‘iZombie’: Rahul Kohli Teases Ravi’s Search For The Zombie Cure In Season 3 [SPOILERS]

Ravi’s (Rahul Kohli) search for the zombie cure gets more difficult in Season 3 of “iZombie.”

In Season 2, Ravi managed to formulate a cure for zombie-ism, but this version of the antidote causes memory loss to anyone who takes it. “While it works, it causes amnesia. So he’s now attacking it from two angles,” Kohli told Nerdist of Ravi’s mission to finding the cure. “So he spends the season or a good part of it trying to cure two different things.”

“But just like how there were different phases of the [zombie] cure — some were deadly, some didn’t work, some did work — the same kind of situation happens with the amnesia cure as in it’s not exactly perfect,” Rahul continued. “And that in itself and the methods he comes up with and the solutions he has aren’t particularly good, and they cause him to have his own little drama.”

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There’s also more pressure on Ravi’s part this season to find the zombie cure as soon as possible, because his good friend Major (Robert Buckley) is living on borrowed time with an older version of the zombie cure in his veins that will eventually cause his death.

“At the moment, the best that we can do is cure it, but lose your memory, and that’s the situation we’ve had which is why no one else has taken the cure [except Blaine (David Anders)],” Kohli said. “So Major’s on borrowed time and his journey and what he goes through will obviously motivate Ravi. … To lose the Major we know and have a cured dude who doesn’t remember anything, doesn’t remember us, doesn’t remember Liv? Does he give in and we lose Major altogether?”

Although Ravi has a lot on his plate this season, executive producer Rob Thomas told TV Guide that viewers will first see the medical examiner at an emotional low point at the start of the installment.

“I think there’s a feeling that he failed at the end of Season 2 — that Blaine became the man of action and Ravi sat out in the car — and I think he's still reeling from that,” Thomas said. “I think it makes him feel smaller. And I think his pride is wounded and he doesn’t respond well to that. But I think going deeper into the season, we give Ravi his own adventure.”

“I was happy to get him out of the lab this season,” added Thomas. “He has his own [storyline] getting out into the world and being a part of an investigation and going undercover. So he has his own big adventure where he kind of gets to prove his mettle as the season moves on.”

“iZombie” Season 3, episode 1, titled “Heaven Just Got a Little Smoother,” premieres tonight at 9 p.m. EST on The CW.