Sons of Anarchy Season 6 Episode 10 Recap ‘Huang Wu’ — ‘Oh Darlin, What Have I Done?’

Tara’s downward spiral is almost at its conclusion while Jax and the club find a new complication as they try to get rid of the Irish once and for all…

By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer

The secret is out.

Tara’s grand scheme to escape Charming with her boys while leaving Jax in the wind has all gone up in smoke. Maybe it was a foolhardy plan all along. She teamed up with an ex-junkie, a hospital administrator and a lawyer trying to pull one over on everyone she’s ever loved while doing what she believed was ultimately right for her family and now it’s all blown up in her face.

The latest episode of Sons of Anarchy titled ‘Huang Wu’ may end up being the saddest of the entire series as we witness Tara’s downward spiral into loneliness, depression and more than anything just an overwhelming feeling of despair.

When she wakes in the morning after learning that Jax now knows the truth about everything, her first instincts are that of a mother as she rushes to her children’s rooms to see if they’re okay. It’s there that she encounters Jax for the first time since the revelation about her plan came to light. He tells her that she’s going to be watched like a hawk to ensure she doesn’t skip town, and he’s leaving the house to think about things for a few days.

Tara heads to the hospital where she runs into Margaret, who reveals the information she may or may not have inadvertently leaked to Gemma while shaking in fear of what will happen to her next. This outlaw life is not made for everyone and as the world starts to bleed out onto Margaret, she can’t handle it anymore and informs Tara that she will be heading to her sisters for a few weeks while hopefully things die down. It’s clear that the normal run of the mill citizen couldn’t handle these kinds of events raining down on them daily, and maybe that was Tara’s mistake all along. She was a doctor, a good law abiding citizen and one by one her morals continued to be compromised because she was in love. With each deplorable act she committed she sank deeper and deeper into the life, and now as she’s trying like hell to get out, Tara realizes just how toxic her relationship with Jax, Gemma, the club and everything in Charming has truly been.

The next encounter for Tara might end up being the most frightening because she runs into Gemma back at her house, and their confrontation was as painful as any punches they threw a few weeks ago. Tara lays it all out on the line — the plan she pulled, the scheme she laid out was just a classic from the Gemma playbook because after all she was the master manipulator who has been an old lady longer than anyone on record. Gemma fires back, however, saying that she would never fake a pregnancy or a miscarriage like Tara did (she will however kill her son’s father or at least play a part in that murder).

The final warning comes from Gemma telling Tara that her days with Abel and Thomas are numbered. She won’t be raising her sons, it’s as simple as that and there’s only two ways this entire situation can end.

“What you do now will determine how we deliver that message — mommy moved away or mommy passed away. Your call,” Gemma said as Tara could only sit in silence.

Tara also visits Wendy to confront her about confession to her part in the entire ordeal. Wendy is back on the smack, and trying to find a rehab facility that will take her as soon as possible. She tries to tell Tara that the reason she copped to the whole plan is because it was wrong from the very start. Obviously Tara disagrees and counters by saying that everything she did was right. As Tara heads back out to her car she sees Juice sitting back on his bike waiting to follow her to wherever she goes next, and that’s enough of the babysitting. Tara drives her SUV back over Juice’s bike, nearly crushing him in the process and then speeds away in great haste.

While Tara is fighting for her children and a small slice of her own sanity, the club is dealing with a lot on the table as well as they try to finish out their deal with the Irish to get out of gun running, while setting Galen up for the downfall via District Attorney Patterson. All of this has to go down fast because as it turns out Clay’s trial is being moved up and his escape has to be planned within 24 hours before he gets shipped off to another jail.

Galen unloads this news on the club while revealing that because of the timeline he will need six of them to sit in and help the execute the jail break to free Clay. It’s the only way they can secure his freedom, thus securing the gun running and letting them free of their obligation. Jax and the boys agree, but there’s one more snag. The Italians, who are the largest buyers of the guns from the Irish, are having some trouble deciding if they still want to give their business to the IRA or maybe opt for a new ally in the Chinese, who are also setting up shop in Northern California.

Galen and Connor decide to go along with Jax and the club to meet with the Italians to show off the new hardware and lock down a deal. In the midst of this going down, the Chinese show up and Galen opts for a different kind of negotiation — by firing off round after round a the Chinese cars, clipping Henry Lin and killing one of their members. As the Chinese speed to make their getaway, Galen says the demonstration was just one to show the Italians how much they want their business. A deal gets set, but now there’s a whole new headache to deal with because the Chinese are pissed and they’re out for blood.

