Mayor of Kingstown (2021) s03e10 Episode Script
Comeuppance
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[MIKE] Bunny's moving
weapons. Six figures' worth,
military grade.
You want me to ambush him?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I want you to leave this place.
- I'll buy you a life.
- [WOMEN SCREAMING]
[IRIS] I'm not gonna end
up one of those girls.
[EVELYN] What is it? About her?
[MIKE] My mom had that same look.
How did they know their target
was in the yard?
You have two weeks.
If we don't have your resignation,
- we will terminate your employ.
- No, I-I
- I've worked
- I'm sorry.
- I feel
- No, no, fuck your sorry!
You need to stand down.
You're not yourself.
- Shut the fuck up!
- [EVELYN] I'm not dropping
the Morrissey case.
One fucking guy tried
to do the right thing.
- Robert killed him.
- You don't know that.
[EVELYN] It wasn't It was not
a home invasion.
- You did good, Charlie.
- What about the man
- on the porch?
- [GUNSHOT]
[IAN] Fucking came at me.
[GRUNTS]
- Milo.
- I'm sorry, Roman,
I need you alive for a while.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[MIKE] Mariam came to court
the day I was sentenced.
Charges were too heavy to
risk trial, so I pled out.
She came that day.
And then she visited
me inside just once.
She only needed one visit
because she only had one thing to say.
She told me to survive.
Mariam knew the prisons.
Knew both sides of those walls.
She knew what survival meant.
She was giving me permission
to become a stranger to her.
She was saying, "Become
something unrecognizable."
I took that advice.
I didn't know if
releasing me was a mistake.
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No one knew what they were releasing.
I did things inside.
Evil, by most moral standards.
By my mother's.
But did those acts make me evil?
The day I got out, my family was there.
Mariam was there.
She held onto me like it
was an act of absolution.
[GUNFIRE CONTINUING]
Forgiveness for the sinner.
And I thought maybe
maybe I can shed this skin.
Maybe I can return to myself.
[SLOW, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
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[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
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We settle all business today, Bunny.
Yeah.
Deck's stacked in our favor, but
still putting my people at risk.
I'll let the Russians know your route.
But I'll play dumb to the destination.
You got an idea where
you want to lead him?
Yeah. Yeah, I got a spot.
It's old ironworks downriver.
Box them motherfuckers in.
Triangulate fire and whatnot.
Well, if shit goes south,
I'll let KPD know where to aim.
Every Russian soldier goes down.
That is the prize
for the cops, for the D.A.
Konstantin?
I'll handle him.
What, you getting
your hands dirty, Mike?
Nothing can wash the blood
off these hands, Bunny.
Aiight.
Where this gonna leave us, then,
when the dust settles?
Us?
Yeah.
That's a lot of territory.
There's a whole lot of
ambition right there.
It's not exactly past the
horizon though, is it, Bunny?
You stay inside our borders.
Yeah.
When you go across the lines
there's monsters waiting.
Monsters bigger than you,
wanting to take all you got.
You settle for Kingstown.
What about you?
I get some sort of peace.
Twisted as it is, but
[SCOFFS]
that's where it leaves us.
[SLOW, INTRIGUING MUSIC]
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[BIRDS CHIRPING IN DISTANCE]
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[SIRENS WAIL IN THE DISTANCE]
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I mean, it was just fucking stupid.
I let my guard down.
He came at me, the one time.
Well, lucky you got your sidearm free.
I don't even remember
drawing my goddamn gun.
You know, that was
just fucking instinct.
That's all that was, I mean
I let my guard down.
[INVESTIGATOR] Look, we
have what we need, Detective.
Shoot doesn't get much
cleaner than this, right?
We should have you
cleared by end of week.
- All right, appreciate it.
- [INVESTIGATOR] Yeah.
- [EVELYN] Hey, Ian.
- Hey.
Give me a minute?
Yeah, Counselor,
I got a shitload of fucking paperwork.
Yeah, I know what that's like.
[SIGHS] And why is it that
every single time I see you
I think I need to call my union rep?
Uh
How many times did
you take Charlie Reeves
on these field trips?
Uh, I just told these guys.
Like, you know, half a dozen, maybe?
- Seven times.
- Okay.
You logged him out of
Anchor Bay seven times, yeah.
Six times to search for and
recover victims' remains.
- Seventh was for the dentist.
- Yeah, yeah.
The dentist. Yeah, he requested me.
Doesn't DOC have a dental plan?
[STAMMERS] His teeth were fucked.
Yeah, I mean, he was
eating rocks from the yard.
They were fucked. He requested me.
I got-I got a relationship
with this fucker.
You know what happened the day
you took him to the dentist?
What N Not a clue. What?
Morrissey was murdered.
All right, first of
all, fuck you, Evelyn.
How long we known each other,
this is what you think of me?
- I didn't even ask a question.
- Are you really that desperate
for the office, really?
'Cause that's disappointing.
You throw this
disrespectful dogshit at me?
You know what I do? I bring
closure to these families.
That's what I did, okay? So fuck this.
[TENSE MUSIC]
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[STEVIE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
What? She's not? Okay.
- Hey, yo, Ian.
- Hmm?
Hey, got a body down by the tracks.
Looks like a hit.
- Fucking perfect.
- Yeah.
Yeah. Keno.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
[LINE RINGING]
Fuck.
Is he dead?
Well, Roman is not
one for radio silence.
[SIGHS]
Maybe he ran.
From what? And to where?
I mean, you've been offered a
golden ticket, yet you remain.
Roman was never shackled to me.
His loyalty was fathomless.
[IRIS] Here.
If he's dead
do we run?
Do we stay?
W-Where would I go?
I mean, you're free.
I am shackled.
The question is not
if Roman's dead, the
question is who killed him?
Now, logic dictates that
it was revenge meted out.
You know, by the Aryans
or Bunny Washington.
That-That's logical.
What do you feel?
[SCOFFS]
Feel?
That I don't allow. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
No, we have business to attend.
We're gonna do our work
until all the work is done.
Fuck.
[EERIE MUSIC]
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[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
Hey.
Look, I got a thing I got
to talk to you about, Mike.
- Then talk.
- Not here.
But let me ask you
you heard from Iris?
- Not since yesterday.
- We got to track her, Mikey.
I'm gonna cut this fucker
down, but I got a feeling
this is Konstantin's guy.
Christ.
Fucking doing more and more to
make a fucking statement these days.
They tortured
the fuck out of this poor bastard.
They took their sweet fucking time.
- Aryan payback?
- I mean, I don't think so.
I mean, the gas mask
that's a gulag torture technique.
They put the mask on,
hands behind the back,
they choke off the air.
- The Russians.
- I mean, you think
that Konstantin's gonna be
doing this to his own people?
No, the other bodies he
dropped were all clean kills.
- Yup.
- I mean, clean.
This is
This wasn't him.
Come on, let's go.
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
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- Mike.
- [MIKE] Konstantin.
So, your, uh, your man is dead.
Roman.
Yeah, we suspected as much.
Was it the Aryans?
I don't think so.
We share a common enemy, Mike.
A common frustration.
- Mm.
- Someone detonated a bomb
at your mother's funeral. Someone drove
a busload of girls in the river.
To whom do we credit these actions
different parties or the same?
Corporeal or incorporeal?
- What are you talking about?
- I think it's the same.
The same corporeal fucking being
has returned.
Konstantin, I saw Milo on
that boat when it blew up.
- I was there.
- He was warned,
he survived, and now Milo's here.
[MIKE] Okay.
- Let him come.
- [SCOFFS]
We carry out our business.
Yeah.
Nothing changes.
Good?
Far from it.
Look, Mikey, I don't want
to fucking pile on here, but
I got I got a problem.
Yeah? What is it the shoot?
No, it's clean. I.A.'s gonna clear me.
It's fucking
- Evelyn.
- Ah.
Look, she's looking
at the days that I
- Yeah?
- I took that psycho Charlie
out in the field, right?
- Yeah? And?
- And, well,
one of those days, I
took him to the dentist.
