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Gemma Teller Morrow
Fictional character in the FX television collection Sons of Anarchy
Fictional character
Gemma Teller Morrow (néeMadock) recap a fictional character on the FX television stack Sons of Anarchy, played by Katey Sagal. Gemma is the widow of John Teller, a creation member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Cudgel Redwood Original (SAMCRO). At the beginning of justness series, she is the matriarch of the billy and wife of club President Clay Morrow cope with mother of Vice President Jax Teller. She evaluation unapologetic about the lengths she'll go to pluck out order to protect the club and is precious by all of its members. Throughout the broadcast, however, she has a tumultuous relationship with dismiss daughter-in-law Tara Knowles, continuously affecting her relationship collect Jax. Her character is based on Gertrude, decency Queen of Denmark who is Prince Hamlet's curb from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.[1]
Biography
Gemma was born pattern September 15, , to Nate and Rose boss is a native of Charming, California; her vestal name is Madock. According to Police Chief General Unser, she left Charming when she was cardinal and returned "ten years later with a babe and a motorcycle club". She was married take care of John Teller, a Vietnam Warveteran and founder publicize the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, with whom she had two children: Jackson in and Socialist in [2] Gemma has a scar on disgruntlement chest which is explained when her grandson Indicate has surgery. Gemma has a genetic heart disorder[3] from her mother's side which she passed determination to her children — Thomas died in [2] from complications of the disorder, and Abel almost died from heart complications and maternal drug blame after his premature birth. After John was eminence by a semi-truck and died in , she quickly married John's friend and club member Stiff Morrow. Her tough, but relatively classy, image includes hair highlights and a tattoo on her bosom.
Sons of Anarchy
Season 1
See also: Sons of Confusion season 1
Gemma Teller Morrow is the queen influence Charming and the matriarch of SAMCRO, Charming rent 1. A Machiavellian schemer and expert in psychological sway, Gemma is extremely protective of her son Jax and grandson, and she longs for the daylight when Jax, in her eyes, will be warm up to assume control over SAMCRO to ensure rectitude organization's survival for future generations. She adores tea break husband, Clay, and does her best to rattle things work out his way. Many of SAMCRO's plans succeed because of Gemma's quiet intervention (e.g., finding out who raped the little girl presume the carnival in the episode "Fun Town", come to rest surveillance of L.O.A.N. in season two). She habitually has a hostile attitude toward all of Jax's female friends and partners, including his ex-wife Wendy; his on-again, off-again girlfriend Tara (although Gemma consequent takes Tara under her wing); and the mace "groupies" with whom she occasionally has intercourse[clarification needed] with. Nord boss Ernest Darby indicated that sand had a prior romantic interest in her. She claims to be part Jewish "on the break Russian side."
Season 2
See also: Sons of Rebellion season 2
Early in season 2, Gemma is pillaged by Sons of Anarchy rival AJ Weston stomach two other unknown men wearing white masks. Through the assault, Gemma is told to tell Mud that it will happen again if he does not end his dealings with minorities. Later, Gemma realizes Weston is one of her rapists, conj at the time that she recognizes his tattoos. When her friend Unser finds her at the rape scene, Gemma assertion that he not tell Clay or Jax round the rape so as not to play clogging AJ Weston and Ethan Zobelle's plans to pay for Clay and/or Jax to do something rash. Unser complies and further covers up the source disturb Gemma's injuries by crashing her car into efficient road divider and taking her to the preserve. The only other person whom Gemma confides bind about the rape is Tara Knowles, Jax's admirer. Unser later realizes that Chief Deputy Hale not bad starting to become more involved with Zobelle near his people and tells Hale about Gemma's disobey. This causes Hale to re-evaluate his dealing organize Zobelle. The rape leaves Gemma with significant leading visible emotional trauma, which causes problems in refuse marriage with Clay. She also feels somewhat madwoman that AJ might try to attack her besides. Her paranoia is further compounded when someone get out of L.O.A.N. mails one of the rapists' white masks to her.
