The two hour season two finale of iZombie (two back to back episodes, “Dead Beat” and “Salvation Army”) featured an excellent cliffhanger ending and left Liv a choice of joining the new Seattle zombie homeland or not. A lot of threads were tied up and it was very touch and go with Major about to “zombie-out” with no brains.
Before the beginning of the end, an apocalypse does seem all too certain despite the valiant efforts of Clive (Malcolm Goodwin), Major (Robert Buckley) and Liv (Rose McIver). Of course that all comes later. First, in “Dead Beat” Lilywhite is arrested, charged with being the Chaos Killer and so is Ravi (Rahul Kohli), for being an accessory.
Major is put in jail to await trial but he does get a high powered lawyer, Brandt Stone (played brilliantly by “Agent Carter “actor Ken Marino) paid for by Vaughn Du Clark (Steven Weber). It becomes a race to get Major out of jail or smuggle in some brains to keep him from turning all the way.
While Lilywhite is being held on the thinnest of evidence for the Chaos killings, Clive gets evidence to show that Major did murder all the victims of the Meat Cute massacre. Liv and Peyton (Aly Michalka) learn that Major is the Chaos Killer but that his victims are all still alive, frozen in stasis.
Ravi does not go to jail, but he does get suspended, and he, along with Liv, go to get the frozen zombies. The M.E. goes to ask Lilywhite at the prison where they are and says he is having problems with the video game “Zombie Town.”
Vaughn sends out Janko (Colin Lawrence) to kill both Liv and Major. As Lilywhite is released, Clive stops his departure and keeps him from the brain smoothie he desperately needs. The detective arrests Major for the Meat Cute killings. This thwarts Janko’s murderous mission.
Later Liv reveals the truth about Major and her by stabbing herself in the chest which then turns her into an undead zombie versus a fully functioning one. Clive has the charges dropped and gets Major released from prison once more.
Janko kills Liv, but Ravi saves her and the M.E. gets into a desperate battle with Janko after hitting him in the head with a fire extinguisher. Janko, being a huge strapping chap comes back and as the two men fight over the tranquilizer gun, the big man gets the fatal injection.
Major and Liv later eat the mercenary’s brains to learn his skill sets in order to infiltrate the party.
Blaine (David Anders) helps Liv and Clive. Mr. Boss learns that De Beers is still alive and orders him killed, along with Chief and Don. Boss also demands that Peyton be taken, and Ravi gets pistol whipped in the process. Blaine does save his former gal later, much to Ravi’s chagrin.
Vaughn throws a party to end all parties after selling his company and product; he got rid of everything for a cool billion. Some of his technical team stumble across the faulty U and imbibe the stuff, tuning them into the type of zombies that attacked Liv at the boat party.
Rob Thomas, the lead vocalist for Matchbox 20, becomes a fatality and later the new zombie owner of Vaughn’s company and product sits snacking in the singer’s brains.
Du Clark tells Gilda/Rita (Leanne Lapp) this was all for her, but she knows the truth. Clive, Major and Liv infiltrate the celebration and end up being trapped by Vaughn. Liv is there to save Drake, who is still alive, but by the time they get to the basement he has been turned by Vaughn’s cure.
Blaine is still standing at the end of the episode and Du Clark gets his just deserts. Gilda is also taken out, by Major, and Liv is given an offer she may not be able to refuse from Vivian Stoll (Andrea Savage).
There was a lot of action in the two hour finale. Admittedly more in the second half of the two-parter with a lot of shooting from Clive and Liv, as well as Stoll’s troops. On the relationship side Clive blows his with Dale and Ravi connects with Peyton.
So by the end of the “iZombie” finale, the list of dead includes, Chief, Vaughn, Gilda, Rob Thomas (the singer and not the show runner), Janko, Mr Boss’s lackeys, and a slew of party attendees. The banjo playing Don may or may not be dead, after taking two rounds to the body, and Ravi, Peyton, Liv, Major, Blaine and Clive are still standing.
Amusingly, the cop almost has to be scratched by Liv when they are trapped by a crowd of zombies. Max Rager is now owned by Stoll and it looks like Liv either goes along with the whole Seattle being the new zombie homeland or else.
“iZombie” finished its second season with a cracking two-hour finale. If you have not seen it yet, head over to Hulu. It will be worth the trip.
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