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Graceland

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Graceland	comment	Graceland is an hour-long drama series on the USA Network that premiered in June 2013.Created by Jeff Eastin, it focuses on a group of undercover agents from various United States law enforcement agencies, including Customs, the DEA, and the FBI, who live together in a Southern California beach house dubbed 'Graceland'. Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren, despite graduating first in his class and requesting a post in Washington, is assigned to Graceland to be trained in undercover operations by the enigmatic Paul Briggs.The show ran for three seasons and concluded in September 2015.
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Graceland / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Graceland / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License – Gun Safety: Averted. When Bello hires Mike to teach his men how to shoot properly, the very first thing Mike teaches them is gun safety and maintenance. Played straight with the season 2 premiere: the team is spinning around rifles, pressed against their foreheads. When Mike walks in on them doing that, his main complaint is only "no guns downstairs".
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Graceland / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Graceland / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: In-universe, the name Graceland came from the previous owner, who had a thing for Elvis memorabilia. When the house was seized, the name just stuck.
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Graceland / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Graceland / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Mike has a pretty intense one after Eddy kills himself. Of course, it doesn't help matters that right after watching Eddy blow his brains out, he has to go home and clean up a sink full of blood-red spaghetti sauce from dinner.
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Graceland / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Graceland / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The undercover team is a mix of Caucasian, Hispanic, and African-American characters.
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Graceland / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Graceland / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: USA in recent years has become known for what is called a "blue-skies" approach to programming, being rather light and optimistic. This is one of their first attempts at a grittier series.
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Graceland / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Graceland / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Paige gets close to a smuggler by becoming his new girlfriend. She keeps spiking his drinks so she does not actually have to have sex with him but that can only work so many times before she has to sleep with him or blow her cover. She even admits that the correct thing to do is to abort the operation but she really wants to arrest the 'boyfriend' so she keeps pushing her luck. Briggs lampshades the fact that no matter how skilled the undercovers are sooner or later one of their undercover operations will go really bad. Of course, him playing Gambit Roulette with his operations probably does not help the situation.
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Graceland / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Graceland / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Whenever she cooks her pasta sauce Charlie likes to tell the story of how her ancestors met and fell in love due to the sauce recipe. Each time she tells the story slightly different and the other agents like to lampshade the fact by pointing out how this version differs from the one she told last time. In general the agents like to tell stories about memorable things that happened while they were undercover but give them an exaggerated spin. It's a way for them to hone their skills in improvising as well as a coping mechanism.
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Graceland / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Graceland / int_1b4e322c	comment	Johnny gets a couple of Shirtless Scenes, one fresh out of the shower and wearing only a Modesty Towel.
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Graceland / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
Graceland / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Paige.
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Graceland / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Graceland / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Hardly anyone in the house knows all of the details of what's going on in Graceland. Occasionally, that puts lives in danger like Charlie, who hides the fact that she's working with a federal agent from Mexico... Lampshaded by Johnny during a deposition in the season finale:
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Graceland / int_1ff05ec7	type	Pillow Pregnancy
Graceland / int_1ff05ec7	comment	Pillow Pregnancy: A variation. Paige dons a fake baby belly and convinces the mother of a suspect that her son is the father, in hopes that she'll tell them where to find him.
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Graceland / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Graceland / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: One of the dealers Mike meets is a genuinely nice guy with a loving family, who only sells illegal products to make a living.
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Graceland / int_20c11a5c	type	Second Episode Introduction
Graceland / int_20c11a5c	comment	Second Episode Introduction: Paige was undercover and nowhere to be seen in the first episode.
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Graceland / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Graceland / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Considering her partner Donnie was just shot and it looks like he's being replaced almost instantly, Lauren is understandably abrasive toward Mike (and almost everyone else) in the first episode. She does soften up pretty quick, however.
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Graceland / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
Graceland / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: It would appear to be a requirement for working in Graceland. Being located in Southern California, Spanish is mandatory (a problem that is plaguing Mike) and several of the housemates have been shown speaking Russian and Korean as well (there's actually a phone in Graceland with a plaque that states "Answer Only in Russian.")
