By the end of The Penguin Episode 8, Oz has everything he wants; in his words, he’s “the f**kin king” – but heavy hangs the head that wears the crown, and that power comes with a huge price. In the penultimate episode of The Penguin, the rug was pulled from underneath Oz’s clubfoot: Sofia abducted his mother Francis, taunted her over Oz murdering his brothers , and in the closing minutes, one of her footsoldiers drove a car bomb into his underground Bliss operation and left a huge crater in Gotham’s streets. With no mention of Batman (sorry Robert Pattinson fans) , things didn’t look good going into the finale.
It opens with Francis stumbling through her memories, remembering how she nearly had Rex Calabrese (Oz’s childhood hero) kill him – until she decided to raise his inner monster to build a better life for herself. Meanwhile, Oz wakes up in front of Francis, Dr Julian Rush (who could still be a secret Batman villain) , and Sofia – and even when it goes wrong, he still emerges happy(ish) on the other side. Is Victor dead at the end of The Penguin? Victor could be dead.
After all, Oz strangled him to death and left his John Doe corpse on the side of the river. Or, he could become this universe’s version of Victor Zsasz . Let’s deal with exactly what happened to poor Vic.
After Sofia puts an attractive bounty on Oz’s head (her entire empire for whoever found him first), Link reaches out to Vic. Soon after, Link finds Oz and tells him to get in the .