Sons of Anarchy · Season 7 · Ending Explained
Sons of Anarchy: Ending Explained
How does Sons of Anarchy end? Jax kills his mother, ties up every loose end, and dies exactly like his father, explained.
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The lie that drives the final season
Season 7 opens in the wreckage of Tara's murder. Jax Teller believes a rival killed his wife and turns himself in briefly before unleashing the club on the wrong targets. The buried truth is that his own mother, Gemma, killed Tara, and that the club's secretary-treasurer Juice helped cover it by murdering a witness. The season is a slow burn toward Jax learning the real story. Once he does, the revenge he has been aiming outward turns inward, toward his own family and toward the cycle of violence his father Tom once tried to escape, setting up a finale of pure accounting.
Settling the family debts
After Jax learns the truth, he sets out to make things right with every party, which in this world means killing. He confronts Gemma and shoots his own mother dead in her father's garden, the most wrenching act of the run. Juice, who abetted the cover-up, is allowed to die in prison on Jax's order. Jax also ties up outside threats, killing crooked dock boss Charles Barosky and rival kingpin August Marks. Each death is staged as Jax closing a ledger, removing the people whose secrets and crimes had poisoned the club and his sons' future before he removes himself.
Excommunication and Mr. Mayhem
Jax also kills Jury White, an act that gets him excommunicated from the Sons of Anarchy by club rules, with Chibs stepping up as the new president of SAMCRO. The club then votes that Jax must meet Mr. Mayhem, their term for a sanctioned execution, the death every patched member accepts as the price of his sins. Rather than have his brothers carry it out, Jax arranges a staged escape so they are spared killing him directly. He distributes his assets and says his goodbyes, putting his sons and his legacy in safer hands before riding out one final time.
Dying his father's death
Jax takes his father John Teller's motorcycle and leads a massive line of law enforcement on a chase down the interstate. With the police closing in and no road left, he lets go of the handlebars, spreads his arms wide, closes his eyes and smiles, bracing for the end. He drives head-on into an oncoming semi-truck and dies, killed in the exact same way and on the same stretch of highway where his father died years before. The cycle the series spent seven seasons tracing closes on itself, Jax fulfilling and finally ending his father's story.
The Final Image
Jax lets go of the handlebars, arms outstretched and eyes closed with a faint smile, riding his father's bike straight into an oncoming semi-truck on the highway.
Lingering Questions
- Does Jax really kill his own mother Gemma?
- Yes. Once Jax learns Gemma murdered his wife Tara, he confronts her and shoots her dead, making the killing of his mother the central act of the finale's reckoning.
- How does Jax Teller die in the Sons of Anarchy finale?
- After arranging a staged escape from his own execution, Jax leads police on a highway chase on his father's bike, lets go of the handlebars with arms spread, and crashes head-on into a semi-truck, dying the same way and place his father did.
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