Luke Cage Season 1: 13 Best Moments
1. Dillard Kills Cottonmouth (Episode 7: Manifest)
Not a single moment was as shocking, memorable, or dramatically potent, however, as Dillard's unexpected murder of Cottonmouth.
The two have a chat that quickly escalates into an argument as Dillard tells Cottonmouth to stop obsessing over Luke Cage, while he expresses resentment over his foster mother Mabel grooming him for the gangster life as a youngster.
After Cottonmouth claims she was a promiscuous youngster, she loses her temper and smacks him over the head with a wine bottle, causing him to fall out of a window. She then bludgeons him to death with a mic stand, before Shades shows up and helps her build the narrative that Cage committed the murder.
As fantastically wrought as this scene was, though, it's a damn shame we only got seven episodes of Mahershala Ali, because the guy would have been an invaluable asset moving forward.
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