Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira aren't the only ones reuniting for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Greg Nicotero -- the longtime Walking Dead director, executive producer, special effects makeup supervisor, and zombie designer who has been with the AMC franchise since the beginning -- has confirmed his role on the Walking Dead Rick and Michonne spinoff premiering in 2024. As Nicotero notes in an interview with ComicBook for season 4 of the horror anthology series Creepshow (streaming now on Shudder and AMC+), the director didn't step behind the camera for the six-episode series because he was in France shooting second unit on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

"I've been in France while they were developing the Rick and Michonne show. I still supervised the makeup effects from a distance, but I did not [direct]," Nicotero told ComicBook of The Ones Who Live, which began production in New Jersey in February 2023. "I think if I hadn't been in Paris, I probably would have directed on Rick and Michonne, because I know Andy personally had asked me to come and work on the show. But I can't be in two places at once."

The TWD veteran may not be directing episodes of The Ones Who Live, but he did give fans their first taste of Rick and Michonne's returns in a final coda sequence that ended The Walking Dead series finale in 2022. Nicotero is credited as consulting producer on the spinoff series from showrunner Scott M. Gimple, who serves as executive producer alongside Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth (The Walking Dead) and Brian Bockrath (The Walking Dead: Dead City).

The Walking Dead's go-to director, also an EP on Daryl Dixon, additionally confirmed that he's officially back in the director's chair for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol, which reunites Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride as series regulars.

"I did get a chance to direct a lot, actually, of season one of Daryl. I did the old, 'Hey guys, I'm here and I'm not directing in season 1. But if you need me, I'm available to do second unit or additional photography.' And they went, 'Oh, really? Well, that's funny, because we only have 24 days to shoot this episode and the schedule is 30. So those extra six days, you could go shoot those,'" Nicotero explained to ComicBook, adding that his directorial contributions included Daryl's trek across the French countryside in the "L'?me Perdue" series premiere, a zombie-filled action sequence set at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and Daryl fending off underwater walkers in the sewers beneath Paris.

"I had a really good time shooting a lot of that footage. I thought it was really a better choice for the show to have different directors bring Daryl Dixon into the world because we wanted it to have a visually different style to it," Nicotero said of the spinoff set and filmed in France with directors Daniel Percival (the dystopian thriller series The Man in the High Castle) and Tim Southam (totalitarian sci-fi drama Colony). "I loved the directors that we had in season one. I did direct on [Daryl] season 2 because we've been filming already. That was a lot of fun for me."

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres in February 2024 on AMC and AMC+, and will be followed by The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol later in 2024.

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"No one's gone until they're gone." What were once the last words of Clark family matriarch Madison (Kim Dickens) to her children, Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), have become the defining theme of the eighth and final season of Fear the Walking Dead. AMC's first Walking Dead spinoff returns with the second half of its shortened, 12-episode final season on October 22nd with "Anton," named after the new identity of a drastically reinvented Victor Strand (Colman Domingo). By finally reuniting Madison and Victor, the first hour of Fear's remaining six episodes establishes the oft-stated theme of the back half of Season 8: "Everyone deserves a second chance."

The first half of the season saw Lennie James' Morgan exit the series after passing the figurative torch of lead role back to Dickens, who returned in the Season 7 finale following the revelation that Madison survived a seemingly fatal heroic sacrifice midway through Season 4. With Dickens reinstated as series lead for the first time since 2018, Madison takes central focus as she sets out to rebuild PADRE into the sanctuary that the Clarks' Texas stadium was meant to be before it was overrun and destroyed.

"The place I'm building, it's not about me," Madison says. "It's about keeping something bigger alive." That "something bigger" is Nick and Alicia, her kids who were long gone even before the final season premiere jumped seven years into the future. But when Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) -- who looked dead as a doornail when Madison twice bludgeoned him with a hammer to the head back in Season 3 -- returns with his one good eye on taking PADRE, it threatens not just the Clark family legacy, but the futures that Victor Strand, Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades), and the little-seen Luciana (Danay Garc?a) have built (frustratingly, off-screen) for the past seven years.

Following Fear's recent slew of foes ranging from forgettable ("Filthy Woman" Martha, Logan, PADRE's Shrike and Crane) to formidable (Virginia, the nuclear bomb-dropping Teddy, the CRM), resurrecting Troy Otto as the show's final existential threat is almost an admission that there's no better villain to end Fear with than a dead one -- retcons be damned. Sharman reprises his role as psychopathic fan-favorite Troy for the first time since 2017, and he's exceptionally effective as the final foil for Madison, bringing to Fear the same charismatic swagger that made Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan as magnetic as he was menacing. The drama heightens whenever Troy is on screen -- especially when he's needling Madison about Alicia and the reason why he has her daughter's prosthetic from her zombie-bitten, amputated arm.

Still, by bringing Troy and then a second once-thought-dead character back to life in the span of two episodes -- for a total of three resurrections, counting Madison -- death seems less consequential in a show where anyone could be killed off. Fear's biggest advantage over The Walking Dead was that it wasn't an adaptation of creator Robert Kirkman's comic book, which meant comic readers didn't have expectations about who might live or die (even if the flagship series often deviated from the source material). On one hand, AMC hasn't yet announced any Fear the Walking Dead spinoffs, thereby retaining the dramatic tension that was lost when viewers knew Daryl, Carol, Maggie, and Negan would make it out of The Walking Dead alive to return in spinoffs. On the other hand, Fear feels like a zombie soap opera based on the frequency with which characters return from the grave and then explain why they're not dead in expository dialogue.

Based on the first two of the final six episodes made available for review, there's a sense that Fear is a bit rushed. Characters who didn't appear at all in the first half of the season return with major roles to play in the back half, and so much happened during that seven-year time skip that even viewers who have been watching since the first season in 2015 might feel left out knowing that an entire show's worth of story happened between the Season 7 finale and the Season 8 premiere. Even with its smaller ensemble, the show would have benefited -- and certainly deserved -- more than 12 episodes to wrap things up. That's just half of the three-part, 24-episode final season that The Walking Dead had to deliver a satisfying conclusion.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 is at its best and its most compelling when it's providing Dickens, Domingo, Blades, and Sharman dramatic material to sink their teeth into. In the first two episodes, Dickens, Domingo, and Blades are serviced with emotionally powerful performances deserving of their long-surviving characters, and longtime fans will appreciate seeing Madison, Strand, Daniel, and Luciana all together for the first time since Season 3.

Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, who have served as showrunners since the duo replaced series co-creator Dave Erickson in Season 4 onward, have almost reset Fear the Walking Dead to where Erickson left off when he killed Troy and blew up the Gonzalez Dam to end the acclaimed third season in 2017. While the new season naturally builds on some of the seismic shifts that occurred during the semi-rebooted fourth season that crossed over with The Walking Dead to bring Morgan to Fear, thematically, Chambliss and Goldberg circle back to Season 3 in such a way that it plays almost like a direct continuation of the Erickson era.

Tenured viewers might remember that Erickson envisioned a seven-season arc transforming Madison into a villain, and there are echoes of that as Madison's benevolence, inspired by her kids, is called into question when she reckons with vengeance, also inspired by her kids; mostly, Madison is a flawed anti-hero, who lived, died, and is living -- again -- for her kids.

"We're building PADRE for Alicia, for Nick," Strand says at one point, asking Madison: "What's the point of saving it if we turn into the opposite of what Alicia wanted us to build?" The Clarks are still the beating heart of the complex human drama churning the final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, which is worth seeing through to the end. After all, everyone deserves a second chance.

Rating: 3 out of 5

The final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 premiere Sunday, October 22nd, at 9 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+.

To find home is to find each other in the next chapter of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Sunday's "Coming Home" season finale of the Walking Dead spin-off saw Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) set off to find best friend Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), who went missing after making a pit stop to gather fuel in Freeport, Maine. Carol tracked down Daryl's stolen motorcycle and, after stuffing its rider (Paul Zies) into the trunk of her Mustang at gunpoint, was pointed to the auto repair shop where Daryl disappeared when he got wrangled into wrangling walkers for the French doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) in the employ of France's Pouvoir Du Vivant leader Madame Genet (Anne Charrier). (Read the season finale recap here.)

"I don't know if this is the place I'm supposed to be. Thinking about all the people I left behind. Wondering if they're still thinking about me," Daryl says in the first The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol teaser trailer (above) that aired Sunday on AMC. Daryl left The Nest after delivering Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) and Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) to the Mont-Saint-Michel, but as revealed by the first footage from season 2, is drawn back into the Union of Hope's ongoing fight against Genet and her Guerrier.

Meanwhile, in America, Carol left Ohio's Commonwealth and has been tracking Daryl down the east coast. Her search brings her to Fuller's Auto Repair in Maine, where Jones (Gilbert Glenn Brown) trafficked Daryl and Juno (John Ales) to Dr. Lafleur -- who then put Daryl on the transatlantic vessel freighting zombie test subjects overseas. "The man that was here. Where is he?" asks a crossbow-wielding Carol at the auto shop, which has a French flag conspicuously placed out front. A stranger asks his own question: "Would you give up everything to look for somebody you haven't met?"

"If there was a hope of finding them alive," answers Carol as footage shows her trapped in an SUV surrounded by the dead, "yes."

During a panel at New York Comic Con ahead of the Daryl Dixon season finale, AMC announced McBride would reprise her fan-favorite role in the second season of the newly-retitled The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol in 2024. McBride last appeared in The Walking Dead series finale in 2022 and was set to star opposite Reedus in the untitled Daryl & Carol Walking Dead spin-off, but bowed out when relocating to Europe became "logistically untenable" at the time, according to an AMC statement.

"It was always the hope and the desire that we would get Melissa onto the show in season one, in whatever version she was ready to do. That was always what I wanted to do and what everybody wanted," showrunner David Zabel told ComicBook in a post-season Q&A. "Norman wanted it, [executive producer Scott M. Gimple] wanted it, we all wanted it. So it was just a matter of working out what the show was going to be and then seeing how we could include her. Because we love the character, and we love Melissa, and we love the dynamic of Daryl and Carol together. So from the point where I started participating on the show, that was always the conversation."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol, starring Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, and returning cast members Cl?mence Po?sy, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Laika Blanc Francard, Anne Charrier, Romain Levi, and Eriq Ebouaney, is scheduled to premiere in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale.] "You're going to drop this redneck in Paris?" Norman Reedus said of his reaction to AMC's latest Walking Dead spin-off that finds Daryl Dixon washing ashore in post-apocalyptic France. By way of "a bunch of bad decisions" revealed through a series of flashbacks, the six-episode first season answered fans' oft-asked question: "Why is Daryl Dixon in France?" As it turns out, that was also the question put to showrunner and executive producer David Zabel, the Humanitas Prize-winning ER veteran who was asked to pitch Scott M. Gimple, Chief Content Officer of AMC's Walking Dead Universe, on the long-living franchise's first international setting.

Plans for the Walking Dead spin-off started forming in 2018, with Gimple and then-showrunner Angela Kang developing a Daryl & Carol spin-off starring Reedus and Melissa McBride. Daryl and Carol "would take off and we'd come back and check in and we would take off," Reedus revealed in 2020, the same year that AMC announced The Walking Dead would end after 11 seasons.

Ultimately, Reedus and McBride remained with the flagship through the 2022 series finale, but plans changed again when McBride and Kang dropped out of the Europe-set spin-off in April 2022. Zabel, a first-time TWD showrunner, replaced Kang, who serves as executive producer on what became the #1 premiere of all time and the #1 most-viewed season of any show in the history of AMC+.

"I can't talk to the changes too much, because I wasn't there for any of that. When I came on, basically they said, 'Hey David, will you come in and tell us a story about Daryl Dixon in France?' And that's where I started," Zabel exclusively told ComicBook in an interview about the Oct. 15 "Coming Home" season finale. "So I wasn't there when they went through some of those conversations about other iterations that the show might have been or was expected to be. So it's a question outside of my wheelhouse in terms of knowing what the details were, and it was a long period of time that they were talking about it, I know, and I think things changed over the course of that period."

Zabel added, "I just know when I came on, it was like, 'They want you to sit down with Norman and tell him a story about Daryl Dixon in France.' And that's what I did. That was the first thing I did. And then a little bit later, we were all talking about -- even though there were circumstances making it a little bit difficult for Melissa -- we wanted to see if she would be willing to do some part of the show in season 1. And that's when I started talking to Melissa about the radio call in [episode] five and the scene in six that the audience saw."

McBride makes a cameo in a final coda sequence ending the first season of Daryl Dixon, which will open its next chapter as The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol in 2024 on AMC and AMC+. The second season, which filmed in Europe, sees Carol set off to track down Daryl after following his trail to Freeport, Maine, where Daryl disappeared after making a pit stop to gather fuel.

"It was always the hope and the desire that we would get Melissa onto the show in season one, in whatever version she was ready to do. That was always what I wanted to do and what everybody wanted," Zabel said. "Norman wanted it, Scott wanted it, we all wanted it. So it was just a matter of working out what the show was going to be and then seeing how we could include her. Because we love the character, and we love Melissa, and we love the dynamic of Daryl and Carol together. So from the point where I started participating on the show, that was always the conversation."

After spending six episodes trekking across zombie-plagued France to get home to America, "Coming Home" ends with Daryl seconds away from boarding a boat to England after delivering Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) -- believed by the faithful members of Union de L'Espoir to be the new messiah who will lead the revival of humanity -- and his aunt Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) to The Nest, a sanctuary at the Mont-Saint-Michel. But when Laurent follows him to the beach teeming with les affam?s ("the hungry ones"), episode director Daniel Percival ends on a shot of Daryl caught in the middle of returning to The Nest or returning home.

"Without spoiling anything on Daryl's side of the story, we leave him with this conundrum, this dilemma about a guy who's trying to get home to the family that he's always had back home -- with Judith and RJ and Carol and Connie -- but a guy who, in the meantime, has also formed this other family and bond in France that needs him and wants him there and where he has developed a certain sense of belonging. So we certainly continue that narrative. That dilemma that we set up at the end of [episode] six is a big part of the early going of when we come back. We don't just drop that and we don't skip it. We continue telling that story in various ways and we continue telling the story of the threat of the Ampers, the amped-up walkers that Genet is cultivating as an army."

Along with the br?lant -- or "burners," walkers with acidic blood -- Daryl Dixon unleashes the Ampers, super-strong walkers engineered by Dr. Lafleur (Fran?ois Delaive). These man-made mutant zombie variants are made possible through research funded by Madame Genet (Anne Charrier), the shadowy leader of Pouvoir des Vivants ("Power of the Living"), a French movement out to establish France's Sixth Republic. The Ampers, as Zabel officially labels them, continues a major story thread first put into motion in a final coda sequence ending The Walking Dead: World Beyond. That limited series, co-created and executive produced by Gimple, ended inside a French lab where graffiti reading "Les morts sont nes icl" (the dead are born here) could be seen with cryptic talk of the Primrose and Violet teams who "started this" and then "made it worse."

That's a thread left to pull in season 2. With McBride back on board as a series regular, The Book of Carol will also reveal the details about that mysterious exchange between Daryl and Carol in episode 5. Before losing connection, Carol told Daryl through radio static that "...came back," sparking theories that the long-missing Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) or Michonne (Danai Gurira), who will return in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live in 2024, made it home to Alexandria.

"I think one way or another, what she meant on that radio call will be explored in our story. It will be addressed in our story, it will be clarified," Zabel confirmed. "But it is interesting to see all the theories. I've seen a lot of theories and it's amazing how that one little moment caught people's attention a lot. I think that's cool. It's cool about working in The Walking Dead Universe, is that something like that catches fire a little bit. So we're not going to drop it. It's not just thrown away, but we will address it in our show. And obviously, there's also the Rick and Michonne show coming up before we will be back."

Asked if Daryl Dixon might connect with The Ones Who Live or reunite Daryl with Rick and Michonne -- after all, Daryl did promise the Grimes children he would keep an eye out for their parents to bring them home -- Zabel said, "That is more of a Scott Gimple question. I mean, I know the fans would love that. I would love that, too. We haven't gotten into anything like that specifically. So I think that's a Gimple question."

For now, the last episode of Daryl Dixon's first season suggests a more imminent reunion: with Laurent, who makes the two-day trek following Daryl from Mont-Saint-Michel to the north coast after Daryl leaves The Nest. Daryl is seconds away from getting on the boat home when Laurent, standing on the shore teeming with walkers, calls out to him as U2's "Seconds" plays. ("It takes a second to say goodbye / say goodbye, oh, oh, oh, say bye bye / Where you going to now?") Asked what Daryl's decision looks like if Laurent doesn't follow him at the end, Zabel said, "I think he probably gets on the boat, to be honest with you."

"It takes that kid showing up and demonstrating the depth of his connection to Daryl, his need. I mean, that's what happens at the end is that kid needs Daryl and loves Daryl so much and needs that parental figure that Daryl has come to represent to him," Zabel explained. "He needs that so much that he follows Daryl to the beach all the way across, a couple days from where they started and tracks him down there. And I think Daryl sees that and has a reaction to that, and I think that's what causes the hesitation. I think if it wasn't for that, he would get on the boat."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol, starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride as Daryl and Carol, is scheduled to premiere in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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[Warning: This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale.] "I'm looking for a friend of mine. Name's Daryl Dixon." So said Carol (Melissa McBride) on Sunday's first season finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, titled "Coming Home." Despite its title, the episode ended with Daryl (Norman Reedus) still stranded overseas after delivering Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) and Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) to The Nest, a sanctuary at the Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France. But the episode was a homecoming for McBride, whose season-ending cameo as Carol will be followed by the longtime Walking Dead star rejoining Reedus as a series regular in a second season titled The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol.

McBride made a voice cameo in the penultimate episode of the season when Carol communicated with Daryl over long-range radio, reaching him long enough to tell him through static that someone or something "came back." In the flashback sequence, Daryl took a job wrangling walkers to trade them for fuel after his motorcycle broke down outside of Freeport, Maine, and Daryl promised Carol he would return to the Commonwealth in Ohio "in about a week." Daryl never made it home.

That's because Fuller's Auto Repair, where Daryl went missing, hired transients to collect zombie test subjects that Dr. Lafleur (Fran?ois Delaive) then shipped overseas for experiments he would conduct for Madame Genet (Anne Charrier). Daryl ended up in the brig aboard a French cargo ship and, during a prisoner mutiny, went overboard in the Gulf of C?diz before he washed ashore in France -- thousands of miles away from his rendezvous with Carol.

