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Scoops from Mayor Jacob Hale, for use as SAMCRO's permanent headquarters. Nero asks why, to which Jax admits he killed Gemma and says his sons should not have any memory of him other than hatred. After kissing Wendy and shaking Chucky's hand, Jax departs on his father's newly repaired motorcycle. A reluctant and tearful Chibs calls a vote for Jax to meet Mr. Mayhem. A unanimous vote sentences Jackson Teller to "meet Mr. Mayhem". Jax visits District Attorney Patterson and offers information that Gemma murdered Tara,
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referred as "the gatekeeper" for her knowledge of the town and its inhabitants' lives and secrets. After a severe domestic dispute between Gemma and Clay in 2011, they separated. Following this, and the revelation that Clay killed both John Teller and Piney Winston, Jax personally stripped Clay of his position as President as well as his membership in the Club. The Club voted for Clay to "Meet Mr Mayhem", and Jax executed Clay for his crimes. Jax became President in December 2011, and originally intended to
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Jax informs Chibs that the other presidents called for a Mayhem vote. He insists that Chibs follow his instructions for the sakes of Jax's family and the club. Chibs reluctantly agrees. Securing Connor's allegiance to Alvarez after killing Rourke and his soldiers, Jax meets with Nero at the garage. He states that the garage and houses are to be left to Wendy, and she is to sell everything and take the boys away from Charming forever. He also arranges to leave his stake in Diosa to the club and to purchase
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an all points bulletin for Jax. At Red Woody, Jax arrives to accept his fate, passing his president's patch to Chibs, and Chibs passes his VP patch to Tig. Chibs takes Jax's gun but shoots Happy in the arm instead, saying the SoA presidents will be told Jax shot Happy and then escaped. Jax hugs each SoA brother in turn (except T.O, who was not present at the time of the Mayhem vote), and leaves. "I got this", he says, echoing Opie
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and Abel escape before he, too, leaves just as the Clubhouse explodes behind them. Following the explosion, Chibs reassured Jax that "we are going to fix this". When the Club decides to vote on Clay "meeting Mr Mayhem", Chibs supports Jax's decision. Clay assists Jax in killing Galen when he and Tig kill Galen's guards to make the scene look like a deal gone wrong. Checking that Jax is good with killing Clay himself, he stands back and watches silently as Jax shoots Clay through
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who actually killed Tara. With the club and Sheriff Jarry searching for Gemma, Jax heads to Stockon to confront Juice, who tearfully recounts the events that led to Tara and Eli Roosevelt's deaths. With that news as well as confirmation that Barosky tipped off August about the guns, Jax calls a forum of several SoA presidents. He explains to them that he killed Jury White because he thought Jury had ratted the club out; the presidents recommended a Mayhem vote. Jax states his club will be on board and vote accordingly
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murder of Pamela Toric, for which she was accused in season 5 but did not have anything to do with. The DA agrees to what Jax offers her after a few moments of reluctance to believe that he will come through. With that, Jax has let Tara know that he truly loves her and their sons more than anything. They cry and make love. Tara and Jax agree to meet the DA at the Teller home at 6pm after he spends his last hours as a free man with his sons. He
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, realizing it's armed, the Sons get everyone out. Jax runs out of the clubhouse with Abel, just as it explodes. With the clubhouse destroyed, Jax and SAMCRO meet at Gemma's house and Jax talks to Galen and the Kings again, to find that they must cooperate with their terms or more SOA clubhouses will be bombed; They will spring Clay from prison, have him set up a crew to handle the gun-running and the Sons will turn over all their customers to them without profit. Jax
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shoots Pope. The gun is revealed to be Clay's; given to Jax by Juice. Jax then plants the gun for the cops to find. He meets with August putting all blame for Pope's death on Clay and he had nothing to do with it. He is seen at the end of the episode in dread, as Tara is arrested for her part in Otto's murder of the nurse. Jax is having problems with his wife Tara being behind bars for her involvement in the death of a nurse. He
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not only called them, but also paid them to deport SAMCRO. Once they reach the clubhouse belonging to the Belfast chapter, Jax meets Maureen and Trinity Ashby. Trinity is Jax's half-sister, although this fact isn't known by either of them yet. There are subtle hints that Jax and Trinity may be attracted to each other. Jax later meets with father Kellan Ashby. Father Kellan explains to Jax that the Real IRA wants to get rid of Jimmy O'Phellan and that they want SAMCRO to do it, because
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meet with Galen who congratulates Jax. Jax then kills Galen, while Tig and Chibs kill his men. Jax explains that the Club took a vote on how to handle the situation. Clay realizes he is next and, resigned to his fate, stands ready. Jax then shoots Clay in the neck and numerous times in the chest. They then stage the killings to look like Clay and the Irish killed each other in a dispute, which Connor backs up. Patterson meets with Jax at the new clubhouse, telling him that
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one of his men killed by Frankie, guns him down before he can tell them anything. Jax has another meeting with Roosevelt where he reveals Frankie's death was out of his hands and he figured out that Juice is the rat. The episode ends with Jax in the van tailing Juice. In "Crucifixed" Jax, Chibs and Bobby meet to discuss Juice and the RICO case. They decide to wait out Juice to avoid damaging the Club's image. Jax later meets with Juice stating that if Juice wants to make
