Luke Cage (TV Series)

The Basement (2018)

Theo Rossi: Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez

Quotes 

• Comanche : What's your plan?

  Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : To live the American dream.

  Comanche : [laughs]  I got a loaded gun, a hard dick, and a pocket full of cash. That's the American dream, right?

  Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : There's more than this shit, and you know it. Thousand dollar suits, bitches, champagne, all that shit is cute, but when you have to kill to get it, you're gonna get killed if you keep it. That's karma.

  Comanche : That's the life. We do what we do.

  Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : But there's a better way, a bigger life... one where you don't have to look over your shoulder every second. Mariah's taught me that. You're just out of prison, but you still have that mentality. You gotta forget all that shit. We don't have to be gangsters. We can be so much more than that.

  Comanche : We *are* more than that. Or did you forget that shit too?

• Hernan 'Shades' Alvarez : I would die for you, Che. That'll never change. But it is what it is.