The Batcomputer Database & Codex: Information
Real Name: Alberto Falcone
Occupation: Professional Criminal
Based In: Gotham City
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Black
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 150 Ibs
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Profile
The Falcones are one of Gotham's most powerful crime families. Carmine Falcone has ruled his part of the city for years but has started losing ground to newcomers Black Mask and Cobblepot. Still, the Falcone family remains active throughout Gotham - posing a threat to the safety and security of its citizens.
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Notes
- Son of mob boss Carmine Falcone
- Medical records indicate a history of mental illness
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Enigma Extortion Data:
Alberto Falcone: Yes?
Harleen Quinzel: Mr. Falcone, this is Dr. Strange's office calling.
Alberto Falcone: Right. Sorry. I missed my last appointment. I had to -
Harleen Quinzel: Actually, you missed your last two appointments.
Alberto Falcone: Yeah, right, right. Look, I appreciate the doctor's concern, but I have it under control now. There's no need for any further treatment.
Harleen Quinzel: I'm afraid Dr. Strange doesn't feel the same way, Alberto. We would hate to take unnecessary chances when we've come so far.
Alberto Falcone: Listen. I'm not one of Stranges' test subjects to be poked and prodded. Have you forgotten who I am? Who my father is?
Harleen Quinzel: I believe your father would be most concerned that his son could be suffering from untreated psychological issues.
Alberto Falcone: Is that a threat?
Harleen Quinzel: So we'll expect you at the regular time next week?
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Alberto Falcone: Hello? Who's this?
Black Mask: A friend of the family.
Alberto Falcone: Sionis, what do you want?
Black Mask: Just a social call. Reaching out to the community, you might say.
Alberto Falcone: Go on
Black Mask: Your father and I did not always see eye-to-eye, but we had much in common. Common interests, common traditions.
Alberto Falcone: I can't really speak for my father or the family.
Black Mask: That's not how you made it sound at Cucionotta the other night.
Alberto Falcone: How did you know I was ---
Black Mask: Relax, Alberto. There's nothing like good food and wine to loosen the tongue, am I right? But, next time you want to discuss your future though, it's somewhere more private. And I own just the place.
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"Holiday": Hello, Sionis.
Black Mask: Who the Hell's this? What time is it?
"Holiday": Time to get your affairs in order, Roman. There is a change in the air, and the wolves descend on Gotham.
Black Mask: Listen, you little piece of crap! I don't know who you are or who you work for ---
"Holiday": I answer to a higher power than you - I am a higher power than you! And one day soon, you will have much to answer for.
Black Mask: Nobody speaks to me ----
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The son of Carmine Falcone and heir of the Falcone crime family, Alberto Falcone was an ambitious man who sought to rise in the ranks of the organisation, by his own merit, and follow in his father's footsteps.
Undergoing therapy with Dr Hugo Strange to tackle issues surrounding his troubled upbringing, Alberto quickly came to hate his therapist. He began questioning Strange’s motives after learning about the doctor’s side projects and experiments. Wishing to sever all ties with him, he deliberately skipped their sessions, as well as refused to continue with his treatment. However, this act of defiance was met by swift retaliation by Strange, who threatened to inform Carmine of his son's untreated psychological condition; a split personality, dubbed "Holiday" that not only despised organised crime but also revelled in killing Gotham's mobsters, even those with connections to his own family.
Alberto became an unwitting pawn in Roman Sionis' bid to take complete control of Gotham's criminal underworld. When Black Mask overhead Falcone discussing his plans for the future of the organisation - once it officially passed to him - he attempted to blackmail the young man into becoming an informant, passing one key information about Carmine's - one of his biggest competitors - movements.
However, this backfired, resulting in the emergence of Holiday. Enraged by Sionis' audacity, he calls Black Mask late one night to tell the man that he will be one of the first to fall when the underworld's power dynamic shifts.
Once again, around Christmas Eve, Alberto would be the target of his father’s rivals, when both he and his bodyguard were kidnapped by the Penguin, aka Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, an up-and-coming mobster and racketeer. Brought to Cobblepot's stronghold aboard the Final Offer, he was the subject of a violent and one-sided negotiation. Originally defiant to the Penguin's demands, that the Falcone Family permanently retire from the weapons trade, he is quick to relent after being assaulted with a cattle prod, agreeing to the request and begging that Oswald let him go and relay the message to Carmine.
Before Cobblepot can do any further harm to Alberto, he is rescued by the vigilante Batman, escaping in the chaos.