Okay, that all makes sense.

It did occur to me right around the time that Johnny Frost wanted to put in Harold and Kumar and make some grilled cheese that it was REALLY weird that he would be Liv's sidekick, but Daran Norris is just so awesome that I immediately disregarded the weirdness.

I feel like Ravi being close to finding a cure is going to put a big target on his back.

Yeah, looking back on the episode it pleases me no end that there were a number of moments where I kind of said to myself "really? That's happening?" but it was plausible enough that I went with it. I mean, when there was a knock at the door after he left the first thing I thought was that Liv should maybe be more careful about trusting her senses, but I didn't actually consider that Major wasn't really standing there when she opened the door. And really, all of Johnny Frost. Why would local TV personality and customer identify a body? Because it's Cliff, so why not, my mind says, so okay.

Full on Keyser Soze'd, me. Love it.

I don't know what to think about the potential cure, other than that's huge and explosive.

Also, since Blaine lies about everything, anyone but me think that he does indeed want the cure - not to take, but to sell to high end customers who are not into the whole zombie thing? Blaine, in spite of his complaints is happy to be have the super-strength and be better at violence than everybody around him. (The early episodes made it pretty clear that pre-zombiehood, Blaine was a small-time crook in deep shit with the big boys. I think he likes being the one other people are afraid of too much to give it up for a more varied diet and better adrenaline rushes. Plus, I think he likes the occasional bouts of extreme rage that Liv calls "full zombie mode", and he calls "getting my rage on" better than adrenaline rushes.)

I sit with Typo Boy on Blaine's motivation. He cornered a very lucrative market and could be highly motivated to keep it.

I cried when I realized that the whole revelation with Major scene was a hallucination. Brutally brilliant twist there.

He cornered a very lucrative market and could be highly motivated to keep it.

I find the whole thing with Blaine infecting people and then keeping them as his captive market very imaginative, but also a bit straining credulously. For one thing, I would think anyone who had any way of getting the "product" elsewhere would jump at the chance, rather then be stuck paying gobs of money to the asshat who infected them in the first place. Yet the older woman Blaine picked up in the bar stayed loyal. Also Lowell never intimated to Liv that he'd like to find an alternative source for brains, or that he even resented Blaine for what he did. And how hard would it be for the Captain to go into the morgue and pick out a few tasty brains, rather than be in Blaine's pocket?

I hope we find out there's more to the scam than just the scratch and churn that we've seen so far.

I did love all the fake-outs this week.

When Ravi had his Eureka moment looking at the cured zombie rat, I had this terrible feeling that Ravi is going to die soon.

And how hard would it be for the Captain to go into the morgue and pick out a few tasty brains

Pretty hard, unless he wants to out himself. And it seems like he doesn't want to right now, even though he knows Liv is a zombie too.

I don't know. If you're the Big Boss in a building that generally stores dead bodies that regularly have their heads cut open, finding a time to go into the morgue (like when it's closed for the night) and grabbing some pieces of brain doesn't seem like that difficult a task.

Granted that after Liv started working there, it would be much more difficult. But it seemed like the captain had been a zombie for some time before that, no?

I have the impression that he was recently zombified. Don't know what I'm basing that on, though.

Does Wayward Pines count as Boxed Set? We just watched the first episode and can't decide whether or not it is worth continuing?

I think it's Boxed Set. Maybe not definitively, yet, but surely that's where it's heading.

I watched the first two episodes, I guess, and can't decide if it's worth continuing. I have last night's installment recorded, if it's boring I'm going to cut it loose.