Daryl Dixon's season finale ended with Carol in hot pursuit of a rider (Paul Zies) racing down the road on Daryl's stolen bike. "I don't want any trouble. I'm looking for a friend of mine. Name's Daryl Dixon. That's his bike you're riding," Carol told the rider, who claimed he "found it."

She then told the rider she "came a long way trying to track him down," and stepped aside to let the shotgun-wielding man rummage through the trunk of her classic Mustang. But Carol had a trick up her sleeve: a concealed socket wrench. Carol knocked the rider unconscious, bound his hands, and stuffed him in the trunk. At gunpoint, Carol forced the rider to confess he traded "some dudes" camped a few miles down the road for the bike.

"If you're lying, I won't be back," said Carol, locking him in the trunk. In the final shot of the season, Carol rode Daryl's bike past a vandalized sign welcoming visitors to Freeport, Maine. "Population: DEAD."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon's Carol Cameo Explained by Showrunner

"It was always the hope and the desire that we would get Melissa onto the show in season one, in whatever version she was ready to do. That was always what I wanted to do and what everybody wanted," showrunner David Zabel told ComicBook. "Norman wanted it, Scott [M. Gimple, executive producer] wanted it, we all wanted it. So it was just a matter of working out what the show was going to be and then seeing how we could include her. Because we love the character, and we love Melissa, and we love the dynamic of Daryl and Carol together. So from the point where I started participating on the show, that was always the conversation."

AMC announced an untitled Daryl & Carol Walking Dead spin-off in September 2020, which would follow the 11-season run of The Walking Dead. Then-showrunner Angela Kang and AMC's Walking Dead Universe chief content officer Gimple developed the spin-off, starring Reedus and McBride, as a "road show" set across the southwestern United States. However, in April 2022, McBride dropped out of the spin-off when the series relocated to Europe, which "became logistically untenable for Melissa at this time," according to AMC.

On Daryl & Carol's Change to Daryl Dixon in France

"Unfortunately, I can't talk to the changes too much because I wasn't there for any of that," Zabel said when asked about the original plans for Daryl & Carol. "When I came on, basically they said, 'Hey David, will you come in and tell us a story about Daryl Dixon in France?' And that's where I started. So I wasn't there when they went through some of those conversations about other iterations that the show might have been or was expected to be. So it's a question outside of my wheelhouse in terms of knowing what the details were, and it was a long period of time that they were talking about it, I know, and I think things changed over the course of that period."

Zabel continued, "I just know when I came on, it was like, 'They want you to sit down with Norman and tell him a story about Daryl Dixon in France.' And that's what I did. That was the first thing I did. And then a little bit later, we were all talking about -- even though there were circumstances making it a little bit difficult for Melissa -- we wanted to see if she would be willing to do some part of the show in season one. And that's when I started talking to Melissa about the radio call in [episode] five and the scene in [episode] six that the audience saw."

Melissa McBride's Next Chapter in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol

Ahead of the first season finale, AMC announced at New York Comic Con that McBride would return as a series regular and executive producer for Daryl Dixon season 2. The network also revealed an official new title: The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol. Zabel previously confirmed with ComicBook that the second season of the spin-off, which is set and shot in Europe, will continue filming on October 20th after AMC secured an approved interim agreement with the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) to resume production amid the actors' strike.

Asked about the Daryl-Carol reunion and McBride's role in season 2, Zabel teased that the Carol coda was just the first chapter in her search for Daryl.

"A lot of the details are still being worked out in script and in shooting of what season two will be. You have to tune in and watch season two to see how it develops, but we are not dropping the narrative of her search for Daryl," Zabel said. "All we know right now is that she's searching for Daryl in America. That's what we see in episode six, and we're super committed to her being a big part of the show as much as she's able to and as much as we can. But beyond that, any specifics, you have to wait and see."

McBride said of her return in a statement released by AMC: "I've known there was much more to be told of Carol's story as I felt her so unsettled when we last saw her, as she watched her best friend, Daryl, ride away. Apart or (hopefully!) together, their stories run deep, and I'm so excited to continue Carol's journey here. This team of storytellers have done amazing work to land these two established characters in an entirely new world to them, and I'm loving the discoveries!"

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol is scheduled to premiere in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale begins on the beaches of Normandy. June 6, 1944. D-Day. An American soldier -- one of 2,501 -- dies fighting for the liberation of France. His dog tag reads: DIXON. "Dixon! Dixon! Today you die! For my brother!" In the present-day, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) hears the taunts of Codron (Romain Levi) and the cheers of the Pouvoir, who have come to watch the American battle the amped-up les affam?s, the hungry ones, engineered by Madame Genet (Anne Charrier). "Don't worry, Issa," Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) assures his praying aunt, Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy). "Daryl will win."

Daryl fights the acidic-blooded br?lants, burners, in the arena that Genet has assembled for De Gaulle Day marking the rebirth and rise of France's Sixth Republic. He's chained at the wrist to Quinn (Adam Nagaitis), forcing the American and the Brit to fight side-by-side to survive their trial by walker. Genet's chief doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) injects the Pouvoir's zombie gladiators with a serum that amps up the hungry ones with blackened eyes and sharpened teeth. The Ampers are faster, stronger, and deadlier than the average les affam?s, but Genet's pets fail to kill Daryl and Quinn.

"The point was to win these people to our cause," Genet seethes as the crowd cheers for the American, holding a walker's head up to the blood-thirsty spectators. Before Genet's Guerrier can gun down Daryl, Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney), Sylvie (Laika Blanc Francard), and Emile (Tristan Zanchi) spark la r?volution, allowing Daryl and Quinn to escape in the chaos. "This American killed your brother?" Genet asks Codron. "You want your revenge? Go get it."

In the halls of the Maison M?re, Daryl notices a wound on Quinn's shoulder blade that he says was caused by the burning touch of the br?lant. Meanwhile, Genet imprisons Isabelle and Laurent, telling the boy: "God is not coming for you. The Messiah? I don't think so." Laurent questions if they've been abandoned by God, but Isabelle reminds him that "now is when we need faith the most." She reveals a pick-pocketed key, a trick she learned in another life. As Quinn succumbs to his wound, he repents for his treatment of Isabelle and using Laurent -- his son -- to try to get her back. Daryl says he can still buy him time to save Isabelle and Laurent. With that, Daryl uses a belt as a tourniquet and severs Quinn's cuffed hand with one clean cut. Quinn goes after the Guerrier, giving Daryl time to rendezvous with Fallou's fighters before finding Isabelle and Laurent trapped on the other side of a gate.

The zombified Quinn attacks Isabelle, who uses a pipe to fend him off. Handing Laurent his blade through the gate, Daryl tells him he can save her. "God will forgive you," Daryl tells the boy, who puts down his reanimated father. Later, Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie head for Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy: The Nest. When their truck breaks down outside a small village, Daryl tells Isabelle how his dad used to have him and his brother, Merle, take apart engines. If they couldn't put them back together, they didn't get dinner. It was hard "when he was around," Daryl says of his father, "which was hardly ever." Daryl's dad "grew up without a father. I guess history repeats itself if you're not careful." Daryl explains that his grandfather enlisted, left his pregnant wife back home, and died in France in World War II. When Isabelle remarks that grandpa Dixon "gave his life for France," Daryl is almost churlish in his response: "Yeah, while his family fell apart back home. Hardly seems worth it."

Isabelle admits that Laurent growing up without a father was "better than Quinn." And then she confesses another truth: that she recognized Daryl was dangerous when she found him in Lourdes after he washed ashore in France, and she knew that he was the one who could deliver Laurent to The Nest. She lied about the drawing of Daryl on the beach that she claimed was Laurent's premonition. But as she's said, everything happens for a reason. Just then, Codron and Genet's soldiers have taken Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie hostage. Daryl offers to trade his life for theirs, but Codron relays that "Madame said you all die today. The boy first." Isabelle is stabbed protecting Laurent from a Guerrier, who hands Codron a gun so he can avenge his brother and let Laurent's death be "the last thing the American sees."

Daryl is at Codron's mercy. "God loves you," Laurent tells Codron, who finally pulls the trigger... and guns down the Guerrier. "Not today, Dixon. Next time." He tells the travelers that Mont-Saint-Michel is a day's walk north, and to burn the truck because it's easy to track. With that, Codron walks off to face his fate back at Maison M?re. Codron tells Genet that the Guerrier were ambushed, and he is the only survivor. "A man cannot give more to a cause than his own life. Yet you return without a scratch." Codron's face is tattooed for the cause, but it's his eyes that give him away. Codron confesses he couldn't bring himself to the kill the boy, who has become the "hope" for l'Union de I'Espoir.

"The Union offers fairy tales. Every person who joins them makes us weaker. That's why they must be snuffed out," Genet explains. "Because we're building the future. Not for ourselves. But for those that come after. We have to do the hard, unspeakable things, so that they won't have to." Genet tells him to give up the location of The Nest, but Codron refuses. "It's only going to get more painful," says Genet, ordering her men to take Codron away.

At The Nest, the people of l'Union welcome Laurent like the messiah they believe him to be. Daryl meets with their leader, the Buddhist monk Losang (Joel De La Fuente), a Hoboken-born Paris transplant who traveled to Europe as a student in the '90s. Daryl warns Losang that Genet will be coming for The Nest. "We'll pray not, but if the day comes," he says confidently, "we'll be prepared."

In a montage, Daryl teaches the Nesters weapons training as Laurent learns from Losang. Daryl raises a toast -- Sant? -- to l'Union. Isabelle has healed from her knife wound. Daryl tries his hand at Laurent's Rubik's cube. The nun, who treated Daryl's wounds when he first came to France, now asks him to help her with what Daryl jokes is "a pretty impressive battle wound for a nun." "I think you said 'killer nun,'" she replies. Daryl admits The Nest isn't what he expected: "Bunch of Amish people running around. Straw hats, people churning butter, bonnets." It hurts to laugh, but she does it anyway. "I like it here," she tells Daryl. "Feels like home."
I Feels like home.

Later, Losang tells Daryl that he was skeptical when P?re Jean (Hugo Dillon), the priest from the Abbey of Saint Bernadette, first sent word of the boy. While making the 500-mile pilgrim's camino to Santiago, Losang stopped at Abbey de Bernadette to meet Laurent -- and that's when he knew Laurent is the boy prophesied to "lead the revival of humanity." Losang then reveals that l'Union has held up their end of the deal: for delivering Laurent to The Nest, Losang secured Daryl passage home. A fisherman from Dover will bring Daryl to England, where they know of boats that can get him as far as Newfoundland. Daryl will have to manage from there. Daryl has two days to walk to the north coast and take his boat home.

"I got family waiting for me back home," Daryl says to Losang's offer to stay at The Nest. "Well," the monk counters, "you've got people here who hope you'll stay." Daryl says it's not so easy, and the Pouvoir isn't his fight. Losang has faith Daryl will make his way home -- wherever that may be. "Who knows what tomorrow will bring? And an ocean away, the world being what it is. But we need you -- here, now. Maybe the fight's not the reason you're torn. Sometimes, when a person leaves home, he comes to find he belongs someplace else."

Daryl quietly packs his belongings -- his angel wings vest, a map -- when his no-goodbye goodbye is interrupted by Isabelle. "I made a promise to them, just like I made to you," Daryl says of his people back home. Isabelle, recalling how Daryl told her he left the Commonwealth to see what was left in the world, found something. "Maybe not what you were looking for, but--"

Daryl doesn't want to say goodbye to Laurent. "Are you gonna abandon him, like your father did to you? I think you care about him," Isabelle says. "And I think it scares you. You think you're escaping history by doing this, but you are not. You're repeating it." To that, Daryl says: "You believe what you believe, and I respect you for that. And this place feels like home to you, and I truly hope it is for both of you. But I have my own home to get back to." Daryl's leaving, and there's no changing his mind. "I'm glad we met," Isabelle says. "Godspeed on your journey." Daryl leaves the Rubik's cube on the bed of a sleeping Laurent, leaving without a word. After one last look back, Daryl leaves The Nest and makes the trek across Normandy.

His journey brings him to a weathered American flag at a graveyard for the freedom fighters who died on the shores of France. Scouring the tombstones, Daryl finds it: WILLIAM T. DIXON. PVT. 490 INF 23 DIV. GEORGIA. JUNE 6, 1944. Daryl is overcome with emotion. And then he sees it: the boat home. He waves it down, receiving a reflective signal in response. Daryl Dixon is going home. As he makes his way across the beach, fighting through the walkers that have risen from the sand to see him off, Daryl is seconds away from getting off the shore when he hears it. "Daryl! Daryl!" It's Laurent, calling out to him from the walker-plagued beach. U2's "Seconds" plays as Daryl looks to the approaching boat home, then back to Laurent. "It takes a second to say goodbye. Say goodbye. Oh, oh, oh, say bye bye. Where you going to now?"

America. Daryl's motorcycle races down the road in Freeport, Maine. America. The rider is... someone we don't know. In hot pursuit is a classic mustang, its driver stepping out with their hands up. It's Carol (Melissa McBride). "I'm looking for a friend of mine," Carol says. "Name's Daryl Dixon. That's his bike you're riding." The rider says he found it. "Sure about that? I've come a long way trying to track him down," Carol says, disarming the man when he goes to help himself to her trunk. Carol shoves him inside the trunk and forces a confession: he swears to God, he traded "some dudes" for it camped down the road a few miles outside an old gas station. "If you're lying, I won't be back." Carol shuts the trunk and rides off on Daryl's bike past a sign reading: "Welcome to Freeport, Maine. Population: DEAD."

So begins the first chapter in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol.

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Daryl Dixon may be far from home in France, but the first season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has a home on streaming. All six episodes of the Walking Dead spin-off starring Norman Reedus are now available to stream on AMC+, including Sunday's "Coming Home" season finale. Since the newest series in AMC's Walking Dead Universe premiered in September, Daryl Dixon surpassed The Walking Dead: Dead City as the #1 premiere of all time and the #1 most-viewed season of any show in the history of AMC+. The network has already started production on a second season, set to premiere in 2024, with Melissa McBride reprising her role as Carol for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol.

Keep reading below to find out all of the ways to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon with or without cable.

TWD: Daryl Dixon Episode 6 Release Date and Time

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale, "Coming Home," premiered Sunday, October 15th, at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and will air at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on the AMC channel.

Daryl Dixon Episode 6 Run Time

The Daryl Dixon finale has a runtime of 53 minutes and 40 seconds without commercials, and is scheduled to air from 9:00 p.m. -- 11:20 p.m. on AMC.

How to Watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 1 Online Without Cable

To stream all episodes of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon online without cable, you'll need an AMC+ subscription. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly).

AMC+ is available as an app and via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV.

Is There an AMC+ Free Trial?

To watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon for free online, new customers can sign up for a 7-day free AMC Plus trial that will automatically renew unless cancelled. All six episodes of Daryl Dixon are available to stream online on AMC+, along with the first seasons of TWDU spin-offs The Walking Dead: Dead City and Tales of the Walking Dead, plus episodes of Fear the Walking Dead.

You can also watch Daryl Dixon on the AMC website by signing in with your TV provider.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episodes 1 ("L'?me Perdue"), episode 2 ("Alouette"), episode 3 ("Paris Sera Toujours Paris"), episode 4 ("La Dame de Fer"), episode 5 ("Deux Amours"), and episode 6 ("Coming Home") are currently available to stream online on AMC+.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Recaps

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Episode 1 Recap: "L'?me Perdue" (The Lost Soul)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Episode 2 Recap: "Alouette" (Lark)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Episode 3 Recap: "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" (Paris Will Always Be Paris)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Episode 4 Recap: "La Dame de Fer" (The Iron Lady)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Episode 5 Recap: "Deux Amours" (Two Loves)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Episode 6 Recap: "Coming Home"

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[Warning: This story contains a spoiler for Sunday's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale]. "It's not like we're never gonna see each other again," Daryl told Carol during their goodbye on The Walking Dead series finale. But it's not like fans were never going to see Carol again: AMC announced today that Melissa McBride will star opposite Norman Reedus as a series regular in the second season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. With McBride returning to the fan-favorite role she played on all 11 seasons of the original series, the Walking Dead spin-off has a new title for season 2: The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol.

Spoiler alert: AMC also announced that McBride's Carol makes an appearance in the "Coming Home" season finale of Daryl Dixon, premiering Sunday, October 15th, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and AMC+. The news comes after the network screened the episode during its TWD Universe panel at New York Comic Con.

"I've known there was much more to be told of Carol's story as I felt her so unsettled when we last saw her, as she watched her best friend, Daryl, ride away," McBride said in a statement. "Apart or (hopefully!) together, their stories run deep, and I'm so excited to continue Carol's journey here. This team of storytellers have done amazing work to land these two established characters in an entirely new world to them, and I'm loving the discoveries!"

"My good friend, the talented, beautiful Melissa McBride, will be a series regular for season 2," Reedus said at NYCC. "We couldn't be more thrilled."

McBride made a surprise voice cameo in the penultimate episode of Daryl Dixon and will appear -- in the flesh -- in a season finale coda sequence that will serve as the unofficial first chapter in The Book of Carol.

In 2020, AMC announced Reedus and McBride would reprise their roles in an untitled Walking Dead: Daryl & Carol spin-off developed by TWD Universe Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple and then-showrunner Angela Kang. McBride bowed out of the series in April 2022, with an AMC spokesperson explaining that relocating to Europe, where Daryl Dixon is set and filmed, became "logistically untenable" for McBride "at this time." The AMC spokesperson added: "We know fans will be disappointed by this news, but The Walking Dead Universe continues to grow and expand in interesting ways and we very much hope to see Carol again in the near future."

The near future is 2024. As ComicBook exclusively reported, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 will resume production October 20th in France. Zabel confirmed that the AMC Studios series signed an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA for approval to film amid the ongoing actors' strike.

McBride joins an ensemble that includes returning Daryl Dixon cast members Cl?mence Po?sy as Isabelle, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi as Laurent, Laika Blanc Francard as Sylvie, Anne Charrier as Madame Genet, Romain Levi as Codron, and Eriq Ebouaney as Fallou. McBride also serves as an executive producer on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol alongside Reedus, series creator and showrunner David Zabel, and EPs Scott M. Gimple, Greg Nicotero, Angela Kang, Brian Bockrath, Daniel Percival, Jason Richman, and Steve Squillante.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol, starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride, is set to premiere in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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Terry O'Quinn is going from The Island to the Civic Republic. The Emmy-winning actor, who played fan-favorite John Locke on Lost, has been cast in the Rick and Michonne Walking Dead spin-off series starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira. AMC announced at New York Comic Con on Thursday that O'Quinn will play Major General Beale -- until now the unseen, shadowy leader of the Civic Republic Military -- in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. The network also confirmed that Pollyanna McIntosh, who previously reprised her Walking Dead role on limited series The Walking Dead: World Beyond, will return as CRM Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes.

