The Penguin
Season 1 – Episode 8
Episode title: A Great or Little Thing
Original air date: November 11, 2024
Plot: Using EMDR therapy, Rush learns that Francis already knew about Oz drowning his brothers and tried to have him killed but could not bring herself to do it. Oz is brought to Sofia, who makes Francis confess the truth. Oz refuses to admit his actions even as Rush tortures Francis, causing her to disown him before suffering a stroke. Oz escapes, kills the detective, and brings Francis to the hospital. Meanwhile, the local bosses abandon Oz for Sofia, who puts out a bounty for Oz as she prepares to leave Gotham. Vic arranges for the bosses to be murdered by their deputies, who help Oz abduct Sofia. Instead of killing her, Oz has his police contacts return her to Arkham. Oz and Vic visit Francis to celebrate, only to learn that she entered a vegetative state, causing Oz to break down. Oz then murders Vic, saying that family makes people weak. Meanwhile, Rush, who has returned to Arkham to care for Sofia, hands her a letter from her half-sister, Selina Kyle. Oz takes the vegetative Francis to a new penthouse suite, where he dances with Eve dressed as Francis, as the Bat-Signal shines in the sky.
* * *
[somber music playing]
[Julian] Francis.
It’s painful, I know, but try to remember.
[ominous music]
[Julian] Go back to that time.
[rumbling]
[Julian] Go back.
[door buzzer buzzing]
[somber music playing]
[buzzing continues]
[buzzing continues]
[Rex] Fran, it’s me.
Fran?
It’s me.
Come on, doll. Open up.
[clock ticking]
[liquid pouring]
[clattering]
[Rex] You getting any sleep?
[clock chiming]
[liquid pouring]
[Rex] They were good boys.
It might do you some good to get out of the house.
I’m worried about you, Fran.
And I wish you’d let me pay for their funeral.
Give Jack and Benny a nice send-off.
I could talk to Father Vincent.
I’m sure…
Why?
So people can shove tissues in my face
and tell me it was God’s will?
I don’t need a public display to mourn my boys.
Oz has been coming around the store a lot lately.
Says you won’t speak to him and barely look him in the eye.
Oswald has always been so goddamn needy.
I’d made peace with it. I did.
That he was different.
But now, what he’s done, I can’t.
[inhales shakily]
What’s he done?
Fran?
[clattering, thud]
[sniffs] I found this in his coat.
I don’t…
He was with ’em, Rex.
He lied to me.
He came home,
actin’ all sad,
like he was the victim,
but he knew.
My babies were drowning in those tunnels,
and he didn’t say a goddamn word.
He had every chance, every goddamn chance,
to say somethin’, to do somethin’,
anything, to stop it.
He’s a kid.
He locked them inside.
The room where they found them, the cops told me,
they had to pry the fuckin’ door open to reach ’em.
[crying] If I had known, if he had just…
I coulda saved ’em.
They’d be here with me right now.
[breathing shakily]
But Oswald didn’t want that. No. This is what he wanted.
Me. [sniffs] All to himself.
[Francis swallows hard]
I got the devil in my house, Rex.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
There are a couple different ways
to handle this type of situation.
If Oz is what you say,
well, guys like him,
they can serve a purpose,
go on to do big fuckin’ things,
especially in my line of work.
But you gotta know how to control them.
Mostly, guys that come to me say they’re lookin’ to make money.
Now, that’s fine.
But greed don’t buy loyalty.
I want loyalty,
I bring in guys who are lookin’ for a father.
Guys like that got a void to fill.
They’ll do anything for me.
Now, Oswald…
he don’t need a father.
He’s got you.
[Francis] Hmm.
He’s devoted to you.
You can use that.
Foster what he’s got, embrace it, raise it.
Maybe he’d be great.
Or maybe not. I don’t know. [chuckles]
You have to bet on him to see.
You want me to look the other way?
Ignore what he’s done?
What kind of mother would I be…
if I…
I can’t.
Well then, maybe let him go.
By “let him go,” you mean…
[sniffs]
You’d be willin’ to help me with somethin’ like that?
[suspenseful music playing]
[knock on door]
[music ends]
[young Oz] Ma?
I got dinner for ya.
[tray clinks on floor]
You’re up.
Get dressed.
We’re goin’ out.
Go on. Your suit.
♪ There may be trouble ahead ♪
♪ But while there’s moonlight and music ♪
♪ And love and romance ♪
♪ Let’s face the music and dance ♪
♪ Before the fiddlers have fled ♪
Ma, look who’s here.
