We could criss-cross the mythologies in a way I was good with, because it doesn’t impact the Sons mythology at all.
I wanted it to pay off and find out who that guy was, and plug that guy into the bigger mythology.
In the shaping of the season, I realized, “What if we intersect with the mythology that’s already there?”
In a previous episode, we saw they bought guns from the San Bernardino charter [of the Sons of Anarchy], so there was no direct conflict with Charming or with Redwood.