Luke Cage (TV Series)

Now You're Mine (2016)

Erik LaRay Harvey: Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker

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• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Nobody leaves. Not until we have them.

  Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : What you talkin' about, Willis?

• 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.

• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Take Diet Obama upstairs, Ty. Keep a gun on him till I get up there.

• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : [having a drink]  Nothing like an aged Scotch. You know, there was a time you'd cross a Scotsman and he wouldn't think twice about cutting your head off with a sword. I like a drink that encourages such decisiveness.

• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Pressure brings the best out of certain people. So where was I? Together we were bold. We stole a red Corvette, just like the song. Just for a joyride. You see, I was a Prince fan, and Carl was all about Michael. We were so busy arguing, we didn't even see the cop. But Carl was a Lucas. I was a Stryker. It was over before it even began. When it came time for sentencing, the preacher convinced the judge to let his golden boy join the Marines. Me? Juvie. Got jumped two days in. Boy drew a shank and I killed him in self-defense. So I got sent away to hard time. And sweet Dana? Oh, her cancer ate her alive and she died alone in a shelter without a friend in the world. You see, the good Reverend Lucas well, he stopped caring for her after I was gone. He was free of her and I was powerless. But she, oh... Oh, she still loved him and well, she wanted me to have something of my father's.

• Luke Cage : [Diamondback is holding Candice hostage]  Let her go.

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Oh, we'll get to that.

  Luke Cage : Couldn't we have made amends a long time ago?

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Couldn't you have died during childbirth?

  [Luke starts to advance when Diamondback holds Candice further out] 

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Easy!

  Luke Cage : I was sorry to hear about Dana. I always liked her.

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : I couldn't stand Etta! What a bitch!

  ESU Lieutenant Mario Green : We have lethal rounds, Cage! We will use them!

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Gotta go! With that hostage you killed, they're gonna shoot first and ask questions later. Mariah supplied the force with some Judas two-point-ohs, so they won't bounce off ya! They'll STICK! You gonna run, Miracle Whip? Or you gonna save the damsel?

  Luke Cage : Willis...

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Bye, Carl.

  [turns to Candice] 

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Bye, Felicia!

  [throws Candace off the balcony] 

• 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.

• Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : Ah. Nothing like an aged Scotch. You know there was a time you'd cross a Scotsman and he wouldn't think twice about cutting your head off with a sword. I like a drink that encourages such decisiveness.

• Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : Forget Cage. The cops are gonna flood this place in a minute.

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : No. We're staying. Nobody leaves. Not until we have them.

  Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : What you talking about, Willis?

  Willis 'Diamondback' Stryker : You got jokes?