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Bliss is the third episode of the first season of The Penguin.

Synopsis[]

"Hoping to control the future of Gotham's drug trade, Oz and Sofia must first address the skeletons in their closet. Meanwhile, Victor is torn between his new life and what remains of his old."

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In a flashback, Victor Aguilar drops off tools at his family's apartment, before leaving to meet up with friends, despite his father's disapproval for one of Victor's friend's cousin being a known drug dealer. While hanging out with his girlfriend Graciela on a rooftop, Victor witnesses multiple explosions across Gotham City, destroying the seawall. In the distance, Victor sees the flood hitting his apartment, killing his family.

In present day, Sofia Falcone introduces Oz Cobb to her drug operation, a new product that was used on her and the other inmates at Arkham State Hospital, with Oz naming it "Bliss." To build a new operation base, Oz gets them to meet with Link Tsai, a Triad member. Meanwhile, Victor is visited by Graciela and learns she's leaving for California to start over. Victor reveals he is working for Oz and Graciela urges him to leave with her. Tempted, he gives her a share of his $1000 stipend and tells her to buy bus tickets for the both of them.

Meanwhile in the Chinatown district, Link begrudges Oz over an unpaid debt, and will only accept to arrange a meeting with Triad's leader Feng Zhao if they get Johnny Viti's support. As he awaits for Oz and Sofia outside, Victor is approached by a police officer, but he swiftly smoothes things over by letting the officer "confiscate" the remaining money that Oz gave him, something Oz congratulates him over later.

While dining with Oz, Victor opens up about his family, particularly his father having settled as a mechanic over becoming a chef, and how he never asked better of life; while Oz gives a toast in his honor, he advises Victor to strive for better as the world is unfair for honest people. Later, he and Sofia catch Johnny Viti in a hotel room having sex with Luca Falcone's wife, Tina forcing him to support their plan and call Feng Zhao as a sign of trust. They meet at a nightclub and, while Zhao is intrigued, he believes the risk outweighs the benefits, citing Sofia's stay at Arkham as a liability. Sofia convinces him to give it a chance, pointing out that the citizens of Gotham will rush to use the drug as an escape after what the Riddler did to the city but, upset, she leaves the meeting and has Oz secure the Triad's partnership. While Victor tries to dance with Roxy in the nightclub, the lights trigger his memories of the night of the seawall's explosion, causing him to have a panic attack.

Oz is delighted with the new partnership, but becomes upset when he finds that Victor wants to leave to flee with Graciela. He feels insulted that Victor thought he was forced to work for him and, dejected, he lets him go. Victor steals Oz's car and drives to the bus station to reunite with Graciela, but ends up not going with her. Back at the nightclub, Oz and Sofia argue over who is actually in control of the operation, Sofia citing her mistrust of Oz over her internment at Arkham, leaving it uncertain that she really is "the Hangman" or not. Oz attempts to mend their relationship, pledging his loyalty to her, when they are suddenly ambushed by Nadia Maroni and her men, who prepare to execute Oz after discovering his duplicity. Victor returns just in time and kills one of Maroni's henchmen by ramming into him with the car. Oz gets in the car and they drive off, as he orders Victor to leave Sofia behind.

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Song title Artist Location(s)
Man Down VeFROMLA
Coco Y Ron Daniel Indart
Switch 6LACK
Cold 24HR World
Sugar Honey Iced Tea Dani Stevenson
In Your Lungs Street Fever
Came For The Low ZHU & partywithray
Heaven's Gates Devault feat Izzy Camina
Blow Your Mind Will Sparks
Khomus Corvad
Fool For Ya DVBBS
Broken Belief Bob Moses
Me and the Devil Gil Scott-Heron

Trivia[]

  • Near the beginning of the episode Oz complains about all the top members of the Falcone Syndicate being related because "sixty years ago, two Sicilian brothers jizzed all over the toe of that boot" and the trouble that causes for him. Fast forward to near the end of the episode and Sofia throws in Oz' face that he isn't even a made man, let alone a capo. This is because Oz isn't of Italian descent, which in The Mafia is a requirement to become a "made man", explaining his frustration from earlier in the episode.
  • At the end of her proposal to the Triads, Sofia mentions that she doesn't care if Fend Zhou agrees to help her and Oz with distribution or not. This is because Sofia intends to go to other criminal outfits in Gotham should the Triads decline, like the "Neon Dragons". In the original DC Comics, the Neon Dragons were a rising gang in Gotham before their leader Tony Li was strangled to death in the earliest days of Jason Todd's Red Hood.

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Season One After Hours • Inside Man • Bliss • Cent’anni • Homecoming • Gold Summit • Top Hat • A Great or Little Thing
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