Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9: How did Mike get Kyle released? Details revealed

Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9 is titled Teeth and Tissue. It dropped on December 21, 2025, on Paramount+.

Mike McLusky finally pulls off a wild rescue for his brother Kyle, gets him out of Anchor Bay after many close calls and prison shanks. While it sounds like a win, the second Kyle is out, it becomes clear that freedom brings no safety in the violent world of Kingstown. Also, let’s not forget: Kyle’s wife, Tracy, got murdered by Callahan, an escaped prisoner.

Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9 is about Mike playing games with a bunch of people. He is lying, threatening, and making deals with the dangerous criminal underworld. Nevertheless, the unexpected, shocking ending of the episode shows that in Kingstown, it is violence that lurks all over, even in places outside the prison gates.

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How did Mike get Kyle released in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9?

In Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9, Mike McLusky cuts a backroom deal with DA Evelyn Foley. He says he will hand her Frank Moses, aka Detroit’s top dog, if she lets his brother Kyle walk free. He has got 24 hours to serve up Frank, and if he pulls it off, Kyle gets out of Anchor Bay.

But then, Robert Sawyer turns up dead at the beginning of the episode, and everything shifts. With Sawyer gone, Evelyn loses her main reason for keeping Kyle as a witness against crooked officials. So, Mike sees a crack in the wall and slides in with a new pitch. Now, Evelyn’s hungry for a bigger fish: Frank Moses.

Mike is playing a bigger game in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9. He just gets how these people tick, he knows the whole Kingstown underworld, and he clocks that Frank Moses is off-balance, gutted after losing his ride-or-die, LJ, after 50 years of friendship. Mike is about to weaponize that grief. That’s the move that could make or break this whole thing.

In Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9, Mike goes up to Frank Moses, all sad eyes and fake condolences, acting like he is just another broken-hearted buddy who wants justice for LJ. But Mike is actually the puppet master here. He set everything in motion. At the season’s start, Mike tells Lamar, Bunny’s driver, to go after Frank’s business as an act of revenge for Frank’s attempt to murder Bunny. The killing of LJ was a direct result of this battle between the two sides.

When they are face-to-face, Mike spins a story about being done with all the Kingstown struggles. He says he has lost almost everyone, his brother Kyle is barely hanging on, and he is just tired. He claims he has given everything to this messed-up city. But what he doesn’t spill is that he knows Frank tried to double-cross Bunny. He knows Frank planted Lamar with Bunny to take him out, but Mike keeps quiet, as blowing that secret now would totally screw his plan.

All this makes Mike look real, like he is just a guy at the end of his rope, and if things go sideways, he has got cover. He tells Frank that Lamar is the one who killed LJ and drops that the cops have it all on tape. Then he offers to hand Lamar over, knowing full well Frank is about to lose it and rush in without thinking. Mike is clearly playing with him, and Frank is too blinded by anger to see that he is just another pawn.

So after Mike manages to talk Frank into thinking he is doing everyone a favor, he hits up Lamar and says he has “fixed” everything. He adds that there’s nothing to worry about, and he can come back to work. Lamar goes right into the setup. Next thing he knows, he is tased, bagged, and tossed into a white van. They dump him in an empty house basement, tied up and gagged.

Then Mike hands over Lamar’s location to Frank. He knows what’s about to go down. Frank, who wants payback, storms over there. He finds Lamar, goes off about power and how Lamar screwed him over, took away his only real friend, and then it gets ugly. Frank kills Lamar right there in the basement in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9.

Meanwhile, Mike is already a step ahead. He has tipped off Ian and Stevie, given them the address and everything. They are waiting outside, waiting for Frank to finish his revenge fantasy. As soon as Frank steps out, he is cuffed. They have got more than enough dirt on him to press charges. Frank Moses is hauled off, and Mike just checked off his part of the deal with DA Evelyn Foley.

While Mike’s scheme rolls along outside, Kyle is trapped in a nightmare inside Anchor Bay. Correction Officer Breen, who had been placed on restricted duty by Warden Nina Hobbs for going full psycho on an inmate before, can’t keep it together anymore.

So in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9, Breen gets dragged over to clean an inmate’s cell in Administrative Segregation. This inmate has plastered himself in his own feces. The other prisoners see Breen cleaning up and start ragging on him. That’s it, he snaps.

Breen storms off in a rage and comes back packing a shotgun. Out of nowhere, he starts blasting his way through the cells, just shooting inmates who are begging for their lives. Now, Kyle McLusky is next on the hit list. He is already shattered from losing Tracy, so when Breen corners him, Kyle just stands there, almost like he’s done fighting. He is so deep in grief that he is not even trying to dodge death.

Right when things look completely hopeless in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9, Breen has the shotgun right at Kyle’s chest, finger on the trigger, Cindy Stephens comes in and drops Breen with one shot. She saves Kyle at the literal last second. And all this goes down just hours before Kyle’s supposed to get out.

Following Kyle’s release, Mike takes his brother to Dan’s Diner, where they join Ian and Stevie to get some takeout before returning home. The scene presents a short-lived moment of normalcy: the four men coming together after Kyle’s saga, a modest meal before going home. For a moment, it appears that the worst may have passed.

But, no. As soon as they are about to leave, Stevie steps outside first, and out of nowhere, bullets start flying. Some men in masks and body armor show up, spraying the place with assault rifles. Stevie catches one in the shoulder, and everyone else dives back inside, ducking behind tables.

If Kyle thought prison was the end of his problems, he has got another thing coming at the end of Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9. The danger didn’t disappear; it just changed address. Within half a day, he has dodged death twice, first in the joint with Breen going full psycho, and now getting ambushed outside over some takeout. If there’s a lesson here, it’s maybe just don’t trust life to give you a break.

Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 is now streaming on Paramount+.