I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
When Dr. Noah Burstein, the man who made Luke Cage superpowered, dies, Cage feels set adrift. Lost. Empty. Especially since Burstein committed suicide.
What Cage doesn't know is that Burstein continued to experiment on others, leading up to the miraculous recovery of a boy who had a rare, and fatal disease. Still, he learns that not only are things not as innocuous as they seem, but this ties into Mitchell Tanner, one of the first of Burstein's experimental subjects who is prone to violent rages.
And the woman who tells him all this is kidnapped in front of his eyes, while the perpetrators have weapons that can cut Cage's supposedly unbreakable skin. So overall? Not great for Cage.
Maybe less so when he discovers the identity of the man who rescues him.