In the comics, Falcone is a powerful Mafia chieftain nicknamed "The Roman," where his stranglehold over Gotham City'sorganized crime is referenced as "The Roman Empire" at least once. In Batman: Year One, the top of his penthouse is shaped like Roman architecture.
But single mom Mickey, who is raising her precocious youngster Thomas (Callum Vinson) in the old neighborhood near the grandfather that raised her (the great utility player John Doman, “Gotham’s” Carmine Falcone), sees the situation differently ... .