We're not sure any of the questionable things we've come up with really rival the seemingly boundless loyalty that Harry "Opie" Winston (Ryan Hurst) shows SAMCRO on "Sons of Anarchy." He does five years in Chino after former member Kyle Hobart (Brian Van Holt) ditches him and tries to stay on the straight and narrow upon his release in order to keep his wife Donna (Sprague Grayden) happy. It's clear Opie misses the brotherhood he enjoyed as a member of the club, however, as evidenced by the way he is eventually drawn back in by best friend Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) to make some extra money. Unfortunately, repeated attempts by ATF Agent June Stahl (Ally Walker) to get Opie to turn on the club result in president Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman) believing Opie truly is a rat, so Clay orders Alexander "Tig" Trager (Kim Coates) to kill him. As fans know, Tig mistakenly kills Donna instead.
Opie, of course, is at first unaware his own club is responsible for his wife's death, but Tig confesses out of guilt in Season 2 Episode 11, at which point Opie gives him a savage beating. He still stays with the club nonetheless, seeing Stahl as the real villain; it doesn't hurt that Clay spares his father, Piney (William Lucking), after the elder Winston fires a gun at him twice. But Clay has only hit pause on eliminating members of Opie's family: he kills Piney in Season 4 over letters Jax's father wrote, which indicate his seeming awareness that Clay and Jax's mother, Gemma Teller (Katey Sagal), are going to kill him. Opie shoots Clay twice, but is still able to operate alongside him and Tig up until he finally gives his own life for the club in prison in Season 5.
