Monday, October 19, 2009

Sons of Anarchy 2.02 Small Tears Recap

In my continuing efforts to recap the beginning of Season 2 before they expire in my on demand queue, here is the recap for Small Tears.  Only one more episode until I am up-to-date.  Yay!  

So, Small Tears opens up with Katy Seagal signing a beautiful cover of Ruby Tuesday.  (Really, this song is brilliant, haunting, and lovely.  Go buy it.  Like now.  Wait.  After some research, no, you can’t buy it yet.  The people who run Glee need to teach the people who run SOA a few things about music merchandising.)  Unser, thanks to an anonymous tip finds Gemma beat to hell, Tara arrives on scene and through a not-so-elaborate cover up, they engineer a car wreck and more medical tests for Able (AKA The Kid) to keep what Zobelle’s henchmen did from Clay and Jax.  And well, everyone else in Charming.  Neeta, the nanny, who has ruined any fantasies Clay might have had, is keen to what is going on and will be asking Gemma questions about it later (Note from the future:  still waiting on this, Neeta and btw, where have you been?  I liked what little I saw of Neeta.  She is like a fabulous earth mother.)
So this is The Big Bad.  Or should I say, Another Big Bad.  There is some dimension of secret-keeping for all of our characters in Charming:  Tara and Jax killing Psycho Ex-boyfriend Agent Kohn, Clay and Tig kill Donna while Jax and Piney are in on keeping it a secret, and now Gemma, Tara, and Unser hide up Gemma’s rape.    
Meawhile, back at Teller-Morrow, the boys unbeknownst to what is going on with the matriarch, are stirring after Bobby’s welcome home party.  Tig is asleep on the bar with a woman in what I would call, a um mutually convenient position.  He gets a phone call, flips the girl off of him, but not without telling her that he loves her.  And I’m sure he does.  In whatever way Tig can love a live human being.  Anyways.  Trouble is brewing between the Mayans and the Niners (yeah, thanks for the Jax); Clay makes things worse of course by continuing to play the two off of each other in a gun deal.  Here’s how it goes down:
Mayans:          Hey, Clay.  A Niner killed one of our guys in our terrirotry and then posed his body holding up nine fingers.  You know anything about that? And, btw, we’ll be needing some of those guns you promised to sell us. 
Clay:               Oh Hai!  Nope don’t know anything about that.  A-w-k-a-r-d.  Um, nope can’t help you on the gun thing, we’re fresh out.
Meanwhile, Clay hangs up.  Curses Jax for his brilliant thinking, and then calls the Niners.
Clay:               Hey, Niners guy.  Leroy.  Problems are coming your way (no thanks to my impulsive, ingrate stepson).  Want some guns? 
The tension between Jax and Clay continues to mount. (Note from the future:  I wonder how this little warning from Clay is going to play out.  “Whatever you may think, the truth is that everything I do is to protect what we’ve got.  It’s never arbitrary and never reactive.”  Mmmmmkay.  Let’s see how THAT plays out around epsidoe 6.)
Meanwhile-meanwhile Jax is dispatched to talk to Otto in prison and Opie and Tig (in an extremely odd, yet fascinating bonding moment discussing Donna’s death and Opie’s not-prison dreams and Tig shares how he laid his bike down killing an old lady that he loved who also happened to be preggers) get the guns ready for the Niners. Needless to say, the gun deal goes very badly.  The Mayans roll up and ambush SAMCRO and the Niners.  Oh, and Opie goes all commando shooting shit up as if he were bullet proof.
            And this is just a side note but I have been wondering, really, how many guns can a gang really need?  I mean, SAMCRO has been selling guns to the Niners on a seemingly exclusive basis for a season and a half now.  How many AKs does a gang need?  Like do they ever get to the point where they are stocked up and don’t need any more? 
As a result of Jax’s little sit down with Otto, he convinces SAMCRO to get into the porn business by helping out Otto’s old lady Luanne. Luanne has been raided by the ATF (thanks to Otto’s message sending abilities) and nearly stripped of her “talent” by her competitor.   This guy .  Yeah him. Brilliant casting. Anyways, after two visits by our boys in blue and black and Jax having to tell Luanne who’s boss, it appears that Georgie indeed does not want to be done by Canseco so he leaves it alone.  I’m sure Bobby Elvis blowing chunks helped move that decision forward.    
The members of the MC unanimously (shocker, I know) vote to get into the porn business.  Plus it has the added bonus of getting Bobby Elvis laid, or so they say in church.  And darlin’ just wait until the next episode.   And hey, they even have Caracara to house their newest entrepreneurial endeavor.   Jax even meets Luanne there and while she is frightened and confused because she doesn’t know yet that she has a new partner, Jax promises not to Aidrianna her. Yeah, I know.
Wrapping up at Planet Whitey, Principal Zobelle assures Henry Rollins that the Big Bad will eventually get to Gemma, all will come out, and it will unravel the MC.  Oh, and also the Mayans are BFFs with Zobelle.  Yeah.  I’m scratching my head on that one too.  And lest we forget, Darby is cooking meth. 

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