Jax continues, "The only advice I can give you, sons, is to examine who you are as men. Figure out what's important to you. Know yourselves. Know what's in your heart. Don't be swayed by fears, or history, or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love." We see that Bobby's riding with a new chapter, then that Jax has concluded his early-morning bout of logorrhea-ic self-deception. (Some people do cardio to ease into the day; Jax writes the advice he wishes he could take).

Then we launch into the episode proper. Gemma coos over Thomas and Jax goes to snuggle Abel, who asks, "When's Mommy coming home, Daddy?" "Real soon," Jax says after a pause. Happy resumes entertaining Abel while Jax and Gemma quietly wonder to one another why Clay is still alive in county lockup.

Jax announces his plan to ride out to visit Tara in her jail all, "I need to ride alone, clear my head" and, having spent two minutes being a dad, he's out the door again. After Jax goes, Gemma frets about the fact that her son isn't too happy about his old lady being behind bars and his ex-stepfather being alive behind bars, and Happy says, "He's doing real good, Mom. His old man would be proud." Tactfully, neither one of them says, "Hey, I noticed that if you do the math, Clay was Jax's stepfather a lot longer than JT was Jax's dad, so if you're referencing 'old men,' well, it gets fraught."

Okay, so you know how some people start their day with yoga, or journaling, or exercise? Otto apparently now gets to start his with a bracing round of sodomy. Once the guard of the day has finished buggering the nearly blind, tongue-less psychopath -- and we get a good shot at the brownish smear across the back of Otto's hospital gown and the streaks of blood on the wall -- Toric comes in and asks, "How's your morning? Yeah, tough one for me too. Had the memorial for my sister last night. It's too bad death is the only thing that puts life into perspective. I'm going to be paying a visit to your MC family today. I was wondering if you wanted me to say hi to anyone, deliver a message. No? You sure? Okay." Toric leaves with a cheery assurance that the rapes will continue until morale improves, and we leave Otto sobbing in his bunk.

I'm sure we can all agree that prison rape is terrible and inmate abuse by guards is awful, but who else is dying to figure out what those blood streaks are? The number of days Otto's been in his windowless cell? The number of guards who have raped him? The beginnings of whatever sick message he's going to write to everyone? I hope we find out.

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