Deadline was supposed to be on September 16th at 4pm server time. Brewers ended the day (without a hammered lynch) on September 14th at 9:00am. It looks like something might have happened to cause the game to go to night prematurely so even though Kevin was in line to be lynched at deadline, deadline never actually came and no one was lynched.
Then possibly that was the safety mechanism. As he got near to the lynch it activated?
We are fighting a corrupt establishment here.