Yeah, so fucking what? And wh
S-Spit it out.
Mikey, it was the day
Morrissey was killed.
I just, I feel sick to my stomach.
Mike, I just
It just went down wrong,
Mike. It went down wrong.
Fuck. Wh You think?
I-I was trying to
fucking scare him, Mikey.
Yeah, with a fucking serial killer, Ian?
I mean I-I mean, he fucking recanted
and then-and then he
upset Charlie, and it
- fucking got away from me.
- Well, yeah, you don't want to do that
upset the fucking psychopath.
What were you thinking?
There's no-there's no
connection, all right? To
Charlie's dead. He's dead.
- So why are you telling me
- 'Cause Evelyn.
'Cause Evelyn fucking scares
the shit out of me, Mike.
- Yeah, okay.
- I'm worried about it.
Yeah? Well, you should be.
All right, look, uh
You're working the case, all right?
Trying to find this fucking
murder. What do you do?
- Canvas.
- Canvas. Fucking every house,
five mile radius, it's a lot of eyes.
Who worked the case?
- Keno. Keno ran point.
- Okay.
Was it an exhaustive investigation?
Mikey, the guy was a fucking rat.
Okay, so that's a hard no. Ian
I know.
Evelyn's already pulled
the prison records here.
She's got somebody investigating this
out in the field right
now, I guarantee it.
She's gonna look at the traffic
cams. Were you in the Charger?
Uh, I obscure my plates, but yeah.
Right, this just keeps getting better.
- Ian, what do you want me to do?
- Just talk to her.
- Just talk to her.
- And tell her what?
She's a goddamn townie, Mike.
Just tell her to please
be a fucking team player.
- Her cure is worse than
- Look, the
- the disease. - I
- L-Look, I'm sorry,
but she's a fucking shark.
- You know this.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- You got to help me.
- You just threw blood
- in the water, all right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Robert.
- [ROBERT] Mike, we got
a big fucking problem, man.
Fuck me. Come on.
Let's go. Coming.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
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♪
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Well, now I know why the
D.A.'s office is calling me in.
Well, they're calling 'cause Morrissey
- pinned you as a mass murderer.
- No, they're calling
'cause Ian fucked it.
Hey, fuck. You'd be in
jail right fucking now
if it wasn't for me.
And Evelyn's got nothing.
Not yet. If she puts you
in the neighborhood
Kyle, she's not gonna.
[ROBERT] It's not you
she's fucking after, Ian.
She wants me for the riot.
Morrissey was a fucking
asshole, a traitor,
- got what he deserved.
- Yes, he did.
And you're fucking welcome.
I'm not fucking going
to prison for doing
- my goddamn job.
- [MIKE] Hey, hey,
no one's going to prison, okay?
We're not there yet.
So, what I got to
state the obvious? Like
Mike, you got to fucking shut her down.
We're shutting down the Russians today.
That is the priority.
- So let's focus on that.
- [ROBERT] Yeah.
- I will focus on that.
- [MIKE] Great.
You focus on her
'cause she's not gonna fucking back off
unless you back her off, so
fucking deal with it, Mike, or I will.
You're not gonna do a goddamn thing.
Well, then apply some fucking pressure,
or I will see done what needs doing.
Robert, Jesus Christ.
What? It's fucking priorities.
What the fuck's the matter
You're not gonna fucking touch
a hair on her fucking head.
- That's what.
- Aw, shit, you're fucking her,
- aren't you?
- [IAN] Okay, all right.
[ROBERT] I mean, you're
fucking her, right?
- Don't go there.
- That's what's going on.
You're fucking her and you can't
shut her the fuck up?
Is that what the fuck's going on here?
- Jesus fucking Christ.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- [ROBERT] Handle it.
Fucking hold up.
You're not making anything better.
She is a problem, Mike.
[MIKE] Evelyn's the least
of our problems right now.
And we watch over those that
can't protect themselves.
That is what we do, okay?
- That includes Evelyn.
- Yeah.
What'd you do, Mike?
I don't know. What
the fuck did I do now?
To the guard?
Tracy told me. Come on.
What the fuck?
Did what you would've done, all right?
Yeah, only I didn't get to do shit
- 'cause you did it.
- Yeah.
Tracy protecting me,
you protecting Tracy.
Who am I supposed to be
watching out for, huh?
Your family, day and night, that's who.
You thinking?
Doesn't feel that way, Mike.
Well, it is that way.
[SIGHS]
You're the only thing
good left in this town, Kyle.
Maybe we're all just looking after that.
I don't deserve that. I-I
You know, I don't want
it. I don't need it.
Well, I need it.
How about that?
I'm your brother and
I'm gonna look after you,
whether you like it or not.
So there.
[MOURNFUL MUSIC]
Okay?
Yeah?
Yeah.
All right.
Morning, sir.
Morning.
You know that building?
Yeah. Old warden's quarters.
Last warden lived
there back in the '80s.
He was corrupt as they come.
- Mm.
- Outsourcing prison labor
for profit,
pocketing all that money.
What happened to him?
Yeah, he got his
comeuppance, as we all do.
It's a sin,
profit off punishment.
Ain't that what the whole
system's based on, sir?
No, son.
That's not what it's based on.
That's what it's been corrupted to.
You justify the wrong for the money
or loyalty to family.
You do for those who
have done for you, sir.
You owe that loyalty.
At what cost?
You're gonna go through
your life, Kevin,
"doing for those done for
you," and then, one day,
you look around and
you're fucking alone.
And that's when you realize
you always have been.
Bunny Washington is
not your family, son.
He will use you and
throw you the fuck away.
[HAUNTING MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE VIBRATES]
Where you at?
It's in motion.
All right, got it.
[PHONE VIBRATES]
- Mike.
- [MIKE] They're on the move.
All right? Highway 44,
Sixth Street Bridge
on the way out of town.
No destination?
Well, if I knew that, I'd say.
Just follow 'em,
wait for your moment.
We're well prepared, Mike.
[MIKE] Do you have muscle with you?
Yeah, I've had Roman replaced. I'm safe.
I'm so touched you care.
Call me when you're done.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC]
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[COLE] That's a lot of
muscle for a empty shell.
[BUNNY] Yeah.
Draw the wolves away
from the sheep, cuz.
Make it feel real.
Draw 'em in to that kill zone,
then you massacre them motherfuckers.
This is our fucking city.
- Y'all heard?
- [ALL ASSENTING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Y'all watch each other's
backs, all right, bro?
- All right?
- [ENGINES STARTING]
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[MIKE] Evelyn.
- [EVELYN] Hey.
- So, what do you got on Ian?
[SCOFFS]
Well, that didn't take long. Fuck.
Keep asking you to back off,
you keep doubling down. Fuck.
Did I ever say that I
was gonna back off, Mike?
Did I ever say that?
I don't know.
[SCOFFS] So
- here we are.
- Yeah, here we are.
Come on.
We're the good guys here, right?
Is that how you would
describe Robert Sawyer?
Really, with a straight face?
- Well, Ian's a good friend.
- Yeah.
We all grew up together.
- Yeah.
- That carries no weight.
Well, it fucking should, Evelyn.
Honestly.
- There's got to be another way.
- I would chew through
a fucking brick wall
to get at Robert Sawyer.
If I have to go through Ian, so be it,
because he is the greater evil.
Then Ian's the collateral damage.
Well, you know, he is no fucking angel.
- I want Sawyer, Mike.
- Yeah.
If you can think of a
different way, I'm open.
But I-I don't see it.
Well, there's no one
evil greater than another,
- not in this town.
- That's fucking bullshit.
I don't-I don't
fucking agree with that.
- I see good.
- Oh, you do?
- All over, yeah.
- Oh.
I see good standing
right in front of me.
And I'm not the only one who sees it.
Come on.
I didn't know if
releasing me was a mistake.
No one knew what they were releasing.
I did things inside.
Evil, by most moral standards.
By my mother's.
But I did what she told me to do.
I survived.
[ANNA] What do you want me to say, Mike?
- What do you want to hear me say?
- Nothing.
Nothing.