♪ Before they ask us to pay the bill… ♪
Yeah, sweetheart.
Rex is gonna drive you home later.
Really?
Really.
I know I been absent lately,
so I wanted to make tonight extra special.
I know you miss ’em, Ma.
I do too.
♪ And then ♪
♪ There may be teardrops to shed ♪
[song fades]
[ominous music playing]
[Francis] No, wait.
[Julian] Everything’s all right.
Francis.
[Francis] Wait. What are you…
Let’s just try and stay in the moment, okay?
Huh?
[Julian] You’re with Oswald, your son.
[Francis] Hmm.
[Julian] You took him to the jazz club, Monroe’s.
Go with it.
[mumbles]
I did…
That’s right.
[young Oz] Ma?
[jazz music resumes]
[young Oz] Ma?
I’m gonna take care of you, Ma.
You know that, right?
You’ve been workin’ so hard for the three of us.
It’s gonna be easier now.
I’ll get a job.
And I got all kinds of ideas
on how to make cash on the side, too.
Yeah, you sound like your father.
That ain’t true.
I mean what I say.
What do you want?
Tell me, and I’ll get it.
[Francis] What do I want?
You got it all figured out, don’t you?
Look at you.
Your balls have barely dropped,
and you’re gonna take care of me?
Of course I’m gonna take care of you.
I’d do anything for you.
I see you, Ma.
In ways that other people don’t.
I see the way you smile when you want people to think
you’re enjoying somethin’ you ain’t.
I see how you smoke more when you’re thinkin’,
and you drink more when you’re sad.
I see how hard you work,
how smart you are…
and how you wish the people who matter would notice…
or the people like that wouldn’t matter at all.
No one else believes in you like me.
No one else is gonna give you what you deserve.
I’m gonna get you out of the Eastside, Ma.
Put you up somewhere real nice.
Better than what we got now.
Yeah, better’s easy than where we are.
The best then.
On the top floor, in a penthouse, like you want,
with a view of the whole friggin’ city.
I’ll get you expensive clothes and-and jewelry.
Nice shit, too.
The kind where people see you on the street and think,
“She’s important.”
And if you don’t believe me,
well, you don’t gotta.
‘Cause I’m gonna prove it to ya.
Every damn day.
[crowd applauding]
Just…
♪ Please tell me… ♪
Just don’t give up on me.
♪ How much you care… ♪
Come on, Ma.
♪ Before we say ♪
Dance with me.
[ominous music playing]
♪ Goodnight, my dear ♪
[suspenseful music playing]
[Victor] Left here. Left here.
[tires screech]
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
[Link] What is that?
[tires screech]
[sirens wailing]
[people clamoring]
[Victor] Oh, my God.
Fuck. Oz.
Hey, he could be hurt. We gotta get down there.
Oz is probably dead.
Gonna be crawling with cops.
You don’t know that, all right? We gotta check. Let’s go.
Your friend has put us in a dangerous position.
[speaks Mandarin]
[man] Let’s get outta here.
Wait. Wait. That’s it?
We’re here for the product, not the Penguin.
[tuts]
Wow. You’re all a bunch
of fucking cowards, you know that?
What did you say?
What the hell do you even stand for?
What, are you gonna let the Maronis and Gigantes do
whatever they fuckin’ want?
[dramatic music playing]
This is my neighborhood!
Look at it!
The whole world, they treat us like-like we don’t matter,
like we’re fuckin’ nothin’. Are you just gonna run away now?
That’s bullshit! [grunts]
Watch what you say.
You gotta know your place, or you’re gonna catch a bullet.
Then you really don’t matter.
[man] Let’s go.
[car doors opening]
[panting]
[whimpering]
[car doors closing]
[engines starting]
[people clamoring]
[police officer] I need you to step back.
[crowd shouting indistinctly]
[woman screaming]
[police officer] Stand back! Move it!
Go back to your homes!
[man] What homes?
[police officer 2] Stand back! It’s not safe!
[dramatic music continues]
[police officer] Can’t go in there.
[Zeke] Victor!
Victor!
Zeke.
Hey, man, what happened? Where’s Oz?
Sofia… [breathing raggedly] She blew it all up.
What about Oz? Did he get out?
[music fades out]
[scraping]
[tape peeling]
[click]
[tape peeling]
[scraping]
[tape peeling]
[muffled grunting]
[Julian] It’s time to wake up.
[click]
[muffled grunt]
[Julian sighs]
[muffled grunting]
[thud]
[grunts]
Oz?
