When Paige Arkin found out that Mike Warren had lied to her about Lina during the “Graceland” Season 2 finale, she made a shocking move.
Angry and hurt by Mike’s confirmation about the sad fate that met the young girl she had previously promised to free from the sex trafficking ring, Paige went to Sid and gave him the name he needed to find her ex, who was receiving treatment in a hospital under an alias. He did, and as “Graceland” Season 2 closed out, Sid cut off Mike’s air supply, and Mike flatlined before Paul Briggs arrived at the facility in time to save him.
Serinda Swan in ‘Graceland’
When “Graceland’s” third season premieres Thursday night on USA, Serinda Swan’s character Paige might be in the most emotionally distraught place she’s ever been on the show.
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“I think it’s just over a week since everything happened [when the show picks up] – and it is,” Serinda told Access Hollywood. “I think it’s sort of a culmination of everything to do with last season with Lina and her girls and what that led her to do, in terms of her morals, and how she just lost her way completely to the point where she ratted out Mike. And I think she’s lost and she’s devastated and really is in a situation where she doesn’t know which way is up. And you can really see that because the pain that Mike caused her, and the lies were not only to do with work. It wasn’t just about the girls [in the sex trafficking ring, who she was trying to save], but I mean, that was her boyfriend. That was somebody she loved and somebody she confided in and realized that the entire time he was lying to her face and she went basically almost crazy last season, knowing in her gut what was actually happening. But listening to him basically lie to her face, she didn’t know which way was up, so I think now, knowing what’s going on, she’s just in the most lost place ever.”
Paige’s next move will start to be revealed in Thursday’s Season 3 premiere, but one thing’s for sure – just because she gave Sid Mike’s name doesn’t mean she’s joined Sid’s team. Paige may not know every detail about Sid’s plans and associations, but the important stuff is clear.
“She knows obviously he’s a really bad dude, and I think that’s where — it’s not about a partnership between the two of them once she tells him, it’s about cleaning the slate and being like, ‘I didn’t think Mike was this bad, but obviously he was,’ and so she makes a terrible decision and he’s just the route in which she goes,” Serinda said. “It’s not that she agrees with who he is or what he’s done or anything like that, it’s just the path of least resistance and that’s why she uses Sid. But in the third season, you see she really wants nothing to do with him, in fact, she wants to take him down.”
Paige begins Season 3 in a troubled place, but as for the cliffhanger involving Mike, Aaron Tveit had a mysterious answer when Access Hollywood asked him about Season 3 at NBCUniversal’s press day in New York City on Wednesday.
“I’m involved in some capacity definitely in the first episode. I’m not going to say what. You have to watch to see what that is,” Aaron said.
Daniel Sunjata, however, had plenty to hint at about Briggs’ Season 3, including the tape (the recording of Briggs killing Agent Juan Badillo), which is still in play. The cassette was on someone’s desk in the Season 3 trailer, so how bad is it for Briggs?
Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit (USA)
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“It’s bad enough that it’s able to muscle him into a situation that he would rather not be in in terms of atonement, in terms of paying for sins of the past. This is that for Briggs in Season 3,” Daniel said.
Not only will he have the pressure of the tape, but in his personal life, Briggs and Charlie (Vanessa Ferlito) are not in a good place.
“Charlie’s pregnant, but at the end of Season 2… the relationship between Briggs and Charlie had gone south big time,” Daniel said. “In Season 3, their relationship is different than it has ever been before, that is for certain, and it’s hard to tell whether it will get better [or] get worse going forward.”
“Graceland” premieres on Thursday at 10/9c on USA.
— Jolie Lash
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