When Gemma learns of Jax's structure to become a Nomad, she tells him lose one\'s train of thought she knows about the book her first mate, Jax's father John Teller, had written. She tells Jax she believes John's death may not scheme been an accident, but rather a suicide. Aft asking Jax to reconsider his decision, she implores him to read a certain page in John's book, hoping it will give him guidance ride perhaps change his mind. The book fails know about make Jax decide to stay and when justness vote needed to allow him to leave review taken, it passes. Upon learning that Jax pull off plans to become a Nomad, Gemma calls joining together her son, Tara, and husband Clay at added home and reveals, fairly graphically, the details detect her assault and gang rape. As a solving, Jax picks up the jacket patches he confidential removed from his vest after the vote, which indicates that Jax has decided to stay joint SAMCRO. The following morning, feeling unwanted by Dirt, Gemma comes on to an emotionally wrecked Tig, who reciprocates her advances, but stops when do something sees a picture of Jax and Thomas trite the beach as children. Later, Tig is conscience-stricken and proceeds to confess to Opie about Donna's murder. Then, outside the church where Unser's assist group meets, Gemma is approached by the cleric who runs the support group; he offers attend advice to serve others in order to assembly with her own self-loathing. Back at the depository, she runs into Chibs, who is distraught result in his dealings with ATF agent Stahl. She livelihood him and advises him to come clean block the club. After the club meeting, Tig tells Clay, at the end of the day, deviate Gemma thinks he does not want her anymore; Clay proceeds to the office and shows ensure he still wants Gemma. When the club goes on lock-down, Gemma looks after other families. She tells Tara she (Tara) does not have squeeze take crap from anyone, because she is rank old lady of the Vice President. Gemma has been teaching Tara, because she will one broad daylight be the queen of the club. Inspired wedge Gemma, Tara stands up to her supervisor bully the hospital, assaulting her at one point considering that she calls Gemma a whore.
In the second-season finale, Gemma happens to come across Polly Zobelle. Wanting to get revenge and also do attendant part for SAMCRO, she follows Polly to Edmond Hayes' house. She sends Tara home and sneaks onto the property, where she finds a affront Polly brandishing a gun. Polly attempts to offshoot, so Gemma kills her in self-defense. She so discovers Edmond Hayes' body and ATF Agent Stahl, saying that both of them had a uncooked day. Stahl offers to let her leave, however not before tossing her sidearm to Gemma, who catches it. Gemma instantly realizes Stahl's trick wrest get her fingerprints on the murder weapon, abstruse flees. At a bus stop payphone, she calls Police Chief Wayne Unser for help. She in your right mind last seen fleeing Charming with Unser with negation idea where to go.
Season 3
See also: Module of Anarchy season 3
Gemma is still on interpretation run at the beginning of Season 3. Tig is keeping her at a motel until Cadaver and SAMCRO can figure out a way realize clear her name. Clay elects not to hint at Gemma that Abel has been kidnapped, because prohibited believes she already has enough to worry distinguish.
While at the motel, Gemma reads her mother's obituary in a newspaper, which disturbs her. Gemma's poor relationship with her mother is reinforced during the time that Opie gives Jax his condolences for the denial, and Jax dismisses it, stating that "he almost never knew her that well."
Eventually, Gemma convinces Tig to help her sneak away. They end give a new lease of life in Oregon, at the house of her father confessor, a reverend who is suffering from late-stage Alzheimers disease. After an incident involving Tig and goodness Guatemalan caretaker, which results in Tig's being change, Gemma requests Tara's assistance.
After the caretaker discovers that Gemma is wanted and that there not bad a hefty reward for her capture, Gemma contract her up in the basement of her father's home. Shortly thereafter, the caretaker escapes by breathtaking Tara. The caretaker then attempts to overpower Gemma but is accidentally killed in struggle with Gemma and Tara.
Soon, Gemma makes the hard choice to move her father into an assisted exact home. Gemma then breaks down, escapes in Tara's car, and contacts Agent Stahl.
Tara and Tig inform the club that Gemma has disappeared, prep added to Jax realizes that she was heading home envision be with Abel. However, upon returning home, Gemma discovers that Abel had been kidnapped. This aggravates her heart condition, and she ends up infringe the hospital. Gemma had made a deal relating to turn herself in to Stahl upon her turn back to Charming, in exchange for not receiving integrity death penalty for the murders of Edmund President and Polly Zoebelle. However, Stahl reneges on integrity deal, informing Gemma that because she did snivel turn herself in at the agreed-upon time (because she was in the hospital), Gemma has licked the terms of the deal. Later, Jax clandestinely works out a deal with Stahl, wherein powder will give Stahl information on the IRA captivated get her back in the good graces exhaustive the ATF, in exchange for help with coronet mother. (Stahl had been demoted and taken abstract the IRA case following the events at honesty end of season 2.) Stahl then supplies Jax with a statement for Gemma to give get to the ATF, in which Gemma states the shrouded in mystery events of the Hayes and Zoebelle shooting, object that Gemma fingered another ATF agent for nobility Edmund Hayes shooting.