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Graceland / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Graceland / int_30de7a51	comment	Johnny, Chivalrous Pervert and genuine Nice Guy, is worried about the way everyone's been acting strangely. He tries to bring everyone together with a birthday party for Jakes. As thanks, everyone leaves early, Charlie stabs the bouncing castle, and Jakes punches him in the face. Finally at the end of his rope, Johnny delivers a very deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the rest of the house.
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Graceland / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
Graceland / int_313d7228	comment	Previously on…: At the beginning of most episodes. The season 1 finale had one that was over 2 minutes long.
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Graceland / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Graceland / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-universe. Mike is going undercover and tries to incorporate an accent into his persona. Briggs tells him to knock it off since his accent is terrible and it will automatically make their targets suspicious. Unless Mike can do the fake accent flawlessly, he should just use his normal accent.
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Graceland / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Graceland / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: A key skill of the undercovers is getting to know their targets and then creating traps that the targets are likely to walk in and incriminate themselves. Briggs bets the success of an operation on the fact that a low level lackey is too stupid/lazy to change the route he always takes to his boss's warehouse.
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Graceland / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Graceland / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Mike.
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Graceland / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Graceland / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: A drug dealer drives up to the hotel where he is to make a big drug deal and sees that an unfamiliar valet is parking cars. He immediately cancels the deal and drives off. He was entirely correct as he was the target of an FBI undercover operation and the valet was Johnny and the buyers were Briggs and Charlie. Later on the dealer gets very suspicious because a junkie is too insistent that the buyers are legit. The junkie is an FBI informant working for Charlie.
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Graceland / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Graceland / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Every agent in Graceland seems to have this problem during Season 2's investigation and operations against the Solano Cartel and the dirty cops, at least in relation to an end goal of bringing them down. Unfortunately, the obsessions each agent has makes the drama feel agonizing due to how much they're compromising the investigation for their own needs. One notable example is that Paige the DEA agent cares less about dealing with the actual drug-running part of the cartel, and more about the human-trafficking/sex slavery operation that turns out was heavily disapproved by the cartel boss. It gets to a point where she seemingly holds Mike to the same contempt as a human-trafficker for lying about Lena's death, without sympathizing with his own time in the traffickers' den.
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Graceland / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Graceland / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: The agents have to improvise while undercover but generally tend to go by-the-book where it matters. When Lauren breaks protocol during a bust, Briggs gives her hell for it and the other agents are not happy that she forced their hand when the correct course of action was to abort the operation. She becomes so obsessed with busting the Russians that it almost gets Johnny killed and Briggs makes her leave Graceland.
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Graceland / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Graceland / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Arguably, everyone in the house qualifies, because the characters' jobs as undercover agents require them to manipulate their targets into a position easy for the feds to carry out an arrest. Notable characters that go beyond these instances include: Briggs for having a hand in most of everything in Season 1. Paige for twisting Mike's arm for most of Season 2 for a factor that she deemed more important than the whole of the cartel that the entire house was working together to take down. And when Mike ultimately fails? She sends someone to kill him!!
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Graceland / int_43702f21	type	Bear Hug
Graceland / int_43702f21	comment	Bear Hug: Mike gives Johnny one, complete with lifting him off the ground and Manly Tears, when he sees he is alive after believing he had died in an explosion during a mission.
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Graceland / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Graceland / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: Bello was a soldier in Nigeria that was on the wrong side of a coup, now he's become a drug kingpin in Los Angeles. Mike (and to a much lesser extent, Johnny) infiltrates Bello's gang by pretending to have a similar background, pretending to be an active duty Marine who Bello hires to properly train his gang in marksmanship.
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Graceland / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Graceland / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: When Bello finds out that Eddy screwed up and got his ammo shipment hijacked, he punishes Eddy by pouring lead into his eye.
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Graceland / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Graceland / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The beach and ocean get a fair amount of screentime, and often appear during the Idiosyncratic Wipes.
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Graceland / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Graceland / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Mike. It starts in "Pizza Box" and gets worse in each of the following episodes. To elaborate a bit: he gets strangled in one episode, and then stabbed in the next one. And, later, punched in his stab wound. Repeatedly. And that's just the physical damage... Season 2 isn't much nicer to him between getting kidnapped and tortured, repeatedly played by a corrupt LAPD officer, and finally being sold out by one of the agents in the house to the aforementioned officer, who then suffocates him in a hospital bed without any means of fighting back. The ambiguous ending of the second season indicates that Mike might very well be dead.
