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- Parada and Torres had a legal order that forced Potter to stop his RICO plan and give them all the information from his case. Potter left Charming after that and didn’t return in the following seasons of Sons of Anarchy, not even when the cartel’s plans were also ruined.
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Mar 5, 2023 · Potter left Charming after that and didn’t return in the following seasons of Sons of Anarchy, not even when the cartel’s plans were also ruined. After a shootout between members of the cartel and the IRA, Parada took the guns and money from the IRA’s leader , Galen O’Shay, and ended the cartel’s relationship with SAMCRO.
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Lincoln James Potter, aka Nick Stackhouse and Gabe Marcel, is the Assistant U.S. Attorney investigating the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. Played by American actor Ray McKinnon, Lincoln makes his debut on the episode "Out" in the series' fourth season. He is ruthless and determined, and willing to cross legal boundaries to get a job done. Playing a recurring role through the same season, he can be viewed as the main antagonist of the season, although he performs acts that are beneficial to both the Sons and Charming. He was last seen in the Season 4 episode "To Be, Act 2".
Potter appears again on the FX original series Mayans MC, a spinoff of the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. Making his debut on the season one episode, "Gato/Mis". Potter plays a recurring role throughout the show, as a major antagonist.
Potter is an extremely calculating and strategic individual, hiding his cunning behind a mask of eccentricity. Despite his oddness, he has an outgoing, friendly, and calming demeanor. While conducting business with criminals, he'll put on an emotionless and passive attitude, never allowing himself to seem visibly frustrated even when his best laid plans were ruined by the CIA.
Almost always being caught up in his own thoughts of making plans, he often does strange things that seemed to help him brain-storm such as drinking chocolate milk, hum songs to himself, and smoke cigarettes, even smoking one while reclined upside down in a chair as he contemplated his strategy, at one point he also was seen singing and dancing above a table. He is also very organized, creating war rooms with very detailed plans taped all over its walls that include pictures of his targets, countless sticky notes, and timelines.
For all his cunning and manipulative nature, Lincoln has shown to be rather insecure, and becomes increasingly more paranoid whenever he feels he isn't in control of absolutely everything revolving his plans, to the point he has to plan for multiple scenarios just to be completely safe. Due to this controlling nature, he often tends to act when he thinks he has the most leverage around, or whenever he feels it is safe to do so, and rarely so otherwise. However, this had led him to underestimate his opponents at occasions which has lead to unexpected outcomes well outside his expectations. He is shown to act more aggressively whenever his plans fails, acting more rash while under frustration.
In spite of his ruthless actions to get what he wants, such as pressuring Sheriff Roosevelt into blackmailing Juice into getting a key of coke and later blackmailing the Reyes brothers with the threat of deporting their father, he does have limits to being immoral. This is seen by his disgusted and outraged reaction to how his mercenaries treated a pregnant Adelita, specifically locking her in a dog cage.
Background
He admits that he used to wet the bed, before his habit turned into nail-biting. An only son, his father, Edward, was a Colonel in the United States military. His relationship with his father was "at best, tense", due to his father's alcoholism.
