The show can be brutal, and season 4 is not any different.
We trek episode by episode to chronicle every death, expected or totally shocking.
Below is every episode of the fourth season, detailing who died and how they went down.
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It was their new alliance with the Galindo Cartel.
When Jax and Opie arrived, they found a lookout dead in his chair.
They were ultimately captured and held hostage.
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“That’s what friends are for,” Romeo told Jax.
He wanted the Wahewa to get a bigger percentage.
To keep the Russian silent, Clay knelt down and suffocated him.
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Still, the vote passed 6-5, and Clay threatened to slit Piney’s throat.
Result:Juice snuck a brick out of the warehouse but wasn’t able to return it in time.
He buried it in the woods.
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Juice suggested the club clear out and gave the prospects a window to return the brick.
He went to fetch it and member Miles (Frank Potter) happened upon him.
Miles pulled his gun and tried to walk Juice back to the warehouse to out him.
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Miles shot Juice in the leg, and Juice shot Miles in the eye.
Juice told the others Miles was the thief.
Chibs (Tommy Flanagan) would later find out about that and tell Jax.
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SAMCRO found the driver in an apartment crowded with children.
The driver said Lobos had threatened to kill his family in Mexico if he didn’t participate.
Reverberations:Bobby formally challenged Clay for the gavel.
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One shooter was hit and left behind he had Lobos ink.
A duffel bag had been delivered during the driveby.
Luis killed the Mayan traitor.
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She told Clay the truth would stay between them and made him promise that he wouldn’t hurt Tara.
Clay hadn’t known that Jax and the boys would go with Tara.
She was abducted during a picnic stop in a park.
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Jax convinced Laroy to arrange a meet with the Lobos for Galindo and SAMCRO to crash.
While some Lobos were killed, others escaped.
Clay was going to let Luis line the Niners up and execute them, but Jax talked him down.
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Result:After Tara was attacked, Jax assumed it was Lobos retaliation.
Together with the Mayans, SAMCRO went to visit the Niners to find out how to ping the Lobos.
Mayan president Alvarez (Emilio Rivera) shot a Niner in retaliation.
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Reverberations:Clay met with Romeo to find out why the hit was botched on Tara.
She pulled a gun on Clay and he beat her.
One Galindo member was killed by a landmine and gunfire broke out, claiming another.
Kozik (Kenny Johnson) was shadowing Clay when he stepped on a mine.
His final words: “Oh, you gotta be s—-in' me.”
A piece of him landed on Juice.
Otto had demanded that SAMCRO find and kill whoever murdered Luann.
Bobby shut the trunk and nodded to Opie and Tig, who lit it up.
Roosevelt, who’d already apologized to Juice, got to tell him he was free.
Gemma had told Clay that Opie knew he’d killed Piney.
Opie showed up at the clubhouse and shot Clay in the chest.
Jax shot Opie in the wrist to keep him from finishing Clay off.
Clay told Unser to say it was two black men who’d shot him.
Tig assumed it was Niners, angry that SAMCRO had backed the Mayans and Galindo.
He drove a car straight at them.
But Tig wouldn’t begin to pay until the season 5 premiere.
She also told him that Clay was behind the hit on Tara and confirmed he’d killed Piney.
Tara gave Jax blood thinner to give Clay, so he’d basically drown.
Then he was to drive her and the boys out of Charming.
To keep the club from voting down the cartel deal, Jax had to stay and assume the role.
He told Tara why he couldn’t leave and that she should still move their boys to Oregon.
She decided to stay.
