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So Charlie's little smack adventure last week had the consequence of scuttling her Odin Rossi operation, which got her and Briggs in trouble with the higher-ups. That means Charlie -- who is hiding out in one of Briggs's CIs' flophouses -- has to go in to defend her actions while still all strung out. Briggs's great idea is to get her a little bit high so she can make it through the interview. Johnny, who's also part of the debriefing, catches on and is sad and upset that Charlie didn't trust him enough to confide in him (until the part where she does).
Mike's Bello operation takes to the high seas! The cartel that supplies Bello with his drugs does so by bringing them in on submarines. The DEA catches the submarine, so the two cartel foot soldiers piloting the boat eject the torpedo in which all the drugs were hidden. Mike offers to hook Bello up with a guy he knows who can recover the torpedo: Johnny. Unbeknownst to Mike, Johnny and Briggs go scope out the location of the torpedo and discover that it's booby-trapped; luckily, Johnny is a pro at defusing bombs.
On the day of the great torpedo expedition, Johnny goes down to get the drugs. Topside, Bello tells one of his men to stand ready to execute Johnny when he comes back up to dispose of that loose end. Mike freaks out and throws whatever he can think of at Bello to try to avoid that happening. Underwater, Johnny sets off the explosive, making Bello think the drugs were destroyed.
Mike returns to HQ -- distraught about Johnny's death -- only to find that his roommate is alive and well and turned the drugs over to Briggs after he came up. When they unpack the torpedo, they discover that there was room for twice as much heroin in there, so Mike follows Briggs to find out if he took the drugs. He follows him all the way to a twelve-step meeting and discovers our pal Paul is a recovering junkie.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously on Graceland: Mike trained Bello's men and became the drug lord's new bodyguard. He also discovered the cartel that supplies Bello with the heroin he distributes would be smuggling the shipment into the country via submarine. Charlie's former CI, Whistler, OD'd, and the mark she and Briggs were working, Quinn, got suspicious that they were cops, so she shot up a whole bunch of China white (that's a drug word, right? This show has only taught me synonyms for pot) for real.
Charlie's trip. She's blurrily reliving finding Whistler's dead body while tossing and turning in her bed, sweatily. Yeah, that looks familiar to anyone here in a-hundred-and-ball-sweat-degrees New York. Charlie wakes up when someone comes into the bedroom where she is; she flings a lamp at the door, narrowly missing taking Briggs's pretty head off. She apologizes and he hands over a sack of hangover alleviators.
He recounts their bad night: she shot up, he hauled her out and they didn't get the contact with Odin Rossi because Briggs had to bail with an insensible Charlie. And now he's stashed her in one of the apartments he keeps for CIs. She's adding self-recrimination on top of her hangover, but Briggs tells her to focus on getting better, which will take a few days. (We know. We've seen Trainspotting. The bathroom in this place looks slightly nicer.) She cries that she wants to go home, but Briggs reminds her that she will totally get fired if the bureau finds out about all the illicit drug use. Charlie tearily thanks Briggs and burrows back into her nasty flop sheets.
Out on the water (all that lovely cool water!) an inflatable speedboat full of Coast Guard -- maybe? Or they could be amphibious DEA -- is chasing down a submarine. Yes. An actual submarine. They convince the driver (who can hear them, somehow) to stop and a guy comes out the top hatch with his hands up. On the shore, Johnny goes over to handle his bust, with Paige and two DEA guys trailing behind. Paige warns him that these guys they're dealing with like to leave bombs around. Johnny flirts with Paige as he brushes off her worries, referring to them as "booby traps" while staring shamelessly at her chest.
Johnny pops his head out of the submarine as other feds haul the two cartel guys away. He says he didn't find anything -- no drugs at all. He and Paige are both disappointed, despite the flashy nature of catching a secret cartel submarine.