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Graceland / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Graceland / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Oh yeah, the series likes these. The second episode ends with Briggs holding Mike at gunpoint quite unexpectedly and demanding, "Who've you been talking to?" But it's subverted in the next episode, which reveals he was just asking because he knew someone was listening to maintain a cover. (Or, at least, he claims to...) The sixth episode closes with a major one. Hi, my name is Paul, and I'm a heroin addict. Episode seven. Bello is given a packet of heroin as a gesture of good faith from the elusive Odin Rossi, and demands that Odin deliver it to him in person. Briggs tells him, "He just did." Odin Rossi, the elusive druglord Charlie is chasing, is none other than Paul Briggs.
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Graceland / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Graceland / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: DJ, although not actually the biggest, is the grump that everyone knows to stay clear of upsetting, and is also the closest thing to a By-the-Book Cop so far. Charlie may also qualify as The Big Girl, because she's tough as nails and can definitely keep the others in line via sheer force of personality.
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Graceland / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Graceland / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lauren makes it look like the Russian gangsters beat her up so it triggers Briggs' Berserk Button and he supports her in a risky operation to bring the Russians down. He figures it out after the raid when he finds the Russian has no bruising on his knuckles that would come from such a beating, realizes what Lauren did and kicks her off the team.
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Graceland / int_5e323fa8	type	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
Graceland / int_5e323fa8	comment	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: The occupants of Graceland try to warn Mike before he gets too involved. The also happened to Jakes, though he was the one to kill the relationship.
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Graceland / int_5f3c9391	type	Impersonation Gambit
Graceland / int_5f3c9391	comment	Impersonation Gambit: Usually the undercovers use fake identities with custom made background but in the pilot, Mike is forced to go undercover as a criminal's brother-in-law. This is especially dangerous because the bad guys have access to the brother-in-law criminal record. The guy is actually much taller and heavier than Mike so Mike has to wear platform shoes to better match the description. More importantly, the guy is a junkie so the bad guys do not consider him to be reliable or trustworthy.
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Graceland / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Graceland / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Johnny is Briggs' right hand man, and is both a foil for Briggs in terms of personality (Johnny is easy going, trusting, genuine and treats everything like a game where Briggs is dark, intense, secretive and a manipulative Chessmaster) and appearance. (Johnny has a tall, slim runner's build, Briggs is shorter, more compact, and more heavily muscled.)
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Graceland / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
Graceland / int_60e49895	comment	The Leader: The enigmatic, manipulative Briggs.
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Graceland / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Graceland / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Season 1 ends with a couple teenagers finding the missing recording of Briggs killing Juan at a pawn shop. Meanwhile, Mike gets a phone call from Briggs, who says there's something he needs to tell him... Season 2's end is a lot worse. Markham, having discovered ALL of the agents' identities, stages the operation that leads to the death of Solano Sr. and pins it on Mike. Carlito becomes the new head of the Solano cartel and he holds his sister hostage to make Johnny keep running the plane operation that transports his drugs. Paige, emotionally broken from not saving a girl from a human trafficking operation, proceeds to sell out Mike in revenge for his failure to take down the men responsible for the human trafficking ring to Markham, who then proceeds to possibly kill Mike in the hospital.
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Graceland / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Graceland / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Eddy kills himself right in front of Mike.
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Graceland / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
Graceland / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked Trope: Used regularly on the show. The undercovers use many standard tropes and stereotypes to make their targets think that they can be trusted. Briggs invokes Reality Is Unrealistic to convince some drug dealers that his badge is fake and he is just an actor who played a cop in a movie. Johnny invokes Tattooed Crook to make people believe that he really is a hardcore Latino gang banger.
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Graceland / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Graceland / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Most of the agents have their own nicknames, which are partly based on their own names. The only exception is Mike, who gets nicknamed "Levi" since his first assignment had him confiscating a truck full of counterfeit jeans.