[muffled grunting]
It’s been a minute.
[muffled grunting]
[muffled screaming]
[muffled screaming]
[muffled screaming]
[muffled groaning]
[Francis grunting]
You know, when Berto and I were kids,
we found this nest out by the greenhouse
with two baby birds inside.
[muffled shouting]
One of the birds was bigger than the other one…
stronger.
And the mama bird gave it more food.
[muffled shouting]
And I got nervous for the smaller bird.
[muffled shouting]
It was so weak and frail, you know?
[muffled shouting]
I… I thought it was going to die.
But then one morning,
when the mama bird was away,
the smaller bird…
viciously attacked the bigger bird…
[tense music playing]
…and killed it.
And then it just pushed its brother out of the nest.
It was the most disturbing thing I had ever seen.
At least… at the time.
Can you imagine?
Doing something so terrible to your own brother?
But that’s not even the wildest part.
When the mama bird came back
and saw that one of her babies was missing,
guess what she did.
Nothing.
Instead of punishing the smaller bird,
she kept feeding it, caring for it
as if nothing even happened.
[Francis exhales shakily]
[Sofia] Do you think the mother knew, Oz…
[Francis groans]
[Sofia]…what her baby did?
Francis, what do you think?
[Francis grunts]
[muffled shouting]
Should we find out?
[muffled shouting]
Whaddya say?
Share some hard truths?
It might bring about some healing.
[muffled grunt]
Oz?
[muffled grunting]
Would you like to start?
[Oz grunts]
You fuckin’ psycho!
What is this shit?
Talkin’ about birds!
Jesus Christ!
You don’t like my story?
Ma! Ma, look at me!
I’m gonna get you outta here. I swear to God, Ma.
I swear to God I’m gonna get you outta here.
Oz… you’re right.
Ma!
It was a stupid story.
And you have the better one anyway.
So…
tell us what happened.
What are you talkin’… What happened when?
Tell us why you left your brothers to die
in those tunnels.
What the hell are you talkin’ about?
Why did you tell your mom you weren’t with them?
Why did you lie to her?
What the hell are you talkin’ about?!
[Sofia] Stop pretending.
She knows. I know.
We all know what you did.
You done somethin’ to her.
What the fuck did you do to her?!
You act like you tell her everything.
And she acts like she believes you. Why?
[grunts]
Why are you both so afraid of the truth?
Ma!
[Sofia] It’s so sick.
[Oz] Ma!
It’s almost as sick
as you asking that man to kill your son.
[breathing shakily]
Rex, right? Was that his name?
What kind of weird fuckin’ games are you tryin’ to play?
[feebly] Shut up. Shut up. Just shut up.
Your last night together was going to be here,
at this club.
Right, Francis? Am I right?
Was it over there? Where you two danced?
Is that where Oz made you his promise?
God damn it, stop.
I just wanna know.
Was it worth it?
[Francis] Fuck you.
Did he give you everything that you wanted?
Did he fulfill his promise?
Fuck you. Fuck you.
[Oz] Ma.
Ma.
Or do you wish you would’ve let Rex
take him for that ride?
What did you lose by keeping him alive?
I know what I lost…
what he took from me.
He deserves to know what he did to you,
how you feel about him,
and how… how angry you are.
Tell him.
Tell him.
Yeah.
[menacing music playing]
Fine.
Julian.
[Oz] What the fuck?
What are you doin’?
Stay away from her!
Ma! Don’t fuckin’ touch her!
Don’t you fuckin’ touch her! Don’t fuckin’ touch her!
[Francis] No! No!
Oz, was it my brother’s right
or left pinky that you chopped off?
Jesus, no, Sofia!
It was the right.
Hey! Don’t fuckin’ touch her!
Oswald!
[Oz] Don’t fuckin’ do it!
[Francis screaming]
[Oz screams]
Oz! [screaming]
No! Jesus!
[Sofia] Here’s the thing.
Just because somebody knows something,
doesn’t mean that they don’t need to hear it
from the person who hurt them.
Don’t. Sofia, don’t.
I will never get that from my father.
But I’m offering you the opportunity
to give it to your mother.
[Francis screaming] No!
She deserves the best.
[screaming]
[Sofia] Doesn’t she?
[Francis] No! No!
Oz, doesn’t she?
So give her your best.
Sofia, don’t fuckin’ do it!
Just don’t do it! She did nothin’.
It’s very simple.
All you have to do is tell the truth.