It's just a fucked-up day, that's all,
- you know.
- Well, show me one that's not.
[SIGHS] Yeah, so I did
what she told me to do.
I survive, and
when I get out, she just
looks right through me.
[CHUCKLES]
Like I'm a fucking stranger.
No, she saw her son.
You survived, and your mom
didn't give a fuck how you did it.
I wouldn't have cared if it were my boy.
You made your way back to yourself.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
I got no doubt your mom saw that.
I saw it when I met you.
If I can see it
You're looking for atonement
but you've already atoned.
You did your time, Mike.
You did your time.
[ROBERT] I love my family, Kyle,
but when I'm in uniform,
these fucking animals are my family.
[PILLS RATTLE]
When I brought you in against
my better fucking judgement
that made you family.
Yeah, I know. I get that.
If Mike can't deal with his shit,
and if the D.A. won't back the fuck off,
you're gonna get asked questions.
They're gonna ask Ian what
happened to Morrissey the day he died
and they're gonna ask you
what happened during the riot.
Yeah, and I'm gonna tell them
- what I've always told them.
- Yeah.
You saved our lives. That's it.
And what if they force Ian's hand
and he stops toeing that line?
Well, Ian'd never rat. No chance.
Hmm. Everyone says that
until they're processed.
Cop goes inside and
then you segregate him.
It's just a matter of time.
Crank changes hands,
guards look up at the sky
as they tear you up the back.
You think Ian has it in
him to face that shit?
I know he does.
'Cause Ian doesn't give a shit.
He'd do a bid standing
on his fucking head.
All right.
What about Mike, where's he land?
He gonna choose me or the D.A.?
Get the fuck out of here, Robert.
- Jesus.
- Well,
where do you land?
I mean, you gonna choose
your team over your brother?
That's what we're talking about.
If Evelyn keeps coming on
and Mike can't or won't stop it, then
the fuck do you do?
It's got nothing to do with me.
No, man, it's got
everything to do with you.
'Cause we're at that point, Kyle,
when we got to choose what
fucking side you're on.
Did you let me join SWA
just so you could have leverage on Mike?
No. No, you're a good cop.
Yeah.
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[LOCKER DOOR CLOSES]
[KAREEM] Did you like the therapist?
I'm proud of you.
You faced your fears and
you opened yourself up,
and-and that's how you
That's how you heal, right?
Trust
Don't ever lose that, okay?
Let me talk to Mom.
I love you, baby.
Yeah, I'm good.
It's a good day.
Hug Russell for me. Will you tell him
Tell him I'm proud of him.
I love you, too.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
Prisoner down.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[KAREEM] Prisoner down in D Block.
- [GATE BUZZES]
- [LATCH CLICKS]
Request backup. Request backup.
- Prisoner down, D Block.
- Shit.
- Prisoner down.
- What?
- Warden. Warden.
- Back the fuck up.
Back the fuck up.
[ALARM BLARING]
Back the fuck up!
Now!
We're on our fucking way.
We're on our way. Let's go.
You, back up.
[CARNEY] Hey, we're fucking coming.
Let's go.
Back the fuck up!
Now!
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
[NORSEMAN] Stupid motherfucker.
♪
[SCOFFS]
- [GRUNTING]
- [PRISONERS SHOUTING]
Back up! Back up!
Back up!
[SHOUTING CONTINUES]
Those motherfuckers.
[PERCUSSIVE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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♪
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Has he told you the story
about his mother yet?
Konstantin has a different
story for every fucking flower.
Not one of them is true.
Doesn't have to shoot you,
he can talk you to death.
[GUN COCKING]
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [THUMP]
Now we can talk.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Sit.
Alex was kind enough to show me in.
What is it with these
fair-weather females?
Iris.
[KONSTANTIN] It's easier to
sit than to stand, little bird.
The bullet won't care
one way or the other.
I don't want to be anywhere near him.
[MILO] You won't need to, not for long.
But I need you to do something for me.
Call Mike.
Use the phone he gave you.
They're all fair-weather, Konnie.
Did you really think she was
returning to you for comfort?
She's been in love with
Mike since I sent her.
She returned to you for him.
It was my choice to come back.
[MILO] The illusion of choice
[IRIS] No. It wasn't a fucking illusion.
It's the reality that I chose.
Your tongue's sharpened.
That's your influence, Konstantin.
You always liked to make friends.
We are different men, Milo.
It's Mike's influence.
[MILO] Ah.
Mike.
[SCOFFS]
Has he fucked you yet?
I have no intention of hurting Mike.
If I wanted him dead, he would be.
So, take out the phone
and make the fucking call.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Fuck, yo!
[VEHICLES HONKING]
- [SCREAMING]
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
♪
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Get this motherfucker!
[PHONE VIBRATING]
Fuck.
Yeah, Iris?
[MILO] She's a strong girl, Mike.
[SINISTER MUSIC]
♪
She refused to call, despite persuasion.
Where are you?
Near where you last saw me.
On the river, different boat.
Konstantin has always loved the water.
[LINE BEEPS]
[PHONE VIBRATING]
- Yeah?
- [IAN] Mike, we got a battle
on the Sixth Street Bridge.
There's Crips, there's Russians,
we got goddamn civilians up there.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, listen, Mike,
you got any fucking way to douse this?
[SIGHS]
I-I don't think the genie
goes back in the
bottle in this one, Ian.
Mike, what the fuck?
That's not a fucking solution.
Milo's back. He's with Iris.
How the fuck is that
even possible? Where?
Down by the boat.
Jesus Christ. All right, all right.
Let me fucking mobilize a unit.
Me and Stevie'll be right there.
I'm gonna finish this.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ROBERT] We have at least
a dozen armed combatants
and an unknown number of civilians,
so we might not know
which is fucking which.
Target identification is key.
Keep your heads on a swivel.
This is urban warfare, kids.
[GUNFIRE]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
♪
[GUNFIRE CONTINUING]
Let it fly, boy!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Fuck!
Fucking KPD coming in on both sides.
What the fuck do we do?
Kill, die or fucking dive.
[GRUNTING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DRINK POURS]
What fantasies are you concocting?
[GLASS SETS ON COUNTER]
- You're a brutal man, Milo.
- [MILO] Yeah. No less than you.
Just different in our tastes.
Your blow and your boys.
- [SCOFFS]
- [MILO] You leech off girls
like Iris like you'd have
leeched off those girls in the river.
You're more sin-eater than killer,
but still brutal.
Sin-eaters devour the sins
of the dead, not the living.
Then you're just a parasite.
Do you wish to share your sins, Milo?
They're apparent.
You know,
you should have just let me go.
You shouldn't have fled.
You could have negotiated your exit.
Paid my toll? No.
I served time for you.
No. You served time for you.
You served time because you fucked up.
Fucked up and failed.
Fucked up, failed, then surrendered,
like a fucking peasant.
- You'd have done differently?
- I sent you here
to oversee a cross-border pipeline,
not to play-act like some
half-assed movie gangster,
- knocking off armored cars.
- That was something for myself.
I'm sure it was.
I still want the pipeline.
Too late.
Kill me, fine.
But they will never let you live.
The Fathers have no
loyalty or love for you.
Roman confessed as much.
Roman confessed many things.
[THUMP IN DISTANCE]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[MILO] Hello, Mike.
Miss me?
[SCOFFS]
How could I miss you,
Milo, when you never left?
[CHUCKLES]
It's like a dream come true.
[MILO] What's happened
all that happened
washed away in the river.
Can we start there, Mike?
Fuck do you want, Milo?
A return to what was.
I want my town back.
But you're a fugitive.
[MILO] I'm a dead man immune to arrest
and prosecution.
I ran Kingstown from my cell.
I can run it from the grave.
Not alone.
[MILO] No.
We had a good thing, Mike.
Mitch, you and I.
You should shoot me now, Milo.
I'm gonna put a bullet
in you the second I can.
Do you want to know how
my parents died, Mike?
'Cause it's not as pretty
as Konstantin's tales.
[MIKE] Say what you'd like.
You have nothing to offer me.
