We ranked the many times this series made us say, “They did WHAT?”
The collision was fated.
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Jarry wanted to solve another mystery first: Was their hookup a mistake?
‘‘If it’s ‘no,’ take me.
Right here,’’ she told Chibs.
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And so he did.
Right on the hood of her police car as Quinn sat on his bike nearby and watched.
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That established the matriarch as a player with all the subtlety of a steel pipe to the head.
Neil Janowitz
47.
According toan EW.com poll, 63 percent of viewers thought Tig would die.
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Jax was also surprised when Tig showed up at his door the next morning.
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Teresa Jue
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‘‘I’m sorry.
I just wanted to go out watching you do your thing,’’ she said.
And then she shot herself in the head.
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She’d been in love with Nero and seeing him with Gemma stirred everything up.
To make matters worse, she stopped taking her meds.
All of this came together for a truly disturbing end to Carla’s character.
FX
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Lesson learned: Never leave Tacoma for Charming.
Teresa Jue
43.
FX
At the time, those words sounded like they were coming from Tara.
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All Otto can do is weep.
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It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship with Tig.
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Alvarez allows his son to be killed
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If you’ve seen the episode, you know that Kurt won that argument.
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Otto quickly broke down in tears, which made the scene oddly heartbreaking.
Tara later sniffing the perfume at home and touching herself while she waited for Jax to return.
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It was then that we knew what Clay was capable of.
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Just as upsetting, Jax lied to Nero’s face and blamed it on bad drugs.
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But again, Jax is frightening.
‘‘This one’s a problem,’’ Bobby said about the woman.
‘‘No, she’s not,’’ Tig responded, and he shot her in the head.
FX
He wound the music globe and circled the sergeant with Chibs and Tig as it played.
Then Jax struck him nine times.
It’s a level of savagery we’d sadly see again.
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A forum of charter presidents would later demand a Mayhem vote.
In the series finale, Jax made sure SAMCRO gave it to them.
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Jax took Tig to an isolated location and pulled a gun on his brother.
Jax handed Tig the weapon and told him to do the honors.
FX
‘‘Stupid cracker bitch.
You know what happens to whoever kills me, right?’’
‘I’m countin’ on it,'' Jax answered.
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It wasn’t until after he fired that Tig realized the gun was Clay’s.
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27. Credit the fragility inRon Perlman’s voice when he asked, ‘‘This good?’’
as he became a dead man walking.
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Clay locked eyes with Gemma through the blinds, and then Jax fired at his throat.
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But she was willing to have a calm conversation with Jax when he stopped by her place.
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Doing that to someone who has recovered from addiction and turned her life around?
Even Tara thought Jax had gone too far in protecting his family.
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Truly, RIP, Juicey.
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(Then we learned that the actor, Taylor Sheridan, simply wanted off the show.)
Neil Janowitz
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(Tara later being arrested as an accomplice would do that, too.)
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Teresa Jue
21.
Otto was asked to state his name and instead bit his own tongue until he severed it.
He then tossed it at the window and effectively at Toric, the brother of the nurse he killed.
FX
As Toric put it, ‘‘Well, way to commit, Otto.’’
Teresa Jue
20.
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19.
FX
‘‘You should really have some,’’ he said.
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Then came the shocking lesson in motorcycle club tattoo-removal protocol: ‘‘Fire or knife?’’
FX
Neil Janowitz
17.
It was a simple enough death forSOA, all things considered.
However, it got real weird when Jax and Tara rekindled their romance next to Kohn’s corpse.
FX
The completely inopportune moment hinted at the wild dysfunction that would ensue in subsequent seasons.
Teresa Jue
16.
Clay was willing to take a beating, but Gemma told him to just do it.
FX
Director Gwyneth Horder-Paytontold EWshe cried filming the scene.
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In episode 10, Abel would cut his own arm with a fork and blame it on Grandma.
FX
Jax decided to tell Abel that Wendy was his first mommy.
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You know what sets me free?
Sweet, holy p—y!''
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There was dancing and many more uses of the wordp—ybefore the guards asked Clay to sit down.
It’s the most gloriously over-the-top sceneincluding the show’s porn parodies.
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Finally, Marks was set to return Bobby, whose jaw was freshly broken for the occasion.
So he couldn’t warn Jax that Marks had hidden a gun on him.
Marks pointed it at Jax, but then abruptly turned it on Bobby.
FX
And the longest-standing member of SAMCRO was gone.
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Neil Janowitz
9.
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‘‘Know my pain, Mr. Trager,’’ Pope said.
Then he tossed in the cigar he’d been smoking.
Watching the flames engulf her was horrifying, but hearing her scream ‘‘Daddy!’’
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for the last time earned this death a spot in our list of theMost Disturbing TV Scenes Ever.
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5. Who expected her to die when Sheriff Roosevelt was waiting outside?
(Bonus aftershock: Juice shot and killed Roosevelt as he tried to call in the murder.)
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Pope demanded that Tig spend his life in prison suffering and that one Son die inside.
‘‘I got this,’’ Opie saidthree wordsSonsfans will never forget.
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Along with Opie’s death, it’s a scene that’s too painful to watch twice.
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