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| “ | Before you die, you're gonna feel your pecker burn. | „ |
| ~ Tommy torturing Lincoln. |
Tommy Marcano is a major antagonist in the 2016 video game Mafia III. He is a caporegime in the Marcano crime family and the youngest of the four Marcano brothers.
He was voiced by Christopher Corey Smith, who also voiced Emperor Mateus in Final Fantasy II, Oropo in Wakfu, The Joker in the LEGO Batman series, Albus in Skullgirls, Malak, Gold Watchers, Clown Gremlins, and Goliath Clowns in Dark Deception, Molag Bal in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Lord Betrayus in Pac Man and the Ghostly Adventures.
Biography[]
Past[]
Tommy was born in New Bordeaux, Louisiana, in 1924. His father was Valerio Marcano, a low-level enforcer for the Carillo Crime Family. His parents were dirt poor, and he lived with his siblings in a shanty in the neighborhood of River Row. Of the four Marcano brothers, Tommy was the youngest, with Lou Marcano being 16 at the time of Tommy's birth.
He and his brothers emulated their father from the start, getting involved in juvenille delinquincy and other crimes from an early age. At one point, Tommy's three older brothers were convicted of breaking and entering and sentenced to unspecified terms of imprisonment in the state peninteniary in Cordoba, Louisiana. Tommy was not an accomplice to that crime, arguably because of his young age. When his brothers Louis, Lucio, and Sal were sent up the river, Tommy was still in elementary school. Tommy had been considered a troublemaker by his teachers, and was ordered to repeat the sixth grade due to truancy and constant disruptive behavior.
During adolescence, Tommy seemed to have tempered his bad attitude to some extent. He graduated high school, likely avoiding major disciplinary violations. By this time his parents were dead and his brothers had established the Marcano Crime Family.
Sal had seemed to have high regard for Tommy, likely as he was the "baby of the family". It could have been surmised that the Marcano siblings were dropouts; as such Sal considered Tommy's successful completion of high school a worthy accomplishment. When Tommy finished his education Sal had ruled the underworld of New Bordeaux. The political clout and immense money he made from this made him more successful than his parents, and with his ill-gotten wealth he tried to convince Tommy of a better path in life. Sal considered Tommy a "smart kid" and urged him to use his brain for something legitimate. He discouraged Tommy from stopping after high school and enouraged him to continue his academics, graduate from higher education and become a respected professional, then find employment at a reputable law or accounting firm and "do something useful with your life", such as working for a noted business, being a self-employed professional, or even running for political office. Sal also promised to pay Tommy's way through the university.
Tommy however, disagreed with that idea and was confident his high school diploma was enough. He wanted to join his brothers in the Marcano Crime Family. Sal approved that course of action and sent Tommy to Cuba, which at the time was very profitable for mobsters, especially gambling, having been known as "Latin Las Vegas". Also sent to Cuba was a low-level, but older mobster Frank Pagani, who served as a mentor to the young Tommy. The regime of Fulgencio Batista was very profitable for organized crime, and by all accounts Tommy did "a bang-up job" managing a casino in Havana which was owned by the Marcanos.
However, all that changed in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, when communism made sweeping changes to the country. Fidel Castro turned all farms, ranches, and fishing wharves into collectives, voided all leases and mortgages, and nationalized many businesses in Cuba. Casinos did not fare well in Cuba, in fact when the rebels reached Havana, one of their first targets was the casinos. The rebels smashed the barricaded doors, forcing their way into the air-conditioned, plushly carpeted casinos, and smashing up card tables and slot machines. The casinos had been prime targets due to their association with corruption, decadence, greed, and wasted money. As one of the natives later remarked, "By the time the sun came up on January 2nd, {1959}, you could not find one pair of matching dice in Havana".
