[SPOILER]’s Death on iZombie Convinced Clive He Has to Pick A Side

Spoilers for tonight’s season premiere of iZombie below!

Tonight’s season premiere of iZombie brought forth several bombshells that are setting the show on a slightly different course in its third season. Now that the members of ‘Team Z’ are back, they’re facing a series of new challenges, as they try to stop a zombie-human war from escalating in Seattle.

But for the newest member of the team, Clive Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin), this mission did not come so easily. After discovering the existence of zombies – and that Liv and Major were them – in last season’s finale, Clive was a little apprehensive about joining the zombie cause.

“Yeah, I think at [the beginning of the episode],” Goodwin explained to ComicBook.com, “he’s not really sure whether or not he’s Team Z yet or how he feels about that. He’s just dealing with [the fact] that there’s a zombie community. And it seems like he has to pick a side.”

That changed when Clive discovered that Wally, a young neighbor of his, was a zombie – as well as when Wally’s family was subsequently murdered in the final minutes of tonight’s episode. According to Goodwin, this tragic event gave Clive the clarity to determine exactly where he stood in the fight – and will stick with him throughout the rest of the season.

“But once he realizes that someone, a family that was close to him, that they were zombies, and that there’s a real threat of this human vs zombie war percolating, he has to pick a side. And so throughout the entire season, he’s trying to figure out who killed that family, Wally and his mom, Anna.”

With the premiere setting up that Clive and the rest of Team Z will fight to find the murderer, Goodwin hinted that the exact nature of Clive’s relationship with Wally and his family will be explored in some way.

“There’s an episode where you get to see how he met Wally and Anna, how he became so close with them. Clive was pretty much like a father figure to Wally and there was potential for that relationship and that family environment becoming a permanent thing, but something stops it. So you get to see exactly what prevented that from happening.”

Who do you think the murderer of Wally’s family will be? Let us know in the comments.

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iZombie‘s season 3 will premiere in April. It’s based on the Vertigo comic book created by Michael Allred and Chris Roberson. The new season will see Ravi struggling to perfect a zombie cure and save Major’s life while Liv deals with an organized and militant group of zombies who want to make Seattle their own.