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- "Your way was taking too long. I killed two birds with one stone by sticking a body on Luke Cage. He's hiding somewhere in the blessed aquarium, so I turned the heat up. Old Carl he's either gonna stand up and defend his name or he's gonna run and hide, like a bitch. Either way, it doesn't matter. I've got the gun to take him out."
- ―Diamondback to Mariah Dillard
Take It Personal is the tenth episode of the first season of the Netflix exclusive television series Luke Cage.
Synopsis
Luke gets closer to the truth about Reva and her part in his fate, while Mariah wrestles with morality of her new role. Misty hunts for Luke.
Plot
Claire and Burstein manage to revive Cage and take out the shrapnel. Stryker kills a policeman, framing Cage. Cage finds out that he was chosen as an experiment subject long before he was injured in Seagate. He and Claire look at Connors' files and find videos of her, proving that she was the person who chose Cage, upsetting him. The police get angry and get more aggressive to find Cage, with one detective beating a teenage boy. Dillard shows support for the boy and arranges a ceremony in Harlem's Paradise. Cage threatens Burstein not to replicate the experiment and leaves with Claire and the drive. However, Burstein is revealed to have a copy of the data. In the ceremony, Dillard insists on Cage's fault and the need to arm the police against him. However, her fellow party member, Damon Boone, secretly tells her he knows the truth. Cage and Claire arrive at Harlem's Paradise while Knight arrives too, attempting to arrest Stryker, who shoots her before Cage interrupts and tries to escape with her; but they are surrounded by the mercenaries.
Cast
Main Cast:
- Mike Colter as Luke Cage
- Simone Missick as Misty Knight
- Erik LaRay Harvey as Willis Stryker/Diamondback
- Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple
- Alfre Woodard as Mariah Dillard/Black Mariah
Guest Stars:
- Michael Kostroff as Doctor Noah Burstein
- Parisa Fitz-Henley as Reva Connors
- Joniece Abbott-Pratt as Etta Lucas
- Jacob Vargas as Domingo Colon
- Karen Pittman as Inspector Priscilla Ridley
- Deborah Ayorinde as Candace Miller
- David Austin as Young Carl Lucas
- Clifton Cutrary as Teenage Carl Lucas
- Jared Kemp as Teenage Willis Stryker
- Jeremiah Richard Craft as Dave Griffith
- Natalie Paul as Dana Stryker
- Clark Jackson as Damon Boone
- Darius Kaleb as Lonnie Wilson
- Cassandra Freeman as Patricia Wilson
- Justin Swain as Mark Bailey
- J. Bernard Calloway as Detective Dorsey
- Gene Harrison as Officer Jackie Albini
- Lee Sellars as Detective Jake Smith
- Andrew Pang as Detective Donnie Chang
- Helmar Augustus Cooper as Reverend John Pope
- Marquis Rodriguez as Darryl
- Jennifer Brito as Female Uniformed Officer
- Roger Wayne as Male Uniformed Officer
- Thiree Pinnock as Angry Teen
- Julian Rozzell as Vendor
- Rafael Benoit as Cameraman
- Akua Santewa as Protester #1
- Anthony Vaughn Merchant as Protester #2
- Norma Aurel as Protester #3
- A.J. Franklin as Protester #4
- DeLance Minefee as Protester #5
- Unnamed actor as Reverend James Lucas
- Adam Shippey as Ty (uncredited)
- Deshane Granger as Protester #6 (uncredited)
- Owen Rogers as Protester #8 (uncredited)
- Johnny Alexander as Undercover Detective (uncredited)
- Justin Michael Woods as FDNY Paramedic (uncredited)
- Maggie LeVine as Detective (uncredited)
- Merritt Matthew Chase as Harlem Precinct Detective (uncredited)
- Michael Armand DeMatteo as Undercover Cop (uncredited)
- Sean Archer as Hostage / Protester (uncredited)
- Teniece Divya Johnson as Protester (uncredited)
- Ramon Aleman as Boxer #1 (uncredited)
Appearances
Locations
- New York City, New York
- Georgia
- Savannah, Georgia
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church
- Lieber Academy (mentioned in flashback)
Events
- Chase of Luke Cage
- Assassination of Cottonmouth (mentioned)
- Skirmish at the Hudson Ferry Terminal (mentioned)
- World War II (mentioned)
Items
Vehicles
To be added.
Organizations
- New York City Police Department
- Stokes Crime Family
- Colon Crime Family
- WJBP-TV
- WHiH World News
- WZTM News
- New York City Council
Mentioned
- Jackie Albini's Wife
- Albert Rackham
- Tony
- Cottonmouth
- Squabbles
- Jessica Jones
- Kilgrave
- Michael Sampson
- Anthony Elder
- Meranda Freitas
- New York City Mayor
- Mike Tyson
- Rick James
Trivia
- Take It Personal is a song from the album Daily Operation of the hip-pop duo Gang Starr.
References
External Links
Take It Personal on IMDb
- Take It Personal on the Marvel Wiki
