Mother's Touch

"Mothers touch" Instead, she's the estranged daughter Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard) who followed in the footsteps of her late, sainted father and became a physician before discovering holistic medicine. Opening the perhaps ironically named Mother's Touch healing center in Harlem, Tilda draws the attention of both her Mariah and John McIver, aka Bushmaster (Mustafa Shakir), who's in need of her services.

Introduced in 1973 in  Captain America  #164, the Nightshade of Marvel Comics is perhaps most notable for her twin Afro puffs and distinctly '70s sci-fi attire of leather bikini and thigh-high boots.

HISTORY OF...
== While they are hiding out in one of Danny Rand's buildings, Tilda confronts her mother with the questions that have always kept the two apart, and Mariah finally tells her the truth about who Tilda's real father is. She reveals that her first husband, the man whom Tilda had always believed to be her father, was actually a gay man and Mariah used him to cover up the fact that her uncle Pete had raped her. The traumatic moment leads Tilda to realize she is a product of incest and rape, and Mariah then admits that is the reason why she does not love her daughter. == Towards the end of  Luke Cage  Season 1, Harlem councilwoman and philanthropist Mariah Stokes Dillard (Alfre Woodard) murdered her cousin Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes (Mahershala Ali) and took over his illegal operations as well as his popular nightclub Harlem’s Paradise. As Mariah continues on her criminal trajectory in  Luke Cage  Season 2, she crosses paths with her estranged daughter Tilda Johnson (Gabrielle Dennis). Tilda will play a key role this season, but she'll be significantly.