Sons Of Anarchy: "Old Bones"

Stalkers and skeletons–it's like junior year Halloween all over again. "Old Bones"' two major plotlines are introduced at the start; picking up where "AK-51" left off last week, we see Jax giving Tara a lift home with Kohn following a thoroughly indiscreet half a mile behind, and we also see some Water and Power guys digging up human remains just off the main drag. No matter how many times Tara throws him off, Kohn isn't going away quietly, and no matter how neatly Clay and Gemma think they've covered their tracks, nothing stays buried for long. In Charming, the past isn't dead. It's not even past.
Jax gets pissed when he learns his on-again-off-again is being stalked and decides to confront the problem directly. As always, it's nice to see him have an actual emotion; he's generally stuck in shades between bemusement and irritation, and while it makes sense dramatically that he's not entirely engaged (the more Jax thinks he knows what's going on, the more it'll matter when he finds out he doesn't), that even-temper gets boring. Seeing him go to town on Kohn's car, and ultimately throw Kohn through a plate glass window, made him interesting.
Also interesting was the way he immediately went to Hale after Tara told him the truth. In a weird way, I'm rooting for Hale; most shows with anti-heroes, I find myself dreading the moment the other shoe drops and the law closes in, but on Sons, I actually wouldn't mind it if Sam Crow got theirs. In a different story, Hale could easily be the hero–he's stuck on his own with a boss who's actively undermining his biggest case, and he has the integrity to respect the people he's chasing even while he works to lock them away. Even more telling, those people respect him too; maybe not Clay, but Jax obviously thinks he's decent, and even Gemma had a few kind words for him last week.
By the end of this ep, Kohn has been escorted out of town. It makes sense; there's only so long a guy can pretend to be working for the government while he follows an ex-lover and pisses in the baby room of a lead suspect. I doubt he's gone for good, as there's too much potential in the character to let Jax and Tara off this easily. Kohn is a loathsome sonofabitch, but the show does a good job of making him sincere; his impassioned plea to Stahl and Hale to protect Tara from the Anarchy boys made a certain kind of sense, even if it was largely bullshit. Kohn hasn't tipped entirely into obvious psychopath, and that makes him more dangerous.