Sons of Anarchy Seeds
Original Air Date: September 10, 2008
Tom R. - TwoCents Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
Community meals open and close this week’s episode. Clay returns with the payment for the guns he sold in the previous episode, as the Sons are enjoying a breakfast of muffins and tequila. Clay finds that Deputy Chief Hale is leading a murder investigation in conjunction with the warehouse fire, since the Sons took care of the warehouse owner. As they weigh their options, one biker admits that he had affairs with both of the illegal aliens killed in the fire, and some DNA may be present to link him. A forensic team will be sent up from Lodi, and Clay feels that the only thing that will stop them is if they have to investigate a different murder. He looks for targets to pop, but Jax thinks he has another solution.
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Original Air Date: September 10, 2008
Tom R. - TwoCents Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
Community meals open and close this week’s episode. Clay returns with the payment for the guns he sold in the previous episode, as the Sons are enjoying a breakfast of muffins and tequila. Clay finds that Deputy Chief Hale is leading a murder investigation in conjunction with the warehouse fire, since the Sons took care of the warehouse owner. As they weigh their options, one biker admits that he had affairs with both of the illegal aliens killed in the fire, and some DNA may be present to link him. A forensic team will be sent up from Lodi, and Clay feels that the only thing that will stop them is if they have to investigate a different murder. He looks for targets to pop, but Jax thinks he has another solution.
Clay meets with the Chief of Police to get Hale to drop the investigation. As a lame duck with a few months left, the Chief tells Clay there is nothing he can do. Clay does take payment for a protection run that the Chief arranges. But as the ride finishes, Clay double crosses the Chief, saying that he needed “a wake-up call”. Meeting the Chief for a second time, he urges cooperation for whatever time he has left. Soon, Hale is removed from the warehouse investigation.
Tara is met by Jax at the hospital, and she tells him that his son’s recovery is looking good. Wendy also is surviving after an overdose. Jax mentions that he filed for divorce last year, and things seem to be warming up a little between the two. Later, Gemma arrives at the hospital and the tension between them grows as Tara implies that Gemma gave Wendy the needle she used to OD.
Still trying to stay on the right side of the law, the newly paroled Opie sorts through the family bills with his wife Donna, and she tells him that the car is about to be repossessed. With nowhere else to turn for money, Opie agrees to join Clay on the protection run. He and Clay talk before the run, and Opie denies the regrets that he clearly feels. Later, Gemma covers Donna’s debt at the grocery store and tries to persuade her that the Club will pull her through the times she is now facing.
Jax approaches Skeeter, the local undertaker, for a couple of fresh bodies that they can plant as a phony murder. The undertaker turns down the cash they offer, but says he will do it in exchange for some time with a local girl named Emily. She agrees, but only if she can sleep with Jax first. He agrees, and the Sons have their bodies. But on the way to the site, a cop pulls over one of the two cars. The second car rear-ends the cop, and eventually all of them escape to arrange the murder for the Lodi police to find.
The episode ends with a couple of interesting parallel moments: As the Mexicans from the warehouse are cremated, Gemma burns a wedding picture with her first husband and Clay as best man. The final moment intercuts Jax at Wendy’s bedside, the family dinner with SAMCRO, and Opie and Donna sharing a sparse, quiet dinner with the family. All of this intercutting ends with Jax taking his place at the Morrow dinner table. This is one of the few FX shows set in a small town, so the tone is completely different than most of the big city shows. The action and emotional impact seem to be building on the pilot episode, and Jax is no less complex a character than the other established characters in the FX universe.
So that’s my two cents. Care to contribute? Drop me a line at tom@thetwocents.com