Luke Cage is soul brother number one! But I want you to ask yourselves one thing. Who is he really, Luke Cage?
Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Luke Cage (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Reverend James Lucas (First full appearance)
- NYPD
- Detective Misty Knight (Rejoins)
- Captain Ridenhour (First appearance)
- Detective Rafael Scarfe (Mentioned)
- Inspector Priscilla Ridley (Mentioned)
- Unnamed members
- D.W. Griffith
- Bobby Fish
- Claire Temple
Antagonists:
- Stokes Crime Family
- Shades (Hernan Alvarez)
- Mariah Dillard (Main story and flashback)
- Comanche (Joins)
- Sugar
- Yardies (First appearance)
- Bushmaster (Johnny) (First appearance) (Joins)
- Sheldon (First appearance) (Joins)
- Nigel Garrison (First appearance; dies)
- Unnamed members
- El Tercero (Arturo "El Rey" Gomez III) (First appearance)
- Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Jesus Christ (Mentioned)
- Barack Obama (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (Mentioned)
- Malcolm X (Mentioned)
- Lord (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
- Muhammad Ali (Named only)
- Nelson Mandela (Named only)
- Richard Roundtree (Named only)
- Al Pacino (Named only)
- Pat Riley (Named only)
- Howard Bingham (Mentioned)
- Joey Ross (First appearance)
- Pop (Mentioned)
- Crispus Attucks (Mentioned)
- Matt Murdock (Mentioned)
- Colleen Wing (Mentioned)
- Donald Harrison
- "Piranha" Jones (First appearance)
- Atreus Plastics (Mentioned)
- Mark Higgins (Photo)
- Glenn Industries (Mentioned)
- Dow Chemical Company (Mentioned)
- Soledad Temple (Mentioned)
- FDNY (Mentioned)
- Hammer Advanced Weapons Systems (Mentioned)
- Etta Lucas (Mentioned)
- Tyler Stuart (Mentioned)
- Stokes Crime Family
- Stephanie / "Billie" (First appearance) (Joins)
- Mamma Mabel (Photo)
- Diablos (Mentioned)
- Arturo Gomez (Photo)
- New York Bulletin (Newspaper)
- King Arthur (Mentioned)
- Joi
- Domingo Colon (Mentioned)
- Nevile Barnwell (Only in recap)
- Diamondback (Willis Stryker) (Only in recap)
- William Shakespeare (Mentioned)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (Mentioned)
- Tupac Shakur (Mentioned)
- D-Nice
- Thembi Wallace (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-199999 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Harlem
- Malcolm X Boulevard
- Harlem's Paradise
- 29th Precinct Police Station
- Colon's Gym (Only in flashback)
- St. Nicholas Avenue (Only in flashback)
- Crispus Attucks Complex (Only in flashback)
- Midland Circle Financial Building, Hell's Kitchen (Mentioned)
- Chrysler Building
- Empire State Building
- Brooklyn (Mentioned)
- Crown Heights (Mentioned)
- Washington Heights (Mentioned)
- Harlem
- Queens (Mentioned)
- Statue of Liberty (Photo)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Georgia (Only in flashback)
- Seagate Prison (First appearance chronologically) (Only in flashback)
- New York
- Cayman Islands (Mentioned)
- Jamaica (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Harlem's Hero (First appearance)
- The Graduate (Mentioned)
- Hammer Assault Rifle
- Judas Bullet
- Waze (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Synopsis
Synopsis not yet written
Cast
Character | Actor |
---|---|
Luke Cage | Mike Colter |
Detective Misty Knight | Simone Missick |
Shades / Hernan Alvarez | Theo Rossi |
Bushmaster / John McIver | Mustafa Shakir |
Mariah Dillard | Alfre Woodard |
Claire Temple | Rosario Dawson |
Reverend James Lucas | Reg E. Cathey |
Bobby Fish | Ron Cephas Jones |
Captain Tom Ridenhour | Peter Jay Fernandez |
Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton | Dorian Crossmond Missick |
Sheldon | Kevin Mambo |
Comanche | Thomas Q. Jones |
Arturo "El Rey" Gomez III | Otto Sanchez |
D.W. Griffith | Jeremiah Richard Craft |
Raymond "Piranha" Jones | Chaz Lamar Shepherd |
Sugar | Sean Ringgold |
Nigel Garrison | Macc H. Plaise |
Mark Higgins | Jeorge Watson |
Stephanie aka Billie | Tarah Rodgers |
Joey Ross | Jacob Wallach |
Corner Kid | Eric Lockley |
Notes
- The title of the episode is named after the song "Soul Brother #1" from the album Mecca and the Soul Brother by Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
- The songs featured in this episode are:
- "Shook Ones (Part II)" by Mobb Deep played diegetically
- "Dat's Jazz" performed by Donald Harrison
- "Night Nurse" by Gregory Isaacs
- Musical performances by Joi:
- "No Grey Matter (Not Because You Owe Me)"
- "I Love You Forever Right Now"
- "What If I Kissed You Right Now?"
- "He Needs Me" by Nina Simone"
Trivia
- Dorian Crossmond Missick, who debuts as Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton in this episode, is the husband of series regular Simone Missick.