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04x10 - Belly of the Beast

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Mayor of Kingstown". Aired: November 14, 2021 – present.*
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Crime drama that follows the McLusky family in Kingstown, Mich., where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.

04x10 - Belly of the Beast

Post by bunniefuu »

We're going to find this animal

and we're going to get
through it together.

The hunt for Robert is officially over.

- I need Kyle out now.
- You deliver Moses,

- I'll have Kyle out in 24 hours.
- Pave the road.

'Cause Frank Moses is
about to make a mistake.

Lamar took out LJ.

So you know where Lamar is?

[MIKE] I need you to get to

- 864 Eastern Avenue.
- What for?

[MIKE] You're gonna
catch Moses in the act.


- I didn't come here to be a janitor.
- [MUFFLED SHOUTING]

Here I am taking out the
garbage like I'm a f*cking child!

What happened, Mike?

[HOBBS] It's impressive.

You pulled it off.

You're saving your brother's life.

- Get your people to back off.
- They need another.

They got the one who f*cked it up,

now they need the one who

fed the information to the Crips,

and then I will be free.

- [RAPID g*nf*re]
- f*ck!

Get down!

[MUFFLED g*nshots IN DISTANCE]

[TENSE MUSIC]

[IAN ECHOING] Mikey!

- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
- [b*ll*ts RICOCHETING]

[STEVIE] f*ck, f*cking, motherfuck.

[GRUNTS]

- [RAPID g*nf*re]
- [RINGING STOPS]

f*cking Christ. f*ck!

Sarah, your g*n.

What?

Give me your g*n.

Kyle. Kyle.

Down! Get down!

- You good?
- [GRUNTS]

Gimme the piece, gimme
the f*cking piece.

Mikey!

Hey, f*ck!

[DOOR CREAKS]

[g*nshots]

[SHOUTING]

Kyle.

Kyle. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Kyle, hey, ease up. Ease
up, ease up, ease up.

Come on, we need one alive, huh?

All right? Relax.

You're gonna wish you
were dead, m*therf*cker.

- Sarah?
- [SARAH] Yeah?

- [MIKE] You okay?
- Yeah.

All right, get out of here. Go out back.

- You were never here.
- But, Mike, Mike, Mike.

Kyle used my g*n.

You left it behind the counter.

- I knew where it was.
- [MIKE] Yeah.

We got you. Don't worry about it. Go on.

- Get out of here.
- [SARAH] Okay.

[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]

[SLOW, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]







[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

All right, that was just a scratch.

Don't make it a f*cking thing, spider.

Yeah, I'm trying real hard

to think of a nice way
to tell you to f*ck off.

I can't do it.

[IAN] Yeah, well,
that's the meds talking.

All right? I'll see you soon.

All right, Captain, this
is f*cking clear-cut here.

All right? This is some
ancient prison f*cking payback.

That's all this is. Right, Mikey?

Yeah, it seems to be.

It was just a AB attack,

ordered by Callahan.

That is your escaped prisoner.

- Simple as that.
- Right.

Got two in the slab now.

Yeah, amen and pass the f*cking a*mo.

Witnesses saw three gunmen.

- [IAN] Captain, they're wrong.
- Are they? All of them?

You know better than anybody else.

f*cking blood on the
streets, b*ll*ts in the air,

eyewitness accounts don't mean sh*t.

Two bad guys down. That's what I know.

That's what I see.

Okay. Got it.

[IAN] Yeah.

[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[WATER RUNNING]

[WATER STOPS]

[OFFICER] 10-22C.

Don's Diner and the
surrounding area is clear.


Two bodies found in full tactical gear

are en route to the morgue.

[DISPATCHER] Copy that.


Pray for and pity the missing third,

the pain he must suffer.

Godspeed, brother.

See you in Valhalla.

[GRUNTS SOFTLY]

[MUFFLED GRUNTING]

Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

[EERIE MUSIC]

[PHONE VIBRATING]

Yeah, Bunny.

You clock in?

Just about to. Why?

Today your last day.

And we got one more box to check.

And after that,

you're a f*cking free man, Kevin.

- For real?
- You know,


I may hit you with a
little severance package.


Ain't no retirement, but...

- No, I get it.
- Start of something new.


Thank you, Bunny.

You want to thank
somebody, thank the mayor.

Not a lot of folk can
charm that m*therf*cker.

You got game escaped my notice.