Alongside Lincoln and Gurira, reprising their iconic roles as Rick Grimes and Michonne, the new series also stars TWD Universe newcomers Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer) as Pearl and Matt Jeffries as Nat. See the just-revealed first-look images below, and watch the new teaser trailer here.

Beale was first mentioned on The Walking Dead: World Beyond, ordering the "tactical military operation" that wiped out Nebraska's Omaha Safe-Zone and the satellite Campus Colony -- killing more than 110,000 people -- as part of a plot that threatened another 87,000 survivors from Portland, part of the Civic Republic-aligned Alliance of the Three. That series also revealed that Beale, along with CRM Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Kublek (Julia Ormond), founded Project Votus, which involves human and zombie test subjects labeled as either an "A" or "B."

The CRM is the mysterious group that Jadis called to shuttle Rick away aboard a helicopter on season 9 of The Walking Dead. More than six years have passed since Rick disappeared and was presumed killed in a bridge explosion, but World Beyond revealed that Jadis trafficked Rick to the CRM in exchange for entry into the Civic Republic, a secret civilization of 200,000 people in fortified Philadelphia. Designated "Consignee Grimes," Rick repeatedly tried -- and failed -- to escape the CRM. Rick has been put to work at a Civic Republic Cull Facility, decontamination centers where CR military personnel perform mass zombie cullings as part of the CRM's efforts to clear entire states of the undead.

Beale was also referenced on The Walking Dead coda when a CRM helicopter pilot told an escaping Rick: "Come on, Rick. It's like he told you: there's no escape for the living."

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live "presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world," per AMC's description. "Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive -- or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?"

Scott M. Gimple, Chief Content Officer of AMC's The Walking Dead Universe, serves as showrunner and executive producer alongside Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth (The Walking Dead) and Brian Bockrath (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon). The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres February 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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"We're the ones who live." With those words, Rick Grimes and Michonne returned for a final coda ending The Walking Dead series finale in 2022. The partners and parents are "kept apart by distance and an unstoppable power," per the logline, but not for much longer: Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are reuniting for their new Walking Dead spin-off. The six-episode series, titled The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, will premiere in February 2024 on AMC and AMC+. The network released a new teaser trailer for the Rick and Michonne spin-off during AMC's TWD Universe New York Comic Con panel, previewing the next chapter in Rick and Michonne's "epic love story."

"I tried to get away. Please know I tried. I tried, but I failed," a bloodied, walker-killing Rick Grimes says in the new trailer, which you can watch below. As Rick looks at the engraved cell phone that Michonne would eventually find on a boat on Bloodsworth Island, Michonne's katana slices through the dead somewhere else. Rick says in voiceover: "Just know... I love you."

"This series presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were," reads the official synopsis. "Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive -- or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?"

After Rick blew up a bridge to save his family and friends from a zombie horde in The Walking Dead season 9, Anne/Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) called a CRM helicopter to airlift the gravely wounded Rick to safety. The Walking Dead: World Beyond revealed that Jadis traded Rick to the Civic Republic Military for entry to the Civic Republic in Philadelphia, where Rick has spent years at a CRM zombie-culling facility as "Consignee Grimes."

Years later, in season 10 of The Walking Dead, Michonne set off to find Rick and bring him home to their children, Judith (Cailey Fleming) and Rick "RJ" Grimes Jr. (Antony Azor), after she discovered evidence that suggested Rick was alive.

"These are two people that have been separated for a very long time. They've lived whole other existences and they have to find themselves again, let alone each other. And it's hopefully going to be mind-blowing," showrunner Scott M. Gimple has said of the series originally developed as a Rick Grimes movie trilogy. "We see this incredible power couple, but we also see that Red Machete Rick. We see that Michonne who taught a thing or two to the Governor. [The series] kind of goes coast to coast that way between the intimate and the epic and the insane."

Gimple, Chief Content Officer of AMC's The Walking Dead television universe, serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth (The Walking Dead), and Brian Bockrath (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon). TWDU veterans Michael E. Satrazemis (Fear the Walking Dead) and Channing Powell (Tales of the Walking Dead) are co-executive producers, and franchise statesman Greg Nicotero -- who directed the Rick & Michonne coda and The Walking Dead series finale -- is consulting producer.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 is set to resume production next week amid the actors' strike, ComicBook has exclusively learned. In August, AMC Networks secured an interim agreement with the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) to resume filming on three series: two Walking Dead spin-offs, Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live, and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Per the striking actors' union's official list of Productions Approved and Signed to Interim Agreements, the cast and crew are permitted to return to work on these productions without being in violation of the strike order in place since July 14th.

"We're prepping. We're getting ready to shoot," The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon showrunner David Zabel told ComicBook ahead of the first season finale (airing Sunday, October 15th, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and AMC+). In an interview conducted the day after members of the Writers Guild of America ratified its contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end the 148-day writers' strike, Zabel confirmed that the series, which is set and filmed in France, resumes production on October 20th.

"We've got a bunch to film, but we're in pretty good shape," Zabel said of the upcoming second season, which AMC ordered in July. Some of Daryl Dixon season 2 filmed earlier this year in Europe before a planned hiatus that coincided with the actors' strike.

AMC Networks, which produces the series via Stalwart Films and AMC Studios, is an "authorized company" but is not a member of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers representing the major Hollywood studios and streamers. Daryl Dixon is among more than 300 "independent" projects granted the waiver with an agreement to abide by the terms the AMPTP eventually reaches with SAG-AFTRA.

The interim agreement "hopefully won't be relevant because I'm hoping that SAG will get what they need and be able to end their action soon," the former ER showrunner added. "But in the meantime, with the writers able to work, and me able to work, we're able to fully produce the show as always. And so that resumes on October 20th and continues from then."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon premiered September 10th as the #1 most-viewed premiere of all time and the most-viewed season of any show in the three-year history of streaming service AMC+. Norman Reedus leads a cast that includes Cl?mence Po?sy, Adam Nagaitis, Anne Charrier, Eriq Ebouaney, Laika Blanc Francard, Romain Levi, and Louis Puech Scigliuzzi. Zabel serves as executive producer alongside Reedus, Scott M. Gimple, Greg Nicotero, Angela Kang, Brian Bockrath, Jason Richman, and Daniel Percival.

Daryl Dixon's first season finale premieres Sunday, October 15th on AMC and AMC+.

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 5.] "How did you end up here, so far from home?" asked Azlan (Hassam Ghancy) in Sunday's "Deux Amours" penultimate episode of Daryl Dixon. The first episode of the Walking Dead spin-off started with Daryl (Norman Reedus) adrift at sea and washing ashore in France, somehow thousands of miles from his home at the Commonwealth in Ohio. As Daryl trekked the French countryside from Marseille to Lourdes, it wasn't until the premiere's final scene -- set in a port at La Havre, northern France -- that we received clues about "the American" who went overboard in the Gulf of C?diz.

We saw the ship's captain (Gr?gory Kristoforoff) report to Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) that its prisoners escaped during a mutiny. We heard a French doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) reveal the ship was transporting zombie test subjects. And we learned that the doctor's research was "largely destroyed." Who was it that destroyed a ship that took three years to make seaworthy? "He was named... Dixon," the captain answered. But why was Daryl on a transatlantic vessel freighting zombie test subjects overseas?

That was answered in "Deux Amours" when Azlan, a member of Union de L'Espoir (Union of Hope), shepherded Daryl and Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) to The Nest up north. As they made the 124-mile trip toward Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, flashbacks revealed that Daryl was in Freeport, Maine, when his bike ran out of fuel. A camo-clad man named Jones (Gilbert Glenn Brown) happened across Daryl and brought him to an auto repair shop, where he laid out the ground rules for a motley crew of strays: no fighting, no stealing, no sexual deviancy of any kind. "No children will be accepted, nor elderly or shorties. Five foot, four inches is the cut-off." It's one pint of ethanol per head, or a quart for "fresh ones."

"What do you want 'em for, anyway?" asked Juno (John Ales), only to be told "this is not your concern." As it turned out, Jones was working with the French doctor who has been conducting experiments on zombie test subjects for Genet. After contacting Carol (Melissa McBride) and promising to return to the Commonwealth within the week, Daryl set out with his crossbow and ropes to wrangle walkers and turn them in for enough fuel to get home. But when Daryl deduced that Juno murdered an inexperienced younger guy named TJ (Martin Martinez) to exchange his freshly-turned trophy for an extra quart of gas, a fight broke out and landed Daryl and Juno in the brig of a cargo ship. The French doctor was aboard conducting experiments on walkers, some caged with a warning sign reading "fast ne pas nourir": FAST DO NOT FEED.

The cargo: shipping containers filled with walkers. After watching French guards manning the ship throw a man to the les affam?s -- the hungry ones -- to be eaten alive, Daryl and Juno plotted an escape and mutinied against the guards. Daryl unleashed the caged hungry ones on the crew before freeing the other prisoners, racing for a lifeboat as the zombies flooded the ship. During the chaos, the French doctor's experiments got loose. A super-strong variant walker ripped free from its restraints, ran up stairs, and tore Juno apart with its bare hands, sending the lifeboat plunging into the ocean. Daryl went overboard just as the ship exploded, strapped himself to the overturned lifeboat, and drifted through the Mediterranean Sea until he washed ashore in Marseille.

There are rumors of active ships going in and out of La Havre, but the port is controlled by Genet and her Guerrier (warriors). If Daryl hopes to make it home, he'll need to deliver Laurent to The Nest at Mont-Saint-Michel so that Union de L'Espoir's leader -- the Buddhist monk Losang -- can secure him passage back to America.

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 5.] "Who came back?" That was the question Daryl (Norman Reedus) asked Carol (guest star Melissa McBride) over the radio in Sunday's "Deux Amours" episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. The penultimate episode of the first season took a detour to Freeport, Maine, for a back-and-forth flashback sequence revealing how Daryl wound up on a zombie-freighting French cargo ship, only to go overboard in the Gulf of C?diz before washing ashore in France. And while we got answers about the "what," "when," "where," and "why" of it all, the "who" question remains: WHO CAME BACK?

The Walking Dead series finale ended with Daryl leaving Carol and the Grimes children at the Commonwealth community in Ohio with a promise: "While I'm out there, if I hear anything, see anything, I'll find them both. I'll bring them home." Daryl then rode off on his bike to go find Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira), who will return in their 2024 spin-off series titled The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

Daryl's solo travels brought him to the coastal town of Freeport, Maine, about a week's trip out from the Commonwealth. After his bike ran out of fuel, Daryl happened across Jones (Gilbert Glenn Brown) and a French doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) trading ethanol for "live" walkers: no children, no elderly, none shorter than five feet, four inches, and extra fuel for the freshly turned. As it turned out, these walkers would be shipped overseas as the zombie test subjects of French Pouvoir des Vivants leader Madame Genet (Anne Charrier).

Before a hoodwinked Daryl ended up in the ship's brig and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean, he made radio contact with Carol. The connection was weak, but lasted long enough for Daryl and Carol to say the following through radio static:

Carol: Hello. Are you there? ?
Daryl: Hello! Hey! It's me!
Carol: Daryl. Are you okay?
Daryl: Yeah, well, I have a radio here. I thought, what the hell? How you doing?
Carol: Where's there?
Daryl: I'm in Maine, by the coast. Everything good there? ?
Carol: Yeah, you know, pretty quiet here.
Daryl: Quiet's good. You okay?
Carol: Yeah. Just takes some getting used to, that's all.
[A beat.]
Daryl: You sure you're okay?
Carol: You never have to worry about me, Daryl. How is it out there?
Daryl: I'll tell you all about it when I see you. I'm just gathering up some fuel. I'll be there in about a week. I promise.
Carol: Copy that. Hey, Daryl.
Daryl: Yeah.
Carol: [Static, transmission breaking up] ...came back.
Daryl: Who came back?
[Static]
Daryl: Carol. Who came back? Carol?

So, who came back?

Rick Grimes

Daryl watched as Rick sacrificed himself by blowing up a bridge to stop a walker horde, then spent the next six years looking for a body. Only Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) knows what happened next: she flew away with the gravely wounded Rick aboard a CRM helicopter and trafficked him to the Civic Republic. Jadis then became a high-ranking official in the Civic Republic Military as Rick repeatedly tried to escape his fate as a walker-clearing worker at a Civic Republic Cull Facility in Philadelphia.

Michonne

When Michonne followed a stranger named Virgil (Kevin Carroll) to Bloodsworth Island in Maryland, it was for weapons to help the Alexandrians win the Whisperer War. What Michonne found instead was evidence that Rick survived -- and then set off to find her husband and bring him home. Daryl eventually found out the truth about Michonne's mission when Judith Grimes (Cailey Fleming) revealed her secret, confessing Michonne believes Rick is alive. Michonne was heading north with a massive caravan of survivors before continuing her search as a lone, katana-wielding samurai in The Ones Who Live.

Morgan Jones

Spoiler alert for Fear the Walking Dead season 8. After a seven-year time jump, Morgan Jones' (Lennie James) story on Fear the Walking Dead came full circle with the pilot episode of The Walking Dead when Morgan radioed Rick Grimes. "I'm gonna come and look for you, whether you're at Alexandria or not," Morgan said into the dead air of a walkie-talkie. "I will leave this message every morning at dawn, and I'll leave the walkie on for a few minutes after. Who knows? Maybe you might even be listening."

We last saw Morgan at Eastman's cemetery in Georgia, far from Rick's home in Alexandria, Virginia. But it's a trek that Morgan made before when he tracked Rick's group from Georgia to Virginia back in season 5 of The Walking Dead, only to later leave Virginia for Texas. If Morgan made his way back to Alexandria, he'd find some of its residents relocated to the Commonwealth in Ohio.

Dwight

"You go, and you keep going. Don't you ever come back here again. If I ever see your face around here again, I'll kill you." Those are the last words that Daryl said to ex-Savior Dwight (Austin Amelio) on the "Wrath" episode of The Walking Dead season 8. More than seven years after Daryl banished Dwight from Virginia, he'll return to old haunts with his wife Sherry (Christine Evangelista) in the final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead: Dwight and Sherry can be seen visiting their old house and Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) long-abandoned Sanctuary.

Heath

Heath (Corey Hawkins) has been MIA since disappearing during season 7 of The Walking Dead, but the former supply runner for the Alexandria Safe-Zone is unlikely to merit a mention in that conversation between Daryl and Carol. Years have passed at this point, and Heath's fate -- Jadis secretly trafficked him to the CRM, leaving behind a mysterious card with the letters "PPP" -- remains a loose end.

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"Vers elle s'en va tout mon espoir. J'ai deux amours. Mon pays et Paris. (Towards her goes all my hope. I have two loves: my country and Paris)." Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours" ("I Have Two Loves") plays as Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) drift down the river on a boat steered by Azlan (Hassam Ghancy). Their destination is The Nest: "A special place," Azlan assures Daryl. "A home for the soul." Daryl washed ashore in France as l'?me perdue, a lost soul, far from his home in America.

Azlan asks if Daryl is Christian. Daryl answers honestly: no, and he was kicked out of Sunday school. "In the Bible, Abram becomes a pilgrim after the Lord tells him, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house, to the land that I will show you,'" Azlan responds, quoting Genesis 12:1. To that, Daryl quips: "I'm guessing Abram didn't end up in France." Azlan asks another question, causing Daryl's mind to drift: "How did you end up here, so far from home?"

THEN. America. Maine. Daryl walks his bike down a road and grips his knife when a camouflage-clad man named Jones (Gilbert Glenn Brown) stops his truck behind him. Daryl is as curt as he is cautious. Need help, friend? "Nah, I'm good." Where you headed? "Headed home." On a bike with no fuel, huh? "You got some to spare?" Well, depends. You any good with that thing?

Jones escorts Daryl to an auto repair shop. Inside is a motley crew of blue collar types -- who don't seem the type to speak the language coming over the shop's radio. French. The haggard Juno (John Ales) ribs a younger guy, TJ (Martin Martinez), over a picture of his girl back home. Jones rounds up the men and lays down the ground rules: no fighting, no stealing, no sexual deviancy of any kind. "No children will be accepted, nor elderly or shorties," Jones explains. "Five foot, four inches is the cut-off." Juno asks what they want 'em for, but a French doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) -- the same man from the French cargo ship at La Havre -- tells him it's "not your concern." All they need to know, according to Jones, is their pay is one pint of ethanol per head. Juno protests: they were told a quart. The French doctor guarantees "a quart for the fresh ones." TJ figures their chances are better in numbers, but nobody wants to take the green-looking kid up on his offer.

Daryl hunts walkers in the woods, bounding them with ropes two at a time. At the auto shop, Juno's gang leads muzzled walkers linked by chains toward the "party room": a flashing strobe light inside a trailer. The French doctor supervises as Juno hands over his trophies -- five in all, including a fresh one that can't be more than a few months turned. Daryl leads his six-walker haul back to the shop and collects his gas canister, with more to come tomorrow. TJ laments coming up empty-handed. Daryl sympathizes with the kid's tough break, but his only pointer? "Go home to your girl." He's trying, but he needs fuel. TJ asks Daryl if he needs a partner -- you know, for a cut of the gas. "Do I look like I need help?"

NOW. Azlan ties the boat to a tree and leads Daryl to their camp for the night: a hideout with a stash of noise-making cans to alert them of any les affam?s (hungry ones). As Azlan goes to pray, Daryl shows Laurent how to gut and cook a fish. He misses Isabelle, who stayed behind in Paris so that Daryl and Laurent could escape the city. When Daryl says they all have people they miss, Laurent gets him to open up about his friends back home: "There's Judith and RJ. They're kids, like you. There's Connie, Ezekiel. There's a lady named Carol." Laurent says Daryl's friends sound nice -- and he can tell Daryl misses Issa, too. "Not to worry," Laurent assures him. "We'll all be together again."

Meanwhile, Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) wakes up in an opulent room next to Les N?nuphars: The Water Lilies. Issa, like the painting, is the latest addition to Quinn's (Adam Nagaitis) well-guarded mansion. Quinn reports that he's just met with the Pouvoir, who told him that Laurent made it out of Paris and is headed north with her American friend. He asks how long it's going to take for her to see him different. "Everything happens for a reason," he says. "Isn't that what God's all about?" When Issa says that God loves the sinner, Quinn responds: "So there's hope for me, then." Quinn leaves her to pray, which she does in private: "God, forgive me for what I'm about to do." In her hands, a makeshift shiv.