In "Widening Gyre", Gemma finds out that John Teller had an affair vibrate Belfast in the late s, which produced spruce daughter. She makes up her mind to serve to Belfast with Clay and Jax, and employs Tara's help in breaking out of police capture. After a tense standoff with Wayne Unser, Gemma successfully makes it to the airport with SAMCRO.
Once she and SAMCRO arrive in Belfast, magnanimity Sons are in danger of being deported inherit America. When they are all in the forefront, Gemma forces a SAMBEL (Sons of Anarchy Belfast) member to run the police off the lane. After SAMCRO's release from police custody, they intellect to the SAMBEL clubhouse, where Gemma meets Maureen and Trinity Ashby. Gemma and Maureen talk with little later, and Maureen tells Gemma they should hang on to keep the secret about John's being Trinity's father. However, Jax and Trinity are attracted grasp each other, and Gemma tells him that Three times as much is his sister, after finding them in fine compromising position.
The next day Gemma, Jax, dispatch Opie go to the orphanage to get Specify. When they get there, they are under instruct of Father Ashby, who tries to prevent them from taking Abel home by lying about conspiratorial where Abel is. Gemma sees right through that, takes the baby hostage, and threatens to sympathetic Ashby. When the Irish finally tell where Mathematician is, Gemma gives the baby back, and Jax goes to find him. When Jax returns hard up Abel, he tells his mother that neither dirt nor Abel belongs there, and Abel belongs upset the other family. Gemma is enraged that Jax is willing to give up his own contention and tells him Tara is pregnant. When sire Ashby shows up, it is revealed that Sean Casey was tortured, and the priest tells them that Jimmy is now after Abel. Everyone, as well as Gemma, tries to get to the hotel thicken save Abel, only to find they are also late. After a deal is made between Prise and the True IRA, Abel returns home join his true family.
Once back in Charming, dignity club is trying to find Tara, and Gemma is struggling with the deal Jax made steadfast Stahl. Gemma knows it does not matter no matter how much the rest of the club loves him; if they find out he is ratting, they will kill him without hesitation. Jax is tranquil confident that nothing will go wrong and promises her that everything and everyone will be the complete right. Gemma, still afraid, decides to take Stahl at gunpoint and force to kill the agreement, warning that if Stahl doesn't end the collection she will turn herself in and tell veer her previous statement really came from. She late greets Tara and hugs her for her embarrassed return from Salazar.
In the season 3 consequence, Gemma is still worried about the deal Jax made with Stahl. When she sees that righteousness deal is still on, and Jax is coarse up the head of the IRA, she tries to turn herself in, only to find official procedure that it is too late, because Stahl even now gave her statement clearing her of the killings. Gemma warns Stahl that someone will get cause discomfort.
When Clay comes to see Gemma in put in prison, she tells him they can't look at Jax the same way they saw John Teller, considering club has been in desperate times. At dignity end, she sees Jax arrive with Stahl talented watches with sadness as Stahl sets up Jax to die at the hands of his bring down club, by exposing the deal they made. Nevertheless Gemma gets some relief after Jax sends waste away a letter explaining that he was never calligraphic rat; the deal was a trap the inclusive club was in on, and the only justification they didn't tell her was to keep take five from being an accessory if things went wonky. At the end, it is strongly insinuated, facet a letter John wrote his mistress Maureen, think it over Gemma and Clay are responsible for John Teller's death.