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

You know what need doing today?

Yeah, for sure.

Uh-huh.

[BILLY SCREAMS]

[GROANS]

This is how he contacts you, right?

It's how you call him?

Where is he?

And speak now, while you
still got fingers left to dial.

- f*ck.
- [MIKE] You're making this

harder than it needs to be, Billy.

You think Callahan would
do the same thing for you,

if roles were reversed?

Yeah. Yeah, he f*cking would.

- [MIKE] That right?
- Mm-hmm.

Well, where the hell is he, then?

He could tap in for
you right now, Billy.

Flesh and bone and blood is nothing.

I have a code.

What do you got there?
What... you got f*cking what?

I have my honor.

f*ck your honor.

[MIKE] Yeah, and f*ck your code, Billy.

- Huh?
- [SQUISHING]

[BILLY GROANS]

[MIKE] Was it your code

when you cut off
Shaver's d*ck and ba*ls?

Was that your honor?

Huh? That it?

- Hey.
- [GRUNTS]

Look at me.

[DARK MUSIC]

I think you can see

that my intentions are clear.

And that your time with me

can be as long as you choose, okay?

So why don't we just save some blood

and a whole lot of agony

and tell me where the f*ck Callahan is?

Go f*ck yourself.

Oh, man.

[HORN HONKS]

- [IAN] How is he?
- He's in surgery.

Blood loss, tissue damage.

Missed the artery,
though. Nothing major.

Okay, good.

All right, we got a... we got a BOLO

- on Merle Callahan here.
- Yeah, no sh*t.

No, listen to what I'm saying.

We back-channel this sh*t, Keno.

Anyone... anyone
f*cking sees this f*ck,

it comes to me... cop, civilian,
doesn't matter, all right?

Yeah, I got it, I got it.

Hey, just invite me
to the f*cking barbecue

- if you can, Ian.
- Yeah, yeah.

- You're a good man, Keno.
- [TAPS ROOF]

[BILLY COUGHING]

[MIKE] I don't know how many parts

we have to take off of you

before you become, like, a freak show.

You're gonna scare the
kids in the street now,

your own mother can't stomach you.

[CRYING] I don't know sh*t.

For what?

f*cking Callahan? For God's sakes.

He's a f*cking coward.

You realize that?

He's left you to do his dirty work.

No, he had his own work to do.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Oh, I f*cking envy him.

[LAUGHS]

He left you here to die.
Why are you loyal to him?

Loyalty's earned and returned,
you traitor m*therf*cker.

The brothers would've
run a train on you, Mike,

on the daily, without
Merle watching out for you.

He saved your a*s, and now what? Huh?

Is that right?

[GRUNTS]

You think Merle Callahan
gives up the f*cking field?

Huh? You think that,
you don't know the man.

Merle ain't no f*cking spectator.

He's f*cking front lines, man.

[MIKE] Oh.

So, Callahan's in Kingstown, then?

- Is that right?
- [BILLY EXHALES]

[MIKE] I see.

So, what was it... he was
just watching all this happen?

He was just watching it all
go down from the shadows?

- Is that it?
- Could be here, could be there.

- He's here.
- [MIKE] Yeah.

Whatever the f*ck you think it is...

- [MIKE] Okay.
- it is.

What does that mean?

You're doing this, buddy.

You're doing this. Huh?

What the f*ck

- does that mean?
- [GRUNTS]

Is he here?

[GROANS]

- Is he here?
- [GRUNTS]

- Is he in Kingstown?
- [COUGHS]

- Huh? Is he here? Huh?
- [SCREAMING]

Is he here? Huh?

Yeah?

Where the f*ck

is that m*therf*cker?!

Huh? Where the f*ck is...

that m*therf*cker?!

f*ck you! f*ck!

[HOBBS] It's happening today.

I am lifting the lockdown,
I will see that it's done.

[CORTEZ] Torres didn't cry.

What?

I let him see me.

He knew.

And he didn't beg.

He didn't cry.

A good soldier sacrifices.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

Yes.

Will you tell them? Back home, I mean?

Will you tell them that it's handled?

I'll tell them, Nina, when
there is something to tell.

Do right by your dead soldier.

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

- [KEYS JINGLE]
- [ENGINE STARTS]

[LUCINDA AND MOLLY ARGUING IN DISTANCE]

- [MOLLY] Mom!
- [LUCINDA] Give it!