Back at the camp, Laurent says a prayer for Judith, RJ, Carol, Connie, and Ezekiel in America "'cause Daryl doesn't know how to pray." Daryl notices Azlan's pocket watch, which he says saved his life. He then asks about the rumors of La Havre being "the only place you can find something still floating." The port is controlled by Madame Genet and her Guerrier, Azlan explains, but the Union de L'Espoir's leader, the Buddhist monk Losang, will help Daryl secure a boat home to America. "A lone wolf who only wants to get back to his pack," Azlan points out.

Daryl says he made a promise. To that, Azlan tells him, "There are times when even a man's promise gets overwhelmed by a connection other people or a larger cause." Daryl admits causes were never his thing. "When a man dies in someone else's war, it's his kids that suffer," Daryl says. "That gets passed down to their kids. After a while, no one even remembers what 'the cause' was." Azlan explains how the watch saved his life: when he arrived at The Nest, he had just lost his wife and son and wished to die. Losang asked him to fix the pocketwatch -- so he worked on it, day and night, for months. "When I finally got it running, he told me he didn't want it anymore. Because I had found a reason to live." Daryl overhears Laurent pray, this time for himself: to be strong like Daryl is strong.

THEN. Daryl fills his bike's gas tank and overhears Drew (Tercelin Kirtley) laughing off TJ's offer to partner up. Juno tells the kid they'll consider letting him tag along if he chops firewood and stokes their fire over night, so Daryl teaches him how to chop wood. TJ says he's from just outside Freeport, a couple miles up the road. He promised his girl he'd take her far away from her father, so he can't go back without any fuel. Their destination is California. "I hear it's better there." Or, at least, "It's gotta be better than this, right?"

NOW. As the Demimonde's Anna (Lukerya Ilyashenko) arrives at Quinn's mansion, he attempts to repair their toxic relationship from 12 years ago. He can be a better man for her. With that, Isabelle takes his head, leads him to the bed, seduces him, grips her shiv... "After all, Abraham sacrificed his only son. But Isaac was saved. And in the end, Abraham was redeemed. I believe in redemption," Quinn says. "And I know you do, too." Ultimately, she doesn't exact her plan, and Quinn leaves the room to see a drunkened Anna angrily storm away. At the camp, Daryl's thoughts again drift back to Maine.

THEN. A radio operator (Avant Strangel) connects Daryl with a friend from home, but warns the connection only lasts a few minutes. Through static comes the voice of Carol (Melissa McBride), calling from the Commonwealth in Ohio. He's in Maine, near the coast. They catch up. "Pretty quiet here," she reports. Daryl responds, "Quiet's good. You okay?" She says it takes some getting used to, that's all -- helping lead the Commonwealth, being away from her best friend. He notices something is off. "You sure you're okay?"

"You never have to worry about me, Daryl. How is it out there?" He'll tell her about it when he sees her next. He's gathering fuel, and he'll be back at the Commonwealth in about a week. "I promise." Through the static, Carol copies. "Hey, Daryl..." The transmission breaks up and returns, just in time for Daryl to hear the end of Carol's message: "...came back." Who came back? Carol? Static. Who came back? Carol?

NOW. A hungry one wanders into camp. Daryl and Laurent find Azlan pinned to a tree -- impaled. He slipped fighting off the hungry ones. He's covered in blood and can't move. "All those years of training," he says weakly, "and I'm done in by a telephone pole." Daryl can only call it a "tough break." Azlan musters enough strength to chuckle: "At least we know God has a sense of humor. My father worked for the phone company all his life. Just get the boy to The Nest." Azlan hands Daryl his watch, which contains an image of Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy. "Follow the river. You'll find it. And beware of telephone poles. I'm at peace, Monsieur Dixon. The boy is in good hands. And I'm facing east. Here. Use my knife to do it." Daryl accepts. "Truly to Him we shall return." With that, Azlan dies and is buried by Daryl. Laurent lays prayer beads on his grave.

At the river, Daryl finds the rope tied to the tree has been severed and their boat gone. The culprit: Laurent. Daryl tears into the boy, demanding an explanation as he yells curses like "you stupid little shit!" and "worthless!" He wants to know why. Why?! "Everyone I care about is gone," a tearful Laurent confesses. "When we get to The Nest, you'll go, too. I don't want to be alone." Daryl softens. And he holds the boy close.

Back at Quinn's, a maid delivers fresh eggs with a side of secret message. In the woods, Daryl assures Laurent that there are good people at The Nest. Laurent wants to come with Daryl, but he can't. Daryl told Isabelle he would deliver Laurent to The Nest, and she'll come looking for him there. Laurent begs to let him come -- he'll do as he's told, and he'll only have to learn things once. "It ain't about that," Daryl says. What's it about? Before Daryl can answer, the sound of Guerrier trucks force them to flee into the woods, leaving Laurent's belongings behind.

THEN. Juno returns to the auto shop with freshly-reanimated walkers -- including a zombified TJ. Juno claims they found the kid out there already turned, but Daryl notices rope burns on TJ's neck. "A quart's a quart, you prick," Juno scoffs. "You snooze, you lose." Daryl punches Juno in the face. Jones breaks up the fight: no fighting. A pissed Daryl yells "he killed him" as he's forced out with Juno.

NOW. Daryl hands over his knife and instructs Laurent to follow the river until he finds the place in Azlan's watch. He'll be right behind him. As Laurent takes off into the woods, the Guerrier find Laurent's things: his books and Rubik's cube. Daryl is captured and forced to his knees. "No comprende," he tells a French-speaking warrior. They want to know where the boy is. Daryl plays dumb, so they hit him in the face and threaten to take his eyes if he doesn't give up Laurent. "F-- you," Daryl spits back. As the Guerrier go to remove Daryl's left eye, Laurent gives himself up.

In Paris, Quinn gifts Isabelle a diamond necklace. Madame Genet has invited him to a gathering at the Maison M?re hotel for De Gaulle Day, named in honor of Free France leader Charles De Gaulle, architect of France's Fifth Republic. Genet, leader of the Pouvoir des Vivants, "needs people like me that can get their hands on things," Quinn explains. Arriving at Maison M?re, Isabelle spots Sylvie (La?ka Blanc-Francard) and Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney) with Emile (Tristan Zanchi) and Nadine (Chrystal Boursin) in the crowd. Inside, Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) receives Isabelle and Quinn as her forces torture a man in a nearby room -- one of her Guerriers charged with securing the city accepted a bribe "to allow people out we wanted to keep in." The sight of Anna and the soldier Codron (Romain Levi) means she sold Quinn out to Genet.

Isabelle spots Daryl locked inside a cell. "You've got no idea what you've done," Quinn tells Anna. She kisses him goodbye and leaves him to his fate without another word. Quinn attempts to explain himself to Genet, but she has him imprisoned alongside Daryl. Genet then reunites Isabelle with Laurent, admitting that she sees now "why people fall for it."

"A special child, born from the curse. Life from death, Mother Mary, Phoenix from the ashes. It hits all the notes, doesn't it?" Genet says of Laurent's miracle birth to a zombified mother. Finally, it's revealed why Genet is after Laurent: she wants the boy to make an appearance at her De Gaulle Day rally. "Some people think that the l'Union de I'Espoir is against me," she explains to Isabelle. "We must show them the truth. That we are all one French people. I've been trying to make that clear to him." Isabelle instructs Laurent to do as she asks and not anger Genet further. "You are not angry," he tells Genet. "Your heart is broken." In their cell, Quinn complains about holding up his end of the deal and scolds Daryl for not doing his part.

THEN. Daryl and Juno are rounded up and brought aboard a cargo ship in chains when Daryl spots a lifeboat. They're marched past a room where walker experiments are being conducted by the French doctor. A warning sign reads: "Fast ne pas nourir." FAST DO NOT FEED. Shipping containers are filled with caged walkers -- and a container filled with living prisoners. Juno protests being put inside the feeding pen, but gets no answers as he demands the French guards tell them where the ship is headed. "WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US?!" The ship sets sail and is somewhere in the Gulf of C?diz when the guards open the cell, club a man, drag him toward the caged walkers... and throw him inside to be eaten alive by the hungry ones.

NOW. A guard fetches Daryl from the cell, cuffs him, and says it's "lunch time." Genet explains to Laurent what will happen: there will be a speech, then a show of sorts, and then he'll make his appearance. Above a gladiator-style arena, Genet addresses the French people assembled for De Gaulle Day. In French, she thanks the "brave" who have traveled -- from Saint Denis to the Rive Guache, Montmartre, to la Chapelle -- to celebrate their rebirth and the rise of the 6th Republic. "Today, and ever after, we will be free, and strong, and unafraid! We have all felt lost at times, far from the life we knew. Deprived of the people we loved. In a hopeless world, it would have been so easy to give up. But we did not give up. In the name of all those we loved. In the name of all those we lost. We kept going. Living. As we must continue to do. Not for ourselves. But for the future. Years from now, you will tell your grandchildren you were here. Now. The day we ushered in a new France! A France free of the tyranny of the elite, that welcomes in all friends. With hope for a future. Because, yes, the world is simple now. There are friends. And there are enemies. The enemies want to go back to the way things were, when the few controlled the many."

THEN. Daryl coughs up blood as a panicked Juno alerts the guards. "He's puking blood! If he dies in here, he's gonna turn!" The guard hauls Daryl toward the feeding cage, forcing him to his knees to face a dozen walkers. Daryl fights back, throwing one guard into the pit before shooting another dead and choking out the feeder until his neck breaks. Daryl frees Juno and the rest of the prisoners, unleashing the caged walkers onto the ship's crew. The two Americans head for the lifeboats as walkers flood the ship. Zombie mutiny!

NOW. Genet's guards march Daryl down a hall toward the arena. Genet's speech continues: "They took everything, bringing pain and suffering down on those who could least bear it, profiting all the while. Finally, out of greed and hubris, they unleashed this plague on the world. They made us pay for being poor, vulnerable, meek. But remember what the Bible says about the meek. We're not meek anymore! The world is ours, now. So today, we will make our enemies pay! We have all felt the anguish. We have all suffered loss. Loss binds us! Loss gives us our power! They gave us this disease! But I want you to see today the power our future holds. Because their disease can also be our cure. Power to the Living!" The crowd chants, "Pouvoir!"

Daryl is thrown into the arena. Above him, Genet's audience looks down at the American and yell: VIVE LA FRANCE! LONG LIVE FRANCE!

THEN. Daryl and Juno cut the lifeboat loose, but in the chaos of the mutiny, the French doctor's zombie experiments are set free. A variant walker bursts free from its restraints and RUNS. The walker climbs stairs and attacks Juno, knocking him into a red button and sending the lifeboat plunging into the ocean. The strong walker rips Juno apart with inhuman strength.

NOW. Pouvoir guards drop a halberd into the arena and march out Daryl's opponent: a muzzled hungry one. As Genet and Codron look on, a guard fires a dart into the walker's neck, injecting it with a serum.

THEN. Daryl bludgeons the super-strong walker, but it doesn't die. With a burst of speed, the walker charges Daryl... who jumps over the rail just as an explosion rocks the ship.

NOW. The muzzled walker convulses as the serum infects its blood stream. Veins bulge. Its blackened eyes turn red. The walker breaks free from its chains, and free from its muzzle, snarls. "Dixon! Dixon," Codron yells out. "Today, you die... for my brother!" Vive la Dixon?

New episodes of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon air Sundays on AMC and AMC+.

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There are just two episodes left of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. After Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) stayed behind with Quinn (Adam Nagaitis) so that Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) could escape Paris, Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) and her Guerrier ("Warriors") enact their plan. Sunday's penultimate episode, titled "Deux Amours" ("Two Loves"), sees Daryl and Laurent travel north with Azlan (Hassam Ghancy) to The Nest, the base of l'Union de l'Espoir ("Union of Hope"). It's there that Daryl must complete his season-long journey of delivering Laurent, who is destined to take his place as the new messiah.

Below, read on to find out how to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 5 online with or without cable.

TWD: Daryl Dixon Episode 5 Release Date and Time

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 5, "Deux Amours," premiered Sunday, October 8th, at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and airs at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on the AMC channel.

Daryl Dixon Episode 5 Run Time

"Deux Amours" has a running time of 56 minutes and 53 seconds without commercials, and is scheduled to air from 9:00 p.m. -- 10:23 p.m. ET/PT on AMC.

How to Watch Daryl Dixon Episode 5 Without Cable

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 1 ("L'?me Perdue"), episode 2 ("Alouette"), episode 3 ("Paris Sera Toujours Paris"), episode 4 ("La Dame de Fer"), and episode 5 ("Deux Amours") are currently streaming on AMC+. New episodes release Sundays at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT. To watch, you'll need an AMC+ subscription or a 7-day free trial to AMC+. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly).

AMC+ is available as an app and via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV.

Daryl Dixon Episode 4 Recap

In "La Dame de Fer," Genet's Guerrier hunted the American and the boy... but Quinn, Laurent's father, found him first at the Eiffel Tower and brought him to the Demimonde. As Daryl and Isabelle plotted to save Laurent, Quinn negotiated a trade: he'll hand over Daryl in exchange for a Monet. Meanwhile, with Genet after Laurent -- who is the "hope" of the Union of Hope -- Quinn revealed his own plan for his son: use him to bait Daryl to the Demimonde, and get Isabelle back.

Daryl infiltrated the underground club and escaped with Laurent to Pont de la Tournelle, where Azlan was to transport them to The Nest. But with the Guerrier guards blocking off the city limits, leaving them no way out of Paris, Isabelle decided to stay behind to give Quinn what he wants: her. In exchange, he would ensure Daryl and Laurent safe passage out of the city. "This isn't about you. It's not about me," she told Daryl. "It's about Laurent. "I know this isn't your fight. I know you should be on your way home by now. But there's no one else who can take him to The Nest safely." With that, Isabelle bid goodbye to Laurent and Daryl with a promise she would do everything in her power to get back to them.

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The latest entry in The Walking Dead franchise is proving to be very successful for AMC+. The series premiere of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is now the biggest premiere in AMC+'s history, overtaking another Walking Dead spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, which debuted back in June. Daryl Dixon, which debuted in September, is also on track to become the most-viewed season of any show in the streamer's history to date. According to Variety, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon continues to hit new ratings highs, with the fourth episode of the series hitting 1.1 million viewers.

"What a thrill to have this most recent installment in 'The Walking Dead' Universe arrive to set records on AMC+ and deliver steady viewership growth over its first four weeks on AMC," Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks said. "Thanks to Norman Reedus for bringing his 'bad decisions' to France, to David Zabel, Scott M. Gimple, Cl?mence Po?sy and the rest of the outstanding cast and to the most passionate and committed fans in entertainment. There is so much more and so many great surprises to come for this show and across this expanding universe."

What is The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon About?

In The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Daryl (Norman Reedus) washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.

In addition to Reedus, the series stars Cl?mence Po?sy, Adam Nagaitis, Anne Charrier, Eriq Ebouaney, Laika Blanc Francard, Romain Levi and Louis Puech Scigliuzzi. The show is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, showrunner David Zabel, Reedus, Greg Nicotero, Angela Kang, Brian Bockrath, Jason Richman and Daniel Percival.

Will There Be a Second Season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

AMC has already renewed The Walking Dead; Daryl Dixon for a second season. It was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July. The Walking Dead: Dead City has also been renewed for a second season.

"This next chapter in the Walking Dead Universe continues to thrive with a terrific inaugural season for Dead City and highly anticipated new journey for fan-favorite character Daryl Dixon coming in September," Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, said when renewing both series for second seasons over the summer. "We can't wait to bring Dead City fans back to the epicenter of Manhattan for more zip-lining action with Maggie and Negan. And, ahead of its debut, we're thrilled to double down on Daryl as we bring the apocalypse to France, transforming Notre Dame, Pont du Gard and other iconic locales into an apocalyptic landscape unlike anything we've seen before."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon airs Sunday at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and at 9 p.m. on AMC.

In this episode, the ComicBook Nation Crew reviews new horror films The Exorcist: Believer and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines as well as the much-anticipated premiere of Marvel's Loki Season 2. PLUS: Reactions to Gen V Episode 4, a full preview of WWE's Fastlane event, and the newest comics!

The Exorcist: Believer Review

In his 2-star review of Exorcist: Believer, ComicBook Nation host Kofi Outlaw said the following:

Exorcist: Believer captures the "legacy" of the original in name only - even after dragging the original film star Ellen Burstyn back into the franchise... an unbalanced mess of a story, that doesn't ever seem to know where to put its focus... The Exorcist: Believer feels like it will go down as an odd and misguided attempt at a direct sequel - one that fails to provide any new soul to the franchise...

Loki Season 2 Review

In her Loki Season 2 review, ComicBook.com's Nicole Drum said the following:

Loki may be one of the MCU's most innovative and significant offerings, and Season 2 of the series certainly maintains the spirit of the first season and pushes not only Loki's story but the future of the MCU forward. But like the Sacred Timeline itself, Loki Season 2 shows signs of coming apart in places with little bits that could stand refinement, reconsideration, or even just a strong bit of editing. Season 2 definitely doesn't suffer from some of the pitfalls that would make people continue to question if superhero fatigue is real or not, but through characterizations, pacing, and too much self-awareness, it definitely feels like a very different show. It's by no means bad, but it certainly feels like most of the fun will be in digesting each episode after the fact, rather than taking it in for what it is just while watching.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

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The Walking Dead Universe is descending upon New York Comic Con 2023. AMC announced NYCC attendees will be the first to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale (premiering October 15th on AMC and AMC+) and will receive an exclusive first look at new scenes and teasers from the network's 2024 series, including The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Orphan Black: Echoes, and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire season 2. The convention, which returns to the Javits Center October 12th--October 15th, is set to host a post-season panel Q&A with Daryl Dixon showrunner David Zabel, executive producer Greg Nicotero, and TWD Universe chief content officer Scott M. Gimple.

The Ones Who Live sneak peek, followed by the Daryl Dixon screening and Q&A, will take place Thursday, October 12th, from 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. ET on the Empire Stage. AMC's full lineup and schedule is below.

AMC released the first footage from the retitled The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, the upcoming spin-off series reuniting Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira), during its San Diego Comic-Con panel in July. The annual confab is also where AMC announced early second season pickups for Daryl Dixon and The Walking Dead: Dead City, the New York-set spin-off following Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) into post-apocalyptic Manhattan.

