Sons of Anarchy Recap: A Religious Experience

Sons of Anarchy

By ApplePie | Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 8 Comments
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Their conversation ends when Gemma gets a call on her cell. 

In Oakland, Jax and the guys meet the prospects, who have been keeping an eye on the club where Hightower ended up.  The prospects tell them that there are bikes in the back, “tricked out bikes”.  When Jax and company see these bikes parked next to the blue SUV that picked up Hightower behind the club,

Ronald McDonald & Hamburglar ride again?

there’s a chorus of “oh man”s as if they recognize the bikes and therefore, their owners.  It gets worse when they get inside and greet T.O., the leader of the Grim Bastards MC from Lodi, their allies for decades.  They ask T.O. about Hightower, and he is sad to say that  Hightower hired them to protect him.  What’s worse, Hightower is T.O.’s cousin, and he can’t help them kill his own blood.  Before they can get down to brass tacks, Hightower comes in the room, screams “You sold me out!” at T.O. and starts shooting at the Sons.

Know what’s scarier than a giant with a pipe?  A giant with a gun.

Hightower escapes in the SUV, and the Sons chase after him on foot.  As he drives by the SoA bikes, he does the best move I’ve seen all season, and nudges the end bike with his bumper, creating a domino effect and knocking them all down.  Guess we won’t get one of those great Season 5 chase-through-city-streets scene in this episode.

After commercials, an angry Jax confronts T.O. about finding Hightower and killing him.  T.O. refuses again to help them kill his cousin.  Bobby pulls Jax and the other SoA members aside and reminds Jax that their relationship with the Grim Bastards is a solid one and goes back 20 years.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be alienating the few friends we have right now.

He doesn’t want Jax to shit on that, despite the fact that the president’s cousin killed Opie.  Jax takes a few deep breaths and walks back up to T.O.  He says if T.O. will find Hightower and get him to give Jax the names of the other guys who beat Opie, they’ll just beat Hightower up but won’t kill him.  T.O. and the Bastards agree that this is a good compromise, and T.O. promises to track The Not-So-Jolly Black Giant down and let Jax talk to him.

 Quick scene with Eli Roosevelt, who’s back in his office, but in civilian clothes (that mandatory leave is still in effect), cheerily looking over his wife’s death certificate.

Fun times!

Unser pops his head in and mysteriously says he has “the last piece of the puzzle”.  Roosevelt is intrigued and beckons him in.

At Stockton, Tara’s outside the prison waiting in her car.  It’s Gemma, and

surprisingly she has NOT brought a bag of weed.

Since the Escalade was totaled in her attempt to kill her grandchildren, Gemma’s driving some economy sedan.  Hopefully, she can use Siri in this car to wake her high ass up.  Do you think that version of Siri has Amanda Bynes’s voice?

Gemma has the “ornate” crucifix Otto asked for, and it’s pretty big.  Like Madonna (not the holy one, the faux English one) big. She found it in LuAnn’s storage unit.

I thought of a good caption joke but I’m a little too religious for it.

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8 Comments

  1. 1
    SuburBint
    Posted November 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    The elderly gentleman’s name on the show is Lenny “the Pimp” Janowitz, one of the First 9, and in prison for killing some ATF agents. He’s also played by Sonny Barger, the former president of the Oakland chapter of the Hell’s Angels, and pretty much the most famous/infamous biker of all time.

    Imdb.com. A recapper’s best friend.

  2. 2
    missV
    Posted November 15, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    I don’t fully understand how Tara can get blamed. The guard got knocked out so he didn’t see where the crucifix came from. Can’t she blame the nurse and say her took it off of the nurse? Stole it from Tara is some way? There seems to be several ways to get around this framing. Hell just have Otto killed in prison in some way if it’s an issue. That takes care of everything once he recants his statements.

    I like Juice, he was one of my favorites but this episode he was driving me nuts! How guilty can you look!? There’s no way he’s going to survive this season.

