nickname, "Penguin". Mooney and her boss, Mafia don Carmine Falcone (John Doman), order GCPD detectives Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) to execute Cobblepot, but Gordon lets him go. Cobblepot allies himself with Falcone and rival mob boss Sal Maroni (David Zayas), and climbs his way up the ladder of Gotham's criminal underworld through murder and treachery. He also instigates a mob war at the end of season one in which Maroni and Mooney are killed and Falcone is forced to leave town, leaving Cobblepot "the King of Gotham". Season 2 Cobblepot now controls all aspects of the city's crime. However, he is forced to help corrupt billionaire Theo Galavan (James Frain) in his campaign for mayor when Galavan's sister, Tabitha (Jessica Lucas), kidnaps Cobblepot's mother. Cobblepot obeys Galavan's orders to murder the rival candidates, but Tabitha kills Gertrud anyway. A heartbroken Cobblepot swears revenge and dedicates himself to destroying Galavan. He eventually succeeds in unraveling Galavan's criminal empire with help from Gordon, and he gets his revenge when he and Gordon kill Galavan together. Cobblepot is arrested for killing Galavan and sent to Arkham Asylum, where head psychiatrist Hugo Strange (B.D. Wong) subjects him to a series of psychological tortures that render him timid and harmless. After his release, he meets his wealthy biological father, Elijah Van Dahl (Paul Reubens, who also portrayed the Penguin's father in the 1992 film Batman Returns), who takes him into his family. Van Dahl's wife Grace (Melinda Clarke) and stepchildren are plotting to kill him and inherit his fortune, and use Cobblepot in their schemes. After they kill Elijah, they make Cobblepot their servant. When he discovers what they have done, his conditioning wears off and he becomes his old self again. Angered by the loss of his father, he takes brutal revenge: he slaughters his step-siblings and cooks them into a pot roast, feeding them to Grace before killing her as well. As Van Dahl's only living relative, Cobblepot inherits his father's fortune. Upon learning that the vigilante Azrael is the recently resurrected Theo Galavan, Cobblepot and his henchman Butch Gilzean (Drew Powell) kill him with a missile launcher. After Arkham is overrun with Strange's mutated "experiments", Cobblepot arrives there to kill Strange – only to find that the doctor has also revived Fish Mooney. Season 3 Six months later, Cobblepot leads an angry mob against Mooney and Strange's