Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky in Mayor of Kingstown season four. Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount+ Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text In the season four premiere of Mayor of Kingstown, co-creators/writers Hugh Dillon and Taylor Sheridan waste no time smacking viewers with a sense of doom and gloom. In the very first scene of the Paramount+ series' return, viewers are introduced to a soft-voiced, world-traveled businessman from Detroit named Frank Moses (played by Fear of the Walking Dead star Lennie James). But within two minutes, viewers quickly surmise that the jazz-loving Moses is deadly. Moses converses in the shadows of a railroad yard, discussing the history and metal properties of a penny he's about to lay on a railroad track. The camera then shifts to show the coin is not alone on the train rail. Its companions are four Russian mobsters - stragglers from the previous season - laying on their stomachs with their necks outstretched over the rail. The faint clanking and horn blowing of a locomotive engine grows louder and beckons Moses and his crew to step back as the train reveals itself. The massive weight of the locomotive flattens the penny and leaves four decapitated bodies in the aftermath. Related Stories TV 'Mayor of Kingstown' Season 4 Trailer Sees Jeremy Renner Facing New Threats Movies Daniel Craig Returns to Solve "Impossible Crime" in 'Wake Up Dead Man' Trailer Moses hopes the killing of the remaining Russians in Kingstown will be seen as an olive branch and introduction gift to fostering a new partnership with long-time Crips gang leader, "Bunny" Washington (Tobi Bamtefa), so he will be granted a sit-down meeting with the mayor of Kingstown himself - Mike McLusky, played by star Jeremy Renner. McLusky, however, isn't interested in meeting new gangsters or unknown criminals in his town. He's zeroed in on having a conviction thrown out that is about to send his baby brother, Kyle McLusky (Taylor Handley), to prison for six months for intentionally wounding a police officer in the finale of season three. (As a reminder, the rogue officer was about to shoot an innocent Black man and his young son while stuck in their car on a Kingstown bridge due to a bloody gun battle between Crips and Russian mobsters.) In the premiere, Kyle takes a six-month plea deal and decides not to tell the truth about what really happened on the bridge that night. Doing so might cost the officer who Kyle shot to expose the many misdeeds of the Kingstown Police Department, if Mike can't effectively get State Attorney, and former lover, Evelyn Foley (Necar Zadegan) to drop the charges against his brother. He knows he must focus all his resources in making sure Kyle - a known cop in Kingstown - survives those few months in prison. By the end of the premiere, viewers see that Kyle's protection, however, may not be going all that well. Renner tells The Hollywood Reporter that keeping McLusky's baby brother alive is clearly the main driving storyline for the new season. "Some of the biggest obstacles are in Mike's way," Renner says. "It's like one note in a lot of ways, the drive of: All I have to do is protect my brother. And there's a lot of things on the outside of that, which I think draws in the narrative of a lot of the show's characters, around this main narrative." Mike is a focused man, but Bunny, eating up the dream that Moses is selling to him about keeping his criminal enterprise while making the books look like legitimate businesses, and a deadly Columbian Cartel trying to move in and take over the Russians spot, are all serving as new distractions. Renner as Mike McLusky with Edie Falco as Warden Nina Hobbs in season four. Dennis P. Mong Jr./Paramount+ And he also has a new formidable foe - none other than the one played by Edie Falco. Falco is introduced to the world Kingstown as Nina Hobbs, the new warden running the prison where Kyle will be sent to. Mike wants a partnership with Hobbs that is clearly self-serving, to protect his brother. Hobbs, on the other hand, says it is her show and the prison will be running how she sees fit, with no outside influences. Falco told THR that she initially hadn't seen one episode of Mayor of Kingstown, but it didn't take her long to want to be a part of the show. "Then I started watching it, once it came across my desk," Falco says. "There's so much good storytelling and so much good acting. As far as I'm concerned, that's the whole kit and caboodle for me when it comes to wanting to work on something. And it's mostly about the actors, because I will spend my time working opposite someone, and if they want to get on playground as much as I do, then it's nothing but fun." But who exactly is Hobbs? "She's a woman who's been doing this job for as long as she can remember," Falco explains abou