Why does gemma want clay dead

Gemma, on the other hand, thinks only about her family. Both Clay and Gemma are willing to do anything it takes to fulfil their goals, including taking other lives. Gemma went overboard when she tried to eliminated Tara in order to protect Jax and the club.

This would set off a chain of events that would eventually destroy everything. Meanwhile, Clay increased the clubs illegal dealings by getting involved with a substance cartel.

Though most of the club was against this, Clay was all for it since it meant he would obtain more money and power. He didn't care about the consequences. Gemma and Clay both had strong personalities and were extremely jealous. While Gemma was jealous of the women who Clay saw out on the road, Clay was always jealous of Jax. When the club members are out on the road, that they are "allowed" to fool around with other women, and Clay definitely enjoyed this perk countless times.

Whenever his latest flame showed up at the club, Gemma would become incredibly angry and jealous. However, Gemma wasn't the only one who was jealous of conquests. Clay was also extremely jealous of Nero after he and Gemma broke up. Gemma and Clay never truly trusted one another.

Though they confided in one another and kept each other's secrets, they only worked together to further their own goals. This isn't to say that they didn't care about each other, however.

Instead, they both retained as much information about the other incase they had to blackmail the other in the future. They were always ready to unleash secrets to save their own skin, or destroy the other. Thanks to their acting, it wasn't difficult to see when Gemma or Clay knew that the other was lying.

In the end, it was their lack of trust that would ultimately cause Clay's demise. Clay contacts three Nomads GoGo, Frankie, and Greg and make deal with them to regain his former title. The Nomads are told to break into several buildings in Charming in order to keep everyone on their toes. Since the town was worried about the perpetrators, the people soon turned against Jax, the new leader.

However, when the truth about the break-ins is discovered, Clay tries to tell Jax that Damon Pope made the deal with the Nomads.

Once again, Clay weaves a web of lies. Whenever things went wrong, Clay and Gemma often blamed each other. This often led to them blaming one another. For example, Gemma blamed Clay for Jax feeling lost, while Clay blamed Gemma for making Jax weak and making him feel lost because of her coddling. Things really began to fall apart for them during the fourth season.

Gemma blames Clay for a myriad of awful deeds that she informs Jax about. However, Gemma is anything but blameless. After his passing, she marries Clay. Some fans believe that Gemma saw herself as a co-founder of the club.

Though being the "old lady" of two club presidents meant that she was well-respected by other members, she was never a member herself. However, at one point, Clay began to treat her like an "old lady" and told her that she needed to start acting like one.

This, of course, did not sit well with Gemma. It was at this point that things went from bad to worse for the couple. Gemma was done backing Clay. One thing that Gemma loves above all else is her son Jax. As such, this was one of the significant underlying issues in their relationship. Jax made a deal with Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt to give up the IRA and the guns, which played into his plan to get revenge on Clay for all he had done and gotten away with, including putting out a hit against his wife, who survived but suffered a horrific hand injury.

Kurt Sutter referenced classic literature -- specifically Shakespeare's Hamlet -- when explaining the decision to kill off Clay Morrow from Sons of Anarchy. While Clay was a fan favorite, his role in the show was always going to end in death, just like Claudius in Hamlet. In many ways, the overall structure of the series was heavily based on the play, especially Gemma, Jax and Clay's roles.

Claudius murdered Gertrude's husband, his brother, and then married her prior to the events of the play. Clay, Tig, Jax and Chibs , a Scotsman and the club's medic, head out to retrieve them. They find their guns at an industrial storage warehouse. As they are inside, three Mayans arrive in a car outside. Clay and Chibs shoot and kill the Mayans and another man, who has a number of Nazi and White supremacist tattoos.

They identify him as Whistler , a member of the Nordics , a local skinhead gang led by Ernest Darby , who are allied with the Mayans. They escape with the weapons and blow up the building. Wayne Unser , the Chief of the Charming Police Department , has a cordial relationship with the Sons of Anarchy, and has even employed them as protection for his trucking company at times.

However, he is recently diagnosed with bladder cancer and will retire at the end of the month, handing power over to his Deputy, David Hale. Hale is overtly suspicious of the SOA and they fear that he will begin an investigation into the club. To warn Unser to keep Hale off their case Clay, Bobby the club's Treasurer and Opie hijack one of Unser's trucks that they were hired to protect, and threaten to hijack more. As a good will gesture, Clay gives the contents of the truck to the Cacuzza Crime Family as their guns were also late to be delivered.

