Graceland Timeline

Straight-laced Mike is at first taken aback by his unconventional housemates, but he learns fast and quickly manages to impress everyone, even Briggs, with his knack for undercover work.

However, when Mike is sent under with a Russian gang, he only avoids being gunned down when Briggs shows up and saves his life. Mike can’t help but feel grateful, but that could be problematic, as it turns out that the reason he was sent to Graceland in the first place is to investigate Briggs.

Still getting his feel for Graceland, Mike is sent to a clandestine meeting with his control agent, Juan Badillo. Mike is happy for the guidance, but Juan is stingy with the details.

Mike also meets his gorgeous roommate, Paige, who is spending her time fending off the advances of a horny Chinese gangster named Bobby Moy while she looks for a way to take him down.

Meanwhile, Mike gets involved in Briggs’s investigation into a big time gang lord named Bello. The plan is for Mike to pose as a morally compromised Marine with illegal bullets to sell to Bello’s second in command, Eddie. Once they make the deal, they’ll arrest Eddie and flip him on his boss.

But Briggs takes Mike’s idea and does him one better, using Bobby Moy to steal the bullets back from Eddie and then arresting Bobby Moy to solve Paige’s problem.

It seems Mike’s training officer is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, a lesson that really sinks in when they head to a meet with Bello and Briggs pulls his gun on Mike.

With Briggs’s gun trained on Mike’s head, it seems the rookie’s Graceland mission is already going down in flames. But it’s just a fake-out. See, Briggs has anticipated that Bello will be rightly pissed about being sold out to Bobby Moy’s crew.

Later, Mike is dismayed to learn the rules of dating at Graceland: lie all the time; no civilians upstairs. His mood improves considerably, however, when he meets a sweet girl named Abby.

Meanwhile, Lauren calls on Briggs to help her save their former roommate from the Russian gangsters who have it out for him, but when she winds up lying to Briggs and endangering their friends, Briggs does some manipulating of his own and gets her kicked out of Graceland.

Briggs and Mike score a sit-down with Bello, but the meet isn’t what they expect: the ganglord wants Mike to instruct his soldiers in firearm training.

Briggs doesn't relish being cut out of the loop and no one’s exactly comfortable with the idea of Mike teaching gangsters to shoot at an advanced level, but they all reluctantly go along with it.

Briggs and Charlie realize that Eddie may become a dangerous problem for Mike, so they drag him in for questioning to fuel the fire of Bello’s suspicion that his number two is working with the Feds.

They figure that once released, Eddie will skip town on the government dime in an act of self-preservation. But they miss the mark, and Mike earns a front row seat to Eddie blowing his own head off at Bello’s request.

Juan tells Mike that some in the agency think Briggs has been skimming from drug busts for years. Could the Bello case be his play for the mother of all scores? Juan thinks so but Mike isn’t ready to believe it.

In the meantime, Mike takes advantage of the vacuum left by Eddie’s death to become Bello’s bodyguard and gain valuable information regarding the Caza drug cartel’s next shipment of heroin, scheduled to arrive by submarine.

Meanwhile, Charlie and Briggs work a mid-level dealer named Quinn to try and get some face time with Odin Rossi, a mysterious new supplier on the scene whose name is on everyone’s lips.

When an old CI of Charlie’s overdoses and things start to go off the rails, Charlie is distraught enough to break the rules and shoot heroin for real.

Briggs secretly nurses Charlie back to health, but when the brass call her in to discuss the debacle at Quinn’s she has little choice but to shoot a small amount of heroin to level out.

Elsewhere, the DEA busts the Caza drug submarine but comes up empty handed. Mike learns the heroin is sitting on the ocean floor inside a torpedo tube, so he concocts a plan to have Bello cut out the cartel and recover the drugs himself.

Johnny plays the part of an undersea recovery expert to a t, but Bello plans to leave Johnny for fish food when the job is done, so Briggs calls an audible that makes it look like both the drugs and Johnny were decimated in an explosion.

Unfortunately, they don’t tell Mike, who is furious to have been left out of the loop. Thinking Briggs may have skimmed from the bust, Mike trails his training officer to what looks like a secret appointment, but he’s shocked to discover what kind of rendezvous it is: a Narc Anon meeting. It turns out Briggs is a heroin addict.

Briggs gives Mike the skinny on his dark secret: as a young agent, he was kidnapped by the Caza cartel, turned into a heroin junkie by the infamous Caza assassin “Jangles,” and then released.

Meanwhile, Jakes pries into the lives of his estranged wife and son, and Charlie comes clean to the others about her heroin use. Johnny and Paige also pressure Mike to break it off with Abby, but Mike isn’t so into that idea.