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Graceland / int_78a1b9cc	type	Naughty Narcs
Graceland / int_78a1b9cc	comment	Naughty Narcs: At the end of the second season, Paige, the house's resident DEA agent, betrays Mike in revenge for his trying but failing to save a human trafficing victim who was killed as part of an op.
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Graceland / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Graceland / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Once we get to know them, it quickly becomes apparent that most of the agents are on the verge of becoming this due to the horrible toll the job takes on them. Their investigations expose them to horrific violence and death and the constant lies make them paranoid and obsessive. Graceland was clearly created as a safe place where they can de-stress and have a support network but it is clearly no longer working. Briggs and Charlie should have probably been taken out of the field a while back and are making extremely bad choices. Jakes is having an increasingly hard time dealing with the fact that he sacrificed being a husband and father for the job. Mike is quickly turning into this due to the violence he experienced and the guilt of having indirectly caused so many deaths.
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Graceland / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
Graceland / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: The Russian gangsters targeted by Donny and Lauren are involved in the heroin trade and theft of luxury cars. They have no problem kidnapping the family of a mook who might cut a deal with the police or sending a hitman after a DEA agent. In Bello's case the trope is double subverted: he's a former Nigerian soldier who left his home country after being on the wrong side of a coup, and is now one of the major organized crime figures in LA. On the other hand, his gang is composed of LA natives, Bello talks about how savage they are and how difficult the job of "taming" LA has been, and combined with doing a good job of being Faux Affably Evil, it briefly seems like he might be an inversion of the trope. Then we get reminded that he poured molten lead into Eddy's eye for failure, made Eddy kill himself to avoid a Fate Worse than Death, and callously intended to shoot Johnny in order to Leave No Witnesses.
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Graceland / int_7f6a54f2	type	Miranda Rights
Graceland / int_7f6a54f2	comment	Miranda Rights: In "Smoke Alarm", Mike orders a member of the tactical team to read him his rights as Bello is led past in order to preserve his cover.
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Graceland / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Graceland / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: In the season 2 premiere everyone in the house knows that Briggs and Charlie are sleeping together. Realizing that everyone knows, they quickly stop keeping the relationship a secret.
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Graceland / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Graceland / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Briggs's actions involving faking the existence of sarin gas in order to take down Marcum Sarkissian has resulted in him becoming this for Mike and Johnny.
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Graceland / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Graceland / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Mike, in season two. The clout he got from the Bello bust in the first season, coupled with his lucrative position in D.C., seem to have gone to his head.
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Graceland / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
Graceland / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: Charlie recruits Mike to act as her boyfriend when she has to go to a sleazy bar to make a delivery for Paige. If she went in by herself all the sleazy men would start hitting on her and she would have too many people looking at her. She even tells Mike to "grab her ass" to sell people on the idea that he is her cocky, possessive boyfriend. Charlie and Briggs go undercover as a pair of drug dealers with an on-again off-again relationship. The last time they used these identities they actually hooked up but have since decided to just be friends.
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Graceland / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
Graceland / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: After the first couple of episodes, and after Lauren and Donnie get reassigned, the group becomes a loose one. The Leader: The enigmatic, manipulative Briggs. The Lancer: Johnny is Briggs' right hand man, and is both a foil for Briggs in terms of personality (Johnny is easy going, trusting, genuine and treats everything like a game where Briggs is dark, intense, secretive and a manipulative Chessmaster) and appearance. (Johnny has a tall, slim runner's build, Briggs is shorter, more compact, and more heavily muscled.) The Big Guy: DJ, although not actually the biggest, is the grump that everyone knows to stay clear of upsetting, and is also the closest thing to a By-the-Book Cop so far. Charlie may also qualify as The Big Girl, because she's tough as nails and can definitely keep the others in line via sheer force of personality. The Smart Guy: Mike. The Heart: Paige.
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Graceland / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Graceland / int_95b7c400	comment	In Bello's case the trope is double subverted: he's a former Nigerian soldier who left his home country after being on the wrong side of a coup, and is now one of the major organized crime figures in LA. On the other hand, his gang is composed of LA natives, Bello talks about how savage they are and how difficult the job of "taming" LA has been, and combined with doing a good job of being Faux Affably Evil, it briefly seems like he might be an inversion of the trope. Then we get reminded that he poured molten lead into Eddy's eye for failure, made Eddy kill himself to avoid a Fate Worse than Death, and callously intended to shoot Johnny in order to Leave No Witnesses.
