let's talk about the parallels between vincenzo kneeling in front of the gun and joon woo kneeling front of the gun!
disclaimer: some of these might be a stretch lol but i'm just writing as my brain comes up with stuff so read with a heap of salt. as always, feel free to add on!!

As @/kestrel-of-herran on tumblr pointed out a post, Vincenzo and Joon woo/Han-seok are narrative doubles and it wasn't until she pointed it out that i really took note of how paralleled their stories are.

Han-Seok is the son of a powerful man, with a half-brother, Han-Seo, that he is better than at every turn. Similarly, Vincenzo's adoptive father is mafia, and he has a step? brother (i'm not sure what to call him) Paulo, Vincenzo is better than at every turn.

Both Vincenzo and Han-Seok has a soft spot for their mothers, who were wronged by a man and both of them got revenge: Han-Seok killed his own father, and Vincenzo screwed over the son and wife of the man who jailed his mother.

Han-Seok is a foreigner, who studied and was assumed to be in the States, that arrived in Korea to reestablish his hold on his goal, the Babel group and tower. Vincenzo is a foreigner, who grew up in Italy and arrived in Korea to get his hold on his goal, the plaza and gold.

Han-Seok refuses his true name and goes by Jun-Woo and Vincenzo refuses his true name and goes by his Italian one. Both present themselg as something they are not: Han-Seok as a lowly intern at a law firm and Vincenzo as a simple Italian man who is there to take care of his build

Both have a reveal that they aren't who they say they are, one while exchanging information with Cha-Young and another in front of the world.Both of them work with two stubborn, dramatic women who are willing to be ruthless to get their way: Choi Myung-Hee and Hong Cha-Young.

Their stories parallel each other in every turn but they are standing at different points in the story. Both of them are also presented similarly in clothing after the reveal happens: both Vincenzo and Han-Seok's clothes gradually switches to lighter colors.

Both of them are presented in a Boolaro suit when they make their "true" arrival into Korea to establish that they are equal/at the same level as each other.
Vincenzo and Han-Seok are willing to do anything for their goals, but Han-Seok is focused on playing god in this story–

or attempting to reach that level (there was a post? or a conversation? about this earlier with Han-Seok/Han-Seo and Babel being like an allegory for stories from the Bible).

So it's very interesting to see that when Vincenzo kneels, the gun pointed to his head, he parallels Han-Seok's expressions. In Han-Seok's scene, the one holding the gun is his weakness and the one he cannot beat whereas, in Vincenzo's scene it is his own family holding the gun.

Han-Seok will harm anyone, except directly harm Cha-young (so far), so it makes sense that his true opponent and the one person who has him beat is Vincenzo, who is equal to him/is like him.

This is why I think that Han-Seok is accepting of his death when Vincenzo holds the gun to his head, and speeding the process up. He is able to accept death because it is being dealt by a figure that is close to his status/what he considers his equal.

What I think would be interesting, or truly more painful to him, is Han-Seo delivering a final blow towards his head as Han-Seok does not consider his brother his equal and it will crush his whole "god" status he attaches to himself if he is killed by someone of "lower" status.

(You can also say that Vincenzo looks less accepting of his death because it is being dealt by Paulo, someone that is of a "lower" status, but I don't think he'll die in this anyways)

After Han-Seok scene, the story changes into him developing into his role as the true villain and I anticipate that after this scene, Vincenzo's story will also twist and the show will go deeper into planning the downfall of Babel.

fin.