Season three episode seven of Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown delivers the long-awaited showdown between Mike McLusky and Bunny Washington. The body count continues to rise as the fight for dominance in Kingstown’s drug trade becomes more and more heated. And, finally, Mike seems ready to admit he may have backed the wrong horse.
(Spoilers ahead!)
A busload of young Russian women, accompanied by handlers, arrives at the U.S./Canadian border and passes inspection. One woman, Marya, wonders when they’ll get their passports and cell phones back, and is told not to worry about it. She writes “Marya was here” on the seat in front of her.
Construction workers stop the bus on the Kingstown bridge. Suddenly, a loader lifts the bus and pushes it over the railing. The bus tumbles into the river below and sinks, killing the innocent women.
Mike (Jeremy Renner) knocks back a couple drinks and then switches to coffee, getting antsy at the bar, waiting for his phone to ring.
SWAT busts into the Colombian drug house and returns fire, placing the survivors under arrest. One escapes upstairs and Robert and Kyle (Taylor Handley) pursue. Kyle takes him out just as he shoots and misses Robert (Hamish Allan-Headley). Kyle calls up Mike and says everything’s done, no issues. Mike set up this plan to take down Bunny’s supplier, and Kyle is stressing about how the Crips leader will respond.
Kyle doesn’t get why his brother is playing such a dangerous game. He took out Bunny’s connection for the Aryans, yet he’s on Bunny’s side against the Russians. It’s a total mess and will probably end in major trouble.
Iris (Emma Laird) gives Mike an early morning call and confirms she’s being careful. She also reveals the shipment of women is late. Mike can’t help himself and reminds her to be careful again. Iris notes that he sounds like all the other guys who underestimate her.
Charlie, the serial killer, draws a picture of one of his yet-to-be-discovered murder victims’ body for Ian (Hugh Dillon). When he brings up the man on the porch that Ian had him kill, Ian instantly shuts him down. Ian changes the subject back to trees by the victim.
Over at the prison, Raphael (D Smoke) is interrupted by guards while working out. They claim the warden wants to see him, but it’s just a ruse to get him alone. Three AB-aligned racist guards just stand there while an Aryan Brotherhood prisoner attacks him. The guards only step in after Raphael gets the upper hand and takes the attacker’s knife.
Raphael’s placed in solitary and promises he’ll kill the guards. One says the name of his kid’s school and knows Roe is working two jobs. And now Raphael’s going to get more time added to his sentence, so he won’t be helping provide for his family for a long while.
Rebecca (Nichole Galicia) calls Mike to say there’s traffic on the bridge and she’s going to be late to the office. Mike teases her about always being late as Rebecca describes lots of cops and fire department personnel are on the scene. Mike realizes something went over the bridge and rushes to the site.
Ian and Stevie (Derek Webster) are already there, and Ian confirms a vehicle went off the bridge. Ian thinks the driver nodded off. They pulled two female bodies from the water. Mike’s certain there will be more. Evelyn joins the guys and observes as the bus is pulled from the river. The women inside drowned, as did their armed escorts.
Meanwhile at the women’s prison, Tracy checks on Cherry, the prisoner who just gave birth. She asks who raped her and Cherry refuses to name names. Tracy assures Cherry that she’ll ensure the father is punished. When Tracy mentions the guards, Cherry gets upset and swears she said nothing about it being a guard. She is clearly terrified and orders Tracy to leave her alone.
Konstantin (Yorick van Wageningen), Iris, and Konstantin’s right-hand man, Roman, pull up across the riverbank. Roman thinks the driver was probably exhausted from driving all night. But Iris and Konstantin both think it wasn’t an accident.
Mike tells Ian it needs to go down as an accident. That doesn’t go over well, as Ian discovered there was an illegal construction site on the bridge at the time of the incident. Mike wants to slow down the investigation, even though it’s a mass murder. If not, there will be a lot more dead bodies popping up soon.
Carney (Lane Garrison) calls Mike and fills him in on what just happened to Raphael. None of Raphael’s guys saw what went down, and Mike promises to manage the situation – but it needs to be kept quiet.
The news reports the bus incident as an accident, with 14 people losing their lives. This is hitting Iris hard, and Konstantin tries to engage her in conversation. Finally, she claims she’s okay, but it’s obvious she’s not. Konstantin knows she’s obsessing over the incident. She refuses to look away from the news and Konstantin orders Roman to turn off the TV.
