THE PENGUIN Episode 7 Spoiler Recap: Oz Cobb's Past Is Revealed As War Erupts Following An Explosive Showdown

THE PENGUIN Episode 7 Spoiler Recap: Oz Cobb's Past Is Revealed As War Erupts Following An Explosive Showdown

The latest episode of The Penguin, "Top Hat," finally reveals what happened to Oz Cobb's brothers as the war for Gotham City's underworld reaches an explosive climax in the present day. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Nov 04, 2024 04:11 AM EST
Filed Under: The Batman

The Penguin's penultimate episode, "Top Hat," takes us into the past to explore Oz Cobb's childhood. He's close with his mother and is seemingly a little jealous of his two brothers, Jackie and Ben. 

They head out together, and Oz is clearly in awe of local gangster Rex Calabrese. Their mother does his accounts, and they deliver a book to him and head into the same underground tunnels we've seen The Penguin use as his base in the present day. Oz finds that familiar token, and they play hide-and-seek; however, when his brothers climb down a ladder he's unable to because of his disability, he's incensed. 

Closing the hatch behind him to trap them there, Oz heads home as it begins to rain. The boy lies to his mother about them going to the movies as the storm continues outside. He cuddles up with her as the overflow tunnel fills with rainwater and drowns them. Did he know what he was doing? 

Back in the present, Oz finds Vic unconscious and wonders where his mother is. With that, Sal arrives and beats his foe up; he plans to kill him but wants to see his operation first. 

Francis Cobb taunts Sofia Gigante, though the daughter of Carmine Falcone soon realises that she's very unwell. Dr. Julian Rush, meanwhile, brings bad news when he reveals that the police want to speak with Gia Viti about the "gas leak." It turns out she saw the gas mask in Sofa's bag, and after confessing to her crimes while visiting the girl, she seemingly talks her out of saying anything. 

In Oz's base, Sal announces he's taking over the operation and plans to burn the villain alive. However, one of Oz's men turns the lights out and a fight ensues. However, just as Sal gains the upper hand on Oz, he has a heart attack and falls to the floor, dead. 

Oz, disappointed that he didn't finish him himself, rants at Sal and repeatedly declares that he beat him before firing off several bullets into his body and taking his ring. He rallies his men just as Sofia decides she wants to be free of her father's shadow...but not before Oz feels her pain. 

Oz agrees to exchange everything he has for Francis and a van rocks up in the base as Sofia talks on the phone about surviving Arkham and playing a new game now. She still has his mother and, inside the van is a bomb.

The Penguin flees, jumping down into the same tunnel he once trapped his brothers in. The bomb explodes, destroying a chunk of Crown Point as the street collapses. We flashback to the night Oz and his distraught mother went dancing and the moment she made her son promise to give her a good life (he vows not to quit until he does so). 

Returning to the present, Oz has once again survived. However, as he wanders through the destroyed streets - where the heck is Batman?! - he's captured by Sofia's crooked GCPD cop...

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TheRedLeader
TheRedLeader - 11/4/2024, 5:00 AM
Why The Penguin is better than The Batman?
Oz should be the film’s main antagonist.
Anyway, fantastic show.
Colin deserves an Emmy.
ElBlancoChoco
ElBlancoChoco - 11/4/2024, 9:03 AM
@TheRedLeader - My wife said that last night. He's been amazing and a total transformation.

Didn't like The Batman at all and wasn't going to watch this. It was on and I got sucked in. Just an amazing show. Even seeing what Oz did as a kid, I still feel for him and want him to win this battle. It's a complete mindf-ck.
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 11/4/2024, 5:08 AM
This show is absolutely amazing. Oz is such a messed up individual. I can not wait to see whether or not his mom knew about what he did, or her reaction if he's forced to tell her now.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 11/4/2024, 5:12 AM
Batman must be on a sabbatical of some shit
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 11/4/2024, 5:14 AM
@FireandBlood - Batman's definitely showing up next week, I just don't know how and for how long. There's no way that car explosion at the end didn't catch his attention.
Conquistador
Conquistador - 11/4/2024, 5:31 AM
@TheJok3r - I doubt he'll show. I think it's the rise of Oz, and then the movie pick up with Batman hearing or investigating what's been going on now that he's head honcho.
Conquistador
Conquistador - 11/4/2024, 5:36 AM
@FireandBlood - If they decide to address it i feel they will have him down with some injury. He faceplanted a bus after a freefall/dive, from his face off with the Riddler(s) he got electrocuted, multiple shots to the plated chest and drugged himself full of venom (possibly) which probably is the only reason he was still walking at the end of the movie. After all that and a night's (day's) sleep i'm sure he's waking up in a shit load of pain.
TheRedLeader
TheRedLeader - 11/4/2024, 11:37 AM
@TheJok3r - Pattinson doesn't do TV. Neither does Turturro.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/4/2024, 2:16 PM
@TheRedLeader - Turturro does TV. I don't know what his reasons were for not doing Penguin (other than the bullshit reasons he gave).
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 11/4/2024, 2:24 PM
@TheRedLeader - A 2 minute cameo to lead into Batman II isn't that big of a deal.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 11/4/2024, 7:49 PM
@FireandBlood - Im not gonna lie...I never expect that child groomer to be in this series. I have noticed a trend with these shows...I refuse to fall for the same trap again and again and again.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 11/4/2024, 5:19 AM
Unpopular (MY) opinion.