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Niner leader and Pope's lieutenant August to cease hostilities between the Sons and Niners. Jax, Chibs and Bobby later find a broken Tig, having had to watch as Pope burned his daughter Dawn alive. After ensuring his other daughter's safety, Jax, Chibs and Tig are arrested when witnesses bought by Pope testify to Tig running down Veronica Pope and Jax and Chib's highway shooting of one of the Niners. They hide in a brothel owned by Gemma's new suitor Nero Padilla. He meets with the club attorney to
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will not be he who kills Jimmy. Back at the clubhouse, Jax and Trinity come close to having sex, but Gemma and Maureen walk in on them. Jax learns from his mother that Trinity is his half-sister. He takes it well, even joking that in two more minutes he would have been in Tig's territory. After talking to his mother, he meets with Father Ashby to find out where Abel is. Father Ashby admits that he never planned to give Abel back, because he knew of John
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out of SAMCRO and that the president's patch goes to Opie. Clay agrees to the deal. Jax and Clay meet with the rest of SAMCRO try to persuade them that the drug transporting would be good for them, financially. Jax shows them the money they made from the first deal to convince them. After the meeting, Jax and Opie go to the Indian Reservation to see about the ammunition. They are encountered by some vengeful Russians. The Russians threaten to kill two Native Americans they are holding hostage if they do
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It's also revealed Jax has made a deal with the district attorney Patterson to turn over Galen and his crew in exchange for immunity for Tara and the Club. Jax goes back to Colette's to unwind. They have sex, but are caught by Tara who attacks Colette and smacks Jax. She states he did this to her. The next episode "Aon Rud Persanta" shows SAMCRO helping free Clay from his transport to trial. They succeed, but Bobby is injured and Juice kills a guard in the process. They
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is the teenage daughter of Chibs Telford and Fiona Larkin, raised by Fiona and Jimmy O'Phelan. Abel Teller is the son of Jax Teller and Wendy Case. Wendy purposely gets pregnant with Abel to try to hold onto Jax. Thomas Teller is the son of Jax Teller and Tara Knowles. The younger half-brother of Abel Teller, Thomas is named after Jax's dead brother and Gemma's second son. Dawn Trager (Rachel Miner) and Fawn Trager (Lexi Sakowitz) are the daughters of Alex "Tig" Trager
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the muling to go through, Jax meets with Alvarez, Henry Lin, and the Niner president as the cocaine will move through their territory. Everyone agrees to the agreement allowing things to proceed. At the end of the episode, Jax, Chibs, Bobby, and Tig break into the sergeant's house and Jax viciously beats him to death with a snow globe. In "Toad's Wild Ride," Jax, Bobby and Unser come to the conclusion that the three Nomads Gogo, Greg and Frankie are behind the break
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Mayhem vote. Though distraught, Chibs promises Jax that he'll do as he's asked. Afterwards, Chibs meets with Jarry, who breaks off their relationship. Chibs tells her it's a mistake, because cops who land on the wrong side of the Club "tend to go away.". Back at the new Clubhouse in Red Woody, Chibs tells the Sons they can't let their hearts be louder than their reason. He chokes back tears as he calls for Jax's mayhem vote. They solemnly vote unanimously
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agrees and surprises them by stating he didn't kill Connor and the other Irishmen they abducted. He then meets with all West Coast SOA members and announces the end of the SOA-IRA relationship and the gun-running in favor of legitimate income. At the end of the meeting Bobby rejoins SAMCRO, bringing in three new members. Jax then meets with Hale to lease an old ice cream parlor as their new clubhouse. SAMCRO votes in the new recruits and also patches Ratboy in. Jax later helps Venus, one of
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, Chibs and Tig to murder a Mayan member who SAMCRO frames for Donna's murder. After the Mayan is killed, Opie carves the Sons of Anarchy symbol into his stomach (so the Mayans will know why the man was killed). After Opie, Chibs and Tig leave, Jax removes the symbol and disposes of the body in Mayan territory, putting up 9 fingers to make it look like the Niners killed the man. Jax has gotten a new tattoo: his son Abel's name on his left pec. He
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When she leaves, Jax flushes Wendy's stash down the toilet and takes her gun. Clay and Gemma begin to worry that Jax is abandoning the club and what it stands for. The next day, Clay, Jax and Bobby meet Ernest Darby, the Nordics' leader, and tell him never to bring methamphetamine or any other drug into Charming again. That night, as they prepare to go and get their guns back from San Leandro, Jax tells Opie not to come because of the situation with his family and Bobby
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and is subsequently arrested, Jax comes to the realization that the time has come to fulfill his father's legacy and bring the club fully into legitimate ventures. But his plans are nearly derailed when his oldest son Abel asks him a question that makes Jax realize Gemma killed Tara, not Lin's crew member whom Jax killed. Unser confirms the story the next morning, saying Lin's man was in a Las Vegas drunk tank the night Tara was murdered. Jax Set a meeting with Juice to confirm that Gemma was the one
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. In the next episode "Ablation," Jax, Tig and Chibs cut the hands off the body and send one to Unser for identification and the other to Pope to send a message. He then learns that Gemma, Abel, and Thomas got in a car crash apparently caused by the escaping shooter running her off the road. Jax meets with Pope, questioning whether he was behind hiring the shooters or the Nomads. Pope denies this and the Niners lead Jax to the other shooter, who reveals that they were hired
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whatever happens today, the outcome lands on him and that he is a man, a husband, and a father before SAMCRO and that a good man would not let his family pay the price for his mistakes. Jax manages to track Tara down to a park in Lodi when Rat follows her new lawyer there. Jax assures her that he isn't going to hurt her or the kids and tells her to be a good mother and to keep their kids safe. Jax and Tara meet with Patterson, and he offers to
