History Recap / LukeCage2016S2E13TheyReminisceOverYou

* GreenEyedMonster: Tilda is clearly ''not'' happy with Luke being given Harlem's Paradise instead of her. She only get's Cornell's piano.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Shades' KickTheDog moment with his lawyer ends up coming back to bite him, as she [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walked out on him before she could properly explain the terms of the deal, namely that if Mariah wasn't convicted, the deal wouldn't stand. Subverted in that Shades had nothing to do with Mariah's death, which is what actually invalidates the deal, but had he known that his immunity wasn't actually guaranteed then he would probably have skipped town, or at least made himself harder for the cops to find.

* HellholePrison: The jail Mariah is kept in appears to be absurdly badly run. In the space of a few minutes 4 people are murdered, one a guard. The guard takes Mariah out her cell and starts walking her through a corridor, and is then shivved by two inmates, who douse Mariah in flammable liquid and prepare to set fire to her, then are killed by two other inmates wielding excellently-constructed shivs, then Mariah gets them to give her one of their shivs and kills another person. There's no sign of any other guards in these corridors that had at least 6 inmates loose in them, nor that any of these activities were noticed. Mariah even tells them to clean it up, as though they'd be able to hide the corpses somewhere.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Shades' KickTheDog moment with his lawyer ends up coming back to bite him, as she pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere before she could properly explain the terms of the deal, namely that if Mariah wasn't convicted, the deal wouldn't stand. Subverted in that Shades had nothing to do with Mariah's death, which is what actually invalidates the deal, but had he known that his immunity wasn't actually guaranteed then he would probably have skipped town, or at least made himself harder for the cops to find.

* VetinariJobSecurity: Rosalie Carbone answers Luke's threat of killing her by mentioning that she makes too much money for her business partners from TheMafiya, and they would unleash a blood bath on Harlem if anything happened to her.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Luke has resolved to become a crime boss to finally bring peace to Herlem and stop the gang war. His friends call him an imbecile and that he's making a bad decision under pressure. He points out that he is tired of having to do all the good for Harlem with little to no significant help from the authorities. When Misty asks him "But what about the law" he makes a point of remembering with clear distaste how the legal and penal systems screwed them all over and he was the only one who brought peace to Harlem, with pretty much every law enforcement officer being too ineffectual, dumb, or just plain racist to do anything to improve people's lives. It's hard to argue against him when he says, in a completely serious, polite, and obviously disgusted tone "And when did the law help us?!"

* JerkassHasaPoint: Luke has resolved to become a crime boss to finally bring peace to Herlem and stop the gang war. His friends call him an imbecile and that he's thirsty under pressure. He admits it. He also points out that he is tired of having to do all the good for Harlem with almost no significant help. When Misty asks him "But what about the law" he makes a point of remembering with clear distaste how the penal system screwed them all over and HE, HE ONLY was the one who brought peace to Harlem, with pretty much every law enforcement officer being completely dumb. , cossuptos or just plain racist to do literally anything to improve people's lives. He's also completely right in his comment-answering Misty's question with a completely serious, polite, and obviously disgusted "And when did the law help us!"
* KarmaHoudini: Bushmaster has won his revenge, and now he and Sheldon are returning with his aunt Ingrid to Kingston. Bear in mind Bushmaster hasn't come out of the whole ordeal unscathed due to his nightshade usage, and the emotional toll means he will probably not come back.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty[=/=]LaserGuidedKarma: Shades's immunity deal is voided by the fact that it was contingent on Mariah being convicted. With her dead, it means that his confession to the murders of Candace and Comanche can be used against him in court.

* VillainousRROD: Bushmaster has been warned all season long that overusing nightshade would cause him major health problems. It has finally gotten to him after he took a very highly concentrated dose in his final desperate attempt to get to Mariah, and he is a complete physical wreck as a result. In his final scene he needs to be assisted just to walk a few feet, and he doesn't speak (poerhaps he ''can't'' speak), as he is helped into a car.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Rosalie's claim to be as much a native of Harlem as anybody else might strike some people as odd, but up until TheEighties Harlem was home [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Harlem#Italian_Harlem to one of the oldest Italian communities in Manhattan]]. It was also one of the strongholds of TheMafia.

* ShoutOut: The final scene has a shot-reverse shot that references the final shot of ''Film/TheGodfather'', with Luke and Misty standing in for Michael Corleone and his wife Kay.

->''"Your strength is from God, Carl. I have no doubt in my mind about that. But with that kind of power comes its share of pain. Science? Magic? God? That power flows from within. From inside. What comes out when that pressure is heaviest? That's the real magic. That's what defines being a man. That's what defines being a hero."''

* YouAreInCommandNow: Mariah bequeaths Harlem's Paradise to Luke, partially because she knows he is strong enough to lead the club, but also because she hopes it will corrupt him into being just as bad as her in the eyes of the law.

** Maria's speech about a "wall around Harlem" is also quite similar to Col. Jessup's speech regarding men guarding a wall in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' and even includes a very similar line, "You want me out there, you ''need'' me out there!"
** Showrunner Cheo Hodari has compared Luke taking over Harlem's Paradise with Daredevil taking over the Hand in the ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}'' storyline.

** Showrunner Cheo Hodari has compared Luke taking over Harlem's Paradise with Daredevil taking over the Hand in the ''ComicBook/Shadowland'' storyline.

* MythologyGag: The dress and hairstyle Tilda wears at the end, in Harlem's Paradise, resembles her villainous [[https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Deadly-Nightshade-Marvel-Comics-Tilda-Johnson-z.jpg Deadly Nightshade]] costume.

* AluminumChristmastrees: Rosalie's claim to be as much a native of Harlem as anybody else might strike some people as odd, but up until TheEighties Harlem was home [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Harlem#Italian_Harlem to one of the oldest Italian communities in Manhattan]]. It was also one of the strongholds of TheMafia.

* InMemoriam: Reg E. Cathey died in February 2018, four months before the season was released, and so the episode has a dedication to him before rolling the end credits.