[MILO] There's one thing.
There's always one thing.
I'll finish what Konstantin started.
I'll set Iris free.
She's not yours to set free, Milo.
Or I'll kill her right
here in front of you.
- You have the power.
- Let her go, Mike.
That's the only good
thing that comes from this.
- Iris.
- [IRIS] Hmm?
What do you want to do?
[IRIS SIGHS]
I want to stay here with you.
That's not an option.
You stay, you die.
You leave, you live,
but, for this, there is a toll.
Milo.
Iris kills the sin-eater.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
On line.
Come out of your cars!
Get out of your cars!
Get out of your cars. Go
that way, that way now, now!
Okay, move behind me, quickly.
[SWAT MEMBER] This way, this way!
Out of your cars! Hands!
Go that way! That way, now, now!
- Move, move, move, move.
- Out of your car.
Behind me, quick, quick.
Behind me, behind me.
- Come on!
- Out of your car. Let's go, man.
[SHOUTING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
- Got a kid. Okay. Get him.
- Let's go.
Move, move, move! Hands! Let's go!
Move, move, move!
♪
Move up on line!
[KONSTANTIN] It's all right, Iris.
No.
It is the only good
that comes from this.
No.
[MILO] Oh, you're
well-versed in violence now.
The work you did on Joseph?
Joseph fucking deserved to die.
I deserve to die.
Many times over. You know it.
You said as much yourself.
It's all right. It's all right, Iris.
I give you pardon.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Mike, this is going to
happen, one way or another,
so why not like this?
- There's poetry to it, Michael.
- She's not doing
your dirty work, Milo.
- But when has she not?
- [MIKE] Not anymore.
[MILO] Okay, let's sweeten the pot.
I have something else that you need.
- [MIKE] Yeah?
- Or Bunny has.
Fucking Milo.
[MILO] I know where the
guns are, where they're not,
and they're not on that
fucking truck, are they?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
- You okay?
- [WOMAN PANTING]
All right, come on. Let's go.
Hands! Shit. Fuck.
- Let me see your fucking hands.
- [SOBBING]
- What do you got a fucking gun for?
- Hey, hey, no, no, look, man, I got to
- protect my family, okay?
- [KYLE] The fuck?!
[MAN] I got a kid, man. I got
to protect my family, okay?
Okay, all right. Just put the gun down
- I c
- [GUNFIRE]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Come on!
[GRUNTING, SCREAMING]
He's fucking hit!
- [SHOUTING]
- Pull him back!
- Come on!
- That's it, that's it!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
[RAPID GUNFIRE]
[DONNELL] The fuck?!
Fuck. My hands are up.
- My hands are up. They're up!
- [ROBERT] Now get on the ground!
- Get on the fucking ground.
- [MUTTERS] Don't shoot.
- Get on the ground!
- My hands up. My hands is up!
- Get on the ground right now!
- My hands are up.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [GROANS]
Robert, fuck!
[BOY CRYING]
- Drop your fucking gun.
- It's okay.
- Hey, drop your fucking gun.
- Robert, no!
Drop your fucking weapon!
I said drop your fucking weapon!
No, they're innocent!
- I got a kid. I got a kid.
- I said drop
- your fucking gun!
- I got a kid.
- No!
- [GUNSHOTS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MILO] I'll broker
the gun sale for Bunny.
I can give you your cut
just like the old days,
like with Mitch.
I'll allow Bunny his turf,
and we resume the balance lost.
Let bygones be.
But first
Iris.
Get the gun, Iris.
I won't fucking do it.
[IRIS] Fuck you.
Get the fucking gun, Iris.
No.
Get the fucking gun
before he kills all three of us.
Iris.
Do it.
- Iris.
- Do it now.
Do it. Do it.
Do it now!
Hannah.
Hannah, pull the fucking trigger!
[DRY FIRING]
You only needed one bullet.
All right.
Let her go.
No double-crosses.
Alex is upstairs. She has an
envelope with your new life.
Passport, license.
Bus ticket, destination yours to choose.
What Konstantin promised, I provide.
Okay.
It's time to go.
No.
I don't want to go.
[MIKE] You had it good here.
But I'm not the reason
to stay any longer.
- Okay?
- Uh-uh.
So you're gonna leave
and you're never gonna look back.
I need you to promise me.
Promise.
- I promise.
- You never
want to see me again.
Say it.
Iris?
Say it.
I never want to see you again.
There's nothing good in this town, Iris.
There's nothing good in me.
Do you hear me?
- [GUNFIRE]
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[IAN] Mikey?
- Mike?
- Yeah.
Mike.
Fuck.
I got a unit on the way.
Just send 'em away.
You're gonna have to take
her to the bus station.
You okay? Come on.
Come on.
Okay.
Fucking bygones.
You can't make business personal, Mike.
You know not to do that.
You're not your brother.
- No.
- We're the same
that way.
You bombed that cemetery.
I needed an accelerant.
Put those little girls
in the river, Milo.
What bothers you more, Mike?
Their gender or their age?
There's a point
of no return, and I think we crossed it.
Have we?
Oh, we did.
Don't be so dramatic.
Nothing fazes you.
You've sinned,
seen sins done,
brushed them off your
shoulder like dust.
I know what you're capable of
because I'm capable of the same.
I know what you will swallow
because I swallow the same poison
every day and live.
We're the same fucking creature, Mike.
And your mother's not dead
because of me. She's dead
- [GUNSHOT]
- Oh, fuck!
Aah!
Fuck, you fuck. [GROANS]
You were saying
something about my mother?
[GROANS SOFTLY]
What was that?
[PANTING]
She's dead because of you.
- You killed
- [GUNSHOT]
[MILO THUDS ONTO FLOOR]
[SIGHS]
[SOMBER, TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[ENGINE IDLING]
[BRAKES HISS]
[INDISTINCT, QUIET CHATTER]
♪
[SIREN WARBLES]
- What happened?
- Crossfire. He shot he shot Robert.
What? He what?
Kyle shot Robert.
He's all right. He took it in the vest.
Caught one in the neck.
He's stable, all right?
It was it was an
accident, though, right?
Yeah you got to keep
your head down, Mikey.
They got witnesses saying otherwise,
saying "attempted murder." It's
a fucking clusterfuck, Mike.
SWAT guys, civilians in their cars,
fuckers with cameras
filming everything
Fuck them.
- I hear you.
- Okay, wait. I need Evelyn.
Have you seen ?
Where's Evelyn? Evelyn?
Evelyn?
[EVELYN SIGHS]
You got to cut him loose, Evelyn.
- Mike, I can't.
- Look, I mean, he's a cop.
Who shot another cop, Mike.
- Yeah, it's an accident, not a crime.
- I don't know that.
I do. It's my brother, Evelyn.
[EVELYN SIGHS]
It's my brother.
I warned you, Mike.
- You what?
- I fucking warned you.
No one's immune.
Kyle's under arrest, I'm charging him.
[INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION]
- You can't hold him.
- I have no choice, Mike.
- Yeah?
- I have no fucking choice. I'm sorry.
Yeah?
Why bother? She can't fucking hold him.
No. Just keep your head down.
You got to be calm. Don't throw
fucking gasoline on the fire.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- All right?
[SIRENS WAILING]
[MIKE] They put my
belongings in front of me.
Paper bag on a steel counter.
I pulled on my street clothes,
dried blood on my shirt,
pocket change and a pocket knife.
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
The sun hits different when
you're outside the walls.
I walked into that light.
I saw Kyle.
Barely recognized him.
Then Mitch, then Mariam.
I wanted out of there.
But I let them hug me.
Even though I could feel the prison,
like a breathing thing
pulling at me.
[DRIVER] You got 15 minutes.
We don't stop for four hours.
[SLOW, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ENGINE IDLING]
[MIKE] I wasn't who
I was when I went in.
I shed my old skin to survive.
I didn't know if
releasing me was a mistake.
No one knew what they were releasing.
I'd done evil by most moral standards,
by my mother's.
But did that make me evil?
Could I shed that skin, too
and return to myself?
