The guard lashes out at the inmate, beating him before banging his own head against a concrete wall to make the attack appear justified. The show cuts to the guard as he's approached by an inmate who's trying to use the leverage of the letter to get the guard in his pocket. Mitch and Mike visit gang leader Bunny to try to negotiate away from retribution for the guard's nephew. RELATED: Mayor of Kingstown: Emma Laird & Aidan Gillen Tease Season 1's 'Nasty' Stakes The immediate appearance is that she either doesn't approve of her sons or their line of work, but the family's relationship has yet to be revealed. When a young inmate approaches her to ask if Mitch and Mike can help her cousin who's entering the prison soon, Miriam turns angry and warns against ever mentioning her sons again. Introduced mid-lecture on how the Civil War was fought over states' rights, just specifically their right to choose slavery, Miriam seems to understand the truly cruel history of the nation. In a prison classroom Dianne Wiest makes her appearance Mike and Mitch's mother Miriam McLusky. As he goes to leave, he also reminds the guards that this is going to cost them. The group makes a plan to keep him safe, staffing the yard with men that work with the McLusky family, Mike warns about retribution from the inside. One asks Mike to help keep his nephew safe after he's elicited the anger of another inmate for sending out a letter. Meanwhile, Mike heads to a diner to meet up with some guards, who may work one side of the law but, like everyone in Kingstown, have their feet on both sides. RELATED: Mayor of Kingstown: Hugh Dillon & Tobi Bamtefa Discuss the Series' Timeliness After offering horrific yet plausible advice of hanging a noose and faking suicidal intent to get out of the guard's control, Mitch takes a private meeting with Vera, wife of a notorious inmate Milo, who asks him to pick up $200,000 Milo has buried in the woods. The scene does the legwork of establishing both what the McKlusky family is up to and their less-than-legal methods of achieving their goals.Īfter the credits, the show picks up with Mike and his brother Mitch in their office listening to a father complain about the treatment of his son inside the jail after he hit a guard. While the voiceover runs, Mike pays a kid to hit a tennis ball over the concrete and barbed wire walls into the prison yard, delivering something to an inmate inside. The new Paramount+ crime thriller Mayor of Kingstown opens with a monologue from Jeremy Renner's character Mike McLusky lamenting his fate that got him stuck in Kingstown, serving as the link between the prison populations and the outside world. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Mayor of Kingstown Season 1, Episode 1, "The Mayor of Kingstown," which released Sunday on Paramount+ and airs Sunday on Paramount Network.
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