Spoilers for episode four of The Penguin below

Hours before the Falcone family had the mother of all reckonings, Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) showed up at what would be their last supper and lit the touch paper.

She berates them all for landing her in Arkham State Hospital, and confronts them about the crimes she has been charged with, namely the deaths of seven women: Summer Gleeson, Taylor Montgomery, Nancy Hoffman, Yolanda Jones, Susannah Weakly, Devri Blake and Tricia Becker. The murders netted Sofia the nickname of De Executioner in the media.

In last week’s episode, Sofia revealed to Oz that “I’m not the executioner.” Now we find out what really happened…

The backstory

In the flashback to Sofia’s life before Arkham, we are told that her mother committed suicide and that she discovered the body.

Years later, a journalist named Summer Gleeson approaches Sofia at a charity event and asks to talk to her. Sofia – who has been assigned Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) as her driver at this point – takes her to meet Summer, who tells her that six women have died from asphyxiation, probably manual strangulation, but the police say it was ‘suicide by hanging’. ”.

Summer adds that the women, who were sex workers at the Iceberg Lounge and the 44 Below club, also had evidence on their bodies that they had fought with someone, biting and scratching them.

Summer asks Sofia to carry a wire to her father’s club, or give up access to employee data. But even though Sofia remembers her mother’s hands being in the same bloody state – does she also remember noticing scratches on her father’s hands on the same day of her mother’s death? – she threatens the journalist. “If you publish any of this nonsense, my family will destroy you. Do you understand?”

Oz double crossing

When Oz shows up at Carmine’s birthday party, he tells Sofia that her father wants to see her in her office. Someone said she went to the reporter.

Carmine tells her that Summer Gleeson has been cooperating with the police and that there is an investigation and they believe he is responsible for the murders. Despite Sofia saying she knows these accusations are “nonsense,” she can’t help but bring up the issue of her father’s scratched hands all those years ago.

“My dear, dear Sofia…” he says, “You’re confused…sick” and tells her to leave. It’s all over for her. She is arrested as Oz drives her home – for the murder of Summer Gleeson and six other women.

It was Oz’s decision to go to Carmine that got the ball rolling. Did Oz kill Summer, she asks him, for her father? “No, I have no idea what he’s talking about,” he replies, but as we’ve seen before, Oz is willing to lie to anyone about anything to cover his own neck.

Did he kill Summer? Possibly, since he was sent to do so by Carmine. And if it wasn’t Oz, it would have been another one of the Falcone henchmen. As for the other six women, it will probably be the same: Carmine, or one of his accomplices.

Shortly before she was excommunicated and shipped to Arkham, Sofia realizes that Carmine could count a total of eight women, including her mother. No wonder Sofia wanted scorched earth revenge for the violence against the women in her family.