Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Luke Cage (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- NYPD
- Detective Misty Knight (Main story and flashback)
- Bobby Fish
- Claire Temple
Antagonists:
- Stokes Crime Family
- Zip
- Cottonmouth (Cornell Stokes) (Main story and flashback) (Death)
- Amos (Mentioned)
- Shades
- Councilwoman Mariah Dillard (Main story and flashback)
- Domingo Colon
- Diamondback (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- John Blaze (Mentioned)
- Connie Lin (Named only)
- Rafael Scarfe (Photo)
- Donovan and Partners
- NYPD
- Captain Betty Audrey
- Inspector Priscilla Ridley (First appearance)
- Mark Bailey
- WZTM News
- WJBP-TV
- Joel Spurlock (Mentioned)
- Biggie (Photo)
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Mentioned)
- Inspector Gadget (Mentioned)
- Damon Boone (First appearance)
- WZVR News
- WNJG (First appearance)
- WKGU News (First appearance)
- Alex Wesley
- Dante Chapman (Mentioned)
- Peter "Pistol Pete" Stokes (First appearance) (Only in flashback) (Death)
- "Mama Mabel" Stokes (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Henry "Pop" Hunter (Only in flashback)
- Donnie (Only in flashback) (First appearance; dies)
- Buggy Stokes (Mentioned)
- Salvador Colon (Mentioned)
- Jazmine Stokes (Mentioned)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned)
- David Dinkins (Mentioned)
- Pappy Mason (Mentioned)
- D-Nice
- Dave Griffith
- Tony (Voice only)
- Malik (Mentioned)
- Justin Hammer (Mentioned)
- James Lucas (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Cockroaches (Mentioned)
- Dogs (Mentioned)
- Pigs (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-199999
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Chrysler Building
- Empire State Building
- Harlem
- Malcolm X Boulevard
- Pop's Barber Shop
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church (Mentioned)
- 29th Precinct Police Station
- Colon's Gym (First appearance)
- Mariah Dillard's House
- Crispus Attucks Complex (Appears on screen)
- Malcolm X Boulevard
- Hell's Kitchen (Mentioned)
- Georgia (Mentioned)
- Seagate Prison (Mentioned)
- Julliard School (Mentioned)
- Manhattan
- Hudson River (Mentioned)
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth
Items:
- Judas Bullet
- Facebook (Mentioned)
Events:
- The Incident (Mentioned)
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 |
| Diamondback / Willis Stryker | Erik LaRay Harvey |
| Claire Temple | Rosario Dawson |
| Councilwoman Mariah Dillard | Alfre Woodard |
| Mama Mabel | LaTanya Richardson Jackson |
| Bobby Fish | Ron Cephas Jones |
| Domingo Colon | Jacob Vargas |
| Inspector Priscilla Ridley | Karen Pittman |
| Captain Betty Audrey | Sonja Sohn |
| Benjamin Donovan | Danny Johnson |
| Uncle Pete | Curtiss Cook |
| Young Cottonmouth | Elijah Boothe |
| Young Mariah | Megan Miller |
| Damon Boone | Clark Jackson |
| Zip | Jaiden Kaine |
| Young Pop | Edwin Freeman |
| Sister Boy | MJ Rodriguez |
| Donnie | Ephraim Sykes |
Notes
- The Gang Starr song the episode is named after is "Manifest", from their debut album No More Mr. Nice Guy. Both the song and the episode make a display of power. In the episode, it's the depiction of both Cottonmouth's and Mariah's turn into the criminal life.
- The music featured in the episode are:
- "Plain Gold Ring" by Nina Simone
- "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" by John Lee Hooker
- "April Sonata" by Adrian Younge
Trivia
- This is the only episode in the season in which all regular characters appear.
- In this episode, Zip refers to Domingo's guns as "that John Blaze s***". While it may be a reference to Ghost Rider, it's most likely a reference to one many aliases of the rapper Method Man, who in turn took the name from the Marvel comics character.