The nascent Castro regime had also been as oppressive as any other, ordering opponents, landowner and capitalists (or suspected opponents) jailed and executed. The communists marked all American gangsters for death, which included Tommy Marcano. Frank Pagani had connections with the Cuban police. Remnants of police forces still loyal to Batista grabbed Tommy before Castro's goons could kill him. Tommy was smuggled out of Cuba. Upon his return to the States, an overjoyed Sal Marcano was happy to see his brother home in one piece. Although the loss of their Cuban casinos was a big financial hit for the Mafia, Sal praised Tommy for good work. He felt Tommy had proved himself and gave him control of the Southdowns district of New Bordeaux. As a reward for getting Tommy to safety, Sal Marcano promoted Frank Pagani to lieutenant and awarded him control of the Tickfaw Harbor district.
Tommy runs two rackets in Southdowns. One is a red market where goons steal items, namely electronic equipment and household appliances, then "fence" them by selling them on the street. This allows the middle-class residents of Southdowns to be able to afford "a Frisco Fields lifestyle" by buying stolen furs and other luxury items, as well as allowing the lower-class residents of River Row, Delray Hollow, and Bayou Fantom goods that are normally out of their budgets, such as toasters and television sets.
The other is a gambling racket, which harkened back to his days in Cuba. Though less glamourous then the casino he managed in Havana, it still is a good moneymaking venture. Sal has been pleased that Tommy had made money from Southdowns, which is generally considered to be a middle-class neighborhood. Tommy also owns a gymnasium where he hosts illegal boxing matches, known as "jungle fights", where black boxers fight for the amusement of white men.
One such boxer was named Alcee Bennett, who had once been a member of the Black Mob under Sammy Robinson until he was caught skimming. He was kicked out of the Black Mob and banished from Delray Hollow, the neighborhood he grew up in. At some point he fell in with Tommy Marcano as a boxer, and had been so proficient that when he got too old and weak for active boxing Tommy gave him a job as a fight promoter, going around the city looking for new athletes to participate in the jungle fights. Although Alcee seems to be a good boxing manager, he was also warned by Tommy's men that should he falter in his duties they would "throw your tired old broken down butt back in the ring!"
When Lincoln Clay had a vendetta against Sal Marcano, he had Southdowns in his sight. Prior to this, he had attacked Tickfaw Harbor and fought Frank Pagani, whom before dying confessed that Giorgi Marcano had stolen printing plates from the Federal Reserve. Lincoln, who participated in the grand theft as well, realized there was more than meets the eye, as he expected to steal several million dollars. While Marcano wanted that as well, the ill-gotten money had only been "icing on the cake". Now Sal Marcano had a means to counterfeit as much money as he wished, where he was likely going to use it to cover construction and other costs of building a casino from the ground up.
However, Sal Marcano had no printing skllls. As Lincoln Clay's sidekick John Donovan later testified before the U.S. Senate, Marcano originally attempted to do the counterfeiting himself, but he failed to duplicate money properly. He then delegated the counterfeiting responsibility to Tommy. Tommy used connections he made in Cuba to hire a printer named Alvarez, who had been conscripted by Fidel Castro's government into making counterfeit American money as part of an effort to sabotage the US economy. Frank Pagani smuggled Alvarez into the States, where he settled into Tickfaw Harbor and was put to work. However, by coincidence, Lincoln lost his chance to get to Alvarez, as Tommy Marcano needed Alvarez to do some work at his printing press in the Acadia Gym in Southdowns, and had picked him up fifteen minutes prior to Lincoln's assault on Pagani.
Tommy continued overseeing his two rackets. His management style had been to put the rackets under a microscope at first, but then when he was confident his underlings could get the work done, then take a more "hands off" approach. John Donovan remarked that Tommy is not the kind of guy "who shits where he eats", and as such took a calculated, intelligent approach to being a Mafioso. Tommy has turned a good profit while being able to stay quiet, and as such is much less dependent on police graft than the lieutenants or other two capos, Olivia Marcano and Louis Marcano, who are also his respective sister-in-law and brother. Tommy has installed two racket bosses, Arthur "Sweetmeat" Higgins and John "Two Dicks" Peralta, to respectively run his red market and gambling rackets.
