<P> Jax and the other club members are released from prison . He has abdominal scars stemming from a prison stabbing incident involving the Russian mob . Also, Jax's appearance is different . He has cut his hair and trimmed his beard . </P> <P> After he returns home to Tara and their two sons, Abel and newborn Thomas, they make love . During a post-coital discussion, Jax proposes to Tara, with the ring wrapped in the tiny fist of his second son, Thomas . She accepts . The newly engaged couple then have a discussion about their future as a family, in which Jax admits to wanting to leave the Sons once Clay has stepped down as President . Later, he attends Opie's wedding as his best man . After the ceremony, Jax goes with Clay and the Russians to shoot a gun given to Opie as a wedding gift from the Russians . While Clay is testing the gun, he shoots Putlova's bodyguards and Jax stabs Putlova to death in revenge for trying to kill him in prison, saying it's "just business ." Jax then returns to the reception to dance with his fiancée, Tara . The next day, Jax and Tara are having breakfast with their sons when they see a news story about four dead bodies found at the Charming Heights construction site . Tara asks Jax to tell her all he knows about it . He tells her that it was retaliation for his getting stabbed in prison . After breakfast, he goes with Clay to the deal they had set up with the Galindo Cartel . At the deal, Jax learns that Clay has set it up for SAMCRO to mule cocaine for the cartel and the Mayans . Clay tells Jax that everything that has happened the last two years has left him and Gemma with no money and that he needs Jax to help him sell it to the rest of SAMCRO . Jax tells Clay that he will back him as long Clay lets Jax out of SAMCRO and that the president's patch goes to Opie . Clay agrees to the deal . Jax and Clay meet with the rest of SAMCRO try to persuade them that the drug transporting would be good for them, financially . Jax shows them the money they made from the first deal to convince them . After the meeting, Jax and Opie go to the Indian Reservation to see about the ammunition . They are encountered by some vengeful Russians . The Russians threaten to kill two Native Americans they are holding hostage if they don't get their guns returned . After a scuffle, Jax agrees to call SAMCRO to get their guns to them . Jax and Opie are eventually rescued by the Galindo Cartel, which kills all but two Russians, one of whom is given to the Native Americans for retribution . When Jax and Opie return to the Clubhouse, they discover it has been wrecked by Sheriff Roosevelt . To lighten the mood, Tara announces their engagement . During the celebration, Jax catches a glimpse of Bobby, who pours some liquor on the ground to signify the beginning of the end . He later is the one who convinces the Galindo not to execute Laroy Wayne and numerous One - Niners for working with the Lobos Sonoras . Bobby states this shows he deserves to be president and he knows of Jax's desire to leave SAMCRO . Jax confronts Clay, telling him that he will help set up the deal between the IRA and the Cartel and then will leave . When Clay responds by insulting Tara, Jax threatens to "bash those half - dead hands so hard into that table, you'll never hold that gavel again ." He tells Tara how he will be coming with her to a hospital visit in Oregon and he will be out of the club soon . They enjoy the peaceful visit, but Tara is attacked by paid Galindo hitmen hired by Clay to stop her from revealing the letters . Jax manages to save her, but her hand is injured as a result . He later sees how Gemma has been viciously beaten by Clay . He confronts him but focuses on the matter at hand: using heavy duty IRA weapons to eliminate Lobos Sonoras . When Clay, Juice, and Romeo are pinned down, Jax calls in the IRA to deliver RPG's which he and Chibs use to save them . When Opie found out about Piney's murder at Clay's hands he goes to the clubhouse, Jax holds him at gunpoint and threatens to kill him, Opie calls his bluff and shoots Clay twice in the chest . He stops Opie from finishing him and gets Unser and Rat to cover the truth . Later, Gemma finally reveals the letters to Jax as well as Clay's involvement in Piney's death and Tara's abduction, angering Jax, who vows to kill Clay himself with a blood thinner given to him by Tara . </P> <P> In the end, Jax does not kill Clay, as he needs Clay alive for the Galindo Cartel / IRA deal . Romeo and Luis are CIA informants and need the gun deal to survive; however, Irish King Galen will only deal with Clay . They threaten to use the cancelled RICO operation to crush Sons of Anarchy if he does not comply . Instead he tells Clay that he will be stepping down as President, thus making Jax SAMCRO's new President . He removes Clay's President patch and calls a meeting where everyone but Opie attends . His first act as President is making Chibs his new Sergeant - at - Arms . He tries one last time to get Tara to leave (revealing the CIA threat as well) with his boys, but she comes back telling him she wasn't going anywhere . </P> <P> Jax is shown to be in an even more seasoned role as President . He is now starting to write his own manuscript for his sons when they are older . His appearance has changed again; his hair has grown back out and he has it slicked back . While the Sons are transporting cocaine for the Galindo, they are attacked by Niners, retaliating for Tig murdering Oakland gangster Damon Pope's daughter (Veronica). He later promotes Bobby to be his VP after Opie rejects the offer due to his hatred for Clay . He later has a meeting with the new Niner leader and Pope's lieutenant August to cease hostilities between the Sons and Niners . Jax, Chibs and Bobby later find a broken Tig, having had to watch as Pope burned his daughter Dawn alive . After ensuring his other daughter's safety, Jax, Chibs and Tig are arrested when witnesses bought by Pope testify to Tig running down Veronica Pope and Jax and Chib's highway shooting of one of the Niners . They hide in a brothel owned by Gemma's new suitor Nero Padilla . He meets with the club attorney to kill the R.I.C.O. case against SAMCRO and reveals the threat it poses, to Bobby and Tara . Jax manages to get Romeo to provide protection for them inside . Opie later assaults Roosevelt to accompany them . While in prison Jax is visited by Pope . Pope tells Jax that to set things straight for his daughter's death Pope will receive half the money the Sons gets for transporting cocaine for the Galindo cartel . Pope tells Jax that due to the death, one of the Sons in prison must die and Jax will choose who it will be . Pope also wants Tig to remain in jail for the rest of his life so he can be tortured everyday . Once the death has occurred, the remaining Sons will be freed so they can earn . Jax tells Opie what Pope told him and confides in Opie about Clay killing JT and Piney . When the time comes for Jax to pick one of the Sons to fight to the death, Opie jumps in and hits one of the guards, volunteering himself to be the Son who is sacrificed . Opie is set up to fight against three black prisoners . They beat Opie to death with pipes . While being escorted back to his cell by the head guard who arranged the fight, Jax tells the guard that he is being freed the next day and that he will find him and kill him for killing his best friend . </P>

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