iZombie Recap With Spoilers: Spanking the Zombie

The episode begins with Major on the battlefield. He begins coughing. He and Justin make their way to safety, but Major gets shot 35 times.

Ravi and Liv talk about how to solve the problem of Major dying. Clive comes in and asks for help with a case of a murdered dominatrix, Roxanne. Liv says she can’t eat the brain because the body was cremated, but Ravi reveals that he kept the brain to use to test his memory cure. Liv reluctantly eats it.

Clive and Liv inspect the dominatrix’s dungeon. They find an open window and a hidden camera with the memory card missing. Liv looks at a leather mask and suddenly gets a vision – the dominatrix with D.A. Floyd Baracus, a zombie who is running for mayor.

Justin helps patch Major up, then goes to meet with his visiting family. The commanding officer comes in and loads something into a large freezer. When the officer leaves, Major looks inside, and finds severed bodies of other soldiers.

Liv and Clive find Baracus greeting voters at a diner. Liv reveals that she’s seeing all of Roxanne’s clients, but she doesn’t recognize any of them.

Liv and Clive go up to Baracus. Liv starts making sexual innuendos, and Clive suggests they talk in private.

Clive tells Baracus about Roxanne’s murder and questions his alibi.

Liv talks to the police sketch artist, Jimmy, who questions why he’s needing to draw nine different sketches. Liv uses her dominatrix personality to get him to agree to do it.

Liv gets another vision, of Roxanne with the local anchorman.

Liv and Clive interrogate the anchorman, Johnny, who reveals that he has frequented Roxanne’s establishment, but that he didn’t kill her.

Liv and Clive leave the interrogation room and are confronted by Cavanaugh, who chastises them for going after Harley Johns and interfering with his case. He reveals that Johns was stalking Wally’s family’s house the night before the murder. Liv and Clive suggest that they get Filmore Graves to reach out to Johns.

Liv explains the situation with Johns to Vivian and Filmore Graves’ board. Liv gets another vision, and goes to Jimmy for help.

In the hallway, Liv sees Brandt Stone and is triggered to a vision of him with Roxanne. Clive confirms his alibi, but Liv continues to be sexually aggressive until Stone agrees to answer more questions. Stone asks how Liv and Clive know so much about Roxanne’s business, and asks if there are videos of her sessions. Clive doesn’t confirm or deny it.

Don-E has a bad day working at the zombie bar. He overhears a drug dealer on the street, and reveals that he still has some of the Utopium supply. He takes the drug dealer back to the bar and they dance around. Don-E asks if the guy wants to be a zombie, and he says yes.

Liv and Clive look through criminal records to try to find the peeping tom from Roxanne’s establishment. Johnny comes in, represented by Stone. They offer up evidence in exchange for their innocence.

Johnny shares an explicit video of his session with Roxanne, that was sent to him by a blackmailer. Stone explains that the blackmailer is asking for more money, and asks Clive and Liv to be there for the exchange.

Harley Johns meets with Vivian at Filmore Graves. They offer a severance check for Harley’s brother’s death, in exchange for him answering a few questions. While they question Harley about his zombie theories, a few of the soldiers bug Harley’s car. Harley tells Filmore Graves that he and his anti-zombie army are on a mission to stop the virus from spreading.

Liv meets with the Filmore Graves executives. They realize that Harley is going to hunt all the victims of the Chaos Killer, and that they need to protect them.

Liv arrives at the drop site and pretends to be on a walk with Ravi. Johnny holds an envelope, which is snatched out of his hand by a guy on a bike. Clive, disguised as an ice cream man, stops him and arrests him.

Back at the station, Liv decides she wants to be bad cop while interrogating the man on the bike, James. Clive reluctantly agrees, and Liv uses a whip as a prop to intimidate James.

James admits he killed Roxanne, and asks to write out his confession.

Major is still trying to heal his wound. He asks Justin about the cooler full of heads, which is what turned into the brain paste the mercenaries use. Justin walks away, and Major begins coughing violently. He asks Justin to take him to the morgue.

Justin brings Major to Ravi and Liv. Liv decides that they can’t give Major the cure right away, because his wounds will kill him as a human. Liv injects Major with something that will buy them time until Major’s wounds heal.

Don-E and the dealer run the zombie bar.

Ravi and Liv stay up to watch Major sleep. Liv tells Ravi to go home and get some sleep. Major wakes up, and Liv explains what happened. Major agrees to take the cure and lose his memories, as long as Liv reminds him of their memories together as a couple. He then says that he won’t mind losing his memory, because he’ll fall for Liv all over again. The pair begin hooking up.

The next morning, Ravi prepares to give Major the cure. Liv gets out of Major’s bed. Major wakes up and begins to say something to her, but Ravi comes in. Major says he’s ready to take the cure, and Ravi explains how the memory loss will effect him. Major says he’ll miss Ravi and Liv, and they reassure that they aren’t going anywhere. Ravi gives Major the cure.