The Sons of Anarchy hit to the pavement on a charity bike ride to benefit a Children's Hospital. Naturally, it is all a pretext as they are really holding up their deal to the True IRA to run guns up the coast, but when a group of outlaw motorcyclists are traveling, it is a whole lot safer when you're riding for kids and not for illegal weapons. Of course, when the President and VP are fighting, and Bobby pulls out a beat up old fatboy to ride on, an easy ride will turn into anything but.
Gemma's Demon
When Clay leaves to go on the ride, he tells Gemma it might be good for her to get over what she is going through. "Maybe." After everyone leaves she goes to work and is holding together alright until Piney gives her a mysterious package that was apparently left in the mail. When the office clears out Gemma opens it and finds a white mask, one worn by the assailants that assaulted her. It is inside a bag for a men's store, and so Gemma goes to investigate. She finds Zobelle there with his new cigar shop and passes Weston who walks in and shaking hands with the paper businessman, but not after checking Gemma out and smiling. Recognizing his tattoo and knowing that Weston was the one, Gemma camps out and follows Weston after he leaves. When she finds him alone she pulls out a gun behinds his back and gets ready to pull the trigger. However, she cannot bring herself to do it and hides away before going home to an empty house.
One Ride Turns Into Three
At the shop before the ride begins, Bobby pulls out his old bike, a fatboy with a bad habit of backfiring and blowing exhaust all over everything in its wake. He proclaims that the bike is the best for a long ride and SAMCRO heads out on their charity ride with other Sons joining them. As they ride along, Jax, Clay, Opie, Tig, Bobby, Chip, and Half-sack split off to pick up some guns from the True IRA. The handguns slip into blanket that gets rolled up as a bedroll and put on the back of a bike. SAMCRO goes back to meet the main run and Bobby's bike starts spitting exhaust and in the fray Tig crashes and is thrown from his bike. He suffers a bump to the head and a busted up knee that requires him to head to the hospital. Half-Sack and Bobby go along, Bobby receiving instructions to be at Tig's every single beck and call. The pair learn that Tig has to be moved because of insurance, but before they can had out some bounty hunters take him away. A single ride turns into a charity cover run, a gun run, and a chase the bounty hunters to save Tig run.
Chasm in the Sons
Jax wants to go follow and try to save Tig, because they fear that he would be taken to a different state. Clay wants to finish the gun run because they are carrying illegal weapons and Tig would have wanted them to finish the run. The two get into it with each other as the other Sons look on, the father-son drama finally coming to a head. Frustrated, Clay attempts to drive off and drops his bike. He tries to lift it himself, but his hands are weak and he ends up laying the bike down completely. Opie goes off and talks to Clay while Jax and Chip pick up Clay's bike.
Save Tig or Save the Guns
SAMCRO is waiting around as Piney shows up in a flatbed to take the bikes back to the shop. Half-Sack arrives and says that Tig is being kept by the bounty hunters at a hotel (thanks to some creative provoking that got him beat up and in need of medical attention). Jax wants to go right after him because they could leave at any minute. Clay wants to get more Sons down and wait until night because the bounty hunters are armed heavily. Clay says it is done, Jax wants a vote, Clay refuses, and the two actually resort to physical violence. They get separated and Piney takes matters into his own hands and tells the boys to jump on the flatbed. Jax and a few of the sons get on and they drive down to the hotel where Piney backs the flatbed right through the wall of the room. They pull out Tig and make it away safely.
The episode ends with a confrontation between Jax and Clay. Jax says that he guesses he will have to get over the situation somehow if they are supposed to stay together as a club, and Clay says that he is right. Jax asks for advice because Clay is the master at getting over things, like putting a hit on a Son behind the Club's back and having Tig shoot an innocent woman in the head. Clay responds by telling Jax that if he ever says anything about Donna ever again, he will kill him. It seems the father-son drama that is tearing the Club in two is anything but over, and is even more tense than before.
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