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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for<\/b> Tulsa King<\/a><\/i><\/b> Season 3 Episode 2, \u201cThe Fifty.\u201d]<\/b><\/p>\n Cole Dunmire (Beau Knapp<\/a>) did the unthinkable when he burned down the Montague house with Cleo\u2019s (Bella Heathcote<\/a>) father inside. It was an act of bitter retaliation against the family for taking a new deal with Dwight Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone<\/a>) instead of selling their ailing bourbon business to his father, Jeremiah (Robert Patrick<\/a>). Still, Cole showed up at the memorial service as if nothing happened and was roundly rejected by Cleo. He later confronted her again and denied having anything to do with her dad\u2019s death, which she did not believe. So why did Cole think that he would still have a chance at friendship \u2014 or maybe even something more \u2014 with Cleo after everything he\u2019d done?<\/p>\n Beau Knapp told TV Insider, \u201cI connected with Cole. He was so vulnerable, and I came out [feeling like] he has a good heart. I mean, he has whiskey in his blood, and it\u2019s passed down generation to generation, and he\u2019s the son of Jeremiah Dunmire, so he\u2019s kind of gotta be a little devil. But, at the end of the day, he\u2019s got remorse and shame and guilt. Cleo and Cole have this backstory of this wonderful childhood growing up together, distillery families and great friends in school, and their families had dinners together, and I think that him seeing her again just brought back that kind of [feeling].\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if he thought maybe there was a chance that he could bring that friendship back into his life for that light, because he\u2019s kind of been stuck in the dark,\u201d Knapp continued. \u201cI think he was hopeful and he wanted a friend\u2026 I think [he had] the remorse of he didn\u2019t want to kill the father, but at the end of the day, he\u2019s going to do whatever he has to do for his dad.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, as we saw in the latest episode, Cole really would do anything for his father. In addition to murdering Cleo\u2019s dad and destroying her childhood home, he also tried to attack her and Mitch (Garrett Hedlund<\/a>) at his home, and, after he got a gnarly slash on his arm from Cleo, he returned home to be treated to an emotionless field cauterization by his father with a branding iron.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Cole is so used to being belittled and abused, it doesn\u2019t even register,\u201d Knapp said of that jaw-dropping moment. \u201cThat\u2019s just their relationship. But I think that\u2019s what\u2019s so sad about it is that he adores his father\u2026 and he would do anything necessary, whatever the cost, to make him love him again, or appreciate him, or live up to that expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n By the end of the episode, Cole did get a bit of redemption when he saw Spencer (Scarlet Rose Stallone) being followed and attacked by a drunk in the parking lot as Dwight and Jeremiah had a tense meeting inside, and he swooped in to save her. So there is still some hope for him \u2014 even if he is a cold-blooded killer \u2014 but probably not so long as he continues doing Jeremiah\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n Tulsa King<\/i><\/b>, Sundays, Paramount+<\/b><\/p>\n