Pay Phone is the first of four Appisodes. Taking place on the 26th day of Jax Teller's incarceration, Jax is waiting in a line to use the telephone. A Russian inmate, Ivo Alexei, comes from the back of the line and stabs Jax multiple times with a shiv. The line clears out and Jax is left bleeding out onto the floor. This is the cause for the murder of the Russians in the premiere of the Season 4.

Clay makes a deal with the Mayans that won't be easy to sell to the club, and the Russians aren't exactly in his corner, either. Meanwhile, Gemma worries about what Jax might have learned about her past when he was in Belfast, and the new sheriff, Eli Roosevelt (Rockmond Dunbar), makes his presence felt at SAMCRO's clubhouse.