‘Echo’ Writer Amy Rardin Talks Maya’s Relationship With Kingpin, Daredevil Fight Scene & Explosive Finale
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the finale of Marvel Studios’ Echo. Though only five episodes, Echo is a rich story that strips away the bombastic nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to bring audiences to Tamaha, Oklahoma.
It’s there that the series’ main character Maya Lopez [Alaqua Cox] confronts her past traumas to heal from the tragic loss of her mother and reconnect with her Indigenous community — as well as go up against the big bad Kingpin, who helped raise her after she and her father were exiled from town when she was only a child.
She views Vincent D’Onofrio’s supervillain as an uncle, of sorts, but after realizing he is responsible for her father’s death in Hawkeye, Maya begins to understand his ruthlessness and reconsider her position in his criminal network.
While she initially returns to Tamaha only to get back at Kingpin, she can’t avoid the confrontations with her family that have been looming for 20 years, which ultimately shift her entire perspective on the last two decades that she’s been gone. “In lifting the veil of her past with her family in Oklahoma, it illuminates slowly…her past with Kingpin and realizing what kind of person he was,” Echo writer Amy Rardin told Deadline.
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