Marvel's Luke Cage Season 2 1

"Soul Brother #1"
Release Date	June 22, 2018
Director(s)	Lucy Liu
Writer(s)	Cheo Hodari Coker
Producer(s)	Gail Barringer
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Luke Cage is soul brother number one! But I want you to ask yourselves one thing. Who is he really, Luke Cage?

—Reverend James Lucas

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:

• Humans
• Flies (Mentioned)

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
                • Pop's Barber Shop
                • Mount Olivet Baptist Church
              • 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)
          • Queens (Mentioned)
          • Statue of Liberty (Photo)
      • Georgia (Only in flashback)
        • Seagate Prison (First appearance chronologically) (Only in flashback)
    • Cayman Islands (Mentioned)
    • Jamaica (Mentioned)
  • Hell (Invoked)

Items:

• Harlem's Hero (First appearance)
• The Graduate (Mentioned)
• Hammer Assault Rifle
• Judas Bullet
• Waze (Mentioned)

Vehicles:

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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.

See Also

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