It's a tense beginning, but Carlos then offers to help handover Kenny, who apparently cooked for his gang and would likely come to collect the money he's owed to help him escape. Carlos tells Mike there's no hard feelings, that the kid had no honor and was destined for murder soon anyway. The next morning, Mike is approached by Carlos, the father of the man who killed his brother. A child-murdering meth-addict may not be the most sympathetic villain, but once again Mayor of Kingstown does the work to show how morally ambiguous all these deeds truly are. The horrors are highlighted with a shot of Kenny who is crying and angry at the harm he caused. It’s a bit incongruous to see a white woman speak about the horrors of the mental models that encouraged the enslavement of peoples to incarcerated populations that are predominantly non-white, but it’s especially strange to see it next to the violence her sons are enacting as means to an end. In a tonal shift, the episode returns to the women’s prison with Miriam lecturing on the origins of the North American slave trade. RELATED: Mayor of Kingstown: Taylor Handley Dissects Kyle's Morally Complicated View It seems that all of the gangs have to be on board, and Mike promises to work on getting Bunny’s crew to back his play. The man tries to talk Mike out of it and Mike seems to agree, but the two discuss what it would take anyway. Meanwhile, Mike goes to visit someone to try to arrange Kenny's murder in county jail. The Beast is first put up against another criminal who may know where Kenny’s gone, and while he doesn’t kill the man, he certainly beats him in a way that resembles enhanced interrogation. Presumably, the Beast is meant to not worry about taking anyone in alive, which is an indictment both against current police practices and against military procedures.
The officers meet up with an enforcer nicknamed the Beast, and tell him to treat this raid and capture like Afghanistan. RELATED: Mayor of Kingstown: Emma Laird & Aidan Gillen Tease Season 1's 'Nasty' Stakes While Mike’s remark may have been off-handed, the group share knowing looks and tell him to make it happen. Mike claims that putting him in county jail means that the population would take care of him and he would never make it to his arraignment. When the chief walks away, the rest of the officers suggest it would be better if the child murderer doesn’t make it to court. Mike has clearly used his mayoral power to identify the meth addict responsible for the tragedy as Kenny and dig up his past, which causes the police chief to insist they work this case clean.
Within moments, the fire spreads out of control and when it reaches the meth cooking materials, the entire trailer explodes in flames, killing the young boy and his mother.Īfter the opening credits, Mike and Kyle arrive at the scene along with the police force. Not finding any, he drives off, abandoning the cigarette that soon falls and sets fire to a trashcan. While a boy plays with a small weight, his mother is passed out on the couch, and a meth addict lights a cigarette while scouring the house for food.
Opening with an exercise montage, showing how everyone from prison populations to the police stay fit, Mayor of Kingstown's third episode, "Simply Murder," quickly transitions to tragedy. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Mayor of Kingstown Season 1, Episode 3, "Simply Murder," which released Sunday on Paramount+.
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