Mike’s office is crowded with angry family members worried about the inmates who were moved out of Tent City in the middle of the night as Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown season two episode five begins. Rebecca (Nichole Galicia) tries to calm everyone down, but Bunny’s cousin Rhonda (Nona Parker Johnson) refuses to wait in line and is the first to get a meeting with Mike (Jeremy Renner).
Mike assures Rhonda he didn’t lose Bunny and that he’s somewhere in the system. Rhonda calls Mike on his bullsh*t and forces him to admit has no idea where Bunny’s currently located. Mike admits the inmates were transferred to four different locations, and she’s worried her shop will get hit now that Bunny’s not minding the neighborhood.
If he doesn’t get Bunny out, Mike’s going to be in serious trouble.
The prison transfer hasn’t gone smoothly, and the inmates are on edge after one is pushed off the second floor and dies, a puddle of blood and brain matter around his body. (The back of his head is bashed in but he landed on his face.)
Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa) observes this from inside his cell. He doesn’t call out and instead calmly takes a seat on his cot. It’s obvious he’s going through his options since Mike hasn’t kept his end of the deal.
Mike calls Carney (Lane Garrison) and learns that even he doesn’t know where they’ve moved the four leaders. Anchor Bay, the prison where Carney’s been assigned, is massive and has three yards full of prisoners. As they’re talking, Carney spots the leader of the Bloods, Dedrick (Marcus Brandon), as well as Gunner (Dylan Kenin), the white supremacist in charge of the Aryan Brotherhood. Mike thinks they might have moved all the prisoners there and orders Carney to find Bunny.
Meanwhile, Horace’s wife is trying to pack up and hit the road before Milo’s men can show up. Unfortunately, Joseph and his thugs break down the door before she can leave. She swears she doesn’t have the bonds anymore.
And speaking of those bonds… Mike meets with Ian (Hugh Dillon), Stevie (Derek Webster), and Kyle (Taylor Handley) and tells them he’s sure Milo survived and is coming after the bonds. Mike’s certain it was Milo who ordered Horace’s murder after Horace made the mistake of going to Joseph the Russian for help fencing them.
Stevie confirms he didn’t log them in when Horace’s wife dropped them off at the police station. And Mike wants him to keep the $14 million in bonds out of the system as long as possible.
After the meeting ends, Kyle suggests Mike should just forget about Milo and let him have the bonds. Once he cashes out, Milo will leave Kingstown. Kyle thinks that he and Mike should concentrate on finding Bunny, getting him out of jail, and setting things right in Kingstown.
Mike claims that he and Kyle will set things right, but Milo took something and broke it. Mike can’t just let him leave. (Mike needs to worry less about Milo and more about the target his disastrous deal has painted on his back.)
Over at Anchor Bay, Bunny’s brought into the yard and scans the crowd. He spots a familiar face and asks Big Hush about his crew. “Big dog, we all your crew now,” says Big Hush.
Bunny meets with Raphael (D Smoke) next, and Raphael admits he was worried they shipped him out of state. Instead, it looks like all four generals have landed at Anchor. Bunny assumes this is Mike’s doing, keeping everyone together to help strategize. (If only he knew the truth!)
Raphael points out that the Aryan Brotherhood have the guards on their side.
As they’re talking, one of the inmates goes down. Carney sends in a medical team and continues to scan the yard. He finally spots Bunny.
Elsewhere, Kyle gets the call that he’s been cleared for duty. His wife, Tracy (Nishi Munshi), wonders if he wants to go back to KPD and Kyle admits he doesn’t know what he wants. All he does know is that he’s going to be a horrible dad. He asks what Tracy wants him to do and she confesses she doesn’t think he’s ready to go back to work. He needs time to heal. In the meantime, they’ll be okay.
Ian and Stevie summon Mike to a crime scene. Horace’s wife has been hung with a metal chain, and Mike’s certain she talked before they killed her. Ian and Stevie believe the police department’s lockup is the safest place for the bonds. Mike disagrees and wants the bonds to go missing.
Over at Anchor Bay, he four leaders are rounded up and brought inside for a meeting. They expect Mike to lead it but it’s Captain Moore (Michael Beach) who shows up. He claims he’s responsible for them and knows they all assumed they’d be back on the streets by now. Gunner demands to see Mike but Captain Moore doesn’t think Mike can fix things now.
Captain Moore wants to make their experience painless while they’re there and warns them not to mess with him – or else.
After he leaves, the Mexican gang leader, Luis (Reinaldo Faberlle), says he’s finished with Mike. They need to run things the way they always did before Mike got them all locked up.
Carney grabs a minute with Captain Moore as he’s leaving work and informs him the inmate who had a seizure was a Tent City transfer. The doctors – or the coroner, if he dies – will discover the incredible amount of trauma he’s endured recently. Moore doesn’t get the point of this discussion until Carney reveals the man is one of the three prisoners Moore ruthlessly assaulted after the prison riot.
Carney assures Moore he has his back.
Joseph the Russian (George Tchortov) is summoned to a meeting with Milo (Aidan Gillen) and before he can say a word, Milo says, “You killed him.” Joseph admits he tried to get Horace to talk but he never did. He also claims Horace’s wife didn’t talk.
Milo wonders if Joseph would have brought him the money if he found it. It’s obvious Milo thinks Joseph is trying to screw him, but Joseph asks to be allowed to fix the situation. Milo doesn’t want Joseph anywhere near the bonds. He’ll fix things himself.
Later that night Carney secretly heads up to Bunny’s cell and hands him a phone. Mike tells Bunny he’s got a plan to get him out, but it’ll take a little while. In the meantime, he’s going to set Bunny up to earn inside so he can take care of his family.
Their conversation’s cut short when another guard approaches.
At exactly midnight, a crooked Kingstown cop unlocks the evidence room and leaves. A man in a hoodie walks in, looks for the bonds, and then leaves with the bag. When Stevie attempts to sign it out the following morning, it’s missing. He immediately calls Mike and Mike’s furious that Stevie waited a day to check on the bonds. Mike orders him to look at the tapes now, find out who took them, and then destroy the tape.
Captain Moore checks on the injured inmate while he’s hooked up on life support. He’s informed that what happens to the prisoner is going to be Tent City’s responsibility – not Anchor Bay’s.
Mike and Bunny have a face-to-face (through the glass and via a phone) at the prison, and Mike explains he has something to offer the DA. He’s working on getting Bunny out and wants Bunny to tell the other leaders he’s still setting things up. Bunny informs Mike the other leaders aren’t as willing to be patient.
Mike begs Bunny to just hold on but Bunny’s finally done with Mike. Mike tries to get him to promise not to do anything, but Bunny’s not going to play by Mike’s rules anymore.
On the way back to his cell the Aryan Brotherhood-sympathizing guards demand to take Bunny off Carney’s hands. Carney refuses but they pull rank and start beating Bunny. Bunny resists but they overpower him and toss him into the kill box (solitary confinement). He’s told Gunner ordered Bunny to be removed from the floor. Something’s about to go down.
Mike hasn’t even made it out of the parking lot when Carney calls with the news of Bunny’s beating. Mike calls Captain Moore but Moore ignores his call.
Big Hush waits in the walkway outside a row of cells as another prisoner squirts a flammable liquid on Luis. Big Hush finishes the job and sets the Mexican boss on fire.
An alarm sounds and Mike spots black smoke rising above the prison.
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