Luke Cage 1.06

Suckas Need Bodyguards

- Detective Scarfe's meeting with Cottonmouth goes south when he asks for more money for the guns he is about to turn over to him; Scarfe gets shot by Cottonmouth with his own gun; Cottonmouth leaves him for dead but he makes it to Pop's Barber Shop
- Luke runs into Claire Temple in a diner; he doesn't recognize or remember her and she has to refresh his memory; they wind up going back to Pop's where they find Scarfe, badly injured; Scarfe insists that he cannot go to a hospital so Claire does her best to fix him up; she pulls one bullet out of his leg but is unable to extract the one in his gut; Scarfe agrees to help them take down Cottonmouth and even reveals that he's the one who killed Chico which leads to Luke almost crushing his throat
- Mariah, Cottonmouth's sister or cousin, I'm a little unclear as to what her familial relationship is to him, counsels Cottonmouth about how to make deal with Cage; she shows that she is thinking much more clearly than he is as she suggests a number of ways to kill a man (drowning, poison, etc.) who is bulletproof
- Misty work with Lieutenant Perez to find Scarfe; although she doesn't know it, Perez is working for Cottonmouth, just like Scarfe; before the episode is over she fools him into revealing his hand; they get into a fight in the car which she comes out the victor
- Luke and Claire attempt to get Scarfe to police headquarters after doing what they can for him and retrieving his notebook from his apartment; they get chased by some of Cottonmouth's crew; they meet up with Misty just before Scarfe dies from his wounds
- Shades did not appear in this episode but he was mentioned; Trish Walker aka Patsy Walker (last seen in Season 1 of Jessica Jones) appeared in this episode in that her radio program (Trish Talks) was heard in the opening scene as Luke is jogging through the city

- I'm not completely okay with the way that Scarfe is redeemed in this episode; he killed Chico in cold blood in episode 3; what's revealed in this episode is that Scafe had a son who accidentally killed himself using Scarfe's gun; the suggestion is that this is what led to Scarfe losing his way and working for Cottonmouth; fine, I don't have a problem with that but I do have a problem with the thrust of the episode being Scarfe's redemption which I don't see as being complete; he didn't really do anything until he was on death's door; he did something and that's better than sticking to his guns but it could also be argued that he did what he did and revealed what he revealed in this episode to get back at Cottonmouth for shooting him
- Misty seems as thought she has some sort of superpower that allows her to get impressions of things that happened; maybe it is just the way the show is being shot but that's the impression I got from the scene where Knight and Perez search Scarfe's apartment before staking out the building; to my knowledge, and I'm not an expert, she never had any superpowers in the comic books unless you count her bionic arm; there has been no evidence to date on the Netflix show that she has a bionic arm
- the death of Scarfe and the budding relationship between Claire and Luke made this episode feel like the end of an act or arc, similar to the capture of Frank Castle and the introduction of Elektra in season 2 of Daredevil
- overall not my favorite episode but I will continue to watch and hope that future episodes appeal to me more than this one did