Back at Stockton's charming bakery, Tig is inhaling a powdered doughnut and asking, "A crooked cop opens a crooked doughnut shop. No-one else sees the irony in that?" This is the closest I've come to laughing all episode -- which is kind of sad. I went back and re-watched some of the season one episodes recently and what struck me was how very funny they were. As this tragedy speeds toward its conclusion, it's gotten a lot darker and the jokes a lot weaker.

Anyway, Chibs loves the shortbread, Barofsky loves the fact that the torture porn real estate is relatively undamaged (because who gives a shit about mere human beings, amirite?) and everyone resolves to make more money off the ladies in a less burn-y, Iranian fashion.

Meanwhile, back at the jail, Tara's day of journaling has been interrupted by a meeting with Toric. He starts by asking, "How are your accommodations?" and Tara channels Gemma with a caustic, "Confined." Toric says, "I'm sorry. I wanted to give you a few days to adjust before we spoke." Tara's appalled to realize that Toric's the one who got her arrested. "How?" she asks. Toric says, "I focused the Department of Justice on the facts. Pointed out your marital connection to the club. The RICO case. The documents you forged to access Otto. Did you think they wouldn't find those? Mmm?" Tara looks at Toric, horror-stricken that someone actually put several pieces together and built a case. Tara protests, "I only did that so I could talk to him." Toric says sadly, "You are aware these rooms are being monitored? You just acknowledged committing a felony." Tara channels her mother-in-law again and sneers, "You're right. I should wait for my lawyer." Toric points out how waiting for a lawyer does not change how screwed Tara is: "They'll want to make an example out of you. Probably hit you with at least five to seven." Tara snorts, "I guess you're here to tell me how you can help?" "I have no desire to help you," Toric says calmly, and oh my gosh, that is the most stone-cold line.

He then pushes his next piece into place: "I want to use you. You need to give up your husband." Tara disputes this by claiming that Jax would never order the death of a woman. Well, the season is young yet, so we'll have plenty of opportunity to see Tara proven wrong. Tara points out that Otto killed Toric's sister as a way to hurt Jax, not help him. Having confirmed that hurting Jax and Tara more or less satisfies Otto and therefore offers his sister's murderer some measure of comfort, Toric switches to Plan B. He says, "I can offer WitSec. Anywhere you want. For you and your boys. I know it's not how you wanted to do it, but the end result is the same."

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