Lincoln Clay attacks Southdowns through the help of two contacts. One is a boxer known as Daniel "Sweet Danny" Little, whose training for an upcoming fight was derailed when "Two Dicks" pressured him into taking a dive. The other contact is a department store owner known as Grant Perdue, who conspired to get his trucks hijacked by Artie Higgins for insurance fraud, only Artie would not quit. Lincoln dismantled both rackets and diverted the questionable loyalty of both Higgins and Peralta away from the Marcanos. The attacks in Southdowns frightened Alvarez, who fled to Bayou Fantom. John Donovan wiretapped an international call Alvarez placed, which he later translated for Lincoln Clay (who could not speak Spanish). Donovan deciphered that Alvarez reached out to a Cuban smuggler named Zarraga, who was Alvarez's uncle, for help in getting him back to his native Cuba. Zarraga promised to send a boat and told him to wait by the Anderson Bay Lighthouse.
What Alvarez failed to realize was that Zarranga's loyalty was greater to Tommy Marcano than to his own nephew, as he had been a policeman under the Batista regime who help Frank Pagani smuggle Tommy Marcano away from Cuba and had provided heavy security to Marcano's casino when Batista was still in power. Zarraga called Sal Marcano to inform him where Alvarez had scurried off, who in turn called his brother Tommy and demanded Alvarez be recaptured. Lincoln then got to the Anderson Bay Lighthouse pronto. Through an uneasy understanding and language barrier, Alvarez realized Lincoln was not there to hurt him and that he had been used by the Marcanos. However, their escape was blocked by hordes of Tommy Marcano's men, who fought Lincoln and later chased him by car. Shaking off the pursuers, Lincoln took Alvarez to the French Ward to explain the situation to Father James. The good Monsignor was reluctant at first, but when he realized the nonimmigrant had been through a lot and has nowhere else to go, he agreed to help, replying in Spanish that his door was open, and Alvarez responded in his native tongue to show thanks for the invitation. Father James explains that he has a Jesuit friend who helps refugees, and he will take Alvarez to see him in New Mexico.
When Sal Marcano learned of Alvarez's disappearance, he was furious. He called Tommy to his office for a dressing down. Tommy's orders were to recapture Alvarez alive. Tommy protested that his idea was to keep Alvarez locked up, but Sal was the one who vetoed that idea, saying they would risk pissing off Zarraga if they put his nephew under lock and key. Sal then asked where are the money plates, to which Tommy answered at his gymnasium in Southdowns. Sal asked who is guarding the press and plates, to which Tommy sheepishly responded "No one". Sal angrily called Tommy an idiot and ordered him to get over to the Acacia Gym, surmising that if Lincoln Clay knew about Alvarez, then it stands to reason he knows about the counterfeiting racket. Sal ended his tirade with the importance of counterfeiting to finance mounting construction costs and other expenses associated with the forthcoming casino which were getting out of hand. Later, John Donovan remarked to Lincoln that Tommy was back at the gym overseeing the jungle fights as managing an illegal boxing ring was his last source of income, and that cancelling the fights would have caused Tommy to lose face in the underworld, which he could not risk.
Lincoln sought out Alcee Bennett, who was eating a meal at the Briar Patch. Alcee was happy to see Lincoln after being presumed dead and the subsequent disbanding of the Black Mob, but when he expressed his condolences for Ellis and Sammy Lincoln angrily said not to say their names. Alcee whined that he has been an outsider in Delray Hollow, his childhood neighborhood, having been banished by Sammy. Lincoln said Alcee had to face the music as a result of his defalcation from the Black Mob. When Alcee said he could not so much as visit his terminally ill mother, Lincoln somewhat more sympathetically said his plans: that he wanted in on the jungle fights.
Somewhat taken aback, Alcee wondered why, to which Lincoln said the why is not important, just that Alcee as a fight manager will get him past Tommy's guards. In exchange, Alcee will be forgiven for his past sins and be free to come and go in Delray Hollow as he pleases. Alcee took Lincoln to the Acadia Gym, where he registered Lincoln as a fighter under the name "Jackknife Johnson". Lincoln fights two brawlers named Bobby Ledoux and Nick "Boom Boom" Beaumont. He then is then pitted against the current champion of the jungle fights, "Gravedigger" Vaughn. After defeating Vaughn, Lincoln meets up with Alcee, who says he is about to leave and that Tommy Marcano meets with all new champions to give them their purse and to see if they were a one-time deal or if they should be kept on in the jungle fights.
