Sons of Anarchy ‘Pilot’ S01 – EP01
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The Mayans, a Mexican weapons cartel, break into an assembly warehouse and find and steal the hundreds of guns inside. Unknown to them, two people 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”). The leader of the club, 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. The Sons rule the city. Trammel shows the club 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 complains over his status in the Sons, one day being part of the group and the other day being forced to repair automobiles and motorcycles. He’s called by 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, a new member of the group. But when she discovers he’s vegan, she quickly decides not to invite him. Jax asks Gemma about his drug-addicted ex-wife Wendy, who isn’t returning his calls. Gemma tells him she’s avoiding him.
Meanwhile, Wendy tears apart her home looking for ice cream, before preparing to inject a needle into her hand. But the heavily pregnant Wendy decides against it.
Clay meets with the East Bay leader, Laroy, telling him what has happened to the warehouse. Laroy needs the guns to sell to a club called the Mayans, 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. 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). When he is called away to a group meeting, Jax hides the journal. Clay wants to find the guns, steal them back, and torch the place where they were found.
Gemma finds Wendy collapsed in her home, and Jax and the Sons rush to the hospital. 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. Together, both defects are near-fatal. He has just a 20% chance of survival. Jax and Tara were high school sweethearts, and she personally requested to help on his case. Jax decides not to visit his baby, named Abel, and instead flees the hospital. He enters a sleazy bar, and beats Wendy’s dealer repeatedly with a pool cue.
Jax goes to talk to a lapsed member of the group, Opie, who the Sons need to blow up the Mayans’ storage facility. He eventually signs up.
Jax 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 tells Jax that he can’t be getting cold feet about the club, especially with an expensive baby in the world. He tells him that he and Jax’s father served time, lost brothers and spilled a lot of blood to get the club to where it is today.
Jax visits Wendy in hospital, who promises that she’ll get clean. She also says that the doctors told her Abel is getting stronger, but she herself is facing a charge of foetal abuse as she has a stash drawer at home. She asks him to get rid of the stash before she faces time in jail. Jax turns up at Wendy’s house, which he finds his mother feverishly cleaning. Jax tells her that Abel’s gonna die, which angers Gemma, who slaps him and tells him that he’s the only one his son has got.
Wendy tells him about the strength of the Teller men, and Jax asks her about his father’s original vision of the club. Wendy responds that it was to create a brotherhood, a family. Jax tells her about the writings he found, how his father wanted a social rebellion, not an outlaw club. Jax encourages Gemma to finish cleaning tomorrow, and she leaves. Jax then flushes Wendy’s stash and takes her gun.
Gemma and Clay prepare for bed, and they talk about Jax’s questioning of the gun running, and his idea for not rebuilding the gun factory. Gemma tells Clay to stop Jax’s newfound 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.
The club discuss rival gang the Nords, a group of white supremacist meth dealers led by Ernest Darby, a Nazi who’s just gotten out of jail. They later meet up with them (led by recently parolled white supremacist Darby), putting pressure on them to keep their meth trafficking out of Charming.
Tara recommends that Abel’s heart surgery happen today, and asks to privately talk to Gemma. She asks her to talk to Wendy and let her know that she has somebody, but Gemma says she would only give her vitriol. Tara asks if she has a problem with her being involved with the case, to which Gemma replies that as long as she’s a good doctor, she could care less. The two argue, with Tara claiming she’s a different person to how she was 10 years ago. Gemma lifts up the back of her shirt, briefly exposing a biker tattoo. Tara claims that she has kept it to remind her that her past is behind her. Gemma exits, calling her a bitch as she leaves.
Opie angers his wife Donna when she discovers he’s back with the group, especially as they sold him out in the past, leaving him in jail while the group got rich. Jax, who has been watching, tells Opie to stay with his family, and tell Clay that one of his children had an accident that needed his attention.
Meanwhile, musician Bobby discovers that his spot performing at a club has been canceled and an Asian Elvis impersonator booked in his place. Half-Sack beats the guy in his dressing room, and later Bobby takes his place singing old Elvis songs in full costume.
The Sons work out where the Mayans’ keep their stash of guns and heroin, but discover company near-by before they can successfully blow the heroin up. Clay and Chibs shoot and kill the Mayans men, leaving one that Clay forces Jax to kill. The club find a swastika burned onto one of the men, implying that Darby had gotten to them. He wants to take control of Charming. The group blow up the stash, and the Mayan corpses in the process.
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 and Tara reunite and embrace. Tara notices the blood all over him, telling him to clean himself up. Wendy has an overdose in her hospital bed, as the doctors desperately try and save her. Jax finally visits his son.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I fell in Love with this show right from episode 1!