Liv's weekly brains make her go all armchair therapist routine. It's a change that makes her quite annoying as a person, but it's quite fun to watch. Liv gets all involved and critical when it comes to her friend's relationship and turns the gaze back on herself.
-Jailhouse Meet Cute
While waiting for Major to get released from jail, Ravi meets Peyton and he is immediately attracted to her. Ravi's happiness is short-lived because once Major comes out of the cell, his face is beaten to hell yet again. Not since Jesse Pinkman has a TV character been so brutalized with so many face wounds each week. Despite his condition, Major refuses to give up looking for the Candyman because he doesn't believe the police's cover-up.
-Great. Morning. Dead.
On the murder mystery front, the host of Liv's favorite trashy sex talk radio show, Sasha, is killed. The murderer could be anyone, from her psychotic frequent caller, her scummy dude bro radio rival or her high-strung mousy producer. While it's a fine mystery and well constructed, it's pretty straightforward.
-Dr. Liv: Sex and Love Expert
Major gets dumped by his girlfriend, Corinne, the Jenga enthusiast, because of his obsession with the Candyman case. Liv hears this and goes over to Major's house to talk. Major confides to Liv about the brain he found last week. While Liv doesn't come clean about the whole zombie thing, she genuinely seems to believe that the police solved the missing teen case. She tells Major to relax and that he is just too wrapped up in Jerome's death to think clearly. Major agrees with her as long as she is in the house. As soon as Liv leaves, Major obsessively keeps investigating.
Liv moves from her civil and friendly conversation to spiraling about her relationship with Lowell. Liv and Major have been able to maintain a friendship even after their break-up because their relationship was built on that friendship. When it comes to her relationship with Lowell, though, it is built mostly on sex. Liv worries that there is no real future with Lowell and it's just a physical attraction. Lowell calms her down by ... having sex with her. So let's be optimistic and say they put a pin in that discussion.
The most important relationship of "Dead Air" is Ravi and Liv. Ravi wants to ask Peyton out and keeps pestering Liv to find out that if she's seeing anyone. When Liv finally finds out that Peyton is mostly available, her Sasha brains come out in full force. She's blunt, honest and quite frankly a bit rude when she tells Ravi there is no chance between him and Peyton. Before the two can make up though Liv finds a breakthrough in Sasha's murder case.
-Sasha's Murderer Revealed
Liv is able to identify the obsessive caller who threatened Sasha's life moments before her death. It's none other than her assistant. While Sasha slept with the assistant's husband, she didn't kill her. The assistant was simply being framed by Sasha's producer and "best friend." She is the real murderer and wanted revenge on Sasha for ruining her career. Like I said, the mystery is all pretty standard stuff.
-Two Cliffhangers for the Price of One
Liv manages to repair things with Ravi and convinces Peyton to go out on a date with him. Liv's feeling pretty good about herself. As Liv thinks about all the good people in her life, she nibbles on Lowell's breakfast brains. When she exits Lowell's apartment, she gets a vision of the brains' former owner. The brains belonged to Jerome, and Liv sees the last moments of his life before Blaine killed him. If that wasn't bad enough, she sees Blaine on the way to deliver more brains to Lowell.
While this is the cliffhanger that the episode ends on, I'm more shocked by the scene that precedes it. Ravi is satisfied about successfully asking out Peyton and is tending to the zombie rat he created in the previous episode. The rat bites Ravi through his metal gloves and breaks his skin. So what does this mean?