On the Nov. 10 episode of iZombie, “Max Wager,” Blaine plots revenge on his father, while Liv investigates the death of gambler Harry.
Major comes into the kitchen in a great mood. Liv follows in a nightshirt. Peyton says it’s about time.
When leaving the courthouse, Harry the gambler is gunned down from the back of a motorcycle. They just miss shooting Clive.
Ravi wants to run tests before Liv and Major have sex to see if it would spread Liv’s zombie-ism. He buys as many brands of condoms as he can to see if the disease will pass through them.
Clive thinks Harry’s murder may have been to silence him as a witness against Thrunk. He wants Liv to help interrogate Thrunk, but she hasn’t eaten Harry’s brain yet. She goes anyway.
Thrunk says his involvement with the murder of last week’s peewee football coach, Mike, is hearsay since Harry is dead. Clive plays a coded message Thrunk left from jail saying to take care of Mr. Sheldon using the usual guy. Clive thinks it’s code for killing Harry. After the interrogation, Liv eats Harry’s brain.
Clive tells Bozzio about the brain in Suzuki’s freezer. She offers to send it to the FBI for testing. He says it’s strange that Major kept going on about brains. Liv and Major appear down the street. They greet Clive. As they walk away, Liv tells Major that Bozzio is looking into the rich men who have disappeared.
Dylan takes Blaine downstairs to greet “customers.” It’s Blaine’s father who tells Blaine he works for him now, unless he wants to become a zombie again. He asks Blaine to procure the brain of his competitor’s son.
Liv has a vision of Levins telling Harry that the barber is done waiting for his money. Clive says he operates one of the biggest books in town. They go to see him, but the barber denies killing Harry He suggests the widow might have had a life insurance policy. Before leaving, Liv places a bet on a horse race.
Clive and Liv go to Harry’s funeral, taking place at Blaine’s funeral home. Ravi calls to warn Blaine who is drunk. When Liv checks on him, he asks her if she likes being a zombie. She reminds him that zombies have to relive the worst parts of their victims, including feeling like they’re going to die.
Harry’s widow tells Clive that there was no insurance. All of their money went for Harry’s gambling problem. She doesn’t know the name Mr. Sheldon. Clive sees Calvin Owens, a professional basketball player. He and Harry were college buddies. Liv asks him who to bet on and he gives her a name. Liv has a vision of Calvin telling Harry he’d given enough and refusing to pay off his bookie.
Liv goes to collect her prize money from the barber. He convinces her to bet her winnings. His customer asks about the case and makes a creepy comment about a perfect murder.
Peyton is working late. She finds someone in her office. It’s the customer from the barber shop, who turns out to be Mr. Boss. He threatens to kill her source of information and leaves.
Clive discovers Thrunk has a turtle named Mr. Sheldon. The man who came to feed the turtle fled when police showed up. Liv thinks it’s carrying a message somehow. Bozzio suggests looking in the turtle’s castle. Clive finds a bag of cocaine.
Liv and Major play a stripping game over Skype to hold them over the few days until they can have sex.
Liv makes a bet with her second set of winnings, going for a big score. She says Calvin Owens gave her the tip. The barber says Calvin would understand betting on college basketball.
Liv researches Calvin’s games on her computer. Clive found the motorcycle in the bay and tied it to a two Serbian nationals. He thinks they were guns for hire. After watching Calvin’s games, Liv thinks he was shaving points to win bets.
Clive pulls Calvin in for questioning. Clive says Harry blackmailed Calvin to pay his debts or he’d tell the world that Calvin fixed his college games. The two men on the motorcycle are the sons of an old teammate of Calvin’s who was cut from the team for pulling a knife in a card game. Peyton advises Calvin to confess rather than wait for the shooters to roll over on him. She says she can keep him out of general population to keep him safe.
Blaine has an elaborate plan to ruin his father. He kills his grandfather to feed the brain to his dad to torture him with its thoughts. He plans to tell him that the brain belongs to his competitor’s son.
Liv and Major make out and discuss having sex. Ravi finds their clothes in the living room and bursts into Major’s room. He’s relieved that they haven’t had sex yet. He tells them that zombie virus goes through all brands of condoms. Liv and Major decide to work around it by being creative.
Blaine covers his grandfather’s body in the funeral home. Dylan says Blaine’s father is on the news because he’s been kidnapped. Blaine is upset that he already killed his grandfather.
Major has Blaine’s dad in his trunk. He pulls another body out from under him, shoots it and drops it in the water. He then throws Blaine’s dad in a freezer with his other kidnapping victims and walks away.