After revealing that Oz’s limp is due to a “broken leg” as a child and not an accident as an adult, things take a tragic turn when his brothers hide from him in an overflowing tunnel that can only be accessed. Access via a ladder. A vengeful Oz locks them inside and tells them, “Have fun hanging out.” While it is unclear if he intended to leave them there, Jack and Benny drown after a night of heavy rain. Meanwhile, Oz returns home to watch 1935. top hat with his mother and gets all her attention by lying to her that his brothers have gone to see beetle juice. It shows that even as a child, Oz was willing to do horrible things in his quest to get to the top.

It is also revealed that Oz was ambitious from a young age and idolized the gangster Rex Calabrese (Louis Cancelmi). Francis did some work for Calabrese, and while there is an unconfirmed theory that the gangster was actually Oz’s father, the fact that Jack tried to keep Oz away from Rex suggests there could be more to this. Regarding the fate of the Oz brothers, Farrell said RadioTimes.com It is a “pivotal” moment that turns him into the disillusioned monster we see today: “I understood it and I was horrified. I think he has completely washed his hands of it and convinced himself that it didn’t happen the way it did. It’s that grave. But it’s there somewhere: the darkness. And I was there at that age, that’s the thing.”

The twist with Oz’s brothers takes a more morbid turn when you realize that his base of operations running his Bliss empire in an abandoned tram station is in the sewers where he left his brothers to die. When Oz went there for the first time with Vic (Rhenzy Feliz) in episode 5He stopped at the same door behind which his brothers died. There’s a sense of irony that the door Oz used to lock his siblings in is the one that saves his life when Sofia tries to blow up his lair at the end of the episode. The last episode also shows Oz finding the coin from the cart that we saw was part of Francis’ belongings in episode 5.

Farrell says LeFranc wanted to explore the idea of ​​monsters being created by his family and their situation. Francis begs a young Oz for a better life while dancing at Monroe’s Jazz Club, showing how she also helped push him down this dark path. If Sofia will use Francisco as leverage to try to overthrow Oz, we know that she is at least surviving the events of Batman part II. This suggests that Oz will emerge victorious in climbing Gotham’s criminal ladder, but for everyone else, it’s not looking good.