Sons of Anarchy Recap: No Fu**in’ Way

Sons of Anarchy

By ApplePie | Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 11:00 am | 13 Comments
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Let me preface this recap by saying this is the kind of episode that makes you want to recover by curling up in bed with a box of powdered sugar “Donettes” (yes, you evil advertising execs, giving sugary doughnuts a petite-sounding name creates the illusion that I am inhaling fewer calories) and sob “I just can’t quit you, Show!” into your cold glass of milk. 

Hostess … making everything better since 1919

Just me?  I did have a stressful week.

lah198 posted in last week’s recap comments, “Supposedly someone important is going to die next week, any thoughts on who?”  I guess I should not have ignored that question, because then I would have been better prepared.  I am sad, sad ‘capper this week.  We’ll start at the beginning …

The newest residents of the San Joaquin County Correctional Facility– Tig, Chibs, Jax and Opie — stroll into the community day room/bedroom/UFC ring.  They see lots of Hispanic and black inmates, and no friendly faces.  As the third string of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive line approaches our anti-heroes,

Ruh-roh!  It’s pretty hard to intimidate in orange scrubs.

a group of Hispanic inmates tell the black guys to back off, and that word came “straight from the shoe” (Gasmii, little help?).  The Hispanic leader tells Jax that he and his SAMCRO guys have a place with them.

Gemma comes to in Nero’s bed and is much kinder upon waking up there than last time this happened.

Too be fair, Nero looks much less scary in a black wifebeater than a white one.

Carla comes in and interrupts — again!  Deja vu much? — with a request for Nero to meet with a rookie escort.  Nero, there’s this thing called a “lock” and most people have it on their bedroom doors.  Or you could put one of those charming “don’t come a’knockin’ ” signs on your door, too.  Maybe the lack of a bedroom lock is on purpose, though …

Want to be the queso blanco in a Mexican sandwich, Gemma?

Back at SJCCF, the guys are assessing the situation.  Chibs tells Jax that even though the Mexicans are offering protection, Damon Pope will find other ways to get at them inside, either through the Aryans or the guards.  Don’t think Pope and the Aryans would have too much in common, even in their hatred for SAMCRO, but stranger things have happened, especially when there’s money involved.  As a guard calls Jax to go with him, I guess we have our answer.

The Aryans must have politely declined Mr. Pope’s offer.

Back at the club, Bobby reports to Clay, Juice, CFP and Happy that he just got off the phone with Luis and the guys are safe for the time being, but Luis wants to meet with SAMCRO at Lindelhof Pines right away.  Gemma walks up as the guys are leaving for the meet and gets filled in that the guys are safe and Tara knows that as well.

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  1. 1
    labowner
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Applepie – we never saw this coming.

    http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/27/sons-of-anarchy-actor-dead-in-hollywood-murder-mystery/

    Sad

  2. 2
    Nikki
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 11:44 am

    Lab – saw that this morning too. Poor half sack!! But messed up he beat his elderly landlord to death! Wtf?!

    I missed this ep on account of being sick and falling asleep early and I’m super pissed I missed it (even though the next morning I got every last detail of it out of my friend who is equally obsessed). I’ve never hated and loved Kurt Sutter so much at the same time. He killed Opie which is the ultimate hate. But I understand why he did it for the series which is why I love him. Ryan Hurst is a hell of an actor and he will be sorely missed from the show, but I can’t wait to see how this shapes the rest of the season and series cause it without a doubt will. All because of effin Clay..arghhhhhh!!!

  3. 3
    plockeness monster
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    Awesome recap for an awesome episode, Apple.

    I hate that Opie was the one to die. After Jax, he was my fav. I feel like we should have seen his death coming. He admitted to Layla (???) that he didn’t think he loved anyone anymore. Almost everyone he loved has died and the club completely ruined his life. It was his time and I am glad Kurt Sutter wrote it the way he did.

    I looooooooove the Tara/Gemma story line!!! I have read where viewers are getting mad b/c Tara is turing into Gemma. I don’t think that’s that case. I think that story line is to show us how much the club can change your life, even if you are a renowned surgeon.

    I want to know more about Nero and Carla’a relationship.

    Does anyone else think it was Clay that called the cops on Diosa???

