Half-Sack Epps

Kip Epps
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First appearance	Pilot (episode 1)
Created by	Kurt Sutter
Portrayed by	Johnny Lewis
In-universe information
Nickname	Half-Sack
Gender	Male
Occupation	Member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, mechanic, amateur boxer, former soldier
Spouse	Cherry
Nationality	American

Kip "Half-Sack" Epps is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Johnny Lewis. He is a prospective member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, which often results in hazing and him being given the unwanted tasks such as digging graves.

Biography

Kip Epps is in his 20s and is from Charming, California. He joined the United States Army and is a veteran of the Iraq War. He lost a testicle whilst serving in Iraq, prompting the nickname "Half-Sack". He was the junior lightweight champion of the armed forces boxing competition and is a surprisingly formidable fighter. After leaving the military, he joined the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and works as a mechanic at the Teller-Morrow auto shop. He is currently a prospective member and is yet to be voted in. He is a vegan.

Season One

To distract the police from their activities, Jax Teller, Chibs Telford, Juice Ortiz and Half-Sack acquired two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting is made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics, a local skinhead gang. On the way back to town, they were cut off on the road by a man driving a red muscle car. They later caught up with this man at a petrol station and beat him up. The driver then pulled out a pistol and attempted to shoot Jax, but was wrestled to the ground and then killed by the Pakistani shop keeper who hit him with a fire axe. They then stole the CCTV tapes and fled the scene.

While working at the auto shop one day, Half-Sack told Tig Trager that Clay Morrow's wife, Gemma, was a MILF. Unknown to him, however, Clay was in ear shot. Later on, at the Devil's Tribe's patch-over party, he met a woman named Cherry and the couple seemed to be in love. Clay pulled rank, as he is the club president, and slept with Cherry as revenge for earlier.

The club entered him into a bare-knuckle boxing competition to raise funds to buy weapons. During this time, he was trained by Chibs, who insisted that he has "no booze, no weed and no pussy". This meant that Cherry was taken away, by Bobby. Bobby tried to have sex with her at his house, but she refused his advances. At the competition, he reached the final but was then told to take a dive by Chibs and Tig because they betted on the opponent. He agreed, but then seen Clay and Cherry hugging at ring-side. This brought on a sudden surge of rage and he knocked his opponent out. He was then told that he owes the club $35,000.

In a bid to pay back the money, help the club and earn his patch, he stole an ambulance, which he planned to sell. The club dismissed this stunt as pointless and unnececarilly risky, however. The ambulance eventually did come to good use when Cameron Hayes of the True IRA was shot and wounded by the Mayans.

His girlfriend, Cherry, was arrested, but later broken out of jail. She was then smuggled into Canada by Happy.

After Piney Winston's daughter-in-law, Donna, was killed by the One-Niners (or so it seemed), he travelled to Oakland to get revenge. Jax sent Half-Sack to follow him and to stop him from doing anything unnessicary. However when they got to Oakland, Half-Sack was unable to stop him going into a Niners bar and starting a fight. It ended in a hostage situation, with Piney holding a Niner at gun-point. When Jax and Chibs later arrived and tried to stop Piney from causing any more trouble, Half-Sack grabbed the gun from him. They later held a meeting with Laroy, the Niners leader, who told them that it wasn't him or his gang who killed Donna. The season ended with Half-Sack and the rest of SAMCRO attending Donna's funeral.