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Echo is a five-part event available to watch now on Disney+ and Hulu. It follows Echo aka Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) as she navigates the fallout of the events of Hawkeye. After shooting her Uncle/Father figure Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) pointblank in the face and leaving him for dead, she ventures back home to regroup and take what she thinks is rightfully hers.
The episode opens in what is now known as Tamaha, Oklahoma displaying the origins of the Choctaw people emerging from a magical cave on the brink of collapse. With Chafa being the savior of her people. This transitions to Maya and her cousin, Bonnie as children reenacting these same events with shadow puppets in a makeshift tent. Heading inside Maya asks her mother for some hot chocolate, of course being out of hot chocolate she offers to take her to the store to get some. Heading towards an intersection the brakes fail and their truck is hit by another car, severely injuring Maya’s leg and taking her mother’s life. Learning their brakes were tampered with purposely because of the life of crime William Lopez (Zahn McClarnon) lives, him and Maya move to New York City so he can work directly under Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin.
Maya, now grown up, is used as a weapon by Fisk to help expand his stranglehold on the crime world. With a montage catching up casual fans with the events of Hawkeye including Ronin (Hawkeye during the blip) killing William, Maya finding out Fisk was really behind his death and her shooting Fisk in the face as revenge. We get to see more of Maya’s growth during these scenes new to the series with Fisk using her loss to fully take advantage of her violent talents. We see Maya in numerous brutal and bloody fight scenes including one with Daredevil (Charlie Cox) that straight up rules. The action in this series is phenomenal.
Flash forward to the present, Maya heads back home to Oklahoma for the first time in decades to regroup and recover from her injuries. Her cousin Biscuits (Cody Lightning) finds her squatting in her old home, but promises to keep it a secret and help her anyway he can. He is elated that is home. She then seeks out the help of her uncle Henry “Black Crow” Lopez (Chaske Spencer) who owns a local roller-skating rink. He helps patch up her wounds and then finds out why she really made her way back home. To take her place as the new queen of the Kingpin crime empire by sending a message to one of the Fisk Shipping facilities. The last scene reveals Fisk in a hospital bed still very much alive.
