Season One Episode Four: Patchover Overview

Agent Kohn and Deputy Hale have a conversation about SAMCRO. Hale reveals that they’ve been in the town since he was little, and apart from a few minor scrapes with the law, they’ve been clean. Kohn says that most of the people in town keep quiet about them. Hale says that the town believes that SAMCRO helps keep the corporate businessmen out of town so that’s why the locals keep quiet. Kohn agrees with him saying that he has been hanging out for a star bucks since he arrived . Hale acknowledges he knows that SAMCRO also has links to the police department meaning inside the department pointing not so subtly towards Unser.

Unser confronts Hale about Kohn coming into the town. Unser is very frustrated at not having been informed about this, and asks what he’s doing in town. Hale says that he’s collecting intel on the Sons of Anarchy, and didn’t go into too much detail. Unser warns him not to associate himself with Kohn, and to stick with Charming business. He also reminds him that he is still the chief, and that anything Kohn does has to go through him first.

At the roundtable, Clay acknowledges that Kohn might not be here for them because they’ve kept a clean record for many years. Jax argues that it had to have been Hale that brought him here because Unser closed the previous case pissing Hale off. They bring up that they have to find a short term place to store their guns, but there is no place for them to do so. Jax acknowledges they got a call from Uncle Jury last week. He says that the Mayans have been bullying them into paying a vig for running their porn business, the Devil’s Tribe, is in Mayan territory. Jax says they could offer them full protection if they will store their AK’s for a little while. The group thinks it’s risky because the Mayans are going to be scoping the place out because of the previous raid, and the Devil’s Tribe is a SAMCRO brotherhood group. Jax says he’ll go in under the radar with Bobby, and the rest will come up later with the guns in the same fashion. Clay asks if Jury will really help them, and Jax says that he should because his father saved his life during Vietnam. The plan is set.

Tara walks out to her car, and notices a bunch of flower petals on her car windshield. Recognizing it was something that Kohn used to do; she goes into the closet and grabs her gun. She then drives over to the clubhouse; which Kohn is scoping out. She says she needs help with her car. Tara asks Jax if he can give her a lift home, but Jax says he’s leaving for a few days. Tara asks Jax about Abel, and Jax asks if everything is ok and Tara replies he’s doing great but if anything comes up, who should she contact? He says his mom who is just driving into the lot. Jax asks her if she will take Tara home since he’s going to see Uncle Jury. Tara at first refuses, but Gemma insists she’ll love to give the good doctor a ride. He gives both Gemma and Tara a kiss and drives off.

Gemma walks over to the shop, and walks right past Half-Sack.She leans into the car and Half-Sack comments that Gemma is a MILF chubby; not knowing he said the comment within earshot of Clay. Clay pretends he didn’t hear and tells Tig to steal one of Unser’s trucks so they can use it for the delivery. Tig punches Half-Sack for the comment. Half-Sack tries to defend what he said only making things worse.

On the road to Nevada, Jax and Bobby pass by a group of Mayans on the road. One of them pulls a gun, but Jax avoids him. The Mayans turn their bikes around to give chase. They slam on the brakes and the Mayans go right past them. Jax and Bobby fire several shots which scare the Mayans and they take off.

Back at Teller/Morrow Tara gets ready to get in the car with Gemma, but Half-Sack stops her to sign some papers. When she gets out, Gemma notices the gun that’s in her purse. Gemma drives her home making small talk. Gemma asks her why she’s carrying the gun. Tara tells her that she carried it in Chicago because it was an unsafe neighborhood and sometimes forgets it’s in there. Gemma knows she is lying. She asks if she knows how to use it. Tara says she does, and she leaves Gemma to go into her house.

While stopping at a gas station, Jax phones Clay to tell him about being spotted by the Mayans. Clay comments that they need to have a heavy presence up there now if they want to get the guns up there. Jax says that he’ll make some calls, but Clay says it won’t help cause it’ll take months to get the warehouse up and running. Jax realizes he’s talking about patching over the Devil’s Tribe into the Sons of Anarchy. Jax doesn’t think he’ll take kindly to giving up his own group, but Clay says that it’s only a matter of time before the Mayans push them out. He tells Jax to bring it up otherwise he will when he gets there. Clay tells Tig, Juice and Half-sack they’re riding up to Nevada to patch the Devil’s Tribe. Realizing they’re short in numbers, Clay has Juice call up the Nomads and invite them along. He then tells Tig that he needs him to take a truck from Unsers and that Unser wants nothing to do with it so make it look like a robbery.  This means that Tig will miss out on the Patchover party and he begs him to come along, but Clay reminds him that the last time he had free range on women was with the two Mexicans that were burnt in the old weapons storage facility, and his DNA almost brought the club down. In the background Half-Sack is chuckling and Tig begs Clay to let the prospect do it, but Clay still pissed off at Half-Sack replies “What prospect”. Clay says he’s stuck with the job.