I'm coming.

[LUCINDA] It's my stuff.

[MOLLY] I don't care. Give me my stuff!

Yeah, look, if he knew anything,

- he'd have said it by now.
- [WEAK GROANING]

Well, this stopped being an
interrogation for me an hour ago.

Yeah. All right.

Let's go get cleaned up.
Get the f*ck out of here.

[WATER RUNNING]

Aw, sh...

[SOMBER MUSIC]

[SIGHS]

- Okay.
- [LINE RINGING]

Hey, Bunny.

Look, uh, I'm over at the diner.

I need, uh, I need a crew.

I'm with my brother now, so
give me a minute, all right?

All right, look.

If Callahan's in Kingstown,
KPD's gonna f*cking find him.

I don't want him found
by anyone except me, Mike.

They have the manpower,

they're gonna find him, then he's ours.

Until then, there's
nothing for us to do.

Yeah?

Yeah. Hey.

Want me to call Mr. Clean? What?

No, no. Uh, Bunny's
gonna handle that sh*t.

Just wait for the cleaning crew.

And get Kyle to his truck,

so he can go see his
g*dd*mn son, for God's sakes.

- All right.
- Okay.

What are you gonna do, Mike?

I'm gonna go to work.

- [CAR DOOR CLOSES]
- [ENGINE STARTS]

[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]

Hey.

You all right?

Never better.

Hey, Mike. You okay?

The f*ck I just say?

Come on, Bunny. I'm
not in the f*cking mood.

A'ight. A'ight.

- What can I do?
- The question's not what you can

do for me, Bunny, it's what
we gonna do for you and yours,

for this new empire.

Scorched-earth.

Yeah.

Kingstown and Detroit aligned.

Take out Bogotá inside and out.

- End this sh*t proper.
- Yeah.

You worry about your business, Mike.

I got this.

It's high noon.

[LINE RINGING]

- Mike.
- Nina,


it is time to lift the lockdown.

Well, that's on my to-do list.

I know why I'm doing it. You care

- to explain your interest?
- There are some times


you have to let something
bleed to cure it.


That's medieval thinking.

It's prison thinking.

Okay. So,

- this is my warning?
- No, you know


this needs to happen, Nina.

So just let it. Let it
bleed and close it up.

Cauterize it, okay? You
know what needs to be done.


Yes, indeed, I do.

Indeed.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

[ENGINE STOPS]

Ian.

Yeah, buddy?

Callahan is mine.

I'm not gonna take it from
you. I swear to God, Kyle.



[GRUNTS SOFTLY]

Were you there at the
diner this morning?

News said Kyle's name.

Yeah, we were there.

We weren't hurt.

You were almost k*lled.

Yeah, well, there's-there's that.

[SCOFFS QUIETLY]

How's Kyle?

[SIGHS] Yeah.

What you'd expect, right?

Yeah.

How are you?

[SHORT CHUCKLE]

Not good.

Yeah.

That's exactly what you should be.

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

- What I did...
- What you did is save my brother.

That's exactly what you did.

[MOURNFUL MUSIC]

Hmm.

What happens now with Callahan?

He made his bed. I'm
just gonna put him in it.

But can't you...

- Can't you walk away?
- No.

I cannot walk away.

Cannot leave Kyle like
this. He's my brother.

He's all I got left.

I can't walk away.

[PHONE VIBRATING]

[CLEARS THROAT]

Yeah. Yeah?

Hey, Mikey, he's home safe and sound.

Dropped him off.

I don't know how good it is
for him being there alone,

- but that's where he is.
- He's not going to Ohio?


No. No, he's not.

So, what do you want to do?

I want to f*cking finish this.

- Yeah.
- So let's finish it.


Yeah.

I got to go.

- Mm-hmm.
- Look.

He's gonna be okay.

I promise.

[SCOFFS]

I promise, okay?

[FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING]

[SOFT CREAKING]

[SOFT CLICK]

[SOFT CLATTERING]

[b*ll*ts CLINKING]

[DARK MUSIC]



[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[OFFICER] Got a man, mid-40s,

sleeping in the stairwell of
North Kingstown arms building.


[DISPATCHER] 10-4. Do
you need an additional?


[OFFICER] Negative. Just send

medics code two for eval.

[OFFICER] We got ongoing
verbal, possibly escalating.


Uh, 1220 Jackson.