Tell her what you did to your brothers,
and tell her why,
and then we can all take a breath.
This is fuckin’ insane!
[Francis wails]
I already told ya, I didn’t do fuckin’ shit.
I don’t know what you’re fuckin’ talkin’ about.
[Francis shrieking] Oz!
[Oz] Don’t! God damn it, don’t!
I did nothin’! I wasn’t even there!
She knows that. Stop!
Admit it.
I wasn’t even with ’em. I didn’t do shit.
What is wrong with you?
She knows. Ma!
Just tell her for her sake.
Tell her I was with you.
It’s my fuckin’ finger, you spineless prick!
I was with you.
Jesus, just say it. Tell her.
I already fuckin’ know.
[music ends abruptly]
[breathing heavily]
I know what you did to Jack and Benny.
I always known.
Lies.
You’re gettin’ things confused.
It’s just your disease talkin’, Ma.
Fuck you!
I hate you. I hate you for what you did.
I never stopped hating you.
[Francis breathing heavily]
[Sofia] That’s enough.
[Francis pants]
[gasping]
You woulda let me cut it off, huh?
You woulda let me do it.
Because you don’t care about her.
Fuck you.
You don’t.
Not enough.
Not like you say.
You don’t feel a fuckin’ thing.
[Francis, feebly] Oswald.
I had enough to give, Oswald.
I had enough to give all three of you.
You didn’t have to leave ’em down there.
You didn’t have to take ’em from me.
They were my babies.
My world.
Your brothers.
You’re a disappointment.
You’re a waste of space.
I wake up every goddamn day sick that I’m your mother.
[sniffs] She’s right.
She’s fuckin’ right.
I shoulda let Rex kill ya when I had the chance.
[glass shatters]
[Francis shouts]
[Oz grunting]
You’re the devil.
[Oz gasping]
You’re the goddamn devil.
[Oz gasps, grunts]
[grunts]
[shakily] Ma.
[gasps]
[rain pouring]
[thunder rumbling]
♪ There may be teardrops to shed ♪
[glass shatters]
Jack?
♪ So while there’s moonlight ♪
[Oz grunting]
Benny.
♪ And love and romance… ♪
My babies.
[water dripping]
I’m sorry.
[Oz] Ma.
[mutters] I’m sor…
[Francis mutters]
I’m…
Ma!
Ma!
[snapping]
[Sofia] Stop him!
[dramatic music playing]
[gunfire]
[shouts]
[gunfire]
[bullet ricochets]
Ma!
[gunfire]
Come on. I got you. I got you.
[gunfire]
[upbeat song playing]
♪ My love, I’m sending… ♪
Ah!
[gunshot]
[menacing music playing]
[Oz grunts]
You’re gonna be all right.
[tires screech]
[gunshot]
[tires screech]
[horn honks]
She just fell. She just hit her head.
She’s not making sense.
She’s got this condition, Lewy body,
dementia-type thing.
Ma, you’re gonna be all right. You hear me?
Stay in the waiting room. We’ll find you.
Gonna be able to fix her, right?
We’ll do everything we can, sir.
Just stay nearby.
[indistinct announcement over PA]
[newscaster] GC1 is live at the scene
of chaos in downtown Gotham.
Rescue workers pull bodies from the rubble
as authorities continue to search for the cause
of a deadly explosion in Crown Point.
[newscast continues indistinctly]
[Oz winces]
[ominous music playing]
[Oz grunts]
[Victor] Oz, it’s me again. I’m worried, all right?
Just call me back. Please call me back.
[sighs]
[phone vibrating]
[Oz] Kid, where the hell are ya?
Oz!
[groans]
[grunts]
Fuck. [sighs]
[breathing shakily]
[grunting]
[stapler clicks]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[stapler clicks]
[Victor] Oz?
In here. Shut the door, kid.
[door closes]
Holy shit!
[stapler clicks]
What happened? Are you okay?
Yeah.
Sofia, you know, she stabbed me.
She fucked with my ma too.
Wh-wh-what did she do to her?
Just, uh, pass me one of those, um…
yeah, patch, bandage thing.
[grunts, pants] Fuck.
[wincing]
[plastic rustling]
[Oz grunting]
Your mom, is she all right?
Yeah, she will be.
[grunts]
[Victor] I’m sorry, Oz.
I-I-I got there too late.
I tried the gangs. I tried to…
m-m-make ’em see,
but they… they just left.
It ain’t you, Vic.
It ain’t you.
Just the way it is.
