The ships are strong with this one. iZombie season 1, episode 8, “Dead Air,” sparked many new ships, and possibly sunk a massive fan favorite.

Massage with a (shockingly) happy ending

The episode opens as Lowell gives Liv a very sensual footrub. Despite being a zombie, she’s still able to do the dirty. Liv listens to a saucy radio talk show where a caller states that she’s going to kill her lover’s mistress.

Ravi sits waiting for Major to be released when Peyton walks in and totally owns the situation. The two friends of Liv exchange googly eyes before a minced meat faced Major walks through the door. Major is saddened to know that the cultists from last episode had Jerome and Eddie’s bones in their backyard, but isn’t buying that they were the killers.

Related: iZombie season 1, episode 7 recap: FMK, One Direction

Liv and Ravi overhear the radio talk show host being electrocuted on-air. At the scene of the crime, Clive reveals that her mic was attached to the station’s generator, and that she was the mistress of the earlier call. “Shocking.” Indeed. But still, too soon, Ravi. Talking to the show’s producer, the investigation team gets the tapes of all of “Cheated on in Chattanooga” (henceforth “CoiC”)’s calls-ins. A coworker speaks of the many lovers already in relationships that Sasha had. An electrician reveals that anyone could’ve hooked the mic up to the generator.

Quite fiery

Liv listens as a tape of Sasha exclaims, “Yes, manscaping is a thing. You can’t expect a girl to go hacking through the bush like Indiana Jones looking for the the lost Peruvian temple.” Ravi tells Liv of his meeting Peyton at the courthouse, and that he wants to ask her out. As Liv chomps down on Sasha’s brain, she Liv admits that she doesn’t believe that Ravi had a true moment with Peyton. A zombie rat is discovered by the two, but only Liv thinks it’s adorable. So there we have it, zombie brains are nasty to other zombies. It’s a zombie thing. And this will apparently lead to the zombie cure!

Clive arrives to report that CoiC used a burner cell phone. Sasha was in a feud with another morning talk show host named Chuck, but in her sassy nature, she asked many of Chuck’s past lovers in for a roundtable interview. Liv starts giving Clive love advice as they arrive at the disgusting upChucker’s show. Liv immediately psychoanalyzes Chuck as he shows the investigators a picture of his wife, triggering Liv’s brain flash of Chuck’s beloved splashing a drink in Sasha’s face. Chuck and Sasha were hate banging, but his wife barely speaks English, eliminating her from the list of suspects.

At Major’s house, his girlfriend breaks up with him, telling him to get some help. Blaine meets with Suzuki, where the two discuss the lieutenant’s moving of the bodies of the skate park kids. You’re onto something, Major! They bring up Liv, and Blaine gets a twinkle in his eye.

After Liv’s brain flash of a feud between Sasha and her producer, Clive has Jane in for an interview. Ravi and Liv discuss Major’s breakup and Peyton. “I can’t help it, I’m filled to the brim with insight,” explains Liv after a long love lesson. Ravi doesn’t hesitate with a “Oh, so that’s what you’re full of.” Spot on.

The Candyman can

Liv visits the bloodied Major and realizes guiltily that she didn’t answer his jail call. He’s been fired from his job, but is still more concerned with the Candyman and the brain he found in the car. Liv tells Major to let go of Jerome, mostly for his own safety. There’s a bit of gooey tension ebbing off of Liv, but Major simply calls her a “good friend.”

Visiting a (shirtless) Lowell, Liv voiceovers her concerns of not yet being friends with Lowell like she still is with Major. She thinks that they have nothing in common other than being half dead, but he deflects her by being supermegafoxyawesomehot. Que zombie sex and a brain flash to Sasha with a man named Sam.

Peyton and Liv chat about Lowell, but Liv turns it around with a “Enough about me. Who have you been sailing with lately, and how big is his boat?” Seriously. We didn’t make that ship-language up. “Actually, the harbor is empty,” responds Peyton, opening up the possibility of Pavi. Maybe? Liv’s not convinced Most Eligible Bachelor in the Planet fits Ravi’s M.O. Ravi is understandably upset at Liv’s cutting straight-talk.

Southern hospitality

Liv hears a southern accent on a commercial from Sasha’s show that matches CoiC’s. The producer reveals that a woman named Kaylee threw on a southern accent for the beignet commercial. Clive and Liv visit Kaylee, and don’t buy her lame story of a coffee run. Sam from Liv’s brain flash arrives, nearly solidifying Kaylee as the killer.

In Kaylee’s interrogation, the suspect tells of the elaborate plan she came up with to simply upset Sasha with the CoiC calls, not murder her. Things turn around when it’s revealed that Sasha blackballed Jane, the producer, from being on-air. Jane took advantage of CoiC’s death threat to do the final deed. Jane is arrested as her Sasha memorial show stinks up a storm. She goes out in a blaze of glory by giving a “I hope they have radio in Hell” prose.

The episode wraps as Ravi asks Peyton out over the phone. Pavi sails! Unfortunately for our morgue doctor, the zombie rat is able to bite through chainmail gloves. Major buys guns from a shady arms dealer as Liv admires her adorable as all hell beau. Ah, life is good when you’ve eaten a fresh brain in the morning, eh? Except for that adorable beau is eating Jerome’s brain, courtesy of one Mr. Blaine himself. Bummer.

iZombie airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW.

Will Liv kill Blain next week?

It seems like Jerome was the last straw. But with five episodes left in the first season of iZombie, would it make sense to kill off our horribly delicious villain this early?