Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 6, Recap & Spoilers

It’s been a long road for Daryl and Carol on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. There have been cramped plane rides, outrageous environmentalists, exploding walkers and French cults. The absurd road leads to a resolution for some characters, and right back to square one for others. But there are still a few obstacles to jump over first. Ash’s plane can’t magically become big enough to pick up four people off the ground, so someone has to make a sacrifice. Daryl is willing to be the unlucky guy, and guarantees a sulking Laurent that he’ll make it back to America soon to join the rest of them. He’s been all alone before, he can survive a few more weeks or so all by himself in France.

Daryl gifts Laurent a guitar, who starts to play “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones. They both start singing and Daryl’s voice trembles, paralleling The Last of Us’ Joel Miller and Ellie Williams. The immune child and badass caretaker was one coincidence, but the guitar is all too familiar. While Daryl has accepted he’s going to be the one to stay behind, Carol has other plans. She asks a still angered Ash to take Laurent and Daryl back to America, and she’ll stay behind. She begs Ash not to take his frustrations with her out on the two of them. They didn’t lie and manipulate him, she did.

Fallou and Codron are also still alive, and sometime between Episode 5 and the Daryl Dixon Season 2 finale they met up with a couple of other survivors. Codron catches on that it’s love at first sight between Fallou and one of the survivors named Akila. It’s good to see Codron loosening up, as he’s always been one of the more intriguing characters, given his inner conflict between revenge and doing what’s right. However, he now has a fleshed out personality.

The two head inside an abandoned hospital, where they find walkers strapped in beds and wheelchairs. They loot the place while Codron jokes about French healthcare (a recurring jest in Season 2) and snatches a cross necklace off one of the walkers. The remaining Guerriers ambush the hospital, led by Sabine. According to her, Jacinta is still alive and will fulfill the prophecy herself. It’s still jarring how quickly the Guerriers fell for the prophecy, given how strongly they were against it before Genet was alive.

Related

‘No Better Friendship on Television’: TWD: Daryl Dixon Team Talks Long-Awaited Daryl & Carol Reunion

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’s team addressed the bond between Daryl and Carol in a New York Comic Con interview.

Sabine asks about the plane, to which Fallou and Codron play coy. Akila is to the rescue, and, of course, the only one to get away is Sabine. Back at the plane, Laurent psychologically analyzes Carol in the most on-the-nose, creepiest way possible. She thinks he’s going to make a lot of friends at the Commonwealth. However, Laurent’s unfiltered habit of pointing out people’s flaws will make him an outcast.

While they’re looking for plane parts, Ash tells Daryl about the grief of losing children. “There’s no name for a parent who loses a child,” Ash says. Likewise, Beth Greene told Daryl the same thing in Season 4 of The Walking Dead. Ash thinks Daryl is lucky he doesn’t have any children to worry about, but Daryl worries about plenty. A person doesn’t have to be a parent to feel loss. On the road, Anna talks to her friend about her background and mentions her mother, who may still live in Kaleria.

They’re suddenly surrounded by Guerriers led by Jacinta, who makes a deal with the stubborn Anna. If Anna reveals the location of the plane and, by extension, Laurent, then Anna will take the plane and the pilot to go home. While they have people nipping on their heels, Carol and Daryl bicker over who’s staying and who’s going. Ash adds a third opinion: Carol needs to leave because she knows the plane better than Daryl. At least Daryl has his crossbow back to keep him company. Fallou and Codron scare the living daylight out of the crew to warn them about Jacinta. They have to get the plane off the ground now.

With Anna’s help, Jacinta has all the intel she needs to attack Daryl and Carol without them knowing. Anna seems to be having second thoughts after seeing a poster of the Eiffel Tower, reminding her of Laurent. But a couple dozen armed guards don’t really give her a way out. Her way out is a bunch of burners, killing most of Jacinta’s crew and biting their leader. Jacinta forces Anna inside, watching as the burners devour her. Anna may have a sadistic side to her, but she took that death like a champ with her dying words: “God gave up on us a long time ago.”

Carol, Ash and Laurent prepare to take off, while Daryl, Codron and Fallou hold off Jacinta’s crew. In the midst of the mayhem, Carol gets off the plane to join Daryl. Ash and Laurent make their way to America without her. At the sight of Laurent’s escape and the idea that God has abandoned her, Jacinta shoots herself. Now that Laurent is safe and Jacinta is no longer an enemy, the remaining survivors make a plan to get to England. It’s Daryl and Carol’s best chance at getting back home. Their guides are Fiona and Angus, a couple of upbeat Scots.

