Paramount+ Mayor of Kingstown season three episode one confirmed Miriam passed away, Robert is back to causing chaos on the streets, and the Aryan Brotherhood is going to continue to wage war on other gangs and Mike. Plus, there’s a new Russian mob boss in town.
Season three episode two opens with Mike (Jeremy Renner) thinking about incarceration being a business and prisoners just their product. Mike knows convictions affect entire families. He also believes that cops/COs are trapped in their own cages, as well.
Over at the prison, one of Raphael’s men – Big Hush – becomes violently ill, foaming at the mouth and in intense pain. Hush dies within minutes as the gang attempts to figure out what to do next.
Mike’s back to taking meetings in his office, and his first of the day is with a mom whose son was murdered. The killer, Greg Stewart, turned out to be her son’s friend who pretended to know nothing about the incident while comforting her in the days following her son’s death. Greg’s locked up in StoneBrook Prison, but after years of serving his sentence, the parole board has just agreed to release him. Anna (Paula Malcomson) wonders if Mike can make something happen that would add years to his sentence and overturn the release.
He’ll look into it but doesn’t make any promises.
Mike rings Carney (Lane Garrison) to get the number of his sister who works at StoneBrook. While they’re on the phone, an emergency call from a janitor comes over the radio reporting a dead body in a storage room and demanding help. Apparently, it’s a very bloody scene.
Carney’s still on the phone with Mike when he takes off running. He enters the storage room and, yes, there’s LOTS of blood. He takes a tumble, slipping in guts and gore. The scene’s so grotesque that even Carney tosses his cookies.
Mike meets with Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa) who confirms a heroin balloon probably popped inside Hush. It happens. Bunny also confirms one of his people, Sharon, gave the balloons to Hush, and that junkies won’t care if it was “squeezed out of Hush like toothpaste.” Mike wants Bunny to press pause on Sharon’s deliveries, but Bunny refuses. Mike leaves with a final warning to be smart.
Elsewhere, Iris (Emma Laird) gets pulled over after blowing through a few stop signs. The situation escalates when Iris refuses to step out of the car after admitting she doesn’t have a license. Instead, she tries to start the car.
Warden Kareem Moore (Michael Beach) orders Carney to lock down the yard after two inmates begin convulsing and foaming at the mouth.
Bunny suspects someone got to Sharon. He calls Mike and suggests that Sharon must have cut the heroin. Mike reminds Bunny he warned him to reach out to Sharon, and Bunny’s worried they’ll come after Raphael for retribution. Mike promises he’ll make it right, and Bunny understandably worries about what that will entail.
Assistant district attorney Evelyn Foley (Necar Zadegan) shows up at the prison to investigate the deaths. People are dying on the streets too, and Warden Moore explains that after Hush died from what they thought was a balloon rupturing, the Crips cut him open and sold the remaining balloons anyway. However, it turns out that heroin isn’t the cause of these deaths. It’s some sort of poison brought into the prison by a mule working for Bunny and the Crips.
Carney’s in desperate need of a mental health day after slipping and sliding in Hush’s guts. Instead, he’s still at work and talking to Mike who’s just showed up to get to the bottom of things. Mike meets with Raphael (D Smoke) and claims he’s speaking for Bunny when he says Raphael needs to cut a deal with the Mexicans for a clean supply. Raphael doesn’t think they’ll work with him, so Mike suggests the Colombians or Guatemalans as alternatives. Raph doesn’t trust Mike, but Mike doesn’t care. If Raphael offers a double payout, the Mexicans or whoever will make a deal.
Kareem and Carney get into it over Mike, with Kareem insisting Mike’s a criminal who aids other criminals. Carney believes that Mike is their only shot at keeping any semblance of peace and that he can be trusted.
Meanwhile, Kyle (Taylor Handley) calls Mike with news that Iris isn’t home. She took their mom’s car hours ago to grab some groceries and hasn’t returned. Kyle gives Mike a hard time about not meeting his nephew yet, and Mike promises to drop in later. He doesn’t seem concerned that Iris is gone.
Evelyn has Mike meet her at the morgue, and he forces her to admit she needs his help. They’ve determined the heroin’s laced with a combination of drugs but haven’t figured out the combo yet. She points out the bodies of a 22-year-old, a 30-year-old, and a mother of three who doesn’t have a history of long-term drug use. (She also doesn’t have any track marks.) Evelyn describes the victims as breaking out in sores like lepers. It’s happening on the streets and in the prison. She’s worried it will hit the schools next.
Mike admits he doesn’t know what’s going on.
While Iris is being booked at the police station and refusing to allow her fingerprints to be taken, Kyle and Tracy are at home with their new baby. Kyle’s spent six hours struggling to put a piece of baby furniture together, with Tracy laughing at his frustration. Luckily for Kyle, he’s allowed to take a break when Robert (Hamish Allan-Headley) and his wife, Patty, show up to visit the new baby.
Kyle has a private chat with Robert and confesses he’s considering transferring to SWAT. Robert doesn’t think it’s a good match and suggests Kyle stay in Homicide.
Ian (Hugh Dillon) and Mike have a late-night talk at the diner, and Ian reveals they found Sharon murdered across the street from Anchor Bay. Mike believes she messed with Bunny’s drugs and wonders if there’s anyone new in town. Ian says there’s a new Russian named Konstantin cleaning up after Milo … an important bit of news that Mike can’t believe he wasn’t already looped in on.
Carney briefly joins them, pissed off that Kareem reassigned him to def-watch. He’s forced to pick through mounds of literal sh*t all afternoon. Mike excuses Kareem’s behavior, reminding him that Kareem has PTSD and deserves a break. Carney understands that but claims that doesn’t make Kareem a saint. “And it’s not like he didn’t even the f**king score,” adds Carney.
Mike’s stunned. He asks Carney to explain, but Carney just walks off.
Mike and Ian head to Sharon’s brother’s house and ask if he knows why his car was at Anchor Bay. They don’t mention his sister’s death and instead ask what she did with the drugs she skimmed off Bunny. Lucas denies she would ever go against Bunny. He doesn’t seem to have any idea what she’s up to, and finally, Ian breaks the news that Sharon is dead.
Mike calls it a night and leaves a voice message for Iris before turning in. He tells her it’s okay if she took off; he just wants to make sure she’s okay.
Mike was unable to get Greg the killer’s parole revoked. Carney’s sister told him Greg was a model prisoner who did everything right. The murderer victim’s mom, Anna, thanks Mike for trying and hands him a roll of cash, noting that he has a caring face.
Morning arrives, and Mike calls Bunny to tell him he’s the target of whatever’s going on. Someone’s messing with his product, but they don’t know who.
A member of the Aryan Brotherhood who’s on the verge of being released is suffocated to death while talking to his daughter in the visitor’s area. The daughter can only scream for help and watch in horror as another prisoner murders her father.
Mike finally makes it home to meet his nephew. As he pulls into the driveway, he sees the happy family through the window. Mike pauses for a moment and then backs out of the driveway.
Episode two ends with Anna waiting at a bus stop. The bus arrives and a man steps out. She calls out, “Greg,” and when he turns to face her, she shoots him four times in the chest.
Mike knocks on Evelyn’s door late at night. They exchange looks but no words are spoken as she lets him in.
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