Sons of Anarchy Season 4
Shortly before the group of Sons were released from prison, Potter arrived in Charming with a task force consisting of FBI agents Lane and Kessler, ICE agent Vance, and ATF agents Grad Nicholas and Woodrow, setting their sights on bringing down the entirety of the Sons of Anarchy, RIRA, and the ROC in one swift move. Potter rented space on the third floor at the Sheriff's Department, putting together his "war room" which contained all of their collected information on the gun running connection, including pictures of all members and associates involved with the illegal operations. On the day of Clay Morrow and the other captive SOA members' release, Potter saw them arrive in Charming after buying a pack of cigarettes, driving past them on his own bike and giving them a nod as he passed after they had been blockaded by Sheriff Roosevelt. Later, he visited the sheriff, informing him of who he was and that he was interested in working with him. He brought Roosevelt to the war room and laid out their plans, recruiting him into their top secret task force. Potter explained that they'd be able to attack soon due to a planted mole in the ROC but after the Sons killed the Russians in retaliation for bad blood between them, Potter had to put this plan on hold, deciding to tread water after realizing that there was a whole other player involved with all of this; the Galindo Cartel. Completely unrelated to his case was that he met with Gemma on Roosevelt's wife flower shop under a fake name, and revealed to her that Jacob Hale's Charming Heights development project was in danger of being relinquished to the county if he could not find more investors within a certain amount of time. The bad publicity of Russian bodies dumped on one of his construction sites left him with a huge financial loss. He hinted that he wanted the Sons to destroy Hale's plan. Also in this scene is a very cryptic line from Gemma as Potter is lighting her cigarette, "Do I know you?" He then checked on the members of SAMCRO and found a potential use for Juice, who had concealed his African-American father from the club, since the MC doesn't allow blacks in the club. Potter used this information to blackmail Juice through Roosevelt, turning Juice into a rat. Roosevelt would take Juice to talk with him on the pretense that it was to check him on his weed shop. Potter would force Juice into securing some proof of the club's involvement with the cartel, and Juice stole a brick of cocaine (that later got Miles killed and framed for the theft). Roosevelt confronted Potter in that Juice would be killed if he was discovered, but he did not care as Juice would nonetheless act on their favor with both the fear of being kicked out or killed. This plan did not work and Juice feeling guilty would attempt suicide, which prompted Roosevelt to tell Potter that Juice could no longer be used as he was serious. Potter would also play another underhanded tactic with Otto, by giving him accurate information on Luann's autopsy that revealed that Bobby had sex with her prior to her death. Potter tried to convince Otto into betraying the club, using the autopsy information to make Otto believe Bobby killed Luann. Potter was well aware of the meeting he had with Bobby in which Bobby apologized and promised Otto that they had killed Georgie Caruso, Luann's potential murdered and had it recorded. Then he investigated and revealed to Otto the photos that proved Caruso was still alive which was enough for Otto to side with Potter after feeling betrayed. Potter decided to show himself and his war room to Juice and all the intel that they had on SAMCRO and the RIRA that could be used on a RICO case that could potentially arrest the whole every charter of the Sons of Anarchy, and thus forced Juice to cooperate with them regarding the meeting with the Irish Kings and Galindo Cartel members, and giving them information, assuring him that if he worked his role fine, he would exclude the Sons of Anarchy from the RICO act, and with little choice Juice accepted. Upon seeing the great lengths that Potter was willing to go and the underhanded tactics he employed, he slowly began to grow disgusted at Potter and distance himself from him. Potter had all he needed on his hands as Otto had signed all the papers that confirmed his participation and that of Bobby's on criminal activities, and by default, the club's. Prior to agreeing, Otto has Potter agree with 3 conditions: that Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz is allowed visitations; that his own execution date is carried before schedule; and that he is given a face to face meeting with Bobby. Potter agrees to all of them and eventually allows the two to meet, and is a witness when Otto confesses he ratted on the club and when Bobby is taken into custody. Eventually the day of the meeting came, and Potter was ready with a large team of law enforcement on a camp nearby ready to act and arrest SAMCRO, the Irish Kings and the Galindo Cartel members, all while giving them an encouraging speech to his men (at this chance he mentioned bringing "three criminal organizations to justice" which hints that he never had any real intention to let the Sons of Anarchy survive). His plans are foiled however by the appearance of none other than the Galindo Cartel members Romero "Romeo" Parada and Luis Torres, who reveal to Potter that they are undercover CIA agents and that the government is backing up the Galindo Cartel in hopes of bringing the others down for political motives. With a legal order, the two men force Potter to cease on his RICO plan and to surrender all information from his case to them. Distraught, he meets with Roosevelt and are both surprised and displeased with the results claiming that "the bad guys won today". He proceeded to give Roosevelt all the files on Juice, as he knows Roosevelt would want to free Juice personally of the racial blackmail. He confessed to Roosevelt that he does not like people too much and that he has great respect for him. The two parted ways with a handshake. He appeared for a last time in the voting for Charming Heights as Hale had secured the investment of the Natsuki Family, Georgie's investors for his sex business. He then reveals to the court the true colours of the Natsuki Family, which Hale had hidden on purpose as a "Tokyo Fund" with all the information that showed they were the largest manufacturer of sex toys and pornography in the world, and also being involved in paedophilia. A very displeased Jacob Hale goes to Potter and asks him why he did that. Potter replied that he "does not like" Hale, and then departed while saying to himself that "the good guys needed a win" (following his failure on his RICO case). The vote for Charming Heights was then put on hold.