The team rolls two cases into one when Mike convinces Bello to use Odin as his main supplier, with Briggs acting as middleman.

But Briggs works the system to his advantage again. Because as it turns out, he’s the mysterious Odin, and this meeting with Bello gives him a perfect opportunity to strike a deal with the gang lord – right under the nose of the FBI.

As 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 while Briggs works double time to deliver on his deal with Bello and stay ahead of his own team.

Meanwhile, the Caza cartel responds to Bello’s betrayal with a bloody assault on his operation and a message: Jangles is coming for him.

Elsewhere, Charlie recruits Johnny to help her investigate Briggs when she starts to believe her housemate may be connected to Odin. Meanwhile, Mike tosses the rulebook, and while it winds up costing him his relationship with Abby, his choices force Briggs to meet with Bello in public.

With zero margin for error, Briggs outsmarts the FBI long enough to hand off the keys to a heroin-filled safe house, but he’s nearly caught in his own web. Briggs manages to get the drop on Mike and escape with his secrets intact, but not without Mike breaking a few of his ribs.

Briggs sets a trap for Jangles, but winds up drawing out Charlie. At the same time, Charlie meets a Federale named Rafael Cortes who is also on Odin’s trail, but it’s unclear whether he is an ally or an enemy.

Elsewhere, Mike demands answers when he learns that Juan has been bugging his room. It turns out that before Graceland, Briggs was in a similar house, known as The Estate, which burned to the ground leaving five agents dead.

Juan thinks Briggs is responsible but his evidence is shaky at best, and the more he talks, the more it becomes clear that Juan’s interest in the case has become a paranoid obsession, one that Mike wants no part of.

Meanwhile, one of Bello’s own men sells him out to Caza, leading Jangles right to the gang lord’s door. Briggs arrives in time to save Mike, but though they manage to arrest Bello, Jangles slips through their fingers. Briggs drunkenly wallows at the ruins of The Estate, but when Juan approaches him dressed as Jangles, a struggle ensues and a gun goes off, and Juan drops to the sand, dead.

Briggs gets to work burying all traces of his long sought-after revenge, unaware that the man he has just killed is Juan Badillo, and that the entire incident was captured for posterity by a recorder in Juan’s car.

Charlie sends Mike into lock-up with Bello in the hopes that the gang lord may give up Odin to protect his loyal bodyguard, but the young agent almost becomes collateral damage when Briggs contrives to blow Mike’s cover in order to protect his own interests.

Mike is called in to the Bureau by the brass, but they have no gold stars to hand out, only questions about Juan’s disappearance and the possibility of Briggs’s involvement. Mike fills Paige in on his investigation into Briggs and Juan’s disappearance.

As the secrets and lies continue to fly, the ties that bind the house together begin to fray. Mike decides to tell Briggs the truth about his investigation, but Briggs won’t help Mike find Juan’s car or the recorder since it would look like a cover up. It’s only when Briggs looks into Juan that the enormity of what has transpired finally hits home.

As the investigation into Juan’s disappearance begins, Briggs turns to Jakes to provide him some cover in his search while Mike enlists Paige to help him keep an eye on his duplicitous training officer.

Elsewhere, Charlie’s lack of support in the Odin case pushes her closer to Rafael Cortes, but she doesn’t realize that her new partner is actually the infamous Jangles. Meanwhile, when the hunt for Juan’s car brings them to a gang of car thieves, Mike and Briggs are forced to go undercover on a robbery together.

With Mike running short on trust and Briggs running out of options, it’s clear that whoever gets to Juan’s car first will control the outcome of the investigation. Mike seizes the upper hand, leaving Briggs only one course of action: run. However, when Mike and Paige arrive at Juan’s car, they find the recorder missing.

With everything going to hell, the higher ups make it clear that if Briggs isn’t found, Graceland will be shut down for good. Briggs isn’t really gone, though, and he hasn’t given up his quest for revenge.

Briggs realizes that Rafael Cortes is actually Jangles, but the Caza assassin proves slippery, and Briggs and Charlie soon find themselves tied up as Jangles readies his blade for his next kill. But Mike hasn’t given up his search, either, and he arrives in the nick of time to kill Jangles and save his friends.

Finally in handcuffs, Briggs tells Mike the rest of his story – it turns out, Briggs may not have lit the match that burned The Estate to the ground, but he did give up information to the Caza cartel during his heroin stupor.

But while Briggs may be in custody, he’s still one step ahead of everyone else, and he works the system to pin Juan’s death on Jangles.

With Briggs returned to the house, the members of Graceland begin the healing process, and Mike heads to D.C. However, Graceland isn’t done with him yet: Months later, Mike gets a call from his former training officer, who needs a little help.