♪
[EXCITING MUSIC]
♪
MTV ♪
[MIKE] Bunny's moving
weapons. Six figures' worth,
military grade.
You want me to ambush him?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I want you to leave this place.
- I'll buy you a life.
- [WOMEN SCREAMING]
[IRIS] I'm not gonna end
up one of those girls.
[EVELYN] What is it? About her?
[MIKE] My mom had that same look.
How did they know their target
was in the yard?
You have two weeks.
If we don't have your resignation,
- we will terminate your employ.
- No, I-I
- I've worked
- I'm sorry.
- I feel
- No, no, fuck your sorry!
You need to stand down.
You're not yourself.
- Shut the fuck up!
- [EVELYN] I'm not dropping
the Morrissey case.
One fucking guy tried
to do the right thing.
- Robert killed him.
- You don't know that.
[EVELYN] It wasn't It was not
a home invasion.
- You did good, Charlie.
- What about the man
- on the porch?
- [GUNSHOT]
[IAN] Fucking came at me.
[GRUNTS]
- Milo.
- I'm sorry, Roman,
I need you alive for a while.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[MIKE] Mariam came to court
the day I was sentenced.
Charges were too heavy to
risk trial, so I pled out.
She came that day.
And then she visited
me inside just once.
She only needed one visit
because she only had one thing to say.
She told me to survive.
Mariam knew the prisons.
Knew both sides of those walls.
She knew what survival meant.
She was giving me permission
to become a stranger to her.
She was saying, "Become
something unrecognizable."
I took that advice.
I didn't know if
releasing me was a mistake.
♪
No one knew what they were releasing.
I did things inside.
Evil, by most moral standards.
By my mother's.
But did those acts make me evil?
The day I got out, my family was there.
Mariam was there.
She held onto me like it
was an act of absolution.
[GUNFIRE CONTINUING]
Forgiveness for the sinner.
And I thought maybe
maybe I can shed this skin.
Maybe I can return to myself.
[SLOW, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
♪
♪
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
♪
We settle all business today, Bunny.
Yeah.
Deck's stacked in our favor, but
still putting my people at risk.
I'll let the Russians know your route.
But I'll play dumb to the destination.
You got an idea where
you want to lead him?
Yeah. Yeah, I got a spot.
It's old ironworks downriver.
Box them motherfuckers in.
Triangulate fire and whatnot.
Well, if shit goes south,
I'll let KPD know where to aim.
Every Russian soldier goes down.
That is the prize
for the cops, for the D.A.
Konstantin?
I'll handle him.
What, you getting
your hands dirty, Mike?
Nothing can wash the blood
off these hands, Bunny.
Aiight.
Where this gonna leave us, then,
when the dust settles?
Us?
Yeah.
That's a lot of territory.
There's a whole lot of
ambition right there.
It's not exactly past the
horizon though, is it, Bunny?
You stay inside our borders.
Yeah.
When you go across the lines
there's monsters waiting.
Monsters bigger than you,
wanting to take all you got.
You settle for Kingstown.
What about you?
I get some sort of peace.
Twisted as it is, but
[SCOFFS]
that's where it leaves us.
[SLOW, INTRIGUING MUSIC]
♪
♪
[BIRDS CHIRPING IN DISTANCE]
♪
[SIRENS WAIL IN THE DISTANCE]
♪
I mean, it was just fucking stupid.
I let my guard down.
He came at me, the one time.
Well, lucky you got your sidearm free.
I don't even remember
drawing my goddamn gun.
You know, that was
just fucking instinct.
That's all that was, I mean
I let my guard down.
[INVESTIGATOR] Look, we
have what we need, Detective.
Shoot doesn't get much
cleaner than this, right?
We should have you
cleared by end of week.
- All right, appreciate it.
- [INVESTIGATOR] Yeah.
- [EVELYN] Hey, Ian.
- Hey.
Give me a minute?
Yeah, Counselor,
I got a shitload of fucking paperwork.
Yeah, I know what that's like.
[SIGHS] And why is it that
every single time I see you
I think I need to call my union rep?
Uh
How many times did
you take Charlie Reeves
on these field trips?
Uh, I just told these guys.
Like, you know, half a dozen, maybe?
- Seven times.
- Okay.
You logged him out of
Anchor Bay seven times, yeah.
Six times to search for and
recover victims' remains.
- Seventh was for the dentist.
- Yeah, yeah.
The dentist. Yeah, he requested me.
Doesn't DOC have a dental plan?
[STAMMERS] His teeth were fucked.
Yeah, I mean, he was
eating rocks from the yard.
They were fucked. He requested me.
I got-I got a relationship
with this fucker.
You know what happened the day
you took him to the dentist?
What N Not a clue. What?
Morrissey was murdered.
All right, first of
all, fuck you, Evelyn.
How long we known each other,
this is what you think of me?
- I didn't even ask a question.
- Are you really that desperate
for the office, really?
'Cause that's disappointing.
You throw this
disrespectful dogshit at me?
You know what I do? I bring
closure to these families.
That's what I did, okay? So fuck this.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[STEVIE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
What? She's not? Okay.
- Hey, yo, Ian.
- Hmm?
Hey, got a body down by the tracks.
Looks like a hit.
- Fucking perfect.
- Yeah.
Yeah. Keno.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
[LINE RINGING]
Fuck.
Is he dead?
Well, Roman is not
one for radio silence.
[SIGHS]
Maybe he ran.
From what? And to where?
I mean, you've been offered a
golden ticket, yet you remain.
Roman was never shackled to me.
His loyalty was fathomless.
[IRIS] Here.
If he's dead
do we run?
Do we stay?
W-Where would I go?
I mean, you're free.
I am shackled.
The question is not
if Roman's dead, the
question is who killed him?
Now, logic dictates that
it was revenge meted out.
You know, by the Aryans
or Bunny Washington.
That-That's logical.
What do you feel?
[SCOFFS]
Feel?
That I don't allow. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
No, we have business to attend.
We're gonna do our work
until all the work is done.
Fuck.
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
Hey.
Look, I got a thing I got
to talk to you about, Mike.
- Then talk.
- Not here.
But let me ask you
you heard from Iris?
- Not since yesterday.
- We got to track her, Mikey.
I'm gonna cut this fucker
down, but I got a feeling
this is Konstantin's guy.
Christ.
Fucking doing more and more to
make a fucking statement these days.
They tortured
the fuck out of this poor bastard.
They took their sweet fucking time.
- Aryan payback?
- I mean, I don't think so.
I mean, the gas mask
that's a gulag torture technique.
They put the mask on,
hands behind the back,
they choke off the air.
- The Russians.
- I mean, you think
that Konstantin's gonna be
doing this to his own people?
No, the other bodies he
dropped were all clean kills.
- Yup.
- I mean, clean.
This is
This wasn't him.
Come on, let's go.
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
♪
- Mike.
- [MIKE] Konstantin.
So, your, uh, your man is dead.
Roman.
Yeah, we suspected as much.
Was it the Aryans?
I don't think so.
We share a common enemy, Mike.
A common frustration.
- Mm.
- Someone detonated a bomb
at your mother's funeral. Someone drove
a busload of girls in the river.
To whom do we credit these actions
different parties or the same?
Corporeal or incorporeal?
- What are you talking about?
- I think it's the same.
The same corporeal fucking being
has returned.
Konstantin, I saw Milo on
that boat when it blew up.
- I was there.
- He was warned,
he survived, and now Milo's here.
[MIKE] Okay.
- Let him come.
- [SCOFFS]
We carry out our business.
Yeah.
Nothing changes.
Good?
Far from it.
Look, Mikey, I don't want
to fucking pile on here, but
I got I got a problem.
Yeah? What is it the shoot?
No, it's clean. I.A.'s gonna clear me.
It's fucking
- Evelyn.
- Ah.
Look, she's looking
at the days that I
- Yeah?
- I took that psycho Charlie
out in the field, right?
- Yeah? And?
- And, well,
one of those days, I
took him to the dentist.
Yeah, so fucking what? And wh
S-Spit it out.
