Warning: This text comprises spoilers for Mayor of Kingstown season 4 finale, "Stomach of the Beast."

For Jeremy Renner, nobody might’ve killed Merle Callahan (Richard Brake) apart from Kyle McLusky (Taylor Handley) within the Mayor of Kingstown season 4 finale.

The actor, who headlines the Taylor Sheridan co-created sequence as city energy dealer Mike McLusky, tells Leisure Weekly that whereas his character had a justifiable share of causes for eager to kill Merle, it was finally extra essential to let his brother Kyle be the one to drag the set off, given Merle murdered his spouse Tracy (Nishi Munshi).

“That’s one method to type of… not likely shield, however assist forge a path for therapeutic due to what [Merle] did,” Renner explains. "There was no different pathway."

After escaping Anchor Bay, Merle finds and kills Tracy earlier than surrendering himself on the native police station. It’s there that Captain Walter (Rob Kirkland) offers Det. Ian Ferguson (Hugh Dillon) carte blanche to do with Merle as he sees match, main him to drive the escaped convict to a showdown with the McLuskys on the railroad tracks.

It’s there that Kyle shoots Merle and, overcome with emotion, continues to fireplace at his useless physique, prompting Mike to step in and take the weapon away from his youthful brother earlier than he might damage himself or anybody else. The siblings make it only some ft away from the grisly crime scene earlier than Kyle fully breaks down and begins to sob in Mike’s arms.

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“The gorgeous finish of all of it is at the least they [Mike and Kyle] have one another,” Renner says of the poignant second between the brothers. “That was one thing I actually needed to battle for [at] the top of this present. It was very, very, crucial to at the least give the viewers that. Give them one thing good.”

He continues, “The gorgeous half for us is the discharge of that poisonous character after which the 2 brothers falling into one another — and at the least they’ve one another by all of it. In order that’s some form of hope, proper?"

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Mike spent nearly all of Mayor of Kingstown season 4 making an attempt his finest to defend Kyle from hurt whereas his brother was locked away in Anchor Bay. Regardless of his finest efforts, he wasn’t in a position to shield Kyle from every thing, with Tracy’s demise placing his once-upstanding youthful brother on a darkish quest for vengeance towards her killer.

As for the way Kyle and Mike will transfer ahead after such a tragic season? Effectively, we’ll must preserve our fingers crossed that Mayor of Kingstown will get greenlit for a fifth season to seek out out. Till then, we will at the least take refuge within the data that the McLuskys are collectively once more.

The Mayor of Kingstown season 4 finale is streaming now on Paramount+.

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