  3. 3
    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted November 15, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    The problem Tara has is that she was under the radar. Now that Otto has done this in contact with her the most cursory investigation will out her as the wife of the pres of SAMCRO, the last people that should have any contact with Otto and have a vested interest in trying to get him to recant the RICO testimony. She’s out now and smack dab in a murder probe inside the prison. The job in Oregon she can kiss goodbye too, they’ll never hire her now that this is on her plate. The way I see it this is the first time Tara has really had to own up to her deal with SAMCRO and being Jax’ old lady. Up until now she was playing at being the badass old lady and getting singed around the edges without really paying the price. She was always a victim or a bystander and got away with whatever was going down. She never really paid the price, not really. I mean bad stuff happened TO her but it was victim bad stuff. This time she will be the focus of the LAW, they might charge her, they might jail her, they might even convict her. She will have paid THAT price, the actual legal price. To me that’s different than just the victim price. Anyway you look at it she is pretty messed up in her head too. Her relationship with Thomas is very weird. She ignores him, she wakes him up on purpose to meet her own needs. She could have just picked him up while he was sleeping and held him but she didn’t, she had to actually wake him up and upset him so he would need her. That’s weird. Add that to the increasing amount of time she spends at home getting her smoke on and she’s losing it. She can’t deal any more, she’s just fronting. It’s interesting to me. I wonder if they’ll do anything real with that or just leave it be. I hope they work that angle more.

  4. 4
    ApplePie
    Posted November 15, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    @Suburbint, thanks for getting that info! I love to use imdb.com, especially because I can never remember that Danny Trejo’s character’s name is “Romeo” (a mug like that does not conjure the name Romeo in my brain). Somehow, I still missed the Lenny/Sonny info, so much appreciated. @missV, I’m hoping there’s an easy way out of this crucifix/accessory thing, too. I agree that they should blame the dead nurse; it’s not like she’s going to care and they already did that with Miles and the brick of coke. @yourlittledogtoo, I know, right? Why not just hold Thomas and rock him while he’s still sleeping? Is there a disorder in the DSM that covers people who cause pain just so they can be the ones to end the pain? Are there meds for that … besides THC, I mean?

  5. 5
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 6:26 am

    OMG, Apple! “Jax smells a half-Puerto Rican, half-Black rat.” and the pic…LOLOLOL!

    I also thought the fact that Tara woke up Thomas was weird.

  6. 6
    Teresae
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 10:59 am

    This episode of SOA was just insanely powerful. I had a feeling that the deal with Tara and Otto wouldn’t end well. He feels cheated by the MC and wants a way to get back at them for everything they’ve done to him over the years. Bringing in the crucifix was a bad idea and honestly Tara and Gemma should have known better. Now she could possibly be an accessory to murder and Tara’s hopes of moving on from Charming are done. You just never know with SOA so I’ve got my Hopper from DISH recording the show each week. It’s four times more recording space than all the other DVRs out there which means I don’t have to rush to watch everything I’ve recorded. I’m not surprised that Jax found a way to still kill the guy that gave up the other guys involved in Opie’s death. He is determined to get revenge anyway he can. My DISH co-worker pointed out that the rage over Opie is understandable but he just tore down a 20 year relationship with another MC. That’s true but at the same time you have to wonder what the other club would have done in Jax’s position. I thought for sure that Juice was about to meet his maker. Regardless of why he did what he did Jax won’t forgive him that easily.

  7. 7
    sweetpea
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    How could Tara not have known after she saw the crucifix that it had enormous potential to be a deadly weapon… I’m a little slow on the draw with this show, things sneak up on my all the time, but even I knew it was no ordinary crucifix. I need these recaps, I seem to miss things in every episode that prove necessary to the plot.
    I was almost relieved to see Otto reveal his intentions despite it’s brutality because his interactions with Tara have been freaking me out.
    Waiting to see what he was going to finally do was really hard to watch, like a horror flick.
    It’s a testament to the writing and acting that Clay became a sympathetic character to me in this episode, I wanted him dead for a while and this episode shifted me around into feeling empathy and compassion for him.

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    Tmurda
    Posted November 18, 2012 at 2:43 am

    I’m so glad you mentioned the crying voiceover, cuz I too was like “WTF?” as I watched the completely still, sleeping baby in his crib as I was hearing him angrily cry. And no, you do not wake a sleeping baby. I have forbid my fiance from eating breakfast before work on certain mornings because i’m afraid the sound of opening/closing cabinets and dishes being moved around will wake his daughter. That bitch must REALLY be lonely.
    Great recap, keep it up!!!

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