Three women end up in vises on 'Sons of Anarchy' -- Gemma Teller, Maureen Ashby and and even Agent June Stahl confront difficult if not impossible situations. One desperate man figures out a solution that could help all of them.Below is my take on this week's episode of the show, and there's also a bit of input from 'Sons of Anarchy' creator Kurt Sutter. (If you've seen Tuesday's episode, the information is not spoilery; it just consists of Sutter's thoughts on a key development in the episode).
After confronting yet more obstacles in his search for his son, Jax Teller, a man who still has the occasional impulse-control issue, doesn't take the violent path. He thinks up a clever scheme that will give him time to find his son, take care of club business and, most importantly, help Gemma. And uf the deal goes down, Stahl will get out of the DEA doghouse and Maureen will have one less problem to deal with in Belfast. Charlie Hunnam has been exemplary when it comes to playing Jax's rage, pain and anger this season. But in 'Turning and Turning,' he gave us a cool, collected Jax who realized that taking a baseball bat to Agent Stahl's car -- or Agent Stahl herself -- would not solve his problems.
Show of hands -- how many of you thought he followed her out of the hospital to either deliver a beatdown or at least a ration of verbal abuse? The thought of Gemma going to prison -- or giving up the Sons to avoid it, which she would never do -- must have been intolerable to him, and he's already dealing with an intolerable situation when it comes to his son.
But Jax has had to step up this season, not just in a leadership conflict with Clay and not just in armed or strategic conflicts with local threats (though they still remain a problem). As the show has expanded its scope, Jax's problems have gotten much bigger. The infernally complex situation that landed Abel in Belfast has forced Jax to grow up and call upon resources he may now have even known he had. He can't be a reactive youth anymore. He has to be a man and make some tough choices.
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