4.8 Family Recipe To be fair, the whole thing plays out like a very macabre Curb Your Enthusiasm, I don’t think for a minute that Chucky wanted to put the severed head in it, but when someone leaves such an incriminating piece of evidence in the car park, when the police are on their way, there wasn’t really any other place for it. To find out how the head got there, we have to go back a little bit. First of all Juice survived, the branch snapped, and as he was dusting himself off, Chibs turned up looking for him. He used the same excuse he used at the warehouse a few episodes ago with the cocaine: he was having a pee. Chibs blatantly doesn’t believe him, the bruising from the chain apparent, and Juice laughs it off and says that he ran into a security chain. Obviously, gunfire in the town centre in the middle of the day is going to draw a lot of attention, and with the police on the way, Chucky finds that a head has rolled underneath a car, so he hides it in with the vegetables that he is putting the chilli for the garden fundraiser, and well, as I said, I guess there wasn’t really anywhere else he could have put it. Elsewhere, Roosevelt has found the evidence that Tara has been threatened, and it looks like her boss at the hospital told them. As a result, she is told that they will have police watching her at all times, and also won’t be allowed to go to work as it is too much of a risk. Back to Happy. He cannot get anything from the Lobos member, and eventually resorts to getting the Galindos to help. After an injection of truth serum, his tongue loosens, and it turns out that one of the Mayans, Pedro, is a mole for the Lobos. After an elaborate trap is set up to get rid of him, they fail to take the bait, meaning that Pedro is not the only mole. Could it be a member of SAMCRO? I could almost guarantee that it is. After his failed suicide attempt, Juice goes back to the spot, presumably to finish the job, only to be confronted by Chibs, who obviously knows what he’s up to. Cue some shouting, and terrible acting. Chibs’ “what are you doing?” in his thick Glaswegian brogue was a highlight. Chibs is usually one of my favourite characters (being one of my fellow countrymen, I feel that I have to stick by him), but this scene was acted very poorly. Anyway, they shout at each other for a while, and then they hug. So with Juice surviving, you’d think that the writers wouldn’t kill anyone off until the end of the series to keep people watching, right? Wrong. This week, we saw the end of Piney. It was pretty sad to see him go, given that he’s been in the show since the start and has been particularly strong in this series, but it was hardly surprising. He has been attempting to blackmail Clay using John Teller’s letters, and has continually shown his disgust with the Sons moving into the drug trade. He then writes ‘LS’ (for Lobos Sonora) in his blood on an old picture of the Sons, to make the murder look gang related. The walls are obviously coming in for Clay. The rest of the club are starting to rebel against him, and he has killed Piney to hide his responsibility for John Teller’s death. I don’t doubt that he’ll try and get rid of Tara before the end of the series. Read our review of episode 7, Fruit For The Crows, here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
