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Sons of Anarchy
Season 2
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No. of episodes13
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Season 3
List of episodes

The second season of the American

Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam
), the vice president of the club, who begins questioning himself.

Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.

Introduced in this season are

A.J. Weston
, seeking to drive SAMCRO out of Charming.

Plot

kidnapped and gang raped by Weston and two others. Due to the improper handling of an internal problem, the rift between Clay and Jax continues to widen as Jax challenges most of Clay's decisions and comes to a head when a lone car bomb
nearly kills another member of SAMCRO. The second season sees SAMCRO battling LOAN for control of Charming, Jax and Clay veering further apart in their individual visions for the club, and evading the ever-present threat of the ATF.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of Sons of Anarchy and Mayans M.C. characters
Bobby Munson
)
Chibs Telford), and Ryan Hurst (Opie Winston
)
Juice Ortiz), and Maggie Siff (Tara Knowles
)
Rosen
)

Main cast

Special guest cast

Recurring cast

Guest stars

Production

Although Sons of Anarchy is set in Northern California's

North Hollywood
. Main sets located there include the clubhouse, St. Thomas Hospital and Jax's house. The production rooms at the studio used by the writing staff also double as the Charming police station.

External scenes were often filmed nearby in

Sun Valley and Tujunga.[2]

Half-Sack was killed off in "Na Trioblóidí" because Johnny Lewis wanted to leave the show due to creative differences; He said: "We decided we'd find some noble way for him to go. It wasn't my intent to try to be sensational and kill off a main character."[3]

Reception

The second season received critical acclaim. This season also saw a substantial increase in positive reviews in comparison with the first season. On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season has a rating of 93%, based on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Sons of Anarchy continues to intensify the drama with riveting storytelling brought to life by a talented ensemble."[4] On Metacritic the second season has a score of 86 out of 100, based on reviews 6 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[5]

AJ Weston, saying, "A decidedly stronger second season sees the gang unravel and knit back together."[6]

Writing for Chicago Tribune, Maureen Ryan called the second season "engrossing". She elaborated that "the pacing is better [and] the plotting is tighter" and commended Sagal and Perlman for their performances.[7] Variety’s Stuart Levine called the new season "compelling" and complimented the acting skill of Perlman, Sagal, Hunnam, and Siff.[8] James Poniewozik of TIME called Sagal's performance "devastatingly powerful" and named the series on his list of Top 10 Shows of 2009.[9]