Lincoln is met in the locker room by Tommy Marcano, who knows Lincoln's true identity and accuses him of being an idiot for trying to infiltrate the gym. Lincoln remarks he has never been a man to shy away from a calculated risk. One of Tommy's men then hits Lincoln on the head, rendering him unconscious. When Lincoln comes to, he is now on the second floor tied to a weight machine. Tommy is dousing Lincoln with liquid from a jerry can, saying how he mixed vegetable oil with gasoline to increase its viscosity. For now, he will allow the mixture to get affixed to Lincoln's body, "settle into every nook and cranny". Tommy boasts that when he starts the fire, "you are going to feel your pecker burn" before expiring and that his mixture will "burn like napalm".
While Tommy is boastful about this, Lincoln is clandestinely working to free himself by fraying the ropes against the post of the weight machine. Once free, he kills three goons, then finally subdues Tommy. The defeated capo is sitting down on the floor with his back to the printing press, saying "You do not have to do this; we can work something out", to which Lincoln replies "Only thing that needs to work out are your funeral arrangements", as Lincoln takes the jerry can and pours it around the room to destroy the printing press and the stacks of counterfeit money. He also recovers the stolen plates by putting them in a duffel bag slung over his shoulder.
Realizing his last hour has come, Tommy confides in Lincoln the story of how Sal wanted him to go to the university and find work at a law or accounting firm, possibly even run for public office; i.e. "do something useful with my life". Lincoln coldly answers "You should have listened to him". Tommy says that it was his destiny, as well as Lincoln's, to be in the Marcano Crime Family and Black Mob, respectively. Lincoln agrees with that and says "You are who you are, and there is no reason to argue with that."
He ends the conversation by lighting a cigar lighter and throwing it onto the gasoline-vegetable oil mixture, causing the Acadia Gym to go up in flames, which kills Tommy. Lincoln must then fight his way out of the inferno, which proves to be a hazard to both friend and foe. Besides the gun battles, soon Lincoln and the goons are coughing from too much smoke inhalation. Lincoln makes his way to the streets of Southdowns, where he sees that the fire department has arrived at the Acadia Gym. The New Bordeaux Police have accompanied the firemen, causing Lincoln to beat a hasty retreat.
Post-Mortem[]
There are three cutscenes that will play, dependent on the order in which Tommy was killed:
First Capo Killed[]
Sal Marcano is gazing at a photo of himself and Tommy, then yells for his son to get in his office. Sal says the reason they are having this talk is that he wants to be the first man to tell his son of a family matter; Uncle Tommy is dead. Giorgi offers his condolences, knowing how much his father valued his youngest brother. Sal seems choked up saying of how Tommy was a smart kid who had potential, and how he wanted Tommy to go to college, even offering to pay for the full ride, but instead Tommy went to Cuba. Giorgi remarks that his father did not make that decision and that Tommy was responsible for his own path in life. Sal remarks they are royally fucked; as Tommy was responsible for the financial aspect and Sal was dependent on the bogus money to finance the casino.
Now that the printing press and paper have been destroyed and the plates have vanished, they have no more means of counterfeiting money and are unable to know how to pay for mounting construction costs of the casino. Giorgi makes a suggestion that they ramp up collections and really stick it to the customers of their rackets, but Sal overrules that idea, saying "you can only punch so many holes in a barrel before it empties out". Giorgi suggests bring in Leo Galante, but Sal is unsure of this, saying that if Galante is brought on board, he is going to expect a cut of the casino's profits, and the entire point of the casino was to go straight and get out from under the Commission. Giorgi says they will think of something, and is excused by his father, saying he has a call to make. When Giorgi is out of earshot, Sal picks up the phone, saying "Leo, how the fuck are you?!"
