Episode Title: Lowak
Series: Echo
Season: 1
Episode: 2
Original release date: January 9, 2024
Maya grapples with two major conflicts:
1. Taking down Fisk’s army: Determined to avenge her father’s death, Maya seeks the help of her family, despite their disapproval and past tensions. This involves navigating complicated family dynamics while coordinating their efforts against Fisk’s well-equipped forces.
2. Experiencing strange visions: Maya begins to have inexplicable visions, filled with imagery and symbolism related to her heritage and potential future. These visions are both confusing and unsettling, adding an additional layer of mystery and psychological conflict to her journey.
The episode unfolds through various key events:
• Maya returns to her community and attempts to reconcile with her estranged mother, Willie, and grandmother, Anna.
• Tensions arise as some family members, like her cousin Frank, express concerns about taking on Fisk.
• Maya seeks guidance from Echo, a powerful figure from Cherokee mythology.
• The family plans and executes a daring attack on a Fisk-controlled supply chain, showcasing their coordinated skills and resourcefulness.
• Maya struggles to decipher the meaning of her visions, seeking advice from elders and spiritual leaders.
• The episode ends with a significant cliffhanger, hinting at a major revelation or turning point in Maya’s quest.
* * *
(MARVEL SPOTLIGHT FANFARE BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO)
(UNDERWATER RUMBLING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
1200 AD
(PEOPLE ULULATING)
(PLAYERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
(WAR CRIES)
(CROWD ULULATING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(LOWAK GRUNTS)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(LOWAK GRUNTING)
(MAN SHOUTS)
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
(CHEERING)
(WAR CRIES)
(HORN BLOWING)
(SPEAKING CHOCTAW) All we need is ten.
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
CHIEF’S MINION: (SPEAKING CHEROKEE) You are needed.
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
(WAR CRIES)
(WAR CRIES)
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(WAR CRIES)
(SPEAKING CHOCTAW) We will defeat you.
(SPITS)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(REFEREE GRUNTS)
(PLAYER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
(PLAYERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(PLAYERS GRUNTING)
(WAR CRIES)
(CHEERING INTENSIFIES)
(HORN BLOWING)
The crowd is fickle.
Lowak!
Whichever team loses this game… will be banished from these lands forever.
You cannot lose focus now!
(SIGHS)
(CROWD CHEERING IN DISTANCE)
(PLAYERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(PLAYERS GRUNTING)
(HORN BLOWING)
(PLAYERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(PLAYER GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION)
(HORN BLOWING)
(PLAYERS GRUNTING)
(PLAYERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(HORN BLOWING)
(LOWAK GRUNTING)
(HORN BLOWS)
(PLAYERS CLAMORING)
(PLAYER GRUNTS)
(LOWAK GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION)
(GROWLS ANGRILY)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(PLAYERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(LOWAK GRUNTS)
(PLAYERS SHOUTING)
(CHEERING)
(WAR CRIES)
(PLAYERS YELLING)
(PLAYERS GRUNTING)
(YELLING FADES)
(LOWAK BREATHES HEAVILY)
(CHOCTAW MUSIC PLAYING)
(PLAYERS SCREAMING)
(TENSE MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(HORN BLOWS)
(GROWLS ANGRILY)
(PANTING)
(WOMAN ULULATING)
(WAR CRIES)
(BURNING BY YEAH YEAH YEAHS PLAYING)
SINGER: ♪ Believer ♪
♪ Took me over like a fever ♪
♪ Caught you hiding in the smoke, smoke, smoke ♪
♪ Like a meteor I glow, glow, glow ♪
♪ What you gonna do when you get to the water? ♪
♪ Well, I’ll release her ♪
♪ From the bindings of her teachers ♪
♪ What they’re hiding there is broke, broke, broke ♪
♪ Like the River Styx I flow, flow, flow ♪
♪ What you gonna do when you get to the water? ♪
♪ What you gonna do when you get to the water? ♪
♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪
♪ All that burning ♪
♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪
♪ All that burning ♪
(BURNING FADES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Ever take this off-roading?
Never.
Grandma would kill me.
I’m not good. with the steering wheel on the wrong side.
Think I could bother you to get a few more things I need from town?
A shopping list?
(CRATE THUDS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
It’s not illegal
is it?
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO)
Aho, aho!
Many moon come Choctaw. Hmm.
Now this depicts the animals talking to the wind, symbolizing the harmony with (INHALES) Mother Earth.
(SNIFFING)
(CHANTING) Buy the damn thing, buy the damn thing, buy the damn thing, buy the damn thing.
