'The Penguin' Episode 4 Shocking Ending Explained

Spoilers for the fourth episode of “The Penguin” below

When Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti, in the role of a lifetime) tells her therapist, Dr. Rush said she was making a fresh start, but that wasn't the case quite what he had in mind.

But after Sofia was accused by her family of murdering seven women and sent to Arkham State Hospital, where she was tortured and abused for ten years, it's no wonder she wanted revenge on those who framed her.

The last 12 minutes of the fourth episode of The penguin will probably go down in history as the most shocking film in the series (well, so far), as Sofia finally got her family back, with a blood-curdling mass murder that was all pretty gleefully executed – was that a little mistake we spotted? the end? – but what exactly did our little murderer do?

The backstory

So it turns out Sofia Falcone was not The Executioneras she was called in previous episodes. No, it was even darker. Through a tip from a reporter, Sofia found out that not only was it likely that her father Carmine had killed seven sex workers in the club, but that he was also responsible for her mother's death, making strangulation look like suicide (Sofia recalled suddenly remembered that his hands had bloody scratches on them when she found her mother's body).

When she confronted him – the loudmouth Oz (Colin Farrell), her driver, had told Carmine that Sofia had met with said reporter – he framed her for all the murders and had her locked up in Arkham State Hospital for a decade, where We all saw the horrors of what was happening there (violent attacks, murders, suicides and electroconvulsive therapy, for example). Her uncles and cousins ​​all falsely claimed that she was violent and psychopathic, and it was enough for Carmine's paid hospital psychiatrist, Dr. Ventris to declare her unfit to stand trial.

Thanks to her late brother Alberto – apparently the only person she could trust in the family – and her other doctor, Dr. Rush, however, she managed to escape and told the family that she had been rehabilitated. But her uncles and cousins ​​still maintain the charade that she is seriously mentally ill and want to ship her off to Sicily to prevent her from becoming the head of the family. Enough, says Sofia. This happens over her corpse. Or, as it turns out, someone else's corpse…

The Last Supper

Sofia crashes into a family dinner looking stunning in a yellow cocktail dress, and promptly digs into the meatballs and giant goblet of red wine.

But she interrupts her Uncle Lucas's speech to remind everyone that she was wrongly convicted of murdering seven women, and repeats everyone's names so they won't be forgotten: “Summer Gleeson, Taylor Montgomery, Nancy Hoffman, Yolanda Jones, Susannah Weakly, Devri Blake, and Tricia Becker.” And in fact, Sofia was able to add her own name to the list, as her life ended when she was sent to Arkham.

She reveals how surprised she was that her trusted family betrayed her and no one tried to help her and that she was innocent. She tells them that she has a new life for the first time – and she knows that she no longer fits into this family. She toasts “Cent'anni” (also the title of this episode) in Italian, which literally means “100 years” or “May you live 100 years.” They don't realize that 100 minutes would be more accurate.

Hands up, who would have thought Sofia would kidnap her cousin's little daughter, Gia? In the middle of the night – after, importantly, closing all the windows – she lures Gia downstairs to eat chocolate cake, then tells her they're going to sleep in the greenhouse where she and Alberto used to stay.

She tells Gia that she had to fight monsters to survive, but that Gia should never worry about being locked up because Sofia will make sure she never has to fight monsters. She is not yet aware of it, but she is one of the only survivors of the family murder; and Sofia saved her (although she orphaned Gia, which could have some consequences).

When the sun comes up – and a jazzy little number, See you then, my love by Sarah Vaughanplays in the background – Sofia strolls back into the house, still in her ball gown and a… gas mask? There is The reason for this: As soon as she opens the doors to the villa, a few security guards are slumped on the floor. She gassed the entire house from the storage in the basement.

She checks on the family: Luca, dead! His wife, who had an affair with Johnny, is dead! All: apparently dead! “Let’s make the final scene nice and clean / No aftereffects,” says Vaughan, which Sofia certainly takes to heart.

However, when she goes into Johnny's bedroom, the window has been intentionally left open. Johnny is still alive and was kept alive for a very special reason. “Put your pants on Johnny,” she tells him, brandishing a gun, “we need to talk.” For the first time in a decade, Sofia is in control and one of the Falcone family must finally obey her.