New York Comic Con 2023: AMC Networks Schedule

Thursday, October 12th from 4:15pm - 6:15pm; Empire Stage

• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Orphan Black: Echoes sneak peeks
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season finale screening: "Coming Home"
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Q&A

Thursday, October 12th from 7:30pm - 9:30pm; Room 405

• Fans can join HIDIVE for the world premiere of the English dub of The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes followed by a Q&A hosted by Jacki Jing and featuring stars of the English dub, including voice actors Gabriel Regojo (voice of Karou) and Patricia Duran (voice of Anzu).

Friday, October 13th from 4:30-5:30pm; Main Stage

• Following the October 6th premiere of new movie V/H/S/85 on Shudder, AMC brings together directors from each installment to talk about their respective films, the horror genre today, the evolution of the franchise and what's to come for the V/H/S panel: David Bruckner (V/H/S/1), Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94), Natasha Kermani (V/H/S/85), Jason Eisener (V/H/S/2), and Tyler McIntyre (V/H/S/99), among others.

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[Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 4, "La Dame de Fer."] "Messiah." "Miracle." "Hope." "Special." "Gift from God." These are just some of the words used to describe Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi), born at the onset of the apocalypse when his zombie-bitten mother died and reanimated during delivery. But there may be another word for the boy: "Immune." 12 years post-outbreak, the faithful of France's Union de L'Espoir (Union of Hope) resistance network believe that Laurent is the answer to their prayers, the messiah prophesied to "save us all."

Everyone except Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus). Since going overboard from a transatlantic cargo ship and washing ashore in France, Daryl has been on a mission escorting Laurent and his aunt, Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy), to safety at The Nest in northern France. It's there that Laurent will fulfill the prophecy and "lead the revival of humanity," as foretold by the Union of Hope's leader, the Buddhist monk Lama Rinpoche.

Is Laurent Immune to The Walking Dead Virus?

Sunday's "La Dame de Fer" episode of Daryl Dixon opens with Daryl racing to save Laurent from les affam?s ("the hungry ones") in the zombie-filled sewer tunnels beneath Paris. Daryl finds Laurent on the other side of a padlocked gate, surrounded by the hungry ones. The boy calmly folds his hands, bows his head in prayer... and as Laurent prays, he's preyed on by a swarm of zombies and seemingly devoured alive. But then, a miracle: the horde of flesh-eating hungry ones part, leaving Laurent unharmed. Mon Dieu!

Is Laurent immune to zombie bites? Is Laurent invisible to the dead and can walk among them freely? Is Laurent's immunity the cure to the zombie infection, like Ellie on The Last of Us? As it turns out, it's a fake-out: Laurent's death and not-death sequence is dreamed up by Daryl, who was knocked unconscious after falling through a collapsing roof while escaping Codron (Romain Levi) and the Guerrier at the end of the last episode.

However, that's not the only twist. After the revelation that Isabelle's ex Quinn (Adam Nagaitis) is Laurent's father following his affair with Isabelle's sister, Lily (Faustine Kozie), it's revealed that Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) is after the boy when she learns the Union hired the American who wrecked her ship -- and destroyed years of zombie research -- to deliver Laurent. Genet is the leader of Pouvoir des Vivants ("Power of the Living"), a French movement that started post-outbreak and has since put most of Paris under the control of Genet and her Guerrier ("Warriors").

Why Does Genet Want Laurent?

When the Union's Sonia (Sabine Pakora) defiantly says Laurent has "a greater purpose," she confirms to Genet what Antoine (Dominique Pinon) told Daryl: that the boy is the "hope" of Union de L'Espoir.

"I heard about a special boy. From Lourdes. His birth was deemed a miracle," Genet tells the grieving widow who was comforted by an empathetic Laurent when his group passed through Paris. "I thought it was a rumor. A foolish tall-tale you all desperately wanted to believe."

When Sonia counters that the fools are "the ones who put their faith in you," meaning the Pouvoir and the Guerrier, Genet scoffs at the suggestion that Laurent will "save us all. Even you."

"The weak, the submissive, the credulous... it's people like you who got us into this mess," she says of the Union, a network resisting Pouvoir control. Codron asks if the supposed messiah is a danger to Genet and the Pouvoir: "He gives them false hope," she explains. "It's a disease that must be rooted out."

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The last we saw Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), he was falling through a roof and plunging into darkness. Episode 4 opens with Daryl looking for Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi), only to find the boy trapped on the other side of a locked gate. Laurent is swarmed by les affam?s, the hungry ones, with no way out. Daryl screams and rattles the gate, but the dead descend on Laurent as he clasps his hands in prayer. Daryl's light illuminates the huddled mass of hungry ones surrounding Laurent... and sees the zombies part and walk away. Laurent, still silently praying, is unharmed. He smiles and walks away, leaving Daryl to call out for him in the darkness. Is Laurent immune to zombie bites? Is he the messiah, as prophesied? Is this a miracle?

Suddenly, Daryl's eyes open. He's under water, walkers clutching at his feet. Daryl stabs the hungry ones gnawing at his boot and swims for the surface, almost as if being baptized. Daryl is in the sewers beneath Montmartre. Nearby, Codron (Romain Levi) and the Guerrier question Sonia (Sabine Pakora), the grieving widow who was comforted by Laurent when Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney) brought his group into the Union de L'Espoir's network to connect them with The Nest. Codron learns the American is in service of the Union, on a mission to deliver the boy. "He's not some 'kid,'" Sonia tells Codron. "He has a greater purpose."

Madame Genet (Anne Charrier), leader of Pouvoir des Vivants, is surprised to learn the Union's supposed messiah actually exists. "I heard about a special boy. From Lourdes. His birth was deemed a miracle. I thought it was a rumor. A foolish tall-tale you all desperately wanted to believe," Genet says, cradling a mother's crying baby. "The fools are the ones who put their faith in you," Sonia says defiantly. "Because Laurent will save us all. Even you."

Genet replies, "The weak, the submissive, the credulous... it's people like you who got us into this mess." When Codron asks if the boy is a danger to the Pouvoir, she explains Laurent "gives them false hope. It's a disease that must be rooted out." Codron vows to find the boy and the American.

Elsewhere in Paris, pigeon trainer Antoine (Dominique Pinon) alerts Daryl that the Guierrer are after Laurent. "They came back later in the night. They took people, and the rest, we run," he says in broken English. "We are their... what's the word? Enemy. Et Laurent is our hope. You must go to them." Antoine will show Daryl the way to Rue Manuel, where he's supposed to rendezvous with Laurent and Isabelle back at her old apartment. But when two Guierrer try to take Antoine's beloved birds, he's gunned down. Daryl quickly avenges Antoine, tossing his blade into the driver's trigger finger before finishing off his compatriot. "The birds, free. Let them free," Antoine says, dying as Daryl releases the birds from their cage.

At the apartment, Isabelle tells Daryl she searched all night for Laurent and couldn't find him. Daryl figures he's running and hiding, but Isabelle says he doesn't know Paris. "Where would he go?" Daryl has an idea. Back at the Demimonde, Quinn (Adam Nagaitis) is preoccupied with ex Isabelle -- to the dismay of club singer Anna (Lukerya Ilyashenko). "She's gone, Quinn. For good," Anna tells him. "Women need a damn good reason to come back. And sometimes, we need a damn good reason to stay." One of Quinn's men report that the Guerrier are after the American and Laurent. Quinn's son.

In Paris, Daryl and Isabelle follow his lead on Laurent. They make up for their argument at the Demimonde that caused Laurent to run away. Isabelle admits she should have been honest with her nephew a long time ago. Meanwhile, Laurent arrives at La Dame de Fer: the Eiffel Tower, its decaying metal groaning with the wind. He stands where Lily once stood to pose for the only photograph Laurent has of his mother. Laurent peers behind a barricade and sees hundreds of hungry ones walled off inside, which then burst free just as Daryl and Isabelle arrive. They fight off a wave of walkers as Laurent hides... only for a walker to kneel down and grab at him. While they fight their way out of the horde, Daryl and Isabelle fail two stop two men from abducting Laurent. As the car speeds away with the boy inside, one kidnapper is eaten alive. The other will wish for such mercy.

Daryl and Isabelle take their prisoner to a garage to play good cop, bad cop. Isabelle tells Armand (Genc Jakupi) she's a nun and asks if his necklace means he's a disciple of God. He used to be. "You're not a Guierrer, are you? A Pouvoir officer, then? Do you work directly for Genet? The violence and the killing... they must take quite a toll." He stonewalls every question, failing to heed Isabelle's offer to walk away knowing he's "still capable of grace and mercy."

"They told me that it's a real party with 'ol Issa," he spits. "Nonstop. But all I'm getting is bullshit about God and Jesus. But the joke is, I know you're just a thieving little slut." Isabelle realizes who took Laurent: Quinn. Back at the Demimonde, Laurent has figured out that Quinn is his father. Isabelle told him that his father was a hero for France who went away to fight the hungry ones. "That is a bit of a stretch," Quinn admits, but dear old dad says he deserves credit for saving Laurent at the Eiffel Tower. "I want to take care of you," he says. "Make up for lost time." Laurent asks about Isabelle and Daryl. "Isabelle will join us," Quinn answers. "We'll be together soon."

As Isabelle attempts to interrogate Armand in French, Daryl gets frustrated when he refuses to answer what Quinn wants with Laurent. Speaking the universal language, Daryl punches Armand in the face. Hard. And then again. "You know, where I grew up, there was this little boy lived down the street. His name was Jimmy. Jimmy was a runt. They always picked on Jimmy for being so little. His dad was a drunk. I don't think I ever saw that guy sober." Daryl picks up his knife. "One Christmas, Jimmy got a piglet as a present. It used to follow him around like a little dog. Even waited for him after school. And then, one Christmas, his dad says he wants him to kill the piglet and eat it for church dinner."

Daryl gives Armand two quick stabs with the knife. "Says if he doesn't, do it his brother is gonna get a beating. So he takes the piglet, ties it up to a tree in the backyard. He wants to make it quick, painless." Stab stab! "The thing is, by Jimmy not trying to hurt the pig, he ends up hurting him worse. Stabbed it in the belly, in the back, in the legs, until it just bled out. And that pig screamed all night long. All the neighbours heard it. No one ever f--ed with Jimmy anymore."

Armand spits it out: he doesn't know what Quinn wants with the boy, but he thinks he can use the kid to get what he wants. "He's using Laurent to get to me," Isabelle realizes. Daryl wants to know another way into the Demimonde. When Armand says it's "impossible," Daryl warns Isabelle: "You might want to leave. Unless you want to hear this pig scream." As Daryl swaps his knife for a crowbar, Isabelle says she'll stay. A panicked Armand says it's not so impossible, after all, but it's dangerous. He offers to draw them a map, but Daryl decides to take him with them. He ties his prisoner to a post like a pet pig. "That little boy in the story," Isabelle asks Daryl, "that was you, wasn't it?" "No," he replies. "I made all that shit up."

Daryl and Isabelle rendevous with Sylvie, Fallou, Emile (Tristan Zanchi), Bastien (Elie Haddad), and Nadine (Chrystal Boursin). It's decided the two nuns will go to Pont de la Tournelle -- the Tournelle Bridge over the river Seine -- to meet Azlan, a man from the Nest, who will be waiting for them with a boat. Fallou isn't letting Daryl take Armand into the Demimonde alone and rallies the troops. "A threat to one of us is a threat to all of us. And so, we go into this fight as a unit. Working in defense of l'Union de l'Espoir. Go in as one, come back as one. Go in as one, come back as -- ONE!" Sylvie shares a kiss with Emile.

"There's something I wanted to tell you," Isabelle says to Daryl. He tells her to wait until they're at the river and leaves with Armand. Later, at Pont de la Tournelle, Sylvie asks Isabelle if she's ever had romantic feelings for anyone since she took vows. Sylvie suspects Isabelle has those feelings for Daryl. "What you saw was concern," she explains. "For him. For Laurent. Do you like him? Emile?" Sylvie says their kiss was nice, but confusing. She's considering staying in Paris to be part of the community Emile is helping Fallou to build. Azlan (Hassam Ghancy) arrives and speaks the code: "Truth is hope."

At the Demimonde, Quinn meets with Genet and Codron to negotiate for the American. Genet offers a reward: a stash of weapons, 20 bushels of corn, and a case of Calvados brandy. Quinn wants her Monet, "Japanese Footbridge," an impressionism piece Genet hand waves as "degenerate art." Deal. And the boy? Quinn says he doesn't have him, but they're searching. In private, Codron asks if she thinks Quinn will deliver the American to the Pouvoir. "Quinn is a transactional man," she answers. "But that doesn't solve our other problem. We can't let that child out of Paris."

Anna realizes Quinn didn't give up Laurent because he wants to use the boy to get Isabelle back. "I only told you about his Eiffel Tower thing so we could get the reward," she says with venom. "Not lock him up alone in some f--ing room." Quinn hands her a gun and tells her to keep Laurent safe. Outside, Armand leads Daryl to a hatch on train tracks. And there's the danger: les affam?s. "F--ing great," Daryl grunts. Back inside, Anna asks if she's supposed to babysit while Quinn finds the American. "I won't have to find him," Quinn says. "He's coming to me."

As Daryl and Armand sneak through an access tunnel beneath the Demimonde, Fallou, Emile, Bastien, and Nadine assault the front entrance of the club with gunfire and molotov cocktails. Armand strikes Daryl and makes a run for it, but doesn't get far: Daryl trails Armand into the tunnels and finds him with his leg busted. "Damn, you're an idiot," Daryl tells him. Armand offers a crude swear in response and begs Daryl for help. Daryl gets directions out of the tunnel -- fork left, take the tunnel to une trappe, a door-- and leaves Armand for the hungry ones. "Bon app?tit."

The entrance to the Demimonde is a warzone. Emile gets shot in the thigh. Fallou wants to extract him from the tunnel entrance, but he wants to finish the job. As Daryl makes his way inside the club, Anna talks with Laurent about the Eiffel Tower. He's sure La Dame de Fer, the Iron Lady, will be beautiful again some day. She hopes he gets to go home. "You're nice, but you don't want people to know that," he tells her. Gut feeling. She smiles. "You're a good kid. But I bet everyone knows that."

Daryl finally finds Laurent, who asks about Isabelle. They're leaving, so Laurent turns to give Anna back her charm of the Eiffel Tower... only to see her with a gun on them. "Just go," she shouts. "Go!" Quinn realizes the assault on the entrance is a diversion and makes his way through the Demimonde to Daryl. They fight, but the Brit is beat by the American as Daryl slams his head into a rail. Daryl draws his knife, puts it to Quinn's throat... and with Laurent watching, knocks Quinn out instead. Back at Pont de la Tournelle, Fallou escorts the wounded Emile to the river. In French, he warns Isabelle that Madame Genet is posting guards at the city limits. Soon there will be no way out of Paris.

Isabelle's prayers are answered as Daryl arrives at the river with Laurent. She thanks Daryl, but with Azlan waiting, she doesn't board the boat. "The Guerrier are overtaking the city. I need someone with influence. Someone who can make sure that they let him pass," she explains. She needs Quinn. "He knows how to make things happen. He'll do it for me. He'll do it for me if I stay."

Daryl decides if she's staying, he's staying with her. He can handle Quinn. "This isn't about you. It's not about me," she says. "It's about Laurent." If it's about Laurent, he yells, "Then get on the f--ing boat!" If she gets on the boat, none of them make it out. Isabelle staying behind with Quinn is the only way to ensure Laurent makes it past Genet's Guerrier and out of Paris. "I know this isn't your fight. I know you should be on your way home by now. But there's no one else who can take him to The Nest safely. Please."

Daryl tells Isabelle she can't stay with Quinn, but he's a means to an end. Once she knows her nephew is safe, she'll figure a way out. She's done it before. In a guarded goodbye, Daryl says "I guess this it, then," and she says, "I hope not. But if it is, I hope you make it home." Laurent hugs Isabelle goodbye, but he has a harder time letting go. "I promise you," she says, meaning every word, "I will do everything in my power to get back to you." She's lied to him before, but she's telling the truth. And she needs him to trust her now. The boy begs Isabelle to come with him and Daryl, but she has to stay. He appeals to Sylvie, and the answer is the same. "Goodbye, little brother. We'll meet again," Sylvie assures him. "I promise."

With that, Daryl and Laurent depart on Azlan's boat. Isabelle returns to the Demimonde, alone, and studies Les N?nuphars -- The Water Lilies -- the painting she would visit anytime she was sad and lonely. At ?le aux Cygnes on the Seine, Azlan's boat crosses under the Pont de Granelle bridge. Daryl and Laurent sit in silence as they sail past the Statue of Liberty replica: Liberty Enlightening the World.

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"Not to fret, Monsieur Daryl. You will not die in Paris." That's what Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) assured Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) in the P?re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France, where the group connected with Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney). Looming over the darkened city of light is the in-ruin Eiffel Tower -- or "La dame de fer," the Iron Lady -- which creaks and groans with the wind. Daryl may not die in Paris, but the boy believed by Union de L'Espoir to be the new messiah is in grave danger in Sunday's "La Dame de Fer" episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

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TWD: Daryl Dixon Episode 4 Release Date and Time

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 4, "La Dame de Fer," premiered Sunday, October 1st, at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and airs at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on the AMC channel.

Daryl Dixon Episode 4 Run Time

"La Dame de Fer" clocks in at 47 minutes and 30 seconds and airs from 9:00 p.m. -- 10:09 p.m. on AMC.

How to Watch Daryl Dixon Episode 4 Without Cable

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 1 ("L'?me Perdue"), episode 2 ("Alouette"), and episode 3 ("Paris Sera Toujours Paris"), and episode 4 ("La Dame de Fer") are currently streaming on AMC+. New episodes release Sundays at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT. To watch, you'll need an AMC+ subscription or a 7-day free trial to AMC+. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly).

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Daryl Dixon Episode 3 Recap

In "Paris Sera Toujours Paris," Daryl, Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy), Sylvie (La?ka Blanc-Francard), and Laurent traveled to Paris to connect with members of the Union de L'Espoir (Union of Hope) network while pursued by the forces of Pouvoir Des Vivants: Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) and Codron (Romain Levi), who each have their own vendettas against the American Daryl Dixon. Their journey led them to the Demimonde, an underground Paris nightclub, where Isabelle was reunited with its owner: Quinn (Adam Nagaitis), her abusive ex-boyfriend she escaped at the onset of the outbreak in 2010. After the revelation that Quinn is Laurent's father, Daryl urged Isabelle to tell her nephew the truth about his "miracle" birth. When Genet's Guerrier tracked Daryl to the Demimonde, Isabelle left to find Laurent as Daryl led Codron on a rooftop chase away from the boy... only to have a roof cave in, sending Daryl into the darkness below.

