Hi robert,
No, you don't have to fight Vinnie. If you're able to elude him, all the better.

Did you check room 201 and find that the door was locked?
Then, at the window with the radiator, did you look through the window and see room 201 with the red sheet on the bed?
Now Zoe knows she needs to make a rope to be able to get into room 201.
