The situation is Lyla, who's been assaulted repeatedly and is covered in open wounds. As she sobs, "I want Ope, I want Opie," Jax pulls her into his arms. It's not hard to see him thinking, "Yeah, me too."

After the credits roll, we see that Lyla's calmed down a bit and she explains how it is that she came to be covered in cigarette burns and why she has two blackened eyes. "It was supposed to be fetish stuff. Sado-play…cage time. It was torture porn. They never told me. The more I asked them to stop, the more they hurt me." We cut to Ima looking guilty, and we learn that she was the one who introduced Lyla to the Ghanezi brothers. "They had references," she explains weakly. "You're a stupid whore," Jax replies. "I'm the one that got her out of there," Ima shoots back. And honestly, I would have loved to have seen that.

Lyla rallies to Ima's defense: "I asked her to get me the work, Jax. My best asset has a bullet hole in it. I can't do the girl-girl stuff. I need money. I got three kids now." This raises a multitude of questions, such as: Where is Piney's ex-wife in all this and why is she not at all concerned over who's raising her dead son's children? Why hasn't Lyla filed for Social Security survivorship benefits for the Winston kids? Why on Earth hasn't the club set up some sort of Old-Ladies-and-Orphans fund for the families of its brothers? Why did it never occur to savvy businessperson Jax to maybe set up something for Opie's widow beyond a vague promise of a house in the not-yet-built Charming Heights?

I can't believe it wouldn't have occurred to Bobby Elvis or anyone else in the club to do estate planning. I'm just saying, it could be a lucrative sideline for whichever professionals cared to work with the club, and it'd be a hell of a benefit to members.

ANYWAY. Nero asks Lyla why she didn't ask for help, and she says, "I don't take charity." No, she only becomes yet another in a long line of women whose lives get ruined in increments once they're sucked into SAMCRO's orbit.

Within seconds, Jax has decided to avenge Lyla's honor, Ima hands over the address of the Ghanezi brothers out on the Stockton docks, and Nero has introduced one of this season's new characters/complications: Barosky, the crooked ex-cop who control the ports. Nero thinks they have to go through Barofsky to get to the Ghanezi brothers, but Chibs frets that the as-yet-unseen Baroksky will be in cahoots with the as-yet-unseen Ghanezi brothers. So the guys decide to go check everything out before approaching Barofsky, because nothing says "stealth" like "a bunch of middle-aged guys running around with guns, plus their good pal Dave Navarro."

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