(METAL CLANGS)
(WOMAN GASPS)
Aho! All my relations…
(SKULLY SIGHS)
(MAN CHUCKLES)
It’s nice.
But the aesthetic of our casita is a little more…
How would you describe it?
(INHALES) Uh, southwesty?
WOMAN: Yes, southwesty.
Do you have any of those Navajo rugs?
SKULLY: Oh, you might try Anthropologie.
They have all the, uh, ethnically ambiguous schmatta you could possibly use.
Oh, hey, hey. Uh, sure, you guys can drive over to, uh, Anthropologie and get your “Navajo rug,” but that’s all stuff from Madripoor. (CHUCKLES)
But if you buy from Grandfather Skully Ick-Sho, you’re getting authentic handmade art from humble Native American artisans.
Go away.
(MAN GASPS)
We’ll take it.
Ah, good. Good, good, good, good.
Uh, do you have any of those, um, bolo ties?
WOMAN: Mmm-hmm.
Bolo ties?
MAN AND WOMAN: Mmm-hmm.
SKULLY: Does a chicken have lips? I got two left.
(DRILL WHIRRING)
(MAN AND WOMAN CHUCKLE)
Step into the parlor. Step in.
(CHUCKLES) They have a parlor.
(METAL CLANGS)
MAN: Thank you.
Yakoke.
(MAN CHUCKLES)
(SKULLY CHUCKLING)
What’d she say?
(DOOR CLOSES)
(SHOP BELL RINGS)
Oh, what’s all this?
You get your income tax check back or what?
I don’t know why you gotta be all somehow.
I just helped you with that sale with the na hullos.
You know, I got better cameras than that piece of shit.
No, I… I don’t need better.
Uh, I need smaller.
(TOOLS CLATTERING)
No, no. I need way smaller.
How about that?
Nope.
I need teeny tiny, like…
Like a little hummingbird’s tongue, tiny.
Hummingbird tongue?
(TOOLS CLATTERING)
Yeah, that’s it.
That’s the one.
You know, this is militia-type shit you’re buying.
You’re welcome.
SHIKOBA: Now, where’s the frybread stand?
RAMONA: It wafts grease everywhere.
CHULA: Where should we set the speakers
to get the best sound of the drums projected?
Yeah, right here.
RAMONA: (SCOFFS) By the 4H barn?
Now I don’t see a booth for your art, Chula.
RAMONA: Nita.
Now Nita, you know
Chula’s store’s been closed down for a while now.
Oh, that’s right.
SHIKOBA: She ain’t had a booth in years.
Now this booth here. It’s the prime spot.
Nita, you have it for your beads.
(CHUCKLES) Oh.
Thank you.
SHIKOBA: Yakoke for all your hard work.
Probably extra busy with Maya back in town and all.
(SMACKS LIPS) Oh, yeah.
RAMONA: I was so excited.
When I took Chris to the rink yesterday,
I saw Maya there talking to Henry.
She looks so much like Taloa.
(WAVY BY BIGBREEZE & JUDE BARCLAY & SCOOTIE WOP PLAYING)
Let’s take a ride.
Okay.
I got supper at seven.
Uh…
I’m not supposed to have the truck…
You can have supper with Chula ’til you’re 60.
(BISCUITS SIGHS)
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
Okay.
(SIGHS)
I’m telling you, Henry, I can handle the big stuff.
But you gotta trust me.
Chula.
What a surprise.
Somebody’s grandbaby having a birthday bash I don’t know about?
We need to talk.
(ALL MY LIFE BY K-CI & JOJO PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
♪ I will never find another lover ♪
♪ More precious than you ♪
♪ Precious than you ♪
♪ Girl, you are close to me you’re like my mother ♪
♪ Close to me, you’re like my father ♪
♪ Close to me, you’re like my sister ♪
You okay?
Maya’s back.
HENRY: She came by to see you?
(LAUGHS) Not likely.
What’s she after?
You don’t wanna know.
It’s nothing I can help her with.
Maya’s influence… I think we can both agree.
Biscuits is impressionable.
It’s the last thing he needs.
She’s got a life in New York.
She’s grown.
And it’s my understanding that she’s just passing through town.
Let’s hope that’s it then.
And that Bonnie doesn’t find out she’s back.
She’s already had her heart chopped in two…
They were both grieving.
That was a long time ago.
Yeah.
I’ll let you get back to work then.
Just if you can, encourage her to stick to her plan.
Pass through town without causing any trouble.
(ALL MY LIFE CONTINUES PLAYING)
(EXHALES)
(PANTING)
(TAPE RIPPING)
(BRAKES SQUEAL)
(CAR KEYS CLICK)
(TRAIN HORN BLOWING FAINTLY)
What are we doing here?
