Well boys and girls this season concluded answering most of our questions plus there appeared to be a happy ending. The writers managed to pull another rabbit out of their hat giving us a nice twist in the end. Leaving us to wonder what next season will bring. Until that time I know Tuesday nights have now gone flat. We all have to give the cast a standing ovation for treating us to some great acting. Our helmets are off to Charlie, Ron, and Katie. They are all givens we expect nothing but the best from them and thankfully they have delivered every time.
There were a few standouts throughout the season and Michael Ornstein gets huge praise for his roll as the sick little twisted masturbator we’ve all come to love. He plays the part almost too well. In one of the final scenes where Juice played by Theo Rossi finds out Jax has turned rat the emotion on his face was eerily real and very well done. Tig played oh so well by Kim Coates, our resident sick bastard knocks it out of the park in every episode from the more serious scenes to the moments of levity. Opie played by Ryan Hurst has really stretched since the show first aired making him a real favorite. However the singular standout for me was given to us by Tommy Flanagan who plays Chibs. His raw talent looms large in Jimmy O’s final scene. The hatred and sheer determination expressed by this actor was award winning. I could go on and on but I’ll stop giving you the highlights.
Momma Gemma true to her character will do anything to protect her son from agent Stahl who she believes will screw Jax in the end. Call it a mother’s intuition. Gemma turns her self in only to find she has been exonerated of the crime. Of course for fleeing she gets to wear a stylish ankle bracelet for a few months. Gemma knows in her bones this is going to go bad and boy was she right.
Remember the Russians have Jimmy O and Jax needs him alive to make the deal with Stahl. Clay and Bobby talk to Otto at the prison asking him to reach out to the one Russian contact on the inside that can make things happen. This is where the people making this show rocked it for me. They brought in the most infamous and very real outlaw biker tossing him into the mix. Sitting across from Otto is none other than Hell’s Angel legend Sonny Barger playing Lenny; SAMCRO’s link to the Russian mob. Loved it!
Using the counterfeit dough with a few hundred thousand Jax managed to have the Fed’s add to the pile they head out. It’s clear there is a plan in play but until the end we just don’t know quite what that is. We do know Jax and Tara are OK and that made us all feel better. Opie asked Lila to marry him of course she accepted. Maybe now she’ll burn that stupid ass hat. Gemma is under house arrest and Unser has packed in his life as a cop knowing he hasn’t long to live. He apparently weighed his decisions siding with the Son’s not that it was any real surprise. Stahl is working her own plan to her climb back to the top without so much a shedding a tear over her newly departed love interest. Wow! Ice cold bitch to the max.
So here they are at the meet with the Russians the fake cash passes muster and they toss Jimmy O into the clubs black van then ride away. Remember agent Stahl is only a few miles away as part of her deal with Jax. Tara’s car is roadside they stop placing Jimmy into the car with Tara and a prospect and off she goes. As expected here come the Russians who have discovered the deception and the chase is on. Stahl set up a road block letting the club through with the exception of the van holding her reward. The Fed’s presence dissuades the Russians from coming any further. Stahl quickly finds out she has been duped and meets Jax nearby just minutes later. He tells her that she can have Jimmy but first she must sign those papers that reduce the gun charges as well as the clubs jail time. If Jax signs he’s a rat and we all know what happens to rats. However with Stahls insistence ax signs!
The next thing we see is Stahl arriving with her minions at the clubhouse. She demands Jimmy O. Everyone but Jax appears amazed that she knew where Jimmy was. He’s instantly taken into custody. Just as Gemma suspected agent Stahl signs the paper reducing their charges in front of everyone. Thus exposes Jax deal in front of the club. Everyone is clearly devastated the words rat and dead somehow seem to go together. The emotions are running high as the club members are loaded into the Federal van. Tara and Lila are left not understanding the total impact where Gemma understands it all to well. Her beloved son is a dead man and worse yet the man she loves more than life will most likely be the one who kills him. It’s a heart wrenching moment.
Aw but here comes the twist! In all the confusion we didn’t see hide nor hair of Piney, Opie and Chibs who we now see riding in a big yellow school bus with Piney at the wheel. Meanwhile Unser after cleaning out his things at the office yet still using his Charming police cruiser bleats the siren encouraging agent Stahl and her black suited drones to pull over. The ruse is that he has information of a possible attack coming her way. Stahl reacts sending the second car away with all her agents in it to check things out. Unser my now favorite cop if there can be such a thing; suddenly pulls his six-shooter, pointing it at none other than our favorite love to hate lady Fed. Wow I think I really love this old man. Then to her shock and surprise up rolls a big yellow school bus.
Jimmy O is dragged from the car fittingly by Chibs who will get to release his years of hatred on the man that not only disfigured him but stole his family. Jimmy O dies very bloody and Flanagan gives an award winning performance in doing do. Our Opie boy forces agent Stahl back into her sedan while he slides in behind her. As much as Ally Walker has made us all hate her character it shows us what a talented lady she really is. In her final scene before Opie calmly lets the bullets fly she shows us one last time that she is a really good actress. Hell for a millisecond I almost felt sorry for the bitch. Opie too makes the scene more than real summoning all his courage to avenge the death of Donna.
Before they flee the scene Chibs make the IRA sign with Jimmy O’s blood on the rear wind shield laying the blame at the feet of the Irish. Lastly the folder with Jax deal inside is removed. In the last bit of the season finale dumb and dumber the two remaining prospects are following behind the van taking the Son’s to jail. The bikes pull along side the van beeping their horns as if to signal something. The Son’s in chains respond by bursting into jovial laughter and that’s when we know that the club knew all along what Jax was doing and the risk they were all taking but for once a SOA plan went off without a hitch.
In the final scene the prospects delver a letter Jax wrote one to his mother and one to Tara. Gemma reads hers and only then understood that the club knew all along what Jax was doing. Of course they didn’t tell her because everyone knows Gemma can’t keep a damn secret. Before Tara’s note reached her she finds the letters that Molly placed in Jax bag before he left Ireland. As she begins reading the letter in John Tellers words he makes a startling claim that if he dies it will be at the hands of who else but Gemma and his best friend Clay. Tara is naturally shocked. Maybe we haven’t heard the last from the ever vocal ever dead John Teller after all!
Yup you guessed it they slam dunked the ending allowing for a new chapter to unfold in the lives of everything SAMCRO. Maybe they will have a little more fun next season. Maybe they'll go on a run and kick up their heals they haven't done that for a long time. Season Three gets six shots out of six. Until then I will be impatiently waiting for next season...
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