Later in the day as Jax and the guys are headed to Collette’s for a little rest and relaxation, the Chinese track them down and open fire, eventually chasing them into a truck storage facility. Try as the might to get away, Jax, Bobby, Tig, Chibs and Happy get caught and Lin’s uncle has them at gunpoint when he lays out the conditions of their surrender — they will hand over all of the Northern California gun business to the Chinese and they want Galen and the Irish to pay in blood for what they did. Jax begrudgingly agrees, but the Chinese need a little insurance policy to make sure the Sons don’t double cross them so they kidnap Happy until the deal goes down a day later.

The problem with all of this just so happens to be that Jax already told D.A. Patterson that the deal to get Galen, the guns and everything else will be going down in the next 24 hours as well. She’s got immunity papers drafter and ready to go, but it’s all predicated on the arrest of a real IRA gun runner, and without that the Sons of Anarchy still burn.

Back at the garage, Gemma sends Unser and Nero to go check on Wendy now that she’s fallen way, way off the wagon. Nero and Unser head off to go see her, and the car ride there is just this side of extremely uncomfortable, but also wildly hilarious. Nero tries his best to engage with Unser, who obviously wants nothing to do with Gemma’s newest play toy. The banter back and forth is classic, and there’s a real chemistry on screen between the two actors. Here’s hoping Nero and Unser get stuck in a car together more often. Maybe a buddy cop series for these two when Sons is over?

Once they arrive at Wendy’s things are worse than they first suspected. She’s passed out after shooting up, and her house almost catches fire. A few minutes later Gemma arrives and sees that Wendy is not in a good place whatsoever. Knowing that Wendy was trying to find a rehab facility before giving in and shooting up, Gemma takes pity on her and offers up some assistance. Wendy is going to rehab at Casa De Gemma. This of course opens up for another hilarious line from Nero.

Gemma: “Rehab – the if you use again I’ll rip your tits off rehab.”

Nero:  “I love that place”

Gemma’s day continues to get even stranger when she pays Clay a visit in jail. He’s had his lawyer draw up papers handing everything he owns over to Gemma — his half of the garage, the house, his motorcycles, everything. He’s going some place where a divorce won’t be possible, so he wants her to have all of this just in case. As Gemma leaves, she glances back one final time as Clay says goodbye to the love of his life for good

“See you on the other side,” said Clay.

 

Jax finally makes it to Collette’s where he gets to relax after a long, hard day and he decides to reward himself with a little bedroom rendezvous with the house madame. Unfortunately, Tara finds her way to the new Diosa thanks to Juice, who hands over the address after she presses him to know where Jax is hiding out. You’d think at this point as damaged and betrayed as Tara has been in this relationship, walking in to find another woman on top of her husband would be as jarring as it was, but deep down no matter what’s happening now or what will happen later she still loves that man with everything she is. Tara grabs Collette and tosses her to the ground while throwing a few well placed punches until Jax tears her off. Tara slaps Jax and exits as quickly as she entered. Jax gives chase and finally tracks her down outside but when she turns around Tara has a gun in her hand. As she clasps the revolver tight, and finds the barrel pointed towards her husband, Tara finally realizes she’s becoming the things she’s hated so much all along. Her cries of pain are almost too much to handle.

“Look at what you did to me,” Tara says to Jax. “What’s happening to me. What happened to me!”

The final scene was nothing short of the final straw. Tara shows up to Patterson’s office with a plea to help her and her children enter witness protection in exchange for any and all information she can provide. But as we all know at this point, Patterson’s already got a better deal brewing with the club giving up the real IRA. Patterson breaks the news to Tara that she’s no longer needed, and the deal is off the table.

It’s this chilling and scary moment where Tara is finally broken. She’s out of options. She’s got no friends, she’s got no family, and she’s got nowhere left to turn. She turns and exits Patterson’s office, reaching an almost catatonic state of fear and destruction.

“No you can’t. Nobody can help me,” Tara tells Patterson.

If your heart didn’t break at least a little bit seeing Tara just fall apart as he life turned to cinder, you might want to check for a pulse. Tara is fading into the darkness each week, more and more, and it seems like it’s only a matter of time before something very drastic and dramatic happens. Tara’s at the end of a road where there’s no detour and no second direction. The only place to go is straight down, off the cliff, and she certainly seems to be headed that way.

Tara’s long and tragic journey is almost at its end….

Notes of Anarchy:

— The song that opened tonight’s episode was titled ‘For a Dancer’ and it was by Gemma herself Katey Sagal. Her new album called ‘Covered’ was released on Tuesday.

— The song that closed the episode was another from Sons of Anarchy’s favorite alt-country artist The White Buffalo with a song titled ‘Oh Darlin, What Have I Done’

Come back next week for our regularly scheduled recaps for the eleventh episode in season six titled ‘Aon Rud Persanta’ with only two more episodes until the season finale.