Warning! SPOILERS about Mayor of Kingstown season 3, episode 5 ahead.
Summary
Mariam’s death finally started to be discussed midway intoMayor of Kingstownseason 3, with the character honored in the best possible way through one of her loved ones. The beginning ofMayor of Kingstownseason 3 immediately revealed whatMariam’s fate had been afterMayor of Kingstownseason 2’s finale left her in critical condition at the hospital, but the McLuskys only started coming to terms with their grief inMayor of Kingstownseason 3, episode 5. Despite the new criminal additions to Kingstown needing Mike’s attention, his family repeatedly remembered and cherished their late matriarch in the episode.
Mariam’s character had always been central inMayor of Kingstown, with her staunch opposition to Mike’s role being one of her defining traits. From not wanting Mitch first and Mike later to inherit the thankless role that killed her husband, Mariam was one of the few solely positive characters inMayor of Kingstown. Embedded within the prison system like any other Kingstown resident, Mariam always tried to make the best of it, truly believing in the possibility of the inmates’ redemption and rehabilitation. Her death greatly changedMayor of Kingstown, and season 3, episode 5 finally showed the change’s extent.
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Kyle’s Promotion Being The First Win Without Mariam Makes Her Absence Felt In Mayor Of Kingstown
Kyle & Tracy’s Moment Highlighted What The Show Lost With Her Death
Kyle and Tracy’s lives greatly changed with the birth of their son Mitch inMayor of Kingstownseason 3, but Kyle’s promotion to the SWAT team in season 3, episode 5 was the first event worth celebrating Mariam will never know about, having never been hinted at before her death. Succeeding in the test raid and being selected for the official SWAT team was Kyle’s first career success afterMayor of Kingstownseason 2 already caused him to switch careers without Kyle wanting to, resulting in his return to KPD despite not even feeling ready for that development.
Becoming a father made Kyle focused, prompting him to prepare for the steps needed for the career switch afterMayor of Kingstownseasons 1 and 2 didn’t show him as particularly happy with his job as a detective within KPD.Feeling the career change like a promotion of sorts was made bittersweet by the knowledge Mariam would never know about it, making Kyle wonder whether she would be proudof him. Talking about it with Tracy finally revealed the impact of losing Mariam, afterMayor of Kingstownseason 3’s first half didn’t have time to focus on the McLuskys’ grief.
Mariam’s Imprint On Mike Is Particularly Visible In His Wish To Protect Iris
Everybody Noted Mariam Would Have Made It Her Problem To Save Iris
Mike and Kyle’s discussions over Iris after her disappearance inMayor of Kingstownseason 3, episode 2, made them wonder what Mariam would have done with her, and both joked their mother would have taken Iris under her wing.Mariam herself showed Iris compassion inMayor of Kingstownseason 2, welcoming Iris into her homein the aftermath of Milo’s prison escape. Mariam did so again in season 2’s finale, in an act that damned her home to be the location of the shootout between the McLuskys and Milo’s goons, even condemning Mariam to a wound that eventually killed her.
While Mariam couldn’t do more to help Iris, the certainty she would have done so convinced Mike even more that he needed to protect Iris. Always being so protective of her thatMike often limited Iris’s agency inMayor of Kingstown,Mike’s increasing preoccupation over Iris being part of the Konstantin sting showed that Mariam’s death increased his need for Iris to be safe, away from Kingstown. Mike only begrudgingly accepted the plan where Iris would have spied for them, showing how his fear for her safety even risked the focus he needed to successfully act as mayor.
Mariam always worried about Mike’s mayor business inMayor Of Kingstownseason 2, and after her death, Mike took over her worry, channeling it over Anna’s arraignment and Iris’s wish to help him with Konstantin.
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Mike Took Over The Protector Role
Similarly, Kyle and Mike both put their focus on something else right after Mariam’s funeral, not spending much time feeling their grief afterMayor of Kingstownseason 3, episode 1. However, grief took them by surprise inMayor of Kingstownseason 3, episode 5, with Kyle feeling the need to know if Mariam would have been proud of his promotion.His talk with Tracy about choosing to stay in Kingstown highlighted his grief even more, as Tracy made it clear they were trying little by little to improve Kingstown, just as Mariam did, having been a light that shone brightly.
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Mike couldn’t avoid his grief either in season 3, episode 5. However, while Kyle focused on his career and his accomplishments that Mariam couldn’t witness anymore,Mike’s grief took the form of increased preoccupation over his mayor role and Iris’s wish to help him, when he only wanted her out of Kingstown. Despite Mike not wishing to discuss it, his talk with Ian highlighted how he understood Mike’s interest in Iris’s wellbeing and thoughts about missing Mariam couldn’t be disconnected from that, as even Ian realized how Mike’s protectiveness over Iris increased because of Mariam’s death inMayor of Kingstown.
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