"Gato/Mis"EZ tells Chuckie that he would lock up for him, and as he is leaving, he sees Lincoln sitting on a bike outside the complex. Lincoln calls attention to EZ, saying that it is a nice night for a walk. After EZ leaves, Lincoln picks up a stray cat who hangs out at the complex. He implies that the cat has seen all sorts of criminal activity performed inside the complex, and that he would like to see for himself.
"Cucaracha/K'uruch"Potter makes his great return to law enforcement, he is heading a case against the Galindo Cartel and Los Olvidados. He is using an informant from the Mayans Motorcycle Club, Santo Padre to gather intelligence on the cartel. He berates agent Lawrence Bowen for not remembering the code for the war room.
Kevin Jiminez bangs on the door and is let in, he introduces himself to Potter but Bowen interrupts explaining that he has been removed from the case. Jiminez argues with Potter explaining that he has put two years in to making the case against the cartel with Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes as the inside man, pulling him would be a huge mistake. He continues explaining that Miguel Galindo was arrested by border patrol last night and EZ has just informed him. Potter is surprised to learn this as it had nothing to do with his taskforce and orders an investigation in to this. He confirms to Jiminez that EZ is back in play until they learn more. Bowen is visibly angry at this decision. Potter then orders for Miguel's home to be raided.
"Rata/Ch'o"Miguel has been arrested and is being interrogated by assistant district attorney Potter. Miguel requests a lawyer and says he will say nothing but Potter says he will speak regardless. Potter rambles for a bit before telling Miguel that he hasn't contacted a lawyer for him and legally he doesn't have to. He then reveals that Emily Galindo has also been arrested due to not reporting Cristobal's abduction and leaves.
Emily becomes enraged after being interrogated as Potter enters the room; chastising the other detectives for their treatment of her, he sends them away. Potter shockingly explains to Emily that he wants the cartel to work with the government.
Potter returns later after speaking to Emily. He explains to Miguel that years ago he was very close to stopping a huge gun smuggling operation but was stopped due to Miguel's father's deal with the CIA. Potter reminds Miguel that Los Olvidados are slowly destroying his various businesses. Sensing that Potter is hinting at the cartel working with the government; Miguel cuts him off and says that the CIA deal destroyed his father, Potter continues to attempt to reason with Miguel but he isn't interested. "Charge me or release me" is the final offer he has for Potter.
"Xbalanque"Potter orders a joint task force between the Mayans and Galindo and Hobart's mercs to raid a supposed Los Olvidados safehouse.
Potter visits Felipe Reyes, the father of EZ and Angel. He tells Felipe that he knows all about his past being tied up with the Galindo Cartel, and how his real name is Ignacio Cortes. He states that he would like to discuss it with him sometime, he leaves.
Anna Linares, Potter's new assistant and Potter are driving, he enquires about Los Olvidados activity and Linares tells him that all is quiet and reels off a list of damages done to Los Olvidados. Potter then enquires about Adelita, the leader of Los Olvidados, who is revealed to be pregnant; Linares confirms there have been no sightings of her either. Potter begins to enquire about Linares' nails before randomly announcing he no longer wets the bed.
Linares and Potter return to base where they link up with Hobart. He has shocking news that all of his men were killed when they worked with the Mayans Motorcycle Club and the cartel in an attempt to take down a Los Olvidados safehouse. Hobart explains that when he left his men had captured a young girl affiliated with Los Olvidados. Potter begins to grow concerned that the intel he had gotten from the safehouse may be fraudulent.
"Camazotz"Potter and Linares return to Miguel's house. Miguel, Alvarez and Emily step outside. Potter explains that he has a proposal for Miguel but he attempts to dismiss it saying he is fully booked today, Potter simply informs Miguel that he in fact doesn't have anything scheduled for the day. Sensing the threat, Miguel agrees. Alvarez says he will be coming too but Linares refuses.
Miguel, Linares and Potter cross the border. Potter tells Miguel a cryptic story about a women he used to be involved with, Miguel asks her name but sensing the lack of innocence in his question Potter simply ignores him.
"Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write"Potter makes his return to deliver a final crushing blow to Miguel. Miguel receives a phone call from Potter. Potter warns him that Palmono is dead, killed by Los Olvidados and the Galindo Cartel looks responsible due to their affiliation with the rebels. Miguel's property in both the US and Mexico have been seized and federal agents will be at his door in about 45 minutes. Miguel demands to know why Potter is telling him all of this and he just says that maybe he isn't ready to retire yet.
Potter returns to his house where his girlfriend, Sofia and son are. After leaving the government he seemingly returned to his family. Sofia sends him out to buy some food, he shops around and returns again, only to find that his family are nowhere to be found. Adelita reveals herself, saying that Potter's family hasn't been harmed and she would never allow his son to watch his father die like she had to. Potter becomes confused as Adelita tells Potter that she killed her son. Potter assures her that her son is alive and figures she must have spoken to Linares first. Adelita, remembering Linares' words doesn't want to believe Potter but what he is saying makes sense. Her son was the only leverage Potter had over her, why would he kill him. Potter turns it back on her saying that if he dies, she will never find her son.
"The Calling of Saint Matthew"Potter returns and confronts Adelita at Angel's house. He recounts Adelita's murder of Linares and her husband to get her child back. However, in this version, Adelita isn't involved in their death. This is, for the time being, the official result of an investigation into Linares' death. Potter makes clear there won't ...
“Lord Help My Poor Soul"Lincoln Potter does not appear in this episode but it revealed that elsewhere, Soledad, leader of the Lobos New Generation Cartel and Miguel have a tense meeting with Eduardo Villar-Fuentes to propose an alliance. Eduardo shocks them by acknowledging he knows Lincoln Potter is pulling their strings, adding that Miguel’s father also was in bed with the Americans. Miguel confirms Potter sent them but knows that as long as the cartels fight, the Americans will remain in control. Working together, they can free themselves from the DEA’s grip.
“Do You Hear the Rain"Patricia Devlin introduces herself to Potter as the Deputy Assistant Inspector General of the Division of Investigations, OIG San Diego field office. They’ve found serious irregularities in his accounting and want him to explain his numbers.
Potter waxes philosophical about the milk he’s drinking, slurping to punctuate his statement. Patricia asks him to get to the point while also accusing him of threatening her in his unique, folksy way. Potter apologizes for the way he came across and asks for more clarification on his missing receipts.
“I Want Nothing but Death”Potter is busy laying into Soledad and Miguel for having Eduardo murdered after he told them to make a peace treaty with him. Potter reminds them it’s all about reining in the chaos and killing Eduardo isn’t how you accomplish that.
Soledad insists Eduardo broke their deal first, and Potter realizes Miguel held back information. Potter informs Soledad that the Mayans hit the cookhouse, not Eduardo, but Miguel insists they don’t know for sure.
After Soledad stalks off, Potter reminds Miguel that he owns him. He can take everything away from him again if he steps out of line.
In FX’s crime drama serial Sons of Anarchy, there was this beloved character named Harry Winston, also known as Opie, who was played by Ryan Hurst. While Sons of Anarchy had a lot of violence and deaths, few deaths shocked the audience as Opie’s departure.
Ellie Winston. Kenny Winston. Nationality. American. Harry "Opie" Winston is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Ryan Hurst. [1] He is a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO) and the son of founder Piney and best friend of Jax since childhood.
3 days ago · It has almost been a full decade since the hit FX crime drama Sons of Anarchy came to an end. Surrounding the struggles of the motorcycle gang club SAMCRO and its young vice president, Jackson "Jax" Teller, the series tells the story of and the intense drama that unfolds around their gun-running operations and dealing with authorities, politicians, and even rival gang members.
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Jul 14, 2022 · We really hope you guessed "acting." Because Ryan Hurst has, indeed, kept his acting career going since Opie was so tragically killed off Sons of Anarchy. In fact, Hurst has been booking gigs left ...
Sep 26, 2012 · And while Jax adamantly refused to give up a Son, Opie made the tough call for him, forcing his way into an off-book prison melee that had only one possible outcome: his death, via several blows ...
