Friday 12 September 2014

Fish Mooney (Gotham)

Jada Pinkett Smith

First Appearance: Gotham Season 1 Episode 1- Pilot



A criminal club owner with aspirations to become a king-pin in Gotham's underworld.

Fish Mooney is the go to person when the G.C.P.D can't figure out what is happening in their cases. She is one of the many crime bosses who works for Carmine Falcone in his criminal empire in Gotham City. Harvey Bullock and Jim Gordon seek her out to discover any leads on the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne as the Theater district is her "turf."

Fish is out the back of the club, interrogating a henchmen, named Raul, who had apperently stolen money from her. She beats him with a baseball bat. She tells him that she "still cares for him" but goes on to tell him that she doesn't believe he does for her. When he replies that he does, she asks him where her money is and he says he will get it for her. She gives him another thump with the baseball bat, getting out the cover of Oswald Cobblepot's umbrella. She berates him threatingly saying "if you let this hair go frizzy, you will be" after he apologises to her. The bartender arrives and lets her know that that Bullock is waiting to see her and she tells them to "Keep him warm." She leaves, remov ing her coat and handing it to the bartender.

She greats Harvey in the club with a kiss and asking who "the friend" was. He introduces himsself and she calls him "a cool glass of milk," on edge and suscpiscous around him. He asks her is he had heard screaming and she sarcastically says that her men were watching a scary movie and then revealing that they were beating the Raul's "punk ass." Gordon looks like he is going to say something, but Bullock tells him to relax as Fish gets special privaleges by the G.C.P.D and some of her "staff" need a "firm hand." She asks him flirlty if if it wasn't a social call and if it was business, but Harvey tells her he is there about the Wayne murders. Fish replies that it was a "terrible thing" and Bullock sends Gordon away to see if anyone of the staff wanted to press charges, leaving the two of them alone to chat; after asking if it was alright with Fish to which she replies "Me casa is su casa."

Gordon returns to find both Fish and Harvey laughing and after he asks if everything was alright they kiss and leave saying it is "always nice to see you Harvey." As she watches James leave, she gives him a glower.

After discovering that Mooney had framed Mario Pepper for the murder of the Wayne's, Gordon goes to confront her. He walks in on her playing chess with herself and she addresses him with a very flat "how nice." He asks her what she and Harvey had been talking about while he was out back. She asks him if he shouldn't just ask Bullock, reminding him that they were both partners. He tells her that Bullock may lie to him and sh aggress, asking if he thought that she wouldn't. Gordon turns to leave after seeing two of her henchmen, telling her that she "already did." But she stops him stating that he has "a little danger in your eye" and asks what he "plans to do with that." When Gordon tells her she'll have to find out later, she replies that he "hates surprises." The henchmen begin to brawl with him until Fish knocks him unconscious with one of her desk lamps.

The next day, Fish is eating while watching a comdeian auditioning for her club and laughing at his dark sense of humour. She answers her phone and asks Gilzean to put Bullock on, when the former tells her that he latter arrived at the abbatoir, where Fish usually has her "problems" dealt with. She signals for the comedian to wait, but tells him that he is "doing great" Fish angrily answers and Bullock tells her that she has to let Gordon go and asking her rhetorically how long they had been friends. She tells them that the friendship had been long, but ended after doing him a favour and it "about to blow up in her face" because of Bullock's "stupidity." Bullock tells her the problem is Major Crimes not Gordon, to which to retorts by asking how they had gotten on to her. Bullock replies that Major Crimes found out, because someone talked. When she says that none of her people would snitch on her , Bullock tells her that is what everyone says. She looks around at Cobblepot, who smiles at her and she begins to get suscpiscous, before agreeing. He repeats that she has to let him go and if she doesn't he will be forced to come after her. She laughs and tells him that she will as long as he keeps him under control, asking him to put Gilzean back on the phone. She attitude immediatl changes and calls Harvey a "son of a bitch," ordering Gilzean to hang him up with Gordon for threating her.

Cobblepot pours her a glass of wine and her attitude changes for a third time, bleesing his heart and asking him if he would "be a good boy and rub my feet." She tells the comedian to give her a momment, saying she hasn't forgotten about him and she likes him, thinking him to be funny. She tells Cobblept that there used to be discapline in Gotham and that Falcone is getting "old and soft." She tells him it's time and that someone is going to take over the position so it might as well be her. He agrees and she compares him to a son, to which he agrees again. But she reveals how she doesn't understand why after "all I've done for you" and being on the "verge of greatness" he would betray her and asking why he would betray his "mother." When he tries to tell her he doesn't know what she is on about, she persits telling him that she knew Cobblepot had snitched to MCU as he was the only other person to see her with the pearls. She sits up as he tries to tell her it was Gilzean, but she retorts that Gilzean is loyal. He frantically says that he would open a vein if she asked him to, which she gives him the go ahead to, cleaning and handing him the knife she had used for her food. He tells her he was speaking "poetically" but she continues and tells him to prove his loyalty, gauding him by saying "my little Penguin." He tries to attach her but she knocks him down with a chair, taking up one of the chair legs and using it to brake Oswald's leg.


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