Sons of Anarchy

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Sobell: B | 1199 USERS: B
YOU GRADE IT
I Swear, I'll Make It Up to Thee
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Another episode, another opening where Jax is smoking and brooding. This time, he's looking over the photos that O'Neill emailed to Juice, and trying to figure out how to connect the dots from Jimmy O to Vancouver to Belfast to death to ... Abel. Since Jax has not yet displayed any flair for deductive reasoning puzzles in two seasons of Sons of Anarchy, let's just assume he'll be starting at all the data points for a while.

Zip! We're in Father Ashby's church in Belfast, where Jimmy O is holding up a newspaper that's got Cammy's murder (and the Real IRA credit) splashed all over the front page. He pointedly tells Father Ashby, "I needed Cammy to go away, not to be splayed out for public consumption." Father Ashby elegantly smacks Jimmy O down with, "The council sanctioned it. They felt the NorCal operation had been ... compromised. By Cameron and Eddy. A message was needed. They put that ... mismanagement on you." Translation: You failed to keep your men in line, and therefore screwed this pooch on your own, boy-o. Don't whinge about it now. Jimmy O rolls his eyes at this and seethes as he says he's righting the circumstances now. "When I return the baby to Jax Teller, it's finished. We all move on." Father Ashby begs to differ: "I think it's best we keep the child here for now. He'll be in loving arms until we know how this all plays out." Jimmy O snorts, "I tell you how it all plays out: A half-mad father and his MC posse rolls into Belfast, kicks up a shitstorm, and alerts every peeler on each side of the wall." Father Ashby piously says, "A child is not a bargaining chip." "My point! This is not about my agenda with the Sons, it's about protecting the progress we've made." And Father Ashby's real issue comes to light: Jimmy O's made some tidy profits while serving the cause. Jimmy O's unrepentant: "It's my bloody efforts that pump cash into our dying fight. You remember that." Father Ashby lies about how keeping Abel in Belfast wasn't his call. Amazingly, a divine bolt of lightning does not cleave the roof in twain and render the lying priest unto a grease stain on the floor. Jimmy O, who is a seasoned liar, knows another one when he sees it. And he threatens to call SAMCRO and give them an accurate Abel Alert for a change. Emboldened by the fact that he can lie in church without facing divine wrath, Father Ashby decides to invoke the Man Upstairs by pointing out God -- and his followers in the Real IRA -- hates people who tell the truth to motorcycle gangs. He stalks off, leaving Jimmy O to wonder why he doesn't just become an atheist already.

Sons of Anarchy

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