"Sons of Anarchy:" "I'm ready (to die). Are you?"

I've sort of drifted away from FX's biker drama "Sons of Anarchy" (hey, it's the rebel in me), but the show wraps up its first season tomorrow, so I thought I'd check in with the gang and see what they're up to.

(Uneasy riders.)

They're been wriggling in and out of messes all season, but last week's may turn out to be a deal-breaker as far as gang loyalty is concerned: Clay (Ron Perlman) put out a hit on Opie (Ryan Hurst), But Tig (Kim Coates) killed Opie's wife Donna (Sprague Grayden) by accident. He did make it look like another gang did it in retaliation for their season-long beefs, though, but even the cops in this stupid little backwater have already figured out who really done it.

Oh, and Gemma (Katey Sagal) is deciding that Clay's not bad-@ss enough for her tastes. Geez, lady, just cozy up to Dick Cheney and be done with it.

("Sorry, but I like my men more cruel and brutish than you.")

Oh, and Opie's dad Piney (William Lucking), who thinks that other gang killed his daughter-in-law, is out for blood and using the n-word like a gangsta rapper until Jax (Charlie Hunnam) threatens to replace his oxygen tank with one filled with liquid nitrogen.

Oh, and Jax has the lady problems again. Wendy (Drea de Matea) wants to win him back which he doesn't want, and Tara (Maggie Siff), feeling that breaking the hearts of two guys in two TV seasons is good for the resume (as Rachel, Siff undid Don Draper in "Mad Men" last year), is ready to pack up and go back to Chicago, which Jax really doesn't want. Jax tells her he's slept with "hundreds" of women (dude, you live in a small town - that suggests you've been raiding retirement homes or something), but he only sees her face when he's with those other women (which explains how he gets through those nights with the ladies from the retirement homes).

Oh, and Jax has some suspicions about who killed Donna, and he breaks up a SAMCRO raid on a safe house and leaves his and Tig's blood all over the place so the Feds won't have a case ... oh, wait.

(Next season: A special "Sons of Anarchy"/"Oz" crossover.)

Oh, and next season will see a battle for the soul of SAMCRO.

Dumbest scene in the episode is the kissy-face moment that inappropriately interrupts Donna's funeral, though I'm not sure how you can appropriately interrupt a funeral with a kissy-face moment.

- "Sons of Anarchy:" 10 p.m. Wednesday, FX. (The episode's more than an hour long even without commercials, so TiVo accordingly.)