Back at the gas station, Jax finds a guy sitting on his motorcycle with his girlfriend taking a photo. Jax comes upon the scene and offers to take the picture himself since the girl’s having trouble with the camera. Jax comments that the man looks like the kind of guy that knows how to get his way, and notices the cut on the girl’s lip. Jax takes the picture of him Before, then punches the guy, warning him that he should never sit on another man’s bike.  Then Bobby takes the after picture saying that he should have more respect for the fairer Sex.  Jax asks the girl if she’s going anywhere. She says no place special, and Jax invites her on the ride to Jury’s. She introduces herself as Susie. As they drive away, it is revealed that Kohn is following them, and photographs them as they leave.

Jax, Bobby, and Susie arrive at the Devil’s Tribe clubhouse where they are greeted by Uncle Jury. When they walk in, they are shown around the place. Bobby notices a girl that looks really nice, he says that he can be in love with that perfect darkness and Jury calls her over to them he says this is Daytona and bobby replies as in daytona 500 but Jury says as in $1,200 a night but he offers her to bobby on the house and they leave to have some fun. Jury asks about Susie, and Jax says he just picked her up at the border. Jury summons Cherry, and tells her to show Susie around the place. Jax and Jury talk about business. Jury says he’s in a vine because the Mayans are ruining the business and he can’t get into business with them because he feels dedicated to SAMCRO. Jury asks what they can do. Jax tells him about the weapons, and asks if they can store them here for a little while. Jury says he’ll help out with the guns. Jury tells him to tell Clay he needs help, but Jax reveals that Clay is coming up to talk about the future of the Devil’s Tribe. Jury knows he means a patch over. Jax tells him that they need to or the Mayans will steamroll them. Jury says he doesn’t know how the rest of the group will take it, but Jax says that they’ll do just fine in SAMCRO.

At the other side of the bar, Cherry educates Susie on working for Jury. Jax passes by and gives her a kiss. Cherry asks how long she’s been with Jax, but Susie says he’s only giving her a ride. Cherry says she should pay close attention to what she does. Susie asks who she’s in a relationship with. Cherry says she isn’t yet, but that one day she’ll find the right guy. She reveals she’s been doing this job for three years.

Jax and Bobby talk about Jury outside. Jax says that Jury didn’t take too kindly to the patch over, and that it doesn’t feel right to do this. Jax feels that Clay’s making a mistake. Bobby asks Jax if he’s alright. He acknowledges about the birth of Abel, Wendy’s addiction. Bobby asks if some voice in his head is bothering him. He says that Jax has been second-guessing Clay since Abel was born, and people are noticing it. Bobby tells him he needs to get that sorted out with Clay.

Clay arrives in Nevada for the patch over ceremony. He acknowledges the close connections the two clubs have through Vietnam and other SAMCRO chapters, and says it’s time for them to become brothers. Clay knows that some people are afraid of becoming members of the club, but he tells them that he hopes they all decide to join. SAMCRO leaves the room so that the Devil’s Tribe can discuss their decision.

Meanwhile, Tig and Juice steal the truck from Unser Trucking.  Tig says the keys should be in the door.  Juice feeds the dog a steak to distract it. Tig is still sore about being left behind he is going on and on about how great the patchover party will be and how much he is missing out on. They break into the fence, but the dog comes after them foaming at the mouth. It bites Tig on the rear end, but they are able to lock themselves in the truck. Tig asks if Juice drugged the meat. Juice said he gave the meat two grams.  Tig says Two grams of what? Juice replies Crank, and Tig flies off the handle calling Juice “retarded” . Juice asks if he should shoot it, but Tig just tells him to drive.

Back at the house, Gemma searches through an old cookie tin to find some of her old guns in. While she cleans them, she calls Luanne. She asks if she can get a hold of the federal marshal contact to get some information on Tara.

In Nevada, Jax and Clay talk about the patch over. They think that half of the members will patch over, but the others won’t. Jax says that they can’t abandon the group, and that they need to leave them with some help. Clay says that this is to help strengthen the group if they leave them to deal with their own problems. Jax says he wants to help Jury, but Clay says he’s not concerned about Jury. When they look over, several of the Devil’s Tribe bikers get on their bikes and drive away angrily from the clubhouse. When they drive away, Kohn spots them through his binoculars. SAMCRO goes inside to find Jury and other Devil’s Tribe members still inside that are willing to patch over into SAMCRO. Clay sprays SOA on the wall, and the group all has a patch over party. Susie asks what a patch over is, and Cherry nervously replies it means that things are going to change.

