to ZUSD while he's at the morgue. I think she's trying to increase the chances of the video being found by a zombie versus anyone else, but sharing potentially incriminating information with the murderous drug dealer you want to kill just seems unwise.
Particularly when this incriminating information leads ZUSD and Julian to Matt E.'s apartment on their own search for the video. "Search" may be too strong of a word since they just burn the place to the ground. Anyway, this leads to Major finding them and following them back to Meat Cute by hiding in their trunk. Major, I thought after the psych ward we were going to stop making stupid decisions?
Over at the case of the week, Liv's flashbacks tell her that someone Scott E. was sleeping with at the mental ward was trying to use him to get pregnant. He was not happy about this. I'll recap more of the zombie-related stuff along the way, but the final resolution is actually unrelated. Scott E.'s doctor wanted a child but couldn't get pregnant by her husband. She slept with Scott E., then killed him when he threatened to go public.
Liv spends the episode half trying to solve Scott E.'s murder and half trying to track down his cell phone video. She gets some unexpected help from
After solving the case, Liv heads home. Major is still there. They banter and flirt and eventually they kiss! Liv freaks out, but eventually tells Major the truth - there really are zombies, they are the ones who killed Jerome and Eddie, she's also a zombie, and the reason she broke up with him is that she's afraid of hurting him. He freaks out, but eventually they comfort one another.
Over at Meat Cute, one of ZUSD's less intelligent delivery guys loaded up his car with astronaut brains, come back inside, and then went out to find all of his orders stolen. Well that doesn't bode well for anyone involved.
Liv is talking to Johnny Frost and still trying to crack Scott E.'s phone passcode. Suddenly, the real Johnny Frost appears live on her television. The one she's been working with all episode shrugs and fades away. The animated devils weren't her only hallucination - Johnny was one as well. Looking back, Johnny never physically helped Liv with the search. He did tell her alot about Scott E.'s life. And he kept repeating the temperature 63 degrees Fahrenheit, 17 degrees Celsius (which, side note, is actually a correct conversion.) She enters 6-3-1-7 as the passcode, and the phone unlocks. Well played show.
Liv watches the video and it's worse than she feared - Scott E. managed to clearly capture her devouring her first post-zombification brain.
Then Major shows up. She tries to continue a conversation thread from earlier, but he has no idea what she's talking about. What he does have? Half a dozen coolers of astronaut brain. Not smart, Major. He tells Liv that zombies are real and that this proves it. (I'm not clear how this is more conclusive evidence than the brain in Julian's car was, but I'm too busy being emotionally devestated by what's about to happen to dwell on it.) Then he says he's going to kill them all. Liv realizes at the same time I do that the Major she has spent the last day with, and to whom she confessed her secret, was also a hallucination. Major left after movie night and never actually came back. Again, well played show.
Quotes:
Major: They got new safety scissors in. I could be making a serenity collage.
Detective Clive: We talked to one of the orderlies. He said you'd get pretty frustrated by Scott E beating you at chess.
Major: Yeah, so I murdered him. You're right, Liv, this guy is good.
Ravi: You're not gonna go all Single Very White Female on me, are you? You know, cut your hair like Peyton, try and crawl into bed with me?
Liv: Can't say for sure.
Major: You want to feel better about your mental health? Spend a couple of days with some clinically insane people.
Roomie Peyton: I do it every Thanksgiving.
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