Tig admits that he had been having sex with both of the women found at the warehouse and that his DNA is in the police database. Clay orders Tig and Bobby to get rid of the bodies.

The pair retrieve the corpses from the police site and burn them in a furnace. Hale is enraged when he discovers that the bodies are missing, and he threatens Clay with shutting down the club. Local businessman Elliott Oswald approaches Clay when his year-old daughter is raped at a carnival. He asks the club to hunt the rapist down and kill him, in exchange for money.

Clay refuses the money and insists that if they catch him, Oswald must carry out the punishment himself. Juice and Gemma find out that the rapist is one of the carnies. The gang capture him and bring him to Oswald, who tries to castrate him but can't bring himself to do it. Clay carries out the punishment, wearing gloves.

He blackmails Oswald with the crime, as only his fingerprints are on the knife. Oswald was about to sell off much of the land around Charming to big business and housing, which would challenge the club's reign over the town. Clay holds the incriminating blade over Oswald to ensure that the town remains in the club's control. Jax is unhappy that Clay did not tell him about the plan, and tells him to always inform him on his future motives.

Clay decides to move their weapons to Indian Hills, Nevada, where their brother club, the Devil's Tribe, are based. Tig and Juice steal a truck to transport the guns. Clay travelled to Indian Hills to perform the patch-over ceremony. At the patch-over party, Clay has sex with Cherry. The Mayans retaliate as predicted, attacking the Devil's Tribe clubhouse. A large shoot-out ensues with no significant casualties. Chuck is wanted by the Lin Triad for stealing money from them and informing on them when he was arrested.

Clay and Jax visit Otto in prison and he tells them that Chuck will inform them where the Triads keep their money in exchange for their continuing protection after his release. They agree and pick him up from prison, bringing him to the clubhouse. They plan to wait until the restaurant where the money is stored, closes. However Chuck's frequent unconscious masturbating is unbearable and they decide to raid the restaurant straight away. However, just as they steal the money and counterfeiting plates, the Triads arrive.

Jax accepts and invites him to the clubhouse that night. This is a set-up to punish him for not having his SOA tattoo removed after being disowned by the club.

At the clubhouse, they tie him up and Tig uses a blowtorch to burn off the tattoo. They use these guns to ambush a prison convoy and free one of their members, Frank Cison. Three police officers are killed during the assault.

Meineke drops his cell phone at the scene, and his last calls are to Teller-Morrow. The ATF find the phone, arrest Clay and raid the clubhouse. Clay is released due to lack of evidence. Jax, Piney and Opie decide to kill Meineke and his gang to keep them from "snitching" if they are apprehended. They pretend to sell them more weapons but fill the boxes with explosives. The militia unwittingly load the bombs onto their own trucks and are all killed when they detonate. Workmen from the Water and Power Board dig up three skeletons near the highway into Charming.

Two are Mayans killed in the war of and the other is Lowell Harland, Sr. In an attempt to curtail the investigation, Clay, Jax and Tig break into the local morgue to steal the bones. However, the corpses have already been identified.

Clay tells Lowell Harland, Jr. Clay tracks him down and brings him back to town. Two Mayan soldiers are gunned down by Tig and the shotgun-toting barman. After the shooting, he questions Jax's commitment to the club and whether Jax is willing to kill.

Clay is brought in for questioning about the recent shootings by Unser. Ernest Darby is also being held at the Charming Police Department.

Clay instructs Unser to bring Marcus Alvarez in, planning to hold a meeting and, hopefully, halt any more bloodshed. Clay meets with Darby first, and warns him not to retaliate because it will start a war on the streets of Charming.

He then meets with Alvarez and brokers a deal; the Sons will sell guns to the Mayans, and all Mayan-SOA disputes over turf, businesses, etc. Alvarez also gives the Sons permission to kill his son Esai Alvarez , as revenge for the botched hit on Clay.

The clubhouse is raided and Bobby is arrested for the murder of Brenan Hefner. Clay and Tig incorrectly suspect Opie of being the witness that identified Bobby.

While Opie is at the clubhouse, Tig checks his car for bugs and discovers a microphone. He also finds a recording device in his mobile phone. Both were planted by the ATF without Opie's knowledge. Clay and Tig decide to kill him. They meet with One-Niners leader Laroy, and discuss taking out the Mayans. They agree that the Sons will meet the Mayans for an arms deal, leave and then the Niners will eliminate the Mayans and take the guns as payment.