I need one more thing.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)
Am I missing something?
Your phone, please.
(SIGHS)
(PHONE CLICKS OPEN)
(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
Follow the tracker.
Almost a full moon.
That’ll help you see.
Help me see what?
Me.
(TRAIN APPROACHES)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
(YELPS)
(PANTING)
(ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING)
(PHONE TRACKER BEEPS)
Come on, Billy Jack, we got a train to follow.
(PANTING)
(GRUNTS)
(INHALES SHARPLY)
(SOUND SLOWLY FADES)
(HEART BEATING)
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(TRAIN RATTLING)
(TRAIN BELL RINGS)
MAN: (ON RADIO) We got another bend coming up.
You better tuck in.
(THUDS)
(EXHALES)
(THUDS)
(GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRILLING)
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
BISCUITS: Of course, why does Pokni have to call right now?
I’m in the middle of a mission.
Sorry, Grandma.
(METAL CREAKING)
(PANTS TEARING)
(TRACKER BEEPING)
BISCUITS: Ho! Looks like we’re going off-roading.
Billy Jack, come on. Get in the back.
Hold on!
Whoo-hoo!
Whoo!
Ho!
(SEALANT SPRAYING)
(GRUNTS, PANTS)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)
(PANTING)
(TRAIN RUMBLING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(GRUNTING)
(METAL CRUNCHING)
(GRUNTS)
(DISTRESSED CRY)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(EXHALES)
(DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHOCTAW MUSIC PLAYING)
(ENERGY HUMMING)
(GRUNTS, GASPS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEEPING)
BISCUITS: Dang it! Well, hold on, Billy Jack.
(HAPTIC VIBRATION)
(MAYA BREATHING HEAVILY)
Come on. Come on.
Where is she?
(PANTING)
(METAL CLANGS)
(GRUNTS)
(METAL CLANGS)
Ho! Jesus Christ!
She’s way over there.
(PANTING)
BISCUITS: Tunnel! Tunnel!
(MAYA PANTING)
This is crazy.
This is crazy!
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(MAYA GRUNTING)
(BISCUITS GRUNTS, EXHALES SHARPLY)
(PANTING)
(BILLY JACK WHINING)
(MAYA GRUNTS)
You almost died!
You almost died!
Oh, my God, Billy Jack. You okay, boy?
Grandma’s gonna kill me.
(MAYA PANTS)
Whatever you stole, it better be worth it.
Steal?
I didn’t steal anything.
(BILLY JACK WHINES)
BISCUITS: Bumper’s damn near dragging off the ground.
Damn it, Maya.
(TRAIN HORN BLOWS)
ZANE: ♪ Beautiful day in the Apple, boys ♪
♪ We’s gonna be unstoppable ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ZANE: Look alive.
MAN: Zane, new shipment’s in.
Oi, oi.
How we lookin’?
MAN: Munitions just came in.
ZANE: We good?
Top stuff.
Good times, Cart.
CARTER: Yeah.
Oi, you.
Unpack this.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ZANE: Tickety-boo, baby.
MAN: Alright, here we go.
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEEPING)
(EXPLOSION)
(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)
(ZANE GRUNTS, WHEEZES)
(DEBRIS THUDDING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(CARTER WHEEZING)
(DEBRIS CLANGING, EXPLOSION CONTINUING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(SHOWER WATER FALLING)
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)
(VIBRATING CONTINUES)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
(LANDLINE RINGS)
Hello.
(INDISTINCT SPEAKING)
Uh-huh.
(INDISTINCT SPEAKING)
Uh-huh.
(INDISTINCT SPEAKING)
HENRY: Mmm-hmm.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(HENRY GRUNTS)
When’d you get the call?
Just before I called you fifteen minutes ago, nineteen minutes.
Alright. Have the boys check our paperwork, and all the transport to make sure…
Sir, I’ve been over all our paperwork, and it’s all done the same as always.
Never doubted that. I trust my team.
Heard from the other stops.
Transfers up and down that whole line.
Everyone did ’em exactly as usual.
D9-X was no different.
D9-X?
That’s the one that blew.
You sure?
Our house is in order.
We had nothing to do with this.
We keep our heads down and our mouths shut.
And you think they’ll just give up?
Don’t worry about it.
Any crap rolls downhill, it won’t land on you.
It’ll land on me.
(PEOPLE CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
(THUD)
Now… you say… you got that… caught in something?
Think you can fix it?
I want something like this.
(BLUESY SONG PLAYING FAINTLY IN BACKGROUND)
Oh, uh…
Where’s my…
slip-joint pliers?
(SKULLY RUMMAGING)
Ah.
