Luke Cage (TV Series)

Now You're Mine (2016)

Clark Jackson: Damon Boone

Quotes 

• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : God had me at hello with Genesis. The story of Cain and Abel. When God asked Cain where Abel was after he killed him Cain asked, "Am I my brother's keeper?" See I thought that was some cool shit Wesley Snipes made up in New Jack City. Turns out it's real. So after I kill Luke Cage I'm gonna stand over him and say, "Yes, I am."

  Damon Boone : Why are you telling me all this?

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Because you're about to meet my mother, Damon. Tell her I love her.

• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : I wish you could have met Dana, my mother.

  [Diamondback shows Boone a picture] 

  Damon Boone : She's beautiful.

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Yes. She was a secretary for a big-time preacher. A bold, charismatic man who loved to talk loud and dress fancy.

  Damon Boone : Like you.

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Exactly. They worked long, stressful hours and... Well, they had a lot of laughter in that back office. Something was bound to happen and it did. I was born. But he was married. And everything was good until the preacher's wife, two years later, had a baby boy. A miracle child. And everything changed. The great Reverend Lucas wasn't man enough to give his first son his last name. You see, I was still Willis Stryker. But his real son was Carl Lucas. But here's the crazy thing. Nobody said nothing. And Carl and I we grew up best friends, but there was all this tension. You could just feel it like a draft coming in from under a door. I just wanted him to see me. I was a good boy. I did well in school. But he always loved Carl more.

• Damon Boone : What do you want?

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Reciprocity.

  Damon Boone : No one in the department is going to bow to terrorism.

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Oh, I'm counting on that.