After an explosive season 6 finale, "Sons of Anarchy" season 7 opens weeks before Tara's death. The last season's episode 'A Mother's Work' concluded with a bloody ending as the new season will center in Jax's mind and the mystery behind Tara's death.

Many SOA fans are speculating if juice will rat on Gemma, and how Jax's mother will play innocent to the murder. The death of Tara is the last straw to test Jax and his commitment to Samcro, and now that he lost his 'true north' Jax will be struggling to move on with his life.

Series creator Kurt Sutter knew from the start that Tara had to die and what's ahead for Jax and the rest of SamCro. 'I wanted to remove his 'True North,' because I feel like there needs to be this major psychic and emotional shift that has to happen. What direction it will push him in we will see next season,' says Sutter.

'But what happens to a guy like that now that he's lost both of the people he loves the most, who were able to be his moral compass, with Opie and now Tara,' he added.

When asked about the tragic death of her character, Maggie Siff (Tara Knowles-Teller) revealed how emotional she was during the season 7 finale.

'Watching it was really hard. Shooting it was really hard. Because the character ends, my experience of shooting it was really about feeling everything around me, which was Katey and Charlie -- and that was really painfully hard. The sense of loss is really [about] the people you leave behind -- and I was so aware of their loss. But it wasn't about me, it was about them. It was very surreal,' says Siff.

Sutter also reveals the future of Juice now that he and Gemma has a secret to protect. 'I don't think it was a calculated move on Juice's part [to save Gemma]; in the moment he did what was expected of him... But now the great thing is that we get this rich dynamic between the two of them. They were tied with the whole Clay of it all and now they're deeply tied with this secret... Now we have really something fun to play with,' explains Sutter.