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Graceland / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Graceland / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Caza Cartel to the team. Also, Odin Rossi, though to a lesser degree. The Saldanos Cartel takes over this role in the second season.
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Graceland / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Graceland / int_987be393	comment	Briggs lampshades the fact that no matter how skilled the undercovers are sooner or later one of their undercover operations will go really bad. Of course, him playing Gambit Roulette with his operations probably does not help the situation.
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Graceland / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Graceland / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Bello likes to pour molten lead into the eyes of mooks who failed him.
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Graceland / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Graceland / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: In "Connects", Paige is fresh out of the shower clad in a towel and walks past Mike talking on the phone with Jessica, clearly distracted by Paige. She goes into her room without shutting the door and drops the towel. Mike soon hangs up the phone and slowly steps into Paige's room as she turns to him face him (with Shoulders-Up Nudity) and they share a Longing Look as the scene Fades to black.
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Graceland / int_a588cd12	type	Cool House
Graceland / int_a588cd12	comment	Cool House: The titular Graceland, which used to be a druglord's beach house before it was seized by the government.
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Graceland / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Graceland / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Despite everything he does over the course of the first season, Briggs gets off scot-free at the end due to successfully framing several other people to take the fall for him. Bello views Mike as one, claiming that the only difference between them is that Bello will actually have to pay for his sins.
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Graceland / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Graceland / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: A group of gang members working for Bello test out new ammunition on a makeshift range and they all miss their targets. They are not very good shots to begin with and the bullets use a non standard load which makes the guns jerk upwards when fired. Mike then steps in and shows them how it is done. Bello is so impressed that he hires Mike to teach them how to shoot properly.
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Graceland / int_aa58bf92	type	Working with the Ex
Graceland / int_aa58bf92	comment	Working with the Ex: Briggs and Charlie hooked up years ago, called things off, but remain amicable. As of the Season 2 opener, the ex part is no longer true.
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Graceland / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Graceland / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Paige's target wants to have sex with her so she keeps spiking his drinks so he is impotent and calls it off. She is afraid that one time he will try it sober and she will have to break her cover.
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Graceland / int_abf4c466	type	The Paragon Always Rebels
Graceland / int_abf4c466	comment	The Paragon Always Rebels: The FBI higher ups suspect that this is happening with Briggs, which is why they put Mike in Graceland to begin with.
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Graceland / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Graceland / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Mike's Season 2 investigation into the bus lines has turned into a "Shaggy Dog" Story and has been cancelled by his boss. Then two thugs posing as Caza cartel members kidnap him and torture him to get information about a bus line. This proves that Mike was getting close and his investigation is reinstated.
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Graceland / int_af46ad7d	type	Evidence Scavenger Hunt
Graceland / int_af46ad7d	comment	Evidence Scavenger Hunt: In "Happy Endings", Mike and Paige are searching for Juan Badillo's car in hopes that there will be some evidence explaining his disappearance, while Briggs and Jakes are looking for it with the intention of finding and destroying the recording that will implicate Briggs' in Badillo's death.
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Graceland / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Graceland / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Mike in so many different ways. One, he originally requested to work in D.C., however; he was instead redirected to Southern California. Alongside not knowing a word of Spanish, he also has no appropriate beach apparel (no shorts, flip-flops, sunscreen, etc.) Two, fresh out of the academy, he's still very straight-laced and idealistic, compared to the others, who are more cynical and realistic.
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Graceland / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Graceland / int_b032e4ed	comment	Paige sports a bikini or underwear in a number of episodes and in season 3 she gets a Shower Scene with Toplessness from the Back and Sideboob.
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Graceland / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Graceland / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Mike finally gets the Washington, DC job he has wanted since the beginning of the series. It is an important job but it is also a desk job and Mike soon misses the excitement of undercover work at Graceland.
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Graceland / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Graceland / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Bello gives Eddy two alternatives: either kill himself or suffer an unspecified fate. Whatever Bello has in mind is horrible enough for Eddy to commit suicide.
