In the first episode the audience is introduced to Luke Cage a seemingly normal employee at Pops Barber Shop in Harlem New York. Cage is portrayed as being a quiet person who keeps to him self for the most part. When he’s not working at the barbershop he works at Harlem’s paradise a local nightclub as a busboy trying to lay low and go about his regular job.
When one of the bartenders at the nightclub doesn’t show up to work Cage is asked to fill in. There he catches the attention of detective Misty Knight, who is undercover investigating the shady dealings of nightclub owner Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes. After a robbery against Cottonmouth goes wrong, the bartender turns up dead and Pops asks Cage to go search for his friends that were with him that night to ensure their safety.
In order to infiltrate Cottonmouth’s inner circle and find out the boys’ whereabouts, he tries to become one of his trusted men. By doing this Cage is longer an unknown man, receiving the attention he never wanted from not only Cottonmouth but his cousin Mariah Dillard a local council woman who hides behind the facade of being community leader, fighting for the people of Harlem.
Initially Cage isn’t looking to fight but after Cottonmouth’s evil influence threatens the people close to him, he is left with no …show more content…
Making him cross paths with Diamondback a notorious figure who is also connected to cage’s past. Diamondback has his own vendetta against Cage and decides to after him own his own. He manages to badly wound Cage, forcing him and Claire to flee to Georgia where Cage first got his abilities. While there, he reveals his past to Claire who in return helps him track down the doctor responsible for giving him the supernatural abilities. In a race against time they work together to force the doctor to perform a dangerous operation to try and save Cage’s
When one of the bartenders at the nightclub doesn’t show up to work Cage is asked to fill in. There he catches the attention of detective Misty Knight, who is undercover investigating the shady dealings of nightclub owner Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes. After a robbery against Cottonmouth goes wrong, the bartender turns up dead and Pops asks Cage to go search for his friends that were with him that night to ensure their safety.
In order to infiltrate Cottonmouth’s inner circle and find out the boys’ whereabouts, he tries to become one of his trusted men. By doing this Cage is longer an unknown man, receiving the attention he never wanted from not only Cottonmouth but his cousin Mariah Dillard a local council woman who hides behind the facade of being community leader, fighting for the people of Harlem.
Initially Cage isn’t looking to fight but after Cottonmouth’s evil influence threatens the people close to him, he is left with no …show more content…
Making him cross paths with Diamondback a notorious figure who is also connected to cage’s past. Diamondback has his own vendetta against Cage and decides to after him own his own. He manages to badly wound Cage, forcing him and Claire to flee to Georgia where Cage first got his abilities. While there, he reveals his past to Claire who in return helps him track down the doctor responsible for giving him the supernatural abilities. In a race against time they work together to force the doctor to perform a dangerous operation to try and save Cage’s