[Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for “The Penguin” Episode 5, “The City Took Them”]

It’s the scene Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) transforms into a crime boss. Walking into the dining room where father Carmine (Mark Strong) held court, donning her mother’s fur coat over a black slip dress, she bluntly tells the family’s remaining mid-level gangsters she gassed their bosses (“and I’m so glad they are dead”), before putting a bullet in the head of Johnny Viti (Michael Kelly), the one capo up until then she had spared.

“My family disposed of my mother like she was nothing, then they did the same to me,” says Sofia in Episode 5 of “The Penguin.” “My father’s legacy is dead. And we will never speak his name again. From this point on I am a Gigante, and this is a new family now.”

In the Batman comic books, Sofia Falcone does become Sofia Gigante, but...