The Penguin Episode 2

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The Penguin Episode 2 -  Inside "Inside Man" (HD) HBO The Batman spinoff series - Plot Synopsis: Sofia works to secure her family's strength, while Oz attempts to play both the Falcone and Maroni families to his advantage.

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00:00Inside Man is when we start to unpack Oz playing two sides.

00:06He's playing the Maronis and he's playing the Falcons.

00:13Sophia walks into a very misogynistic situation.

00:16I mean, the mob's never been very friendly to women

00:19and rarely are women inside the room.

00:21And so you realize how difficult this is for her.

00:24She's coming back home and not feeling welcome.

00:27Home is its own form of jail for her.

00:30We get the sense that the story that everyone else tells about Sophia

00:34isn't necessarily the right story, but it is the one that has stuck.

00:39At the beginning of 102, Sophia walks in

00:42and Oz sees somebody that he can align himself to.

00:45He's always playing all these different characters to his advantage

00:49and switching, you know, on a dime.

00:51There should be you in there calling the shots.

00:54Oz is still trying to navigate his way through

00:57the aftermath of Alberto's death.

01:00As he's doing that, he realized that he can leverage

01:04the Maroni family as a tool in order to gain more power.

01:09One ends where he gives Sal his ring back,

01:12but he's actually setting Sal up to have to take the fall

01:14for Alberto Falcone's death.

01:16And meanwhile, he's promising the drops business to the Maronis.

01:20I claim Alberto. You make good on the drops, you promise.

01:23Sal's easily manipulated. He knows Oz is up to something.

01:26What is it you're really after, Oz?

01:29Sal looks like he's in control and he knows exactly what he's doing

01:32and trusting Oz, but Mrs. Maroni knows better.

01:40Sal fell in love with a woman from Iran,

01:43and she learned to love his Italian culture.

01:46To me, that felt more unique and made it more specific than other depictions.

01:51Obviously, Sal was so smitten by her, he's obsessed with her,

01:55he loves her still, and he's replaced his entire Italian mafia family

02:00with the Persian mob, which I just think is so terrifyingly original.

02:06Nowadays, Persians slash Iranians are big players in the international arena.

02:13Therefore, I think they now can be a part of the mafia life in Gotham City as well.

02:20Why not?

02:22The FEMA heist is a plan fully designed by Oz.

02:25If everyone did what they were supposed to do,

02:27he would have been able to get out having all his enemies killed.

02:32There's a wrench in the plan in that Gianni Vitti decides to put him

02:35into the one car he doesn't want to be in.

02:42He can no longer operate from the sidelines.

02:45He has to make a choice, kill all of the Maronis or kill all the Falcons.

02:51So for FEMA heist, our team developed these flash guns

02:54where they look like regular guns, but they have an enormously bright camera flash

02:59that could be triggered by the actors so that they can wield it

03:03and feel that flash of light as they pull the trigger.

03:06We felt this was a really unique approach to doing gunfire

03:10because for safety, it helps us not use real guns on set.

03:15After watching the FEMA heist,

03:17we felt that there would be something more playful for Oz

03:20and we found this great Bobby Darin song.

03:36Call Me Irresponsible seems so perfect for how violent the sequence was.

03:47Let's go! Let's go!

03:53I think the Bobby Darin song is brilliant because it says,

03:55this is who this guy is.

03:57Even though we're experiencing this heist, it's really the story of Oz

04:00and why he is able to survive.

04:02Hey, hey, hey!

04:04You gotta adapt. You gotta respond to the environment, the situation.

04:06You gotta kick on your feet. You gotta be quick.

04:08This is our show. This is the type of stuff we're gonna do.

04:11It can be extremely violent. We can also have a wink and a nod.

04:14Oz is charming and he's also despicable.

04:16It's all sort of in service of Oz as a character

04:19and creating that sort of blanket tone for the show.

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