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her again. Her paranoia is further compounded when someone from L.O.A.N. mails one of the rapists' white masks to her. When Gemma learns of Jax's plans to become a Nomad, she tells him that she knows about the book her first husband, Jax's father John Teller, had written. She tells Jax she believes John's death may not have been an accident, but rather a suicide. After asking Jax to reconsider his decision, she implores him to read a certain page in John's book, hoping it
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property to use. He denies, but later reconsiders when Jax offers him dirt on a member of city council to allow Charming Heights to proceed and Damon Pope as an investor. Jax has another meeting with Pope, who offers him a new deal; to double their muling fee from Galindo by cutting his gang in on moving the cocaine. The club votes on it and, despite strong objections, it is voted in. Pope also gives Jax the identity and address of the prison sergeant who had Opie killed. To allow
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Teller's desire to keep Jax out of the life and decided if he couldn't help Jax he could try to help Abel by giving him to a better family to raise him. Jax becomes furious and attacks Ashby, only to be thrown over a table. After Jax threatens to kill Sean Casey at gunpoint, Ashby then finally tells Jax where he can find Abel. However, Ashby tells Jax that if he loves Abel, he will let him go. When Jax finally finds Abel, his emotions and Ashby's advice
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business and split the profits with the Club. He brings it to the Club to move them away from guns and drugs, and it is voted in at the urging of Clay. They later meet with Galen and the Galindo cartel to set up the big gun sale. He and Galen come to terms with their animosity towards each other and settle it in a fist-fight. To get a location to set up the brothel for Nero, Jax, Bobby, and Chibs meet with Hale asking to lease a piece of
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later revealed they were Mexican prostitutes "owned" by the club's Sergeant-at-Arms, Tig Trager. When Jax returns home and begins looking through storage, he finds old photographs of his late father and a journal titled "The Life and Death of Sam Crow: How the Sons of Anarchy Lost Their Way" written by him, and for his sons Jackson and Thomas (who had already died at the time of writing). Jax is then called away to a group meeting ("Church") where
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sure the baby is healthy. Jax later meets with Stahl, who is still determined to see the deal through. In the finale, it is revealed that his deal with Stahl was a club decision, and that he would never rat on his family. When she inevitably reneges on her promise of secrecy, he acts the part knowing she will soon be dead and they will serve light time. In a letter to Gemma, Jax assures her that he is not his father and would never rat on the club. However
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is seen saving Tig from bounty hunters with Chibs, Happy, Half-Sack and Piney. He assumes that Ethan Zobelle and L.O.A.N. will fight an underhanded war against SAMCRO and he is against Clay's plans to strike at the Aryans head-on. Jax finds fault with most everything Clay says and the two grow farther and farther apart. After L.O.A.N. burns down Cara-Cara, Jax suspects it was Clay, since Clay did not want the porn business around after Luann is murdered. This drives Jax over the edge,
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interrogates Liam O'Neill about his connection to Jimmy. O'Neill confesses that he blew up the truck that killed members of the Real IRA and SAMBEL. He also admits that McGee is working for Jimmy. After a shootout with Jimmy and his crew, Jax chases Jimmy but can't get to him in time. He makes it back just in time to watch Clay kill McGee for betraying the club. Later that night, Jax and the club meet with the IRA council to present the evidence that Jimmy has flipped and learns that it
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as she is with Nero's cousin, to make sure she doesn't reveal the origins of the weapon. They take her to the cabin, but she panics, grabs a gun and the two run. Nero shoots his cousin and the two bind and gag the woman. Against Nero's wishes, Jax has Juice smother her and make it seem she overdosed. Jax also learns that Clay has been talking to Lee Toric, the brother of the murdered nurse who is behind Tara's arrest. The two meet; Clay
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. He then tortures the man with various instruments, including a hammer and by salting his wounds, before killing him by driving a carving fork in his head. In the next episode "Toil and Till", SAMCRO meets with the Indian Hills charter as well as two hired guns brought in as muscle. Jax outlines to Jury his plan to destroy Lin and Lin's club: cut off all sources of Chinese income, isolate and make him desperate, and then end him, slowly and painfully. Jax's team then
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side. In "Poor Little Lambs" Jax meets with Tully to help the Niners move the heroin, but Tully claims Jax will need to talk to his lieutenant Leland about working with blacks. This goes poorly, as they are followed by two sheriffs who the AB opens fire on, killing one sheriff and leaving another critically injured. Later in the episode, SAMCRO experiences Chinese retaliation when a grenade is thrown outside of the Sons' ice cream shop, and several armed Chinese men enter Diosa and kill the escorts and guests
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delivered ten weeks prematurely. Jax finds his father's memoirs when he visits a storage unit to collect some old baby clothes. John Teller, Jax's father, was one of the founders of SAMCRO, and the book describes his trials with and hopes for the club. Jax's mother, Gemma Teller-Morrow, is now married to the President of SAMCRO, Clay Morrow. Jax's best friend Opie has just been released from prison for serving time for a club-related crime. The first season deals with Jax
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, provided an "unwritten by-law" is tossed out. The presidents approve Jax's request, which was to allow blacks to be patched into the SoA charters. Jax later receives word from Wendy that a nursing home had contacted her, stating Gemma was there attempting to visit her father. Jax heads to his grandfather's house in Oregon and finds Unser attempting to arrest Gemma, in an effort save her from Jax. Jax pleads with Unser to leave. Unser refuses, stating "This is all I have left
