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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for<\/b> Mayor of Kingstown<\/a><\/i><\/b> Season 4 Episode 2, \u201cPromises to Keep.\u201d]<\/b><\/p>\n

No one is ever safe on\u00a0Mayor of Kingstown<\/em>, and that\u2019s part of the beauty of the show. Still, that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not surprising or deeply upsetting to see certain characters go down, and Season 4\u2019s second episode came with a massive gut-wallop in its final moments.<\/p>\n

Coming into the episode, Mike McLusky (Jeremy Renner<\/a>) learned that he had very few allies on the inside after Nina Hobbs (Edie Falco<\/a>) became the new warden and declined to continue the tradition of him exercising power and influence over Anchor Bay. That setback came at the absolute worst time, too, since his little brother Kyle (Taylor Handley<\/a>) was sentenced to a six-month stretch and would need as much protection as possible.<\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s most loyal guy left, of course, was Carney (Lane Garrison<\/a>), who was working hard to bring newcomer Cindy (Laura Benanti<\/a>) into the fold to look out for Kyle through any means necessary. That all changed at the end of this episode, though, when Carney, after gently tending to his infirm father with a microwave dinner and some small talk about sports, headed out to introduce Mike to Cindy but was instead executed at the door. His shooter was the same mysterious Colombian national who was involved in the attempted hit on Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa<\/a>) but had to be released by Ian (Hugh Dillon<\/a>), and his death leaves yet another hole in Mike\u2019s circle of trust.<\/p>\n

To break down this jaw-dropping turn of events, TV Insider caught up with Lane Garrison, who revealed what he really thought was going to happen to Carney this season, how he reacted to that fate, and the other Taylor Sheridan show(s) fans might see him join next!<\/p>\n

So pour one out for Carney. I didn\u2019t see it coming.<\/b><\/p>\n

Lane Garrison<\/b>: I didn\u2019t either. I was a little shocked. I got a call this past summer from the executive producer, which is always that weird call. It\u2019s like, you\u2019re either getting called up to the major leagues, or it\u2019s, \u201cYou\u2019re cut, and we\u2019re sending you to Triple-A, and you\u2019re never gonna make it in the majors.\u201d And so I picked it up, and then they\u2019re like, \u201cWe\u2019ve got good news and we have bad news. The bad news is we\u2019re killing you.\u201d Like, \u201cWhat\u2019s the good news?\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re gonna find something for you in Tulsa King<\/a><\/i>.\u201d I\u2019ve yet to do that, but, yeah, it was a bit of a shocker, but at least they let me know, \u201cHey, coming into this season, don\u2019t get too settled.\u201d It\u2019s always disappointing when this quirky group of people become part of your family, and then you have to say goodbye. That\u2019s the hardest part.<\/p>\n

The other good news was we got to see a lot more of Carney in action in the two episodes that started this season. So, what was it like for you to see him kind of stepping up and trying to fill a void left by Kareem?<\/b><\/p>\n

You know what? It\u2019s interesting. I was just having this conversation that I thought in my mind, the way I have the story played out was Kareem was going to \u2014 Michael Beach<\/a> is one of my favorite people I\u2019ve ever worked with; I hated seeing once he got killed. I was like, \u201cNo, we\u2019re all on the job we want.\u201d But I thought that Carney would step into those shoes. And really, in my mind, I thought he was going to become the warden, and that was going to be a whole process through corruption. And obviously, that\u2019s not how it played out, but at least what I saw was they humanized them so that you could feel a little bit more of this backstory. I feel like a show like this is so intense, and so go, go, go. A lot of times, you\u2019re caught up in the action of it. You forget about who they are, to even care about them\u2026 I love any moment we can have some levity on that show, or find a laugh or a joke, something, and we can put it in there.<\/p>\n

About the new warden, when Hobbs comes in, she basically tells Carney she\u2019s not going to tolerate any loyalty to Kareem. Do you think she was also talking about Mike in that moment, too? And also, do you think he ever hesitated?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, I think when she says that line, she meant that, \u201cAll of you are corrupt, and you\u2019re all going down.\u201d I think it meant including Mike the way she said it, that she wasn\u2019t going to be bought. And I think that was why I was trying to coerce her to understand. Obviously, I didn\u2019t get that chance because of the death, but, yeah, she laid down. It was interesting because the way we filmed it, I had already died, but I had to come back and forth. And we went and filmed the scene in reverse, and I got to watch her lay down the law with Mike and watch that scene play out, which is fantastic.<\/p>\n

What did you think of during your death scene and what happened to the father?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah, I thought that it was so it was so tragic because you just see this man \u2014 it\u2019s like, you see the degradation of these guys\u2019 lives, and you realize this guy\u2019s in prison, too. Man, this hopelessness and this despair, but that one little moment that they had before, it\u2019s like that final moment sharing about watching the game, and before your death\u2026. I mean, we had some crew people just like tearing up. You never know if that\u2019s because we all became close friends. You never know if that\u2019s just because they were feeling it in the moment. But a lot of people felt like, \u201cOh my God.\u201d In this show, where it\u2019s running gun, it was nice to have those moments, so at least I went out with a bang.<\/p>\n

What do you think it was about Cindy that made him trust her and know that she would do this for him?<\/b><\/p>\n

I think it was the sort of naivete to the world that she was in\u2026 When you work in a prison environment, especially \u2014 our set was massive; I mean, you\u2019re talking 500 extras, most of them were inmates in the jail. Half the time I\u2019d walk up and be like, \u201cThat tattoo work. Oh my god, our makeup team\u2019s amazing!\u201d It was real tattoos. And so you get to break down people really easily. When you\u2019re in that environment of kill or be killed, just in the light of their eyes, you can say like, \u201cThis is a dude not to mess with. This is a good soul. This is a bad soul.\u201d And her character has that, and I think that\u2019s why they cast her. And so there was an instant for us to be able to give her that information.<\/p>\n

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