Patriot Brains kicks off with Liv leaving Lowell’s building just as Blaine is coming. She pulls her hood up to hide from Blaine as she leaves, but she now knows that her new boy toy is eating the brains of the teens that Major has been trying to help at the youth center. It only gets worse when Liv sees Julian and has vision from the breakfast brains she just ate in Lowell’s apartment. Julian and Blaine killed her breakfast.
It only gets worse as Liv tries to sneak by. She looks into the back of Julian’s car and sees what can only by meals for Zombies.
Liv is horrified and stunned. How many people have died, and are going to continue to die to keep Blaine’s Zombies?
Zombie Rat Bites
While Liv is struggling with her moral dilemma, Ravi is taking his vitals, trying to figure out if his Zombie Rat bite is going to turn him. Liv tells Ravi that she saw her meal get murdered, but this is one of the kids that Suzuki supposedly found out at the cabin. It looks like team Ravi and Liv are about to start looking for the dirty Zombie Cop in the police department.
When Ravi goes to check up on Major, Major is watching a YouTube video on guns, and has what looks like a Beretta 92. It looks like Major is about to go on a Zombie hunt.
Meanwhile Liv has gone back to Lowell’s so she can confront him on where he gets his meals. Lowell says he hasn’t seen the violent visions and didn’t go looking them, but Liv isn’t letting him off the hook. She wants to know where he’s getting his brains, where Blaine’s base of operations is, which is the worst time ever for Lowell to drop the “I love you.” bomb. What an idiot.
Dead Paintballer
While Liv is confronting Lowell, a group of paintballers is out in the woods, but one of the targets gets killed in both worlds. He was already dead, but they tagged him anyway because they didn’t know at first.
As Ravi and Liv are examining the body Ravi let’s Liv know that Major is still focused on Julian as the Candy Man, but Major thinks its some weird body builder thing. Ravi’s just glad Major doesn’t think its Zombies.
After Liv has a snack of the victim’s brains, Clive and Liv begin to chase down the case.
With soldier brains onboard Liv feels the call to go play some paintball, and she kicks some butt on the field, at least until she finds the shell casing, but it doesn’t’ quite look like it was in the right place. The shell was between the tree and the body, but it doesn’t quite make sense because the shooter would have had to have been fifteen feet tall.
Meanwhile Major is trying to figure out how Julian was so strong. He thinks Julian’s gym would be a good start, and he only sounds mildly insane as he asks the gym trainer about eating brains to get jacked. This ends up backfiring when the trainer is talking about the incident later and Julian ends up overhearing. Major might be trying to find Julian’s source, but Julian is now trying to find him.
Back on the home front Lowell comes to beg forgiveness from Liv, and love will make you do crazy things, which is how he ends up agreeing to help Liv kill Blaine.
No Cross Species Transmission
As Ravi is telling Liv the good news that the Zombie Virus can’t jump species just before Clive shows up with some armed drone footage. They know how the shot came from where it did now. With a link to the victims’ ex wife’s new husband, who works on drones, they’ve got their murderer.
Later that night we see Liv and Lowell starting to enact their plan. With Liv’s sniper soldier brains on board, what better way to take Blaine out of the picture?
Before we get to see if Liv is going to pull the trigger or not we cut over to Ravi’s house. Major has just gotten home, and the lights don’t’ work. He walks into the kitchen to find a maul on the table, but before he can wonder why, Julian has him. Julian wants to know who Major has told about his brains.
Lucky for Major he’s still got his house keys in his hand and just barely escapes Julian’s initial attack, giving him just enough time to get to his bedroom and his Beretta 92.
Back on Sniper Hill, Liv chickens out, she just can’t pull the trigger. Come on, killing a killer doesn’t ruin you. You would have been doing the world a service!!! I can’t believe Liv chickened out.
Major calls Clive, afraid to call the police, but when Clive gets there Julian is gone, and there is no blood. Clive looks right at Major asks him about meds. Poor Major.
Back on Lowell’s deck Lowell, Liv’s new love interest decides that he’s going to finish what Liv couldn’t, and things don’t turn out so well for him. Blaine’s a killer, and he’s a thug.
Patriot Brains Score
Patriot Brains was another fun episode with some good twists and turns. I was going to give it an 80 but Liv not pulling the trigger cost it points with me, resulting in an episode that is still Worth Your Time at 74/100.
| Season | Episode | Episode Name | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 1 | Pilot | 90 |
| Season 1 | 2 | Brother, Can You Spare a Brain? | 70 |
| Season 1 | 3 | The Exterminator | 71 |
| Season 1 | 4 | Liv and Let Clive | 75 |
| Season 1 | 5 | Flight of the Living Dead | 71 |
| Season 1 | 6 | Virtual Reality Bites | 76 |
| Season 1 | 7 | Maternity Liv | 75 |
| Season 1 | 8 | Dead Air | 66 |
| Season 1 | 9 | Patriot Brains | 74 |
| Season 1 | 10 | Mr. Berserk | 77 |
| Season 1 | 11 | Astroburger | 72 |
| Season 1 | 12 | Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat | 73 |
| Season 1 | 13 | Blaine's World | 80 |
| Season 2 | 1 | Grumpy Old Liv | 80 |
| Season 2 | 2 | Zombie Bro | 80 |
| Season 2 | 3 | Real Dead Housewife of Seattle | 85 |
| Season 2 | 4 | Even Cowgirls Get the Black and Blues | 70 |
| Season 2 | 5 | Love & Backetball | 81 |
| Season 2 | 6 | Max Wager | 75 |
| Season 2 | 7 | Abra Cadaver | 85 |
| Season 2 | 8 | The Hurt Stalker | 90 |
| Season 2 | 9 | Cape Town | 88 |
| Season 2 | 10 | Method Head | 75 |
| Season 2 | 11 | Fifty Shades of Grey Matter | 85 |
| Season 2 | 12 | Physician, Heal Thy Selfie | 70 |
| Season 2 | 13 | The Whopper | 85 |
| Season 2 | 14 | Eternal Sunshine of the Caffeinated Mind | 69 |
| Season 2 | 15 | He Blinded Me With Science | 81 |
| Season 2 | 16 | Pour Some Sugar, Zombie | 82 |
| Season 2 | 17 | Reflections of the Way Liv Used to Be | 83 |