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is trying to continue to move from guns to legitimate businesses. He is seen at the end of episode 1 cheating on Tara with Colette Jane, an escort handler. The next episode showing him meeting resistance from Galen O'Shay to end the gun relationship with the Irish. Galen insists they take a shipment of KG-9s after a school shooting is committed with one of theirs. Jax also meets with August Marks, to get status on Clay as well as still handing over Tig. He and Nero find the mother of the child,
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back, causing friction with Chibs. When he learns of Neo-Nazis attack on Unser (in retaliation for Clay's murder of a Stockton member) he meets with Darby to find them. He later has a second, more aggressive meeting with Galen, telling him SAMCRO is done with guns and they are no more than gangsters. In retaliation, Galen kills Filthy Phil and a prospect, dismembering their bodies, and leaving two cases of KG-9s. The episode ends with Jax using them to wipe out the Neo-Nazis
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her. He then meets with Galen to discuss business; Galen claims SAMCRO must help with their plan to spring Clay from his transport. Jax objects to helping, but has no choice. He and Galen meet with the Cacuzza family to get them to switch to the Irish guns. When the Triads arrive, Galen opens fire on them and they flee. The Cacuzzas make the deal out of fear. This causes the Triads to confront the Sons. They take Happy hostage and tell them to shut down the Irish pipeline.
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the gun factory. Gemma tells Clay to stop Jax's new found mode of thinking, and nail him down. She doesn't want "the ghost of John Teller" poisoning Jax and destroying everything they've built together. The next day, the club members discuss the recent parole of Ernest Darby who leads the Nordics, a White supremacist gang of meth dealers. Clay, Jax and Bobby later meet up with Darby at a diner, and warn him to keep his drug dealing out of Charming. At the hospital,
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he does not comply. Instead he tells Clay that he will be stepping down as President, thus making Jax SAMCRO's new President. He removes Clay's President patch and calls a meeting where everyone but Opie attends. His first act as President is making Chibs his new Sergeant-at-Arms. He tries one last time to get Tara to leave (revealing the CIA threat as well) with his boys, but she comes back telling him she wasn't going anywhere. Jax is shown to be in an even
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MC right before the overdose of Jax's Methamphetamine-addicted ex-wife Wendy. An emergency C-section is performed, and their son Abel is delivered ten weeks prematurely. Jax finds his father's memoirs when he visits a storage unit to collect some old baby clothes. John Teller, Jax's father, was one of the founders of SAMCRO, and the book describes his trials with and hopes for the club. Jax's mother, Gemma Teller-Morrow, is now married to the President of SAMCRO, Clay
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accepts that it is the best decision for both clubs. After the patch-over party, Jax goes for a ride and attracts the attention of a group of Mayans. He then draws them back to the clubhouse, where the Sons of Anarchy are waiting for them. A large shootout ensues, during which Jury is shot and injured. After having sex with Jax, Suzi leaves and returns to her old boyfriend. The ATF agent has been following Jax the whole time, taking photographs. He sends a picture of Jax
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Jax is worried about Tara's safety and Bobby promises him they will bring her back safely. They discover that Salazar not only has Tara, but has also taken Hale hostage. When Salazar reveals that he will trade Tara for Jax, he is ready and willing. Jax proceeds to get into a fight with Salazar. Salazar runs, only to end up cornered in the hall, where Jax stabs him to death and makes it look like self-defense. Later, he goes with Tara to have an ultrasound to make
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. While Clay is testing the gun, he shoots Putlova's bodyguards and Jax stabs Putlova to death in revenge for trying to kill him in prison, saying it's "just business." Jax then returns to the reception to dance with his fiancée, Tara. The next day, Jax and Tara are having breakfast with their sons when they see a news story about four dead bodies found at the Charming Heights construction site. Tara asks Jax to tell her all he knows about it. He tells her that it was
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reports him to David Hale, who in turn informs the ATF. Upon learning that the authorities have not yet apprehended Kohn, Jax hunts Kohn down, himself. Jax found him at the local barber shop, and a brawl ensues with Jax emerging the victor. Kohn is then arrested for breaching Tara's restraining order against him. While riding his motorcycle on the highway, Jax comes across a truck driver, who has been badly beaten, on the hood of his truck. The trucker says that the Nordics had beaten him
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manage to lure Lin and his men into an ambush where Barosky's cops handcuff Lin's men, allowing Jax to fight Lin one-on-one. During their brawl, with Jax having the upper hand, Jax blasts Lin with accusations about his role in Tara's death, which Lin continues to deny. The San Joaquin sheriffs arrive soon afterward and arrest Lin on gun and drug charges. In "Smoke Em if You Got Em" Jax learns that August has learned about their plot against him and plans to strike
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, Tara reads a letter from Jax's father to his mistress Maureen Ashby, after the club is arrested, which strongly suggests that Gemma and Clay were responsible for John Teller's death. Jax and the other club members are released from prison. He has abdominal scars stemming from a prison stabbing incident involving the Russian mob. Also, Jax's appearance is different. He has cut his hair and trimmed his beard. After he returns home to Tara and their two sons, Abel and newborn Thomas, they make love.
