Diksha Sundriyal
The conflict between the Harrigans and the Stevensons reaches a violent resolution in Paramount+’s ‘MobLand’ as Harry Da Souza tries to keep everything together in the aftermath of Conrad and Maeve Harrigan’s arrest. The episode opens with Kevin still sitting next to the dead body of his abuser, talking his heart out about how much his parents have impacted his life and held him back, while also confirming the truth about Eddie’s parentage. Soon, Harry and his crew show up. While the others clear up the scene, Harry and Kevin decide what to do next about the family’s future. SPOILERS AHEAD.
The Pieces Start Shifting After Conrad and Maeve’s Arrest
In a previous episode, Harry discovered that the Harrigan family lawyer, O’Hara Delaney, is the rat they’d been looking for. Now, he calls her for a meeting where he lets her know that he knows about her betrayal, but at the same time, he doesn’t do anything about it. At least, not just yet. He ensures that, with all the developments that have happened for the Harrigans, O’Hara is still in Richie’s good books. After this, Harry and Kevin meet up, talking about O’Hara’s betrayal and what it means for them. Kevin asks Harry if he knew about Eddie and even tries to find out if his best friend is having an affair with his wife.
Harry reveals that he knew about Eddie because Bella told him, but it is too ridiculous to assume he is having an affair with her. Before making their next move, Kevin visits Conrad in prison, where he confronts him about Bella and Eddie. At the same time, he also tells his father that the power dynamics are going to change now, proving that he will move to be the next head of the family. Conrad is not happy about this, but there isn’t much he can do from behind bars. Around the same time, Maeve meets Eddie, and she reveals to him that he is Conrad’s son, not Kevin’s. She also tries to get him to make a move by killing Harry and Seraphina, so he is the next king of the Harrigans while she is the queen.
Meanwhile, Seraphina gets a call from Kat McAllister, who praises her mettle, especially with the way things went with Jaime. She expresses her desire to meet with Seraphina, which sounds interesting to the latter because this is the first time that she has finally had the chance to make a leap for the control of the family. On the other hand, Alice meets with Colin Tattersall to get her money for helping plant false evidence against Maeve and Conrad. Unfortunately, she doesn’t get to leave with the money as she is killed.
Harry and Kevin Solve the Richie Stevenson Problem
It turns out that Harry letting O’Hara walk away in the previous meeting was a calculated move. He calls her up to set up the meeting with Richie, and sure enough, she shows up at the Sinful Monkey, where she tells Richie that Harry wanted to meet, but that would most likely be to kill him. She convinces him that she is on his side and wants Harry and the remaining Harrigans to die. To assure him of her loyalty, she calls Harry and asks him to come to her office. She tells Richie that Harry will come to the meeting with most of her squad, which will leave the safe house with Bella, Eddie, Seraphina, Jan, and Gina unattended.
Richie takes the bait and sends half his men to O’Hara’s office and the other half to the safe house. Meanwhile, Paul rigs a bomb in O’Hara’s office and sets it off with Richie’s men inside. At the safe house, Kiko and Zosia wreak havoc on Richie’s men, though Kiko ends up losing his life. Jan and Gina are shocked to see the carnage before they are taken back to the Cotswolds. Meanwhile, Kevin and Harry show up at the Sinful Monkey, where they catch Richie off guard. Kevin kills Richie while Harry shoots down O’Hara.
Why does Harry Refuse Kat’s offer?
When the Richie problem is permanently solved, Harry moves on to attend to other affairs. One of the things that he needs to do is his pending meeting with Kat McAllister. By far, she has done him a lot of favours, which she points out were done for him and not Conrad Harrigan. Following the meeting with Jaime, it becomes clear that she is highly intent on bringing him over to her side, and she becomes even more interested in it after Conrad and Maeve go to prison. She sees this as an opportunity to offer Harry a lifeboat to get out of the Harrigan mess, considering that they are at their lowest point now. In an interesting turn of events, Harry helps Kevin kill Richie, which convinces Kat of his talent, making her even more interested in hiring him.
When Harry finally comes face to face with her, she puts all the cards on the table. She doesn’t mince words while talking about the Harrigans and how they are on the edge of the precipice. She anticipates Kevin and Seraphina making a move of their own to get control of the family, which, not unexpectedly, is already in the works. She knows that the family is going to be plunged into further chaos and Harry will be caught in the middle of it. So, she gives him an out. She asks him to get rid of all the remaining Harrigans and come work for her instead. This would mean much more money and power for him, highlighting the fact that the Harrigans are nothing but a small fish in a very small pond.
