The fourth episode of FX’s “Sons Of Anarchy” aims to please with copious amounts of violence, drama, and attacks hitting the club at home.

Within the first minute of this week’s episode, we see former Charming Chief of Police Wayne Unser, played by series regular Dayton Callie, brutally attacked and mutilated by three white men in ski masks. Repercussions and reprisals from actions taken in last week’s episode lead to the return of a group that series regulars haven’t seen in a few years: Neo-Nazis. While their presence isn’t as definite in Charming as it has been in the past, it will be interesting to see where this is going to go as the season continues on.

Lee Toric, played by Donal Logue, continues to play his games as he seeks to implicate Nero Padilla (Jimmy Smits) in the murder of an escort in the hopes of destabilizing the business relationship between the club and Padilla’s growing escort service, Diosa Norte. One of the highlights of the episode has San Joaquin County Sheriff Eli Roosevelt, portrayed by returning Rockmond Dunbar, questioning the planted evidence against Padilla and beginning an investigation into the past of season antagonist Toric. One can only hope that Roosevelt finds out just how twisted Toric’s sense of “justice” is and takes matters into his own hands.

The gratuitous violence that has been the calling card of this season returns with the deaths of two characters, who will remain unnamed for the sake of spoilers, but their deaths seemed pointless and there for shock value alone. A question comes to mind regarding the masses of bodies piling up in the past four episodes: Are all of these deaths necessary pieces to the storyline, or is it simply to get audiences salivating for more death and less story depth? Again, only time will tell.

One of the more surprising aspects of the episode comes from Ron Pearlman’s Clay Morrow, a character that the majority of series fans have come to loathe and distrust as the show has run its course over the years. As Toric attempts to sway Morrow with threats of violence, and various other forms of disgrace, the audience gets to see courage in Morrow that we’ve never seen before as he refuses to cooperate.

Otto Delaney, played by show creator/writer Kurt Sutter, is responsible for perhaps the most pivotal moment in the season so far and it is a moment that will make fans, both new and old, very happy that they watched this week’s episode. All in all, it is a very solid edition to a season that is shaping up to be the best of the series so far.