Episodes

See also: List of Sons of Anarchy episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
141"Albification"Guy FerlandKurt SutterSeptember 8, 2009 (2009-09-08)2WAB014.29[10]
SAMCRO is divided in the wake of Donna's death.
IRA. Meanwhile, a white separatist group takes root in Charming and threatens more than just SAMCRO's control over Charming; the Michael Myers-like masked L.O.A.N. gang kidnaps and gang rapes Gemma
, and tells her to stop SAMCRO from selling guns to blacks and other non-white gangs in Charming.
152"Small Tears"Stephen KayJack LoGiudiceSeptember 15, 2009 (2009-09-15)2WAB023.71[11]
Police Chief
Georgie Caruso
starts stealing Luann's talent, and after Jax and his men tell Caruso to back off, he hits one of her former girls, sending her to the hospital. In retaliation, the boys destroy Caruso's set. Jax has the idea to offer Luann the club's vacant warehouse as the site of a new studio with SAMCRO reaping half of the profits. The Mayans and the One-Niners both come to SAMCRO for weapons after the body of the Mayan Opie killed is discovered. A.J. Weston covertly photographs SAMCRO's initial meeting with the Niners. Zobelle informs the Mayans of SAMCRO's sale to the Niners and the Mayans ambush the exchange, and Bobby is shot in the process. Clay blames Jax for Bobby's injury, and warns Jax not to make decisions without consulting him first.
163"Fix"Gwyneth Horder-PaytonDave EricksonSeptember 22, 2009 (2009-09-22)2WAB033.49[12]
Jax and Tara's romantic day off is interrupted by a phone call from Luann, who is upset that Clay has sent Bobby to manage her bookkeeping without prior notice. Clay and Gemma also arrive on the scene, where they have a loud and public fight before Gemma breaks down crying. Bobby finds out that Luann has been skimping on payments to the club for years, and she sleeps with him to keep him quiet. Tara becomes protective of Jax when
crystal meth in Charming, and shake down one of Darby's dealers to find out where the crank is coming from. When Hale decides not to move on the meth lab, the Sons of Anarchy do, and Opie barely makes it out after rigging the place to explode. Jax chides Opie about his death wish
, reminding him that he has kids.
174"Eureka"Guy FerlandKurt Sutter & Brett ConradSeptember 29, 2009 (2009-09-29)2WAB043.76[12]
Gemma receives a package containing the mask that belonged to one of her rapists. She stakes out Zobelle's new cigar store and recognizes A.J. Weston as one of her attackers. Gemma follows Weston and prepares to shoot him, but hesitates when she hears him on the phone with his son. SAMCRO joins the rest of their club on a ride up to Oregon for a charity blood drive, and pick up handguns from Cameron Hayes to deliver in the process. When Bobby's malfunctioning bike drives Tig off the road, Tig is taken to a hospital, and after a nurse runs a background check on him, he is kidnapped by bounty hunters for an outstanding warrant. Jax argues that they rescue Tig, while Clay plans to continue with the gunrunning mission. After Tig incites the bounty hunters into attacking him, they take him to a motel, and Jax and Clay argue again over whether to rescue Tig immediately or at night, to avoid being seen. Jax rallies several of the men to leave immediately, and Piney drives a flatbed truck through the motel's wall to pull off the rescue. After the guns are delivered, Clay castigates Jax for his constant second-guessing, to which Jax reminds him of Donna's killing, which resulted from Clay's decision to kill Opie without a club vote. Clay tells Jax that if he ever mentions the incident again, Clay will kill him.
185"Smite"Terrence O'HaraChris CollinsOctober 6, 2009 (2009-10-06)2WAB053.66[13]
Clay and the boys make an appearance at Zobelle's cigar shop, Impeccable Smokes, to demand
Elliott Oswald's real estate through eminent domain under pretenses of building a highway, and then makes a lowball offer on the property. Hale recognizes his brother's tactic and notifies Jax and Clay, who interrupt Jacob's meeting and tank the deal. Hale also warns the MC that Zobelle and Weston are surveilling them. Outside a store, Gemma recognizes the woman who abducted her and attempts to chase her down, but she is picked up by Weston. Tara then startles Gemma, and Gemma accidentally breaks her nose. As punishment, Tara tries to make her see a therapist
to talk about her rape. Tara has doubts about her place in the club, and Jax shows her his father's manuscript. When Chibs tries to start a van at the auto shop, it explodes, and Chibs is sent flying.
196"Falx Cerebri"Billy GierhartRegina CorradoOctober 13, 2009 (2009-10-13)2WAB063.31[14]
Chibs is hospitalized in critical condition with a
San Joaquin County
sheriff's department arrives and arrests everyone but Opie, who is able to slip away.
207"Gilead"Gwyneth Horder-PaytonKurt Sutter & Chris CollinsOctober 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)2WAB073.70[15]
Agent Stahl returns to Charming on the heels of Cameron Hayes and the
Josh Kohn
, warning her that "it's dangerous to be a fed." Opie starts getting close with Lyla, a pornstar in Luann's employ. Gemma turns to Elliott Oswald for help posting the club's exorbitant bail, but he declines. Gemma shares a heart-to-heart with his daughter Tristen, who was also raped. Eventually, Elliott comes around, but he tells Gemma that Charming won't stay a small town forever.
218"Potlatch"Paul MaibaumKurt Sutter & Misha GreenOctober 27, 2009 (2009-10-27)2WAB083.39[16]
Clay thanks Elliott Oswald by returning the bloody knife with Oswald's fingerprints. Oswald informs Clay that he'll be running against Jacob Hale for mayor of Charming, and asks for SAMCRO's support. Chibs' estranged wife, Fiona, shows up at his hospital bedside. Henry Lin and the Chinese mob are in the market for a new gun supplier, as the Mayans are quickly encroaching on their territory with weapons supplied by Zobelle's League of American Nationalists. They also foist Chucky Marstein back onto the Sons, who reluctantly take him to replace Bobby as Cara Cara's accountant. Clay visits Edmond Hayes to buy guns, but he is out of stock; the last of their supply was sold to the League, and Edmond is dating Zobelle's daughter Polly. SAMCRO attempts to steal the guns from Weston, but fail. Georgie Caruso's thugs rob Luanne's studio, stealing a camera and rough cuts and murdering Cara Cara's guard dog. Jax and his men retaliate, breaking into Caruso's studio with the help of Chucky, and steal back Luann's things. Caruso and his men retaliate by murdering Luann and dumping her body on the side of a road. Gemma plans a dinner with Tara and Lyla in hopes of burying the hatchet between Jax and Clay. At the dinner, Clay and Jax fight: Clay blames Jax's escalation for Luann's death and his absence for their failure to reclaim the guns. Jax retaliates that he isn't "the one murdering women." Gemma breaks up the fight by smashing a large platter on the table.
