It's been a season of lies on Sons of Anarchy, but in this
episode, it was all about telling the truth or hearing it. Oh, and
pussy. Sweet holy pussy. How many times did you rewind that crazy Clay
scene? Did you stop it before he bit the dude's nose off? Kurt Sutter explained that, among other things, in our postmortem. Let's dig in.
We opened with shirtless Jax running water over his face and staring
at his Abel tattoo on his chest, thereby giving us permission to stare
at his chest, too. Thank you. Thomas started crying, so Jax went and got
his bottle ready and passed him off to Tara. Over at Gemma's, Nero
awoke in her bed and didn't comment on the fact that Gemma was kneeling
and praying. Clearly he needed coffee, which she made him as he moved to
the kitchen to read the newspaper. "Hopefully we didn't make the front
page today," she joked. Ha. She hadn't wanted to ruin his homecoming
last night by telling him the headline involving her and Tara, but he's
had a few hours of peace now. Once he heard what had happened, he told
Gemma she was going to need more than the word of Wendy, a guilt-ridden
junkie Jax hates, if she's going to convince Jax that Tara betrayed him.
Nero didn't doubt Gemma's innocence. He can see that she has deep
secrets that weigh her down, but he knows she'd never spin the truth
when it comes to her kids. (Well...)
As she came clean, Jax was once again being honest with Tara. He told
her the reason Clay is still alive inside is that the Irish want him to
be point for guns in Cali. They plan to bust him out when he's
transported next week (in SOA time, who knows when that'll
happen). Tara's feeling guilty, too -- she tried to get Jax to stop
telling her things, presumably so she wouldn't be tempted to write them
down for her case against him parenting their boys. Jax, however, just
thought she was putting distance between them because of her charges. He
can't figure out how to help her with those, but he can keep
his promise as a husband and be honest with her. He'd been trying to
protect her from things, which he realizes hasn't worked at all.
They shared a rare kiss on the lips. He finally vocalized what we've
all noticed: Ever since she's gotten out of Stockton, she hasn't been
able to say "I love you" to him. He's going to stop saying it to her so
she doesn't feel bad about it (how considerate), but he wanted her to
know it's what he feels.
The DA paid Eli a somber visit to tell him she's giving him three
extra units so he can have Jax tailed 24/7. Jax arrived at the new
clubhouse on his bike and passed what I thought was the Homeless Woman
who recurs on the show suddenly looking damn good. And younger. She just
had a backpack, which made me think of the school shooting. (We'd find
out later it wasn't her.) Happy is back and reporting that most of their
buyers will be cool with the personnel change after they talk to Clay.
So Chibs is working on getting Clay a phone inside. Bobby said the
Italians could be a problem. (What Italians?) Unser showed up and Bobby
had a warm greeting for him: "Wow. You didn't die yet?" (Foreshadowing?
Or just a cancer joke?) "A little every day," Unser said.
While the guys went upstairs, Jax and Unser had a chat. Jax thanked
him for all he's done for Tara and the boys. If the young woman hadn't
taken a pipe wrench to a bike and then thrown it through the window of
the clubhouse, Unser probably would have tried to get Jax to show mercy
on his mom. But Jax darted out after the girl and grabbed her when he
caught up to her. He asked who she was and why she'd done that. She
yelled "Rape! Rape!" and he had to let her go as the townsfolk gathered.
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