Meanwhile, in a pawnshop somewhere in Southern California, two kids come across the recorder from Juan’s car, with the tape still inside...

When we last left Mike Warren he was headed to D.C. a hero. Mike quickly parlayed his rock star status into a fling with senior agent Jessica Foster and was given his own op investigating a bus line fronting for a drug smuggling operation across the U.S. – Mexico border. However, his investigation hits a dead end and his stock begins to plummet.

Back on the West Coast, Briggs learns that the Caza Cartel has a hit out on Mike. Mike is happy to use himself as bait in a sting if it means shutting down a billion dollar cartel for another big win to bolster his career, so he hops the next plane to California.

Mike returns to Graceland but he finds things have changed.  Still haunted by the murder of Juan Badillo, Briggs has lost his edge and sought solace in the arms of Charlie.  Later, Briggs pulls the plug on the sting in order to keep Mike safe, leaving Mike fuming.

Stubbornly refusing to give up on the operation, Mike soon lands in the hands of two Caza assassins, but Briggs and Johnny swoop in to save him in the nick of time. After realizing that his kidnapping had nothing to do with Caza and everything to do with his bus line theory, Mike convinces Jessica to assign him a team to reopen his investigation. Looks like his former roommates will be working for him.

Briggs meets with Caza leadership in order to get some answers for Mike, and maybe atone for some of the pain he’s caused (i.e. snuffing Juan Badillo).  Little does he realize that the audio recording of Juan’s death has made its way into the hands of an ordinary citizen, who doesn’t know what to make of the tape.

Briggs isn’t the only one feeling guilt over Juan’s death; Charlie has been stalking Juan’s widow, Kelly, hoping to find a way to make up for what she sees as her part in Juan’s murder.  Worried about what Charlie may dig up, Briggs poses as a fellow AA member to get close to Kelly.

At the same time, Jakes quietly plans to leave Graceland for a new life as a father to his estranged son, Daniel, but his hopes are crushed by a restraining order.  Elsewhere, Mike helps Paige take down a drug manufacturer, leading the sparks between the two agents to finally catch fire.

Meanwhile, Briggs’s trip down Mexico way bears fruit, pointing them in the direction if the Solano cartel.  Mike wants Charlie to cozy up to Carlito Solano, son of Cartel honcho Carlos Solano, but Charlie gets cold feet, leaving Johnny to step up.

With his dreams of fatherhood crumbling, Jakes goes on a major bender and Mike must decide if he can come back to Graceland. To make matters worse, Jessica is pressing Mike for results on the Solano case. Mike plays hurry up with his team, but Paige gets a knife through the hand when she and Briggs try to rush things with a small-time Solano dealer.

Johnny makes a dicey play to establish himself in Carlito Solano’s inner circle and almost earns a bullet for his troubles, but he manages to earn the respect of the unstable Carlito and his beautiful sister, Lucia.

Elsewhere, Jakes begins to suspect that the young women the Solanos are using as drug mules, known as “Tinkerbells,” may also be part of a sex trafficking ring. Paige makes contact with one of the girls, Lena, and promises to help. But after Lena boards another bus to Sylmar, Paige loses her.

Mike tasks Jakes with taking a job as a mechanic to get a closer look at the Solano bus. He also greenlights Paige to look into Jakes’s sex trafficking theory because he wants as many irons in the Solano fire as possible, but Paige soon finds herself more invested in the plight of the girls than the Cartel case.

Elsewhere, Briggs learns the FBI won’t pay Juan Badillo’s death benefits because his body was never found. Charlie and Briggs game the system and get Kelly what she is owed, but while Charlie feels a measure of peace, the payment only confirms that Juan is dead, bringing Kelly more pain.

Back in D.C., Jessica puts her neck on the line when the Deputy Director threatens to shut down Mike’s operation again. The added pressure doesn’t help when Mike’s bus search yields nothing. It’s only when Jakes goes back to the garage for an overtime shift that he finds barrels and barrels of Solano product.

Jessica makes a surprise appearance at Graceland and she’s not bearing good news: all resources will be diverted to closing the Solano case by the end of the week. Furious, Mike is left scrambling to prepare for the big bust while also dealing with the tangled romantic web he’s woven for himself.

Meanwhile, when Jessica shuts down her sex trafficking op, Paige heads to Sylmar by herself to track down the latest Tinkerbell. When the girl dies after a heroin balloon bursts in her stomach, Paige decides to go undercover and take her place, unaware that Jakes, who had been acting as her cover, has been arrested for violating the terms of his restraining order.

