[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Penguin Season 1, Episode 8, “A Great or Little Thing.”] The Penguin has come to a close and while it shut the curtain for some characters, it also set up potential moving forward in The Batman universe for others. In the finale installment, “A Great or Little Thing,” the action picks back up in the past as Francis ( Deirdre O’Connell ) revisits a pivotal night in her memory where she was initially going to allow neighborhood mob boss Rex Calabrese ( Louis Cancelmi ) to kill her only remaining son after she came to the realization following the discovery of her two other sons in the sewers of Gotham.
While she was close to letting the hit on her only living son go through, she decided against it, using Oz ( Colin Farrell ) to propel herself in status as he climbed the mob ladder, eventually finding footing with the Falcones as viewers know. When the episode catches up to the present, Oz awakens to find himself tied up in the old club he almost spent his last night in all those years ago as a kid with his mother also tied up by Sofia ( Cristin Milioti ) and her men, among which are Dr. Rush ( Theo Rossi ).
There is a tense standoff as Sofia pushes for Oz to admit to his responsibility for his brothers’ deaths, but he is so resistant to telling the truth, that Oz almost allows his mother’s finger to be cut off. Angered, Francis calls out her son, and charges at Oz with a broken bottle, stabbing him in the gut. Bu.