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's illegal activities. After John Teller's death in 1993, Clay took over as President of SAMCRO, naming Alexander "Tig" Trager as Sergeant-At-Arms. Piney remained Vice President until he was diagnosed with emphysema, upon which John's oldest son Jax Teller became Vice President. Soon after John Teller's death in 1993, Clay married Gemma Teller, Jax's mother and John's widow. Until her death in 2014, Gemma was considered the queen of Charming for her actions in the community, and was
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During a post-coital discussion, Jax proposes to Tara, with the ring wrapped in the tiny fist of his second son, Thomas. She accepts. The newly engaged couple then have a discussion about their future as a family, in which Jax admits to wanting to leave the Sons once Clay has stepped down as President. Later, he attends Opie's wedding as his best man. After the ceremony, Jax goes with Clay and the Russians to shoot a gun given to Opie as a wedding gift from the Russians
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thoughts of revenge before letting him go, as the police couldn't link him to either murder, and his gun from the scene of the crime was determined to not have been fired. Gemma tells Jax she saw two Chinese men leaving Tara's house the night Tara and Eli were murdered and pins the murder on one of Lin's thugs at a party Jax had organized for the Irish and Chinese. Jax then kidnaps the man, brings him to an empty house, and tells him he will suffer for Tara's death
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all chapter members meet. These are: Clay Morrow (President), Bobby Munson (Treasurer), Tig Trager (Sergeant-at-Arms), Chibs Telford (Medic), Piney Winston (Co-founder), Juice Ortiz (intelligence officer) and Happy. Clay announces that Juice has located the guns and that they were stolen by the Mayans, a rival motorcycle gang. They decide to get some payback the next day, despite Jax's suggesting that the club look into other ways of earning money instead
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they manage to get Piney out and have a talk with Laroy, who says it wasn't his gang who killed Donna. When he visits the police station to ask Unser if he had any leads on Donna's killing, David Hale approaches him. Hale tells Jax about Stahl's setting up Opie, and Jax then realizes that it was SAMCRO who killed Donna. He confronts Clay about this at the clubhouse and asks if he (Clay) had anything to do with Donna's death. Clay denies it. As Jax
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plan she might not like. He meets with Gemma and tells her if she wants back into their lives she has to go back to Clay, gain his trust and help him get the evidence he needs. In "Andare Pescare," the club learning that Frankie is hiding with a Mafia family, paying them with Nero's cash. The club unanimously votes to kill Frankie after getting the identity of who hired him; however, Jax reveals the need to keep Frankie alive to Bobby to find out the identity of the
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other rat at the table. They meet with the Mafia Don hiding Frankie, and after a brawl with his bodyguards, Jax tells him that Frankie stole $500,000 from his club (lying to turn them against Frankie for not paying them enough) and gives them the location of the safehouse where Frankie is hiding. While on their way there, they spot an explosion and find the safehouse blown up with Clay and Juice holding Frankie at gunpoint. He stops them from killing him yet, but the Mafia Don, furious about
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, Jax now secludes himself on his farm after the death of his wife and his honorable discharge from the Special Forces. Kronika, the keeper of time, merges the past timeline with the present in her attempts to reset the timeline, resulting in the younger Jax and other combatants at the tournament meeting their future counterparts. Jacqui is hesitant to talk to the younger Jax about his future traumas as they're part of the reason why she exists in the first place. Kronika recruits the present-day Jax into her forces after
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her that she knew about Gemma's plan to keep them in Charming. When Jax comes out after reading the letters Tara gives Jax a way to kill Clay and tells him that once it is done to come take her and their sons out of Charming. He promises that he will. Gemma is forced to watch her plan to have Jax become the next president fall apart. When she asks what Tara is doing, Tara tells her everything Gemma taught her. Tara then tells Gemma that Jax is hers. The same day
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Gemma sees Jax in the hospital coming out of Clay's room and tries to beg him to stay and Jax tells her that he is not leaving and that Clay won't hurt her again. When she goes into the room she sees that Clay is still alive. Later, Gemma burns the letters that implicate her in John's death and when the men are having church she sees Jax at the head of the table and Tara standing behind him. Gemma is now very independent from Clay as she is seen having sex with
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to find out that it is too late, because Stahl already gave her statement clearing her of the killings. Gemma warns Stahl that someone will get hurt. When Clay comes to see Gemma in jail, she tells him they can't look at Jax the same way they saw John Teller, because club has been in desperate times. At the end, she sees Jax arrive with Stahl and watches with sadness as Stahl sets up Jax to die at the hands of his own club, by exposing the deal they made.
