The Best Theories Around That ‘The Penguin’ Episode 6 Cliffhanger
So, who’s the most ruthless killer in The Penguin? Is it the waddling villain at the centre of it all, double-crossing everyone he works with and then bumping them off at the first chance he gets? Or is it our girl Sofia Gigante, cheerfully mass-murdering nearly all of her family in her epic revenge plot? Hard to say, but in episode six we both got to see a softer, unusually sentimental side to them both.
To recap: Sofia joined forces with her family’s sworn enemy, Sal Maroni, after Oz killed his wife and son. And while Sal is holed up as a fugitive at Sofia’s place, cooking up some mean meatballs while he’s there, Sofia – sporting a jazzy new mullet-and-diamonds lewk – is combing the streets to take out Oz.
Oz (Colin Farrell) has got his hands full with his mum, Frances (Deidre O’Connell), and her decline into Alzheimers and Parkinsons. In a moment of clarity, she begs him to kill her when it gets too bad and says that if he loves her, he would do it. It’s a totally heartbreaking scene; a mother-and-son discussion of euthanasia and assisted dying that would usually have no place in a superhero spin-off, but like the rest of the series, manages to skilfully weave human stories into the fantastical world of Gotham City.
Sofia (Cristin Milioti) is feeling equally emotionally moved, as she finally tracks down the person she thinks means most to Oz, his mistress Eve (Carmen Ejogo) and plans to murder her. However, when Eve talks about her “family” – the sex workers killed by Sofia’s dad, Carmine – and when she reveals that she led Sofia to her and was willing to die if it meant her girls could be protected, Sofia relents.
“Whatever I was born into,” she says sadly, of Eva’s bond with her family, “I’ll never have that.” She realises Eva is a mother figure to a group of women, and with Sofia losing her mother at an early age – also killed by her father – she has an attack of conscience and allows her to live. It’s one of the first times we’ve seen a softer side to Sofia (alongside sparing her cousin’s daughter, Gia) and how, unlike her dad, she wants to end the cycle of violence against women.
Witnessing the gentler sides to these two characters leaves us with a proper cliffhanger at the end of episode six, where Sofia is shown loitering with a gun at the edge of the flat, with Frances and Vic having a little dance in the foreground. Can Sofia kill another woman, an ailing mother, in cold blood, if it means destroying her mortal enemy? Here’s what we think could possibly go down:
Sofia kills Vic and lets Frances live
Shooting Oz’s right-hand man may not quite have the same impact as killing his mother, but it still sends a message: Oz is also dead meat when Sofia and/or Sal get hold of him.
Oz’s mum gets hold of the gun and shoots herself
Is there a tussle, and Frances gets hold of the gun and takes the chance to kill herself? Or does it play out more like…
Oz turns up, interrupts the scene, but allows Sofia to kill his mum
Oz clearly wants to be able to do for his mother what she’s begging him for, but in reality, he’s unlikely to be able to commit to this. Perhaps there’s a knowing glance between mum and son, and Oz lets Sofia shoot her, knowing it’s what she wanted, and her wish is finally being carried out – just not by him.
Sofia kills both Vic and Oz’s mum
Nope, it’s back into auto-pilot revenge killing for Sofia, and she guns down both Frances and Vic. No time for feelings in a turf war!
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