New but not surprising. This is Gotham after all.
While Maria was dealing with that drug ring that had caught the interest of the Shiva and Scandal related people, Thomas had his own mystery to solve. Namely, tracking that massacre in the warehouse back to White and finding out how he was doing this and what he was up to. And of course finding out what that new team of his he'd hired was.

So Thomas made his way to find out where the contact Peters is, only to arrive just outside the warehouse to hear a scream of pain.

Shit, someone was here first.