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between wanting to maintain the longevity of the organization and his desire to become a law-abiding family man while still living up to his father's legacy forms the central conflict of the series. Jackson "Jax" Teller is the son of Gemma and John Teller and was born in 1978, and raised in Charming, California. His father died in 1993 and his mother remarried Clay Morrow, who then became President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original (SAMCRO). He lives with the genetic heart disorder (
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"family flaw" as Gemma calls it) that his brother Thomas "Tommy" Teller died from at the age of six. He carries a USMC KA-BAR fighting knife although his dad served in the United States Army (25th infantry division). At the beginning of the series, Jax serves as the club's Vice President, and works as a mechanic at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair. He has served time in prison for smuggling and gun-running. His last arrest was in 2013/4. He married Wendy
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up to fight against three black prisoners. They beat Opie to death with pipes as the other three furiously watch in disgust. While being escorted back to his cell by the head guard who arranged the fight, Jax tells the guard that he is being freed the next day and that he will find him and kill him for killing his best friend. He later meets with Nero (whose brothel business was shut down by a police raid) to propose he use SAMCRO's connections to Cara-Cara porn stars to restart his
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states he will not give Toric any damaging information and he is sorry. Jax then tells Toric to leave Tara alone or he will "show him how personal this is for him." He tries later to get a new charter to pick up SAMCRO's gun business. He also meets with August to seemingly give up Tig, but Tig is later shown to be okay. When the San Dino charter votes down the guns, he offers the pipeline to August. He seems to be making more calls behind the Club's
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bring him to Oswald, who tries to castrate him, but can't bring himself to do it. Clay then carries the punishment out, but wears gloves while doing it. He then blackmails Oswald for the crime, as only Oswald's fingerprints are on the knife, because Oswald was about to sell off much of the land around Charming to big business and housing, which would challenge the SOA's reign over the town. Jax is unhappy that Clay did not tell him of the plan, however, and tells Clay
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over Chuck and the plates, and the Triads let them keep the stolen money. Meanwhile, Kyle Hobart, a disgraced former SAMCRO member, goes to Jax and asks him if the Sons want in on his deal selling stolen car parts. Jax accepts and invites him to the clubhouse that night. This is a setup, however, to punish him for not having his SOA tattoo removed after being disowned by the club. At the clubhouse, they tie him up and Tig uses a blowtorch to burn off the tattoo.
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she hides Juice from the club. While alone, she talks to herself as if she is having a conversation with Tara. When Jax is set free, she says that it was the Chinese that killed Tara, Jax starts an all out war with Henry Lin while Gemma continues to feed Jax lies. Abel is having difficulty with Tara's death, he overhears Gemma tell Thomas that she was sorry for killing her, he begins cutting himself as a result, when child services find out about the cuts, he says Gemma
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went on to marry John Teller's widow Gemma Teller Morrow in the mid-1990s and made their son, Jax Teller, Vice-President. It is implied that under Morrow, SAMCRO has become more of a criminal enterprise than before, much to Jax's disillusionment. On his colors he wears patches reading "First 9" and "President". He suffers from osteoarthritis (degenerative arthritis) in his hands, which is slowly worsening as the series progresses. He makes several attempts to hide it from his brothers to protect his
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, telling him that when he becomes Chief, he won't look the other way with the Sons of Anarchy like his predecessor did. To distract the police from their activities, the burnt-down warehouse in particular, Jax, Chibs and Half-Sack Epps (a Prospect in the club) acquire two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting is made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics. On his way back to town,
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sure the Club never finds out, he will find some legal documents that would confirm Clay set the Nomads in motion. They later go after another of Opie's killers, a cousin of Grim Bastard President T.O, who they corner and kill, despite Jax promising not to. The act greatly enrages the Bastards and Bobby. The next episode, "To Thine Own Self," shows Jax ready to pull the club away from the Cartel, now that the RICO case is gone (Otto having killed a nurse with a
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Tara Knowles


bar Gemma Teller-Morrow from gaining custody of Abel and Thomas, should Tara go to prison), and after Tara and Jax's relationship was tested (Tara and Jax are having problems with her being behind bars for her involvement in the death of a nurse. Jax is seen at the end of episode 1 cheating on Tara with Colette Jane, an escort handler) Tara finds herself at odds with everyone she was supposed to be able to trust and chooses to use the bullet she pulled from Bobby Munson's shoulder as
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Fusion power


fields, a "cusp" configuration. When the meeting concluded, most of the researchers quickly turned out papers saying why Teller's concerns did not apply to their particular device. The pinch machines did not use magnetic fields in this way at all, while the mirror and stellarator seemed to have various ways out. This was soon followed by a paper by Martin David Kruskal and Martin Schwarzschild discussing pinch machines, however, which demonstrated instabilities in those devices were inherent to the design. The largest "classic" pinch device was
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retaliation for his getting stabbed in prison. After breakfast, he goes with Clay to the deal they had set up with the Galindo Cartel. At the deal, Jax learns that Clay has set it up for SAMCRO to mule cocaine for the cartel and the Mayans. Clay tells Jax that everything that has happened the last two years has left him and Gemma with no money and that he needs Jax to help him sell it to the rest of SAMCRO. Jax tells Clay that he will back him as long Clay lets Jax
