AThe Homeless Woman has appeared on Sons of Anarchy seven times. The first time is when Gemma approaches her and gives her some money during season 1. She appears again in the season 1 finale after Jax finds out that Tig and Clay were responsible for Donna's murder. Jax went on a bender and wound up falling asleep in the graveyard where his father is buried. When he wakes up, he gives the blanket he used back to the same homeless woman before going to Donna's funeral. In season 2, the homeless woman appears twice: once when Gemma was waiting for Unser outside of a church after Gemma had been raped. Gemma speaks to the homeless woman, asking if she knew her, to which the homeless woman replied, "Everyone knows me," and before that when Gemma is waiting outside the shrink's office, where the homeless woman is already there, as if waiting to see the shrink herself. When the shrink comes out to the waiting room, she calls Gemma, not even acknowledging that the homeless woman is there. In season 3, the homeless woman appears when Jax is in Belfast following the husband and wife who had adopted Abel. While Jax is following them, the husband is seen giving some money to a homeless person who is asleep on the ground. If one looks closely, it's the homeless woman from Charming. In season 4, the homeless woman appears once again when Jax, Tara and the boys are on a picnic trip quite a distance from Charming. Jax sees her right before an attempt is made to kidnap Tara. The homeless woman appears again in the finale of Season 5. Jax sees her "petting" a dog doll in a garbage bin and continues on his way with a confused look.In the sixth season, the Sons encounter a teenage girl named Brooke Putner. She approaches the ice cream parlor which the Sons have relocated to after the destruction of their clubhouse prompts them to give up gunrunning and become a legitimate business, and she begins hitting Tig's bike with a wrench before throwing the wrench at the window. Jax tracks her down and discovers that she hates the MC because her mother Emily was killed in the infamous pileup which caused John Teller's death. Jax visits Brooke's father Gary and discovers that they have recently lost their house. Jax sees a photo of Gary and Emily on their wedding day, and comments that she looks familiar. Jax later meets with Elliot Oswald and asks him to help Gary and Brooke keep their house. Oswald agrees as he is running for mayor and may need favors. Brooke later comes to the shop and thanks Jax for helping them keep the house, apologizing for her earlier behaviour. Jax gives her a job so that she can pay off the damages. As Brooke walks home, she passes the homeless woman who is rooting through a dumpster. The homeless woman looks up and stares longingly at Brooke as she goes, implying that she is in fact her mother Emily.In the penultimate episode, Gemma sees the homeless woman at a truck stop hours before her own death. In the finale, Jax runs into her outside a courthouse where she is eating bread and drinking wine. He is happy to see her, but when he asks her who she is she simply replies "It's time" and gives him her blanket. Jax hides under the blanket on the steps of the courthouse and ambushes August Marks when he emerges, killing him in retaliation for Bobby's murder. At the end of the episode, Jax dies in a similar manner to his father, and the last shot shows a puddle of his blood flowing towards a piece of bread similar to the one the homeless woman was eating.It is worth noting that the truck driver Milo approaches Gemma when she sees the homeless woman at the truck stop, and that he also drives the truck that Jax collides with when he dies.Kurt Sutter has received a ridiculous amount of fan questions during his WTFSutter video blog regarding the homeless woman. The first few times he answered the questions he simply said, "The homeless woman is who she is and represents what she represents." He further went on to say that he had no intention of explaining her for more than what the audience sees (so far at least) . He wants fans to make up their own interpretation of what she represents. Is she a guardian angel? Is she a ghost? Is she a mentally disturbed acquaintance of one of the characters? Is she just a homeless woman with a lot of frequent flier miles? To put it simply; the audience sees her for what she is. More recently Kurt Sutter has just started saying "The Homeless Woman is Jesus Christ," though he seems to be saying this sarcastically, likely because he is getting sick of answering the question.
AAs of season 5, it was finally revealed that if you're physically incapable of riding a motorcycle, you are forced to step down from any leadership position you might have and you will lose your privilege of voting in club business. Piney mentioned at one point that he rode his minimum simply to keep his voting privileges and he was shown to only be able to ride a three-wheeler yet was still allowed to vote.
