| Night and the Zombie City | |
| Season 5, Episode 10 | |
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| Air date | July 11, 2019 |
| Written by | Bob Dearden |
| Directed by | Tuan Le |
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Night and the Zombie City is the tenth episode of Season 5 and the 68th episode of the series overall. It aired on July 11, 2019.
Synopsis
SHERLOCK LIV — While investigating the murder of private eye Mick Chisel, who was stabbed in the head with an ice pick, Liv (Rose McIver) consumes Chisel’s brain in hopes of breaking down how this gruesome murder took place.
Plot
TBA
Cast
Main Cast |
Guest StarringTBA |
Zombie Traits/Skills
Brain Food
- Deviled Eggs
Trivia
- There are some neat Easter eggs for the noir genre. "Mick Chisel" is a pun of "Mike Hammer", a well-known detective. He also lives at "741 Spill Lane"; obviously a reference to Mickey Spillane, one of the greats in the genre. Liz also prepares deviled eggs with a brain topper; it's a pun on "hard-boiled" detectives.
- In keeping with the parody of noir thrillers, whenever Liv is onscreen the image is black-and-white or extremely desaturated color. Similarly, the score is reminiscent of those films' music, with pronounced use of muted trumpet, piano and stand-up bass.
- The episode title, Night and the Zombie City, refers to the film noir classic Night and the City (1950).
- In keeping with the parody of noir thrillers, whenever Liv is onscreen the image is black-and-white or extremely desaturated color. Similarly, the score is reminiscent of those films' music, with pronounced use of muted trumpet, piano and stand-up bass.
- The case file read by Liv indicates that Frank Chisel resides on Spill Lane. American author Frank Morrison Spillane - aka 'Mickey' Spillane - regularly featured the character, detective Mike Hammer, in novels and short stories published starting in 1947 with "I, the Jury".
- When Blaine is in the interrogation room, after he's told "What are you gonna do, arrest me for smoking?" This is a direct quote from an infamous scene from film "Basic Instinct," when Sharon Stone's character is being interrogated.
- Don E's fiance's full name is Darcy Bennet which also happens to be the last two names of the main characters in Pride and Prejudice.
- Aly is actually a good singer. She intentionally sang badly because Peyton is supposed to be a bad singer.
Comic Panel Titles
- ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROMERO
- DON E BEEN BETTERZ
- DUST TO DUST BUNNY
- JANIE'S GOT A GUN
- WIGHT AND SHADOW
- NEEDLE IN A TRAY STACK?