Mikey, it was the day
Morrissey was killed.
I just, I feel sick to my stomach.
Mike, I just
It just went down wrong,
Mike. It went down wrong.
Fuck. Wh You think?
I-I was trying to
fucking scare him, Mikey.
Yeah, with a fucking serial killer, Ian?
I mean I-I mean, he fucking recanted
and then-and then he
upset Charlie, and it
- fucking got away from me.
- Well, yeah, you don't want to do that
upset the fucking psychopath.
What were you thinking?
There's no-there's no
connection, all right? To
Charlie's dead. He's dead.
- So why are you telling me
- 'Cause Evelyn.
'Cause Evelyn fucking scares
the shit out of me, Mike.
- Yeah, okay.
- I'm worried about it.
Yeah? Well, you should be.
All right, look, uh
You're working the case, all right?
Trying to find this fucking
murder. What do you do?
- Canvas.
- Canvas. Fucking every house,
five mile radius, it's a lot of eyes.
Who worked the case?
- Keno. Keno ran point.
- Okay.
Was it an exhaustive investigation?
Mikey, the guy was a fucking rat.
Okay, so that's a hard no. Ian
I know.
Evelyn's already pulled
the prison records here.
She's got somebody investigating this
out in the field right
now, I guarantee it.
She's gonna look at the traffic
cams. Were you in the Charger?
Uh, I obscure my plates, but yeah.
Right, this just keeps getting better.
- Ian, what do you want me to do?
- Just talk to her.
- Just talk to her.
- And tell her what?
She's a goddamn townie, Mike.
Just tell her to please
be a fucking team player.
- Her cure is worse than
- Look, the
- the disease. - I
- L-Look, I'm sorry,
but she's a fucking shark.
- You know this.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- You got to help me.
- You just threw blood
- in the water, all right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Robert.
- [ROBERT] Mike, we got
a big fucking problem, man.
Fuck me. Come on.
Let's go. Coming.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
♪
♪
Well, now I know why the
D.A.'s office is calling me in.
Well, they're calling 'cause Morrissey
- pinned you as a mass murderer.
- No, they're calling
'cause Ian fucked it.
Hey, fuck. You'd be in
jail right fucking now
if it wasn't for me.
And Evelyn's got nothing.
Not yet. If she puts you
in the neighborhood
Kyle, she's not gonna.
[ROBERT] It's not you
she's fucking after, Ian.
She wants me for the riot.
Morrissey was a fucking
asshole, a traitor,
- got what he deserved.
- Yes, he did.
And you're fucking welcome.
I'm not fucking going
to prison for doing
- my goddamn job.
- [MIKE] Hey, hey,
no one's going to prison, okay?
We're not there yet.
So, what I got to
state the obvious? Like
Mike, you got to fucking shut her down.
We're shutting down the Russians today.
That is the priority.
- So let's focus on that.
- [ROBERT] Yeah.
- I will focus on that.
- [MIKE] Great.
You focus on her
'cause she's not gonna fucking back off
unless you back her off, so
fucking deal with it, Mike, or I will.
You're not gonna do a goddamn thing.
Well, then apply some fucking pressure,
or I will see done what needs doing.
Robert, Jesus Christ.
What? It's fucking priorities.
What the fuck's the matter
You're not gonna fucking touch
a hair on her fucking head.
- That's what.
- Aw, shit, you're fucking her,
- aren't you?
- [IAN] Okay, all right.
[ROBERT] I mean, you're
fucking her, right?
- Don't go there.
- That's what's going on.
You're fucking her and you can't
shut her the fuck up?
Is that what the fuck's going on here?
- Jesus fucking Christ.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- [ROBERT] Handle it.
Fucking hold up.
You're not making anything better.
She is a problem, Mike.
[MIKE] Evelyn's the least
of our problems right now.
And we watch over those that
can't protect themselves.
That is what we do, okay?
- That includes Evelyn.
- Yeah.
What'd you do, Mike?
I don't know. What
the fuck did I do now?
To the guard?
Tracy told me. Come on.
What the fuck?
Did what you would've done, all right?
Yeah, only I didn't get to do shit
- 'cause you did it.
- Yeah.
Tracy protecting me,
you protecting Tracy.
Who am I supposed to be
watching out for, huh?
Your family, day and night, that's who.
You thinking?
Doesn't feel that way, Mike.
Well, it is that way.
[SIGHS]
You're the only thing
good left in this town, Kyle.
Maybe we're all just looking after that.
I don't deserve that. I-I
You know, I don't want
it. I don't need it.
Well, I need it.
How about that?
I'm your brother and
I'm gonna look after you,
whether you like it or not.
So there.
[MOURNFUL MUSIC]
Okay?
Yeah?
Yeah.
All right.
Morning, sir.
Morning.
You know that building?
Yeah. Old warden's quarters.
Last warden lived
there back in the '80s.
He was corrupt as they come.
- Mm.
- Outsourcing prison labor
for profit,
pocketing all that money.
What happened to him?
Yeah, he got his
comeuppance, as we all do.
It's a sin,
profit off punishment.
Ain't that what the whole
system's based on, sir?
No, son.
That's not what it's based on.
That's what it's been corrupted to.
You justify the wrong for the money
or loyalty to family.
You do for those who
have done for you, sir.
You owe that loyalty.
At what cost?
You're gonna go through
your life, Kevin,
"doing for those done for
you," and then, one day,
you look around and
you're fucking alone.
And that's when you realize
you always have been.
Bunny Washington is
not your family, son.
He will use you and
throw you the fuck away.
[HAUNTING MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE VIBRATES]
Where you at?
It's in motion.
All right, got it.
[PHONE VIBRATES]
- Mike.
- [MIKE] They're on the move.
All right? Highway 44,
Sixth Street Bridge
on the way out of town.
No destination?
Well, if I knew that, I'd say.
Just follow 'em,
wait for your moment.
We're well prepared, Mike.
[MIKE] Do you have muscle with you?
Yeah, I've had Roman replaced. I'm safe.
I'm so touched you care.
Call me when you're done.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[COLE] That's a lot of
muscle for a empty shell.
[BUNNY] Yeah.
Draw the wolves away
from the sheep, cuz.
Make it feel real.
Draw 'em in to that kill zone,
then you massacre them motherfuckers.
This is our fucking city.
- Y'all heard?
- [ALL ASSENTING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Y'all watch each other's
backs, all right, bro?
- All right?
- [ENGINES STARTING]
♪
[MIKE] Evelyn.
- [EVELYN] Hey.
- So, what do you got on Ian?
[SCOFFS]
Well, that didn't take long. Fuck.
Keep asking you to back off,
you keep doubling down. Fuck.
Did I ever say that I
was gonna back off, Mike?
Did I ever say that?
I don't know.
[SCOFFS] So
- here we are.
- Yeah, here we are.
Come on.
We're the good guys here, right?
Is that how you would
describe Robert Sawyer?
Really, with a straight face?
- Well, Ian's a good friend.
- Yeah.
We all grew up together.
- Yeah.
- That carries no weight.
Well, it fucking should, Evelyn.
Honestly.
- There's got to be another way.
- I would chew through
a fucking brick wall
to get at Robert Sawyer.
If I have to go through Ian, so be it,
because he is the greater evil.
Then Ian's the collateral damage.
Well, you know, he is no fucking angel.
- I want Sawyer, Mike.
- Yeah.
If you can think of a
different way, I'm open.
But I-I don't see it.
Well, there's no one
evil greater than another,
- not in this town.
- That's fucking bullshit.
I don't-I don't
fucking agree with that.
- I see good.
- Oh, you do?
- All over, yeah.
- Oh.
I see good standing
right in front of me.
And I'm not the only one who sees it.
Come on.
I didn't know if
releasing me was a mistake.
No one knew what they were releasing.
I did things inside.
Evil, by most moral standards.
By my mother's.
But I did what she told me to do.
I survived.
[ANNA] What do you want me to say, Mike?
- What do you want to hear me say?
- Nothing.
Nothing.
It's just a fucked-up day, that's all,
- you know.
