Marvel's Luke Cage Season 1 2

"Code of the Streets"
Release Date	September 30, 2016
Director(s)	Paul McGuigan
Writer(s)	Cheo Hodari Coker
Producer(s)	Aïda Mashaka Croal, Akela Cooper, Gail Barringer
Previous and Next Episodes
Previous	"Moment of Truth" (September 30, 2016)
Next	"Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" (September 30, 2016)

 Believe it or not, there's supposed to be rules to this shit. 

—Cottonmouth

Appearances

Featured Characters:

• Luke Cage (Main story and flashforward)

Supporting Characters:

• NYPD
  • Detective Mercedes "Misty" Knight (Name revealed)
  • Detective Rafael Scarfe (Full name revealed)
• Pop's Barber Shop (Disbands)
  • Bobby Fish (Full name revealed)
  • Pop (Henry) (Name revealed) (Main story and flashback) (Death)
  • Wilfredo "Chico" Diaz (Name revealed)

Antagonists:

• Turk Barrett
• Stokes Crime Family
  • Cottonmouth (Cornell Stokes) (Main story and flashback)
  • Tone (Death)
• Shades
• Councilwoman Mariah Dillard

Other Characters:

• Mamba (First appearance) (Main story and flashforward)
• Crispus Attucks (Mentioned)
• Shameek Smith (Photo) (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
• Dante Chapman (Photo) (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
• New York Bulletin (Newspaper)
• Horton the Elephant (Mentioned)
• Benjamin Franklin (Mentioned)
• Victor (First appearance)
• Donald Goines (Mentioned)
• Walter Mosley (Mentioned)
• George Pelecanos (Mentioned)
• Richard Price (Mentioned)
• Dennis Lehane (Mentioned)
• Chester Himes (Mentioned)
• Fox News (Mentioned)
• Jomo Kenyatta (Mentioned)
• Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins (Mentioned)
• Mamma Mabel (Mentioned)
• The Devil (Mentioned)
• Bobby Fischer (Mentioned)
• Jesus Christ (Mentioned)
• Muhammad Ali (Named only)
• Nelson Mandela (Named only)
• Richard Roundtree (Named only)
• Michael Jordan (Named only)
• Al Pacino (Named only)
• Michael Corleone (Mentioned)
• John Shaft (Mentioned)
• Pat Riley (Mentioned)
• Reva Connors (Mentioned)
• Cheryl Miller (Mentioned)
• Barney Miller (Mentioned)
• Zip (Mentioned)
• Sugar (Mentioned)
• Amos (Mentioned)
• Koko (Mentioned)
• Peter Stokes (Mentioned)
• Chauncey (First appearance)
• Domingo Colon (Mentioned)
• Wilfredo Diaz (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Jamel Shabazz (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• The Cat in the Hat (Mentioned)
• Henry Hunter's wife & son (Mentioned)
• Torre (First appearance)
• Nate
• Candace Miller (Mentioned)
• D-Nice
• Biggie (Photo)
• Faith Evans (First appearance)
• Lonnie Wilson
• Patricia Wilson
• God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
• Kelly Knight (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
• Dogs (Mentioned)
• Angels (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Earth-199999 (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
  • Earth (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
    • United States of America (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
      • New York (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
        • New York City (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
          • Manhattan (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
            • Harlem (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
              • St. Nicholas Avenue (Main story and flashforward)
                • Crispus Attucks Complex (Main story and flashforward)
              • 29th Precinct Police Station (First appearance)
              • Malcolm X Boulevard
                • Pop's Barber Shop
                • Genghis Connie's
              • Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
                • St. Nicholas Playground South (First appearance)
              • Harlem's Paradise
            • Midtown (Mentioned)
              • Hell's Kitchen (Mentioned)
          • St. John's University, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (Mentioned)
          • Hudson River (Mentioned)
          • The Bronx (Mentioned)
      • Chicago, Illinois (Mentioned)
      • Georgia (Mentioned)
        • Savannah (Mentioned)
        • Seagate Prison (Mentioned)
      • Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Mentioned)
    • Switzerland (Mentioned)

Items:

• Django (Mentioned)
• Candyland (Mentioned)

Vehicles:

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Synopsis

Synopsis not yet written

Cast

Character	Actor
Luke Cage	Mike Colter
Cottonmouth / Cornell Stokes	Mahershala Ali
Detective Misty Knight	Simone Missick
Shades	Theo Rossi
Councilwoman Mariah Dillard	Alfre Woodard
Henry "Pop" Hunter	Frankie Faison
Detective Rafael Scarfe	Frank Whaley
Bobby Fish	Ron Cephas Jones
Patricia Wilson	Cassandra Freeman
Wilfredo "Chico" Diaz	Brian "Sene" Marc
Lonnie Wilson	Darius Kaleb
Shameek Smith	Jeremel Howard
Tone	Warner Miller
Dante Chapman	Hugues Faustin
Nate	Steven Ted Beckler
Jamel Shabazz	Cedric Benjamin
Young Adult Cottonmouth	Elijah Boothe
Young Adult Pop	Edwin Freeman
Chauncey	Peyton Smith
Torre	Camrus Johnson
Turk Barrett	Rob Morgan

Notes

• The Gang Starr song the episode is named after is "Code of the Streets", from their album Hard to Earn. The song and episode both revolve around the criminal actions of young adults looking to make a name for themselves.
• The songs featured in the episode are:
  • "Doxy" by Miles Davis
  • A musical performance of "Mesmerised" by Faith Evans
  • Cristo Redentor by Donald Byrd

Trivia

• Luke is shown reading the Walter Mosley's book Little Green. The novel revolves around a man who has just woken up from a coma and who is looking for a missing boy. In the episode, Luke, who has just recovered from the coma that Jessica Jones put him in, goes on the search for Chico, by Pop's request.

See Also

• 12 image(s) from Marvel's Luke Cage Season 1 2