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"GLENN DIES NEXT." Those are the words creator Robert Kirkman scribbled in his original notes for The Walking Dead #71, which follows the Atlanta group's struggle with adjusting to life in Alexandria after assimilating into the walled-off community outside Washington, D.C. Glenn quickly settles into the domestic life with his wife Maggie and their adopted daughter Sophia, but the couple clash over his role in the 60-survivor safe-zone: as a supply runner tasked with going outside the walls for supplies. Issues later, in The Walking Dead #74, Glenn accompanies Heath to scavenge supplies and antibiotics after Glenn's predecessor, Scott, was hospitalized with a life-threatening infection.

Before leaving with Heath, Glenn and Maggie have a "no goodbyes" goodbye. "I thought if I didn't say it, you'd have to come back," Maggie tells Glenn, who assures her: "Nothing is going to keep me from coming back to you and Sophia. Nothing. You'll see. I'll be back before you know it."

"For whatever reason, I'd earmarked Glenn for death by this point," Kirkman writes in the Cutting Room Floor feature included in the colorized reprint version of The Walking Dead Deluxe #71. "He just seemed like the character most ripe, whose death would lead to the most story... but Glenn would most certainly NOT die next as I would continue to change my mind... again... and again."

Issue #75 picks up with Glenn and Heath trapped on a rooftop above an alleyway swarming with walkers. The two supply runners watch in horror as a group of raiders called The Scavengers push one of their own men into the zombie horde as a distraction, leaving him to be eaten alive as the others escape. While rummaging through a pharmacy, Heath shoots a roamer before it can bite Glenn -- who survives the issue. But that wasn't always the plan.

"I had actually been planning to kill Glenn in issue #75, but felt that I had more to do with the guy," Kirkman told Daily Dead in a 2012 interview. "I found myself trying to shoehorn that into the storyline back when I was in the 60's of the run. I plot what's going to happen in the book, which people are going to die, and how they are going to die, but every now and then I throw myself a curve ball and change my mind."

One of those curve balls comes in The Walking Dead #100 when -- spoiler alert -- Negan bludgeons Glenn to death with his barbwire-wrapped baseball bat.

"The idea behind [Glenn's] death was just to portray it as such a random event. Negan is so dangerous because he can do anything to anyone at any time. To me it is terrifying to have a guy standing in front of you saying 'I'm going to kill one of you.. I don't know which one it's going to be and I don't really care,'" Kirkman said. "That's horrifying and having Rick experience that and being powerless in front of this guy is really going to fundamentally change the book in huge ways. I think that makes Glenn one of the more important characters in the life of the series."

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 3.] "LES MORTS SONT NES ICI." Translation: "THE DEAD ARE BORN HERE." That's what was written on the walls of a French lab seen on The Walking Dead: World Beyond, seemingly suggesting that the zombie virus that spread across the globe like wildfire in 2010 started with the Violet and Primrose teams at La Biom?dicine DDMI. While the origins of The Walking Dead Wildfire Virus remain a mystery, new spin-off Daryl Dixon revealed fresh intel on what CDC virologist Dr. Edwin Jenner (Noah Emmerich) referred to as "variant cohorts": walkers that are stronger, smarter, and faster than the typical zombie.

We saw one such super-zombie on World Beyond when a French man (Oryan Landa) confronted a female French doctor (Carey Van Driest) who worked with the Violet team. A decade post-outbreak, the doctor came to la Biom?dicine because she hoped the team returned from a conference in Toledo, Ohio, and resumed their work at the lab so that "they might end all this, even after all this time."

"End this? You started this. All the teams," the man said in French. "Then you made it worse." He then shot and killed the doctor, who reanimated seconds later as a walker with unnatural strength and speed. As it turns out, "the dead are born here" wasn't referring to les affam?s (what the French call "the hungry ones").

The graffiti referred to the research of Pouvoir Des Vivants ("Power of the Living"), a French movement that started after the initial outbreak. Research that the American Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) destroyed when he went overboard from a cargo ship in the Gulf of C?diz off the southern shores of France.

Before the premiere episode of Daryl Dixon ended with the reveal that Pouvoir Des Vivants leader Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) and a French doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) have been shipping zombie test subjects across the Atlantic Ocean from America to France, Daryl encountered the br?lant: "burners," walkers that can cause infectious burns with their searing touch and acidic blood.

On Sunday's "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" episode, Daryl and Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) watched as burners fell from apartment windows to the ground stories below... only to then stand up and keep attacking. At the Maison M?re hotel in Paris, the French doctor continued his zombie experiments with the test subjects salvaged from the ship.

Just as Madame Genet said the Pouvoir is "making progress," two scientists injected a restrained zombie test subject with a mysterious serum.

The black-eyed walker then became agitated and erratic, ripped its chains from the walls with a burst of super-strength... and then violently imploded as blackened blood spurted from its head. The amped-up super zombie lasted just 18 seconds. To that, Genet said: "Continue."

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 3.] When Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) went overboard in the Atlantic Ocean and washed ashore in southern France, it was after escaping a French cargo ship during a prisoner mutiny somewhere in the Gulf of C?diz. The American then explored the coastal city of Marseille and trekked through the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, walking past graffiti reading "Pouvoir des Vivants." Daryl wound up at the Abbey of Saint Bernadette -- part of the Union de L'Espoir, or Union of Hope -- a non-denominantional network that opposes Genet's Guerriers ("Warriors"). Vive la resistance!

The premiere episode of Daryl Dixon ended at a port in Le Havre in northern France, where the ship's captain reported to a shadowy woman named Genet (Anne Charrier). Also aboard the shipwrecked boat was a French doctor (Fran?ois Delaive), who told Genet: "Our research is largely destroyed. Some of the test subjects may still be of use. Whoever did this made a real mess of things for us." Those test subjects were les affam?s ("the hungry ones," what the French call zombies), and that someone was an American named Daryl Dixon.

In Sunday's "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" episode of Daryl Dixon, the marooned American escorts nun Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) and her nephew Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) -- who the Union de L'Espoir believes is the new messiah because of his "miracle" birth by a zombie-bitten mother -- to Paris. While traveling through the dead City of Light, Daryl recognizes "Pouvoir Des Vivants" spray-painted on a car and asks Isabelle what it means.

In English, Pouvoir Des Vivants translates to "Power of the Living." Isabelle explains Pouvoir Des Vivants is "a movement that started after the outbreak," sometime after France fell in 2010. "Most of the city is under the control of Genet and her Guerriers." Daryl recognizes that word, too, as the name given to the soldiers who raided the abbey. Among them was St?phane Codron (Romain Levi), who has the symbol of the cause tattooed on his face.

Codron arrives at the Pouvoir base at the Maison M?re hotel in Paris, where the French doctor has resumed his experiments on walker test subjects. Codron tells Genet that, years earlier, a traveler came through his homeland of Marseille and spoke of a movement in Paris. "He said it would make the world right again," Codron says in French. "He gave me this tattoo and told me now I was a warrior. For Genet. For you." Codron then tells Genet that he can get her what she wants: the American who destroyed the ship that took three years to make seaworthy, and with it, the Pouvoir's genetically-engineered walker variants that are faster and stronger than the average zombie.

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In Angers, France, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) seek Union de L'Espoir's contact who can radio directions on where to go next as they deliver Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) to The Nest up north. Their connection is The Conductor (Eric Frey), a wild-haired musician who has holed up in a theater for years. Des gens? Amis? Bienvenue. Des vivants. ("People? Friends? Welcome. Living people.") He speaks Anglais. "La v?rit? est l'espoir," Isabelle says. "Truth is hope." The code word leads Daryl and Isabelle to a back room with radio equipment, the Conductor confirming their hopes: he's been in contact with Le Nid. The Nest.

"What the f--k?" Daryl says at the sight of the gutted radio's frayed wires. "I use some parts for amplification," the Conductor explains innocently. "Do you like Ravel?" With that, the Conductor directs a performance of his orchestra: les affam?s, the hungry ones, strung up like marionettes. He flicks his baton, conducting the music-playing puppets rigged to recreate the French composer Maurice Ravel's Bol?ro. Outside the theater, the cacophony of clashing instruments draws the attention of a walker as the Conductor rambles about music and culture living, even now. "It was a worth a try," Isabelle says.

"It was a stupid detour," Daryl grunts. The priest P?re Jean had a map pointing to Paris, but Isabelle is adamant the City of Light is too dangerous. "It's too dangerous everywhere. We did it your way. Now we're gonna do it mine," says Daryl, gunning down a walker with a powder-loaded rifle. "We're going to Paris."

Paris is dark and lifeless. In the distance, the groaning metal of the decaying Eiffel Tower looms over the dead city. "Welcome home," Daryl tells Laurent. An abandoned car is spray-painted with a phrase Daryl recognizes from a market in Marseille. Pouvoir Des Vivants. Power of the Living. "It's a movement that started after the outbreak," Isabelle explains. "Most of the city is under the control of Genet and her guerriers." The warriors who attacked the Abbey of Saint Bernadette back in the Midi-Pyr?n?es. "In desperate times," Isabelle says, "people cling to order." Daryl responds, "Yeah, or God."

A French version of The Doors' "People Are Strange" plays as the group crosses through P?re Lachaise Cemetery. The hollowed ground is the resting place of the French playwright Moli?re and the French novelist Proust, Laurent points out, and the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine. "He wrote fables. Like La Mort et le B?cheron," Laurent explains. "It's about a weary woodsman who wants to die. But when Death comes, he has a change of heart. He asks for help carrying his burden, so he can keep going on. It's about fortitude."

Laurent's aunt, Isabelle, says they're approaching his mother's old high school in the Marais, just past where The Doors frontman Jim Morrison is buried. Daryl is surprised to learn the American rockstar died in Paris. "Not to fret, Monsieur Daryl," Laurent assures him confidently. "You will not die in Paris."

The travelers come across Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney) and his own trio: Emile (Tristan Zanchi), Bastien (Elie Haddad), and Nadine (Chrystal Boursin). "Truth is hope," Isabelle tells them. "P?re Jean sent us." That means the child is the messiah, the answer to the prophecy as foretold by the Union of Hope's leader, the Buddhist monk Lama Rinpoche. "We've been waiting a long time to meet you, young man," Fallou tells Laurent.

Fallou escorts the group into their rooftop community overlooked by the decaying Eiffel Tower, damaged when a military helicopter crashed into the monument 12 years earlier. Fallou romantically describes the creaking metal as the sound of "Paris crying." They're a group of 64 survivors, including children, and their comms guy, Antoine (Dominique Pinon). Daryl inquires about their radio and is disheartened to learn that Antoine -- who speaks little English -- specializes in a "very effective" method of communication: homing pigeons. "They always find their way home," Antoine says, impressed. "Pigeons?" Daryl scoffs. "Really?" The birds are trained at the Nest and then sent to Paris, but it could be days -- or a month -- until the bird returns with a message.

Without a radio to help him, Daryl figures his job is done. The Nest can take Isabelle and Laurent the rest of the way north. "If you don't have a radio," he asks, "how you gonna help me?" Fallou is well-connected and can introduce Daryl to traders, but they'll need currency: "Even information is a commodity." Isabelle says she knows where they can get goods, so it's agreed they'll go there in the morning.

In the meantime, the people of Union de L'Espoir fawn over Laurent and greet him with gifts. When Daryl remarks that the child being prophecized as the messiah is "a lot to put on a kid," Isabelle says simply: "God chooses our burdens."Just then, Laurent approaches the grieving Sonia (Sabine Pakora), a widow whose husband died just days ago. Fallou says she's been refusing any food or comfort and has been inconsolable -- until Laurent, with a touch of her shoulder and a warm embrace, makes her smile. In awe, Fallou says, "P?re Jean was right." The boy is special.

At the Pouvoir base, the hotel Maison M?re in Paris, Codron (Romain Levi) witnesses scientists conducting experiments on les affam?s. He does not dare question what he sees as he meets with Madame Genet (Anne Charrier), the black-clad woman who we saw aboard a cargo ship at La Havre. The tattooed soldier introduces himself as St?phane Codron from Marseille. Years ago, a traveler came through speaking of a movement that "would make the world right again." The traveler gave Codron his tattoo and told me he was a warrior -- a guerrier -- for Genet. He can help her get what she wants: the American.

The ship's captain suggested Daryl drowned in the Atlantic Ocean when the American went overboard during a mutiny in the Gulf of C?diz. But Codron found Daryl's tape recorder when the Guerrier raided the Abbey of Saint Bernadette, and plays a message: "My name's Daryl Dixon. I'm from a place called the Commonwealth. It's in America. I went out looking for something, but all I found was trouble."

"I'll find him for you, and I'll prove my usefulness to you," Codron vows. Asked why she should trust him, he responds with steely determination: "Because I won't stop. I won't stop. I promised my parents when they died I'd look after my brother. This American made me a liar."

Genet takes Codron to the lab, where The Doctor (Fran?ois Delaive) conducts an experiment: a stopwatch clicks, timing a hungry one chained to the wall by both wrists. It begins to seize, and suddenly, tears its restraints from the wall with a burst of inhuman strength. It slams into the glass, blood bursting from its head, and falls to the ground. Eighteen seconds. It's "progress," Genet smirks.

In Paris, Isabelle rummages through her long-abandoned apartment and finds treasures from her past life as a thief: expensive watches, jewelry, pills and bags of drugs. Daryl sees photos of Isabelle and Quinn (Adam Nagaitis), her abusive Brit ex-boyfriend she ditched at the onset of the outbreak in 2010. A lifetime ago. "I was young and very stupid," she says. Daryl clumsily tells her she upgraded. "With God, I mean." Isabelle pockets a photo of her sister, Lily (Faustine Koziel), posing beneath the Eiffel Tower. Laurent has never seen her face. Raiding her cache is how they'll find something to trade and get information on a boat, fulfilling her end of the deal. "I wasn't always a nun." Her apartment has a view of the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, known as the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, which beats the view from his old house. Daryl admits he didn't do much thinking back then, only becoming the quiet, retrospective type after the world fell.

"Maybe we're the same that way," Isabelle tells him. "Broken until the world ended." Either way, she adds, "I'm glad our paths crossed." Daryl and Isabelle eventually make their way through hungry one-filled hallways and down to the apartment courtyard, where she spots young Aim?e (Na?a Pichler). Her old neighbor has been frozen in time and place, with weeds overgrown around the zombified little girl. Isabelle is shaken by the sight of the friendly little girl she left behind the night Paris died, and even more shaken by the building's zombified tenants falling from the windows above. As they splatter on the pavement, a br?lant -- a burner zombie with acidic blood --crashes into the ground... only for its broken body to stand up. Normally, a fall from that height would destroy a hungry one, or at least leave it inert, but these variant walkers are anything but normal. Daryl impales the walker and uses its burning skin to burn through roots overgrown the glass door blocking their escape. Every drop of blood sizzles. Isabelle looks back at Aim?e as they escape.

As they wait it out in a tunnel, Daryl says he's sorry about the little girl. "I left her," Isabelle says, despondent. Fallou and Emile arrive with Laurent and Sylvie (La?ka Blanc-Francard), there to witness Isabelle gift Laurent the picture of his mother. Later, Fallou escorts them to the entrance of the catacombs. After bribing a bouncer with a bag of hazelnuts and storing their weapons in an old freezer, the group travels through the passageways of subterranean skulls. They are "among the remains of the 6 million who died in la pests noire," Fallou explains. "The Black Death. America is an infant. But here, we survived many apocalypse. We will survive this one, too."

Fallou leads them to The Demimonde, where the flame of la vie boh?me -- the bohemian life -- still burns. The Demimonde is a sexy underground nightclub brimming with life, music, and trade. "People find all sort of things here," Fallou assures Daryl. "You helped us. Now we help you." As the performer Coco (Drag Race France's Paloma) takes the stage to introduce the Russian Mademoiselle Anna Valery (Lukerya Ilyashenko) and her sultry number, Fallou arranges a meeting with some patrons. Isabelle studies Les N?nuphars -- The Water Lilies -- a painting she used to visit weekly at the Mus?e d'Orsay, where she would go when she was sad or lonely. "It was like a port in a storm," she tells Daryl, who says it kind of reminds him of home. "They saved it. That's something."

Daryl and Isabelle meet with Bernard (Micha?l Erpelding), a seedy type Demimonde-dweller who has "heard things" about boats to America. Daryl came over by sea, Isabelle points out, so there must be ships sailing. She's got drugs -- cocaine, meth -- but before Bernard helps himself, Daryl tells him, "Boat first." Bernard counters: first they pay, then they take them to a connection who can hook them up with a boat. The brawny Rodo (Ike Ortiz), Bernard's muscle, isn't so friendly. He says to Isabelle: "Tell your friend to chill out if he doesn't want to swim back home, OK?" Daryl doesn't need to understand French to know the deal is going sideways and socks Bernard in the face as he unsheathes a switchblade. The disturbance draws the attention of the owner: Quinn. He's still sharply-dressed, still oozing the demeanor of someone in control as he slices Bernard's face as punishment for violating his club's no-weapons rule. "Hi, Izzy. It's been a minute." Or a decade.

Isabelle explains that Daryl is looking for a way back to America. Quinn confirms it's not impossible, and he's heard things about transatlantic ships. He'll ask around as a favor for a friend, refusing her "insulting" offer of bartering for goods. Meanwhile, Laurent makes friends with Anna, showing him the photo of his mother beaming beneath the Eiffel Tower. Someday, Laurent says, he'll visit the Eiffel Tower and look up, like his mother did before him. Anna gives the boy something to remember his mother: an Eiffel Tower necklace.

Quinn meets Laurent, introduced by his aunt as "Lily's boy." Quinn says Laurent has his mother's eyes. "We've made a deal," Isabelle informs Daryl. "You've done your part, and I'll do mine." Quinn blows off Anna and escorts Isabelle and Daryl to his backroom bunker, where the generals hid away during World War II. French-built, but taken over by the Nazis during the independent regime Vichy. "It swung both ways," says Quinn. "Pragmatism I can appreciate." Quinn is surprised Isabelle refuses his offer of champagne, and even more surprised to learn she became a nun in the 12 years since she saw him last.