229"Fa Guan"Stephen KayBrett Conrad & Liz SagalNovember 3, 2009 (2009-11-03)2WAB093.52[17]
Ernest Darby's brothel is busted, but two of his girls also work for Cara Cara. With pressure mounting on the porn production, Clay decides that the club will shut the business down and shift its attention back to gun smuggling, by helping the Chinese mafia re-establish their connection. Jax believes that Clay is trying to undermine his attempts to legitimate the club. Clay says that the porn business has already cost the club "an old lady," and Jax brings up Donna once again. Clay reminds Jax of his promise to kill him should he say her name again, and Jax offers him the chance, claiming that Clay needs a majority vote to close Cara Cara for good. Clay sends Opie, Jax, Bobby, and Tig to intimidate a customs judge who is overseeing the mafia's gun runner's case. Unser and Gemma attend church services together. Zobelle gives Hale the location of Darby's other brothel and meth lab in the hopes that he will back the League in their dispute with SAMCRO, but Hale lets SAMCRO take care of them. Darby, angry that he has been sold out, demands that Zobelle take action against SAMCRO. Zobelle sends Darby and Weston to burn down the warehouse where Cara Cara operates, and Weston knocks Darby out before leaving him for dead in the burning warehouse. The next day, Jax arrives at the fire, and believing it to be Clay's handiwork, declares that he is leaving the club and going nomad.
2310"Balm"Paris BarclayDave Erickson & Stevie LongNovember 10, 2009 (2009-11-10)2WAB103.38[18]
Tara is suspended from the hospital when the administrator discovers that she coached Chibs on faking symptoms to extend his stay. Chibs is released and has a meeting with Jimmy O'Phelan, who excommunicated him from the
psilocybin mushrooms. Tig samples the mushrooms and has a bad trip
, breaking down over the guilt of killing Donna. Unser tells SAMCRO that Cara Cara was burnt down by a group of men, exonerating Clay. Jax apologizes for suspecting Clay and asks him if he still wants Jax gone; Clay says that he does. At a meeting, Jax secures the votes he needs to be released from SAMCRO, and Jax cuts the charter's patches from his vest. Desperate to keep her family together, Gemma comes clean about her rape at the hands of Weston. Jax reclaims his charter patches.
2411"Service"Phil AbrahamStory by : Brady Dahl & Cori Uchida
Teleplay by : Kurt Sutter & Jack LoGiudice		November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)2WAB113.48[19]
Clay visits Jax at his home, and the two reconcile. Clay shares Gemma's story at a SAMCRO meeting; the club is thirsty for vengeance, but Clay urges a more strategic approach. Changed by his mushroom trip, Tig makes a pass at Gemma, and later asks a suspicious Opie why Donna was in his truck the night of her death. Opie beats a full confession from Tig, who places the blame at the feet of Stahl, and Opie drives off in a fury to find her. While stalking her, he witnesses Chibs leaving
IRA
. After he cools down, Opie asks Jax how he can forgive Clay and Tig, and Jax responds that Clay is Clay "because we made him." He gives Opie a copy of his father's memoirs. At the chapter meeting, Opie announces that he will stay with the club to help it change, but demands that the truth about Donna's killing not trouble his family again. He also relays that he saw Chibs with the ATF, but demands that the club hear him out. Chibs enters and comes clean of his own accord, and the group assures him that they will protect his family if he makes things right with Jimmy. Piney storms in and attempts to shoot Clay, fearing that Opie was going to seek revenge. He is stopped by the others, and Clay forgives him. Tig tells Clay that Gemma is afraid that Clay doesn't want her anymore; Clay finds her in the office and the two make love.
2512"The Culling"Gwyneth Horder-PaytonKurt Sutter & Dave EricksonNovember 24, 2009 (2009-11-24)2WAB123.44[20]
The members of SAMCRO bring their families to the clubhouse in preparation for war with the League. Chuck Marstein also shows up, having survived the Cara Cara warehouse fire, and testifies to the police about what he saw there. When the administrator of Tara's hospital gloats over Tara's impending hearing before the medical board, Tara punches her in the face and tells her to drop the charges, lest SAMCRO pay her a visit. Stahl and her new informant Edmond Hayes attempt to trap Jimmy and SAMCRO during a gun deal at the Army/Navy surplus store the
Child Protective Services
on Weston's kids. Jax and Weston schedule a ten-on-ten brawl to the death at a warehouse in Charming, but it is broken up midway through by the police, who arrest Weston for the arson of Cara Cara. They head to Zobelle's cigar store, but the police meet them there as well and arrest Zobelle and his daughter Polly when the former reveals that he has stashed narcotics in the store.
2613"Na Trioblóidí"Kurt SutterKurt SutterDecember 1, 2009 (2009-12-01)2WAB134.33[21]

Stahl orders Zobelle released from prison, Zobelle refuses police escort, and the Mayans arrive in Charming to protect their investment in him. Meanwhile, Weston is also released, as Chuck's testimony is deemed unreliable because he is an

ex-felon
. Gemma kills Polly. Stahl kills Edmond and sets Gemma up for his murder. Cameron hears on the police scanner that Gemma killed Edmond and follows Half-Sack to Taras house. Where he attempts to kill Jax's son, because he thinks Gemma killed Edmond, Half-Sack gets up to protect him and Cameron stabs him with a knife. Cameron ties Tara to a chair and kidnaps Abel.

Note: Na Trioblóidí means The Troubles in Irish.

Home media release

The second season was released in the United States on DVD and Blu-ray on August 31, 2010.[22]

References

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