The Penguin finally turns a major character into a real villain in Episode 6

The penguin viewers have been asking about one character who didn’t seem to fit into the show’s lineup of gangsters, psychopaths, and criminals: Victor Aguilar (Rhenzy Feliz). A key flashback in Episode 3 revealed that Victor was once a good kid from a good home (complete with a humble and hardworking father) – but also hinted that there were seeds of a burning ambition for a ‘better’ life already smoldering within . of the boy. Victor has shown how much actual fire there is behind that ambition, as he helped Oz Cobb/Penguin (Colin Farrell) fight his way through a power vacuum in the underworld – at least to some extent. The Penguin Episode 6 forces Vic into a corner where he must finally cross the point of no return to become a villain.

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When Oz’s wars with Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) and Sal Maroni (Clancy Brown) went sideways (episode 5), he had Vic move his mother Francis Cobb (Deirdre O’Connell) into an apartment in the Third World slum of Crown Point. , where both Oz and Vic grew up. Unfortunately, Vic’s move in did not go unnoticed: Calvin (Ben Cook), the local shot-caller, spotted Francis, and – along with rumors of the new drug Bliss hitting the streets – discovers that Vic is The Penguin’s sidekick in a major new operation. Calvin wants to participate and gives Vic an ultimatum: give him a chance or he will be betrayed. Vic goes to Oz for help, but Oz is already having too many problems to listen to anyone else, and essentially orders VIctor to solve the problem himself. Vic tries to give Calvin the opportunity to take a bribe to leave the matter alone; instead, Calvin throws the money back in Vic’s face with the counter-offer to get a formal introduction to Penguin, or to betray the police or the Falcone/Maroni gang about Oz’s drug operation and his mother’s hideout. Victor pretends to agree before turning around and shooting Calvin point blank in the neck.

Victor’s first murder does not go as smoothly as he had hoped: Calvin dies painfully and bloodily in the alley, staring at Vic the entire time. The only thing more haunting than the murder is what happens when Vic returns and lets Oz know what happened: Penguin gives Vic the “fatherly” advice that when it comes to murder, “it gets easier,” a promise that Vic will only move on. into the depths of soul-sucking crime.

In fact, the karmic retribution for Vic’s dastardly act comes quickly when Sofia Falcone tracks down Oz’s hideout in Crown Point and finds Vic and Francis happily spending the night celebrating Oz’s ascension to the head of his own gang. Now viewers are wondering if Vic has planted a big death flag on himas ‘punishment’ for choosing the dark path. On the other hand, other fan theories about The penguin speculate that “Victor Aguilar” could be one of Batman’s most infamous villains.

The penguin airs episodes Sunday nights on HBO and streams on Max.