On Tuesday’s episode of iZombie, "Love & Basketball," Liv tries to figure out where she stands with Major after their kiss, while also helping Clive hunt down the killer of a beloved peewee basketball coach.
Liv stops the make-out session, afraid that Major will become a zombie from her contact. He doesn’t want to stop, but she shuts him down.
A night security officer is sitting at his desk watching a basketball game when someone arrives on the elevator. He asks them what they have and then is shot in the chest.
The next morning, Major seems fine. He tells her to relax, but she says without a cure, they don’t have a future as a couple. He tries to convince her otherwise, but she says they’re just best friends. She gets a call from Ravi and leaves.
Clive tells Ravi and Liv that the victim was named Mike. The last page of the log book is missing and the victim turned the security cameras off just before the murder.
Gabriel comes to Blaine at the funeral home and says he’ll cut the Utopium the same way he did for the boat party, but he wants a dose of the cure.
Clive comes to Liv and asks her to take a look at photos of three possible subjects with her third eye. Without having eaten Mike’s brain, she doesn’t know anything. She tells Clive her eye isn’t working because she didn’t have breakfast. When Clive leaves, she eats Mike’s brain.
At Max Rager, Rita and Dr. Irving are watching a deteriorated zombie thrash around. The doctor says she needs the DNA of a functional zombie. She asks Rita to get blood from Liv. Rita suggests she ask Major to bring her blood from one of his zombie victims. The doctor says whatever will get the blood in her hands first.
Liv comes to Clive’s desk to take another look at the photos. He just got hung up on by Suzuki’s widow for suggesting Suzuki was suicidal when he shot up Meat Cute. Liv notices Clive is a Knick’s fan and starts arguing basketball with him. A group of kids walks in and tells Clive that Mike was their basketball coach. They say they know who killed him. One of the team’s members, R.J., quit a few weeks ago after his dad, T.J., choked Mike. Clive says he’ll check him out.
R.J.’s dad, T.J., is using a punching bag when Clive and Liv arrive. They ask him about the choking incident. T.J. asks them if child protective services told them. Liv gets a vision of T.J. choking Mike for turning him in to CPS. T.J. snaps his fingers in Liv’s face to get her attention and she sees another vision of him snapping at R.J. and then hitting him in the head because he wasn’t listening. They ask T.J. for an alibi and he says he was at a tavern with his softball team. As Clive and Liv are leaving, she tells Clive about her visions.
Major walks into the Max Rager gym with a client and sees Rita. She asks him how many zombie removals he’s done this week. She tells him to aim for two. He says he’s not doing any until he gets a more potent tranquilizer. She tells him to swing by her office later.
When Major comes to Rita’s office, the doctor is there. She asks him how the tranqilizer failed. Major says the victim woke up in the trunk and pleaded with Major not to kill him. The doctor says she’s surprised the victim was so lucid.
At home, Major is about to take a dose of Utopium, but Liv walks in. She gives him a pep talk about what a good person he is and it cheers him up. She tells him to open the window, take a shower, and get rid of any Utopium he has left. She’ll wait downstairs to watch Hoosiers with him.
Clive goes to T.J.’s house that night and wails on his horn to get T.J.’s attention. When T.J. comes out of the house, Clive tells him that he talked to R.J.’s homeroom teacher and told her to call him if R.J. has any accidents. T.J. starts screaming at Clive for telling him how to raise his kid and then pushes him. Clive crushes his fingers and then punches him in the face. He tells T.J. never to put his hands on his son again and then leaves.
The next day at work, Clive is icing his hand when his boss calls him to her office. He throws the ice away and hides his hand in his pocket. Instead of talking about T.J., she wants to talk about Suzuki’s widow. She yells at Clive for investigating because she pulled him off of the Meat Cute case. Behind his boss, the FBI agent is making funny movements to Clive through the window. He starts to laugh.
Liv brings Major to the local basketball gym. He asks what they’re doing there and she introduces him to Mike’s team who need a new coach. He decides to help out.
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