At the same time, Johnny exploits the closeted Carlito’s feelings for him and convinces the Solano scion to make the next drug pickup himself. Mike gets his team in place to make the bust, but a mysterious call from an unknown source causes Carlito to call it off, and a massive explosion sends half the product up in flames. It seems that Mike has a leak on his hands.

Jessica prepares to head back to D.C. for a victory lap, unaware that Mike is secretly holding the garage manager in the hope of learning the identity of the Solano leak.

Meanwhile, Paige is reunited with Lena at the sex trafficking ring’s boarding house. Realizing that no one is coming for her, Paige orchestrates an escape attempt, but winds up receiving a brutal beating at the hands of Sulla, the ring’s heinous proprietor.

It’s only when Jakes calls from jail that the team learns the gravity of Paige’s situation. With little to go on, Mike and Briggs resort to torturing the garage manager until he agrees to introduce Mike as a buyer looking for girls. Mike soon manages to extract Paige, but when he explains that he can’t shut down Sulla’s operation, the two have a falling out.

Later, the garage manager is found dead in his home. When Mike arrives on the scene and speaks with Sid Markham, the head of the LAPD Gang Task Force, he realizes he’s come face to face with his Solano leak.

Convinced that Sid Markham is the Solano leak, Mike sends Briggs undercover with the LAPD to get closer to the dirty detective. Sid’s team is wary of the outsider in their midst but Briggs starts to earn their trust after proving his mettle on a drug bust.

At the same time, Johnny looks in on Lucia in the hopes of getting a lead on Carlito, only to end up helping her escape a hostage situation. Worried for her safety, Johnny takes Lucia to hide at his mother’s house, but concern turns to attraction and they wind up sleeping together.

Elsewhere, word comes from Carlito to lock the sex trafficking operation down – no one in or out. Paige thinks it’s the perfect time to take the house and get Sulla to roll on his employer, but the best Mike can do is promise to get eyes inside.

Meanwhile, Mike and Charlie trace Sid’s cash flow for a link to the cartel, but they can’t find anything concrete. Mike decides to go outside the box and rob the bank where Sid has his ill-gotten gains stashed, hoping that losing his nest egg will force Sid to make another move with Solano.

Charlie starts searching for the perfect team of bank robbers and hits pay dirt when she meets Amber, a heist-planning genius with a serious wild streak. But Amber won’t work with just anyone, and she wants Charlie to rob a biker bar to prove she’s got the goods.

Briggs also hits a rough patch when Kelly Badillo gets suicidal with a booze/pills cocktail. Briggs takes her to his Odin Rossi apartment to dry out, but when Sid arrives unannounced Briggs must trust the half lucid Kelly to cover for him. Though Kelly comes through, she demands the truth about Juan’s death when she sobers up.

Mike wants Johnny to go to Mexico with Lucia and pitch Carlos Solano on using planes to air drop their drugs and guns into the States. Head over heels for Lucia, Johnny is conflicted, but when Mike makes her the person of interest in a triple homicide Johnny convinces her that fleeing to Mexico is her best bet.

Paige demands that Mike buy the girls out from under Sulla, but Sulla won’t sell for fear of Carlito’s wrath. Mike strikes a bargain: he’ll make a down payment for the girls and keep them in the house, if Mike can stay there and keep an eye on his investment. Looks like Mike is moving in.

Johnny and Lucia drive across the border to the Solano compound. As if preparing to pitch Mike’s smuggling plan to the imposing Solano patriarch isn’t hard enough, Johnny must fend off the advances of the smitten Carlito while also dealing with his own growing feelings for Lucia.

Later, Mike learns that Carlito has already hit on a new smuggling plan: cruise ships.  Johnny manages to undermine Carlito and sell the elder Solano on the plane idea, but it puts him in Carlito’s cross hairs.

A bout of morning sickness clues Charlie into the fact that she’s pregnant, so she goes to stay with Amber to clear her head. Meanwhile, a detective at the LAPD gets his hands on the recording of Juan Badillo’s murder and a makes a call to share the information – but with who?

Mike does his best to watch over the girls from inside the boarding house, but he soon gets a taste of how Sulla rules his roost. When Lena is stabbed to death in front of him, he desperately fabricates a story about Lena escaping and cremates her body in order to stop Paige from shutting down his operation.

Johnny and Jakes prepare their drug drop system, but when their live demo crashes and burns Johnny must watch his back while he tries to persuade Carlos Solano to give them a second chance.

Paige is pretty sure Mike covered up Lena’s death, and when she shares her thoughts with Briggs the two hatch a plan to use Sid to shut Sulla down. With a few well-placed words about sex traffickers and Solano moles they have Sid on the hook and ready to take down Sulla’s boarding house in order to protect his own name.

