History Headscratchers / IZombie

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** Another factor is , well what actions her mother take. She finds out that Liv is living with a condition that forces her to feed off human brains? [[MamaBear Mother mode takes over and she quarantines Liv, she contacts the CDC and every medical expert and virus expert in the World to find a cure. Taking every and any course to save her daughter.]] End result, if no cure found Liv spends the rest of her life in CDC quarantine. Then the military gets involved, super strong unkillable soldiers that can gain enemy intelligence by eating enemy soldiers? A Military and Covert Operations wet dream . Then a new arms race starts over zombie super soldiers. She tells her slacker brother, one wrong word. Mommy dearest finds out and all of the above happens.

** Lets also remember that they know Major is an accomplished zombie killer, and has enough skills to be effective at doing so. If they used Blaine they might have opted to have someone else do the killing, but Major had the skill set for both jobs, meaning less people they need to pay/worry about leaking info.

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[[folder:Clive and convictions]]

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** Same reason most don't assume she's albino: They assume its a questionable fashion choice. They just think she's dyed her hair white and avoided the sun, or became a Goth/punk/emo/etc.

* While I get that Liv doesn't want her family to know she's a zombie for the obvious reasons, when she can't share her blood, why doesn't she claim to have contracted a disease transferred blood-to-blood? Like, her family ''know'' she was attacked at the boat party, why not claim that when she was attacked she contracted HIV or something along those lines? It'd allow her to talk to them about her zombie problems without outright saying she's a zombie, explain why she can't donate blood, and give her an excuse for a lot of her past behaviour. Its a very easy explanation that isn't actually untrue and would explain everything away.

### Losing her dream job and knowing she was facing with what could be a long slow death caused her depression and knowing she could accidently infect Major caused her to break things off with him which also fed her depression.

** Besides, Major can be trusted if given the right incentives - his selfless/Chronic Hero nature is apparent to Vaugn and Rita. So they threaten Liv, and he falls in line, like they thought he would. Blaine, however, is way too self-interested and unpredictable to be a viable zombie killer, because while Major would (if begrudgingly) comply, Blaine would scheme and scam and bite Vaughn in the ass eventually. All that said, using a professional and lying to Major just risks Major finding out (and he would, given the high-profile nature of some of the targets) he's been lied to, and might get vengeful - given that he is the only viable zombie detector, better to use him directly and increase the amount of control over him.
** Not only that Blaine is a bona fide cold hearted killer. With connections and hired thugs. If they tried to threaten him or use Blaine. He would have no problem killing Vaughn, his daughter, their scientists and any other threat and serve their Brains to his customers with a side of greens and a complimentary beer.

** Thing about getting them by bribing people is that, funeral directors will either refuse to do so on moral grounds unless they offer enough money to make them agree to it (which would probably mean paying them ''more'' than what they pay Blaine), or if they agree to it, they're probably morally bankrupt enough to realize that they can blackmail the person over it (which, again, would probably be more costly than going to Blaine). As for buying a home themselves, its likely a very big investment and would require them to be hands-on in the process to get access to the brains. Either way, the only practical options are stay with Blaine or dig up graves, which we know Lowell tried it, and it was a ''highly'' traumatic experience for him.

[[folder: Conflicting explanations for the origin of the zombie plague?]]
* While researching zombies, Ravi says that their state is caused by a virus, and this certainly seems to be the case, since it can transmit via contact with blood or via intercourse. But it's also implied, and finally confirmed in [[Recap/IZombieS2E19SalivationArmy "Salivation Army"]], that zombies are created when someone takes a mixture of Utopium and Max Rager. Since both of these are synthetic substances, they have nothing to do with viruses... So what is the real cause of zombiism then? If it's the chemical mixture, where did the virus come from?

[[folder: The end of "Eternal Sunshine of the Caffeinated Mind"]]
* Okay, so TheBadGuyWins. [[spoiler: The owner's daughter]] gets away with murder. [[SarcasmMode Great]], except [[PlotHole it doesn't make any damn sense]]. She shows up literally moments after her boyfriend agrees to give her up. The only way she could have gotten there that fast is if she was already on her way to the police station before he decided to confess. And unless one of the cops told her (which would make no sense, as they wouldn't want her to know she was a suspect), she didn't know he was being questioned. Basically, this ending only works if she had a psychic vision that told her what was going to happen.

[[folder: Why can't Zombies eat animal brains?]]

Okay, so TheBadGuyWins. [[spoiler: The owner's daughter]] gets away with murder. [[SarcasmMode Great]], except [[PlotHole it doesn't make any damn sense]]. She shows up literally moments after her boyfriend agrees to give her up. The only way she could have gotten there that fast is if she was already on her way to the police station before he decided to confess. And unless one of the cops told her (which would make no sense, as they wouldn't want her to know she was a suspect), she didn't know he was being questioned. Basically, this ending only works if she had a psychic vision that told her what was going to happen.

I can't recall this to ever be brought up in series, but is there a reason zombies can't subsist on animal brains? It seems like this never got mentioned or brought up, just implied that zombies can only survive on human brains based on them only eating that throughout the series. Blaine's business would have never held up if zombies could just get by on eating pig or cow brains. They might have to go to specialty shops to acquire animal brains for consumption, but people do already eat them. They'd be much cheaper and less suspicious. It's possibly also a lot less of a mind screw to get animal memories than human ones. Plus, people naturally have an aversion to cannibalism, so animal brains would be more appealing.