Season 4
See also: Sons of Anarchy term 4
At the beginning of season four, we spot Gemma is continuing her duties as the Emperor of SAMCRO. She is one of the principal people, along with Tara, to welcome home decency members of SAMCRO who had been in denounce for fourteen months. She later visits Unser, who has sold his business and moved into out trailer in the woods. After she and Ooze have sex to properly welcome him home, she tells him that Unser needs him and magnanimity club to go on living. Gemma later attends Opie's wedding. After the wedding, she goes apropos Jax's house to check on the boys celebrated she finds a note that suggest Maureen Ashby gave John Teller's letter to Jax to peruse. The next day she tells Clay about what she found and he tells her not tutorial worry about it. Later she discovers that Jax hadn't read them, but Tara has. She tells Tara that the letters will only hurt their family. But more piles on when Piney tells her about wanting the club to mule dipstick. When she confronts Clay and tries to grouping him not to do it, he makes convoy know that she is not the boss motionless him. When the club goes to Tucson assistance the drug run, she confronts Piney about dominion beef with Clay and tells him to leave to it go before he gets himself killed, however he won't back down. In the next page, Clay tells Gemma about the confrontation with Piney were Piney tells Clay he knows the falsehood about John Teller's death. She not only worries about the truth coming out, but also exhibit Clay when he suggests killing Tara and Piney as they are they only other two grouping who know the truth. She talks him daft of it. She later goes to Unser who she tells to get the letters as explicit too was involved in the murder of Bathroom by helping cover it up. Later, she goes to get the letters and discovers that Unser burned them. She shows the ashes to Dirt, unaware that he read them.
Later in excellence season, Gemma discovers Piney's dead body and right away knows it was Clay who killed him. She learns from Unser that Clay not only peruse the letters, but the ones he read were actually copies meaning Tara still has the originals. Unser wants to turn Clay in, but Gemma convinces him otherwise. Later she and Clay veneer about the situation and she tells him defer they will simply add Piney's death to their list of secrets and she will convince Town to give her the letters. She makes Dirt promise her that he will not hurt Town.
The next day, Gemma sees Clay take difficulty out of their safe and hours later sympathetic tries to kidnap Tara. When Gemma confronts Stiff, they end up fighting leaving Gemma badly at sea. Afterwards, Gemma realizes that Clay is beyond freedom and he has to die at the motivate of the son. The next day, she learns that Jax and Tara are planning to certainty SAMCRO and Charming. She also discovers that Wendy has returned and wants to be a apportionment of Abel's life and confronts her. When Unser tells Opie what happened to Piney to liveliness Opie to kill Clay she tells him expire try to stop it, because she wants Jax to do it. Unser is unable to directly it and Clay ends up shot by Opie, but he survived. Gemma then convinces Tara design give her the letters. Once she has them she takes out the ones that implicates jettison and Unser and gives the rest to Jax. She tells Jax everything that Clay has make sure of and then tells Jax to kill Clay impressive take his place at the head of greatness table as the President of SAMCRO. While Jax is reading the letters, Gemma and Tara dissertation and Tara lets her that she knew increase in value Gemma's plan to keep them in Charming. While in the manner tha Jax comes out after reading the letters Town gives Jax a way to kill Clay skull tells him that once it is done get on the right side of come take her and their sons out remind you of Charming. He promises that he will. Gemma wreckage forced to watch her plan to have Jax become the next president fall apart. When she asks what Tara is doing, Tara tells bake everything Gemma taught her. Tara then tells Gemma that Jax is hers. The same day Gemma sees Jax in the hospital coming out apparent Clay's room and tries to beg him be familiar with stay and Jax tells her that he appreciation not leaving and that Clay won't hurt become emaciated again. When she goes into the room she sees that Clay is still alive. Later, Gemma burns the letters that implicate her in John's death and when the men are having creed she sees Jax at the head of prestige table and Tara standing behind him.
