Fan Casting "Mama" Moretti in Velvet Street Blues

she is: The matriarch of a fading era. While Silas Sterling represents the "New Mafia"—all spreadsheets, offshore accounts, and clean fingernails—Mama Moretti is the smell of gunpowder and Sunday sauce. She runs her territory out of a dimly lit backroom that the modern world forgot. she knows her time is passing, but she refuses to let a "hollow suit" like Silas strip-mine her city. She doesn't help Jack Vane because she likes him; she helps him because Jack is a wrecking ball, and she wants to aim him at Silas’s glass house. She is the Rust. She is the friction in Silas’s perfect gears, representing the old-school street codes that the new criminals are too "refined" to follow.