I can't recall this to ever be brought up in series, but is there a reason zombies can't subsist on animal brains? It seems like this never got mentioned or brought up, just implied that zombies can only survive on human brains based on them only eating that throughout the series. Blaine's business would have never held up if zombies could just get by on eating pig or cow brains. They might have to go to specialty shops to acquire animal brains for consumption, but people do already eat them. They'd be much cheaper and less suspicious. It's possibly also a lot less of a mind screw to get animal memories than human ones.

** One could argue that she is acting as a "consultant" independent of her job as a medical examiner, similar to how ''Series/{{Elementary}} has Sherlock act as a consultant and constantly participate in interrogations. She does frequently lend her "psychic" powers to the investigation, so perhaps that's just enough to allow some LoopholeAbuse.

Okay, so TheBadGuyWins. [[spoiler: The owner's daughter]] gets away with murder. [[SarcasmMode Great]], except [[PlotHole it doesn't make any damn sense]]. She shows up literally moments after her boyfriend agrees to give her up. The only way she could have gotten there that fast is if she was already on her way to the police station before he decided to confess. And unless one of the cops told her (which would make no sense, as they wouldn't want her to know she was a suspect), she didn't know he was being questioned. Basically, this ending only works if she's psychic.

** 1) Based on the hotel's surveillance tapes, Babineaux knows that the maid was the only person to enter Syd Wicked's room before his death. It's also made clear that Babineaux doesn't believe in magic, so he wouldn't think someone just magically appeared in the room and killed Wicked. Shouldn't the maid then be the cops' number one suspect, even if she has no apparent motive for the murder? Shouldn't they be taking her to the station and grilling her, instead of letting her just slip away?
** 2) Apparently Meers has always been a woman dressed up as man. Now, the magician duo of Smoak and Meers seem to be famous enough to get a documentary made of them, so they must've been around for years. But it's never explained why Meers decided to be a man to begin with? It's [[ContrivedCoincidence quite convenient]] that she just happens to be a cross-dresser, which allows her to kill Wicked without becoming a suspect.

** The Utopium was cut with an unknown substance. Presumably, the secret ingredient contains a virus that is modified by the drug and the sports drink. Alternatively, the boat party Utopium causes [[Technobabble amino acids in Max Rager to spontaneously assemble into a viable zombie virus]].

* While researching zombies, Ravi says that their state is caused by a virus, and this certainly seems to be the case, since it can transmit via contact with blood or via intercourse. But it's also implied, and finally confirmed in [[Recap/IZombieS2E19SalivationArmy "Salivation Army"]], that zombies are created when someone takes a mixture of Utopia and Max Rager. Since both of these are synthetic substances, they have nothing to do with viruses... So what is the real cause of zombiism then? If it's the chemical mixture, where did the virus come from?

* While researching zombies, Ravi says that their state is caused by a virus, and this certainly seems to be the case, since it can transmit via contact with blood or via intercourse. But it's also implied, and finally confirmed in [[Recap/IZombieS2E19SalivationArmy "Salivation Army"]], that zombies are created when someone takes a mixture of Utopia and Max Rager. Since both of these are synthetic substances, they have nothing to do with viruses... So what is the real cause of zombieism then? If it's the chemical mixture, where did the virus come from?

[[folder: What exactly is the origin of the zombie plague?]]

* While researching zombies, Ravi says that their state is caused by a virus, and this certainly seems to be the case, since it can transmit via contact with blood or via intercourse. But it's almos implied, and finally confirmed in [[Recap/IZombieS2E19SalivationArmy "Salivation Army"]], that zombies are created when someone takes a mixture of Utopia and Max Rager. Since both of these are synthetic substances, they have nothing to do with viruses... So what is the real cause of zombieism then? If it's the chemical mixture, where did the virus come from?

** 2) Apparently Meers has always been a woman dressed up as man. Now, the magician duo of Smoak and Meers seem to be famous enough to get a documentary made of them, so they must've been around for years. But it's never explained why Meers decided to be a man to begin with? It was [[ContrivedCoincidence quite convenient]] that she just happens to be a cross-dresser, which allows her to kill Wicked without becoming a suspect.

** Apparently Meers has always been a woman dressed up as man. Now, the magician duo of Smoak and Meers seem to be famous enough to get a documentary made of them, so they must've been around for years. But it's never explained why Meers decided to be a man to begin with? It was [[ContrivedCoincidence quite convenient]] that she just happens to be a cross-dresser, which allows her to kill Wicked without becoming a suspect.

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* Clive and Liv routinely question people, with no one else in the room. In addition to everything else wrong there, at least some of those questionings/interviews/interrogations should have been in a situation where the suspect would have Right to Counsel. Even in the cases where this isn't the case, many of the people Live and Clive interview are fairly wealthy; they should definitely have gotten an attorney as soon as they were brought in. Are the Seattle PD not reading people their rights? Because if not, that's some serious FridgeHorror.