On Tuesday’s episode of iZombie, Liv eats the brains of a death-obsessed illusionist who is murdered at a magician’s convention. Her switching personalities disturb Major and he begins to distance himself from her.
A maid goes into a hotel room and screams. There’s a dead man on the floor who Clive later identifies as Syd Wicked, a professional magician. His neck was slit with a metal edged playing card; the queen of diamonds.
There are no signs of struggle or break-in. The maid says she heard Syd yelling at the angels when she went by earlier. Ravi locates a basket with a dead fish in it. The message reads “enjoy the decay,” marked from his fellow magicians.
Liv eats Syd’s brain. Clive comes by and shows Liv the security tape from the hotel. No one enters until the maid finds the body.
Ravi comes downstairs and finds Peyton dancing in the kitchen. She’s on edge from work. Ravi tells her that Steph is moving too fast. Peyton asks Major if Liv is being too needy. He says she’s been a little dark. Ravi tells him it will pass when she eats the next brain. Major asks how extreme her personality swings get. Peyton mentions Liv going into zombie mode, but tells him it was probably a one-off.
Blaine stops by the morgue and tells Liv that the disappearing rich men are zombies. He asks for her help stopping the killer by finding out what Bozzio knows. Liv agrees.
Clive pulls Syd’s assistant, Angel, in for questioning. She’s the Angel Sid was yelling at. She has an alibi, but tells them that Syd made his career exposing other magicians’ tricks. They all hated him for it, but she says to start out with Houdina and the Magnificent Magnus first. Ravi scrolls through all the hate posts from magicians on Syd’s Twitter account.
Ravi comes home to Steph in his living room. She’s spent the day decorating for Guy Fawkes Day to impress him. Instead it creeps him out that she entered his house when he wasn’t there. She also bought tickets to a soccer match that’s a month away.
Houdina does an act with metal edged playing cards. Liv has a vision of Houdina breaking up with Syd and throwing her engagement ring at him. Liv steals Houdina’s deck and the queen of diamonds is missing.
Clive questions Houdina who tells him trick cards are common with magicians. She also says when they broke up, Syd exposed her best trick and then modified another one that he built his career on. She was onstage when he died.
Blaine and Liv stakeout Bozzio’s house. They plan on entering the house when Bozzio and Clive leave for a date. Instead Bozzio and Clive head for the bedroom. Liv and Blaine leave.
Steph wakes Ravi up the next morning. She invites him on a trip to wine country and he breaks up with her. She says waiting until the morning after was not classy.
Liv and Blaine enter Bozzio’s house while she’s at the gym. They find the file open on the table, but don’t find any new information. An envelope from the FBI test lab comes through the mail slot. Blaine opens it and finds the test results of the brain in Suzuki’s freezer. Liv says she’ll doctor it up and drop it back off.
Liv and Clive find the Magnificent Magnus and ask him about Syd. Liv has a vision of Syd’s blurb for Magnus’s book which said it was like watching the carcass of old school magic decay. Clive asks Magnus about the fish in Syd’s room. It was supposed to be a prank. During the murder, Magnus was having sex in the bathroom with an auburn woman, where there were no cameras.
Liv tells Major that the missing men are zombies and that she could be next. He promises that won’t happen to her.
Peyton tells Blaine about her visit from Mr. Boss. Blaine gives her his card to call him when Boss drops by again.
Liv changes the wording on the FBI test results to bovine brains. Ravi finds some nasty comments on Twitter from Smoke and Mirrors, with a retort from Syd saying they were next.
Clive and Liv interview Smoke and Mirrors, but they don’t take the questioning seriously. Mirrors writes his answers on a white board. Smoke says Houdina disappeared 20 minutes early from her show and never came back.
Houdina says she was dressed as the cocktail waitress that Clive talked to. Liv says there’s only one person they know for sure went into Syd’s room – the maid.
The hotel manager says the maid hasn’t been seen since she found the body. She wasn’t documented, so they don’t have her information. Liv realizes who the maid really is when she sees the housekeeping board.
Clive arrests Mirrors. Liv pushes in a serving cart and reveals that Mirrors is a woman dressed as a man. She was the maid who found Syd. Liv saw her handwriting on the board when they interviewed the hotel manager and realized it was the same. Mirrors wanted to stop Syd from revealing their best trick. Liv says Smoke was in on it and reveals Magnus’s auburn lover hiding in the bottom of the cart. Smoke hired her to destroy Magnus’s alibi.
Peyton hears someone in the house and is startled by Ravi. She asks him to hang out and watch a movie, and he tries to kiss her. Peyton tries to explain why she refuses, but he tells her not to.
Clive is disappointed that the brain came back as cow. He thinks he’s losing it.
Liv drops the doctored test results back in Bozzio’s mail slot and walks away. Then a mystery woman leaves a packet on Bozzio’s doorstep marked “occupant.”
Major comes home to find Liv communing with the dead in his living room. He walks past and goes upstairs without saying hello.