'Sons of Anarchy' "One One Six" - Of Deeds Done Dirty, Cheap and Necessary

In Sons of Anarchy episode titled "One One Six," a lot of sh* goes down.  Oh wait, when doesn't it?  There's the fallout from the school shooting that the club is looking to deal with, trying to head off the heat that will come of it.  Toric (Donal Logue) is making more crazy sh* moves and we meet a few new players on the playing field that SAMCRO has to face off with.

Shall we get to it?

SPOILERS ENSUE.

You've been warned bitches!

Pine Grove is just south of Fort Bragg, CA. and a nomad chapter needs at least four members interested to get (back) off the ground.  These things will make sense in a bit.

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The Club and the School Shooting

SAMCRO is going into the defensive mode, as they learn that the gun used in the school shooting was one of theirs, used by the kid of of one of Nero's (Jimmy Smits) cousins, Primo (Dave Navarro).

With the shooting bringing in the law, we meet the San Joaquin County District Attorney (CCH Pounder), and C. Thomas Howell as Frank Eagan, an ATF Agent.  (But as some news reports noted a few months back, there may be some questions about where his loyalties lie... with the DA or with Toric... or?)

When Nero tells Jax (Charlie Hunnam) about the gun and his cousin's woman, he asks/suggests moving the boys mother away from the police scrutiny.  Despite being an upstanding member of the Nero group, she still has a questionable record of being sketchy.  This is when Jax suggests taking the girl up to Pine Grove to get her out of town as the shooting investigation gets some heat built up.

The club gets the kid's mom up to their cabin, but she freaks out, gets a hold of a rifle, and it's ugly, and Nero ends up shooting his own cousin (doing the right thing), but also trying to save the woman. (She has two other kids.)  They're now stuck with clean up of the mess, and it looks like an over-dose is on the menu for our distraught, relocated mother.

The duty falls on Juice (Theo Rossi), who jacks her up, then puts a pillow on her face.  (I'm sure the PTC will be up in arms about this one too.)

Juice is disturbed by what he's needing to do to get back in good with Jax and the club.  He's scrubbing his hands in very hot water.

Everyone is upset about what had to happen, and Jax and Nero know this is all their fault, with the guns coming from their distribution.  But Nero is buggered about the woman dying, and Jax lies to him, telling him there must have been something bad with the juice they gave her.

This keeps Nero calm.  The club buries the two bodies.

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Toric and Clay and more Nasty Toric

Toric visits Clay (Ron Perlman), presenting him with his printed "confession" that can help put the club away.  But Clay wants to see Gemma and Jax before he signs things, saying he wants to hurt people.

Meanwhile Toric has a convo with the DA and points them towards the source of the gun, SAMCRO.  But he needs more than words.

Toric keeps pushing Clay and threatens to put him back in the public population unless he signs his paperwork.  Clay says he'll sign as soon as he tells Jax what he's doing and why.

Gemma (Katey Segal) visits Clay, at his visitation request.  He tells her no matter what goes down, it won't land on her.  She seems rather upset as she realizes Clay is telling her in so many words, that he's about to rat out the club.

Gemma is pretty upset, and Toric, not letting up, tells her that Clay wants to tell Jax in person, what's coming down.

We watch what looks like Toric having some sort of emotional fit, but it turns out he's slamming his arms into the table, hurting them, so he can forge Clarence Morrow's signature on his paperwork.  Or at least make the sig look like that of a man with bad wrists and fingers.  And this is just the first of how many times Toric will cross the line to get the job done... or, as he likes to put it, revenge for the things the criminals do.

This false paperwork will allow Toric et al to re-open a RICO case against the club, and also gets Clay one more night of protective custody (PC), courtesy of the DA.

Later, we watch Toric visit Nero's club, giving one of the girls a note saying to come to his hotel, and leaving another note with the head girl, for Nero.

(I've been warned that the opening scenes of next week's episode with Toric will be, what they call jaw-dropping...  I'm guessing it has to do with the hooker.)

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Tara, Tara, Tara... What Are You Doing?

When Tara (Maggie Siff) gets out of jail, Jax is waiting for her.  On her way out, she asks her lawyer if she's started "the other" paperwork.  That paperwork, being papers for guardianship and a divorce.

Tara comes home to her kids... the air is tense, she gives Gemma the evil eye.  Gemma tells Jax about the school shooting and ends up bullshitting Tara, saying she didn't turn her in to the cops.  Gemma slides the blame off towards Wendy.

It also seems, that along with looking to sign up Wendy as the kid's primary guardian, and filing for divorce, she could very well be pregnant.

And she plots the timing with all the paperwork being filed with her lawyer.

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Jax's Moves, Plans and Plops

In a conversation with Tara, Jax tells her he's getting the club out of the illegal stuff, but there are still some things he needs to do.  Things to make right or else Opie's sacrifice that he made would be for nothing.

He also starts the wheels in motion to break ties with the Irish.  Though they understand about the guns and the shooting, they still have to check with the homeland, and until then, everything is "business as usual."  This pisses off Jax, but what can he do?

Well, he can ignore them for one.

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Other Odds and Ends, Bobby and Closing Thoughts
Bobby is having a meeting with Nevada club members.  In case you're wondering what Bobby Munson is up to, he is looking to get a previously folded Nomad club back up and he needs the support of at least four other members to get it going.  He now has Quinn and Hopper on his list.

When we first see Juice in this episode, Jax calls his busted up face "brotherly love."  And it's plainly obvious this new duty that Juice had to do is affecting him.  Will he back out of appeasing Jax at every turn of the road?  Will he be riding with Bobby somewhere down the road?  (No pun intended there)

Have you noticed that no matter what the club does to get out from under the shadow of their illegal past digressions, there will always be something that needs fixing?  The guns running looks like it will be harder to get out from under than Jax thought.  But with the Irish saying biz as usual, and Jax ignoring their expectations, I can see things getting ugly with our overseas brothers.

Jax lying to Nero about the juice for the mom being bad seems like yet another necessary evil and if Nero ever finds out this was a called hit and not a bad drug dose, this could be the first step towards a downfall between the two orgs.

I don't see how this could go bad, but still.

Tara treads a tricky and fine line here but she's had enough.  She's got the lawyer doing a tricky balancing act with what papers to file when, and the lawyer, after the blatant threat from Gemma, needs to also treat a fine line.  Or pack some heat!

The episode closes on a scene with a tense relationship between Jax and Tara, as they close out the Sons of Anarchy episode having what I can best describe as dutiful relations, while Tara cries.

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And that was "one one six" tonight.  Another excellent 90-minutes of entertainment from FX.

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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