Gotham Central (T.V series)

Gotham Central is a 2006 live-action TV series airing on HBO. This is set before Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham to become Batman.

Starring Cast

 * J.K Simmons as Commissioner James Gordon
 * David St. Louis as Agent Ronald Houston 
 * Joseph Levitt Gordon as John Blake
 * Mark Boone Jr. as Harvey Bullock 
 * Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya
 * Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox

Recurring Cast

 * Tony Sirico as Mario Falcone
 * Andrew Stewart Jones as Ethan Bennett
 * Stephen Lobo as Jim Corrigan/Spectre 

Guest Stars

 * Rainn Wilson as Arnold Wesker/Ventriloquist 
 * Ray Liotta as Scarface 
 * Aaron Eckhardt as Adrian Chase/Vigilante
 * Eric Roberts as Sal Maroni

Season 1 (2006)
1."Pilot"-In Gotham, police Commissioner James Gordon is at the train station to pick up Cisco Blaine, a special agent for the FBI sent by the bureau to investigate Mario Falcone, who has taken over Bruce's family business and renamed it to Falcone Industries. Gordon and Blaine witness a group of police officers led by Sergeant Branden who are assaulting a elderly man who is homeless for fun. Blaine and Gordon work together to defend the homeless man from Branden and the corrupt officers. Afterwards, Blaine gives the homeless man some money and demands to know from Gordon why those police officers would do such a thing. Gordon just responds that he dealt with corruption before and that it's not as bad as it used to be, however, Blaine still has his doubts. Blaine is introduced to the task force: John Blake, Harvey Bullock, Lucius Fox, Ellen Yin, Ethan Bennett, and Renee Montoya. Blaine refuses to trust Bullock because of his police brutality and reputation for taking bribes despite Gordon insisting that Bullock is a good cop. Meanwhile, the G.C.P.D. has their hands full when a criminal named Arnold Wesker, who is referred to as the Ventriloquist and takes orders from his dummy, Scarface, has filled the vacuum of Gotham's criminal kingpin and has been committing several acts of murderer and theft After several encounters, Scarface uses Catwoman to lure the G.C.P.D. into an underground tunnel but abandons her and sets off the explosives intent on killing them both. However, they survive this and Selina focused on getting revenge but knowing that she can't do it alone,  reluctantly allies with the team and gives them all of the information on Ventriloquist. Eventually, they get a lead and the duo take Ventriloquist and Scarface by surprise and disrupts his operations as Blake confronts him in a final fight and Wesker becomes devastated when Selina destroys Scarface in front of him. Afterward, Gordon sends him back to Arkham Asylum in Gotham knowing that Wesker is an escaped inmate. Meanwhile, Falcone hires Blaine, while being unaware that he is an FBI agent to work as head of security for a company.

2."Gotham City"-Falcone uses his influences over Mayor Hady, he promises to have Vernon Fields replace Harvey Dent as district attorney, acting as his own agent as Blaine works to figure out how to gain Falcone's trust upon realizing that he is always paranoid. Meanwhile, Gordon gives the team a case to figure out why homosexuals are attacked all over the neighborhood. Posing as a homosexual, Bullock is attacked by thugs. The team discovers the thugs work for Jefferson Skeevers, a dealer in Mario's pocket. Skeevers explains how business is great for the mob,  with recruitment, drugs, prostitution, protection all doing well. Blockbuster provides his people with cocaine, but he abstains because it gives him an edge over them. Suddenly, Blake, while disobeying orders from Gordon, confronts them. Blake informs Mario that Skeevers has been drawing negative attention to her by coordinating the recent attacks against homosexuals. Blake adds that Skeevers has a personal vendetta against homosexuals because he was twice a victim of gang rape while in prison. Despite this, Mario states that Blake won't have earned the right to be heard until he himself runs the mob's initiation gauntlet. Blake agrees, taking a heavy beating, and eventually having to drag himself to the end of the line. While successful, he is badly hurt. When asked what he wants, Blake explains that it's only a matter of time before the police follow the same trail he did to find Skeevers and the police will have to act because of the public. With the pressure on, a desperate Skeevers reveals that he contracted AIDS as a result of his rape, which he felt justified the murder of homosexuals. Mario kills Skeevers and allows Blake to leave. Gordon learns what happened upon finding Blake bloodied and beaten and has him suspended for disobeying orders. Blaine meets an FBI agent named Victor Sage, asking for help with investigating Falcone.