Second Capo Killed[]
Sal Marcano meets with Nino Santangelo, a heroin kingpin. Marcano says that his son Giorgi has been dealing heroin behind his back, and that he is the man supplying Giorgi. Sal explains why he came down on his son like an iceberg hitting an ocean liner; he never wanted heroin in New Bordeaux as it makes people do crazy things, which he says as he is pouring a drink for himself then says "Bourbon?", offering one to his guest. Santangelo declines, saying he does not drink. Sal explains that Tommy was killed, and Santangelo offers his condolences. Sal says how it is a loss to him as Tommy was smart and was responsible for counterfeiting.
He explains that he is building a casino. Santangelo says they both know why he is here; he wants his money. Sal explains that construction costs are mounting, but is interrupted by Santangelo, who bluntly remarked that the reason Sal called this meeting is that he wants Santangelo's money. If the next sentence that Sal composes does not include the four words, "I want your money" then the deal is off. Santangelo says "Say those words, please". Sal says "Very well, I want your money".
Nino Santangelo says it shall be done; he will sell heroin freely in the city and Sal will not interfere in any way. In exchange, he will make sure the money gets to Sal. As he is about to leave, Sal says there is something else. Santangelo asks "Let me guess, you want me to kill the n*g**r Lincoln Clay?" Sal replies in the affirmative, and Santangelo says he will also do that, but unconditionally. Santangelo remarks "I will do that for free, because I really love killing the n$%gg$#s."
Third Capo Killed[]
Sal is sitting by himself in his office, and is trying to hold back tears. He does not cry, however, and regains his composure after downing a glass of whiskey. He was staring at a framed photograph, which he then places on a shelf. The photograph shows Tommy posing with Sal. Sal bellows for his son to get in his office. Giorgi promptly enters and Sal tells him the news; "Your uncle Tommy is dead". Giorgi offers his condolences, knowing how much his father valued his youngest brother. In a choking tone of voice, Sal remarks how Tommy was smart and could have done something professional and legitimate with his life. Sal tells his son that before Giorgi was born he had been looking after Tommy as both their parents were dead. When Tommy graduated high school, Sal suggested furthering his education, even offering to pay Tommy's way throughout college. "Instead, he went to Cuba", Sal says with a remorseful tone of voice, suggesting that maybe Tommy's death could have been avoided if he put his foot down and refused to let his brother be a part of the Marcano Crime Family. Sal then remarks "Welp, my son, we are fucked."
Giorgi wonders why his father would make a statement like that and Sal's mood then becomes angry, saying if Giorgi shot Lincoln Clay that night at Sammy's, none of this would be happening. Giorgi protests that he did shoot Lincoln Clay, to which his father responds "Once, you shot him once!" Sal says the reason why they are fucked is that he has called in every favor and has exhausted every line of credit he could think of, but none of it has made a difference, as he is now "leveraged out the ass". With all his capos dead and lieutenants gone, the two of them are alone and powerless.
Sal warns that they can no longer scare the people and "every lowlife ball of piss" in New Bordeaux "smells blood in the water", and that they would step over their own grandmothers to clip them as they would have bragging rights about being the guy who killed Don Marcano. Sal is aware that he would not last ten minutes on the streets. Giorgi suggests salvaging whatever assets they can and using the cash to pay whatever men remain and have them meet up at the Paradiso Hotel & Casino. Sal chuckles, saying he is glad Giorgi can finally use his brain. When Lincoln Clay shows up to North Lake, they will plant him in the ground next to them. Sal orders his son to muster their men at the casino.
Trivia[]
- Lincoln's last words to Tommy will differ dependent on which order he is killed. For example, if Lou was killed before, he will remark how he will be reunited with Lou. If Tommy is the first capo to be killed, Lincoln will say "Don't worry, Lou and Sal will be on their way to be with you in Hell".
- When the objective of "Kill Tommy Marcano" concludes, Lincoln will be hosting a sit-down with Cassandra, Thomas Burke and Vito Scaletta (unless they were killed in betrayal missions prior). Before he makes his decision which underboss should manage the neighborhood, he remarks that despite being an enemy, Tommy Marcano ran an efficient, organized fiefdom, which will make it easy for the awarded underboss to earn immediately.
