Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9 Drops Worldwide: Exact Release Times and What to Expect
Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 barrels toward a reckoning as Episode 9, Teeth and Tissue, finds Mike McLusky’s grip on the city slipping and the bill for every compromise coming due amid grief, burnout, and institutional decay. Jeremy Renner returns to a Kingstown ready to bite back.
If you have been waiting for the other shoe to drop in Mayor of Kingstown this season, Episode 9 is basically the stomp. The title is 'Teeth and Tissue,' which tells you exactly how gentle this is going to be.
Light spoiler heads-up for anyone not caught up on Season 4.
Where things stand heading into Episode 9
Kingstown is hanging by a thread, and Mike McLusky is the one getting rope burn. Jeremy Renner is back in full 'professional firefighter of bad decisions' mode as Mike tries to juggle criminals, cops, and prison brass while whatever is left of his family slips through his hands.
Episode 8 left the town unsteady and the prison on the verge of failure. Mike put everything on the line for his brother, Kyle, whose life has been wrecked by Tracy's death. That grief has turned Kyle into a live wire, and Mike's every move to shield him seems to pull more heat their way.
Inside Anchor Bay, it has gotten uglier. Warden Nina Hobbs keeps swinging at corruption from the inside, but every swing meets a wall. Meanwhile, Frank Moses is driving pure chaos through the prison and the streets, accelerating the cartel-versus-factions fight that has been building all season. Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon's series has always lived in the gray, but this is the darkest version of it: Mike's dealmaking used to keep both sides from lighting the match; now it is the spark.
What 'Teeth and Tissue' is setting up
Episode 9 looks like the point where the system finally stops absorbing damage and starts breaking. Mike is still fixated on getting Kyle out clean. Problem is, every door he opens seems to lock two more behind him. Expect the prison to hit a boiling point, and expect Mike to pay for the compromises that used to save him.
'After tragedy strikes close to home, Mike risks everything to save his brother; Tensions reach a breaking point inside the prison.'
That is the official logline in its cleanest form, and it tracks with where the season has been headed: less strategy, more sacrifice. Renner's Mike has survived on compromise; now the cost looks steeper than he can afford.
When and where to watch
Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Episode 9 streams exclusively on Paramount+. You can watch via the app or the website in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. The show is still on its weekly drop, and this is the second-to-last chapter of a 10-episode season. It is a simultaneous global launch, so here is when it hits on Sunday, December 21, 2025, in key time zones:
- Pacific Time (PT) - 12:00 am, Dec 21, 2025
- Eastern Time (ET) - 3:00 am, Dec 21, 2025
- British Summer Time (BST) - 8:00 am, Dec 21, 2025
- Central European Time (CET) - 9:00 am, Dec 21, 2025
- Gulf Standard Time (GST) - 11:00 am, Dec 21, 2025
- India Standard Time (IST) - 12:30 pm, Dec 21, 2025
- Japan Standard Time (JST) - 4:00 pm, Dec 21, 2025
- Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - 5:00 pm, Dec 21, 2025
The Season 4 finale lands one week later on December 28, 2025. Buckle up. The show has been grinding toward a break point all season; Episode 9 is where the bill comes due.