Sons of Anarchy Recap: It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday


By ApplePie | | 12:00 pm | 6 Comments

Gemma’s day gets worse, when, after she chastises Jax for bringing EJ to the clubhouse, he tells her he’s a little more worried about saying goodbye to Opie than fulfilling her need to be “loved, worshiped, and adored today”.  Ouch!  EJ twists the knife by telling Gemma all she did with Clay was rub his shoulders, and that SHE didn’t call the cops.  Nero asks Jax to keep Carla at the club while he gets EJ out of town and squeezes Gemma’s hand tenderly before driving off with EJ. Jax tells Chibs to call up Skeeter, Charming’s favorite funeral home/crematorium director with questionable morals (is there any other kind?) and ask him to cut off a digit and a tit from an appropriate burnee.  After he stomps off, Chibs walks over to Gemma and reminds her that Jax does love her more than anyone else in the world.

Psssst … you can also comfort yourself by emotionally antagonizing either one of Jax’s wives.

Tara knocks on the door to Jax’s room at the club (What?  Just walk in — he’s your husband!) and comes in to find him going through old pictures.  She sees some of him and Wendy during happier times and though he says he was planning to throw them out, Tara says they should keep them for Abel.  Since that door is open, she brings up the idea of telling Abel who is biological mother is, but Jax refuses, since Abel has had so much drama in his young life already.  Jax says he may reconsider — but only when Abel is much older.

The guys go outside to greet Opie’s body for the wake.  Skeeter drives up in his hearse with Opie in a coffin in the back and CFP has brought Lyla in the tow truck.  She’s understandably devastated and Jax hugs her.  The guys bring Opie into the club and set him up on the church table, uncover the coffin and give Lyla some time with Opie’s body.  Before Jax leaves the room, Lyla asks him how she’s supposed to survive with three kids and no support system on a part-time porn star’s salary.  Jax points to all the people coming into the club for Ope’s wake, and tells her that they are her family now.

Jax leaves Lyla in peace and goes outside to greet Nero, who has just put EJ on a plane back to Indiana.  He asks Nero to sit down with him for a business proposal. The short of it is, he wants Nero to start up his escort business again, using the desperate-for-more-money porn girls Jax knows from Cara Cara, in an unoccupied Elks Lodge for rent on the outskirts of town. 

Quick question:  Do outlaw bikers buy their office supplies for their escort business from Office Depot or Staples?

In exchange for the connections to the girls and fronting all the start-up costs, the Sons will get 50% of the profits from “Diosa Norte”, and hopefully both Jax & Nero will get closer to their dreams of financial freedom for the club and his family, for Jax, and enough money to buy a farm with tons of animals for Lucius, for Nero.  The conditions they agree to meet to are:  keeping Nero out of the guns and drugs, and dropping Nero’s burgeoning relationship with Gemma, so that this new business relationship can be fruitful without all the bullshit.

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6 Comments

  1. 1
    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Hilarious freaking recap, Apple! It would take me too long to type the funniest lines b/c there were so many! BRAVO!!!!!!!

    This week, the Gemma/Tara relationship irked me. Gemma totally baited Tara into doing her dirty work (beating up Carla). Tara has developed a mind of her own, and she took two steps back with taht ass beating.

    I cried and cried during the wake. So sad.

    Gah, I wish Clay would get off of the oxygen tank. It makes him look weak, and that makes me feel sorry for him and that is the last thing I want. Clay is a Skeevey McSkeeversons. That is one death I am looking forward to (although I doubt it happens before the last season, which is supposedly season 7).

  2. 2
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    Note to Tara: Girl, that thing is NEVER going to heal if you keep slamming it into people’s heads.

  3. 3
    andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    Okay, I could be wrong (it has been known to happen occasionally), but I think Jax got both infiltrated and owned in this episode. I think that this whole thing played out exactly the way Nero intended it to do. That whole, ‘I am just like you, I am a father too, I have an endgame too, I am trying to make X dollars to get out too, I just want to have a future for my son too, I want to buy him a farm in Norco, I don’t like unnecessary killing, I want to help poor Emma Jean, get her out of town, I am just like you, Jax, I have a conscience, too, Jax…’ conversations are Nero trying to make Jax feel comfortable and connected to Nero. They’re brothers, man. They want the same things! Nero has been drawing Jax further and further into his web and Jax has no one else he can feel close or equal too any longer, no one he can really relate to as an equal who gets it, and Nero’s been playing that all along.

    And no way is Nero suddenly interested in someone like Gemma, that just seemed wrong to me from the start. She’s a close to sixty year old biker old lady and he has a stable including a pretty hot bottom bitch already. He doesn’t view women in a romantic way, that’s not his game. No, he knew who she was when he picked her up in that bar, he was playing her too to get a natural ‘in’ with the Sons. And I think he has a connection with the Nomads who apparently are behind the home invasions of the Sons and who you noted objected a lot during that meeting. They may have found themselves in some deep shit with someone and be playing their own game for survival by being used by Nero now. After all, they robbed Gemma’s house but it was some lowrider-types who seemed to have the safe and those documents which looked like birth certificates etc although it was hard for me to tell what exactly they all were from the quick scene they gave us. The Nomads do the home invasion, but some hispanic low-riders have the proceeds. Telll me that doesn’t mean something.

    Now I have no idea what the endgame is, whether it’s a norteno versus surteno situation, or Pope versus Mexican Mafia, or if the CIA is a player or a target, a rival cartel, what. But Nero is a player and he has maneuvered Jax into position the way he wants him to be. I am certain of it. There’s some serious game going on with him and Jax has no idea yet.

    Now I just have to see how right I am or how delusional. It’s a fifty-fifty proposition.

  4. 4
    KeKe
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    @andyourlittledogtoo that does make sense. Something has always seemed off with Nero to me. That might be why he had no problem leaving Gemma’s ass alone. I don’t think he would have got this far being so nice.also suspect Emma Jean will be found dead somewhere.

  5. 5
    andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    I don’t know, I think Emma Jean’s in on it. I think Nero used her – and she knew it and played the part – to get Jax to think he was part responsible for the brothel closure (due to Gemma and Clay) and also to set himself up as a ‘good’ guy with a conscience who wouldn’t want poor Emma Jean killed. Emma Jean may be his real bottom bitch for all we know. But somehow I don’t think she was ever in any danger. And it was interesting how Nero knew EXACTLY where Jax would find Emma Jean and what she’d have hanging on her doorknob. If Emma Jean just ‘took off’ and called the cops, how would Nero know where to find her in a heartbeat? And his boys just happened to come up on them just in time for a car chase, no sooner no later? The whole thing smacks of manipulation by Nero. I think Emma Jean is going to appear again, and it’s going to be at Nero’s right side.

  6. 6
    ApplePie
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    I think you’re all right … and I hate it! I want EJ to be gone for good. I LOVE getting bitch slapped by the plot twists I didn’t see coming in this show. However, if the Pope storyline becomes a subplot to Nero’s hidden shenanigans and plans, I will be one pissed off bottom bitch! I want Pope to SUFFER, and I want it to happen by the end of this season!

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