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Clips from Luke Cage - Who's Gonna Take the Weight? (S01E01)

"as soon as I get the rest of the funding and we start our construction."
Luke Cage
"[laughing]"
Luke Cage
"That's just spin."
Luke Cage
"It's a front, Mariah. It's always been a front."
Luke Cage
"It's real."
Luke Cage
"This affordable housing initiative is going to change things, man."
Luke Cage
"Let me worry about the street shit."
Luke Cage
"- You're just the laundromat for the money. - Uh, no, I'm not."
Luke Cage
"I'm the face on the money."
Luke Cage
"You are a strong asset,"
Luke Cage
"whose reckless actions are often a liability."
Luke Cage
"Crispus Attucks is real, Cornell."
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"Nothing I do is a hustle."
Luke Cage
"I sincerely care about what happens up here."
Luke Cage
"and fortify it against the real invaders."
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"[laughs] Whatever."
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"It's the same as it always was, and you know it."
Luke Cage
"Keep livin' in that fantasy land."
Luke Cage
"Well, it has got to be a fantasy before it become a reality."
Luke Cage
"I mean, look around."
Luke Cage
"Mama Mabel loved this place."
Luke Cage
"It was her political connections got that jungle gym over there built."
Luke Cage
"[laughs] We doin' this for jungle gyms?"
Luke Cage
"Those political connections"
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"were just freaky old men she blackmailed to push the paperwork through."
Luke Cage
"Why do you think she blackmailed those politicians?"
Luke Cage
"It was all to serve a greater good."
Luke Cage
"Have you forgotten that?"
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"No."
Luke Cage
"This building may be your bank right now."
Luke Cage
"But the Crispus Attucks, Madam C.J. Walker,"
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"Adam Clayton Powell, Shirley Chisholm complexes"
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"that's gonna keep Harlem black and us in the green."
Luke Cage
"You focus on the black, I'll protect our green."
Luke Cage
"Fort Knox is central to that."
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"I stay ready, baby."
Luke Cage
"How you doing, Ms. Mariah? Good to see you."
Luke Cage
"[Scarfe] Oh, it's gonna work."
Luke Cage
"See, that's the thing about a dude like Chico."
Luke Cage
"Trick is..."
Luke Cage
"you gotta get inside his head. Uh-huh."
Luke Cage
"You gotta make him believe that he needs us."
Luke Cage
"That's the whole trick."
Luke Cage
"And then... you give him the illusion of freedom."
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"Hey."
Luke Cage
"You didn't hear a word I just said."
Luke Cage
"I'm sorry."
Luke Cage
"- I can't stop thinking about Pop. - Hmm."
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"You knew him forever, huh?"
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"He was the reason I played basketball."
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"- He was your coach? - No. I never saw him outside the shop."
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"- Daddy's girl. - Always."
Luke Cage
"They would sit around all the time and just argue about basketball."
Luke Cage
"Larry Bird. Kevin McHale."
Luke Cage
"- Robert Parish... - Whoa, whoa, whoa..."
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"Celtics?"
Luke Cage
"My dad is a Celtics fan."
Luke Cage
"Please, please tell me that's not the case."
Luke Cage
"- The most progressive team in NBA history. - The Celtics?"
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"The first black head coach with Bill Russell."
Luke Cage
"K.C. Jones as head coach during the height of the '80s"
Luke Cage
"Now I got it all figured out."
Luke Cage
"See..."
Luke Cage
"I thought you didn't have a boyfriend"
Luke Cage
"because you love the brothers,"
Luke Cage
"who carry a gun and kick their ass. But that's not the reason."
Luke Cage
"- Oh, so now you an expert? - The reason is..."
Luke Cage
"you're a Celtics fan living in New York City. [chuckles]"
Luke Cage
"I like the Pistons."
Luke Cage
"- Oh, shit! - [laughs]"
Luke Cage
"I would hear Pop and my dad argue so much about basketball,"
Luke Cage
"it made me wanna play."
Luke Cage
"So I did."
Luke Cage
"Pop would complain about players who couldn't go left or right,"
Luke Cage
"or box out, or hustle back on D."
Luke Cage
"So, I did."
Luke Cage
"Sounds like he taught you well."
Luke Cage
"I was playing college ball before I realized"
Luke Cage
"how much watching games at the shop and those arguments shaped me."
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"[sighs] A lot of people loved this guy."
Luke Cage
"Even when it was wild during the summers..."
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"shootouts every other day... the shop was safe."
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"Nobody ever said anything."
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"It just was."
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"Always."
Luke Cage
"Until..."
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"- Until what? - Until Luke Cage started workin' there."
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"You got a real problem with this guy."
Luke Cage
"Well, maybe, you shouldn't have jumped in the sack with him so quickly."
Luke Cage
"- [scoffs] - [chuckles]"
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"How soon did it happen?"
Luke Cage
"A couple days after you were undercover at the Harlem's Paradise?"
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"Same night."
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"[chuckles] Damn, girl!"
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"[chuckles] His place or yours?"
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"Shut up."
Luke Cage
"Look, I'm telling you, there is just something about this dude."
Luke Cage
"- I can't put my finger on it. - Mmm."
Luke Cage
"Sounds like you put a lot more than your finger on him."
Luke Cage
"- Don't make me choke you out. - Hey!"
Luke Cage
"Watch the tofu supreme!"
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"- [laughing] - And watch the hair!"
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"This takes time."
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"It's too much product."
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"[Domingo] Damn."
Luke Cage
"You can't really appreciate this place till the lights are on."
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"Fall back, Zip."
Luke Cage
"Domingo's right."
Luke Cage
"When the lights are on..."
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"you really can see things for what they are."
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"[speaking Spanish]"
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"- I got some verdad for you. - Hmm."
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"We got hit. And it was you."
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"You didn't have to send no mercs to break up my organization."
Luke Cage
"I think somebody's pulling your chain..."
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"and using my name to do it."
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"'Cause if my people were to hit you, you'd be dead."
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"[speaks Spanish]"
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"[chuckles]"
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"You know what a plover is, Cornell?"
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