- Well, show me one that's not.
[SIGHS] Yeah, so I did
what she told me to do.
I survive, and
when I get out, she just
looks right through me.
[CHUCKLES]
Like I'm a fucking stranger.
No, she saw her son.
You survived, and your mom
didn't give a fuck how you did it.
I wouldn't have cared if it were my boy.
You made your way back to yourself.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
I got no doubt your mom saw that.
I saw it when I met you.
If I can see it
You're looking for atonement
but you've already atoned.
You did your time, Mike.
You did your time.
[ROBERT] I love my family, Kyle,
but when I'm in uniform,
these fucking animals are my family.
[PILLS RATTLE]
When I brought you in against
my better fucking judgement
that made you family.
Yeah, I know. I get that.
If Mike can't deal with his shit,
and if the D.A. won't back the fuck off,
you're gonna get asked questions.
They're gonna ask Ian what
happened to Morrissey the day he died
and they're gonna ask you
what happened during the riot.
Yeah, and I'm gonna tell them
- what I've always told them.
- Yeah.
You saved our lives. That's it.
And what if they force Ian's hand
and he stops toeing that line?
Well, Ian'd never rat. No chance.
Hmm. Everyone says that
until they're processed.
Cop goes inside and
then you segregate him.
It's just a matter of time.
Crank changes hands,
guards look up at the sky
as they tear you up the back.
You think Ian has it in
him to face that shit?
I know he does.
'Cause Ian doesn't give a shit.
He'd do a bid standing
on his fucking head.
All right.
What about Mike, where's he land?
He gonna choose me or the D.A.?
Get the fuck out of here, Robert.
- Jesus.
- Well,
where do you land?
I mean, you gonna choose
your team over your brother?
That's what we're talking about.
If Evelyn keeps coming on
and Mike can't or won't stop it, then
the fuck do you do?
It's got nothing to do with me.
No, man, it's got
everything to do with you.
'Cause we're at that point, Kyle,
when we got to choose what
fucking side you're on.
Did you let me join SWA
just so you could have leverage on Mike?
No. No, you're a good cop.
Yeah.
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[LOCKER DOOR CLOSES]
[KAREEM] Did you like the therapist?
I'm proud of you.
You faced your fears and
you opened yourself up,
and-and that's how you
That's how you heal, right?
Trust
Don't ever lose that, okay?
Let me talk to Mom.
I love you, baby.
Yeah, I'm good.
It's a good day.
Hug Russell for me. Will you tell him
Tell him I'm proud of him.
I love you, too.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
Prisoner down.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[KAREEM] Prisoner down in D Block.
- [GATE BUZZES]
- [LATCH CLICKS]
Request backup. Request backup.
- Prisoner down, D Block.
- Shit.
- Prisoner down.
- What?
- Warden. Warden.
- Back the fuck up.
Back the fuck up.
[ALARM BLARING]
Back the fuck up!
Now!
We're on our fucking way.
We're on our way. Let's go.
You, back up.
[CARNEY] Hey, we're fucking coming.
Let's go.
Back the fuck up!
Now!
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
[NORSEMAN] Stupid motherfucker.
♪
[SCOFFS]
- [GRUNTING]
- [PRISONERS SHOUTING]
Back up! Back up!
Back up!
[SHOUTING CONTINUES]
Those motherfuckers.
[PERCUSSIVE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
♪
♪
Has he told you the story
about his mother yet?
Konstantin has a different
story for every fucking flower.
Not one of them is true.
Doesn't have to shoot you,
he can talk you to death.
[GUN COCKING]
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [THUMP]
Now we can talk.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Sit.
Alex was kind enough to show me in.
What is it with these
fair-weather females?
Iris.
[KONSTANTIN] It's easier to
sit than to stand, little bird.
The bullet won't care
one way or the other.
I don't want to be anywhere near him.
[MILO] You won't need to, not for long.
But I need you to do something for me.
Call Mike.
Use the phone he gave you.
They're all fair-weather, Konnie.
Did you really think she was
returning to you for comfort?
She's been in love with
Mike since I sent her.
She returned to you for him.
It was my choice to come back.
[MILO] The illusion of choice
[IRIS] No. It wasn't a fucking illusion.
It's the reality that I chose.
Your tongue's sharpened.
That's your influence, Konstantin.
You always liked to make friends.
We are different men, Milo.
It's Mike's influence.
[MILO] Ah.
Mike.
[SCOFFS]
Has he fucked you yet?
I have no intention of hurting Mike.
If I wanted him dead, he would be.
So, take out the phone
and make the fucking call.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Fuck, yo!
[VEHICLES HONKING]
- [SCREAMING]
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
♪
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Get this motherfucker!
[PHONE VIBRATING]
Fuck.
Yeah, Iris?
[MILO] She's a strong girl, Mike.
[SINISTER MUSIC]
♪
She refused to call, despite persuasion.
Where are you?
Near where you last saw me.
On the river, different boat.
Konstantin has always loved the water.
[LINE BEEPS]
[PHONE VIBRATING]
- Yeah?
- [IAN] Mike, we got a battle
on the Sixth Street Bridge.
There's Crips, there's Russians,
we got goddamn civilians up there.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, listen, Mike,
you got any fucking way to douse this?
[SIGHS]
I-I don't think the genie
goes back in the
bottle in this one, Ian.
Mike, what the fuck?
That's not a fucking solution.
Milo's back. He's with Iris.
How the fuck is that
even possible? Where?
Down by the boat.
Jesus Christ. All right, all right.
Let me fucking mobilize a unit.
Me and Stevie'll be right there.
I'm gonna finish this.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ROBERT] We have at least
a dozen armed combatants
and an unknown number of civilians,
so we might not know
which is fucking which.
Target identification is key.
Keep your heads on a swivel.
This is urban warfare, kids.
[GUNFIRE]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
♪
[GUNFIRE CONTINUING]
Let it fly, boy!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Fuck!
Fucking KPD coming in on both sides.
What the fuck do we do?
Kill, die or fucking dive.
[GRUNTING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DRINK POURS]
What fantasies are you concocting?
[GLASS SETS ON COUNTER]
- You're a brutal man, Milo.
- [MILO] Yeah. No less than you.
Just different in our tastes.
Your blow and your boys.
- [SCOFFS]
- [MILO] You leech off girls
like Iris like you'd have
leeched off those girls in the river.
You're more sin-eater than killer,
but still brutal.
Sin-eaters devour the sins
of the dead, not the living.
Then you're just a parasite.
Do you wish to share your sins, Milo?
They're apparent.
You know,
you should have just let me go.
You shouldn't have fled.
You could have negotiated your exit.
Paid my toll? No.
I served time for you.
No. You served time for you.
You served time because you fucked up.
Fucked up and failed.
Fucked up, failed, then surrendered,
like a fucking peasant.
- You'd have done differently?
- I sent you here
to oversee a cross-border pipeline,
not to play-act like some
half-assed movie gangster,
- knocking off armored cars.
- That was something for myself.
I'm sure it was.
I still want the pipeline.
Too late.
Kill me, fine.
But they will never let you live.
The Fathers have no
loyalty or love for you.
Roman confessed as much.
Roman confessed many things.
[THUMP IN DISTANCE]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[MILO] Hello, Mike.
Miss me?
[SCOFFS]
How could I miss you,
Milo, when you never left?
[CHUCKLES]
It's like a dream come true.
[MILO] What's happened
all that happened
washed away in the river.
Can we start there, Mike?
Fuck do you want, Milo?
A return to what was.
I want my town back.
But you're a fugitive.
[MILO] I'm a dead man immune to arrest
and prosecution.
I ran Kingstown from my cell.
I can run it from the grave.
Not alone.
[MILO] No.
We had a good thing, Mike.
Mitch, you and I.
You should shoot me now, Milo.
I'm gonna put a bullet
in you the second I can.
Do you want to know how
my parents died, Mike?
'Cause it's not as pretty
as Konstantin's tales.
[MIKE] Say what you'd like.
You have nothing to offer me.
[MILO] There's one thing.