I got nothin’ left to offer ’em, so…
That’s not true.
No. You’re wrong.
Oz, it’s not just about the… th-the drugs
or-or the money.
I mean, that’s… that’s part of it, sure, but…
I mean, guys like Link,
h-he believes in you.
Link?
Yes.
[Oz laughs]
Link’s a fuckin’ deputy, kid.
Can’t do shit without the Dai Lo.
God damn it, Oz, listen to me!
You gave people jobs in Crown Point.
You got the power back on.
Yeah.
Nobody did that.
All right? Nobody else did that. Nobody even tried.
You gave people dignity. [beats chest]
Bliss? That’s bigger than Bliss. All right? So…
[claps hands]
G-get the hell up. Let’s go.
Get your shit together and, uh…
you know…
be you.
[breathing heavily]
Y-you, uh…
You practiced that, huh?
Shut up.
No, no, it’s good. It’s good.
You gotta project more, you know, from your gut.
[chuckles]
All right, let’s get the fuck outta here. Help me up.
[Oz grunts]
All right.
[grunts] Sofia’s gonna be expectin’ a brawl.
So we’re gonna come at her sideways, all right?
What about your mom?
[spluttering] She’ll never look at me again, all right?
Unless I get this done.
Got a promise to keep.
[indistinct chatter]
[crowd falls silent]
Thank you for making the trip across the bridge.
I know it’s a hike.
[bottle thuds]
This was my father’s home. And as you can imagine,
a lot of… terrible shit happened here.
Now…
[bottle thuds]
What I wanna know is…
[munching]
Who wants it?
[Sofia swishes liquid, swallows]
I don’t think we’re quite clear on what you’re offering.
I’m leaving Gotham,
Mr. Zhao.
There’s nothing left for me here.
But my home,
my territories,
my businesses…
can all be yours.
Well, not all of yours.
Whichever one of you brings me Oz first.
[chuckling]
He’s dead.
He’s not.
I’m gonna make this very simple.
Whoever finds Oz first
can have all the means to control Gotham…
for as long as they can hold onto it.
This isn’t real.
[dramatic music playing]
Right?
You want us to believe you’re gonna walk away from…
all of this?
Why would you do that?
Because I can.
[glass thuds on table]
[tuts] So, who wants it?
All right, you stay put. Don’t do anything
that might call attention to yourself, all right?
We may have to get out of here real quick.
Yeah.
Here, put the gun in the glove.
[Oz grunts]
All right, how do I look?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah, you look… It’s good.
No blood, so…
Yeah, good.
Lookin’ the part’s only half the thing, you know.
[Victor] Mmm.
All right.
Into the fuckin’ lion’s den.
[Oz breathing heavily]
[phone vibrating]
Link?
Victor.
You with Oz?
[Victor] Um…
[Link] I know he’s alive.
Sofia just put a bounty on his head.
Listen, you were right.
We gotta do something.
But we gotta do it fast.
Come on. Tell me where you at.
[door opens]
[door thuds shut]
[footsteps echoing]
Jesus Christ.
What the fuck, Oswald?
I did what you asked.
If anybody sees me in here with you, I’m…
[gavel bangs loudly]
[chuckles] Fuck.
It works.
You, uh…
come a little closer, Councilman?
Nice acoustics in here,
but, you know, I prefer not to shout.
Come on. I don’t bite.
There you go.
Listen, I never got the chance to thank you for helping me out.
Crown Point’s prettier with lights.
But they’re, uh…
They’re pullin’ bodies out of the rubble down there now.
It’s fuckin’ tragic.
People are pointin’ fingers, you know.
I mean, I guess most of the fingers
are gonna be pointed at City Hall.
“Fuck the man.” You know, that kinda shit.
And if the voters want answers,
sure would be nice to have some, right?
Answers?
Yeah.
Like what kind of answers?
Answers like the truth.
Sofia Falcone, she sent a car full of explosives
into the tunnels under the city.
[Hady] Mm-hmm.
The damn thing went boom.
And why would she do that?
Because…
that hole in the ground used to be
the biggest drug lab in Gotham.
Run by a real smart motherfucker, too.
Salvatore Maroni.
He’s pushin’ a new street drug called Bliss.
And you know all this how?
Listen, I try to stay out of these kinds of things,
all right? But the headline is:
it’s the same old war.
The Maronis and Falcones rippin’ each other off.
The Maronis kill Sofia’s brother.
She goes full psycho.
She burns Sal’s wife and son to a crisp,
blows up his entire fuckin’ operation.