    Lastly, I think the reason Jax told Tig that he always needs to side w/ him is because he thought him and Clay were BFF. Anytime Clay needed something shady done, he called on Tig. He is a wild card in Jax’s eyes. Now he will have control over him, not Clay.

  4. 4
    mjhhawk
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    Plockeness –

    I am with you in loving the tara/gemma story, especially now with tara becoming a bit of a bad ass. I got chills when she said Jax would kill gemma (subtley reminding her of the threat of missing details of the JT letters).

    Wow, I kept thinking they would find a way to get out of there without someone dying. Common sense said it had to be Opie (his story arc this year leaned to him saying good bye), but I really just didn’t want it to happen. I love SOA keeing us on our toes with surprises, but this one is going to leave me missing my favorite character.

    Also agree that it was Clay who called the cops. Clay-Nero are headed for a fight.

    And as a male I have to say that the porn story was just to balance out the 36 times this show has shown Jax’s naked butt!!!!

  5. 5
    plockeness monster
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    I will take seeing Jax’s naked ass any day!!!!!!!!

    Mjh – I got chills when Tara said that to Gemma too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gemma’s face was priceless.

  6. 6
    suedisco
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Sad sad sad…poor Lyla…does she get stuck raising Opie’s kids now? They weren’t ever divorced, right? Those poor kids. For all the crap the show took for not killing off Clay, I do think this death (sad though it is for fans) is good for the momentum of the show.

    Very sad about Johnny Lewis. He was a good character actor. I always enjoyed seeing him pop up in random movies, shows, etc.

  7. 7
    KeKe
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Omg!!!!!!! I’m shock. I just watched the ep. I was studying during the show and purposely avoided all SOA news. All though it did seem like his character was done, I expected his leaving would be much later in theshow. I def didn’t see him dying. Op was my fav character after Jax. The club did a number on that family.

  8. 8
    andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    I believe that the hispanic inmate was referencing the SHU – segregated housing unit – in maximum security prison. That’s where a lot of the biggest baddest leaders of gangs are nowadays and they run their gangs from inside the prison walls. The guys on the outside are usually subordinate to them and their reach is very long. So I think they were talking about some super heavy head gang honcho who is locked up in the SHU somewhere, Pelican Bay maybe, or San Quentin. That’s what I got out of that reference anyway.

  9. 9
    andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    Oh, and I should add that the head of the Mexican Mafia is in a SHU somewhere, don’t recall which one. So…. you be the judge.

  10. 10
    Willroast Willroast
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 9:37 pm

    Wow. Just wow. This show just keeps getting better. I remember as last season was unfolding thinking that it must be reaching it’s apex as a quality show. Opie shooting Clay, Gemma giving Jax the green-light to kill Clay in the hospital bed, etc. I thought it would be very difficult for the show to top these moments. Boy was I wrong! I mean, Opie was kind of like the heart of this show. He was the kind of character that could really do no wrong. Even when he did bad things, you still liked the guy and were always pulling for him. Killing him off was a sad, but brilliant play. It just goes to show you that in SoA, nobody is safe from a great storyline. Well done!

  11. 11
    Amanda
    Posted September 28, 2012 at 5:18 am

    The PAUSE they took before his head exploded was JUST enough time to give us hope that somehow Ope could win or Jax would rescue him. They really tugged on the viewers heart strings with that pause. And then his head explodes.

    The way the director handled that scene is seriously going to send me to therapy. Worse than Tig watching his daughter die…

    And the fact that Ope was only in jail to protect Jax in the first place really keeps me up at night.

  12. 12
    KeKe
    Posted September 28, 2012 at 8:15 am

    @Amanda, I thought the same thing in that moment. I really thought they were gonna find a way to come out on top. That look Jax was giving Tig gave me chills. In that moment I knew Tig’s fate was sealed.
    @suedisco, I think Lyla will end keeping the kids because there really isn’t anywhere else for them to go. I don’t think Ope’s mom would do.

  13. 13
    Brianna Quinn
    Posted September 28, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    I’m still reeling from this episode. I kept thinking….maybe Ope would pull through, it wasn’t until the blow to the back of his head I knew there was no hope. Pass the Kleenex.

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