He inquires about Lily, and if she's a nun, too. Isabelle's sister died delivering Laurent. "You should have told me," Quinn scolds her. "That my sister died?" That, too, but more importantly, he scoffs: "And that I had a son. You shouldn't keep that from a man. I don't care the circumstance. A boy should know his dad, shouldn't he?" This revelation comes 12 years after Lily died and turned before she could reveal the identity of Laurent's father. Quinn calls the affair a "mistake," but Isabelle blames him for her sister's death. "And I saved you. Who was it found you, bleeding in the bathtub?" He grips her by the wrist and exposes her scars. "Picked you up, carried you to the hospital, nursed you back to help. That was me."

She doesn't want to revisit the past. She's here to help her friend get home. "You want to help him?" the jealous Quinn says. "Now you know the terms." Daryl doesn't want to cut a deal with "this asshole," spewing venom: "F-- him. I don't need a boat this bad." As they leave, Isabelle and Daryl argue. She's convinced she could have made arrangements with Quinn, but Daryl doesn't want to hear it. "We all got shit from our past that we're trying to run from, not just you." Recalling their conversation at her apartment, Isabelle tells Daryl, "I was wrong earlier. We're not the same, you and I." The argument escalates, Daryl remarking that he's not the one she's really mad at. "Well, you wanted to come to Paris, didn't you? That's why we're here," she spits back. "I'm trying to help you keep your promise. That's all you care about, isn't it? I asked for your help 'cause I needed it. I don't need a hero. I never did."

A calmer conversation takes place in a quiet room of the Demimonde, where Laurent asks Sylvie about The Nest. "Safe, like it used to be at the abbey. There will be more of us, who believe the same thing," Sylvie assures the boy. When Laurent confesses he doesn't know why Sonia confided in him that he "made her feel loved," Sylvie says gently: "You give them hope, Laurent."

Just then, Codron and two Guerrier burst into the club and meet with Quinn. "Madame Genet and I have an arrangement," he tells the gun-toting men. "My place is off limits." They're there looking for an American named Daryl Dixon. Meanwhile, Isabelle has cooled. "I don't believe in coincidences," the nun says. "I think there was a reason I had to come back to Paris -- to see him again. To find out the truth." After offering a sarcastic "you're welcome," Daryl tries to break from Isabelle. "You don't need me here anymore. You got all these people looking after you. You're gonna be fine." Laurent will be sad to see him go. He blows her off. "Make something up. You're really good at that."

Isabelle confesses she never told Laurent about his birth because "everything about it was horrible. Everything. The way she died, the way he was born." Daryl questions how she's going to tell Laurent about his father, and says she needs to stop lying to him. "He deserves to know who he is. Then he can make up his own mind." Isabelle counters that Daryl doesn't accept how special the boy is. "He's a gift from God, right? Maybe that's something you need to believe 'cause the world's so f--ed up," he shoots back. "Or maybe he's just a regular kid. A regular kid that got lucky and lived. Maybe that's your miracle."

Then Laurent appears, and shouts in French: "I hate you both!" Codron and the Guerrier burst in looking for the American, so Daryl tells Isabelle to get Laurent and meet back at her apartment. Codron takes off after Daryl as he draws the soldiers away, racing across rooftops above the darkened streets of Paris. Daryl leaps over a pack of hungry ones swarming an alley, dodging gunfire as Codron shoots at the man blamed for his brother's death. Daryl has brought a knife to a gunfight, swiping at Codron, only to be overpowered by the burly Guerrier. Codron chokes Daryl (chokehold's illegal, asshole!), and would wrestle the life out of Daryl if not for the bottle smashed over his head. Gaining the upper hand, Daryl chokes Codron, suffocating him -- until the Guerrier open fire from afar, forcing Daryl to release Codron and flee. As Isabelle searches for Laurent in the chaos of the Demimonde, Daryl drops onto a roof that gives way beneath him. The episode ends with Daryl disappearing into the darkness.

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Three episodes in, Daryl (Norman Reedus) takes a trip to post-apocalyptic Paris in Sunday's "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. (Translation: "Paris will always be Paris.") The midway point of the six-episode first season sees Daryl, nuns Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) and Sylvie (Laika Blanc Francard), and supposed messiah Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) travel into the darkened City of Light to rendezvous with Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney) and members of the resistance network Union de l'Espoir ("Union of Hope"), who can connect Daryl to a man with a radio and -- hopefully -- help the stranded Daryl find a way home to America. Read our full Daryl Dixon episode 2 recap with spoilers here.

Below, read on for everything to know about "Paris Sera Toujours Paris" and find out how to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 3 online without cable.

TWD: Daryl Dixon Episode 3 Release Date and Time

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 3, "Paris Sera Toujours Paris," premiered Sunday, September 24th, at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and airs at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on the AMC channel.

Daryl Dixon Episode 3 Run Time

"Paris Sera Toujours Paris" has a running time of 47 minutes and 27 seconds, making it the shortest episode yet. On AMC, the episode airs from 9:00 p.m. - 10:10 p.m. ET.

How to Watch Daryl Dixon Episode 3 Without Cable

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 1 ("L'?me Perdue"), episode 2 ("Alouette"), and episode 3 "(Paris Sera Toujours Paris") are currently streaming on AMC+. New episodes release Sundays at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT. To watch, you'll need an AMC+ subscription or a 7-day free trial to AMC+. Prices start at $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly).

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Daryl Dixon Episode 2 Recap

In "Alouette," Daryl's group took a detour through a pillaged village in Angers, France, where they met Lou (Kim Higelin) and the howling youths of Ecole Maternelle Simone Veil: a fortified kindergarten converted into a humble community of foundlings and orphans. As Laurent bonds with the children, Daryl and Lou undergo a mission into the castle of La Tarasque -- named after the dragon from the French fables -- who turns out to be American raider RJ Gaines (Ned Dennehy) out of Giddings, Texas. Meanwhile, the soldier St?phane Codron (Romain Levi) finds Daryl's tape recorder identifying him as the American from the French cargo ship for Madame Genet (Anne Charier) and Pouvoir Des Vivants ("Power of the Living"). A flashback to post-outbreak 2010 revealed the truth about Laurent's "miracle" birth: he was born to a zombie-bitten mother who died and reanimated as a walker while giving birth to Laurent. (Read the full Daryl Dixon episode 2 recap here.)

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Daryl Dixon is "frais," as the French might say. AMC's new Walking Dead spin-off, which stars Norman Reedus and is shot and set in France, is officially "certified fresh" on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. After airing two of the first six episodes, season 1 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon currently sits at 90% approval from critics with an audience score of 89%. Daryl Dixon's critical response is so far higher than Maggie and Negan spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (fresh at 81%), and is the best-reviewed season of any Walking Dead show since Fear the Walking Dead season 6 (89%) in 2020.

Daryl Dixon's 90% score is on par with the best-reviewed season of The Walking Dead -- season 5, which aired in 2014/2015 -- and is just above the acclaimed season 9 (89%) and season 3 (88%) of the original series that ended last November after 11 seasons and 177 episodes. It's also better critically reviewed than the original show's season 1 (87%) and season 2 (80%), season 4 (81%), season 6 (76%), season 7 (66%), season 8 (65%), season 10 (77%), and season 11 (80%).

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That makes the David Zabel-created series the best-reviewed Walking Dead spin-off, scoring higher than all eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, the first season of this summer's Dead City, both seasons of the limited series The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and the episodic anthology Tales of the Walking Dead. ComicBook's review called Reedus "magnifique" and praised the series for "delivering what Walking Dead fans want -- and something entirely unexpected."

AMC already renewed The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon for a second season, officially announcing the season 2 pickup at San Diego Comic-Con in July.

"This next chapter in the Walking Dead Universe continues to thrive with a terrific inaugural season for Dead City and highly anticipated new journey for fan-favorite character Daryl Dixon coming in September," Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, said when renewing both series for second seasons over the summer. "We can't wait to bring Dead City fans back to the epicenter of Manhattan for more zip-lining action with Maggie and Negan. And, ahead of its debut, we're thrilled to double down on Daryl as we bring the apocalypse to France, transforming Notre Dame, Pont du Gard and other iconic locales into an apocalyptic landscape unlike anything we've seen before."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon debuted September 10th on AMC and AMC+. New episodes air Sundays at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and 9 p.m. on AMC. Visit our guide for all the ways to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon online or on cable.

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As Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) sets his sights on getting home to America, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is sightseeing Paris. Daryl's journey across France has brought him to the shores of Marseille, the land of Lourdes, and in last week's "Alouette," a detour to raider-plundered Angers. In the exclusive clip above from this Sunday's upcoming episode "Paris sera toujours Paris" -- translation: Paris will always be Paris -- Daryl and Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) have a heart-to-heart overlooking the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, known as the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, inside Isabelle's old apartment from her past life as a thief.

"Sure beats the view from my old house," Daryl tells Isabelle of his childhood home burned down by his chain-smoking mother. Isabelle reflects on a bar at the end of the street. "When the owner pulled the curtains, only the regulars were allowed to stay. Artists, musicians, students," she says, people who were "reinventing the world."

"We thought we could make it better," the nun laments. "Never imagining how bad it would get." Daryl never thought about it. He admits he "didn't do much thinking back then." When Isabelle tells Daryl he seems like "someone who's always thinking," he chuckles. "No. I don't know. Things happened," he says of the 12 years of the zombie apocalypse. "Things that change you, you know?"

She knows. "Maybe we're the same that way," Isabelle responds. "Broken until the world ended."

In "Paris sera toujours Paris," premiering September 24th on AMC and AMC+, Daryl, Isabelle, Sylvie (Laika Blanc Francard) and Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) continue their trek to deliver Laurent to The Nest. Along the way, they'll connect with Fallou (Eriq Ebouaney), a Parisian who Isabelle says has a radio and can connect them with the l'Union de I'Espoir ("Union of Hope") up north.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon "Paris sera toujours Paris" airs this Sunday at 3 a.m. ET on AMC+, followed by its linear premiere at 9 p.m. ET on the AMC channel. Watch Daryl Dixon Episode 1 here and check our guide for all the ways to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon online without cable.

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"You go, and you keep going. Don't you ever come back here again. If I ever see your face around here again, I'll kill you." With those words, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) threatened/banished Dwight (Austin Amelio) from Virginia in the "Wrath" episode of The Walking Dead season 8. The merciful Daryl then told Dwight to "go out there, and you make it right," and to "find her." That's just what Dwight did: the ex-Savior crossed over to Fear the Walking Dead to find his ex-wife Sherry (Christine Evangelista), and the reunited couple lived happily ever after... if you stopped watching in season 6.

After breaking up, eventually making up, and seemingly breaking up again after the death of their zombie-bitten son Finch (Gavin Warren) in the first half of season 8, Dwight and Sherry are returning to their old haunts in Fear's final season.

The new trailer for the spin-off's last six episodes shows Dwight and Sherry revisiting the Sanctuary -- long-abandoned after the reformed Saviors assimilated into the other communities in The Walking Dead season 9 -- and their old house where Sherry once left a note with the couple's wedding rings. "We always said that if we got separated, I should come back here and wait for you," Sherry wrote in her goodbye letter. "You'd show up with beer and pretzels." After making a callback to that moment in season 6, Fear is taking a trip down memory lane to "D" and "Honey's" house -- a location not seen since season 8 of The Walking Dead in 2018.

Sherry originally planned to return to Virginia and settle old scores by putting a bullet into the head of "the person that's really to blame" for her trauma: Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). (Little do they know, he's since relocated to New York City.)

The couple seemed to put their past behind them until a seven-year time jump revealed that Dwight and Sherry -- codenamed "Red Kite" and "Starling" -- worked with PADRE to keep close to their son, one of the island's "foundlings" forced to grow up without their parents. With the help of Morgan Jones (Lennie James), Dwight and Sherry realized that living under PADRE's oppressive rule is "like living at the Sanctuary all over again," so they joined the fight against the since-ousted Shrike (Maya Eshet) and Crane (Daniel Rashid).

So what's next for Dwight and Sherry?

"I think they're trying to figure that out. They're not sure that anywhere is safe, and they could think to just go off on their own and forge their new path," Evangelista previously told ComicBook before the SAG-AFTRA actors' strike. "I think they've, for so long, had difficulty under somebody else's rule and every place wasn't what it seemed to be. And with them going to PADRE, I think they feel that they just surrender to the sacrifices that they might have to make in order to have the family that they want work. Whether that or not sustains itself, we'll see throughout the season."

Evangelista continued, "I think that is part of the journey that both Sherry and Dwight go on where they might have conflict, because one wants to take a risk and the other one doesn't. It's sort of the idea of 'the devil you know is better than the one you don't.' And I think that's something that they've been conditioned to believe throughout all these years, and taking that risk on the other side of that fear is where they really want to go. I think throughout the season, you'll find out if they're able to make that choice, and if there's really anywhere that's safe for them."

Fear the Walking Dead returns with its final six episodes Sunday, October 22nd, on AMC and AMC+.

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Fear the Walking Dead started in 2015 as the original Walking Dead spin-off following Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her children, Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey). But after eight seasons on AMC, the matriarch of the Clark clan will finish what was started in L.A. when Fear's final six episodes premiere October 22nd on AMC and AMC+. The network on Wednesday released the key art and climactic trailer for the final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, along with the tagline: "In the end, no one's gone until they're gone."

After Madison and Morgan Jones (Lennie James) liberated PADRE island from kidnapper Krennick siblings Shrike (Maya Eshet) and Crane (Daniel Rashid), Madison "sets sights on transforming PADRE into the safe haven the old Stadium was meant to be," per the official synopsis. "But in doing so, the island becomes a target as well as a beacon as word of Madison and this land of resources spreads, attracting unwanted attention that puts PADRE back in peril and questions whether our heroes even deserve to save it."

As teased in the midseason finale, Madison's mission caught the attention of Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman), who somehow survived being bludgeoned by a hammer to the head back in season 3. "It's been a while," Troy tells Madison in the trailer, which you can watch above. "You took everything from me. I'm just doing the same for you." That includes handing over Alicia's zombie-bitten arm prosthetic with her bones still inside, suggesting Madison's daughter may have met her own end during the seven-year time jump since we last saw her in "Amina."

"That place, that's all I have left," Madison tells Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) of the island, where she spent those years "rescuing" children as a collector for PADRE. With Nick and Alicia gone, Strand says: "You still have something left fighting for. The people we love -- the people we'd give up our lives to protect -- it can let you live forever."

AMC also released the key art for Fear the Walking Dead's final episodes, below, teasing the end of a journey that spanned Los Angeles, to Mexico, to Texas, to Georgia.

Starring Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia, Austin Amelio, Christine Evangelista, Karen David, Jenna Elfman, Daniel Sharman, and Rub?n Blades, Fear the Walking Dead: The Final Episodes premiere Sunday, October 22nd, on AMC and AMC+.

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 1 episode 2.] Nanu-nanu! The Orkan greeting of Robin Williams' Mork from Ork might be the last thing Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) ever expected to hear after washing ashore in post-apocalyptic France. But that's what happened on Sunday's "Alouette" episode of Daryl Dixon, which saw the marooned American make a detour to a village in Angers while escorting nuns Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) and Sylvie (Laika Blanc Francard) to deliver Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) -- believed to be the new messiah -- to safety up north at a community called The Nest.

The travelers encounter the teenage Lou (Kim Higelin) and her howling youths, who have fortified ?cole Maternelle Simone Veil: a preschool honored in dedication of famed French politician Simone Veil. There are 18 foundlings living at the school, converted into a humble but self-sustaining community by the children's ailing teacher, Madame Dubois (Evelyne Delmer). The children entertain themselves with an outdated television powered by bicycle-generated electricity, playing taped episodes of the classic late '70s/early '80s sitcom Mork & Mindy.

"Me and my brother used to watch it, when we were young," Daryl later tells Isabelle about his older brother Merle (Michael Rooker), who eventually enjoyed doing recreational drugs while watching a dumb cartoon about a talking dog. "We loved that show. Used to make everything just a little bit better, you know?"

It took "a long time to get the permits" to include scenes from Mork & Mindy, episode director Daniel Percival told The Wrap, calling the throwback to Daryl's favorite childhood show "so perfect." Percival explained, "It's a story of a fish out of water and an alien in a strange land. It's so appropriate."

The Happy Days spin-off followed the hyperactive, eccentric Orkan who reported his observations about humans back to his home planet, Ork. Trivia: the Mork & Mindy episode that appears in Daryl Dixon is the season 4 episode "The Mork Report," originally aired in 1982. Mork reports on his observer thesis about "the four main ingredients to a successful marriage," concluding that they are honesty, respect, romance, and compatibility.

Later, after Madame Dubois succumbs to illness, the children of ?cole pay tribute to their teacher with the Orkan greeting and goodbye: Nanu-nanu. Read the Daryl Dixon episode 2 recap here.

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 1 episode 2.] Sunday's "Alouette" episode of Daryl Dixon not only flashed back to 2010 to reveal a glimpse into Isabelle's (Cl?mence Po?sy) sordid past and the miracle of Laurent's (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) zombie birth, it showed the night the City of Light went dark. 12 years before the future nun encountered marooned American Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) in present-day 2022, Isabelle was a partying pickpocket in Paris, France, when les affam?s -- "the hungry ones" -- appeared. And then the world fell.

In "Alouette," Isabelle goes on a cocaine-fueled stealing spree as she pickpockets cash, credit cards, and expensive jewelry from unsuspecting marks in a Paris nightclub. She parties like the world is ending. And then it does.

As Isabelle walks through the 7th arrondissement, she witnesses a series of disquieting events: The commotion of a rabid man biting another man's arm. Panicked passengers aboard an unmanned subway car turned into a death trap on wheels. What looks like sick, grey-skinned people shambling through the streets spreading infection. Above ground, the city is in chaos as the freshly-dead, flesh-hungry ones reanimate to feed on the living.

"Shooting the show in France gives us a lot of opportunities to do things we haven't done before," executive producer Greg Nicotero said during AMC's behind-the-scenes Daryl Dixon preview. "We're in situations these characters would have never been in in the United States. We really allow the audience into a different perspective of the Walking Dead world."

Daryl Dixon's six episodes wind from Marseille, to Lourdes, to Angers, to Paris and the Seine, and then to Normandy. As Daryl, Isabelle, and Laurent trek up north to The Nest, their journey will bring them to post-apocalyptic Paris, 12 years after the city went dark.