I mean, what a girl! I gotta give her some credit.
That’s quite a story.
Yeah.
Is any of it true?
Yeah, it’s fuckin’ true.
When the cops dig in that hole,
you know what they’re gonna find?
They’re gonna find little pieces of Sofia’s G-Wagen
and a bunch of dead Falcones and Maronis…
including Salvatore himself.
It is what it looks like.
You know that…
your line of work.
And this looks like
an unhinged, angry broad got out of the loony bin
and went on a fuckin’ killing spree.
But, Councilman, look, you got an opportunity here
to give the people someone to hate…
and…
someone to love.
Sebastian Hady, that’s the guy
who turned the lights back on in Crown Point…
restored people’s dignity,
locked up the last Falcone, ended a fuckin’ drug war
that’s plagued these city streets for decades.
How does that sound?
Sounds nice.
Nice? [chuckles] You fuckin’ piece of shit.
That’s the kind of win that you can ride
all the way to the top, Councilman.
And in return?
In return…
Mmm.
Might be good to feel welcome in a place like this
for a change.
You know, meet some of those friends you got.
Hell, maybe, uh…
one of these days, we’ll bump into Bella Reál.
You know?
[Hady chuckles]
[ominous music playing]
You’re gonna have some trouble, Oz.
Reál, she’s forming a commission, anti-corruption.
They’re going after cops, city officials.
Good.
And they have a list
of Carmine’s associates.
They’re gonna subpoena you.
You wanna be welcome?
You gotta look…
clean.
As a fuckin’ whistle…
pal.
[Hady chuckles]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[music continues]
[indistinct conversation]
[man] Mayor-Elect, what can you tell us on Crown Point?
[Reál] Coordinating with GCPD. All hospitals triaging.
We’re still searching for survivors,
but we need more resources.
Okay.
[Reál] I’m relying on it.
[conversation continues indistinctly]
[tense music playing]
[music fades out]
[Link] Oz.
The fuck’s this?
[menacing music plays]
Get in.
[eerie, menacing music playing]
[sentimental music plays]
[phone vibrating]
Mr. Zhao.
[Zhao] I have Oz.
[menacing music plays]
Fuckin’ relax, Jesus!
Come on.
Should we bring him to the house?
Uh, I’m actually…
packing up the last of my things.
Why don’t I meet you at Goodwin International?
Hangar five.
[breathes shakily]
Congratulations, Mr. Zhao.
[Zhao chuckles] And to you.
[Sofia breathing shakily]
[“Where Did You Sleep Last Night” by Sleigh Bells playing]
[alcohol splashing]
♪ My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me ♪
♪ Tell me, where did you sleep last night? ♪
♪ In the pines, in the pines ♪
♪ Where the sun don’t ever shine ♪
♪ I would shiver the whole night through ♪
[fire whooshes]
♪ My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me ♪
♪ Tell me, where did you sleep last night? ♪
♪ In the pines, in the pines ♪
♪ Where the sun don’t ever shine ♪
♪ I would shiver the whole night through ♪
♪ My girl, my girl, where will you go? ♪
♪ I’m going where the cold wind blows ♪
[bottle shatters]
♪ In the pines, in the pines ♪
♪ Where the sun don’t ever shine ♪
♪ I would shiver the whole night through ♪
[alcohol splashing]
[bottle shatters]
♪ In the pines, in the pines ♪
♪ Where the sun don’t ever shine ♪
♪ I would shiver the whole night through ♪
♪ My girl, my girl, where will you go? ♪
♪ I’m going where the cold wind blows ♪
♪ In the pines, in the pines ♪
♪ Where the sun don’t ever shine ♪
♪ I would shiver the whole night through ♪
[song ends]
[glass shattering, explosions inside house]
[Enzo] Ma’am.
[glass shattering, explosions continue]
[somber music playing]
[engines revving]
[somber music continues]
[Oz breathing heavily]
[car door closing]
[aircraft flying overhead]
[car door closes]
Thank you, Mr. Zhao.
Will you, uh, end things here
or drop him over the Atlantic?
See if the Penguin can fly?
[laughs]
[menacing music playing]
Zhao…
[guns firing]
[bodyguard grunts]
[gun cocks]
[Sofia panting]
Hand it over.
Slow.
[Enzo moaning]
What do ya say you and me go for a drive?
[“O mio babbino caro” playing]
Just like old times, huh?
Were you goin’ somewhere?
I was hoping to.
What did you say to get Link to turn?
I’m sure you…
promised him something.
