They call this bullet "the Judas". You barely survived the first blast. You won't survive the second.
Appearances
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Diamondback (Willis Stryker) (Name revealed)
- Stokes Crime Family
- Councilwoman Mariah Dillard (Main story and flashback) (Joins)
- Shades (Joins)
- Zip
- Sugar
- Amos
Other Characters:
- Hammer Advanced Weapons Systems (Name only)
- FDNY
- Clarke Temple's Uncle (Mentioned)
- Manny (First appearance)
- Cornell Stokes (Corpse, skeleton or other remains) (Main story and flashback)
- NYPD
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Joel Spurlock (Mentioned)
- WHiH World News
- WKGU News
- Alex Wesley
- Candace Miller
- Genghis Connie's (Mentioned)
- Pop (Mentioned)
- Bobby Fish
- Donovan and Partners
- Tony (Mentioned)
- Rafael Scarfe (Mentioned)
- Jessica Jones (Mentioned)
- The Devil (Mentioned)
- James Lucas (Mentioned)
- Dana Stryker (Mentioned)
- Reva Connors (Mentioned)
- Mama Mabel (Photo)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-199999
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Harlem
- Malcolm X Boulevard
- Pop's Barber Shop
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church (Mentioned)
- Genghis Connie's (Mentioned)
- Harlem's Paradise
- 29th Precinct Police Station
- Harlem Women's Clinic
- United Palace Theatre
- Malcolm X Boulevard
- Harlem
- Manhattan
- Seagate Prison (Mentioned)
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis
Synopsis not yet written
Cast
Character | Actor |
---|---|
Luke Cage | Mike Colter |
Detective Misty Knight | Simone Missick |
Shades | Theo Rossi |
Diamondback / Willis Stryker | Erik LaRay Harvey |
Claire Temple | Rosario Dawson |
Councilwoman Mariah Dillard | Alfre Woodard |
Inspector Priscilla Ridley | Karen Pittman |
Benjamin Donovan | Danny Johnson |
Candace Miller | Deborah Ayorinde |
Alex | John Clarence Stewart |
Bailey | Justin Swain |
Zip | Jaiden Kaine |
Sugar | Sean Ringgold |
Amos | R. Marcos Taylor |
Manny | Robert Jimenez |
Reporters | Tristan Laurence; Qurrat Ann Kadwani |
Notes
- The Gang Starr song the episode is named after is "Blowin' Up the Spot", from their album Hard to Earn. The song's boasts that Guru can defeat you with mere words can be seen in Diamondback, Luke's enemy, and his preachy nature.
- The song featured in the episode is "King Of New York" by Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge.
Trivia
- Diamondback's first lines, his taunts to Luke, are references to lines in the 1979 film The Warriors.
- During the scene where Diamondback holds Misty at gunpoint, there's a dumpster seen with the logo "Timely Trash". The logo is the same as the Timely Comics logo.