The direction of the
episode is now changing to "who can find out who is responsible for the
sexual assault." There are a couple interesting things that are happening
right now that we have not seen in previous episodes. For one, SAMCRO is
showing compassion and care for the members of the Charming community and the
family affected by this instance. The previous two episodes have shown SAMCRO
as seemingly only caring about automatic weapons, their warehouses, or their
control over the law enforcement to assist their agenda. However, this episode
showcases SAMCRO as trying to protect the community. Clay mentions "this
stuff does not happen in our town" and the feeling is showcased that
SAMCRO does in fact view Charming as a "home" instead of simply a
location that houses their illegal operations. I'm not saying that their logic
if noble, especially considering they are hunting a potential rapist so that
another person can get revenge, but the overlying tone of this episode is
providing viewers an inside into the fatherly persona that SAMCRO is trying to
portray in the town. The other interesting aspect in this episode is that for
the first time there seems to be a unified front throughout Charming in the
sense that everyone is looking for potential suspects. With that said, Hale and
SAMCRO may both be looking for the same person, but they are obviously
approaching the situation different. Hale is hoping to bring the rapist in for
questioning and allow the law to handle the case, whereas SAMCRO would like to
take the law into their own hands. Two different tactics with the hope of
coming to the same result- catching the man responsible for raping a little
girl.
A
few minutes ago, Gemma approached the mother of the rape victim. The mother has
previously not allowed anyone (including law enforcement) to speak with her
daughter, citing the emotional damage that had been done to her and the fact
that she "doesn't remember anything that happened". However, Gemma
deduces that the daughter does remember the incident, and that the mother is
simply trying to keep her away from anyone else so she does not have to relive
the situation occasion. This is an interesting development right now. What
would you do? On one hand, there is a mother who is trying to protect her
daughter by lying on her behalf. On the other hand, by lying the mother is
pretty much stalling any investigation (both by police and SAMCRO) and thus
limiting the opportunity to catch the rapist. My first reaction is to be upset
at the mother- why would you keep the police from doing their job? Don't you
want to find who did this? But then again- the mother clearly wants her
daughter to not have to relive such a traumatic experience. Can you blame her?
This has been a great episode to live blog, because of the fact that it does
not simply address a topic such as gang warfare, illegal smuggling, drugs, etc
like the previous episodes. It is tugging at my heart because of the subject
matter and the fact that the victim is not someone who participates in any of
the activities that SAMCRO does. The victim is not someone that I can just say
"oh well...she deserved it when she got into this line of work."
The emotion and
developments just lead me to say- I hope they catch this person!
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