'Vincenzo' Episode 15: Inzaghi saving Song Joong-ki's Cassano would beat pig blood bath scene any day
'Vincenzo' is not the noir mafia show that you must have expected after watching the trailer. However, it is much better with over-the-top humor than what would have otherwise been a somber moment. The start of Episode 15 rightly proves why fans are hyping this show up so much. Who would have thought that a fan theory which was more of a joke on Reddit would actually turn out to be the plot twist of the episode and that a pigeon would end up saving a kicka** mafia consigliere?.
So when Paulo's men had Vincenzo Cassano (Song Joong-ki) on his knees, bleeding from a wound and ready to die with no fear whatsoever, I did not expect a pigeon to come swooping down, sit on what I imagined was its throne, and invite its friends to helps its human friend out. Vincenzo's mate, Inzaghi the pigeon, came to his rescue, and as ridiculous and unreal as it sounds, there is no way you could stop yourself from laughing out real. It is a classic Vincenzo treatment where a very serious scene transitions brilliantly into comedy.
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In the previous episode, this transition happened when Cha-young (Jeon Yeo-bin) and Vincenzo sat down to watch pig's blood drown the current Babel CEO Han-seok (Taecyeon) and we are sure you can pick put a scene such as this in every episode. By now it has become a signature style of the show to make use of absurd comedy. All fun aside, the show is still on track when it comes to Vincenzo seeking out the payment from Myung-hee (Kim Yeo-jin) and Han-seok for Hong Yu-chan's death. He is dead-set on destroying Babel, especially after Han-seok got innocent victims murdered, so it is not surprising that he would go to any extent when it comes to plotting an equally evil plan. That includes acting as a shaman to sow doubts between Babel and a corrupt newspaper owner who have so far worked together without any problems. Cassano uses the newspaper company owner's belief in superstitions to manipulate him.
He partly succeeds thanks to the Guillotine file with him, which gives him access to information that would make him the invisible king among capitalist Korea's rich populace. If you think he dropped it into the basement that holds kilos of gold, no he did not drop it. Not as he made it out to be the last episode. He had smartly pawned it off when Mr. Cho was not looking so with this information he even digs into Han-seok's past. Han-seok was a bully and a teenage murderer who was diagnosed as a psychopath at 19 and Vincenzo tries to bring that out by manipulating the newspaper company's owner. However, as Vincenzo rightly noted, Han-seok is no joke. He is a monster and he proves that when he begins to dig into Vincenzo's Korean family and finds the truth about Ms. Oh being his mother. He also figures out that the one who sowed discord between Babel and the newspaper company's owner was Vincenzo.
So what Han-seok does is plan a trap of his own. Now what we would see is if Vincenzo can manage to sidestep another mine, or if his luck runs out this time around.
'Vincenzo' airs every Saturday and Sunday on tvN at 9 pm KST and can be streamed on Netflix.
