^{“You can’t be serious. I endorse this, I perjure myself. Is that what you’re suggesting?” / “Yes, Mike, that is what I’m suggesting.” / “No. No way. You don’t get to win this one, Briggs.” / “This isn’t about winning or losing. Mike, this is about keeping Martun Sarkissian off the streets.” / “You know, you had me investigating air. I mean, literally a keg of air. Where do you even get that?” / “A prop house in Studio City.” / “Do you think I’m an idiot?” / “Quite to the contrary. I think you are a really good goddamn agent, Mike. I counted on you being smarter, better than the next guy, and still I didn’t give you enough credit, because you caught on to me.” / “And what about Gusti, huh? I sign this, you go free. He’s gonna get shipped to Guantánamo.” / “The truth is that we covered up Toros’ death. We kidnapped Martun Sarkissian’s daughter, and we got Colby Moore killed. Mike, HSI is this close from closing the books on the sarin, this close. Now, if they start digging, how long is it gonna be before they uncover the truth about your addiction?” / “You’re an asshole.” / “I am not threatening you. I’m trying to get you to think this thing through. Now, look, I know you want to burn me, Mike. But do you want to burn the whole house too?”}

Very Abridged Gifland 3.13: The Honeymoon is Over (Again)

Very reluctantly (and slowly) getting through the gif sets from the last episode.

^{I serve my head up on a plate; it’s only comfort, calling late
‘cause there’s nothing else to do, every me and every you…}

Gifland 3.12: This is actually a p good look for a modern!AU Les Mis ngl. (a.k.a. more gifs with the filenames pretty00, 01 etc.)

^{“Santa Barbara. June 25th. There’s a commercial fueling station up there. The head of security, his name’s Jimmy, he’s an idiot but…the cameras work. You arranged for Gusti to pick up the sarin at the port of L.A. You used my near-death experience against me to point me at him, get me under. You jerked me around for weeks.” / “Warren.” / “I see how. Clearly now, I see how. The thing I can’t understand is why. Why - why go through all that trouble to involve me at all?” / “Because you were the lynch pin. No matter what I did, no matter how I would’ve played it, if I ride Ari all the way to Martun, guess what? Logan makes me his sin-eater. And that means I putter out the rest of my days locked up next to a bunch of pieces of human trash. But you, you can arrest Martun.” / “Me? How could I arrest Martun?” / “You were supposed to stick to Gusti and wait for the buyer to call.” / “He still has the sarin?” / “You might wanna take that.” / “Vin.” / “Yo, Stuntman. I’m going to deliver the package. You want to come with?” / “Yeah.”}

Very Abridged Gifland 3.12: That’s It, That’s the Ship.

^{“Oh, my God. Briggs set this up… Everything.”}

Gifland 3.11: I don’t know why I did this as close-ups in 540x405px but now I have an unnecessarily large gif of Mike saying “Oh my God” on the phone.

^{“You think they ever get tired, just running around in the same circle?”
“Yeah. I think they get really tired.”}

Gifland 3.11: So subtle Graceland. #justGracelandthings A random 540x405px collection of seriously nodding luminously blue-eyed Mikes.

^{all alone in space and time; there’s nothing here but what here’s mine
something borrowed, something blue, every me and every you…}

Gifland 3.12: No seriously if his hair had been like this in Les Mis I wouldn’t even have bothered to resist (and I did, oh, I did Maxx did not).

^{“Hey, how’d it go with Gusti? The gas, did it work? Did you arrest Martun? …Shit.”}

Very Abridged Gifland 3.12: Well, That Was Cathartic.

^{“You. I know you, you little prick. You’re from the gas station.” / “Yeah, he was probably working with Colby.” / “You’re FBI.” / “Yeah. And you just assaulted a federal agent.” / “I’m gonna show you an assault, you little bitch.” / “Hey, some cockroaches came here to kill my family and you treat us like criminals. Why don’t you protect my people?” / “Sir, your people wouldn’t need protecting if these two didn’t send Javier Arrabuena’s head to his mother in a box.” / “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” / “Agent Warren.” / “I wanna strangle that little bitch so badly.” / “Yeah, yeah, I know. Listen, Ari, if he hadn’t been here, a lot of people could’ve died today.”}

Very Abridged Gifland 3.12: This Scene is Giving Me Strange Feelings That Are Probably Not Healthy.

I’m actually glad I haven’t done the last two episodes ‘cos working slowly on these now is sorta cathartic. Or devastating. Depending on when you ask.

^{“Then I’ll drop it. Okay? I’ll shut up about all this.”}

Gifland 3.11: That’s a Lie and You Know it, Mike. You’re still sore that he was late aintcha Originally gif’d for the amusing dramatics, but that lash action is really something. #justGracelandthings

^{“It does look like a grub worm.”}

Gifland 3.11: Wanted to extract this to zoom in on Mike’s automatic response to Briggs (you can see him mouth something like ‘right?’)…just before he remembers they’re currently deadly enemies, anyway. Yes, Graceland, take away everything we love, why don’t you. That this is happening for the third season in a row makes me think that sometimes Mike just wants to shake him and scream, “Why won’t you stay good?!” Maybe if they actually got to work together for once they’d put away some felons instead of killing people dead…