At the same time, Sid clues Carlos Solano into the fact that his son has been smuggling girls behind his back, and the results aren’t pretty. Carlos hands out another beating to his son, and gives Johnny a second chance to prove his drug drop works.

Paige tries to keep Mike out of harm’s way, but Mike reads between the lines and rushes to pull Sulla out just as Sid’s team storms the boarding house. Sulla is killed in the ensuing bloodbath, and Mike barely avoids being shot by Sid. Though Paige and Briggs paint it as a win, Mike can’t help but feel he was screwed.

Meanwhile, Briggs learns Charlie is pregnant and tells her he wants to keep it. But their moment is interrupted when Briggs gets a call from an unknown number; the only sound on the other end is the recording of Briggs killing Juan Badillo.

Thinking Sid is behind the mysterious call, Briggs goes to see him expecting a shootout. But instead of bullets, Sid offers answers to the questions about his history with Solano. Briggs starts suspect that Mike is the one with the tape, and an agenda that includes Briggs killing Sid. Not one to go down without a fight, Briggs makes a few moves to put a kink in Mike’s plans.

Back at home, the team gathers for sauce night, but tensions finally boil over, accusations fly, and Johnny reveals his relationship with Lucia. When Charlie learns that her bank heist plan won’t work, the team manages to put together an alternate plan, but Graceland is still clearly a house divided.

Charlie convinces Amber to go with the new plan, with the rest of the Graceland agents posing as their team. Briggs’s machinations put Mike in Amber’s cross hairs on the day of the heist, but when Briggs gets a last second call from his mysterious tape player again and realizes Mike isn’t the one who is after him, he shoots Amber before she can kill Mike—but not before she escapes with a big part of the score.

Though Amber is in the wind, Sid is still free, and the operation is far from over, Mike is pleased with the outcome. Meanwhile, Briggs decides to finally let Charlie in on the truth, but too late: it turns out that Charlie is the one using the tape to haunt Briggs, and since he didn’t come clean, she wants him out of her life.

Unable to forgive Briggs but equally incapable of turning him in, Charlie leaves Briggs’s fate in Mike’s hands. Mike won’t do anything to jeopardize Briggs’s place in his operation, and soon finds himself occupied elsewhere when Sid makes noise with the U.S. Attorney over the bank heist, dragging Mike into the mud with him.

But Mike remains confident that victory is on the horizon, and with the drops running like clockwork and Sid planning a trip down to Mexico to meet with Carlos Solano, all that’s left is for the elder Solano to pay off Sid with the marked bills that Johnny and Jakes have put in play. Unfortunately, Carlito has been watching with great interest, and has something up his sleeve that could put the operation in jeopardy.

Elsewhere, Paige meets Lena’s sister, who is in possession of a letter that seems to verify that Lena is very much alive, but Paige remains steadfast in her belief that the opposite is true.

Meanwhile, Charlie is taken captive while hunting for Amber, and Lucia steals a briefcase filled with marked bills to fund her and happily-ever-after with Johnny. And when Sid traces Mike to Graceland, he soon learns about the mole in his midst.

His happy ending fading away, Johnny comes clean about everything to Lucia and convinces her to take the briefcase back to her family’s home. It is then that Carlito seizes his moment to exact revenge, kidnapping Johnny and Lucia and telling Johnny that if the drug drops stop, Lucia will die.

Back in California, Charlie is held captive by Amber and a mysterious British colleague with a vested interest in finding out what Charlie knows by any means necessary. Elsewhere, Paige asks Jakes to test Lena’s letter in order to prove that it is part of Mike’s cover up, but when analysis doesn’t corroborate her theory, Jakes worries that Paige maybe be so obsessed that she can’t see the truth.

Meanwhile, Briggs rides to Mexico with Sid’s crew while Mike and the Deputy Director keep watch, ready to take down both Sid and the Solano cartel. But when Briggs gets word that Charlie is missing, he rushes off to save the woman he loves. Not ready to let his targets slip through his fingers again, Mike rushes in to the Solano compound, but it’s only after he takes a bullet that he realizes it’s a trap: Sid’s plan is to frame him for the murder of Carlos Solano and Sid’s entire team.

Mike goes on the run, and, his health failing, contacts Briggs, but it’s Paige who shows up to help him. But when Mike inadvertently reveals the truth about Lena’s death, a furious Paige discloses Mike’s whereabouts to Sid, who moves quickly to take Mike out. It’s only later, when Briggs gets the truth out of her, that Paige realizes what she has done. Briggs speeds to Mike’s aid, but he’s too late.