[1] One night in Charming, California, a motorcycle gang called the Mayans break into a warehouse to steal a shipment of automatic weapons.
The next morning, at the site of the explosion, Sheriff Vic Trammel – who is on SAMCRO's payroll – tells club president Clay Morrow that the warehouse was destroyed by arson, showing him the bodies of two women who were hiding beneath the building.
One-Niners leader Laroy Wayne, who needs SAMCRO's guns to cover for an incoming shipment of heroin, gives Clay more time to replace the lost weapons.
Jax's mother Gemma Teller Morrow, finds Wendy unconscious, necessitating her being hospitalized and her baby being delivered ten weeks premature via caesarean section.
The next day, the club members discuss the recent parole of Ernest Darby who leads the Nordics, a white supremacist gang of meth dealers.
In San Leandro, Clay, Jax, Tig and Chibs Telford have ridden into town and they soon find the Mayans' stash of guns and heroin.
Tara performs a successful surgery on Abel and Gemma visits Wendy, ridiculing her and telling her that the district attorney is dropping any charges against her.
However, series creator Kurt Sutter decided to go in a different direction with the character and re-cast Ron Perlman in the role, and Clay's scenes were re-shot.
[2] Additionally, Emilio Rivera was originally cast as a Sons of Anarchy club member named "Hawk," who eventually evolved into the character of Tig Trager.