Yeah, yeah. What you and the Dai Lo never would.
A shot.
A chance to be somebody.
Link was tired of being overlooked.
He ain’t the only one neither.
[grunting]
[Oz] Years of being brushed aside,
laughed at, told to eat shit and fuckin’ like it.
It breaks ya.
Makes ya wanna break somebody else.
[grunts]
[grunts]
[body thuds]
[wet thudding]
Figured you woulda understood that, you know,
considerin’…
But you… you and your kind,
you’re so busy fillin’ your own fuckin’ plate.
You don’t see that everyone around you is starvin’.
You got no idea what it feels like,
born into nothin’.
[gunshot]
[Oz] Havin’ to smile at the person
whose boot’s on your neck.
[grunts]
[sword slices]
[Oz] Hopin’ one day, they’ll look down,
see ya there, and just let up.
[wet gurgling]
You know what people’ll do to push that down?
They’ll do fuckin’ anything.
Anything to push down that feeling.
You think I don’t understand that?
[Oz scoffs]
Right.
[snorts] It doesn’t matter.
[chuckles wryly]
Oswald Cobb…
man of the people.
That’s right.
That’s what you need to believe, huh?
Here we are.
[“O mio babbino caro” ends]
You don’t wanna put your gun to my back…
make a big show of it?
Nah. You ain’t the type to run.
[Sofia chuckles wryly]
How’s your mom?
Has she told you she loves you yet?
Turn around.
You were right.
I didn’t see you.
But she did.
She knew it from the very beginning.
You have always been a monster.
You’re never gonna find peace, you know that?
A sick fuck like you.
You’re going to hell…
sweetheart.
[tense music playing]
I’ll save you a seat.
[gun cocks]
[Sofia exhales]
[music intensifies]
[helicopter blades whirring]
[music fades]
[sirens approaching]
[dramatic music playing]
[sirens blaring]
[Bock] On the ground!
Hands behind your back.
Now!
[handcuffs jangle]
[Bock] Get her up.
[dramatic music continues]
There she is. You all right, Ma?
[indistinct newscast on TV]
Get some cups.
Snuck you in a little whiskey to celebrate.
Fuckin’ did it, Ma.
Fuckin’ beautiful.
This is what I’m talkin’ about. Look.
…to the crooked politics that have allowed wealthy elites like Sofia Falcone to wreak havoc…
[Oz] This is all me.
…on the hardworking people…
I fed him this bullshit.
Look at him spittin’ it out, Ma.
What do you think?
What do you…
What do you think?
Ma?
Thank you, Councilman Hady, for your…
Ma? …continued service.
Ma.
Ma, look at me.
Ma, look at me.
Ma.
Ma.
[Victor] Oz…
Jesus fuck!
Help… Vic, she needs some help. Get somebody in here.
Get a doctor in here. Get a doctor!
Ma, Ma, Ma, look at me.
[Victor] We need some help here. Please!
Hey, come here. Look at me, Ma.
[Victor] Hey, hey! Help!
Look at me, sweetheart.
Ma. Come on.
[nurse] Sir?
There’s somethin’ wrong. You gotta help.
We’ve been looking for you
but didn’t know how to reach you.
Why aren’t her eyes fuckin’ movin’?
[nurse sighs]
Your mother has suffered a serious stroke.
What?
[nurse] I’m so sorry.
What… what’s goin’ on?
[nurse] I’m afraid the stroke has left her
in a persistent vegetative state,
and given your mother’s age and her Lewy body diagnosis…
Whoa! What the fuck you talkin’ bout?
[spluttering] You sayin’ she’s a fuckin’ vegetable?
Her fuckin’ eyes are open. Look!
She’s lookin’ at fuckin’ somethin’.
[nurse] I’m so sorry.
Stop sayin’ you’re fuckin’ sorry!
Sir…
You’re another fuckin’ idiot.
Get the doctors in here!
Get the fuckin’ doctors in here! Get a fuckin’ doctor in here!
[breathing heavily]
[breathing shakily]
[sniffs]
Come on, doll.
Look at me.
I did it.
I took it all from those pricks…
like you said.
I’m the fucking king.
[breathing heavily]
Fuck, Ma.
[breathing shakily] Ma, don’t do this to me.
[sniffs] Ma, just don’t do this to me, all right?
Ma, you can’t do this to me, please!
[sniffs] You gotta tell me… Just tell me you’re proud of me.
Ma, tell me you’re proud of me, please!
Come on. Just once. Just tell me you’re proud of me.
