Half-Sack Epps
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Kip "Half-Sack" Epps is a fictional character
on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy
, played by Johnny Lewis
. He was a prospective member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
, which often results in hazing
and him being given undesirable tasks. The other members generally have a good natured attitude towards Half-Sack when giving him these difficult tasks.
during the Iraq War. He lost a testicle while serving in Iraq
, prompting the nickname "Half-Sack". A surprisingly formidable fighter, he was also the Junior Lightweight Champion of the Armed Forces boxing
competition. After leaving the military, he began prospecting for the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
and worked as a mechanic
at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair. He was also a vegetarian
.
, Chibs Telford
, Juice Ortiz
and Half-Sack acquired two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting is made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics, a local skinhead gang. On the way back to town, they were cut off on the road by a man driving a red muscle car
. They later caught up with this man at a petrol station and beat him up. The driver then pulled out a pistol and attempted to shoot Jax, but was wrestled to the ground and then killed by the Pakistan
i shop keeper who hit him with a fire axe. They then stole the CCTV tapes and fled the scene.
While working at the auto shop one day, Half-Sack told Tig Trager
that Clay Morrow
's wife, Gemma, was a MILF
. Unknown to him, however, Clay was in ear shot. Later on, at the Devil's Tribe's patch-over party, he met a woman named Cherry and the couple seemed to be in love. Clay pulled rank, as he is the club president, and slept with Cherry as revenge for earlier.
The club entered him into a bare-knuckle boxing
competition to raise funds to buy weapons. During this time, he was trained by Chibs, who insisted that he has "no booze, no weed and no pussy". This meant that Cherry was kept away from him. To test Cherry's loyalty to Half-Sack, Bobby tried to have sex with her at his house, but she refused his advances. At the competition, he reached the final but was then told to take a dive by Chibs and Tig because they had bet on his opponent. He agreed, but then saw Clay and Cherry hugging at ring-side. This brought on a sudden surge of rage and he knocked his opponent out. He was then told that he owes the club $35,000.
In a bid to pay back the money, help the club and earn his patch
, he stole an ambulance
, which he planned to sell. The club dismissed this stunt as pointless and unnecessarily risky, however. The ambulance eventually did come to good use when Cameron Hayes of the True IRA was shot and wounded by the Mayans.
His girlfriend, Cherry, was arrested, but later broken out of jail. She was then smuggled into Canada
by Happy (eventually ending up moving to Belfast with the Belfast charter of SOA).
After Piney Winston
's daughter-in-law, Donna, was killed by the One-Niners (or so it seemed), he travelled to Oakland
to get revenge. Jax sent Half-Sack to follow him and to stop him from doing anything unnecessary. However when they got to Oakland, Half-Sack was unable to stop him going into a Niners bar and starting a fight. It ended in a hostage situation, with Piney holding a Niner at gun-point. When Jax and Chibs later arrived and tried to stop Piney from causing any more trouble, Half-Sack helped Jax disarm him. They later held a meeting with Laroy, the Niners leader, who told them that it wasn't him or his gang who killed Donna. The season ended with Half-Sack and the rest of SAMCRO attending Donna's funeral.
After a short absence, Half-Sack returned to the clubhouse, revealing that he had the surgery to receive a prosthetic testicle. Soon after the surgery, Half-Sack began feeling discomfort. He eventually couldn't take it anymore and enlisted Tara's help who informed him that his testicles were severely swollen due to infection, a possible side effect of the surgery.
In "Culling" Half-Sack reveals that his body rejected the prosthetic. Soon after, Clay and some of the others have a discussion on how they feel about patching Half-Sack into the club. They all agree that he would be a good addition to their ranks. Clay remarks that he has "Half a sack, but a whole lot of balls". Half-Sack later participates in an organized brawl with L.O.A.N. as one of SAMCRO's ten best fighters.
In the season two finale, Half-Sack was tasked with watching over Gemma and Tara, but he couldn't prevent Gemma from exacting revenge on Polly Zobelle. He returned to Jax's home, not knowing that he was followed by Cameron Hayes. After Hayes threatened to kill Abel Teller with a kitchen knife, Half-Sack rushed at him only to be stabbed and killed. His death was discovered by Jax, Opie, and Chibs.
