- "Before you die, you're gonna feel your pecker burn."
- — Tommy Marcano
Tommy Marcano is a main character in Mafia III.
History[]
Background[]
Tommy Marcano is Sal Marcano's youngest brother and a capo in the Marcano Crime Family. He's an entrepreneur with a vision for diversifying the gambling and black market rackets he controls out of Southdowns. While he's very adept at setting up lucrative rackets, once they're up and running he sits back and lets others run things.
Running Casinos[]
While his brothers Sal, Lou, and Lucio were doing time upstate in Cordoba, Tommy was repeating the sixth grade for being delinquent. By the time he finished high school, Sal's running the city and wants Tommy to make something of himself and go to college. But Tommy has other plans - he doesn't want an education, and he wants to work in the family business. So when Sal opens his casinos in Havana, Cuba in the late 1940s, he puts Tommy in charge.
In Cuba, Tommy excels in the casino business. The money is rolling in like never before and Tommy even manages to keep the local police pacified. Unfortunately, when Fidel Castro seizes control of Havana in 1959, he starts executing anyone who was allied (or suspected of being affiliated) with the former government. Tommy had been targeted by Castro's soldiers, but Cuban policemen still loyal to Batista spirit Tommy out of Havana before Frank Pagani finally smuggles Tommy back to the States.[1]
Criminal Rackets[]
Back in New Bordeaux, Tommy makes it clear that he wants Southdowns, and Sal's more than happy to go along with it. Using the skills he developed in Cuba, Tommy consolidates and expands the types of gambling he offers. This includes everything from makeshift casinos and high stakes card games to back alley fights. If there's action in it, Tommy's taking a piece. He runs a sports book out of the Wilcock's Saloon, and he's also setting up illegal fights at The Acadia gym. Aspects of Tommy's gambling racket are tucked into every nook and cranny of Southdowns.
When Tommy's not making money from gambling, he supplements his earn by hijacking trucks and selling the contents on the black market out of Mama Righetti's Bakery. He sells the middle-class locals of Southdowns a Frisco-style lifestyle off the back of a truck. Some of those same furs, jewels, cigarettes, and electronics get sold to out-of-town fences for even more profit.
Counterfeiting Operation[]
When the counterfeit money operation Sal tried to get running failed, he delegated it to Tommy, who set it up in his boxing gym. Using connections from his days in Havana, Tommy contacted the former head of security for his casinos, who had a nephew named Alvarez that was an expert counterfeiter, and brought him in to get things running smoothly.
Once Lincoln Clay began to turn up the heat on Tommy's other operations, Alvarez got spooked and called his uncle to get him out of the country, fleeing to the Anderson Bay Lighthouse to await his uncle's arrival. However, his uncle turned on him and notified the Marcanos of his nephew's plan. When they sent men to bring Alvarez back, Lincoln Clay intervened once again, killing Marcano's men. Clay convinced Alvarez that he could help him, where they fled to the French Ward to meet with Father James. The Monsignor was reluctant at first, but when Lincoln warned that Sal Marcano was going to tear the city apart looking for Alvarez, Father James said he knew a Jesuit in New Mexico who could help. Father James later confided with Lincoln that he was able to get Alvarez safely out of New Bordeaux.
Death[]
Knowing that Clay will come after the money plates next, Sal orders Tommy to get to the gym and protect them. Once there, Tommy sees Lincoln competing in his "jungle fights", and meets Lincoln with his men as he returns to the locker room. Tommy has his men tie Lincoln up, then covers him in a mixture of gasoline and vegetable oil, telling Lincoln it will soak into every nook and cranny of his body, and when lit, will burn like napalm.
Lincoln manages to break free of the ropes binding him and turns the tables on Tommy. Once subdued, Tommy reminisces about how he should have followed his brother's advice and done something worthwhile with his life. As he speaks, Lincoln collects the money plates and pours the rest of the gasoline mixture around the room. When he's done, Lincoln tells him, "You are who you are, there's no point arguing with yourself about it." He then tosses his lighter on the floor, sending Tommy and the gym up in flames. From here, Lincoln can either let Tommy burn alive, stab him to death, or shoot him.
Appearances[]
Mafia III[]
- The Connection to Cuba
- Burn Like Napalm (Killed)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- It is possible to kill Tommy before he burns alive by shooting him or with a knife execution.
- Dependent on which order the mission is done, Lincoln's remarks will differ. For example, if no capos have been killed prior to this mission, Lincoln will remark to Tommy how "your brothers will soon be on the way" to join him in damnation. If Lou Marcano was killed first, Lincoln will say "Say hello to Lou, Sal will be along shortly.".
- Sal Marcano seemed to genuinely adore Tommy, holding him in high regard and saying that he was a "smart kid" after Tommy was killed.
- If Tommy is the final capo to be killed, Sal will be on the verge of tears in the cutscene looking at a photo of Tommy after his death.
- Tommy Marcano is seen in the August 2015 reveal trailer of Mafia III where he is seen in the trunk of Lincoln's Samson Drifter beaten, and bound and gagged with duct tape, being tormented by Lincoln on the drive out to the bayou for his involvement in the massacre of the Black Mob. Lincoln then stabs Tommy in the chest, kicks him in the head, and leaves him mortally wounded on the edge of the swamp, where he is eaten alive by alligators as Vito Scaletta, Thomas Burke, and Cassandra look on in approval. This event does not happen in the final game, and Tommy is instead killed in a fire at his gym in Southdowns after being shot by Lincoln. The beta version of Tommy also had slightly longer hair and was more disheveled than the final version of Tommy.
- A character in the 1992 horror film Sleepwalkers was named Tommy Marcano. The naming of the game character of Tommy Marcano was entirely coincidental, based on a corruption of Carlos Marcello for Sal Marcano.