At the party, Cherry and Half-Sack get friendly. She acknowledges that she knows several people that have died over in Iraq. Half-Sack says he feels guilty about leaving Iraq, but Cherry says he’s a hero. Cherry asks if he can still have kids, and Half-Sack says that he should be able to. While talking to Jury, Clay notices the two getting friendly.

Tig and Juice finish up the stealing of the truck, and Juice apologizes for not knowing what would happen. He says he doesn’t want to be here either, but that they should at least have a decent conversation. Tig makes a joke of it and unzips his pants. Juice tells him to knock it off, and they finish the job.

At the patch over party, Susie approaches Jax with some lessons from Cherry. She takes Jax into the bedroom. Clay asks Jury if Cherry belongs to anyone. Jury tells him that she doesn’t, and Clay makes his move. In revenge for Half-Sack’s comment, Clay cuts in and takes Cherry for himself that night. Passing by, he makes a comment similar to Half-Sack’s comment about Gemma.

Tig and Juice arrive in Nevada to see the remnants of the party. Meanwhile, Jax follows one of his father’s pages in his book to a bridge. Under the bridge is a comment about anarchism and its relationship to the Sons of Anarchy and social order. Back at the clubhouse, Susie wakes up to get coffee from Cherry. Susie acknowledges that she saw that Cherry liked Half-Sack last night, but she slept with Clay. Cherry says that’s just what they do. Susie cant understand it but Cherry explains that it’s like a family where they do what they are told and they get taken care of with no worries.

Back home, Gemma visits Tara to give her car back to her. Gemma notes that yesterday she got off to a bad start with Tara, and this is her way of apologizing. Gemma notices the changes of the house, and Tara’s father. Tara asks Gemma what she’s really doing here. Gemma notes that Tara left Charming for Chicago for her job, but that she’s suddenly back where she started in a place where she’s not as good as she was. Tara notes that Gemma’s spending a lot of time worrying about her life, and asks if she really scares her that much. Gemma says she’s not afraid of her, it’s the people she touches. She says that Jax is in a bad place right now, and warns her to stay away from him. Tara says she can’t dictate the situation, but Gemma retorts by saying that until she’s dead and buried, she’ll protect her son. She then gives Tara a gun with no serial number on it saying that if she’s going to use a gun, it should be safe.

In Nevada, Jax calls Clay to let him know that he’s on his way back and the Mayans are following him. They get the weapons rounded up. Jax knocks the Mayan bikers’ bikes down and rides away with the Mayans in pursuit. The clubhouse is ready, and when Jax drives into the clubhouse safely, the Mayans open fire. A short gunfight takes place, and several people, including Jury, are wounded. The Mayans retreat; all of this taking place within Kohn’s view.

At the clubhouse, Gemma meets Luanne, and asks what she found. Luanne said that the only thing that came up was a restraining order she filed against a man (they don’t know it’s against Kohn). She also asks what kinda neighbourhood did she stay in and Luanne say pretty nice actually to which she acknowledges that Gemma really doesn’t trust the bitch.

Back in Nevada, Jury asks what they’re going to do now. He’s worried that he’ll lose some more guys because of the shootout. Clay says that the Mayans probably won’t attack them now because they know they’re watching them. Jury thanks the group. Clay asks Jax why the Mayans were able to follow him to the clubhouse. Jax says he went for a ride to clear his head and the Mayans spotted him.

Clay then reveals a surprise for Tig for his hard work with three girls for him at his disposal. Jax says he’s heading home to see Abel. Clay sits down with Bobby and asks if everything’s okay with Jax. Bobby says it’s hard to tell. Clay asks if he has anything to worry about, but Bobby says not yet. Outside, Jax watches a scared Susie take off with her boyfriend. Happy says  “I thought that bitch was with you and Jaxs just shrugs it off like “nah” then they leave.

Jax arrives home and goes to the hospital. Jax spots Tara who just recieved an envelope from a nurse, and she tells him that Gemma is in the room with Abel. He replies of course she is.  Tara asks how his trip was and he replies “Uneventful”.  Jax visits Abel, and his mother and Tara walks by the window she opens the envelope and sees a picture of Jax in bed with Susie at the Nevada clubhouse. Tara and Jax share a stare, but Tara breaks away from it and walks away with a hurt look on her face.

