Sutter simply went too far with Clay. If all he did was beat up Gemma, that would have been more than enough to create realistically bearable tension in the club. But he went waaaay further than that. It's just too ridiculous to have Jax & Opie sitting down at that table across from Clay, knowing that he killed BOTH…

More than laziness, it's artistic cowardice; a cop out. Sutter did not have the courage to write Clay out of the show— even though the storyline *he* wrote demanded that this should have happened.

So after killing Piney, ordering a hit on Tara, and beating Gemma to a pulp, the consequences for Clay are… he loses the gavel? I'm sorry, but after all that, the character has to face harsher justice in order to satisfy you audience at all. MUCH harsher.

He's bland & vanilla enough to pass though.

That was my feeling as well. Can't say they didn't prepare us for this, though.

Steve Buscemi in a maid's uniform would be comedic gold.

You left out "heroin addict."

She was raped by a middle-aged man when she was what, 13? As awful as she is, I can't fully hate Gillian as a character, because you know the roots of all of her present-day behavior all go back to that one terrible event. The Commodore is (or was) the true monster behind all this tragedy.

You're both streets ahead.

Only because it's drafting off the ratings of The Office. It will wither and die a just death on Wednesdays.

The tag with Leonard was ok, but if they could have somehow made a tag that featured Britta's cat wearing a monocle, it would have bumped the episode up a full grade for me.

This.

Hopefully she was smart enough to make more than just one copy of each of those letters. They could definitely come in handy at some point in the future.

This is why it doesn't make sense in the bigger picture. But boy, he sure does seem determined to have that meet with the Irish on the agreed-upon day, doesn't he?

It wouldn't make sense in the bigger picture, but there's no other explanation for him being *that* wrong about Otto flipping… right?

Classic. Pretty much any episode spotlighting Hank is Gold.

When he left that locker room with that big smile on his face, I thought for sure he was just claiming paternity to play Johnathan & get himself out of that fix he was in. His return (with the money, apparently) certainly casts doubt on that. Still, they had to have some deus ex machina planned that makes them not…

The kid who played Spencer may be the greatest actor of all time. I *so* felt his pain when Ray took that cookie.

"Sure, one week he says he can’t kill Nucky and the next week he orders a hit."

If Clay is dead (and really, he better be at this point), my only complaint would be that I wish he had suffered more.