[DISPATCHER] Unit 309 and 4-John-6,

respond Code 2, caller states
subject's still on site.


[RADIO CHATTER CONTINUING]



[RADIO CHATTER CONTINUING]

[LINE RINGING]

- Hey.
- Yeah, it's me. I'm at Shaver's.


Callahan was here.

f*ck.

Mikey, the town's locked down.

He's not getting out.

Yeah, well, he ain't running.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]



[LINE RINGING]

[PHONE RINGS]

Yo, Raph.

We back in a power position out here.

You got to rock that sh*t today, now.

Still on lockdown, Bun.

Yeah, the mayor gonna fix all that.

We got a line on the
Colombians now. All right,


we collapse in on these
m*therf*ckers. Me on my end,

you on yours. You feel me?

Yeah.

Good.

It's about to pop.

- [KNOCKING]
- [DOOR OPENING]

You wanted to see me,

- Warden?
- I-I did, Officer Stephens.

Yes, please sit.

[SIGHS]

I must say, I-I was surprised

when they told me
you-you clocked in today.

Yeah, well... I got mouths to feed.

Well, given what you went through,

I'm not gonna dock your pay.

It's better I keep occupied, ma'am.

Well... I know that feeling.

I do.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

You are booked to see
the counselor, right?

- Yes.
- Okay.

Good. Good.

No one takes easy to k*lling.

It disturbs the soul.

The only counsel I'd offer,
if you're open to it, Cindy...

You saved the life of a good man.

Can focus on the value of that.

Take solace.

I'm trying.

Good.

I am going to, uh,
lift the lockdown today.

Ad Seg is covered.

If you need an occupation, for now,

I think the infirmary suits.

That works for me, Warden. Thank you.

Okay, good. All right, that's all.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[DOOR CLOSES]



[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[PANTING]

[DOOR BUZZES]

[SHOUTING, CLAMORING]

We do this now.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[RAPID g*nf*re]

[g*nf*re CONTINUING]

[SHOUTING, CLAMORING]

[ALARM SOUNDING]

[GRUNTING]

[DOOR BUZZES]

Take us around back. Now. Let's go.

[RAPID g*nf*re]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[RAPID g*nf*re CONTINUING]

[BUNNY] Right here, right here.

[g*nf*re CONTINUING]

[SHOUTING, CLAMORING]

Aah!

[GRUNTING]

[SHOUTING]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[PHONE RINGING]

Hey. I got to call you back.

[SOFT CHUCKLE]

[EERIE MUSIC]

I'm unarmed.

I'm surrendering.

m*therf*cker!

Down on the ground. Down
on the f*cking ground,

right now, piece of sh*t.

[GRUNTING]

Call off the hunt. I surrender.

Think you found sanctuary here, f*ck?

- Due process. [LAUGHS]
- f*ck you

and f*ck the Bill of Rights. Jesse,

go take a piss. There's
nothing to see here.

Nothing to see here, folks.
Everybody back to work.

My g*dd*mn lucky f*cking
day. You walked right up

to the f*cking gallows
and brought the noose

- [WALTER] Ferguson.
- with you, you piece of sh*t.

- You ignorant...
- Ferguson.

[CALLAHAN] I require

- medical attention.
- Captain, no. He is healthy as

a f*cking horse, Captain.

Walked in on his own two f*cking feet.

- Put him in the box.
- Captain.

Put him in the box. Now.

Get up, you f*cking
piece of sh*t. Get up,

f*cking piece of sh*t. Come on.

[PHONE VIBRATES]

sh*t.

Yeah. What do you got?

He's f*cking here. He walked
right into the station,

surrendered himself. Jesus Christ.

sh*t. You're kidding me.

Is he charged?

- You didn't charge him, did you?
- Mikey,


I was gonna walk him out the back door.

I was gonna deliver him.

I swear to God. That's what

- I was gonna do.
- But?


But Captain f*cking Walter,

Captain f*cking Hospital Corners saw.

Okay. So... what?

Look, he parked him in
f*cking interrogation. Okay?

But he hasn't charged him.

So I don't know where his head's at.

You're gonna have to find out, Ian,

okay? Don't charge this motherfuck...

Don't put him back in the
system, for God's sakes.

Just find out, okay?

Yes, I'm on it, I'm on it.

Get him to the rail yard.

It's all you got to do, okay?