Thank you.
(PLIERS CLATTER)
SKULLY: Yeah, well, uh… I really miss you around here.
20 years is… way too long.
It wasn’t my choice.
SKULLY: (SIGHS) Well…
I go… get things.
If, uh… somebody comes in… just, uhh… holler. (YELLS, CHUCKLES)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SKULLY WHISTLES)
(MAYA EXHALES)
(GRUNTS)
(METAL SCRATCHING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
Thank you.
The real one take time for me to build.
That’s temporary.
Don’t you run off with it.
I doubt I could run with this if I wanted to.
(LAUGHING) Okay.
(METAL CREAKING)
(METAL CLANGS)
(MAYA EXHALES)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
SKULLY: Ah… You know her.
That’s…
(SPEAKING CHOCTAW) the first Choctaw.
The one who saved everyone from the cave.
SKULLY: Oh yeah.
And when they emerged, they turned into human beings.
Your grandmother could trace your roots back to (SPEAKING CHOCTAW) the first Choctaw.
(IN ENGLISH) Chafa and the ancestors would watch out for family in times of need.
They’re tricky.
You can never predict… when they might come calling.
(SKULLY CHUCKLES)
Your grandmother knows all that.
Maybe you ask her?
Let me know when my leg is ready?
Thank you.
(CAR CREAKING)
(EXHAUST SPUTTERING)
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
New car, Chula?
(CHUCKLING) Biscuits borrowed mine.
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
(METAL SCRAPING)
(WATCH YOUR BACK BY ZEAZY Z PLAYING ON RADIO)
So generous to that boy.
I just admire it, you know.
(CHUCKLES) Have a good one.
BISCUITS: Howdy, y’all fellow gamers of Tamaha.
Today’s your lucky day as I’m in need of some vehicular funding.
Nothing puts the fun in funding like a PlayStation 4.
That’s right, I’m selling my baby.
One hundred and twenty-five bones.
(RADIO CLICKS)
OBO. That means “or best offer,” for those that don’t know, thanks.
Over and out.
(WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS OFF)
(WALKIE-TALKIE THUDS)
(BISCUITS SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
Man, it’s been, like, 18 hours.
Pokni’s gonna kill me.
I love you, man.
But you really messed up.
Biscuits here again, um…
(OVER RADIO) So, yeah, it’s, like, a pretty new PlayStation, and I’m not trying to brag or nothing, but you know, I… I wouldn’t be doing this
if I didn’t need the money to fix my grandma’s truck.
So please, help Biscuits out.
It’s in mint condition, and it’s now at a low, low price of 100 bucks.
(RADIO CLICKS)
BONNIE: (OVER RADIO) Hey, Biscuits?
Biscuits, are you there?
Bonnie?
What happened to the truck?
Yeah, um…
I was driving them back roads and I might have been a little distracted, and, uh, there might have been a little bit of trouble with Pokni’s truck, and I’m trying to raise some money for repairs before she puts me in an early grave. (LAUGHS)
Jeez, are you okay?
And what… What was the trouble?
BISCUITS: No trouble. No trouble at all.
I’m okay, Billy Jack’s okay, Maya’s okay.
But the truck, it’s, well… (EXHALES)
BONNIE: Maya?
(MISCHIEVOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
What?
BONNIE: Maya is here?
She’s in Tamaha?
Uh, sorry, I’m losing you.
Please, uh, call the tip line
if you want to buy a PlayStation, thank you.
Biscuits, where is she?
Is she at the house?
Is she going to Henry’s?
Over and out.
Biscuits, don’t you dare do this to me.
Biscuits.
Biscuits!
(WOODY GRUNTS SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
(SIRENS IN THE DISTANCE)
(CAR DRIVING UP)
(ENGINE TURNING OFF)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
I expected you here a while ago.
What the hell do you think you’re doing?
Breakfast.
Most important meal of the day.
You want some?
You have no idea what you’re messing with.
(LANDS LOUDLY)
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
I gave you a chance to know what’s coming.
I wanted you with me.
Meaning, you’re starting a war.
There’s already a war.
And I don’t want New York problems coming here.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
I have a strategy.
It’s playing out the way I planned.
No. This is chaos.
People will die.
I say when it starts.
I say when it stops.
That’s not chaos.
That’s power.
You sound like Fisk.
So, are you with me or against me?
All I know, is I… gotta figure out how to clean your mess.
Just lay low.
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
You seem to have forgotten that people close to you are the ones that get hurt.
And who’s that, exactly?
(ENGINE STARTING)
(CAR DRIVES AWAY)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(CELL PHONE VIBRATES)
(SIGHS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(PANTING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
