Night Catches Us

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.