Season One Episode Three: Fun Town Overview

Episode Three : FunTown

 

SAMCRO are at the local carnival FUNTOWN. They are out in force having a good time. Clay and Gemma bump into Elliott Oswald and his family. They exchange brief hello’s and then part ways to avoid being seen talking to the Outlaws. Jax gives Tristen, Elliott’s daughter some of his tickets so that she can continue to go on the rides. Gemma and Clay head for the photo booths and Jax and the others harrass one of the Clowns for running his mouth about the biker boys.

Back at the clubhouse, their IRA contact, Michael McKeavy, delivers an order of weapons to SAMCRO. Inside, they talk about the business of the Mayans torching their old warehouse. Clay tells him that it’s going to be another 3 months before they can buy another shipment due to losing their warehouse. McKeavy suggests that they store them here, but Clay points to the wall of mug shots saying that they learned that lesson the hard way. McKeavy tells them that the IRA needs the guns, or their cause will be crippled. He warns them that if they can’t front the cash for the three months they can’t buy, he may just have to find a new buyer.

Back at the carnival, Elliot and Karen Oswald cannot find their daughter, Tristen, after she went to get on a ride. Gemma sees them, and offers to help them. While they search, Tristen is lying in the woods, clearly showing signs that she had been beaten and raped.

At Teller/Morrow Clay Jax and Chibs are talking about the IRA deal and Chibs explains that they only have a day to get the money for Michael before he leaves town. Clay tells Chibs that he will get him the money and that Chibs can go as a courtasy escort to keep and eye on things.

Elliott Oswald arrives and talks to Clay and Jax. He tells them about the rape and wants them to find the guy that raped his daughter and that he will pay anything they want. Clay responds to his offer by saying that they dont want the money, they will do what ever it takes to find the guy but Elliott has to be the one to deal with him when the time comes. Elliott agrees to this and they shake on it.

Clay takes the news of the rape to the table where Tig brings up their current cash flow problem. He thinks they should take the money to get their guns. But what it really boils down to is that a 16yr old girl got raped by some out of town hustler and they need to deal to it before Hale does. Everyone agrees to join the search and find the guy who raped Tristen. They start by looking into darby’s guys.

At a restaurant, Hale meets his father, Jacob, and Leo Kessler. Jacob tells him that SAMCRO is out looking for the person that raped Tristen for some vigilante justice. The reason they’re concerned is that Elliot is selling some land that Kessler would really like to possess. They’re concerned that if Elliot gets close to SAMCRO, then he’ll sell land to Clay. Jacob tells him they all want Charming to grow and prosper, but Hale tells him he seems to be a little more concerned about the prosper angle.

Hale heads to the club house to get the statements of SAMCRO to try and halt their efforts to find tristen. He wants to know where all the members were lastnight and Jaxs tells him that he should be more worried about where his men we lastnight as he heard that some cops were arrested for prostitution and rape.

At the hospital Wendy is signing legal documents. Tara speaks to Wendy and asks how she is doing and that when she is better she will take her to see abel. Wendy asks about Jax but Tara doesnt say anything. Tara tells Wendy that she knows who was responsible for her overdose but Wendy denies that Gemma had anything to do with the drugs. And that if Tara doesnt know why then they are nothing alike. Tara leaves and gets a phone call from Kohn but she hangs up on him. She bumps into Hale who is going to see Tristen.

Hale and the Oswalds are talking about the rape and Hale is pressing them to get any information at all to help the case. Hale tells Elliot that he can’t imagine how they feel, but Hale warns him that anger makes you do things that you normally wouldn’t do, and once you do them, you can’t take them back. Elliot says the only thing he can’t take back is what happened to his daughter.

Out on a job Juice and Halfsack are picking up some stuff when they get the call that Hale wants to grill everyone who was at the carnivale and Juice needs to head back to Teller/Morrow. Jax wants Halfsack to follow Hale and keep tabs on him the only catch is, is that he has to follow him on a mini kids motorbike.

Back at Teller/Morrow, Jax is talking to Clay and Tig that Hale must be on to them investigating the Rape and that he is just using the cops to stall SAMCRO from looking for the Rapist. Tig comes up with a plan, and slips some tranquilizers into the coffee that was meant for the officers. They are quickly knocked out, and they are free to go about business.

At the Carnivale grounds Jax and Chibs meet up with Halfsack who tells them that Hale has been talking to them for about an hour. Halfsack then asks if maybe they can double up so that he can have a bike but Jax repiles “nit unless he grows tits” and Chibs responds “huge tits”. they both laugh and Jax tells Halfsack to get going as Hale is on the move.

