Never Missed a Pigeon

**Never Missed a Pigeon** is the first episode of Season 2, and the eleventh episode of the Paramount+ series, *Mayor of Kingstown* overall. It serves as the season premiere, and aired on January 15, 2023.

## Synopsis

*In the wake of the Kingstown Prison riot, violence and chaos ensue in the newly formed tent city. Mike and Bunny discuss what must be done to solve the leadership void on the inside. Kyle begins his new job with the Michigan State Police.*

## Plot

Everything seems peaceful for Mike as he takes Iris out into the middle of the lake, but it's only a temporary reprieve.

Back on land, Captain Kareem Moore is still so traumatized that he's hiding in his basement and has to be comforted by his wife Vanessa.

At the prison, there's a bloody beatdown that the correctional officers completely ignore as the inmates reassert themselves.

While on the streets, there's a shooting before the police raid a drug lab, killing a young man who refuses to drop his weapon.

Understandably, Iris doesn't want to get off the boat. Mike reluctantly agrees to let her stay there for the week until it's sold off at a drug-proceeds auction. He isn't back on land for 30 seconds before Ian Ferguson calls him about the aforementioned shooting. Mike arrives on the scene after Ian has shot the pit bull that mauled one of the victims, with Ian's partner reminding him that until the bad guys sort out who's in charge inside the prison, violence will happen outside.

"Robert's team hit a depot at the Towers," Ian says, adding that "It's gonna sting."

"You make it really hard to keep peace when you're raiding peacekeepers' fucking cook houses," Mike points out. They agree to meet at Don's with Robert before another phone call, this one from Bunny Washington.

While Mike heads off to appease Bunny, his mom Mariam returns to the prison to teach a new course, albeit with a heavy guard presence that she likens to Star Wars' violent Stormtroopers. When she tells them to get out, they respond by canceling her class.

Kareem tells a doctor he's "just grateful to be alive," though he denies being sexually assaulted. When he also denies wanting any kind of retribution, the doctor literally rubber-stamps him as cleared for duty.

Mike arrives at Mario's for a sit-down with Bunny. "There ain't no new leaders to pick, Mike," Bunny tells him, pointing out "you know how leaders rise". The survivors are going to start hunting cops. Mike does know, and retorts that if one badge hits the street, it's going to be back on again. He spells out all the ways that the inmates have had the screws put to them since the riot and advises Bunny that the city needs to get very quiet. Mike's meeting with Ian and his crew has the opposite tone, as he says they need the Crips in control of the prison. Outside, Stevie confronts Mike about his last interaction with Duke before Duke's death, but Mike doesn't give an inch.

Kareem returns to the prison, creating a crowd, and a standoff between inmates and officers, who allow their boss to brutally beat three of the men who attacked him. Mike gets a third important phone call as his secretary Rebecca says a woman named Wendy Morris wants his attention; she's the private prison representative for a multinational company. Mike is totally disinterested and meets D.A. Evelyn Foley at the coroner's office to survey the bodies. He's convinced Milo Sunter is still alive and wants her to issue an escaped inmate alert. "He got the fuck out, Evelyn," he insists.

Mike grabs Iris off the boat so she can go to protective custody, but unsurprisingly, she doesn't want to leave him. She says him taking her out on the boat was really for him and storms off to the custody car.

Meanwhile, Mariam is attacked and robbed in a liquor store parking lot. Ian and Stevie tell her the perpetrator has been caught, but horrify her when they claim he resisted arrest. She refuses to press charges, insisting to them that "your gang" will kill the young man first. Iris leaves her new handlers behind when she finds out why she's in protection, confronting Mike at his office; he repeats that he believes Milo is alive.

## Cast and characters

### Starring

* Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky
* Dianne Wiest as Mariam McLusky
* Hugh Dillon as Ian
* Tobi Bamtefa as Deverin "Bunny" Washington
* Taylor Handley as Kyle McLusky
* Emma Laird as Iris
* Derek Webster as Stevie
* Hamish Allan-Headley as Robert
* Nishi Munshi as Tracy McLusky
* Aidan Gillen as Milo Sunter

### Guest starring

* Nichole Galicia as Rebecca
* Michael Beach as Captain Kareem Moore
* Necar Zadegan as Assistant D.A. Evelyn Foley
* Lane Garrison as Carney
* Latarsha Rose as Vanessa
* Michael Gaston as Morass

### Co-starring

* Sydney Elise Johnson as Regina
* Gena Shaw as Special Agent Leclerc
* Barron B. Bass as Guard
* David Vegh as Psychiatrist
* Vickie Warehime as Corrections Officer
* Frank Licari as Special Agent Song
* Brandon Rush as Classroom Guard
* Ezekiel Boston as Prison Guard
* Phil Rice as Crip
* Nancy McNulty as FBI Agent #1
* Darren Constantine as FBI Agent #2
* Tommy LaFitte as Old Man
* Kevin Inouye as Trawler Captain
* Adam Weyer as Cashier
* Steven Rodriguez as Marco Diaz

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