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kill the R.I.C.O. case against SAMCRO and reveals the threat it poses, to Bobby and Tara. Jax manages to get Romeo to provide protection for them inside. Opie later assaults Roosevelt to accompany them. While in prison Jax is visited by Pope. Pope tells Jax that to set things straight for his daughter's death Pope will receive half the money the Sons gets for transporting cocaine for the Galindo cartel. Pope tells Jax that due to the death, one of the Sons in prison must die and Jax will choose who it
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previously warned Jax against retaliating against the Chinese, as it would hurt business. He questions whether or not SAMCRO was involved with the hijacking, which Jax denies. August warns Jax not to cross him, or he will crush Jax's club. To get around this, Jax decides to help the Niners become independent of Marks so they can remove him as an obstacle. SAMCRO gives the Niners a portion of the stolen heroin and kill a gang member who was recruiting competition, in order to get them the Niners on their
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Clay Morrow


is responsible for the death of John Teller, Jax vows to kill Clay. Jax puts a knife up to Clay's throat and makes him step down as President and orders him to never go near his family again. Although Clay tries to explain his reasons, Jax refuses to listen and takes his President patch, thus ending Clay's reign as President of SAMCRO. Clay is shown to have been discharged from the hospital, but requires an oxygen tank due to his lung injury. He is shown trying to make amends with
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him. Still thinking that the Hefner shoot went down clean, and thus the only people who could have seen were the other SOA members, along with all the evidence engineered by Stahl, it seems extremely likely that Opie is the rat. Jax defends Opie, however, and convinces some of the club that the ATF has set him up. Clay has Tig check Opie's car for wiretaps, which Tig finds. Tig and Clay are convinced Opie is guilty and decide to kill him. Tara begins staying with Jax at
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n't get their guns returned. After a scuffle, Jax agrees to call SAMCRO to get their guns to them. Jax and Opie are eventually rescued by the Galindo Cartel, which kills all but two Russians, one of whom is given to the Native Americans for retribution. When Jax and Opie return to the Clubhouse, they discover it has been wrecked by Sheriff Roosevelt. To lighten the mood, Tara announces their engagement. During the celebration, Jax catches a glimpse of Bobby, who pours some liquor on the ground to
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", and Jax shoots him dead. Gemma leads Jax outside to the garden (where she had sat with her father, in season 2), where she tells Jax he has to kill her. "It's who we are", she says. In tears, Jax hesitates at first, but finally shoots his mother in the back of the head. He leaves Unser's and Gemma's bodies as they lay and returns home to Charming, removes his bloodied Nikes, and has sex with Wendy. In the
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Albification


Shortly after Zobelle and his men leave, Bobby arrives, hand-delivered by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent June Stahl. Jax's girlfriend, Dr. Tara Knowles, skips the party to watch Jax's son Abel and is joined by Gemma Teller Morrow, Jax's mother and Clay Morrow's wife. After Jax returns from the party, Tara finds bloody gloves among his clothes and asks Jax to tell her the truth about them. Jax shares that he helped Opie kill a man that day, leaving her stunned
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Hamlet". Teller was named as one of TV's best dads by Dadcentric.com, and they described him as a "brutal anti-hero" and "rebel who never lives by society's rules". However, they also highlight how the birth of Abel and the discovery of his father's memoirs transformed him as a person. The "Chicago Tribune" remarked that Jax is "the heir apparent to the gang", but "has a great deal of nostalgia for his father’s more hippie-ish early hopes
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in custody. Meanwhile, Jax, Piney and Opie decide to kill Meineke and his gang to prevent them from snitching if they are apprehended by the authorities. They pretend to sell them more weapons. The "boxes of guns" are actually filled with explosives, however, and the militia loads their trucks with them. All the militia are killed when the bombs are detonated. When Tara tells Jax that ATF agent Josh Kohn has been stalking her, Jax threatens to kill Kohn if he goes near Tara again. Jax also
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who were present. The Sons also learn that the warehouse where they were stashing the Chinese guns was robbed of the guns and West, the club member guarding it, was killed. In "Some Strange Eruption", Jax is shown to be feeling the guilt of the innocents killed by the Chinese. He finds out that someone tipped off Lin where to find their stolen guns. Nero later visits Jax, saying Lin has threatened him to hand Jax over or he will kill Nero and Nero's son. Jax and Chibs
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wants Jax to do it. Unser is unable to stop it and Clay ends up shot by Opie, but he survived. Gemma then convinces Tara to give her the letters. Once she has them she takes out the ones that implicates her and Unser and gives the rest to Jax. She tells Jax everything that Clay has done and then tells Jax to kill Clay and take his place at the head of the table as the President of SAMCRO. While Jax is reading the letters, Gemma and Tara talk and Tara lets
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Charlie Hunnam


". "I played the psycho in "Cold Mountain", my character in "Green Street hooligan" is fairly psychotic and now I've got this role." From 2008 to 2014, Hunnam starred as Jackson "Jax" Teller in "Sons of Anarchy", a show about a prominent motorcycle club in a small fictional California town. Hunnam was cast after Kurt Sutter, the creator of the show, saw him in "Green Street". His portrayal as Jax Teller has led Hunnam to receive a Critics
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Jackson Nathaniel "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the main protagonist on the FX television series "Sons of Anarchy", played by English actor Charlie Hunnam. A member of the titular motorcycle club, he spends the majority of the series as the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original (SAMCRO) mother charter based in Charming, California; following season four, he assumes the Presidency for the remainder of the series. The son of one of the club's founding members, his conflict
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Sons of Anarchy