Jax and Chibs approach the workers after Hale has left and want to know what they said to the cop. They ask if anyone had seen Tristen and explain that she got raped and that they were suspicious of them because they were outsiders and nothing like that happens in Charming. The Carnivale guys explain that they told Hale they were all closing down rides and packing up and that the security guards can back up their stories.

At the hospital Gemma bumps into Tara and she tells her that wendy is out of detox, in case she wanted to take her flowers or something. Gemma walks of pretending to ignore her and sees Darby walking by.

At the clubhouse, reports from the gang indicate that Darby hasn’t been seen at all today. Juice tells them about a guy in Darby’s crew that’s a sex offender, and they all confirm that he was at the carnival yesterday. Gemma then phones Clay, and tells him about Darby being at the hospital. Tig asks Juice to put his “vitamins” in his locker. Juice takes the bag and decides what the hell and takes some of Tigs “Vitamins”.

Jax stops by Floyd’s barbershop to see Unser. He asks what he’s heard about the case. Unser said there were no leads and no witnesses. He says that Tristen can’t remember who did it so there are no leads. As Jax leaves, Unser tells him that he needs to catch the rapist, or he’s going to be under the microscope. Jax reassures him that they’ll catch him.

At the Hospital Gemma sees Darby leaving so she calls out to him in order to stall him as Clay and the others are still on the way. She asks why he was at the hospital, and he tells her he’s seeing his mother who’s dying of lung cancer. Gemma notices Darby’s new Aryan tattoo, and notes that it probably ticks the doctors off that are taking care of his mother. Clay and the others confront him about the rape, thinking that he’s retaliating against the town. They also acknowledge they know about his little alliance with the Mayans. Darby says everyone was with him, and that he was nowhere near the carnival. When they ask him about Yates, the sex offender, Darby gets defensive saying a buddy of his, Whistler, has been missing. Clay tells him that they’ll sort out other business later, but he wants the address for Yates’ place. Darby gives him the info they need and they split when Hale arrives with Halfsack tailing him on the mini-bike.

They get the address and stop by the Clubhouse to pick up the guns that Juice was putting together. Chibs takes the bags without checking them and Juice is passed out on the floor from an overdose of Tigs pills. He is out cold. At the house they find that the guns have no clips and they move in anyway. They break in only to find that its a bible study support group and the guys is a reformed member of the church. They make peace with the group and put it down to bad info and then leave.

At the hospital Hale is talking to Tara about Tristens case saying that he needs to get her to talk to someone so that they can get any info on who raped her. Tara says that she can help by getting the mother to fill in some forms and that will give him some time to get what he needs. He goes to leave and Tara asks him about Restraining orders. Are they still valid if she moves away? He asks if he can help and she says she was just enquiring. Hale says he’ll check to see if the restraining order is valid here.

At the hospital, Gemma visits Wendy. Gemma says she hears that she’s been saying things to Tara. Wendy tells her that she didn’t say anything to Tara. Gemma says that nobody would’ve believed her anyway. Gemma said that she only gave her an option, but that she was the one that made the decision. Wendy doesn’t understand how Gemma is able to keep all her secrets buried. Gemma tells her that nothing will get in the way of taking care of her family, but that Wendy could never understand that.

Back at the club house Clay Tig and Bobby find Juice out cold on the floor. Clay says that he wants something good done to the idiot since he nearly cost them their lives.

Jax finds Gemma at the hospital reading to Abel. Jax tells her that they’ve hit a dead end. Gemma tells him that Wendy’s awake. Elliot appears and asks Jax if they’ve found the guy. Jax says no, but talking to Tristen might help. But Elliot tells her that she’s still in shock, and Karen doesn’t want anyone talking to her. Jax tells him that Tristen is the only shot left they have of finding the guy.

Gemma sneaks into Tristen’s room to question her. Tristen is scared at first, but Gemma tells her that she’s an old friend of her mother’s. Gemma tells her that she’s sorry that this had happened to her, and tells her that everything will be okay. Gemma then confronts Karen, and tells her that Tristen told her everythins. She realizes that Tristen remembers, but they don’t want to deal with the press and a messy trial. Gemma tells her that Tristen needs to be exposed to what happened, or it’s going to haunt her for the rest of her life. Karen tells her that she wants it hidden so that people won’t think of her as the girl that was raped at Fun Town. But Gemma tells her that she’s always going to feel that way, and the thing that is worse than everyone knowing is nobody knowing. Gemma tells Jax that Karen told her that it was one of the carnies that was dressed like a clown. Jax asks if Hale knows, and Gemma says he doesn’t know yet. Jax passes by Hale on the way out, and Hale follows Jax out. But when he goes to give chase, he sees that one of the tires on his jeep has been flattened.

