Marvel's Luke Cage Season 1 3

You're absolutely right. I'm not gonna touch him, not the way I should. Since I can't touch the king, I'm gonna take his queen, his knights, his rooks... I'm knockin' all his pieces off the board.

-- Luke Cage

Appearing in "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?"

Featured Characters:

Luke Cage (Main story, flashforward, and recap)

Supporting Characters:

NYPD (Main story and recap)
- Detective Misty Knight (Main story and recap)
Bobby Fish
Chico Diaz (Main story and recap) (Death)

Antagonists:

Detective Rafael Scarfe
Joel Spurlock (First appearance)
Harlem's Paradise
- Cottonmouth (Cornell Stokes)
- Zip
- Numerous unnamed others
Councilwoman Mariah Dillard
Domingo Colon

Other Characters:

WJBP-TV (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Tim (First appearance) (Voice)
- Megan McLaren (Full name revealed) (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
Biggie (Photo)
Genghis Connie's
- Connie Lin
Henry "Pop" Hunter (Photo) (Full name revealed)
New York Bulletin (Named only)
FDNY
Kelly Knight (Mentioned)
Reva Connors (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Shameek Smith (Recap)
Dante Chapman (Death in recap)
Tone (Corpse) (Behind the scenes)
Charles Bradley (First appearance)
Mama Mabel (Mentioned)
Diamondback (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Humans (Main story, flashforward, and recap)

Locations:

Earth-199999 (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
- Earth (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
  - United States of America (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
    - New York (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
      - New York City (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
        Manhattan (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
        Harlem (Main story, flashforward, and recap)
        St. Nicholas Avenue (Main story and flashforward)
        Crispus Attucks Complex (Main story and flashforward)
        
        Harlem's Paradise
        
        Malcolm X Boulevard (Main story and recap)
        Pop's Barber Shop (Main story and recap)
        
        Genghis Connie's (Destruction)
        
        Spurlock's Mortuary (First appearance)
        
        Marcus Garvey Park (Mentioned)
        
        29th Precinct Police Station
        
        Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Kips Bay (Mentioned)
        
        Roosevelt Island
        
        Queensboro Bridge
        
        East River
    - Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Mentioned)

Items:

Mjolnir (Mentioned)

Synopsis for "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?"

Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

The Gang Starr song the episode is "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?", from their album Step in the Arena. Both the song and the episode focus on an individual stepping up to take on the problems of the streets.
The songs featured in the episode are:
- A cover of Black Sabbath's song "Changes" by Charles Bradley
- "Ain't it a Sin" by Charles Bradley
- "Enemies All Around Me" by Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge
- Luke Cage listens to a censored version of the Wu-Tang Clan's song "Bring Da Ruckus" diegetically.

Trivia

In this episode, Cottonmouth refers to Mariah as "Black Mariah", which is a reference to the alias of her her comic book counterpart. She seems to despise that name, but it wasn't expounded upon in future episodes.

Cast

Character	Actor
Luke Cage	Mike Colter
Cottonmouth / Cornell Stokes	Mahershala Ali
Detective Misty Knight	Simone Missick
Councilwoman Mariah Dillard	Alfre Woodard
Detective Rafael Scarfe	Frank Whaley
Bobby Fish	Ron Cephas Jones
Domingo Colon	Jacob Vargas
Wilfredo "Chico" Diaz	Brian "Sene" Marc
Zip	Jaiden Kaine
Connie Lin	Jade Wu
Joel Spurlock	Sedly Bloomfield
Megan McLaren	Dawn-Lyen Gardner
Police Officer	Jason Altman
Crispus Thug	Darik Bernard
Strung Out Girl	Tationna Bosier
Detective	Gabe Bettio
Himself	Charles Bradley

Recommended Media

None.

Links and References

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Footnotes