Yeah.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[GROANING]

[CUFFS CLICKING]

[GRUNTING, SHOUTING]

[UNEASY MUSIC]

Hey! Hey!

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Hey. Hey, hey!

Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

Look at me. Stay with me.

Stay with me.

Yeah, stay with me. Stay with me.

Stay with me. Stay with me.

No, stay with me. Look at me.

Stay with me, stay
with me, stay with me.

Stay with...

[CRYING]

[PHONE RINGS]

Yes. Yeah. I'll be right down.

[CLICKING]



[PHONE VIBRATES]

[BUNNY] The man, the myth, the legend.

That you, homes?

[CHUCKLES]

You mute mo'f*ck.

[PHONE VIBRATES]

Keep him warm.

[GRUNTING]

To the victor go the spoils, Mike.

We got that half-assed sicario.

- Come on. [GRUNTING]
- [GRUNTING]

- [GRUNTING CONTINUES]
- [MIKE] Keep him alive, Bunny.


Please? Try to find
out who he reports to,

but just keep him alive, would you?

I got you.

[GROANING]

You inbound?

I got something else to
do. But I'll be there after.

Just keep him breathing.

[GRUNTING CONTINUING IN DISTANCE]

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

You know, there's evil acts, and
then there's pure evil people.

Good man can go wrong.

Evil man can never go right.

I've been looking at this man,

thinking on the horrors he's committed.

He will be charged in Michigan.

He will be charged in Ohio.

Won't be tried.

He'll plead.

Will he go back to prison? Yes.

Is that punishment? No.

f*cking hell's his home.

Ain't nothing in our laws

or our philosophies can contain this.

Yeah. I mean, yeah.

Look, Captain, the prisoner
looks f*cking sickly.

- He's unwell.
- And he needs

medical attention. I should
just bus him to the hospital now.

He was never here.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

[KNOCKING]

[THUMP IN DISTANCE]

Psst.

[GRUNTS]

g*dd*mn.

[VEHICLE APPROACHING]

[CAR DOOR OPENS]

Nobody's gonna track this f*ck.

Okay. Let's get him out.

- [CAR DOOR OPENS]
- [IAN] All right, Merle,

let's go.

Come on, Merle.

Hope you dug the hole yourself, Mike.

The labor alone might undo me.

And you wouldn't want that, would you?

Keeling over like some Chinaman
on the Transcontinental.

That lighten the load?

f*ck. Get him up.

- Go, Merle. Come on.
- You want to

purge yourself, all that guilt,

you're gonna have to beat me to death.

Problem there...

few blows, and I'll be
so f*cking out of it,

it won't matter...
just pounding on flesh.

[CHUCKLES]

Blood of the lamb.

Come on. f*ck off, Merle.

I ain't afraid to die, Mike.

You know this about me.

Lights on or lights off,
don't give me pause. But you...

you act like I never taught you sh*t.

Blood can't wash out blood.

Yeah, I'll sleep better.

You'll find new cause
for nightmares, no doubt.

You know, Merle...

you're a f*cking coward.

Hide behind the law, even.

Live to fight another day.

Yeah, well, that's not
gonna f*cking happen, is it?

Well, get it f*cking over with.

Mike?

[VEHICLE APPROACHING]

- You called him.
- Yeah.

You don't deserve my wrath.

[TRUCK DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

Huh.

g*dd*mn.

Looks like I ain't the only
one can walk through walls.

- [GRUNTS]
- Oh! f*ck. [GASPING]

- [KYLE GRUNTS]
- Aw, f*ck.

f*ck.

[PANTING]

When this is over,

you're gonna drive down to Belleville.

Shut the f*ck up, Merle. f*ck you.

- f*cking...
- You're gonna go to the morgue,

and you're gonna see her.

And you're gonna wonder, wonder, wonder

what I did to her.

[g*n CLICKS]

Stand him up.

[IAN] f*cking c**t.

Step away.

[WHISPERS] Just finish him.

[SCREAMING]

[WHIMPERING, HYPERVENTILATING]

[HAUNTING MUSIC]

[BREATHING SHARPLY]

[g*nshots]

Hey. Hey. That's enough.

Okay? It's over.

Mike.

[MIKE] Got it?

- It's all done.
- Mike.

You got him. You got him.

- It's all over.
- Mike.

It's all over.

Okay?

It's over.

Come on.

Let's go.

[KYLE SOBBING]

[SLOW, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]