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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for<\/b> Murder in a Small Town<\/a><\/i><\/b> Season 2\u2019s premiere, \u201cActs of Murder.\u201d]<\/b><\/p>\n Things got off to a violent start on the Season 2 premiere of Murder in a Small Town<\/i>. The episode began with a woman named Denise being verbally accosted by her shifty husband Garrett and responding to that with a cast-iron skillet to his temple. Thinking she\u2019d just killed him, she then recruited her sister Merida to help, and they decided to dispose of the body by putting him in his own trunk and dropping the car off in the woods.<\/p>\n That wasn\u2019t the only attack Garrett would face, though; as Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland<\/a>) and his team would ultimately discover, he was also stabbed and burned to a crisp, ultimately dying of smoke inhalation. Turned out, Garrett had a side job running dirty money on his speedboat, and his increasing gambling addiction caused him to run afoul of dangerous people. Once Karl solved the case, he also retrieved the money from the two sisters, who narrowly avoided being killed by a gang of bikers Garrett was associated with.<\/p>\n The case of the day wasn\u2019t the only draw of the episode, though. After a nail-biter election, Cassandra Lee (Kristin Kreuk<\/a>) pulled off a victory in the race for town council, and she pledged to do her \u201cdamndest\u201d to earn that title. She and Karl remain in a great place together, romantically, but could her election have unintended consequences for the two? After a tense discussion with Mayor Christie Holman (Marcia Gay Harden<\/a>), it became clear that the town boss would try to put the two against each other. With Karl\u2019s jurisdiction expanding to include multiple other departments, he desperately needed additional officers, but Holman wanted that money to come from the funds that were going to support Cassandra\u2019s arts center.<\/p>\n Karl dutifully reported the mayor\u2019s strongarming tactic to Cassandra, and the two promised each other that while neither would back down, they would seek a compromise and work through it. But can the detente last?<\/p>\n To break down the premiere and find out what else to expect from Karl and Cassandra\u2019s journey in Murder in a Small Town<\/i> Season 2, TV Insider caught up with Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk!<\/p>\n Last season, Karl and Cassandra finally got back together in the finale, and we know that Season 2 won\u2019t be as much of a will-they-or-won\u2019t-they situation. How does it feel to come into that season knowing that there\u2019s not going to be this question mark looming over their relationship?<\/b><\/p>\n Rossif Sutherland<\/b>: It\u2019s freeing. It\u2019s also freeing to be able to do a season of television where you\u2019re not introducing characters anymore, so we get to play within the landscape of established things and keep trying to stretch it just a little bit further. Also, there\u2019s room because of that.\u00a0 These characters have already been established for us to be able to explore more of the community, which is so much of the heart of this show.<\/p>\n The first episode ends with the phrase, \u201cBring it.\u201d Is that their new mantra this season?<\/b><\/p>\n Kristin Kreuk<\/b>: Yeah, I think the idea is that they start the season with a real belief that it\u2019s going to be great. Things are going to go fine. They\u2019re going to be able to handle all of it. They will push through, where you need to set them up in this place of positivity so you can kind of just chip away at them as the season goes by.<\/p>\n On that note, we can see that there are going to be complications between them still, even though they start out in this great place. What can we expect there?<\/b><\/p>\n Kreuk<\/b>: Well, Karl\u2019s jurisdiction has expanded. Because he\u2019s so good at solving murders, they\u2019re giving him more murders to solve, and it means that he has too few officers to deal with the situation. As he needs more money to support that, Cassandra has become part of town council, and she\u2019s trying to influence the budget so that there\u2019s funding for social supports and for arts. And this new mayor, who\u2019s been there for ages, comes in and starts pulling the strings, and she may or may not have an ulterior motive that\u2019s driving her to do that, but it\u2019s causing a wedge between the two of them because she\u2019s trying to use their relationship to get the thing she wants.<\/p>\n