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Chivalry is Dead
Season 4, Episode 8
Chivalry (7)
Air date April 23, 2018
Written by Diane Ruggiero-Wright
Directed by Jason Bloom
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Chivalry is Dead is the eighth episode of Season 4. It aired on April 23, 2018 and had 0.68 million viewers.

Plot[]

A LARP-er is found dead in full plate armor, Brother Love and Blaine team up on a new venture and Renegade has more problems to deal with.

Recap[]

In their kitchen, Peyton tells Liv what happened at the 206 and that Major was the ranking officer handling the situation. Liv asks her not to tell Major and Ravi about what she caught her doing, and Peyton tells her that she not only respects her decision, she wants to be a part of it. Liv turns her down and says that their biggest problem is a lack of funds. Peyton looks thoughtful, then goes to prison to talk to Casper, who had provided the information to put Stacey Boss away. He insists that she owes him, and she says he didn't give her what she wanted; he says there is no money, but when she goes to hang up, he hints at a pot of gold. She implies moving him to a jail with better conditions closer to state borders and his family if he helps.

Clive, Liv, and Ravi go to check out a body found in a pool of blood in a suit of armor, stabbed through with a sword. They identify the victim as Garrett Drexel, part of a LARPing group called The Guardians of Bonestorm, and go to speak with them. When they're told that Garrett was found dead, the group seems shocked; they said. They say that Garrett felt it wasn't wise for zombies and humans to fight together, so he left with his friend Magnus to start a zombie LARPing group. They show their own LARPing swords, which are clearly flimsy foam. Liv and Clive inform them that Garrett wasn't a zombie, which also seems to surprise and baffle them.

Clive and Liv recognize the sword a combatant uses in an underground fighting tournament. There, Liv and Major have a brief conversation, which Roche watches with suspicion. Clive and Liv go to speak with Magnus afterwards, who explains that he broke away from the zombie LARPers and started the zombie Thunderdome. The zombie LARPers that he and Garrett had formerly fought with are identified as the Shadow Exiles, but Magnus looks up their schedule and lets Clive and Liv know where they can find them.

Stacey Boss pops out of a crate of brains, dressed in a thick winter parka, looking for Casper Cotter. He's heard that Casper is part of a group of prisoners due to be transferred to a different institution, so intends to have Blaine and Don help him. Blaine says he doesn't have an army that would be able to do such an endeavor, but he knows someone who does. He then brings Boss to Angus and convinces him that this mission was given from God.

Back at the Renegade meetup, Liv scratches both Beth and Guy, and both smile with immediate relief. She asks where the third one is, and Levon informs her that Isobel hasn't shown up. She asks who her coyote was, and he tells her it was the new guy, Curtis.

Roche pins one of the zombies to a pillar and asks Major if he should shoot him; Major says heads for yes, tails for no. He flips a coin, and it lands on heads; however, he claims it to be tails. Roche has his team begin destroying the supples.

Clive and Liv go to talk to the Shadow Exiles. When Clive identifies himself, the group immediately reacts guiltily. They promptly confess that they'd had no idea Garrett was human; they'd assumed he was a zombie like them. He fought so well that he was Lancelot. A man named Kevin Kreeger admits that he was the one to deal the fatal blow. Clive says that while the killing was unintentional, leaving the body was a crime, so he needs them to come down to the station in the morning to give statements.

At night, King County Prison Transport is attacked by Angus's Brother Love group. From the side, folks watch them. Boss, Don, Blaine, and Crybaby watch, and Boss remarks that that's a good army. Crybaby does indeed cry, but he stoically says it's a glandular condition, and he appears perfectly happy to kill away.

Guinevere (Kathy) cheating on King Arthur with Lancelot. Kathy says that Kevin uses a broadsword named Excalibur; to kill someone in chainmail, one would use a pointier blade... like the murder weapon. Galahad's testimony reveals that Kevin had pretended before the fight to be injured so he wasn't using the broadsword, and Garrett went easy on him, thus making it so Kevin could kill him.

Locker 220, at the Ferry Station, on Colman. Boss and Blaine arrive, open the locker, and find it empty. The scene switches to Renegade's crew, where Liv and Peyton have arrived with the black duffel bag full of cash. They're interrupted by a knock at the door, and Levon opens it to let in Curtis the coyote and Isobel. They explain that the border patrol they were bribing changed their minds so they had to find a different way in. Isobel sits on the bed and Liv proceeds to scratch her... but nothing happens. She tries the other arm more deeply but once again, nothing happens. They don't understand what's going on, and Isobel ask, "I'm going to die, aren't I?"

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Starring[]

Zombie Traits/Skills[]

Liv[]

  • Garrett Drexel - Medieval History Teacher/knowledge, participant in LARP[1], renaissance-like speaker.

Major[]

  • Unknown - Cowboy, interested in songs about tractors and cold beers.

Russ[]

  • Unknown - Cowboy, interested in songs about tractors and cold beers.

Trivia[]

  • Don E doesn't read the fine print on the brains he buys for specific memories and traits, thus ending up with cheap imitations of what he hoped.
  • It's revealed that Ravi likes Doctor Who.
  • Liv shows that if she eats a brain of someone who LARPs, her mind is "re-wired" into only speaking in LARP dialect (much to the annoyance of non-LARPers). Similar to when she got The Mists's heroic delusions.

Brain Food[]

Brain Roast[2]

  • Liv first stuffs the brain with an apple, before beginning to cook it on a makeshift spit roast, all the while, she bastes it with the juice as it turns. She then serves it on a bead of Kale and Lemon slices.

Comic Panel Titles[]

  • MAJOR MALFUNCTION
  • KNIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
  • THE SWORD AND THE STONEWALLED
  • IMMORTAL COMBAT
  • TOO MANY CROOKS IN THE KITCHEN
  • SLUDGE PACKERS
  • KNIGHT FEVER, KNIGHT FEVER

Title Meaning[]

  • Chivalry is Dead - a reference to the chivalric code of the knights of the round table and the fact that the victim, dressed as a knight, is dead.

Multimedia[]

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References[]

  1. LARP (Live Action Role-Playing) - Wikipedia
  2. Liv cooks the brain in the same way you would cook a Pig Roast.
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