Graceland Season One Episode Guide

Episode 1.01 – Graceland
 Despite graduating first in his class and requesting a post in Washington, new FBI agent Mike Warren is assigned to southern California to be trained in undercover operations by the enigmatic Paul Briggs. After meeting the FBI, DEA and ICE agents who share a beach house for headquarters, Mike begins his first day with a drug buy and then has to agree to kill someone on behalf of a Russian gang. At the end of the day, he learns that his true assignment is to investigate Briggs — a man who has already saved his life.

Episode 1.02 – Guadalajara Dog
Mike meets his secret case manager Juan Badillo who urges him to get more involved in one of Briggs’ operations. Briggs attempts infiltrate the organization of a crime boss named Bello, and uses Mike in a complex plan to complete the sale but recover the bullets. It’s a move that should incidentally take down another major criminal while freeing DEA agent Paige from a difficult position. Mike tries to covertly report to Juan during the operation, leading Briggs to confront him. 

Episode 1.03 – Heat Run
Briggs and Mike meet with Bello and appear to convince him that his man Eddie, not they, were responsible for the loss of the bullets. DEA agent Lauren is ending the undercover assignment with a Russian gang that got her partner Donny shot. Briggs organizes a joint operation based on Lauren’s information, but finds her unreliable. Paige introduces Mike to Abby, an attractive law student. Charlie severs relations with an eccentric confidential informant.

Episode 1.04 – Pizza Box
Bello enlists Mike to train his men in firearms while Eddie attempts to convince Bello that Mike is not what he seems. Meanwhile, Paige finds unusually high-grade marijuana being sold on the street and enlists Jakes and Johnny in a plan to prove that a rural grower is the source. Charlie makes her famous tomato sauce and Mike has another date with Abby.

Episode 1.05 – O-Mouth
Briggs and Charlie have made contact with a dealer named Quinn with a plan to use Quinn to get to a larger dealer named Odin. Meanwhile, Mike demands that Juan tell him the basis for the FBI’s suspicion of Briggs, and learns that he appears to be skimming a portion of the heroin seized in cases. He resolves to gain Bello’s confidence to set up a large seizure and test Briggs’ honesty.

Episode 1.06 – Hair of the Dog
Charlie is forced to inject heroin to escape from Quinn, but she is called to report to a superior on the incident. The DEA capture a smugglers’ submarine with no drugs in it. Mike uncovers that the drugs were on a torpedo the sub jettisoned. He introduces Johnny to Bello as someone who can recover the torpedo. Bello plans to kill Johnny after the job is done, but Briggs has Johnny fake his own death with the torpedo’s booby trap. Mike suspects that Briggs has taken some of the drugs and follows him to San Diego.

Episode 1.07 – Goodbye High
Briggs explains to Mike how he was captured by the dreaded Caza cartel assassin known as Jangles, forcibly given heroin, then released. He kept this secret from the FBI, but Mike reports it to Juan. Charlie is unable to find any new leads to Odin, whom apparently no one has ever seen. Bello is short of heroin after the loss of the torpedo and may have to cut his product, killing many users. Meanwhile, Paige and Johnny urge Mike to break up with Abby.

Episode 1.08 – Bag Man
Briggs/Odin begins his commerce with Bello while Caza sends a hit team to one of Bello’s distribution centers, killing several of his employees and capturing one. Mike saves the captured man’s life, after which he tells them that Jangles is coming. Mike brings Abby to Graceland against the rules. Charlie is suspicious of the audio cutoff in the Briggs-Bello meeting, and Mike interrupts the next heroin delivery to force Bello to meet Odin again. However, Briggs prepares a way for Bello to meet him in spite of the surveillance.

Episode 1.09 – Smoke Alarm
Bello’s last strike to the Caza Cartel sets a war in motion that Graceland now needs to stop. Briggs executes an elaborate plan with a team of FBI agents to catch Jangles. While on her hunt for Odin, Charlie meets Mexican federal agent Rafael Cortes and they agree to find both Odin and Jangles. Mike discovers that Juan has placed a bug on him, after which Juan tells him why he is really after Briggs.

Episode 1.10 – King’s Castle
A senior FBI agent calls in Mike to investigate whether Briggs killed Juan. Mike tells all this to Briggs while a computer check tells Briggs just who he has killed. Meanwhile, Bello will not give up Odin’s identity to Charlie without full immunity. Johnny arranges an unwelcome surprise party for Jakes’ birthday, and the two come to blows when Jakes comes home after failing to reconcile with his ex-wife.

Episode 1.11 – Happy Endings
Looking for the truth about Juan’s disappearance, Briggs and Mike play a dangerous game of cat and mouse — forcing Briggs to make a major decision about his future. Briggs goes on the hunt for Juan’s car, on the assumption that it contains the last recording he made, asking Jakes’ help to both find and get rid of it. Mike foils the plan, but doesn’t necessarily find what he is looking for. Meanwhile, Johnny locates Quinn for Charlie.

Episode 1.12 – Pawn
The infamous Caza enforcer Jangles takes a member of Graceland hostage and the house must come together in order to save one of their own from the sadistic killer.