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Episode 3 of Echo opens with another Choctaw flashback, this time in the style of a vintage silent Western with all the dialogue shown as text on screen. We are introduced to a collective of Native police called the lighthorsemen. We meet another one of Maya’s ancestors, Tuklo who seeks to be a fighter for peace for her people rather than have the traditional roles of women. Back then women were supposed to be life givers not life takers, but she proves herself by saving the lighthorsemen and forging her own path. Just like we’ve Maya take steps to do in the present day.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Maya gets another vision of her ancestors. Chafa, Tuklo, Maya’s mother from the crash and a pregnant woman. She is then captured and brought back to the roller-skate rink where she is being held so Vickie (Thomas E. Sullivan) can cash in on the bounty placed on Maya’s head after she seemingly killed Wilson Fisk.
Vickie and his crew aren’t the brightest bulbs in the bunch thinking this will be an easy score. Her cousin Bonnie (Devery Jacobs) is also dragged into this hostage scenario reuniting her and Maya for the first time in decades. Bonnie is rightfully upset with her, as she has been completely absent from her life and the place she used to call home.
CLEAN UP CREW
Kingpin’s men arrive to get payback for Maya blowing up their facility as well as to avenge their “fallen” leader. They shoot Vickie in a complete mob type move showing off the TV-MA rating this series has. Maya makes like MacGyver and makes a weapon out of skating parts to aid in her all out assault on the baddies.
She blasts some Rob Zombie insanely loud to weaken her enemies and in one of the most impressive action scenes the MCU has displayed she kicks some major ass. Maya is stopped when Bonnie is held at gunpoint. Just as it seems that Maya has met her end. Then are called off by a mysterious phone call.
RETURN OF THE KING
Maya’s Uncle Henry (Chaske Spencer) thinks it can only be one person that could have made that call, Kingpin. Maya is in disbelief because the last time she saw him was when she shot him in the face. Skully (Graham Greene) gifts Maya with her new prosthetic decked out with beautiful Choctaw imagery. Returning home she comes face to face with Kingpin, who has come all the way to Oklahoma with a proposition.
Episode 3 turns the action and violence up to eleven and seals the deal with the return of one of the best villains the Marvel Cinematic Universe has to offer.