This show is not as good as ya'll want/hoping for it to be.

Farell is great, dont get me wrong, but everything else just seems mid...It's got alot more in common with Fox's Gotham series in tone rather than Sopranos or Boardwalk Empire i seen other compare it to.


Will still watch the finale just to see how it connects up but after the first couple episodes it's been lackluster
Matchesz
Matchesz - 11/4/2024, 7:03 AM
@UnderBelly - only two things make the show feel like Gotham and thats the Arkham scenes and the Julian Rush character but everything else has been great
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 11/4/2024, 7:31 AM
@Matchesz - Like i said Farrell's been great. Miloti's been good too but the way its shot, the cinematography amongst other things like the score kind of cheapen it.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 11/4/2024, 7:51 AM
@UnderBelly - Perhaps it's just that you're watching it through that Gotham filter, where are people aren't vieiwing it with that baggage.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/4/2024, 2:22 PM
@UnderBelly - Cinematography does not live up to the movie. Sound mixing was off this episode too.
relentless1
relentless1 - 11/4/2024, 5:41 AM
this is the first episode where the gang war has escalated to the point where it now seems odd that Batman hasn't gotten involved, im sure they know whet they're doing and the last episode will dovetail directly into the sequel film but as of now thats a bit of a plothole opening up
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 11/4/2024, 7:11 AM
This show continues to cook. I was hoping Salvatore would be around longer, but damn the gang war between Oz and Sofia is really getting good.
Forthas
Forthas - 11/4/2024, 7:15 AM
Another great show! It simultaneously makes you feel sorry for Oz while showing us what a true monster he can be even when he was young. The relationship between Oz and his mother is bordering on an oedipus complex.

I never thought that the story would revisit Sofia's humanity. I thought it was completely gone when she murdered her family but it managed to do so in a poignant way. For a brief moment we remembered she was once a compassionate person (by gangster standards). Only to have her revert back to the ruthless crime boss she is. I was not a fan of how Marone died. It was a bit ant-climactic. But despite that Cristin Miloti and Colin Farrel are just providing a master class with thier respective characters and hopefully the awards season will take notice.
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 11/4/2024, 7:43 AM
@Forthas - This show right here is what every DC property should be like, but instead we're stuck with Gunn's upcoming live action Saturday morning cartoons. Thankfully Batman seems off limits.
Forthas
Forthas - 11/4/2024, 7:52 AM
@TheJok3r - I could not agree more! I would love to see a comparison of the viewership of Peacemaker and Penguin but for "some reason" they do not release any hard numbers for Peacemaker. We are essentially told it was successful. Of course they will slap the DC Studios logo on Penguin and will go on about how this is what they intended. It is shocking to me to have the guy who thought that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were not good films now leading DC studios. Shows how bad of a CEO David Zaslav is.
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 11/4/2024, 8:52 AM
@Forthas - Gunn will be out once Superman tanks next year.
r1g0r
r1g0r - 11/4/2024, 8:54 AM
"where the heck is batman"?

IT'S NOT HIS SHOW.
HE'S SOMEWHERE ELSE.

getting SO goddamned tired of people whinging about this point.
HAUSMAN01
HAUSMAN01 - 11/4/2024, 9:41 AM
Oz being a jealous mamas boy had me so pissed off being in love with his mother in the weirdest way. Sofia’s guilt upon realizing she only set Gia on a dark path like her own when she was younger was utterly heartbreaking.



TheRedLeader
TheRedLeader - 11/4/2024, 11:50 AM
@HAUSMAN01 - "Oz being a jealous mamas boy had me so pissed off " - and you wrote that on your mom's basement.
SATW42
SATW42 - 11/4/2024, 9:55 AM
I know it's a running theme for the show and the character for Oz to be able to talk out of any situation while also being insanely lucky, but Sal getting a heart attack in that moment has to be the luckiest [frick]ing thing to ever luck.
asherman93
asherman93 - 11/4/2024, 8:50 PM
I'm calling it now - Penguin will be one of - if not the - main antagonist of The Batman Part II.

I cannot wait to see Batman clip this asshole's flippers.

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