At the show grounds SAMCRO turn up looking for the clown. They start a rumble with the carnie guys and then Chibs and Bobby go looking for the clown that raped Tristan. They leave with the clown and Hale turns up to find them beaten and bleeding but they are not talking.

Out in the woods, they bring Elliot to the scene to show him the rapist. He brings a knife to do the deed. Clay tells Elliot to do the deed like he promised, but after hesitating Elliot can’t bring himself to do it. After Elliot leaves, Clay puts on gloves, and does the deed himself. He tells them to let the guy bleed out, and then bury him in the woods. He tells Bobby to wrap up the carnie’s testicles into a package and mail it to Elliot. He gives the knife to Jax, and tells him to be careful because it has Elliot’s fingerprints on it. Jax is angry that Clay didn’t tell him that they were going to blackmail Oswald so he wouldn’t sell any of the land in town. He warns him that in the future, he wants to be informed of everything. Clay just puts it down to development issues in the town. If the developers move in then Charming will grow and they wont be able to keep the local law like they do now. He claims that it was all for the good of the club.

After the incident in the woods, Jax takes refuge on the roof top at the club house where he is seen reading more of his dead fathers journal.

Meanwhile, Tara’s mystery man turns out to be a man named Agent Kohn; an agent in the ATF. He is provided with all of the files of Tara and the members of SAMCRO.

At the hospital, Jax visits Wendy. He tells her that he doesn’t want her hurting herself. He doesn’t hold her responsible for Abel. Jax says that getting back together with her was a mistake, and he admits that he wasn’t ready to have a child. He admits that he hated her for getting pregnant, and that’s why he bailed. He blames himself for what happened to Abel. He then wheels Wendy to see Abel, and Wendy breaks down about seeing him in the incubator. Wendy asks what will happen now. Jax tells her that Abel has to stay in the incubator for awhile, and that Wendy has to go back to rehab. Jax and Wendy hug.

The next morning Hale wakes up a sleeping Juice, who is wearing nothing but a sign that reads : slightly retarded child please adopt me, and an adult diaper. He stumbles off after ripping the sign from his chest. This was payback for not loading the clips and getting wasted on the job. The mail lady pulls out a package for Oswald from the post. Just as Hale is heading into the building he is stopped by an ATF agent who is enquiring about Sons of Anarchy. Hale is more than too happy to help his new friend and Welcomes him to Charming!

Season One Episode Two Pics

 

Season ONe Episode One: Pilot Overview

Synopsis
Jax grows weary of the increasing lawlessness of the motorcycle club he is involved with. His life becomes more unstable when he discovers his late father’s true vision for the Sons of Anarchy, and his crank-addicted ex-wife gives birth to his son.

My Recap:
The Mayans, a Mexican weapons cartel, break into an assembly warehouse and find and steal the hundreds of guns inside. Unknown to them, two illegal workers are hiding beneath the building. The leader of the cartel tells one of his goons to torch the place.

Jax enters a convenience store where he picks up and looks at a children’s book. He puts it back down, and purchases condoms and a pack of cigarettes. When Jax isn’t looking, the salesgirl slips into his bag the book he was looking at. Jax spots the book, but is distracted by the fire coming from the nearby warehouse.

Welcome to Charming, pop. 14,679, watched over by an illegal motorcycle club calling themselves the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original Charter (aka SAMCRO or “Sam Crow”).

At the Warehouse remains, The Club president, Clay Morrow, talks to Sheriff Trammel about the blaze. He claims that propane tanks inside the building blew up, and suspects it’s arson due to the bootprints inside. Clay isn’t happy that the goods were stolen. Jax gives Trammel money in order to alert the fire department about the incident. Trammel shows clay and the others the burned corpses of the people hidden beneath the building, who were illegals. Clay tells Trammel to dispose of the bodies. Trammel asks what he’s supposed to tell the boys up in East Bay. Clay tells him to set up a meeting to buy some time.

Jax returns to Teller Morrow the clubs legitimet auto repair business where he is met by chibs and the new kid half-sack. Half-sack is trying to figure out how to get a deer out of the windscreen and jaxs offers up a solution that is not welcome by half-sack who then tell jaxs that he is a vegan. Jaxs replies “figure it out grunt” and walks away with chibs to update him on the warehouse situation. Then Jaxs gets a phone call from his mother, Gemma, who asks if he has managed to look through some of his old baby things yet, which he replies that he hasn’t. She also asks if he’s available for dinner, and that he should bring Chibs and the new kid half-sack. But when she discovers he’s vegan, she quickly decides not to invite him saying “dont patch him in you cant trust anyone that doesnt eat meat”. Jax asks Gemma about his drug-addicted ex-wife Wendy, who isn’t returning his calls. Gemma tells him she’s avoiding him and that she will call in on her way home to check on her.

