A first look at Mahershala Ali (House of Cards) introduced as Cottonmouth, a Harlem based gangster, the owner of Harlem Paradise nightclub  who takes issue with our hero very early on.

The beautifully shot clip by Paul McGuigan (who directed multiple episodes of Sherlock) features a large portrait of Biggie Smalls. Notably show runner Cheo Hodari Coker was a music journalist prior to his move into movies and he wrote the B.I.G biopic Notorious.

All episodes will be out on September 30th.