Harry helps his maid, Bella gets blackmailed, and Archie’s corpse resurfaces.
Outside, Richie’s goons are already waiting with guns drawn.
Harry puts Conrad on speakerphone, and they make the thugs an offer they can’t refuse.
Emmett J Scanlan and Helen Mirren in ‘MobLand’ season 1, episode 3.Credit:Luke Varley/Paramount+
Before he leaves, Jan reminds him he has a meeting later that day with a woman named Maria.
For the right price, her dad agrees to put Antoine in a room with the Prime Minister.
After the encounter, we learn Bella was secretly recording her dad’s corruption.
Anson Boon in ‘MobLand’ episode 3, season 1.Luke Varley/Paramount+
She wants the video evidence for herself, but Antoine insists on keeping it for “insurance.”
When Kevin and Eddie arrive, Harry invites them into a plastic-lined shipping container.
Eddie offered the manager 10,000 to “take care” of the mess.
“Congrats, you’ve started a war!”
Kev then calls Conrad, assuming he’ll read Eddie the riot act.
But Maeve’s in the background, insisting her husband should be proud.
To Kevin’s shock, Conrad tells him they’ll talk about it later, before hanging up.
They decide the only way out of the situation is to take out Richie and his inner circle.
Conrad doesn’t love the idea and wants to put it on the back burner.
Tom Hardy and Paddy Considine in ‘MobLand’ episode 3, season 1.Luke Varley/Paramount+
They agree to first give their faithful fixer a go at sorting things out.
And that’s exactly what Harry’s doing.
Maria is Harry’s cleaning lady.
Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren in ‘MobLand’ episode 3, season 1.Luke Varley/Paramount+
She refers to him as “Mr.
He knows a “guy” who owes him a favor and will fix it for free.
Harry freezes and flashes back to his time in prison as a teenager.
Pierce Brosnan and Mandeep Dhillon in ‘MobLand’ episode 3, season 1.Luke Varley/Paramount+
It appears the man he recognizes was a prison guard who beat Harry and another young man.
Maria breaks Harry from his daze, and the two leave.
They begin to enact Harry’s plan, which involves a bit of good-cop-bad-cop manipulation.
Geoff Bell in ‘Mobland’ episode 3, season 1.Luke Varley/Paramount+
They ultimately convince him to take full responsibility for Tommy’s murder in exchange for letting his family live.
Back at the Harrigan home, Eddie, Seraphina, and Brendan (Daniel Betts) trade barbs.
But Maeve interrupts the bickering with a drink and a song to celebrate her beloved grandson executing a Stevenson.
Maeve and Seraphina then go at it a bit before Conrad comes to the latter’s rescue.
Seraphina also tells her dad that Brendan had approached her with a proposition.
Harry watches as Stevenson asks the man about his family and if they’re being protected by the Harrigans.
The manager lies through his blood-tinged tears and says he’s not covering for Eddie or his family.
Richie then fires two non-lethal shots into him and tells Harry to leave.
He wants to question his son’s supposed killer “very thoroughly.”
If there are any cracks in his story, he’ll be in touch with Harry soon.
He cuts the call short, though, telling Kev he has to meet “someone.”
Harry says he’ll take care of Antoine, to which she responds by asking Harry for a kiss.
The fixer seems to contemplate the request but rebuffs Bella and tells her to call her husband.
Before the episode goes dark, we catch up with Fisk.
The detective is at a cemetery, where the police are exhuming a casket.
“Hello, Archie,” Fisk says slyly.
