The best episodes of Graceland
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
As the feud between the Sarkissians and a local gang escalates to uncharted heights, Briggs' motives are finally revealed, and Mike's hunt for the Sarin gas holds hundreds of lives in the balance.
- 02
The Season 3 premiere finds the agents working to close out their ongoing cases and repair broken relationships. Briggs, meanwhile, is coerced into taking a high-risk undercover operation within the Armenian Mafia.
- 03
Johnny arrives at the Solano homestead in Mexico, and as if being undercover in the family compound of a notorious drug cartel isn't bad enough, he must prepare to pitch the FBI's smuggling plan to the Solano patriarch while dealing with his growing feelings for Lucia and fending off the advances of a clearly smitten Carlito. And when the unstable Solano scion's suspicions are aroused, it puts Johnny in a dangerous position a very long way from home.
- 04
With no lies left between them, Briggs fights for his and Charlie's future. But while Charlie won't forgive him, she can't seem to bring herself to turn in the father of her unborn child.
- 05
Fighting desperately to hold on to his happy ending with Lucia, Johnny must take his asset-turned-lover back to her family compound in order to return the briefcase before her father realizes it is missing. But Carlito has been watching, and he finally sees his moment to exact the revenge he has been plotting for so long.
- 06
Someone has unearthed the truth about Juan Badillo's murder, and Briggs thinks Sid Markham's hand is the one on the shovel. With Charlie six weeks pregnant, Briggs has no intention of giving up his freedom without a fight, but the person he's hunting for may be closer to home than he realizes.
- 07
Cornered by Mike at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Briggs gives the young rookie the whole truth: as a young agent, Briggs was kidnapped by the Kaza cartel and turned into a heroin junkie before being set free. It's a massive revelation, one that could have devastating consequences not just for Briggs, but also for Graceland and the entire department.
- 08
While Bello's business hums back to life with an infusion of Odin's product, Mike and the FBI wait and watch for a slip up. Little do they realize that "Odin" is operating right under their noses, and working double time to stay one step ahead.
- 09
When Jangles makes a gruesome example out of one of Bello's soldiers, the message is clear – war is coming. Bello preaches confidence from his new safe house, but the heavy artillery he brings in for his men tells a different story.
- 10
With a body at his feet and a bottle at his side, Briggs knows he must bury all traces of his long sought-after revenge. Little does he realize that the man he has killed isn't Jangles, and that there is one piece of evidence out there that can still tie him to murder.
- 11
With the recorder missing and Briggs on the run, tensions finally come to a head at the house, but it isn't until the truth of events are laid bare in front of the brass that the agents truly see just how far off the rails things have gone. Now, with a murder suspect in the wind and a mess on their hands, the higher ups make it clear that if Briggs isn't found, Graceland will be shut down for good. And while Mike isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet, with everyone questioning each other's loyalties he may not have a team to fall back on.
- 12
Johnny and Jakes set up a trial run to demonstrate the effectiveness of their delivery system to Carlos Solano, but when their live test doesn't go according to plan, Johnny must watch his back as he tries to convince the cartel leader to give them a second chance.
- 13
When Ari Adamian has no recollection of his actions, Briggs helps the Armenian gangster piece together the disturbing details of his lost night.
- 14
With the house reeling from the death of an agent, Briggs and Johnny make a dangerous deal to free Lucia from Carlito Solano, and Mike's visions lead him to a small-time crook with a dangerous secret.
- 15
Mike develops a plan to learn about the contents of Gusti's trunk; and Briggs helps Paige go undercover with the Armenian Mafia's shipping company.
- 16
Charlie tries to pull Amber from Florida; Paige sets up a bust to pull the plug on the Sarkissian organization.
- 17
Johnny goes undercover to prevent a gang war, Jakes and Charlie aim to take over Germaine's business, and Mike begins piecing together Briggs' master plan.
- 18
Every year, the top graduates from the FBI Academy move from their classrooms at Quantico to their first assignments in the real world. For Agent Mike Warren, the dream has always been a post in Washington D.C. But the powers that be have other plans, and the young rookie is soon packing his bags for Graceland, a palatial beachfront mansion in Southern California that has become a cross-departmental boarding house for top undercover agents in the FBI, DEA and ICE.
- 19
When pharmaceutical-grade marijuana turns up in a low level street bust, Paige recruits Jakes and Johnny to investigate Ashika Pearl, a seductive hippie pot farmer who has a history with Graceland's resident customs agent. Jakes warns that Ashika isn't as peace and love as she seems, but when Johnny falls for her flirtation, he soon learns that this bohemian butterfly is actually a black widow.
- 20
Holed up in a strange apartment, Charlie deals with a double whammy from the heroin hangover and the guilt from Whistler's death. Briggs does his best to nurse her back to health and, for the sake of her career, keep her off the grid, but when Charlie is called in to give her side of the Odin debacle she's faced with an unthinkable choice that could send her tumbling to a new low.
- 21
The lies continue to fly as Mike and Briggs dance around each other during the investigation into Juan's disappearance. The two agents soon realize that the job will be too tough to handle on their own, so while Briggs turns to Jakes for some cover, Mike enlists the helps of Paige, whose belief in Briggs's innocence is waning by the minute.
- 22
Mike's plans are upended when Jessica arrives at Graceland unannounced to drop a bomb – the case is being shut down at the end of the week. The next Solano bus to come in will effectively be their last, which means that all resources, even those from Paige's sex trafficking operation, will be diverted towards making a bust. With only two days until the next bus arrives, Mike must scramble to prep for the takedown, while also dealing with the tangled romantic web he's woven for himself.
- 23
Briggs tries to keep control of Ari Adamian while Charlie struggles with the decision to terminate her pregnancy.
- 24
While Mike's visions and addiction to pain medications start affecting his ability to function in the field, Briggs coaxes a former FBI agent out of retirement to help take down Ari.
- 25
As Charlie and Jakes close in on Germaine, Mike's drug addiction reaches a breaking point when he and Gusti are caught in a dangerous situation.
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