3."The Roman Empire"-In flashbacks, Mario went to Hong Kong where he quickly tried to take over as crime boss there, causing him to go head-to-head with the reigning crime lord Shen Fang. A huge gang war would take place, lasting five years, with Falcone using Yakuza from Tokyo while Fang countered with Triads from Shanghai, but towards the end it appeared that Falcone was on the verge of victory until one day, he received an invitation that told Bruce Wayne leaving Gotham in 1989 and that Wayne Enterprises went bankrupt because of the get rich quick scandals that Wayne's board of directors fell for. Seeing this as a lucrative opportunity, Falcone approaches Fang and makes a deal with him, he would leave Hong Kong and all of its operations to him and give the impression that Fang had won the war as long as Fang gives him a percentage of the entire Hong Kong operation. In the present day, Bullock, Montoya, Yin, and Blake are asked by Gordon and D.A Harvey Dent to investigate Old Gotham, due to rumors circulating that notorious crime boss Mario Falcone has based his operations there. Blaine deduces that Sage is working for Falcone as a test since the FBI doesn't have Sage as an employee. Deciding to play along, Blaine is asked by Sage to plant a bug in Falcone's office. However, Blaine explains everything to Falcone and Falcone reveals that this was all a test after having his associate Jay drive Blaine to meet him in the forest. Blaine then accept Falcone's proposal to join the other side of Wayne Enterprises to make some extra cash, which Blaine accepts.

4."Harvey Dent"-A bomb maker, Ian Hargrove, is abducted by Russian mobsters led by Gregor Kasyanov while being transferred from Blackgate Penitentiary. The Russians plan on robbing a safe vault with the bombs he makes. Gordon and Blaine meet with District Attorney Harvey Dent to discuss the case against Falcone. Dent urges Blaine to continue his undercover work but pass on the reports to him as well as Gordon and the FBI management in Washington. Dent also informs Gordon that the Russian mob may have abducted Gregor to get back at Sal Maroni, who is Falcone's rival and since there are rumors going around about a truce Falcone made with the Russians. When Falcone mocks Dent, Dent grabs Falcone and threatens him, showing signs of an unstable, second persona. Gordon and his team find Hargrove in the Gotham Munition Factory but they are ambushed by the Russians, who take away Hargrove. After making a test, Lucius tells them the bombs are designed to break through iron. The Russians force Hargrove to blow up the Gotham Armory Basement so they can steal Maroni's money. While planning their getaway, Gordon, Dent, and the G.C.P.D. ambush them. As Hargrove walks toward them, the truck explodes when Mario Falcone plants a call detonator, thus blowing up half of Harvey Dent's face. Harvey later escapes from the hospital after murdering its staff to do so.

5. "The Two Face of Tragedy"-Harvey, now calling himself Two Face and now flipping a coin to make his decisions, abducts Vernon just as he is sworn in by Hady as the new district attorney. The only reason Two Face abducts Vernon is because Dent blames him for sabotaging all of his cases against Mario even though Vernon denies it. Gordon and the team realize what Dent is doing, but things become conflicting when Mayor Hady provides a shoot to kill order against Dent. Blaine fails to prevent Two-Face from kidnapping Mario from Falcone Industries and informs Gordon of it. Blake's suspension is lifted by Gordon. Finally, Montoya and Bullock are able to find Two-Face when Lucius informs them that Two-Face could be at the gymnasium where Dent used to play basketball with Bruce Wayne before Wayne's departure from Gotham. Montoya arrives and Bullock follows where they find Dent torturing Mario and Vernon. Dent kills Vernon. Montoya tries to reason with him, but Dent claims that crime "didn't just melt my body, he melted my mind. I'm a freak inside and out!" After a fight with Mario, Two-Face nearly kills him, but was stopped by Montoya, who begged him not to cross the line and get blood on his hands. Two-Face then commented that he never thought he'd see Montoya defend a mobster, before he sadly asked: "Renee, what's become of us?" before he allowed himself to be arrested by Bullock. Montoya later visits Two Face at Arkham Asylum in the end.

6."Duty of the Huntress"-Blake and Montoya are asked by Gordon to investigates a series of mob killings carried out by a crossbow-wielding vigilante. Meanwhile, Mario sends Blaine and his sadistic right-hand-man Victor Zsasz to retrieve a diamond embedded with the account numbers to the fortune of the Maroni crime family, who were massacred years ago. Young pickpocket Cassandra "Cass" Cain steals the diamond from Zsasz and swallows it after she is arrested. Zsasz informs Roman that Cassandra has the diamond, and Blaine warns the GCPD about the situation. Mario puts out a bounty on Cassandra's head. The vigilante known as the Huntress breaks into the GCPD and frees Cassandra, thus escaping. The "crossbow killer" is revealed to be Sofia Falcone, Mario's younger sister. Sofia reveals that Mario is responsible for killing their father Carmine Falcone years ago when Carmine wanted to retire from crime. After being trained as an assassin, Sofia has been targeting each of the gangsters responsible for Carmine's murders, preferring the moniker of "The Huntress". Sofia urges Cassandra to hide out with her at an abandoned amusement park. Mario finds out from the police files that Hady gives him that Sofia is the "crossbow killer" and tracks to an abandoned amusement park. Mario arrives with a small army of masked criminals, known collectively as the False Face Society. Huntress and Cassandra are able to repel their attack only for Mario to succeed in kidnapping Cassandra. Sofia pursues Mario on her motorbike. At a nearby pier, the final confrontation occurs. Roman prepares to kill Cassandra, but she pulls the ring from a grenade that she slipped in his jacket after taking it from Sofia's weapons chest earlier. Sofia throws Mario off the pier just before the grenade detonates and kills him. Unknown to everyone, Mario survives.