Kurt Sutter, series writer and creator, said that Half-Sack was killed off because Lewis wanted to leave the show due to creative differences; "We decided we'd find some noble way for him to go. It wasn't my intent to try to be sensational and kill off a main character."
was draped over his casket during the service showing that SAMCRO posthumously patched him in. This was done since he was set to do so soon after his death and in recognition of giving his life for the Club.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California...
, played by Johnny Lewis
Johnny Lewis
Jonathan Kendrick "Johnny" Lewis , also credited as Johnny K. Lewis, is an American actor.-Life and career:Lewis began making television appearances while in his late teens with guest starring roles in American Dreams , Boston Public , and The Guardian , among others...
. He was a prospective member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
The Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original or SOA, is a fictional outlaw motorcycle club and organized crime syndicate from the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. The club was formed by John Teller and Piermont "Piney" Winston, two Vietnam War veterans, in 1967 in Charming,...
, which often results in hazing
Hazing
Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....
and him being given undesirable tasks. The other members generally have a good natured attitude towards Half-Sack when giving him these difficult tasks.
Biography
Kip Epps served in the United States Marine CorpsUnited States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
during the Iraq War. He lost a testicle while serving in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, prompting the nickname "Half-Sack". A surprisingly formidable fighter, he was also the Junior Lightweight Champion of the Armed Forces boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
competition. After leaving the military, he began prospecting for the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
The Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original or SOA, is a fictional outlaw motorcycle club and organized crime syndicate from the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. The club was formed by John Teller and Piermont "Piney" Winston, two Vietnam War veterans, in 1967 in Charming,...
and worked as a mechanic
Mechanic
A mechanic is a craftsman or technician who uses tools to build or repair machinery.Many mechanics are specialized in a particular field such as auto mechanics, bicycle mechanics, motorcycle mechanics, boiler mechanics, general mechanics, industrial maintenance mechanics , air conditioning and...
at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair. He was also a vegetarian
Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets , with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat...
.
Season One
To distract the police from their activities, Jax TellerJax Teller
Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s...
, Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford
Filip "Chibs" Telford is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Tommy Flanagan. He is a Medic & member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and, unlike most of the gang's members who are American, he is Scottish...
, Juice Ortiz
Juice Ortiz
Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Theo Rossi. He is the Intelligence Officer for Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club...
and Half-Sack acquired two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting is made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics, a local skinhead gang. On the way back to town, they were cut off on the road by a man driving a red muscle car
Muscle car
Muscle car is a term used to refer to a variety of high-performance automobiles. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines muscle cars as "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance driving." Usually, a large V8 engine is fitted in a...
. They later caught up with this man at a petrol station and beat him up. The driver then pulled out a pistol and attempted to shoot Jax, but was wrestled to the ground and then killed by the Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i shop keeper who hit him with a fire axe. They then stole the CCTV tapes and fled the scene.
While working at the auto shop one day, Half-Sack told Tig Trager
Tig Trager
Alexander "Tig" Trager is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Kim Coates. He was the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter and is the gang's second most violent member. Trager is extremely fond of women, and...
that Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow
Clarence "Clay" Morrow is a fictional character in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He is played by Ron Perlman. He is the President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, but is also something of a vigilante as he does everything in his power to ensure that drug dealers and rapists stay...
's wife, Gemma, was a MILF
MILF (slang)
MILF, an acronym for "Mother/Mom/Mum I'd Like to Fuck", is a common colloquial term generally regarded as vulgar when spelled out. It denotes a sexually attractive older female, generally between 25 and 50 years of age.-History:...
. Unknown to him, however, Clay was in ear shot. Later on, at the Devil's Tribe's patch-over party, he met a woman named Cherry and the couple seemed to be in love. Clay pulled rank, as he is the club president, and slept with Cherry as revenge for earlier.