Tell me I did good!
[sniffs] Tell me I did good!
I did it for you, Ma! I did it all for you,
the whole thing!
Your son, I’m the fucking king!
It’s what you wanted, Ma.
[crying] It’s what you wanted.
Ma, please, just once… Just once…
[sobbing]
[tender music playing]
[sobbing continues]
[music fades out]
Don’t feel like it should.
No.
Don’t know what happened. She was fine.
[swallows, sighs]
[chuckles]
Everything I ever done was for her.
But in the end…
I don’t know.
Sh-she knew that.
She did.
You think she forgives me?
For what?
I don’t know.
All kinds of things.
None of this came easy, you know.
Can’t stop thinkin’ about ’em.
My brothers. What kinda men they’d be
if they had the chance.
What they’d think of me…
now.
Yeah, I th…
I think about that too.
My family…
I miss ’em.
Yeah, I r… I really miss ’em.
Yeah.
Here, take the rest.
[Victor exhales sharply]
You know I couldn’t’ve done any of this shit without ya, right?
You know that?
Bringin’ Link into the fold, I didn’t see it at first, but…
it was a smart move.
You did good, kid.
Thanks.
[chuckles]
And thanks for, uh…
Thanks for taking a chance on me.
F-f…
For taking me in.
You’re like…
You’re f…
You’re f…
f-family to me.
You know?
[somber music playing]
Fuck.
[sniffs]
Fuck, Vic.
You and me…
it’s all that’s left.
Now, I don’t believe in kismet or nothin’.
[Victor] Hmm.
But… [sighs]
It’s good that we met.
Yeah?
Yeah.
You’ve seen me at my lowest, all this shit with my ma.
You’ve been there…
by my side, every fuckin’ step.
But listen, kid.
I, uh…
I can’t bring you with me this time.
What do you mean?
I mean, that’s the thing about family.
Oz…
[music turns tense]
It’s your strength.
Oz, what are you…
It drives you.
[choking]
But fuck if it don’t make ya weak, too.
Oz! Oz!
And I can’t have that no more.
Oz… [gasps]
Please… Please…
I can’t have that shit. I can’t.
Please… Please… [gasping]
Oz… Oz… Oz…
It’s too much.
Please…
Too fuckin’ much.
[choking] Oz…
[choking]
I’m sorry.
[choking]
I’m sorry. You’re a good man, Vic.
You got a good heart.
[choking]
[gasping]
[Oz breathing heavily]
[choking, gasping stop]
It wasn’t for nothin’.
[breathing heavily]
[grunting]
[water splashes]
[water lapping]
[rumbling]
[people clamoring]
[door slams]
[patients shouting in distance]
[buzzer sounds]
[door thuds, locks]
[buzzer sounds]
[eerie music playing]
[Julian, muffled] I brought your mail.
Mostly the usual.
Rants, poems,
marriage proposals.
This one’s different.
I think you should read it.
It’s from a woman named Selina Kyle.
She says she’s your half-sister.
[paper rustles]
[eerie music ends]
[Julian] Sofia?
[shouting in distance]
[buzzer sounds]
[door unlocks]
[door closes, locks]
[buzzer sounds]
[gentle music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[chuckles softly]
[sirens in distance]
[car alarm beeps]
[elevator dings]
[medical equipment beeping]
[Oz sighs]
How we doin’ today?
You feelin’ any better?
You look better.
I know.
It’s everything you wanted.
[“If This Is Goodbye” by Margaret Whiting playing]
[chuckles]
♪ I may walk in sunlight ♪
♪ So golden it is glory to behold… ♪
There she is.
[Eve] Oswald.
♪ Only shadows I’ll see ♪
You look beautiful.
Dance with me, sweetheart.
♪ I may hear sweet music ♪
♪ Whose tones and glowing harmonies abound ♪
♪ But all their silver sound will be discord ♪
♪ To me… ♪
Tell me you love me.
I love you, Oswald.
Tell me you’re proud of me.
I’m so proud of you.
I did it, Ma.
Didn’t I?
Tell me I did it.
You did it. Mm-hmm.
Top floor, penthouse.
No one above ya or beside ya.
I knew you would.
My beautiful boy.
♪…to say to me the things I need to know ♪
Gotham’s yours, sweetheart.
Nothin’ is standin’ in your way now.
God damn right.
♪ Then love is a lie ♪
♪ If this is goodbye ♪
[music crescendos, ends]
[tense music playing]
[tense music continues]
[music ends]
