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Recap / Sons Of Anarchy S 1 E 3

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Tristen Oswald, the thirteen-year-old daughter of prominent business owner Elliot Oswald, is raped at the visiting Fun Town carnival. Clay offers his help in the search for the perpetrator, while Deputy Hale attempts to get to him before the Sons do.


  • Asshole Victim: Tristen Oswald's rapist dies gruesomely at the hands of Clay.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: Hale suspects that Kessler Builders is only focusing on the prosperity of Charming rather than its growth.
  • Deal with the Devil: Elliot is willing to work with SAMCRO to find the rapist.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Rape and violence against children in Charming? You will be found and castrated by the local motorcycle club president.
    Jax: Guy raped a thirteen-year-old!"
    Bobby: Thirteen! Thirteen!
  • Fan Disservice: After Juice knocks himself unconscious by swallowing tranquilizer pills he mistakes for amphetamines, Clay decides Juice needs to be punished and has Bobby and Tig strip him and leave him outside of the police station. Sounds like a hot opportunity to show off Juices physique, right? Only they've put him in a diaper and stapled a sign to his chest.
  • Groin Attack: Clay castrates the rapist and leaves him to bleed out.
  • Idiot Ball: Juice takes his first turn with this trope in this episode, eating Tig's tranquilizer pills when he thinks they're speed pills. The mistake causes him to fall asleep while prepping the AK-47s and nearly ruins SAMCRO's raid on Johnny Yates' house.
  • Monster Clown: The fat clown at the dunk tank was responsible for raping Tristen.
  • Papa Wolf: Elliot's first reaction to his daughter getting raped his to ask SAMCRO to bring the rapist to him.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Elliot offers to pay anything Clay wants to hunt down Tristen's rapist, but Clay refuses.
    Clay: I don't want your money. Nobody comes into my town and does this to an innocent girl. We'll find the sick bastard.
  • What You Are in the Dark: Elliot can't bring himself to kill or mutilate Tristen's rapist.

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