The club entered him into a bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports...
competition to raise funds to buy weapons. During this time, he was trained by Chibs, who insisted that he has "no booze, no weed and no pussy". This meant that Cherry was kept away from him. To test Cherry's loyalty to Half-Sack, Bobby tried to have sex with her at his house, but she refused his advances. At the competition, he reached the final but was then told to take a dive by Chibs and Tig because they had bet on his opponent. He agreed, but then saw Clay and Cherry hugging at ring-side. This brought on a sudden surge of rage and he knocked his opponent out. He was then told that he owes the club $35,000.
In a bid to pay back the money, help the club and earn his patch
Gang patch
A gang patch is the identifying insignia of a street gang. The term is used specifically in New Zealand. Each of the country's gangs has its own forms of insignia, of which the post prominent is often a large symbol, frequently worn by members on their clothing as a symbol of their gang membership...
, he stole an ambulance
Ambulance
An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient...
, which he planned to sell. The club dismissed this stunt as pointless and unnecessarily risky, however. The ambulance eventually did come to good use when Cameron Hayes of the True IRA was shot and wounded by the Mayans.
His girlfriend, Cherry, was arrested, but later broken out of jail. She was then smuggled into Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
by Happy (eventually ending up moving to Belfast with the Belfast charter of SOA).
After Piney Winston
Piney Winston
Piermont "Piney" Winston was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by William Lucking. He was a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and was one of the Club's founders .-Character biography:...
's daughter-in-law, Donna, was killed by the One-Niners (or so it seemed), he travelled to Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
to get revenge. Jax sent Half-Sack to follow him and to stop him from doing anything unnecessary. However when they got to Oakland, Half-Sack was unable to stop him going into a Niners bar and starting a fight. It ended in a hostage situation, with Piney holding a Niner at gun-point. When Jax and Chibs later arrived and tried to stop Piney from causing any more trouble, Half-Sack helped Jax disarm him. They later held a meeting with Laroy, the Niners leader, who told them that it wasn't him or his gang who killed Donna. The season ended with Half-Sack and the rest of SAMCRO attending Donna's funeral.
Season Two
Half-Sack is still a prospective member trying to get into SAMCRO. He seems to have a more prominent role in some of the club's dealings often being seen going on runs/errands with the other members. However, he is still the most likely member to be given surveillance duties.After a short absence, Half-Sack returned to the clubhouse, revealing that he had the surgery to receive a prosthetic testicle. Soon after the surgery, Half-Sack began feeling discomfort. He eventually couldn't take it anymore and enlisted Tara's help who informed him that his testicles were severely swollen due to infection, a possible side effect of the surgery.
In "Culling" Half-Sack reveals that his body rejected the prosthetic. Soon after, Clay and some of the others have a discussion on how they feel about patching Half-Sack into the club. They all agree that he would be a good addition to their ranks. Clay remarks that he has "Half a sack, but a whole lot of balls". Half-Sack later participates in an organized brawl with L.O.A.N. as one of SAMCRO's ten best fighters.
In the season two finale, Half-Sack was tasked with watching over Gemma and Tara, but he couldn't prevent Gemma from exacting revenge on Polly Zobelle. He returned to Jax's home, not knowing that he was followed by Cameron Hayes. After Hayes threatened to kill Abel Teller with a kitchen knife, Half-Sack rushed at him only to be stabbed and killed. His death was discovered by Jax, Opie, and Chibs.
Kurt Sutter, series writer and creator, said that Half-Sack was killed off because Lewis wanted to leave the show due to creative differences; "We decided we'd find some noble way for him to go. It wasn't my intent to try to be sensational and kill off a main character."
Season Three
In the season premiere, SAMCRO buried Half-Sack with over 50 full-patch members from California, Washington, Nevada, and Oregon as well as numerous former military colleagues in attendance. A three-piece kutteCut-off
A cut-off, also known as a kutte or "battle jacket" in heavy metal subcultures, is a type of vest or jacket which originated in the biker subculture and has now found popularity in the punk and various heavy metal subcultures...
was draped over his casket during the service showing that SAMCRO posthumously patched him in. This was done since he was set to do so soon after his death and in recognition of giving his life for the Club.