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Graceland / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Graceland / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Briggs is infuriated by Lauren's lies, but won't hesitate to lie, play with the truth, or hold back information himself. (Although to be fair, Lauren's lies put the team into danger and were the result of shoddy work, Briggs has so far mostly done it to either protect Graceland, the agents there, or to help keep up cover identities.)
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Graceland / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Graceland / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Sure Juan, dress up like the man that destroyed Briggs' life and approach him while he's drunk. That couldn't possibly go wrong.
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Graceland / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
Graceland / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: Reversed as Mike regains consciousness in the hospital after being stabbed.
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Graceland / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Graceland / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For the whole house, it is wise to leave Hector's Tacos alone. DJ is very protective of his juice. Briggs does not appreciate being lied to by one of his agents, Lauren.
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Graceland / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Graceland / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Mike is an incredibly good shot. On a makeshift firing range, using an unfamiliar gun loaded with non standard bullets, he fires all his shots in rapid succession and hits every target with incredible precision. He even shows off and hits a target though the body of a car wreck that blocks the line of sight.
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Graceland / int_bdc0a18e	type	Idiosyncratic Wipes
Graceland / int_bdc0a18e	comment	Idiosyncratic Wipes: Most scenes dissolve with a bokeh filter effect.
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Graceland / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Graceland / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Mike, who has literally graduated straight out of the FBI academy and has no experience in undercover operations.
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Graceland / int_c12ad193	type	Fake Pregnancy
Graceland / int_c12ad193	comment	Fake Pregnancy: Paige is looking for a drug dealer who has gone into hiding. She puts on a fake pregnancy belly and approaches the drug dealer's mother pretending to be the guy's pregnant girlfriend. The mother is not happy with the situation but reluctantly tells her where her son is hiding.
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Graceland / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Graceland / int_c145f69b	comment	The second episode ends with Briggs holding Mike at gunpoint quite unexpectedly and demanding, "Who've you been talking to?" But it's subverted in the next episode, which reveals he was just asking because he knew someone was listening to maintain a cover. (Or, at least, he claims to...)
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Graceland / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Graceland / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: One that doesn't actually exist. After Briggs was featured on a news report that caused one of his targets to recognize him, he claims he was instead recognized from his part-time job as an actor for some low-budget cop movie called Sunset Busts. More and more is constantly being added to this fake movie: Briggs adds Mike to the movie as being his brother-in-law, married to a hooker nicknamed "Low Rider" for the way she can shake her ass. Tuturro's nickname "Johnny" (his real name is Joe) came from the movie as well. That came after Briggs claimed he played a killer who shot a man twice for reading his dirty magazine in the bathroom.
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Graceland / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Graceland / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Mike asks how three different agencies are able to coexist in the same house, and Johnny says that it's mostly averted; everybody just kind of blends together after a while. The FBI is the dominant agency in the house which can cause some friction but the agents trust each other enough to resolve it internally. While Paige and Jakes are willing to defer to Briggs and Charlie, they will not take any flak from Johnny and they chew him out when he almost screws up a DEA operation. Played for Dark Comedy when a cartel mini-sub is seized. The FBI, DEA and Customs all try to claim jurisdiction but then the agents remember that the cartel likes to booby-trap their operations. They decide to give the FBI primary jurisdiction which means that Butt-Monkey Johnny will be the first to enter the boat and see if there any bombs there.
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Graceland / int_c2e3f1b4	type	Affluent Ascetic
Graceland / int_c2e3f1b4	comment	Affluent Ascetic: When Briggs is taken to see the head of one of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico, he is surprised to discover that the guy lives on a small farm where he cooks his own meals and slaughters his own livestock for meat. This is contrasted with the guy's main rival who lives on a large opulent estate.
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Graceland / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Graceland / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Mike is one of the highest-scoring graduates from the FBI academy, second only to Briggs himself.
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Graceland / int_c3bdfbb9	type	Let's You and Him Fight
Graceland / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: Briggs and Mike sold a bunch of armor-piercing "cop killer" bullets to a gang member to establish their cover. However, they cannot allow this ammunition to actually be used by the gang so Briggs gets another gang to rob the shipment and buys the ammunition back using the same money the first gang paid him.