Meanwhile, Wendy tears apart her home looking a spoon, before preparing to inject a needle into her hand. But the heavily pregnant Wendy decides against it.

Clay meets with the Niner Crew Leader, Laroy, telling him what has happened to the warehouse. Laroy needs the guns to protect an order that he has lined up and eventually lets Clay have some more time to get more guns together for him.

Jax looks through storage, and finds old photographs of his late father John Teller. He also finds a journal entitled “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).

Half-sack and his buddy are taking the head of the deer which is in a box into the club house where they store it under the pool table. Bobby tells half-sack that Piney has clogged the toilet again. Half-sack is the prospect and has to do whatever he is told. Clay and the others arrive back when half-sack is showing off his one remaining nut sack, hence the name half-sack. He is told to leave and then a meeting is called to discuss the meeting with laroy. Jaxs is called so he hides the journal and locks his room door ensuring that no one sees what he has found. At the meeting Clay wants to find the guns, steal them back, and torch the place where they were found. He needs to find someone that can blow up the building since bobby has a gig that will take him away for the weekend. bobby elvis works as and elvis impersonator who does small gigs to earn money. the meeting is closed and they go to the bar where clay and bobby both smell something bad in the room.

Gemma finds Wendy collapsed in her home, she rushes over to the club and Jax and the Sons rush to the hospital. She explains that she found her passed out on the floor and she had some empty thumb bags from the hairy dog.

Dr Tara Knowles tells Jax that trackmarks were found on Wendy’s hands and feet, and that they had to perform an emergency C-section on her, leaving the baby ten weeks premature. Because of this, the baby has a heart defect and a tear in his abdomen. The latter is from Wendy’s drug abuse, but the former problem is likely a genetic defect to which gemma says The family flaw! Together, both defects are near-fatal. He has just a 20% chance of survival. Jax tells Tara that she doesnt have to help on this case but she insits that she wants to help his son. Jax decides not to visit his baby, named Abel, and instead flees the hospital. Clay sends chibs and bobby after him as he is going to the hairy dog. He enters the hairy dog and starts pounding a guy with a pool cue and beats Wendy’s dealer repeatedly until chibs pulls him off. they then leave just as fast as they entered.

Jax goes to talk to a lapsed member of the group, Opie, who the Sons need to blow up the Mayans’ storage facility. He is fresh out of the joint and explains to jaxs that he doesnt want to be earning crooked money. He needs to earn money but the straight way and is finding it hard just keeping afloat. After some convincing opie signs up. He realises that he doesnt want to be shovelling wood chips for a living.

Back at the club, they have a meeting to discuss the nords dealing and the fact that darby is now out of the joint. darby is a known dealer just out of charming but he is always trying to get his way into charming. Clay decides that they need to pay a visit to darby to see where he is at. piney brings up abel to the club and says that everyone is there for jaxs to support him and his sick son. the mayan intel will also be ready tomorrow so they can make plans. then the meeting is closed. they go to the bar for drinks only to be hit by the smell of something rotten. clay sniffs out the smell and discovers the box under the pool table. half-sack jumps in explains that its his and he wanted to clean it up and hang it in the club house. jaxs comments that it needs to be stuffed and treated first, to which half-sack replies ” i know” meaning he had no idea at all about it and the club just laughed.

At the fight between happy and tig, clay and the others are discussing the rebuild and jax brings up what happens if they dont rebuild? He suggests to the club that they look into other ways of earning money instead of dealing weapons especially with so many rival groups on their back. Clay says they’ll deal with what’s coming first. Later Clay talks to Jax to see where his head is at with the baby and the club. He tells Jaxs that he needs to be in the club fully to support his sick kid and that he needs to go and see abel in the hospital.

Jaxs goes to the hospital to see wendy. She is on a downer about what happened and she thinks that everyone hates her. She promises Jax that she will get help this time. She tells Jaxs that Abel is getting stronger which is great and that he will be getting his stomach fixed soon. Then she brings up the stash that she has at the house. She tells Jaxs that they might be charging her with fetal abuse and that if they find the stuff at the house it might blow back on him. He leaves without saying a word.