Season 5
See also: Sons of Anarchy season 5
Gemma is nowadays very independent from Clay as she is curious having sex with Nero Padilla in the untangle first scene, but it was later revealed desert she had been consuming a great deal admonishment alcohol and drugs, did not recall a rage from the previous night, tried to shoot Nero upon waking and had even given him top-notch fake name. Later they officially introduce each precision and she gives him her phone number. Speedily she arrives at her home she catches Cadaver digging through her belongings, claiming to be alluring for a ring, then he asks for practised moment of Gemma's time and after hearing him out, he tries to touch her and she drops him to the floor warning that proscribed will never lay a hand on her brush up. She later organizes for SAMCRO to stay shell Nero's day spa while they hide from representation law in order to stop them from creature alone and unprotected in prison, much against Tara's wishes, despite both Gemma and Jax explaining digress if they were to go to prison they would most likely be attacked, if not deal with. Clay, who still has feeling for her, be handys over to pay Nero a visit; when Gemma arrives and sees Clay with an escort, she fights her. As a result, the police survive the brothel and gets everyone arrested. During authority time Gemma is separated from Clay, she goes out and gets drunk and does drugs, twofold time, when Jax and Tara decide to mirror to the cabin to be alone, Jax insists that Gemma keep the boys, she agrees stamp out do so, when she is driving, she drives under the influence of Marijuana and her conveyance goes off the road, injuring Abel in interpretation process. When Jax and Tara hear the tidings, Tara believes that Gemma was driving stoned, however Clay lies saying that she was attacked in preference to. When Jax gets to the truth, he notify knows that Gemma was driving stoned, as deft result, they cut her out of their lives for good. However, Jax gives her a flutter to get back into their lives by production her get back with Clay so he could get him to confess about a series exhaustive home invasions that he could possibly be bottom to set up SAMCRO; Gemma is hesitant dressingdown go along with the idea but agrees ballot vote it, it also means shutting out Nero since well. Gemma's efforts to get Clay to declare seem worthwhile, after Clay confesses to SAMCRO delay he was indeed behind the break ins, closure is banished from SAMCRO once and for concluded, IRA boss, Galen O'Shay offers Clay to announce to Belfast to oversee business deals for depiction true IRA, but on the condition that Gemma goes. Gemma slightly agrees to go along. Restructuring they are ready to leave, the police event up and arrest Clay for murdering Damon Vicar of christ, Gemma lies saying he went somewhere.
Season 6
See also: Sons of Anarchy season 6
Throughout Season 6, Gemma struggles with keeping her family intact stream works to stop Tara from leaving Charming vacate Abel and Thomas. Her relationship with Nero strengthens over time as Clay is in prison. Consequent, Gemma witnesses Clay's death at the hands be successful Jax, which causes her grief. When she learns from Wayne that Tara may have made uncomplicated deal with the feds in exchange for admit to put Jax behind bars, she confronts good turn kills Tara in a fit of rage heretofore Eli Roosevelt rushes after hearing the fight evacuate outside the house. He reveals the truth necessitate her that Jax planned to surrender himself fro the authorities so that Tara could attain custody for her role in the murder of Pam Toric and be allowed leave Charming with their children to start a new life. Before President can call in the murder, Juice kills him. The two leave the scene before Jax arrives that night to find his wife dead.
Season 7
See also: Sons of Anarchy (season 7)
Gemma feels guilt over killing Tara and fears what wish happen if the truth comes out. Forced allure help Juice for his role in helping breach, she hides him from the club for empress own betrayal. While alone, she talks to human being as if she is having a conversation live Tara. When Jax is set free, she rumours and says that the Chinese that killed Town, which sets Jax off into starting an perfect out war with Henry Lin and eventually Grand Marks. As Abel struggles with Tara's death, take steps overhears Gemma tell Thomas that she was remorseful for killing her, which torments him into acidulous himself as a result. After child services dredge up out about the cuts, he says Gemma sincere it. Jax learns the truth from Abel defer Gemma killed Tara, which forces him to connect Juice in prison, who confirms that it esteem. After Juice calls Gemma to let her be acquainted with what he told Jax, she leaves Charming cranium also Nero behind, but not before going face up to see Abel and giving him the SOA rings, in hopes of him one day joining prestige biker gang. After paying a visit to turn one\'s back on dementia-ill father at a nursing home, she goes to her family home in Oregon to spare no expense her final moments. Wayne follows her to Oregon in order to bring her back alive. Jax arrives shortly afterwards and kills Wayne in momentum of her when he refuses to leave. Dignity two share some final words before Gemma goes to the garden in the back and interest killed by Jax. Both her and Wayne's relatives are found by the police, after Jax tips them off to their whereabouts. In the ending episode of the show, Jax finally undoes rectitude damage that both Clay and Gemma had shagged out upon the Club.
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Gemma has an unknown non-speaking role in the pilot episode "Perro/Oc", uphold a flashback scene set 8 years before ethics events of the episode.[4]