Roman can’t find the remote and Konstantin gets frantic, grabbing Iris’s face and forcing her to turn away from the television. He places a gentle kiss on her lips and acknowledges that she’s “far gone from fear.” A tear streams down her cheek.
A short while later, Ian and Mike look at the destroyed bus in the garage. Ian found out that someone had stolen the construction equipment a year ago. Mike and Ian guess that there were three or four guys on the bridge when the bus went over. They toss out ideas about who’s responsible. Who could poke the Russian bear this hard? Mike suggests Callahan, but Ian is leaning toward Bunny who happens to be lying low.
Ian thinks it’s weird Bunny didn’t call Mike when SWAT hit his Colombian suppliers. Mike chalks it up to Bunny being preoccupied with the death of his cousin. Mike insists Bunny doesn’t kill innocent people, but Ian’s not buying it. He’s spent time with serial killer Charlie and believes Bunny’s no less a psychopath.
Mike wonders if it’s possible he’s blind to Bunny. (The answer is yes.)
Tracy is late walking to her car after her shift, and her co-worker Will walks with her. Their conversation is semi-normal but suddenly turns threatening when he asks why she was talking to Cherry. Will thinks Cherry got what she deserved and doesn’t understand why Tracy cares about her. He slams Tracy’s car door closed and doesn’t allow her to leave. He gets a little rough and then apologizes, telling her to drive home safely.
Tracy is overcome with fear, and it takes a while for her to calm down and drive away.
Mike and Evelyn stand outside the morgue, looking at the covered dead bodies. All the girls were under 18, and Evelyn knows it’s Mike calling the shots and making sure it’s listed as an accident. Mike doesn’t admit to it, and Evelyn knows she needs to go along to keep there from being further retaliation. “I gotta pretend these babies weren’t murdered,” says Evelyn.
Mike asks for some time. He’ll get these girls justice by killing their murderers, without the benefit of a trial.
Later, Mike stakes out Bunny and his family and friends as they gather to pay their last respects to Rhonda. He follows Bunny when he leaves and watches as he pulls into a locked garage. Bunny meets with Cole, the gun dealer, who’s just gotten in more AT-4s and M4s.
Mike pulls up and honks, and Bunny allows him to pull in. Mike can’t believe what he sees. Bunny threatens to kill Mike, and Mike acknowledges it looks like Bunny’s ready to kill the entire city. Mike had no idea about the guns, and Bunny reminds him that he never mentioned the Aryans working with the Russians. Mike claims he’s handling that and has been tipping the scale in Bunny’s favor.
Bunny doesn’t care about balance; his family’s dropping. And here it comes… Bunny says he’s done and is ready to go full monster now. “I gonna Frank Lucas this s**t,” says Bunny. “I’m gonna own all of it.”
Mike warns him he’ll have to swing back if Bunny does this. Bunny indicates Rhonda’s murder was a bridge too far. Bunny seems insulted when Mike asks if he was behind the 12 girls pulled out of the river. Mike reminds him there’s a short list of suspects, and Bunny does what he can to hold back his anger. Bunny’s done with Mike and done with playing by his rules.
Bunny yells so everyone in the building can hear. “I go my way, you go yours. We cross again, only one of us is gonna walk away,” warns Bunny.
Mike’s back at the bar, sopping up his problems with alcohol, when Ian joins him. Ian is really disturbed by the bodies. He says the coroner had to use a hammer to separate the girls’ hands. They were holding each other when rigor mortis set in.
Mike’s come to terms with the fact that there was never a solid line for any group to cross over. They just made it up.
Mike rings Carney and orders him to get a burner phone to Raphael, no matter how difficult that is.
Tracy’s made it home and holds her baby as she drinks. Meanwhile, Kyle’s at the bar drinking with his buddies. Evelyn’s there and he jokes it’s not the place for her to be, given the circumstances. She asks about any leads and is stunned to learn Kyle’s now in SWAT. Her hatred of Robert shows, and she asks Kyle if he has any idea how many people Robert’s put down. Kyle warns her to stop talking and Evelyn says that while Robert is bulletproof, the people around him aren’t.
Carney delivers a tray to Raph with food and a burner. Raphael immediately calls Bunny and tells him the racist guards are threatening Trey and Roe. Raph knows Callahan’s behind it and asks Bunny to get his family out of this town. Bunny promises he’s got Raph’s back.
Episode seven ends with Mike standing on the riverbank staring out at the water.
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