An unrecognizable Colin Farrell returns to Gotham in first The Penguin teaser

“When I was a kid, there was a gangster, real old-school type,” he opens. “Rex Calabrese. He was a big deal. He helped people. He saw you on the street, he’d call out to you. When I was 14 or something, he has a heart attack and dies, still holding a cigar. In my neighborhood, they throw a parade in his honor. A friggin’ parade. It wasn’t fancy, but it was a gesture, a show of love, of what he meant. Can you imagine to be remembered like that?”

As the teaser ramps up, Cobb’s monologue is interspersed with clips of his violent rise through the ranks of Gotham’s brutal underground. There are knives, pistols, explosions, screaming—everything you’d expect from a mafia series centered on one of the most notorious villains in comic book history. It’s even better than a parade.

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer Lauren LeFranc is serving as showrunner, with Reeves executive producing. The rest of the cast is rounded out by Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown, and Michael Zegen.