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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWith season 6 of SOA finally upon us, we're quantitatively rating the gruesome, the bewildering, and the truly shocking of everyone's favorite Harley-riding psychopaths each week, all season long. Creator (and GQ guest blogger) Kurt Sutter's mind can go to some pretty dark places, so each episode we'll rate those dark places on a scale of 1 to 10: 1 being nothing more unsettling than a romp with someone's old lady in the clubhouse, and 10 being as deeply disturbing as Tig's daughter getting roasted alive in a fiery pit of corpses.\n\nWe've officially hit the final stretch of the Sons of Anarchy season, a stretch that we like to call the Xanax phase. All of the machinations of the previous ten episodes are beginning to flower and, as is always the case, hell is on the horizon. This episode is titled, \"Aon Rud Personta,\" which in Gaelic roughly means \"Nothing Personal.\" It's somewhat ironic, though, since nearly everything that goes down is deeply personal. The episode opens with Jax signing the deal he brokered with the D.A., which is about thing only thing that goes as expected, creator Kurt Sutter once again juking left when everyone expects right. We're officially in the endgame now folks and, as the saying goes, things are going to get a lot worse before they get...well, probably just worse. Here's how the episode breaks down:\n\nTara faces a losing hand: 4.0\n\n With lady lawyer now out of the picture, Tara hires some new representation, and he isn't exactly flush with optimism. He lays out her options, or lack thereof, which she sums up well: \"my boys, or my freedom.\" If Tara rats on the club, they'll demolish her credibility by bringing up the fake miscarriage, ensuring that she will lose her sons. If she stays silent, she'll likely go to jail for the whole Otto affair, meaning she'll be doing her mothering from behind bars. The picture is not exactly a rosy one for Gemma 2.0.\n\nClay's prison break goes down: 7.0\n\n Irishman Connor, a prison-break expert, sets up the plan for springing Clay. It involves the Sons taking out the follow car and swarming the prison transport. All nearly goes off without a hitch, until one of the guards shoots Bobby during the getaway. Rather than let the guard continue shooting, Juice opts to run him down. The Sons do get out of there, but Bobby is seriously hurt with a bullet in his chest.\n\nGalen O'Shea meets his Catholic Maker: 9.0\n\n SAMCRO delivers Clay to the Irish at the airstrip. Other than a wounded Bobby, everything looks as if it is going to plan. Which is exactly when Sutter likes to throw us a meaty curve ball. About to shake his hand for a job well down, Galen meets the business end of Jax's gun, getting a nice little hole blown in his head for good measure. The Sons take out the other two Irish as well, and Clay realizes that plans have changed. Jax tells him, \"We had a vote.\"\n\nClay's day of reckoning finally arrives: 10.0\n\n As Tara says afterward when she, Gemma, and Nero are on their way to the hospital, \"Clay Morrow should have been dead a long time ago.\" It's a moment that has been building up practically since the first episode of the series, an event demanded by the Shakespearian nature of the show: The son must eventually kill the father. After taking out the Irish, Gemma arrives at the airport with Nero and Tara, who's been asked to help save Bobby. With them all there, Jax tells Clay that there's one more part of the plan. Clay asks what it is and Jax asks him, \"How would you do it?\" Clay knows all too well what his move would be, a phony beef with Galen and a bullet in his head. It's been difficult watching Ron Perlman sit on the sidelines for so much of the season. Every good story needs a villain, and Perlman's Clay Morrow has been one of the best. But Clay knows his day of reckoning is at hand, and he faces it stoically, as a man ready to pay the price for his sins. Jax and co. walk him into the office where Galen's body lies. With Gemma watching through the window, Jax raises his gun and, somewhat sadistically, shoots Clay in the throat. As he drops to the ground in a spray of arterial blood, Jax unloads four more shots in his chest. The son has officially become the father. So long Clay Morrow. It's been a great run you psychotic son of a bitch.\n\nOverall Rating: 7.5\n\n All of Jax's plans are now in motion, Galen and Clay are dead, Connor is set to deliver the news to the Irish, hopefully selling them on turning the gun business over to August Marks, and the D.A. has her Tech-9s and her scapegoat. Of course, the D.A. doesn't see it as a victory, telling Lt. Roosevelt, \"The deal I made didn't include a stack of dead bodies.\" She knows the Sons are responsible and she goes for the jugular, once again offering Tara her deal, this time in exchange for proof that it was SAMCRO who sprung Clay. Tara asks if a bullet from the shooting pulled from a Son would be enough proof, and the D.A. tells her it would. But an emotional wrench is thrown into Tara's plan when, after secretly saving the bullet she pulls out of Bobby, Jax tells her that he understands why she did what she did. He is sorry that he drove her to it. Tara now has a pretty difficult decision to face, and it will be interesting to see which direction she goes. And finally, the mayhem score for this episode was high for one reason and one reason only: Clay Morrow. We all knew it was coming, hell, Sutter said as much before the season even started, but when Clay took his bullet to the throat, it still felt like a punch to the stomach. It's a testament to Perlman's performance though that, in the end, it was hard not to feel at least a little sorry for Clay. From the looks of things, both Gemma and Jax certainly did, and they'll likely have some serious demons to wrestle with now that he's gone. But there are only two more episodes left in the season now, and it's safe to assume that things are going to unfold at a pretty relentless pace. It'd probably be a good idea to stock up on that Xanax as we close in on the finish line."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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