Sons of Anarchy The Dark Secret Behind the Death of Jax’s Father

Sons of Anarchy: The Dark Secret Behind the Death of Jax’s Father

While Jax’s father is initially thought to have died by suicide, Sons of Anarchy reveals further details as the FX series progresses.

You Are Reading :[thien_display_title]

Sons of Anarchy The Dark Secret Behind the Death of Jax’s Father

Sons of Anarchy sets up its central dynasty early on. John Teller (Victor Newmark and Nicholas Guest) and Piney Winston (William Lucking) founded SAMCRO when they got back from serving in Vietnam. John, aka JT, served as the president until his allegedly accidental death in 1993. Since then, the club has been run by Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman), the youngest of the “First 9” original club members and John’s business partner. Clay is also married to Gemma (Katey Sagal), John’s widow, and he serves as a mentor to John’s son Jax (Charlie Hunnam). However, Season 1 also implies that John’s death was no accident, and the secret behind it slowly comes to life.

When audiences first meet Jax, he’s dealing with his own drama. The club’s warehouse burns down, which causes Jax to discover a journal written by his father: The Life and Death of Sam Crow: How the Sons of Anarchy Lost Their Way. Jax’s ex-wife Wendy (Drea de Matteo) also gives birth to his son Abel, born prematurely and with a crank addiction because of Wendy’s own drug use.

Sons of Anarchy The Dark Secret Behind the Death of Jax’s Father

Jax tries to burn his father’s journal but stops and rescues it midway through. When Gemma finds the partially destroyed papers, she entreats Clay to make sure Jax is happy in the club. She isn’t technically in the club; no women are. Still, as the series progresses, it becomes clear that Gemma’s responsible for a lot of the club’s decisions. It also hints there may be more to John’s death than Jax believes and that something sinister is going on in the background.

See also  Everything Resident Evil 7 Reveals About Ethan Winters

Piney eventually gives Jax a non-burned copy of John’s book. Reading it further influences Jax’s choices and actions. John, a philosophical anarchist, wrote about wanting to move the club away from illegal activities, like gun-running. He was interested in brotherhood, honesty and freedom but saw his club becoming more and more entrenched in blood and money.

Gemma initially says that she suspects John’s death as suicide. In her opinion, John was deluded and lost, hence why he wrote and thought what he did about SAMCRO. However, a darker possibility is revealed when Jax’s girlfriend Tara (Maggie Siff) reads letters John wrote to his Irish girlfriend Maureen (Paula Malcomson). John mentions the difficulties he’s having in the club and tells Maureen that he knows it will be because of Clay and Gemma if he dies.

In Season 4, Clay learns about the letters and does anything he can (including murdering Piney and trying to murder Tara) to get them back, so Jax doesn’t find out the truth. Gemma finds the letters but burns the ones mentioning her involvement in John’s death before giving them to Jax. In her version of the narrative, Clay hired someone to sabotage John’s bike, which led to him getting in a fatal accident on the highway.

Gemma confirms her own involvement in John’s death in Season 6. She tells Nero (Jimmy Smits) that she hated John for going to Belfast even when their son Thomas was dying. She and Clay were already a couple before John’s death. Combined with John’s desire to stop the club’s gun-running practices, she permitted Clay to have John killed.

See also  Godzilla Every Movie in the Heisei Series Ranked

Toward Sons of Anarchy’s end, another club member named Jury (Michael Shamus Wiles) tells Jax that he personally believed John committed suicide, as he would have known if someone messed with his bike. However, Jax refuses to believe that. Although, he ultimately ends up killing himself on the same stretch of highway where John died.

Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/sons-of-anarchy-john-teller-death-explained/

Movies -