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Graceland / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Graceland / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Briggs tells Mike to drop his fake accent in 1x02, he goes, "Mike, you're not playing Curly in Oklahoma!." Also possibly a reference to Aaron Tveit's career as a Broadway actor. During the 3rd episode, Charlie's informant Whistler sets up a drug buy that would allow Charlie to bust a major meth kingpin. When Whistler's buyer is impressed at the purity of the meth that Whistler brings, the response is basically "What did I tell you? It's not the blue stuff, but it's good."
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Graceland / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Graceland / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Johnny, Chivalrous Pervert and genuine Nice Guy, is worried about the way everyone's been acting strangely. He tries to bring everyone together with a birthday party for Jakes. As thanks, everyone leaves early, Charlie stabs the bouncing castle, and Jakes punches him in the face. Finally at the end of his rope, Johnny delivers a very deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the rest of the house. A similar moment happens in season three, when Briggs's scheming resulted in Johnny being endangered one too many times. When Briggs wanted to leave in order to contact Gusti before the latter's meeting with Marcum, Johnny shot him in the leg to prevent him from leaving. Later, after Marcum was arrested, and Mike realized the extent of Briggs's plan, he punched him.
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Graceland / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
Graceland / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: Briggs spent over three months trying to get close to Bello. Then New Meat Mike comes in on a buy and shows off his Improbable Aiming Skills. Now Bello still won't give Briggs the time of day but Mike is on the inside working as Bello's private drill instructor. Briggs is not happy about this turn of events but Charlie reminds him that all that really matters is that Bello is taken down and they should not care how it is done.
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Graceland / int_ce6a1069	type	Wax On, Wax Off
Graceland / int_ce6a1069	comment	Wax On, Wax Off: Subverted. Briggs uses this with the chore wheel as a way to get Mike to do his chores for him, pretending that it's an exercise in name association, when really Briggs is just lazy. Mike sees through it, but still does the chores.
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Graceland / int_cf4fa6b9	type	Lonely Bachelor Pad
Graceland / int_cf4fa6b9	comment	Lonely Bachelor Pad: Subverted with Jakes - the modest apartment he buys in the second season has a very nicely-furnished room for his son, because he's hoping his son will visit him. After he finds out that his ex has taken away his custody, he smashes the room's contents to bits.
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Graceland / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Graceland / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The housemates are furious with Mike when he chases after a petty thief who stole a bag of chips and assaulted the owner. If he caught and arrested the guy, it would have exposed them as federal agents and they could never go near Hector's Tacos again. If they followed regulations and broke their cover for every assault, they would all be burned as undercover cops in LA within weeks. Briggs is furious at Lauren when he finds out that she lied about getting beat up by the Russians and then lied about knowing where the Russians were keeping the stolen cars. Her faulty info almost got Johnny killed and Briggs makes her leave Graceland. Mike's interactions with the team when he returns in season two. Frustrated with Briggs' decision to shut down the case, Mike calls the team "a bunch of washouts" and goes over Briggs' head to get the op called back on. Multiple people are kind enough to point out that he's being a dick. Paige's increasingly personal obsession with the human-trafficking operation of the Solano cartel (and Lena, one of the girls she meets in the investigation) in Season 2. She focuses exclusively on this aspect of the investigation, despite being a DEA agent that should presumably be focused on the drug part of the cartel's activities. She goes behind Mike's back and uses Brigg's cover to push the dirty cops into massacring the sex-traffickers, nearly killing Mike in the process when he learns that Carlos Sr. actually disapproved of the operation, enough to beat up Carlito (the real brain of that operation) and would have presumably shut it down himself. Despite Mike easily forgiving her for nearly compromising the investigation and killing him, she refuses to let him of the hook for incinerating Lena's body (without even asking for his side of the story). Despite every Graceland member working on the case or on some potentially violent loose end (Charlie seeking out Amber), she continues looking into an irrelevant lead of the cartel case. When she finally hears Mike admit that Lena is dead, she does not even ask for details, and chooses to tell the corrupt cop, Markham, where Mike is hospitalized, giving him the opportunity to murder him. Perhaps the worst thing is that Paige's obsession was counterproductive, as the cartel is now led by a new violent and amoral leader, the cartel has a new method of moving drugs through plane drops, and Markham is not arrested and possibly murdered the lead investigator. Furthermore the very problem she attempted to stop will now continue freely and on a larger scale with Carlito in charge of the cartel
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Graceland / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Graceland / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: When a group of gangsters seem to vaguely remember Briggs' face from somewhere, Briggs convinces them that he actually played a cop in a low budget film. To "prove" this, he actually shows the gangsters his badge and convinces them that it's a fake prop he stole from the set. The gangsters completely fall for it.