There's always one thing.
I'll finish what Konstantin started.
I'll set Iris free.
She's not yours to set free, Milo.
Or I'll kill her right
here in front of you.
- You have the power.
- Let her go, Mike.
That's the only good
thing that comes from this.
- Iris.
- [IRIS] Hmm?
What do you want to do?
[IRIS SIGHS]
I want to stay here with you.
That's not an option.
You stay, you die.
You leave, you live,
but, for this, there is a toll.
Milo.
Iris kills the sin-eater.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
On line.
Come out of your cars!
Get out of your cars!
Get out of your cars. Go
that way, that way now, now!
Okay, move behind me, quickly.
[SWAT MEMBER] This way, this way!
Out of your cars! Hands!
Go that way! That way, now, now!
- Move, move, move, move.
- Out of your car.
Behind me, quick, quick.
Behind me, behind me.
- Come on!
- Out of your car. Let's go, man.
[SHOUTING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
- Got a kid. Okay. Get him.
- Let's go.
Move, move, move! Hands! Let's go!
Move, move, move!
♪
Move up on line!
[KONSTANTIN] It's all right, Iris.
No.
It is the only good
that comes from this.
No.
[MILO] Oh, you're
well-versed in violence now.
The work you did on Joseph?
Joseph fucking deserved to die.
I deserve to die.
Many times over. You know it.
You said as much yourself.
It's all right. It's all right, Iris.
I give you pardon.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Mike, this is going to
happen, one way or another,
so why not like this?
- There's poetry to it, Michael.
- She's not doing
your dirty work, Milo.
- But when has she not?
- [MIKE] Not anymore.
[MILO] Okay, let's sweeten the pot.
I have something else that you need.
- [MIKE] Yeah?
- Or Bunny has.
Fucking Milo.
[MILO] I know where the
guns are, where they're not,
and they're not on that
fucking truck, are they?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
- You okay?
- [WOMAN PANTING]
All right, come on. Let's go.
Hands! Shit. Fuck.
- Let me see your fucking hands.
- [SOBBING]
- What do you got a fucking gun for?
- Hey, hey, no, no, look, man, I got to
- protect my family, okay?
- [KYLE] The fuck?!
[MAN] I got a kid, man. I got
to protect my family, okay?
Okay, all right. Just put the gun down
- I c
- [GUNFIRE]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Come on!
[GRUNTING, SCREAMING]
He's fucking hit!
- [SHOUTING]
- Pull him back!
- Come on!
- That's it, that's it!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
[RAPID GUNFIRE]
[DONNELL] The fuck?!
Fuck. My hands are up.
- My hands are up. They're up!
- [ROBERT] Now get on the ground!
- Get on the fucking ground.
- [MUTTERS] Don't shoot.
- Get on the ground!
- My hands up. My hands is up!
- Get on the ground right now!
- My hands are up.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [GROANS]
Robert, fuck!
[BOY CRYING]
- Drop your fucking gun.
- It's okay.
- Hey, drop your fucking gun.
- Robert, no!
Drop your fucking weapon!
I said drop your fucking weapon!
No, they're innocent!
- I got a kid. I got a kid.
- I said drop
- your fucking gun!
- I got a kid.
- No!
- [GUNSHOTS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MILO] I'll broker
the gun sale for Bunny.
I can give you your cut
just like the old days,
like with Mitch.
I'll allow Bunny his turf,
and we resume the balance lost.
Let bygones be.
But first
Iris.
Get the gun, Iris.
I won't fucking do it.
[IRIS] Fuck you.
Get the fucking gun, Iris.
No.
Get the fucking gun
before he kills all three of us.
Iris.
Do it.
- Iris.
- Do it now.
Do it. Do it.
Do it now!
Hannah.
Hannah, pull the fucking trigger!
[DRY FIRING]
You only needed one bullet.
All right.
Let her go.
No double-crosses.
Alex is upstairs. She has an
envelope with your new life.
Passport, license.
Bus ticket, destination yours to choose.
What Konstantin promised, I provide.
Okay.
It's time to go.
No.
I don't want to go.
[MIKE] You had it good here.
But I'm not the reason
to stay any longer.
- Okay?
- Uh-uh.
So you're gonna leave
and you're never gonna look back.
I need you to promise me.
Promise.
- I promise.
- You never
want to see me again.
Say it.
Iris?
Say it.
I never want to see you again.
There's nothing good in this town, Iris.
There's nothing good in me.
Do you hear me?
- [GUNFIRE]
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[IAN] Mikey?
- Mike?
- Yeah.
Mike.
Fuck.
I got a unit on the way.
Just send 'em away.
You're gonna have to take
her to the bus station.
You okay? Come on.
Come on.
Okay.
Fucking bygones.
You can't make business personal, Mike.
You know not to do that.
You're not your brother.
- No.
- We're the same
that way.
You bombed that cemetery.
I needed an accelerant.
Put those little girls
in the river, Milo.
What bothers you more, Mike?
Their gender or their age?
There's a point
of no return, and I think we crossed it.
Have we?
Oh, we did.
Don't be so dramatic.
Nothing fazes you.
You've sinned,
seen sins done,
brushed them off your
shoulder like dust.
I know what you're capable of
because I'm capable of the same.
I know what you will swallow
because I swallow the same poison
every day and live.
We're the same fucking creature, Mike.
And your mother's not dead
because of me. She's dead
- [GUNSHOT]
- Oh, fuck!
Aah!
Fuck, you fuck. [GROANS]
You were saying
something about my mother?
[GROANS SOFTLY]
What was that?
[PANTING]
She's dead because of you.
- You killed
- [GUNSHOT]
[MILO THUDS ONTO FLOOR]
[SIGHS]
[SOMBER, TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[ENGINE IDLING]
[BRAKES HISS]
[INDISTINCT, QUIET CHATTER]
♪
[SIREN WARBLES]
- What happened?
- Crossfire. He shot he shot Robert.
What? He what?
Kyle shot Robert.
He's all right. He took it in the vest.
Caught one in the neck.
He's stable, all right?
It was it was an
accident, though, right?
Yeah you got to keep
your head down, Mikey.
They got witnesses saying otherwise,
saying "attempted murder." It's
a fucking clusterfuck, Mike.
SWAT guys, civilians in their cars,
fuckers with cameras
filming everything
Fuck them.
- I hear you.
- Okay, wait. I need Evelyn.
Have you seen ?
Where's Evelyn? Evelyn?
Evelyn?
[EVELYN SIGHS]
You got to cut him loose, Evelyn.
- Mike, I can't.
- Look, I mean, he's a cop.
Who shot another cop, Mike.
- Yeah, it's an accident, not a crime.
- I don't know that.
I do. It's my brother, Evelyn.
[EVELYN SIGHS]
It's my brother.
I warned you, Mike.
- You what?
- I fucking warned you.
No one's immune.
Kyle's under arrest, I'm charging him.
[INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION]
- You can't hold him.
- I have no choice, Mike.
- Yeah?
- I have no fucking choice. I'm sorry.
Yeah?
Why bother? She can't fucking hold him.
No. Just keep your head down.
You got to be calm. Don't throw
fucking gasoline on the fire.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- All right?
[SIRENS WAILING]
[MIKE] They put my
belongings in front of me.
Paper bag on a steel counter.
I pulled on my street clothes,
dried blood on my shirt,
pocket change and a pocket knife.
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
The sun hits different when
you're outside the walls.
I walked into that light.
I saw Kyle.
Barely recognized him.
Then Mitch, then Mariam.
I wanted out of there.
But I let them hug me.
Even though I could feel the prison,
like a breathing thing
pulling at me.
[DRIVER] You got 15 minutes.
We don't stop for four hours.
[SLOW, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ENGINE IDLING]
[MIKE] I wasn't who
I was when I went in.
I shed my old skin to survive.
I didn't know if
releasing me was a mistake.
No one knew what they were releasing.
I'd done evil by most moral standards,
by my mother's.
But did that make me evil?
Could I shed that skin, too
and return to myself?
♪
[EXCITING MUSIC]
♪