(Spoiler alert: Don't read this if you don't want to know what happened on Tuesday night's "Sons of Anarchy.")
FX's biker drama "Sons of Anarchy" ended with a jaw-dropper of a death Tuesday night, but creator Kurt Sutter says it had to happen.
As fans still grappled with the brutal demise of one of the series' most beloved characters, Sutter fielded reporters' questions Wednesday about why Harry "Opie" Winston (Ryan Hurst) was offed. He died in an eye-for-an-eye tradeoff between Jax Teller, newly minted leader of the SAMCRO biker gang, and crime kingpin Damon Pope.
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As Sutter tells it, Opie's death, as "gut-wrenching" as it was, was necessary to shape Jax's character as he moves forward in making the gang his own, following the ouster of Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman).