The predictable answers finally arrived last night putting an end to the Irish rat squad and a forty year friendship. This surprising information leaves the Belfast SOA in turmoil over losing two of their own. While Maureen drowns her sorrows in the whiskey bottle; her daughter is going to resolve her own sadness in Jax arms. Not so fast! Buzzed momma’s to the rescue! Not only do they stop the perverted coupling but they are forced to air Daddy’s dirty laundry. Jax deals with it somewhat better than Trinity but that was no shocker.
At a sit down with the morally corrupt priest and his Irish Army cronies the Son’s are informed that they the army will be dealing with Jimmy O’Phelan. The SOA’s services are no longer needed. End of story. However the despicable priest still has Jax son. Now this should be a no brainer hand the kid over and the Redwood Originals go home. The priest wants a private meeting later to resolve the issue with Jax.
Meanwhile back home the vengeful Salazar is demanding 250K from the Son’s. In addition he expects them to murder the president of the Mayan’s for him. Remember the only Son’s left in Charming are Piney, Tig and Kozik accompanied by Sleepy and Dopey the remaining prospects. The plan they come up with is to fake Marcus Alvarez death and borrow the money he is rumored to have in his safe. In a stalemate on Alvarez front porch they learn he doesn’t have a dime. However with a baby in arms it’s obvious he’s a family man. This forces him to agree to the rest of their plan. His cooperation is limited to playing possum for a maximum of twenty-four hours and not a minute more. With the clubs treasury broke as usual and no one around them in possession of any personal wealth it looks like Tara and her boss may go the way of the dodo. Will the fact that Clay left these three to think for themselves insure Tara’s early demise along with the newest baby Teller-Morrow? I think not but we’ll have to wait and see.
There’s not a whole lot going on in this episode. Its not as jam packed as the episodes usually are. In spite of that when it bounces back to Ireland we find Jax ready to have it out with the hypocritical priest. Sadly this is where the story falls apart for me. The priest explains to Jax his long dead father the infamous John Teller; founder of all things SAMCRO; more than twenty years before made him promise to save his son from the life he was living. Obviously the priest didn’t make a single move in that direction being he’d never had any contact with John Tellers son before now. I guess the priest was referring to his club life and not the adulterous, bastard making, fornicator he apparently was! He sells Jax a bill of goods that he is protecting the child from the life he would surely have with him. With that said and the lines read it continues to fall off the rails for me. You see I don’t care who you are or how fucked up other people may think your life is; your child is your child. Most parents would walk through hell and back bare footed for them hardcore bikers included. No sanctimonious priest would ever be able to persuade you differently. That shit just didn’t work.
AH, but we see our boy Jax folding, falling back into his daddy’s bullshit deep inside his head leaving us to wonder if the priests words are resonating too loudly or if he’s had those thoughts him self. After all he’s just stabbed the priest pet goon and threatened a priest to gain access to Abel’s whereabouts. We’re not talking about a choirboy to say the least. I can hear it bouncing around in his head like a Beebe in a boxcar. But I call bullshit on that too! Remember Abel is Gemma’s only grandchild. I can’t wait to see what happens when Jax tells his mother what the priest told him. When she hears the ridiculous ideas the priest has shoved in her sons head look out. I guess then we might even feel a little sorry for the priest if momma Gemma gets a hold of him. His god may give him absolution but not before she snips off his balls with a blunt pair of scissors!
This episode didn’t wow me the way the others have. I think the trip to Ireland has made SAMCRO look like a pack of buffoons foiled at every turn. Yea there’s been a shit load of violence but whether they are back home or away they are running around like cartoon characters that never seem to want to step on the wrong toes. If we believe everything we’ve seen thus far whether they come home with Abel or not Gemma will be going to prison for life and the majority of the club will do some kind of time over the previous gun beef. If Jax doesn’t turn O’Phelan over to agent Stahl the SOA world as we know it is all but dead. If Jax punks out and leaves his kid behind based on his daddies flawed philosophies what can I say it all goes to hell so whether or not Tara lives or dies in the scheme of things won’t really matter because they’ve written the show into a corner ending it as badly as the Soprano’s.
There are just three more episodes of this season and I can only hope they return to the high quality level of everything that aired prior to last night. I give this three out of six shots because I found this episode to be very disappointing and besides Opie had that stupid hat on again making it worse!
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