"I didn't want to take too much of the eleven previous seasons of The Walking Dead. Some things are a bit like cliches of the post-apocalyptic universe: vegetation that has gone wild everywhere, the decay, and the destruction; it makes sense, and it's kind of the base of the elements we're going to play with. But the idea was to be different somehow, and the production didn't want to do the same thing, just in France," production designer Clovis Weil said in an interview. "They wanted to use France, first of all. That's the first reason why they came here; they wanted to have some iconic French scenery, towns, and places. Then, I had permission to play with it to make it apocalyptic, and, actually, it's really fun to do."

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[This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 1 episode 2, "Alouette."] "The truth can wait." Those were Isabelle's (Cl?mence Po?sy) words to Daryl (Norman Reedus) regarding Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi), the orphaned 12-year-old boy who has been described as "special" and "not like other children." But the truth could not wait for long. After last week's series premiere introduced Laurent as "the new messiah" destined to "lead the revival of humanity," Sunday's "Alouette" episode of Daryl Dixon divulged a major reveal about Laurent and his mother in a flashback to post-outbreak 2010.

After escaping zombie-plagued Paris with her controlling boyfriend Quinn (Adam Nagaitis) and her younger sister Lily (Faustine Kozie), Isabelle discovers a secret Lily kept hidden for seven months: she's pregnant. When Quinn suggests they drop Lily off at a clinic so they can stay mobile, Isabelle instead hijacks his car and ditches her abusive beau. The sisters are on the road when Lily suffers painful contractions, causing them to pull over and seek help from a stopped ambulance. Finding the paramedics have reanimated as les affam?s ("the hungry ones"), they narrowly escape back into the car and eventually end up at the Abbey of Saint Bernadette in Lourdes.

As Father P?re Jean (Hugo Dillon) and the abbey's nuns deliver the baby, Jean realizes that Lily has been bitten. Lily goes into premature labor, and before she can name her baby's father, she succumbs to the bite's infection and dies during childbirth. She quickly reanimates, but the zombified Lily gives birth to a healthy baby boy. "It's a miracle," says P?re Jean of the zombie birth, handing the blessed child to his aunt. Isabelle christens her nephew Laurent after the martyr Saint Laurent, patron saint of the poor.

In "L'?me Perdue," set 12 years later in 2022, Isabelle tried to convince Daryl that Laurent is "special" after the Union Del'Espoir's (Union of Hope) leader, the Buddhist monk Lama Rinpoche, declared Laurent "an answer to the prophecy."

"He's shown abilities, perceptions, compassion beyond any child. He sees into people," Isabelle said, referencing the uncanny moment Laurent repeated, word for word, what Judith Grimes once told Daryl on The Walking Dead: "You deserve a happy ending, too." Laurent -- who is unaware of his origins or why he's "special" -- only knows only that he gets a gut feeling, something he feels in his stomach. P?re Jean was to escort Union Del'Espoir's new hope to safety at The Nest in northern France, but after the priest's death, it's now Daryl's mission to chaperone Isabelle and Laurent in exchange for passage home to America.

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Alouette, gentille alouette. Alouette, je te plumerai. Je te plumerai la t?te Je te plumerai la t?te. Et la t?te, et la t?te. Alouette... Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) is dressed for a night out on the City of Lights. Isabelle dances with a stranger, feeling the music and the inside of his jacket. The pickpocket cozies up to another man at the bar and swipes his credit card. She spots another mark and steals his expensive watch in the blink of an eye. She dances, she drinks, she does cocaine -- stealing, swaying, snorting the night away -- pocketing cash, cards, jewelry, and other valuables that will soon become worthless.

It's Paris, France, 2010. Day zero of the zombie apocalypse. A scream here, a disturbance there. Is that man attacking another man a drunk scuffle? No... he's biting him. It's chaos. A pedestrian wanders into the street and is struck by a car. In the subway, its mayhem aboard a packed train car speeding past its stop. Its passengers are barrelling towards death at 50 miles per hour. On the streets, the City of Lights is a city of death. Paris is overrun by les affam?s -- the hungry ones.

Before a hungry one can feast on Isabelle's flesh, a sharply-dressed man rams his car into the run-over reanimated man. Isabelle gets into the vehicle's passenger seat as the driver speeds away from the dead city. 12 years later, Isabelle studies a map with the marooned American Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus). It's a straight shot to Paris, but according to Isabelle, Angers will be safer, if a little longer. Their destination is a man with a radio who can connect them to Union Del'Espoir's (Union of Hope) people up north at The Nest.

In 2010, Paris is bedlam. The driver is Quinn (Adam Nagaitis), a Brit, and their destination is his mate Olly's place in the Dordogne. Their first stop is Isabelle's apartment to pick up her younger sister, Lily (Faustine Koziel), and all of their cash. Lily feels ill, but there's no time to explain: they must leave. Now. Isabelle's young neighbor, Aim?e (Naia Pichler), says her papa didn't come home last night. She instructs the girl to go back to her apartment and stay inside with her mother.

12 years later. Daryl, Isabelle, Sylvie (Laika Blanc Francard) and Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) ride a mule-drawn carriage through the woods into Angers. Their mule Ast?rix is stubborn as -- well, a mule -- and anxiously neighs as a pack of hungry ones approach from the road. Daryl unties the wagon and fires a rifle into the air, causing Ast?rix to haul ass ahead. Isabelle assures Laurent he'll be okay: Ast?rix is faster than the dead. Daryl orders the group to grab everything from the cart and walk as the hungry ones trail off after Ast?rix. Later, Isabelle again assures Laurent that his beloved mule isn't lost: she's sure he's found his way to the apple orchard they passed.

"Just tell him the truth," Daryl tells Isabelle in private. "He's gotta learn sometime." But the boy who grew up at the Abbey of Saint Bernadette, sheltered from the horrors of the outside world, doesn't need to know what fate awaits Ast?rix. "You don't have children, do you?" she asks. "The truth can wait." Their search for someplace safe to rest for the night cannot.

Just then, a distant whistle signals a flung arrow. Daryl dodges the bolts and gives chase after someone wearing a plague doctor mask, only to be ambushed by four masked youths. The youths transport their prisoners to Cole Maternelle Simone Veil, once a preschool that has been converted into a walled community. Its gated entrance is warning for all who might dare trespass: decapitated zombie heads displayed on pikes. The youths howl, unleashing a war cry that beckons their leader: Lou (Kim Higelin), a teenager whose war-weary visage betrays her youthful appearance.

Isabelle explains they're religious people stranded after their mule escaped. "Nuns. Nuns?" Lou asks with suspicious incredulity. "So you can recite Saint Joseph's prayer for mothers and fathers, no?" We come to you and ask you to take under your special protection the children God has given us... after the nuns recite the prayer in French, Lou remains suspicious of Daryl. "What about him? Is he a nun?" Isabelle responds, "Father Daryl is from America. He was sent here on a mission long ago. He doesn't speak French." To that, Lou asks: "Even after all this time?" Isabelle shrugs: "Americans."

Lou signals her pack to cut Daryl loose. They will practice English out of respect for Father Daryl. During a tour of the preschool, Lou explains there are 18 youths living there. "The day it started, the older ones were dropped off at school. Some of our friends go home at the end of the day," she says in unpracticed English, "but the rest of us, our parents never came." The youngest of the children are orphans, or foundlings who they've found over the years. "We hunt, we grow food, we fix old clothes. And we keep up our lessons." This post-apocalyptic children's community has a flavor of Oliver Twist, if the parish placed severed zombie heads to heed off would-be attackers.

The children are in the care of the now-bedridden Madame Dubois, who was their mother, their nurse, and their teacher until she fell ill six months ago. Every day, the children recite a prayer from Isaiah, which Isabelle points out is "for the sick and dying." "Oui," Lou responds, "but not dying. Prayers will be answered." Their humble community is self-sufficient -- children tend to gardening and raising chickens, Cricket cooks, Aline readies their dinners -- and is wary of outsiders. Laurent tries to introduce himself to a boy, who angrily tells him he can't sit in the empty seat beside him. That chair is for his brother. "Two of our brothers are off on a mission right now," says Lou, who leaves it to "Father Daryl" to lead them in a prayer of thanks.

Daryl says grace for the first time in his life. "Um, Lord... I'm sure you have your reasons for turning the whole world upside-down. Maybe we deserve it for being so mean to each other. We probably do deserve it. But not tonight. No." Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie hold hands with the plucky youths gathered around the table for a simple meal. "Tonight is good. And if this isn't good enough for you, I don't know what is. Amen." Daryl slurps from his soup bowl, provoking laughs from the children. They raise their bowls and do the same as "Father Daryl."

With their mule lost, Lou says their only option is La Tarasque. "La Tarasque is a lizard," Sylvie explains to Daryl. "Like a dragon from old stories." To that, Lou says firmly, "No. This one is not a story. He's a real man. Still a monster." He lives in a castle nearby. La Tarasque has horses he used to steal everything from the village, raiding food, fuel, and supplies from every house and shop. The children once tried to raid the raider, but the castle is too dangerous to ever make a second attempt. Daryl convinces Lou: if La Tarasque raided the drugstores, he has the medicine they'll need to cure Madame Dubois. "You can pray all you like," he says, "but she's gonna die without that." Moof (Durel Nkounkou Loumouamou), a young boy, wants to go, but Lou forbids it. In the morning, she will take Daryl to the castle.

That night, the children settle in for entertainment. An old television powered by bicycle generators flickers to life with an episode of Mork & Mindy. "No way," Daryl laughs, beaming at the sight of Robin Williams' Mork from the planet Ork. The kids know the lines by heart. They give the hearty Orkan greeting in unison: Nanu nanu! Isabelle looks over to see Daryl smiling -- and just in time to see his smile fade into an expression of lament.

Later, Isabelle deduces that Daryl lied about the medicine saving the children's teacher. "Well, the truth can wait, right?" Isabelle responds, "That was a mule. This is their teacher." They need a horse to get to the radio, and it's too far to walk. "So you can go home," Isabelle says. "Yeah. Yeah," Daryl tells her, "so I can go home." She feels sorry for the children, never knowing what the world was like before les affam?s. "You can't miss what you never had," Daryl says.

Daryl used to watch Mork & Mindy with his brother, Merle, when they were kids. "We loved that show," he explains. "Used to make everything just a little bit better, you know?"

2010. Lily clenches over in pain. Isabelle realizes her sister is pregnant, a secret she's kept for months. She tried to tell Isabelle, Lily explains, but she was scared. There's no baby hospitals where they're going, so Quinn wants to leave Lily at a clinic or somewhere along the way. When Isabelle protests, Quinn gets in her face: "Don't I take care of you? Don't I always f--ing take care of you?" He tells her to trust they'll find somewhere safe, and this will all be over in a few days. As Quinn pulls her in, Isabelle slips her hands into his pocket and steals the car keys. Isabelle hops in the car and peels away, ditching Quinn.

2022. Lou has figured out that Daryl isn't a priest. She wants to know how the American came to be in France. "It's a long story," he answers. "The only part that matters is that I get home to my people." To that, Lou says: "Madame says family are the people you're with." Daryl remarks that Madame Dubois sounds like she was a good teacher, so Lou corrects him. "Is. She'll get better, thanks to you." At La Tarasque's castle, Lou says she attempted the raid with two of her "brothers," but only she returned. "I tell the kids that they go for help and that they'll come back. Madame was sick, I didn't know what else to say."

Back at the preschool, Isabelle promises Sylvie that they'll make it to The Nest up north. "We will all know how we fit in. To everything. That's why we are going, to find our purpose." Laurent sneaks away and finds les affam?s eating what's left of Ast?rix. Laurent tearfully apologizes to his pet mule: "I'm sorry I wasn't here." At the castle, Daryl and Lou look over a wall to see a moat of swarming walkers.

On a rainy night in 2010, Isabelle and the pregnant Lily arrive at the Abbey of Saint Bernadette. As the nuns take them in, father P?re Jean realizes that Lily was bitten. "Seven months you kept this from me? Why?" Isabelle asks her sister. Before she can reveal her child's father, Lily screams in pain. "Remember how mama calmed us at bedtime? Alouette," Isabelle says softly, singing the French nursery rhyme Alouette. Lily reminds her sister that she took good care of her after losing mama and papa. "Promise me you'll look after my baby."

At the castle, Daryl locks Lou inside a supply shed. "You'll be safer in there. Besides, I'm better off on my own." Daryl fastens a shovel head to a rope, fashions a makeshift grappling hook to climb across the zombie moat, and rummages through medicines inside a supply room. He comes across H?rrison (Mile Maz?), one of the missing brothers from the school. A sniper opens fire: it's La Tarasque. And he's an American.

His name is RJ Gaines (Ned Dennehy) out of Giddings, Texas. He tries to defend hording stolen supplies -- "We're all of us just sticking it out long enough 'til we can get back home to the ones we love," Gaines says. "That's all that matters, brother." Daryl spits back: "I ain't your f--in' brother."

Herisson urges Daryl to feed his captor to the zombie moat, but Daryl wants to hand him over to Lou. "Those little psychos, they would kill me," he begs. He's got a wife and four kids waiting for him back home in America. "There ain't no home, asshole," Daryl tells him. "I been there. East Coast, Midwest, even Texas. Everybody you know back home is gone. They been gone a long time."

Gaines makes a move on Daryl's rifle, sending both Americans over the edge and into the horde of walkers waiting below. As the hungry ones rip Gaines to pieces, Daryl wields the morning star he took from the abbey to fight his way through the walker swarm. Lou arrives with Moof, and with H?rrison, they help Daryl up over the wall. "Are you still better by yourself?" she asks. Moof looks down at the moat and recognizes his zombified brother, Julien. "You lied!" he yells at Lou. She loads a bolt into her crossbow, and with trembling hands, goes to fire... but before she can, Daryl fires an arrow into Julien's head, putting him to rest.

Daryl, Lou, Moof, and H?rrison receive a hero's welcome back at the school as they reunite with their "brothers." Isabelle tells Daryl his lie worked. "Yeah, well," he replies, "I ain't a nun." Sylvie reports that Madame Dubois died when they were away. Daryl confesses the medicine was never going to help, and he lied to get a horse. He offers to put down Madame before she reanimates, but Lou says she owes it to her to do it. "Merci pour tout, Madame Dubois." Thank you for everything.

That night, the children mourn their teacher with a candlelit vigial. They wiggle their ears. Nanu nanu. When it's time to leave, Laurent wants to stay with the other children. He's angry that Isabelle lied about Ast?rix, but relents and bids au revoir to the school children.

At the abbey, Codron (Romain Levi) finds Daryl's tape recorder and his message: "My name is Daryl Dixon. I come from a place called the Commonwealth. It's in America. I went out looking for something. But all I found was trouble." Codron finds a book with a photo of a young Laurent, and then he finds Father Jean's map. "If I don't make it back, I want them to know I tried. Hell, I'm still trying."

12 years ago. Lily dies during child birth, with her sister at her side.
2022. Laurent lashes out at Isabelle for treating him like a baby. "You're not like other children," she reminds him. "I told you, you're special."
12 years ago. Isabelle mourns Lily. And then she stirs. Lily has reanimated as a walker. Father Jean says they have to deliver her child immediately.
2022. Daryl walks with Laurent alongside the wagon. "You know, no one ever called me special when I was a kid. Not in a good way, anyway," Daryl tells him. Says Laurent, "I don't want to be special."
2010. The zombified Lily has been restrained as her child is delivered. It's a boy. "It's a miracle," P?re Jean says. The nuns hand Isabelle the baby. Father Jean prays over Lily as Isabelle leaves the room, cradling her nephew.
2022. "What makes me so special, anyway?" Laurent asks. "I want to be like the other kids."
2010. Isabelle approaches a statue of Saint Laurent. "Bienvenue, Laurent," she says. Welcome, Laurent.

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AMC has confirmed the length of Sunday's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 2, "Alouette." Last week's "L'?me Perdue" series premiere of the Walking Dead spin-off, which found Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) washing ashore in post-apocalyptic France, saw the marooned American agree to chaperone Sister Isabelle (Cl?mence Po?sy) and Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) to safety up north in exchange for passage home. In "Alouette," Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie (Laika Blanc Francard) face trouble on the road toward The Nest.

Below, keep reading for a preview of "Alouette" and find out how to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 2 online without cable.

TWD: Daryl Dixon Episode 2 Release Date and Time

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 2, "Alouette," premiered Sunday, September 17th, at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on AMC+ and airs at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on the AMC channel.

Daryl Dixon Episode 2 Run Time

"Alouette" clocks in at 60 minutes and 08 seconds without commercials on AMC+; on cable, the episode airs from 9:00 p.m. -- 10:28 p.m. ET. That's just a touch longer than the extended "L'?me Perdue" series premiere, which had a running time of 59 minutes and 14 seconds without commercials.

How to Watch Daryl Dixon Episode 2 Without Cable

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon episode 1 ("L'?me Perdue") and episode 2 ("Alouette") are currently available to stream now on AMC+. New episodes premiere on streaming on Sundays at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT. To watch, you'll need an AMC+ subscription or a 7-day free trial to AMC+. Prices start at $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly).

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Daryl Dixon Episode 1 Recap

In "L'?me Perdue," Daryl washes ashore in Marseille, France, and quickly runs afoul of Madame Genet (Anne Charrier) and her Guerrier ("Warriors"). As he's hunted by the Guerrier Codron (Romain Levi), Daryl takes shelter at the Abbey of Saint Bernadette in Lourdes, where he learns that Isabelle and the Union Del'Espoir ("Union of Hope") believe Laurent is the new messiah who will "lead the revival of humanity." Read our full Daryl Dixon episode 1 recap with spoilers here.

Daryl Dixon Episode 2 Preview

Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie travel through the French countryside and arrive at Cole Maternelle Simone Veil: a preschool named in honor of Simone Veil, the French Health Minister and women's rights advocate who was elected the first woman President of the European Parliament. They encounter Lou (Kim Higelin) and a band of orphans who live in fear of La Tarasque, named after a dragon-like creature from French fables.

"Alouette" Meaning

"Alouette," or "lark" in English, is named after the French lullaby. The song is about death -- specifically about killing, plucking, and eating a lark bird. According to American Songwriter, "Alouette" dates back to at least 1879 and found its way to America after French and American soldiers fought together in World War I.

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai la t?te
Je te plumerai la t?te
Et la t?te, et la t?te
Alouette, Alouette

Lark, nice lark
Lark, I will pluck you
I will pluck your head
And your head
Lark!

Lou's band of orphans wear attire appropriate for the zombie apocalypse: the bird-like plague doctor outfits that protected doctors from disease and the rotting scent of decaying bodies as the bubonic plague spread in Europe.

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