Jaxs arrives back at the house where Gemma is cleaning up. She doesnt want him to see the house in the state its in and insists that she get it livable so that he can move back in with abel when he gets out of the hospital and he can get himself out of the club dorm where he has been staying. Jaxs tells her he is going die. Gemma slaps his face and tells him that he might as well just go down there and kill him because Jax is the only one that abel has got. She then tells him that he needs to go and see him. He needs to be there for his son no matter how long he is a father. Gemma then tells Jax that he had the same heart defect that his little brother had and that she came through hell and landed on her feet. tellers do not die easy she tells him and he replies no we just die bloody. then jaxs ask if she knew about his dads vision for the club and how he found a journal in storage and that he didnt want to be an outlaw club that he wanted to be a social rebellion. Gemma just shrugged it off to being young and then said that his father became a man and men take care of business, yeah we do replies Jax. He then tells Gemma to go home and finish cleaning up tomorrow. Gemma leaves and Jaxs goes straight to the draw to flush Wendys stash.

Gemma and Clay prepare for bed, and they talk about Jax’s shit that he is dealing with and not just about abel, his questioning of the gun running, and his idea for not rebuilding 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. She reminds him that when he is no longer able to be the president that Jax will be sworn in and she wants him to follow in the right fathers footsteps.

Clay Jax and Bobby and Tig sit down with Ernest Darby to see where his head is at now that he is on the outside. They get into a scuffle about the nords dealing to Wendy. Clay warns that nothing happens in charming that they dont control or get a piece of and that they aint allowed to deal meth inside charming. Darby explains that he is not the only meth shop in town. But Clay sticks to his guns and says that they will come after him the next time the devil comes across the border.

At the hospital Tara is talking to Gemma and Louanne that the docter thinks abel should have the surgery now and that its the best choice. She then asks to talk to Gemma alone about the state of Wendy. Gemma is straight to the point and tells Tara that nothing she is gonna say to that crank whore is gonna make her feel loved. Tara says that she forgot just how forthright Gemma was Tara asks Gemma if she has a problem with her assisting on abels case and Gemma asks are you a good doctor? Tara replies Yes and Gemma says i dont have a problem.
Tara says that people change and that she is not the same person she was ten years ago. Gemma says she is the same and she pulls up Taras shirt to reveal her tattoo. Tara says that she leaves it there to remind her that all that shits behind her. Gemma walks away muttering Bitch!

Back at the clubhouse, Jax and the others are discussing the stuff they have found out about where the guns are. They have discovered where the warehouse is and make plans to get their guns back.

Opie is at home in his garage getting ready by paking his bags with explosives and other various things that he needs to blow up the warehouse. In walks Donna who enquires whats in his bag, which leads to her having a huge argument with him about loyalty and trying to snatch the bag from him. Jax arrives in time to see the fireworks and trys to help opie by covering for him. Jax wants Opie to fix his family as he knows how important family is to the club. He then goes to the club house, gets ready and rides off to meet with clay and the others. He explains that he can make it work and they ride off together.

Meanwhile bobby elvis discovers that he is being replaced by an asian elvis impersonator and he is not happy at all about it. Half-sack pays the asian guy a visit and beats the shit out of him leaving bobby to take his place on stage.

The Sons break into the warehouse and find their guns. Jaxs has trouble with the boom boom and tries to ring opie for help but realises that it is too late. Mayans arrive at the lot and are on their way into the warehouse when clay and chibs shoot them and Jaxs is forced to kill the third one that they discover is one of Darbys guys which means they are in bigger shit than they thought. They then dispose of the mayans and darbys guy by blowing them and the warehouse to pieces.

Tara performs successful surgery on Abel. Gemma visits Wendy, ridiculing her and telling her that the D.A. is dropping any charges against her. Wendy says that she’ll get clean for good, now that she has her baby to live for. Gemma threatens her, saying that if she tries to get custody, she’ll finish her off. Gemma gives her a copy of the bible, recommending she turn to Jesus. She exits, and Wendy opens the book, discovering a needle inside.

Jax goes to the hospital to see Abel and meets up with Tara who informs him that Abel is going to be ok. They embrace and Tara notices some blood on his clothes and tells him to clean himself up. Bobby Elvis takes the stage singing “i cant help falling in love with you”! Jax is seen cleaning up in the bathroom. Finally he visits his son Abel and is joined by Gemma and Clay.

Sons Of Anarchy Season One Tv3@9.30 20.10.10

OMG
Finally it has landed in nz on t.v
watched it of course
even tho i own the dvd set
in love with the show 100%
have seen some reviews but the fans ultimately matter other wise there would not be a season three.