At night, the group talk over wine and food about their pasts. Fallou talks a little bit about his background as a hospital worker. He used to have white neighbors who’d find any excuse to throw racist slurs at him. After the world fell, the neighbor came to Fallou to help his two-year-old daughter open up her airway. When Fallou got her breathing again, the man said nothing and left. But there was gratitude in his eyes, says Fallou. Angus jokes that the apocalypse put an end to racism. Fallou and Akila later kiss as a goodbye.

Related

TWD: Daryl Dixon Is Finally Giving Its Best Character Their Due

Ash’s return to The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon demonstrates how he’s the true victim of Daryl and Carol Peletier’s trail of devastation.

Meanwhile, Codron and Daryl talk about Isabelle and Michel, leading to the moment everyone’s been waiting for: Daryl finally tells him the truth: Daryl didn’t kill Michel. It makes Codron rethink everything he’s done since Michel’s death. Carol is reminiscing about her time at the Commonwealth. She never felt at home there. Everyone else got to move on with their families and children, but Carol couldn’t. She only remembers Sophia as the walker that came out of the barn, and she lost her chances at motherhood with Lizzie and Henry. Daryl comforts her with, “We keep going. All right? That’s what we do.”

The next morning, the group takes the Channel Tunnel to England. Fallou stays behind with Akila and wishes his new friends good luck. Fiona and Angus cheer everyone up with the promise that England was in good shape after the apocalypse, due to the military shutting the island off pretty quickly. But England is still “shite,” apocalypse or no apocalypse, according to the Scots. Carol steps into a pile of bat feces, also known as guano.

Guano can be used as fertilizer when broken down correctly and is extremely flammable, which is why it’s used in gunpowder. It also poses dangerous health risks for humans. Angus says it’s a hallucinogen, which isn’t untrue — but it only causes hallucinations in central nervous system (CNS) histoplasmosis, a late stage disease caused by breathing in spores from the fungus. When things start appearing that aren’t really there, there’s a low chance of recovery unless modern medicine is of aid.

The group makes it to the border, where they think they’re going to find English soldiers trying to keep them out. Of course, all the soldiers are dead. Everyone killed each other, and maybe because the guano made them paranoid. There’s a new type of walker that is similar to fireflies, meaning they have bioluminescence. That is, they create natural light from their bodies. The guano starts to take effect on everyone. Their vision gets foggy, and tensions arise between the Scots and the last Frenchman.

Related

This TWD Death May Have Quietly Spoiled a Major Daryl Dixon Season 2 Storyline

A major death in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon may have also spoiled an upcoming storyline that could change the season.

They’re still lucid enough to take out the walkers, but barely. They all start to see the people they’ve lost: Carol sees Sophia, Daryl sees Isabelle and Codron sees Michel. After another misunderstanding with Daryl, Codron gets lost in the tunnel following a hallucination of his brother. The Scots attack Daryl to get the masks themselves. What they did was horrible, but understandable. They don’t know Daryl or Carol, and the one rule of the apocalypse is to save yourself first. Daryl sees a vision of his young grandfather, who died on D-Day.

Isabelle tells him that he can’t die here like his grandfather and reminds him to bet on hope. Daryl kills the Scots as he gets his proper goodbye with Isabelle. Carol and Daryl find each other in the tunnel. Since the Scots are dead and Codron ran off, it’s just the two of them heading to another country. The series is back to square one. Isabelle and Genet are dead, Laurent is in America, and Fallou and Codron stay behind. Everyone from the French era of the series is gone, opening up a new chapter for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is available to stream on AMC+.

Daryl journeys across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home.

Release Date

October 1, 2023

Cast

Norman Reedus , Clemence Poesy , Louis Puech Scigliuzzi , Laïka Blanc-Francard , Anne Charrier , Romain Levi , Melissa McBride , Joel de la Fuente , Adam Nagaitis , Eriq Ebouaney , Tristan Zanchi , François Delaive , Maxime Lefrançois , Lukerya Ilyashenko , Catherine Arditi , Hugo Dillon

Seasons

2

Story By

Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard

Writers

David Zabel , Angela Kang

Streaming Service(s)

AMC Plus

Directors

Daniel Percival , Greg Nicotero

Showrunner

David Zabel

Character(s)

Daryl Dixon , Isabelle Carriere , Laurent , Sylvie , Genet , Stéphane Codron , Carol Peletier , Losang , Quinn , Fallou Boukar , Emile , Dr. Henri Lafleur , Capo , Anna Valery , Mother Superior Véronique , Père Jean

Expand