The first season of Sheriff Country is coming to an end with Mickey finding out who secretly betrayed her.
In Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from the Friday, May 22, season finale, Mickey (Morena Baccarin) notices a moment between her love interest Alec (Wes Chatham) and Miranda (Kelli O’Hara), which makes her realize they are in cahoots.
Mickey is able to figure out that Alec was a double agent who is responsible for numerous deaths in town. She must now figure out how to take him down without him knowing she is onto him.
“With her department under scrutiny and tensions rising across Edgewater, Sheriff Mickey Fox faces the fallout from a major investigation that threatens to upend everything she’s built,” the finale synopsis teased.
Sheriff Country, which premiered in 2025, centers on Mickey as she investigates criminal activity and patrols the streets of her small town while dealing with her ex-con father and getting caught up in a murder case in which her daughter is the prime suspect.
Season 1 has explored Mickey’s love life, showing her secret (and casual) romance with undercover DEA agent Alec. She then rekindled her connection with ex-husband Travis (Christopher Gorham), but she has other options — with some viewers rooting for her to find love with partner Boone (Matt Lauria).
“I’m not surprised because they’re such great characters, they are such charming actors and they are quite easy on the eyes. What I’ve enjoyed [though] is not going there — or at least not going there too quickly,” showrunner Matt Lopez previously told Us. “They start out the season in a place of great conflict. It’s messy and it’s complicated. What you’re starting to see now is a return to the Mickey and Boone that existed before the series started when they were just partners and there wasn’t the weirdness of she got the top job and he got left behind.”
Season 1 will continue to explore that dynamic.
“They’re falling into that partnership again, and it’s a really fun place to write to. I know the actors love playing that charm, and so it’s very big sister, little brother. Having said that, could it grow into something more? I think it could,” he continued. “Those relationships have an intimacy to them. Even if it’s not physical, there’s an intimacy that’s almost like a spouse. The door is open for Mickey and Boone.”
Lopez promised “twists and turns” going forward, saying, “The audience doesn’t even know we’re laying pipe for it, but we are. There are Easter eggs being hidden in the shrubs right now that down the stretch of the season the story will come to roost in a tremendous way. It’s hard to talk about without being very vague or coy about it.”
He continued: “[Going into season 2], some of the struggles that Mickey will have will be continuations of the same character dynamics that exist in season 1. They will always be there for Mickey. She’s a person who puts up walls, and it becomes hard for her to show vulnerability and trust. Sometimes she does, and she gets burned. The most courageous thing that as human beings we can do is make ourselves vulnerable, get crushed for it and then make ourselves vulnerable again. Because happiness and fulfillment lies on the other side — and heartbreak too. That will always be part of her character.”
More recently, Lauria and Max Thieriot weighed in on possible date ideas for Boone and Mickey. Thieriot suggested “stakeouts” as a potential bonding moment.
“Maybe a little sheriff-style date, which is stakeouts and takeouts,” Lauria quipped before dodging a question about who he was rooting for when it came to Boone’s love life, saying, “You are going to get me in trouble.”
Sheriff Country airs on CBS Fridays at 8 p.m. ET.
