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Sons Of Anarchy Recap. Abel Doorway. SOA SoA S7 Premiere Sons Of Anarchy Sons Of Anarchy Salvage. SoA Recap. Piney refused and told him to "grow a dick". He did, however, tell him to join Clay and Bobby Munson on a protection run to make some extra cash. He took his father's advice, and helped them secure a shipment of electronics on the way to Mexico.

The trio eventually hijacked the truck, to send a warning to the local sheriff who owns the trucking company. When Kyle Hobart 's ex-wife went to Gemma Teller Morrow , Clay's wife, and asked if Kyle could come back to Charming to see his son's band play at a local festival, she put it up for a vote in the club.

Opie and most of the club voted that he should be allowed to come back to town only Piney and Tig Trager voted against it. At the festival, Opie beat Kyle up in an act of revenge. Later on, Kyle went to Jax and asked him if the Sons wanted in on his deal selling stolen car parts.

Jax accepted and invited him to the clubhouse that night. This was a set-up, however, to punish him for not having his SOA tattoo removed after being disowned by the club. At the clubhouse, Bobby lured Kyle into the garage by saying that he wanted to show him his new motorcycle. There, they tied him up and Tig used a blowtorch to burn off the tattoo.

They then used these guns to ambush a prison convoy and free one of their members, Frank Cison. A police officer and two civilians were killed during the assault. Meineke dropped his cell phone at the scene, and his last calls had been to Clay Morrow. When the ATF found the phone, they arrested Clay and raided the clubhouse.

Clay was later released because no evidence was found, meaning he could no longer be kept in custody. Meanwhile Jax, Piney and Opie Winston decided to kill Meineke and his gang to stop them "snitching" if they were apprehended by the authorities.

They pretended to sell them more weapons. The boxes of guns were actually filled with explosives, however, and the militia loaded their trucks with them. All of the militia were killed when the bombs were detonated. Opie, Bobby and Jax then went to the hotel room where he sees his African American mistress.

Opie was supposed to shoot him when he left the room, but froze and Bobby stepped in and shot him at close range with a silenced pistol. Opie lost his job at the lumber mill and began working as a mechanic at the Teller-Morrow Automotive.

His marriage also began to deteriorate further. Bobby, Piney and Tig started a brawl at a local bar and most of the town's small police force had to go to the scene to break it up. This gave Jax and Opie an opportunity to break into the police station, with the help of Unser, and free Cherry.

Luann stayed behind because the ATF had given her and Otto a deal. After Bobby was arrested for the murder of Brenan Hefner, the ATF took Opie and his family to a safe house and payed off his debts in order to make him look like an informant. The real witness was Hefner's mistress, however.

Creator Kurt Sutter spoke to reporters on Wednesday morning to explain his decision to kill off a major character who had been on the show since the beginning.

Sutter said that when Hurst read the scripts for the episodes that follow this tragic turn of events, he understood the importance of his characters death — which Sutter said will resonate through the rest of the series.

As for the way Opie was killed, volunteering to be the one to die in prison, which leads to a violent beating in a prison cell, Sutter said that that is a realistic situation in that world. His main goal was to give Opie — a man who struggled with staying in the club after his wife and then father were both killed due to the actions of the club — an exit fitting of his character. Sons of Anarchy airs on Tuesdays at 10 p. The members of the MC were a big family, always looking out for each other — or, at least, most of them did.

Opie spiraled into depression but eventually moved on and married Lyla, though their marriage turned out to be complicated. Jax refused to choose and was about to offer up himself instead when Opie stepped in and hit one of the guards.

He admitted that killing off Opie deeply affected him for a while, just like it did to the cast, crew, and viewers.