From an outsider’s point of view, this seems to be Harry’s best offer. However, he refuses to switch sides. While he may not be very fond of all the Harrigans, he is dedicated to Kevin, who isn’t just his employer, but also his best friend. He makes it clear that he is not going to abandon his mate at such a critical point, especially considering that Kevin is going to make a move to push Conrad and Maeve out and become the head of the family, which he cannot do without Harry. He cannot betray his friend, no matter where that journey takes him.
Feeling jilted by him, Kat points out that this time, the Harrigans will be against a much greater force: her. While Richie Stevenson was a force, he was nothing compared to Kat and others like her, who are playing in a much bigger field with greater stakes. She has decided to clear the Harrigans off the board, which means she is coming for them, no matter what. If Harry is not with her, then he is against her, and no matter how much she likes him, she will not be merciful to him when she makes her move. Her threat does not faze Harry, though he is acutely aware of the gravity of the situation and what it would mean to go against her in a battleground. And yet, he cannot be disloyal to what he considers his family. However, that might change soon enough.
Why does Jan Stab Harry?
After everything is settled, Harry finally gets home and meets with Jan and Gina. While his daughter is fast asleep, his wife is in distress. For the past few weeks, she has been on the edge because of all the upheavals with the Harrigans, which have uprooted her and Gina from their lives. While Jan always knew the nature of Harry’s job, she was still at a good enough distance to ignore it. But to see all the bloodshed right in front of her eyes, and worse, for her daughter to see all of this, is upsetting in more ways than one. When Harry finally shows up, she shares this issue with him, but he remains his same old self.
Her husband’s reaction perturbs her even more because of how much he has been desensitised to the violence and how easily he has brought it into her and Gina’s lives. During this argument, Gina has a small kitchen knife in her hand, with which she accidentally stabs her husband. As soon as she does it, she is shocked and horrified by the act and is worried that she might have killed Harry. On the other hand, he tries to keep calm, even though the severity of his injury starts to affect him.
Considering that the stab wound doesn’t look fatal, it is fair to assume that Harry will survive this. If anything, this instance might finally get him to turn his attention towards Jan and Gina, and address their grievances, which he had been neglecting so far, because of his priority for the Harrigans. While his wife didn’t intentionally stab him, this act highlights her anger, which she had been repressing so far. Now that it is finally addressed, there is a good chance that Harry will try to fix things between them, which needs to be taken care of before things get worse as Kat McAllister comes through on her promise of starting an all-out war against the Harrigans.
What Happens to Maeve and Conrad? Do They Get Out of Prison?
While all the chaos unfolds with the family on the outside, Maeve and Conrad remain inside the prison. Conrad gets an update from Kevin, who also reveals that he is done following him and his toxicity and is ready to take the reins of the family. Eventually, when Richie dies and Harry reveals that he made a recording of the conversation he had with Alice about her planting the evidence against Conrad and Maeve, it becomes clear that the couple will not stay in prison for long. Still, Kevin thinks that they should be left there for a few more days. This will not only give him time to think about his next move, but also be the punishment his parents desperately need.
Meanwhile, Maeve is making her own moves from behind the bars. After she tells Eddie about his true parentage, he confronts Bella and almost kills her, too. He is shocked by this revelation but is also angry at his family for keeping him in the dark and manipulating him for their selfish ends. At the same time, Maeve and Conrad also have a little chat, where they confess that despite their betrayals against each other, they are irrevocably connected. Maeve stands her ground and makes it clear that she doesn’t want to work from the shadows anymore and should be the family’s leader, as opposed to Conrad. At this point, the cards seem to be in Maeve’s hands, especially with Kevin waiting to throw Conrad off the throne outside the prison.
The couple talks about how they are going to get out of the prison, but at the same time, it is clear that even from inside the prison, they have enough influence to impact the flow of events outside. In the last scene, we see Conrad walk out amongst other inmates who cheer for him. This shows that he is in no mood to bow down and simply pass over the control to anyone else, no matter if it is his wife or son. He might have seemed like a horse with a broken leg, but he still has the calibre to go back to the fight, and maybe even win it.
This time, though, things will be much more difficult because every member of his family, including Seraphina, is convinced that they should be the ones in charge. Kevin is already gathering support, starting with his wife, Bella, who is done with her father, now that she has succeeded in her plan of having him arrested on the charges of corruption. He already has Harry on his side. Meanwhile, Seraphina has Kat’s offer on the table, while Maeve has formed an alliance with Eddie, who has a lot to process, but that has only made him angrier towards his family, giving his not-grandmother the edge she needs. It might have been easier to fight Richie Stevenson, but it remains to be seen how Conrad fights his own family.
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