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Graceland / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
Graceland / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Jangles is posthumously blamed for the death of Juan Badillo due to Briggs planting Badillo's apartment key on him before his death.
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Graceland / int_d67f0a23	type	Modest Royalty
Graceland / int_d67f0a23	comment	Modest Royalty: Alfredo Armos, head of the Caza cartel, lives at a fairly modest ranch down in Mexico, dresses in plain clothing, does his own grocery shopping, and makes his own meals, including killing and skinning the goats he uses for stew. He does still enjoy fine liquor and cigars, though.
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Graceland / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Lots of this between the housemates, particularly Mike and Charlie, Mike and Paige and Briggs and Paige.
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Graceland / int_ddb233c1	comment	Mid-Season Twist: Literally in the last minutes of episode seven, the reveal that Briggs is Odin, the mysterious druglord that Charlie has been chasing.
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Graceland / int_de4d6d54	comment	Played for Dark Comedy when a cartel mini-sub is seized. The FBI, DEA and Customs all try to claim jurisdiction but then the agents remember that the cartel likes to booby-trap their operations. They decide to give the FBI primary jurisdiction which means that Butt-Monkey Johnny will be the first to enter the boat and see if there any bombs there.
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Graceland / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Graceland / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: The agents seems neutral to the use of drugs like marijuana but will still enforce the law. On the other hand they have little sympathy for the drug dealers and know that even semi-legal marijuana growers might be willing to kill their competition or police officers. One of Charlie's informants is a recovering meth addict. The drug use took a serious toll on him and he is desperately trying to lead a normal life. Charlie tries to help him but it is implied by the end of the episode that he will probably go back to using meth. He later dies of an overdose.
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Graceland / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Graceland / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Happens quite a bit, especially when operations don't go as planned (which is pretty much all the time).
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Graceland / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Graceland / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Mike is quite weirded out on his return to Graceland at the start of Season 2, what with there being guns downstairs, Briggs being more chill and less driven, and Jakes actually being nice.
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Graceland / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Graceland / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Part of the reason Mike is sent to Graceland is to try and determine whether Briggs has become one of these. In the pilot, Mike going undercover with the Russians is dangerous because they have dirty cops on the payroll and can verify his backstory in minutes with one phone call.
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Graceland / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Graceland / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Paige gets an absolutely beautiful example of this in Episode 4 when Johnny and Jakes are caught by the pot farmer. By barreling through the side of a barn with a pickup.
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Graceland / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
Graceland / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: Briggs's time as The Chessmaster has really resulted in him alienated all of his friends in Graceland.
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Graceland / int_f1ef5d62	comment	Bromance: Invoked by Mike in and effort to get closer to Bello. In his position Bello cannot have many friends he trusts so Mike positions himself as someone Bello can hang out with and share his love of old Westerns. The goal is for Bello to trust Mike enough to make him his bodyguard which will give Mike access to the core of Bello's heroin business.
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Graceland / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Graceland / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Mike's Kia Optima gets subjected to this; especially blatant during "Happy Endings".
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Graceland / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Graceland / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: It's questionable whether Mike will ever have the chance to taste Charlie's special pasta sauce recipe at this point since something keeps interrupting him.
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Graceland / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Briggs would do anything to protect Graceland, even if it means sacrificing one of its members. After Lauren proves to be a liability, he plants a GPS tracker on her car and uses it as proof that the Russians no longer trust her, forcing her to leave Graceland. The first season shows us the extremes he is willing to go to get revenge on the cartel hitman "Jangles".
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