and overlap, centering on both the personal and family life of Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam) and on SAMCRO (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original). SAMCRO is involved with gun-running in the western United States, and deals with rival gangs, politicians and the authorities. As vice president and later president of SAMCRO, Jax struggles to manage the club and the legacy of its founder, his late father John Teller. SAMCRO is said to emulate the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club; the series
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Wayne Unser


an "ad hoc" investigator for Lt. Althea Jarry of the San Joaquin County Sheriffs Department. Unser goes to these extreme measures in hopes of finally stopping all the bloodshed the club is causing and suffering from. In the penultimate episode of the series, Jax Teller kills Wayne while he is trying to arrest Gemma Teller-Morrow (to prevent her son Jax from killing her). Unser is a native of the small Northern Californian town of Charming and is in his 50s. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during
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Trucking, as "double murder is bad for business", and he resorts to parking his Airstream on Teller Morrow grounds. He is later asked by Jax to research a former U.S. Marshal investigating Tara. Unser is still living on the Teller Morrow grounds. He is jokingly known as "Uncle Touchy", as he willingly helps Jax and Gemma with the boys. When Clay kills a member of a Neo-Nazi group, Unser is attacked by Neo-Nazis who carve a swastika into his chest. He is treated
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Sagal) is the queen of Charming under Clay's rule and also the female main character from the show. A Machiavellian schemer and expert in psychological manipulation, Gemma was the wife of Clay Morrow, the widow of John Teller and mother of Jax Teller. Bobby "Elvis" Munson (Mark Boone Junior) is the even-tempered treasury secretary of SAMCRO. He later becomes vice president when Jax takes over as president. Bobby is intelligent and even-tempered (an uncommon trait among his club-mates), but
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wears the "V. President" patch. He was extremely loyal to Clay Morrow, the club's former President, Clay's wife Gemma, and the club itself. He has at times had a strained relationship with the former President, Jax Teller, arising from his use of violence in situations which may not call for it. Filip "Chibs" Telford (Tommy Flanagan), succeeded Jackson "Jax" Teller as SAMCRO President, after stints as Vice President and Sergeant-at Arms. Chibs was born in Scotland and
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before she faces time in jail. Jax turns up at his house, which he finds his mother feverishly cleaning. Jax tells her that Abel is going to die, which angers Gemma, who slaps him and tells him that he is the only one his son has. Jax asks her about his father's original vision of the club and she responds that it was to create a brotherhood and a family. Jax tells her about the writings he found, how his father wanted a social rebellion, not an outlaw club.
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June Stahl


scene came from Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair. The guns used were purchased in a side deal made between Piney and an old war buddy. She soon becomes involved in an affair with David Hale. Jax Teller, SAMCRO's Vice President, witnessed them in a sexual encounter at the police station while breaking Cherry out of lockup. Agent Stahl became even more obsessed with crushing SAMCRO after being severely beaten by Big Otto Delaney, who hit her head into a table as a way to show the club that he did not succumb
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Jax is cut off on the road by a man driving a red muscle car. He later catches up with this man at a petrol station and beats him up. The driver then pulls out a pistol and attempts to shoot Jax, but is wrestled to the ground and then killed by the Pakistani shopkeeper, who hits him with a fire axe. The trio then steal the CCTV tapes and flee the scene. Later, Jax visits baby Abel, and Tara tells him that he will make a full recovery. She also
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the clubhouse after shooting Kohn because being at her house makes her uncomfortable. When Jax and Tara are kissing at the hospital, Wendy sees them and later confronts Tara. The next day, Jax goes with Clay, Tig and Opie to make an arms deal with the Mayans in Oakland. The One-Niners attack the deal, however, and they escape while the Mayans and Niners fight. Clay and Tig had made a deal with the Niners, but didn't inform Jax or the others; the Niners were supposed to
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the Real IRA doesn't want to resort to killing one of their own leaders. Father Kellan promises Jax that he will give Abel back if Jax kills Jimmy. In the episode "Turas," when SAMCRO are nearly killed by a bomb hidden in a gun shipment put there by the SAMBEL Sgt. at Arms, Jax has a shell shocked vision of his biological father speaking to him, but it turns out to actually be his stepfather, Clay Morrow. The next day SAMCRO, with the help of Sean Casey,
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the letters to Jax as well as Clay's involvement in Piney's death and Tara's abduction, angering Jax, who vows to kill Clay himself with a blood thinner given to him by Tara. In the end, Jax does not kill Clay, as he needs Clay alive for the Galindo Cartel/IRA deal. Romeo and Luis are CIA informants and need the gun deal to survive; however, Irish King Galen will only deal with Clay. They threaten to use the cancelled RICO operation to crush Sons of Anarchy if
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pilot's opener, of the homeless woman Jax encountered earlier that day who was eating bread and drinking wine, and of the Blessed Sacrament, two crows are shown eating bread by the side of the road that fly away together after Jax's blood flows around the bread. Jax's final words "I love you dad", followed by the quote: "Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love" from Shakespeare's "
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Kate Howard


Kate meets with Jasper Jacks. Megan Ward explained her character was "feeling very lost" and that is "why she came clean to Jax". Kate admits her life as Connie in Bensonhurst to Jax, who asks what her family thinks. Kate does not answer the question on several occasions, leading fans and magazines to speculate the character is keeping a secret. Later, Kate meets with Sonny in an attempt to reconcile. Soon after she is scouting a warehouse building for her magazine, when she is accidentally shot by
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