The Sons return to Charming to deal with Salazar and rescue Tara. Agent Stahl grows more desperate as Jimmy O'Phelan is slipping out of her grasp and Jax fails to provide any results, while Unser tries to prevent his department from being disbanded.
This episode contains examples of:
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his seeming ineptitude to do anything worthwhile, Hale still helps out by stabbing Salazar in the thigh with a pen.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Averted. Juice comes from Queens and, despite being a Latino, barely knows a word in Spanish, instead being more fluent in Yiddish.
- Hostage Situation: Salazar takes Jacob Hale hostage along with Tara, making demands to get himself a vehicle, exchange Tara for Jax and go to Mexico.
- Killing in Self-Defense: Jax makes it seem that he killed Salazar in self-defense by cutting his arm with the fire axe.
- The Mafiya: Jimmy asks his Russian partner Viktor Putlova to grant him safety from being pursued by SAMCRO.
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: Opie is still conflicted about Lyla's profession, so Gemma advises him to marry her to get her out of the business.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jax's murder of Salazar unwittingly dooms Charming PD to being absorbed into the San Joaquin County Sheriff Department.
- Noodle Incident: It's revealed that the reason Tig and Kozik don't see eye to eye is that something happened to Tig's dog, Missy.
- Shoot Your Mate: Stahl shoots her partner Tyler to pin the murders of Polly Zobelle and Edmond Hayes on her.
- Undying Loyalty: Donny is still sticking by Jimmy's side, earning a compliment from Viktor.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Hale takes all the credit for taking down Salazar, completely omitting Jax's role in the event.
