In my stories McCone's condo isn't lavish by any means. He gets paid a lot by the Network to be the main star of The Running Man but as he later tells Frank that it's mostly used to keep living there. It's similar to Frank who has to room with others in order to keep from getting tossed out of Uptown and into Slumside.
The fear of having to go back there is the main drive for Frank and why, even after a hunt ends on The Running Man, he goes on other shows. But there's another aspect of going onto those shows that McCone quickly learns about and because he's realized just how much he's fallen in love with Frank, he goes out of his way to help him.
Even if that means scaring the shit out of Frank's roomies.
McCone has Frank stay at his place in between shows and the first thing that Frank notices is the lack of decor and how lifeless everything feels. After the one season finale, McCone asks Frank to stay with him permanently and Frank agrees, promising to help out in every way that he can with the place. Little by little, life starts to show in the condo.
Only Frank is recognized by a few people as one of the famed Hunters and an amused McCone is happy to just be known as "the boyfriend". While Frank worries about his past ruining McCone as well, McCone reassures him that no matter what they'll be in it together and if they end up in Slumside, McCone will be right there with Frank.
They don't even try to hide their relationship from the Network or to Killian. They sort of receive Killian's permission to marry with the promise of their relationship being separate from the hunts and for the hunts to be more violent and bloody for ratings sake. McCone and Frank know that there is no point in trying to hide it from Killian and that no matter what their lives are controlled by him and the Network.
I do have it worked out on why Frank goes after Richards despite Richards letting him live after Killian ordered his death. McCone's grief over Frank's death paralyzes him and he gets into it with Killian. He knows that Killian had Frank killed but he isn't entirely sure what Killian's actual objective is with Richards and holds back his rage and his grief, quietly plotting until he realizes that Killian has no intention of Richards dying because that would make him a martyr and so the only thing left to kill that uprising he was causing was to simply turn him into a heroic puppet of the Network.
That's when McCone yanks Richards below into the jet to try and get on the same side in less than sixty seconds. Then they fake the fight and McCone's death so they can work together to first, find Sheila and Cathy (and for McCone, where Frank was buried), and then take Killian down. Richards doesn't have the strongest trust in McCone though as he thinks that McCone only wants to help Richards find his family so he can murder them as payback for Frank. But even after they find Sheila and Cathy, McCone has no intention of hurting any of them.
In fact, seeing the happy family together makes McCone leave them to take out Killian himself, but Richards, having learned that McCone has every desire to die in the process, goes with him. As the riot breaks out, McCone ends up badly injured and tells Richards to finish it. Richards kills Killian but refuses to let McCone die and gets him help. To try and boost his spirit after getting him to a doctor, Richards goes back to McCone's condo to retrieve a few things of Frank's and realizes that there are unanswered messages on the phone. It's a hospital that's been calling to let him know about Frank. He's alive but just barely.
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