The Sons escape, but a number of Mayans and Niners are killed in the shoot-out. Tig attempts to kill Opie during the havoc, but found himself unable to do so. After a homecoming party for Jax's son Abel Teller , Tig follows Opie's car home and shoots the driver dead.

However, Opie's wife, Donna Winston is behind the wheel. Clay tries to phone Tig to tell him, but Tig was not carrying his phone. From the time she left Charming in until she met JT Teller, she became best friends with Luann, who was involved in the porn industry. It is not revealed whether Gemma was involved in porn herself. She supports Luann strongly. Luann was her Maid of Honor at her wedding to JT in She lives in the same house she shared with John, at Sandy Creek Rd.

A Machiavellian schemer and expert in psychological manipulation, Gemma is extremely protective of her son and grandsons. She longs for the day when Jax will, in her eyes, be ready to assume control of SAMCRO, ensuring the organization's survival for another generation.

She adores her husband, Clay, and does her best to make things work out in his favor. She generally has a hostile attitude toward all of Jax's female friends and partners, including his ex-wife Wendy Case ; his on-again, off-again girlfriend Tara Knowles ; and the club "groupies" with whom he occasionally has sex.

Recently, she has taken Tara under her wing. Her tough but relatively classy image includes hair highlights and a crow tattoo on her left breast. Nords boss Ernest Darby has indicated that he had a prior romantic interest in her. During the assault, Gemma is told to tell Clay that it would happen again if he does not end his dealings with minorities. Later, Gemma realizes that Weston was one of her attackers when she recognizes his tattoos.

Unser complies and further covers up the source of Gemma's injuries by crashing her car into a road divider and taking her to the hospital. The only other person Gemma confides in about the rape is Tara Knowles, Jax's girlfriend. Unser later realizes that Chief Deputy Hale is starting to become more involved with Zobelle and his people, so he tells Hale about Gemma's assault. This causes Hale to re-evaluate his dealing with Zobelle.

The attack leaves Gemma with significant emotional trauma, which causes problems in her marriage with Clay. She also feels somewhat paranoid that Weston would try to attack her again. Her paranoia is further compounded when someone from L. When Gemma learns of Jax's plans to become a "nomad," she tells him she knows about the book her first husband, Jax's father, John Teller, wrote.

She tells Jax that she believes John's death may not have been an accident, but rather a suicide. After asking Jax to reconsider his decision, she implores him to read a certain page in John's book, hoping it will give him guidance and perhaps change his mind. The book fails to make Jax decide to stay and when the vote needed to allow him to leave is taken, it passes. Upon learning that Jax still plans to become a nomad, Gemma calls together her son, Tara, and Clay at her home and reveals the graphic details of her assault and gang rape.

The following morning, feeling unwanted by Clay, Gemma comes on to an emotionally wrecked Tig who reciprocates her advances but stops when he sees a picture of Clay. Later, Tig is guilt-ridden and proceeds to confess to Opie about Donna's murder. Then, outside the church that Unser goes to for his support group, Gemma is approached by the priest who runs the support group and offers her advice to serve others to deal with her own self-loathing.

She comforts him and advises him to come clean with the club. After the club meeting, Tig tells Clay that Gemma thinks he does not want her anymore. Clay proceeds to the office and shows her that he still wants her. When the club goes on lockdown, Gemma looks after other families.

She tells Tara that she does not have to take crap from anyone, because she is the old lady of the Vice President. Inspired by Gemma, Tara stands up to her supervisor at the hospital, assaulting her when she calls Gemma a whore.

In the second season finale, Gemma sees Polly Zobelle. She sends Tara home and sneaks onto the property where she finds a distraught Polly brandishing a gun. Polly attempts to shoot, prompting Gemma to kill her in self-defense. Stahl offers to let her leave, but not before tossing her sidearm to Gemma.

She recognizes Stahl's trick to get her fingerprints on the murder weapon and flees. At a bus stop pay phone she calls Chief Unser for help. She is last seen fleeing Charming with Unser with no idea of where to go. Gemma was still on the run at the beginning of Season 3.

Clay elected not to tell Gemma that Abel was kidnapped because he believes she already has enough to worry about. While at the motel, Gemma reads in a newspaper and learns about her mothers death, she tries to steal a car and is caught and saved by Tig and later she is able to convince Tig to help her sneak away.