While Luke fights for his life and faces demons from his past, Mariah and Diamondback work to turn Harlem against him.
Claire pulls out some last ditch efforts to save Luke’s life and get his heart beating again. She and Burstein are able to successfully complete the surgery and remove the shrapnel from the Judas bullets, allowing Luke to heal.
Meanwhile in Harlem, Diamondback is not satisfied with how long things are taking Mariah to set up, and tells her he’s going to up the fear level in town. He heads out with a powered glove and kills a cop by punching him, while claiming to be Luke. This sets the police department into overdrive looking for Luke, and Mariah uses the event, and the overzealousness of the cops to spin the situation toward arming the cops and hunting down Luke. Misty is more concerned with finding the man that attacked her and starts investigating Diamondback.
Luke takes advantage of Burstein’s access to review Reva’s files, looking for the truth, but learns that he was a part of her experiments from the very beginning, and is left wondering if anything in their relationship was true. Not trusting Burstein, and worried that he will try to restart the experiments, Luke flips out on him and busts up his lab, stealing back the data.
Misty tracks down Willis Stryker, and learns about Carl’s history, but the cops go to far with a young witness and leave him beaten in an interrogation room, giving Mariah even more ammunition. She organizes a rally at Harlem’s Paradise to talk about the Luke situation.
Luke decides that he needs answers about Willis, so he and Claire head off to Savanah for a trip down memory lane. With the memories of childhood flooding back in his father’s old church, Luke realizes that Willis really was his brother, but that his father would never claim him and admit to his adultery. This rejection led to Stryker holding a deep resentment of Luke, and led to his desire for revenge.
Heading back to Harlem, Luke learns about Mariah’s rally and decides to pay her a visit. When they arrive they spot Diamondback watching the event from upstairs, and see that Misty has been able to track him down as well. Luke rushes upstairs to provide her with backup, and manages to shield her as Diamondback unloads multiple rounds in her direction. The gunshots attract the attention of the already frenzied crowd, and when they realize that Luke is there the entire rally breaks out into a gunfight, with Luke trying to protect and maneuver an unconscious Misty out of harm’s way.