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We're officially on the back half of Sons of Anarchy's final season after Tuesday's "Greensleeves," and it's only going downhill from here. Now that someone — two someones, actually, as in Jax's preschooler Abel and baby Thomas — knows that Gemma killed Tara, the real unraveling of SAMCRO, and certainly the Teller family, begins.

SoA executive producer — and the director of "Greensleeves" — Paris Barclay talked to Yahoo TV about the development-dense episode, the characters whose futures we should most fear for (hint: pretty much all of them), and his reaction when he read the series finale script.

The last time we talked, you hinted Unser was not going to be the first person to find out Gemma killed Tara. On the list of people that would be possibilities, Thomas and Abel were not even on the planet.

[Laughs.] I knew from the beginning of the season that it was going to unravel through the children. We've been preparing you, and I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on it, that there's something wrong there, that there's a disturbance in the force.



I think Kurt and the writers have been very clever to do it like that, instead of doing it through the traditional investigative procedural way… it ends up being emotional, coming in an emotional outburst out of fear. Gemma is so afraid and is falling apart, and that leads to Abel finding out and actually hearing that she killed his mommy. We're at Episode 7, so we're right at the midpoint of the season, so, just like a good play, this would be the end of the first act of the two-act play, and the second act is going to unravel from there.

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Was it tough filming that scene? It's one of the most pivotal scenes of the season, and you were working with small children.

We filmed it twice. The first time we did it... the baby Gemma had to hold took over the scene, and I think I directed Katey [Sagal] for her performance to be a little bit too loud, basically. The next time we did it, the baby was in a much better mood, and she did it in a hushed mad tone that was really fantastic. That was one of those times we actually had to come back another day.



I'm not blaming the children, I'm really blaming myself… and Abel [Evan and Ryder Londo], I didn't want him to go wide-eyed and say, "Oh my God" when he heard. He really should just be at the process of receiving the information, be surprised by it, but not know what to do with it. I couldn't really explain that to a child who's six. To be totally honest, what I did was, I stood by the camera, and I made the face that I wanted him to make. He imitated me. And then I gave him a dollar.

Really?

[Laughs.] Yes, he loves a dollar. A dollar is really exciting for him, and he knows if he does really well, especially when he has to go to sleep, which he has to do a lot in the story, he has to pretend like he's asleep. He's a really good sleep pretender, so after a successful take, I will give him a dollar. Sometimes two.



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