iZombie • Death Moves Pretty Fast

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In “Death Moves Pretty Fast”, the complications continue to arise in halting what now seems to be the inevitable zombie-human apocalypse. Peyton worrying about DC going through with plans to “nuke the city” as Seattle has human uprisings like CHICS (led by Dolly Durkins, responsible for many zombies on “brain tubes” getting sick with Alzheimer’s symptoms due to the brains they are eating being diseased) and Dead-Enders (often violently anarchic) , while a reporter, Al Bronson (Gage Golightly; “Teen Wolf”) exposes Blaine as the murderer of the mayor (and others for his Meat Cute restaurant); if the current Seattle “acting” mayor can’t corral the seemingly escalating tensions between humans and zombies, DC won’t perhaps think twice just dropping a bomb on them, baby. Even worse for Peyton is that Al exposed her brief sexual relationship with Blaine, wondering how she could have been so duped by him (Al visited her after having a nice little very illuminating chat with Don E at The Scratching Post). With Al’s Blaine interview/exposé viral, his secrets revealed, matters just got a whole lot worse. And with Major trying to keep Fillmore-Graves from being labeled an authoritative regime built to subvert human rights, it gets worse for him when Enzo goes behind his back, using the temporary dementia brain episode to send F-G officers to the site of humans protesting brain centers, spraying them down with hoses and using billy clubs as weapons of force.

The case of a murdered teenager who raked in a lot of green from Bitcoin (his teacher bailed on it too early, not making as much) allows Liv to inhabit the personality of a live-wire, popular high school student, whose mother died and father lives outside Seattle. McIver’s face full of enthusiasm and active energy is hilarious once she prepares the kid’s brain (he is roasted in his sauna when the murderer drills the door shut) like a tray of hors d’oeuvres. Al even samples a brain hors d’oeuvre! It allows her to see Don E in disguise delivering zombie cure to the victim, Harris (Philip Bolden), for his girlfriend. The zombie cure, Ravi developed thanks in part to deceased Isobel’s brain, determining that her particular disease (a “teen disease” that is rare to the population as a whole), goes to public  (Ravi’s fears realized) thanks to her mother. Isobel’s mother didn’t understand that she has put a target on every kid with that disease. As evident when Blaine sees the article online, his wheels were already turning. With Dolly stirring up shit and other humans (after seeing Enzo’s commissioning of F-G officers to hose and billy club them) joining her cause, and now Blaine determining how to keep zombies fed with the backlash/onslaught developing against him (and Peyton now certain to be scrutinized for former relations with him and his murder of the mayor obviously to be tied to her); Seattle seems to be the Mecca of ongoing deterioration. Liv and Ravi working to solve the death of Harris, eventually coming up with an idea to convince the city that perhaps he is still alive in order to draw out the one responsible. A teacher he wasn’t altogether chill with, a friend named Hamm he liked to parade out nicknames for, and even Blaine, for whom he dissed when asked to get a party-goer at his house to move their car; there was no shortage of suspects. Enzo, kept on by Major for some reason I never understood, declares his allegiance to the dead Chase before being sent by Lillywhite to the fridge…Amy (Brianne Hju), Major’s most loyal supporter at F-G, informs him that zombies have been set free. So on top of everything else, Major and Amy are left to wonder where a number of those zombies in “storage” are and why they were released (and where they went).