He tapes a confession, during which he outlines what Gemma did, how Juice ( Theo Rossi) helped her cover it up and why all the violence escalated with the Chinese. Patterson ( CCH Pounder) to finally tell her the truth about Tara's murder. I need my boys to leave this place so they don't become what I became."Īfter a tearful goodbye with his sons Abel and Thomas, Jax assures a concerned Wendy ( Drea de Matteo) that "everything's gonna be fine." With that, Nero and Wendy heard out of town with the boys and Jax fires up his dad's old motorcycle and rides away. "You know why," Jax says, simply confirming what Nero feared most, that Jax had killed Gemma. To Norco with Nero, back East - anywhere but Charming. The catch: She is to sell everything and move. He asks Nero ( Jimmy Smits) to meet him at Teller-Morrow, where Jax shows Nero all the paperwork he will need to give Jax's houses and the garage over to Wendy. With club business (mostly) settled, Jax moves on to personal matters. I need my sons to grow up hating the thought of me." Sons of Anarchy postmortem: Katey Sagal breaks down Jax and Gemma's showdown When the time comes, it's an emotional vote, but all the guys do as they were instructed. "This is how you learn to be a leader, doing the sh- that hurts the most," Jax tells him, seemingly passing the torch - or gavel, if you prefer. Based on Chibs' devastated reaction, it seems Jax has instructed Chibs and SAMCRO to cast "Yea" votes. He tells Chibs ( Tommy Flanagan) that now that Jax told the other charters the truth about Jury's death, they've called for a mayhem vote. "Better late than never."ĭuring all of this back-and-forth, however we learn why Jax is living like there's no tomorrow. "My old man tried to sever that tie 20 years ago," Jax says. When Connor questioned Jax's reckless decision to kill off an Irish King? Jax remained as confident as ever. Ultimately, just as it seemed Jax was set to kill Connor, he instead took out Brendan and his men in exchange for Connor dealing all his illegal weapons to Alvarez. This whole sequence was typical Sons of Anarchy negotiating and double-crossing. get to work finding finding Connor so they can take him out, per Brendan Roarke's request. However, the smiles can only last so long. "Change is good, my friend," Jax tells T.O as he welcomes him to the club.
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The first order of business is for Jax, now with the apparent blessing of the other Sons charters to change the racist bylaws, to patch in the Grim Bastards' T.O. Photo Gallery: Look back at Sons of Anarchy's craziest moments Not only did he trade in his (now blood-stained) white sneakers for black boots, but he took all of his journals he'd been writing to his sons and burned them along with his father's manifesto - the document that set the whole show in motion. The episode opened to the strains of Bruce Springsteen's "Adam Raised a Cain," and even in those first moments, Jax seemed a different person (perhaps) the morning after killing his mother Gemma ( Katey Sagal) for her own murder of Jax's wife Tara ( Maggie Siff).
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Up to its final moments, FX's Sons of Anarchy was a bloodbath.Īfter a penultimate episode that killed off three major players and delivered the show's emotional climax, the series finale featured Kurt Sutter's Hamlet, Jax Teller ( Charlie Hunnam), tying up remaining loose ends.