The Price

-Previously on Mayor of Kingstown...

- I'm sorry about dinner. Been a long day.

Can I tell you something?

It'll make you feel better, I promise.

Where's Iris?

-Come to Kingstown. - Why?

Because I told you to.

-Better yet, this maggot doesn't make it

to court. - You guys, do you know

what you're asking?

Carlos. - I'm here about the tweaker

who blew up his old lady and kid.

5-O is gonna come down hard on everyone for this.

They don't know who put in the tip.

Mike, they should

kill him when they find him. Much as I'd love free reign,

we all know this won't be free for anybody.

-Tell me he don't deserve it, Mike, we'll walk away.

-Their motivation is so you owe them.

You all owe them.

They're gonna look the other way on this.

As long as everybody's in.

Just make a big mess in there.

Who can pin what on who, right?

-How far the other way they gonna look?

Far.

- I cancelled your CI order. - Like I give a shit.

- Don't be a dick about it. - I'm just telling you.

I don't care.

Wanna get some food in the food court?

-What do you say? - You out of your mind?

What?

- I can't be seen in public with you.

Well--

Shit.

I gotta go.

What's up?

-You got a call from a Carlos.

He wants to see you. - So when's he coming in?

-Doesn't want to meet at the office.

I'll text you his number.

And someone called from Peterford Trucking,

said you'd know what it was about?

Yeah, alright.

-And what is the significance of the South Pass?

Yes, Karen.

-It was a faster and easier path

to the Columbia River Valley.

Well, it was not faster.

And easier isn't the best choice of words.

It was possible, but just barely.

Why is the discovery of the South Pass

through the Rockies so significant?

Yes.

- It led to the discovery of the Green River Valley

and the Bear River, which led to the Great Salt Lake.

Yes, it opened the west

to development, exploration, settlement.

The resources taken from the west transformed this country

from a collection of colonies to the greatest empire

the world has ever known.

It is impossible to overstate the impact

of Jedidiah Smith's discovery.

Would someone else have found it?

Yes.

But would the results have been the same?

Would the boundaries of this country be the same

had he failed that winter?

This was the dawn of America the superpower

and the price was everyone and everything in her way.

Michael.

Michael.

- Hey, just wanted to say, you know,

sorry for the dinner the other night.

Have you spoken to Kyle?

Yeah.

Did he tell you?

Tell me what?

- Then you haven't spoken to him.

- Yeah, I talk to him every day, Mom.

What?!

What, what?!

The fuck did I do?!

Tracy's pregnant.

- Great. That's great news.

- I don't want another generation of this family

to be raised by a widow.

And Kyle has an opportunity to work for the state

where it's less likely that his wife becomes one.

Help him make the right decision.

Which is what?

You're so much like your father.

That explains the left hook.

No, no, no, no.

That explains the heartbreak.

What?

-You ain't near White Castle, is ya?

Not in the mood, Bunny.

- Gotta talk, man, when can you come by?

Let's just talk now.

-We're on motherfucking cell phones, man!

Why you acting like this your first day on the job?

-Bunny, there is an FBI van not 200 yards

from you with a satellite listening to every thing

you fucking say, alright?

What difference does it make if we're on the phone or not?

- Motherfucker, I'm trying to help your pale ass out!

Come on!

- Fuck it! Fine, I'm coming.

- Why you come up in this motherfucker screechin' tires

and shit, man?

- What's the fucking emergency? -Slow yourself, man.

Sit down, sit down.

- What? -Relax, man.

Damn, man, you Irish is wound tight.

- Think I ain't got shit covered?

No, they're just gonna move.

You need to relax, bruh.

It's been a long day.

Well now you gotta pace yourself, baby.

It's fucking noon.

Alright, well, I'm here.

- Boys want some candy sent over.

- For what? - For killing that cracker.

- You know I can't do that. - They made a deal.

- Yeah, well, let's measure this out here.

People start asking for this, and asking for that

and no one's gonna get nothing, okay?

So let's start with something like more time in the yard

or a TV in the lunchroom.

- I don't wanna be in the middle of this shit neither, aight?

But these fools out here, they feeling their oats.

- Uniforms are gonna ease up on everybody.

We're not gonna check the mail so well,

not gonna frisk their ladies as good

when they come to visit, but that's it.

The noose is gonna get looser. Period.

- We gonna pay for this shit, man.

You and me both.

How the fuck I'mma explain "wait till next week"

to a motherfucker who don't give a fuck if there is one.

- They did something that everybody wanted,

and it will be rewarded.

But they can't ask.

- I told 'em to play 'cause you asked.

You. You asked me.

- Gotta make em understand, Bunny.

Make 'em understand.

You're gonna have to distance yourself from this shit.

- Distance? How the fuck I'mma do that?!

I can't go 10 blocks without a motherfucker trying to kill me.

Where I'mma go, huh?

Shit.

- Yeah. -I called you.

You're on the list.

Move me to the top.

Excuse me?

-I'm not asking, I'm telling you.

- Well, in that case, I'll be right there.

McClusky's Outreach.

-I'm not making it in to the office today.

-Only one person here, I'll have her come back.

Who is it?

- Don't know. She's sitting right here.

- Alright, tomorrow at the end of the day.

-Okay, I'll have her come back at 5.

Carlos called again.

K.

- Sorry hon, he got called away. Can you come back tomorrow?

Five?

I'll come back then.

Hey, you're really beautiful.

Thank you.

That made my day.

You are.

- Where is he? - Who?

- Who do you fucking think? - In his office.

K.

You're at the top of the list, Pete.

- It's quite a mess you've made here.

-Yeah, well everybody's gonna see the mess I can make.

- I told you how to handle this. You didn't listen.

- I don't make that decision. You know that.

It's your decision now.

- Oh, is it? Is it really?

I can just walk away from this whole fucking shit show,

right?

You can just spout your bullshit to the police.

How long do you think it would take for SWAT

to show up in your living room and to shut down

the fucking mall so tight they won't see the sun?

- You don't even know what we want.

I know how you asked.

Everyone's pushing me, everyone.

Got their fucking head-- the guy's not even in the

ground a fucking week!

Pete, you're smart enough to know this is not

how we move forward.

- We can't be last in line, brother.

- Listen to me, there's no fucking line