The season opens with the arrival of a new threat in Charming, white separatists called the League of American Nationalists. LOAN's leader and backer, businessman Ethan Zobelle, and Zobelle's enforcer, A.J. Weston, seek to drive the Sons of Anarchy from Charming. To send a message to SAMCRO, Zobelle has Gemma kidnapped and gang raped by Weston and two others.