Spoiler alert! This story contains significant details from Tuesday’s finale of Sons of Anarchy (sort of like that collector’s edition book that was mistakenly delivered a few days before the episode ran).

Jax took one intense final ride Tuesday as FX’s Sons of Anarchy closed a wild, seven-season run with a characteristic finale: bloody, teary and long (just under two hours, counting commercials).

After killing his mother last week, Charlie Hunnam’s motorcycle club president cleaned up some loose ends (i.e., killed people) before riding off, but not exactly into the sunset.

Here are the most memorable moments from the episode:

The cemetery visit.

With the cavalcade of casualties on this show, a graveside visit could take a full season. However, Jax focuses on two important people, leaving his Sons rings for riding buddy Opie and his wedding ring for his murdered wife, Tara.

Jax confesses (twice).

In a sitdown with the prosecutor (the always excellent CCH Pounder), Jax lays out the trail of death that resulted from his mother’s murder of his wife, Tara, and the former’s resulting lie. Earlier, he makes a more momentous admission: “I’m not a good man. I’m a criminal.”

The to-do list.

Before riding off to meet his destiny, Jax has a lot of business to conduct. First, he breaks the SAMCRO race barrier, getting motorcycle club members to admit the first African-American member.

After that forward-thinking deed, Jax returns to more routine matters. Kill turncoat Barosky. Check. Kill rival gang boss August Marks (with an assist from that homeless woman who appears to be the same lady who died in the crash that killed Jax’s father – and perhaps the angel of death). Check. Kill a bunch of Irish guys. Check. Reload.

The long goodbye.

Tuesday’s finale features lots of hugging and crying: Jax and Nero; Jax and his SAMCRO buddies after playing out “Meeting Mr. Mayhem” (not the guy from the Allstate commercials); and, perhaps most memorably, Jax and his sons. After Jax tells Nero he wants his sons to grow up “hating the thought of me,” his older boy, Abel (who will need about 10 lifetimes of therapy), breaks his heart: “I love you, Daddy.”

Sins of the father – and the son.

In Sons‘ creator Kurt Sutter’s ongoing nod to Hamlet, Jax [one_fourth]

[/one_fourth][three_fourth_last] saves his last conversation for his long-dead father, John “JT” Teller, at the spot where the latter died two decades earlier after colliding with a tractor-trailer. “A good father and a good outlaw can’t saddle inside the same man,” Jax says, promising that his two sons “will never know this life of chaos.”

Jax caps this generational saga with his own goodbye – “I love you, Dad” – before firing a few shots at a cop and driving away. (If the tears don’t get you, the bullets will.)

The last ride.

As Shakespeare wrote: “What’s past is prologue.” Jax and Sons drive into history with one last chase, a trail of pursuing police cars looking like something out of a Burt Reynolds film. But this biker won’t be caught (no Seinfeld trial here, folks). He chooses suicide by truck, driving head-on into a Papa’s Goods (the finale title) tractor-trailer driven by Milo (Michael Chiklis of The Shield, a show Sutter worked on that had one of TV’s best finales).

The end: Some crows, some blood and a final Hamlet quote that ends: “But never doubt I love.”