8. Family Recipe

Complete story — includes the ending

As the gang votes on the future of Clay's presidency, the clubhouse is attacked by the Lobos Sonora cartel, who drop off the severed heads of two SAMTAZ members, including club president Armando's. One cartel member is captured in the attack, but the Mayans are hit simultaneously, losing three men and a truck full of drugs. Chuckie Marstein is forced to hide the severed heads in a pot of chili when the police stop by the clubhouse. Piney demands that Clay withdraw the club from the drug business, threatening to deliver John Teller's letters to the club if he fails. SAMCRO and the Mayans interrogate the cartel member, who claims that there is a rat in the Mayans. Jax suggests that they feed him false intel about the location of their guns, and ambush the cartel when they arrive to seize them. At the ambush, two trucks arrive, but one drives off. The Mayans and the Sons surround the remaining truck, which is empty except for the headless corpses of two Mayans and the two SAMTAZ members. Tara confronts Jax over the escalating violence, and he suggests she accept a job at another hospital and take their kids. Chibs discovers Juice trying to cover up the evidence of his attempted suicide, and comforts him. Clay convinces Elliott Oswald that the both of them should pony up the rest of the money for Rita Roosevelt's charity to stop the development of Charming Heights, arguing that Oswald will get his land back when Jacob Hale's deal fails. After the fundraiser, Clay arrives at Piney's house and kills him, scrawling the signature of the Lobos Sonora cartel on an old photo of the Sons of Anarchy's founding 'First 9.'