Night Catches Us

“United by revolution, divided by the past”

Nobody in North Philadelphia has forgotten why Marcus Washington (Anthony Mackie) left in the first place, and in 1976 he comes back anyway. He is a former Black Panther, and his return puts him in the same rooms as Patricia Wilson (Kerry Washington), the widow of a Panther leader, and her young daughter. Tanya Hamilton writes Marcus as a man trying to be useful to a street that still holds old debts against him.